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Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Today is a little

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one -hour, I don't even know, Gavin, do you have

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a topic? I don't really have one. I have a few.

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I want to address a couple things here. Number

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one, I want to address our listeners. I need

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to ask if anybody else who is an influencer in

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this space does the podcasting, what equipment

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do you use? And why? If you guys can answer back

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on Instagram, send a voicemail. However, I would

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like to know what camera equipment you use. Why?

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What editing equipment do you prefer? Why? Write

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me a paragraph. I don't care. And then I'd like

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to know if you have any certain tips or tricks

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for getting good video angle that is typically

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used in this space. Because I did get a DJI.

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what is this a action 5 pro I did some because

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most of my content is vertical I did mostly vertical

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shots but I do have some horizontal I want to

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start putting out some YouTube and I'm just trying

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to like I'm trying to see like how a lot of people

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are doing it like I know I want to do some POV

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I want to do some outside you know like a selfie

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stick style Outside of the car, doing some driving.

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Those are the two most common that I see other

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than having other people like get out, you drive

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by, or you putting it on a tripod, you drive

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by, get the shot, and then keep going. I want

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to try and, and I don't know if I'll be able

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to, but I want to try and get it to where I can

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get good film content minimally. without having

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to not enjoy the overall experience. Because

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I think my biggest fear with starting to create

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this kind of content is that I'm going to be

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so worried about getting the right shot and so

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worried about creating content that I'm not actually

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enjoying what I'm doing. Um, and, and maybe,

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maybe, you know, I, I do thoroughly enjoy creating

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the content and taking the video. I just don't

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want to get so burnt out on doing the video that,

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that it's like a job that I don't like anymore,

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you know? So I want, if you can, if anybody listens

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to this, it does it. Um, if Benji, I know you've

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started doing some videos. If you're listening

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on this, if you have any tips, let me know. um

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jacob biddle if you have any tips let me know

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anybody else who watches us that does this kind

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or or can push it out to another creator to maybe

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contact us and let me know because um i did some

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content today i'm trying to it just wasn't what

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i wanted to like i had to edit a lot of it out

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and i know you're gonna have to like you get

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four hours of video you're gonna get like an

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hour 30 minutes to an hour of usable video. Like,

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I get that. But it just wasn't, like, what I

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wanted. So just tips for that if you can. And

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while I'm talking about this, Alex, speaking

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of voicemail, did we get any voicemails? You

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know? I haven't even checked. That's a very good

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thing to look up, I guess. Yeah. Super excited.

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I love that segment. That's my favorite segment.

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Oh, and welcome to Season 3, 2026. Thanks for

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listening to us. Thanks for continuing to deal

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with our crap and unprofessionalism, apparently.

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So we have a four -second voicemail. Okay. And

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the transcript says Overland Park. So I'm just

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going to play it and see what it is. You guys

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ready? All right, let's hear it. Overland Fart?

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I think it's Overland Farts. Yeah. Who is that

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from? It's a kid from a number I don't have saved.

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So it's not Shane's kid. This is a mystery. It's

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not any of mine. Oh, we also have a text message.

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Okay. All right. Are you ready? You're going

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to read it out? Yeah. Bloomingdale's sale ends

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today. Loyalists get a $25 reward. Oh. So we

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got a spam text. Man. And Alex even had to blow

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the cobwebs off of the voicemail thing. Thank

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you to whoever that said Overland farts. Never

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thought we'd get to a place where we'd be thanking

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someone for that, but here we are. To the kid,

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next time you see us, we'd be happy to sign our

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autographs on your T -shirt, your hat. It'll

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be worth a lot someday. You already know it.

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Yeah. Overland farts. What foods do we avoid

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eating to stop our overland farts? That's what

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I think he's trying to ask. No such thing. No,

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you just let it happen. And this is coming from

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Alex who brought homemade chili to a overland

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wheeling event. And I had a hot dog's worth of

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chili and cut myself off. It was good chili.

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Really good cheese. It was. But you know what

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was really the savior of that day? I didn't mention

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it last episode. Me and Alex are sponsored by

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Imodium. And I went and got it out of the gas

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station. I flashed him the Imodium as I was walking

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into my truck. And he goes, oh, yeah, hit me

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up with that. So I threw two of them at him.

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We got in the truck. We took our Imodium. And

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that saved the day because I didn't have to poop

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once until we got home. And I guarantee you if

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I didn't take that, I probably would have pooped

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in the first 30 minutes. Oh, I did poop at O

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'Reilly's. Hey, that still counts, though. Like,

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you were off of the trail. Yeah. And that's where

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all that matters. Buying the Imodium saves you

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money down the road because you're not using

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TP. And, dude, if you get backed up, like, there's

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times where I've overtaken when I've OD'd on

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Imodium. And I'm like, oh, my stomach doesn't

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feel so good. Because there are parts where,

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like, I get an obsessed stomach, and I'm like,

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I'm going to take, like, one now. I'll take one

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in, like, four hours. Don't do that. take like

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one every eight hours so but then my stomach

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really hurting because i am not going to the

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bathroom at all but it's still better than pooping

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so i'll take it so thank you emodium thank you

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to the gas stations that sell a six pack for

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like eight fucking dollars when you could buy

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a whole pill bottle from walmart for less than

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that that's bullshit um yes but yeah what do

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you expect I know. I know. But that has been

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like the most useful tool when going out. So

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thank you for the caller for your overland farts.

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And there's your tip from the botches crew is

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use Imodium, buddy. Use Imodium or wear diapers.

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You might be on either one of those. Thank you

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to Bloomingdale's for telling us about your sale.

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Yeah. Thanks, Bloomingdale's. One last thing

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on farts real quick. How has your fart been,

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Alex? Friday night and Saturday you were farting

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up a storm like the whole day. Remember? Don't

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give away my secrets. I was just wondering how

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you felt better. Man, you were going at it all

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day. Every time I fucking moved. Yeah, what day

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was that? Was that the day after the chili fiasco?

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I think I was farting a lot too, actually. And

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I only had one hot dog's worth. Also, shout out

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to Nathan's hot dogs. Those were some good fucking

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hot dogs. They are. I've been eating those cheap

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$1 hot dogs for months because they're cheap

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and the kid loves hot dogs and it's not worth

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spending like $13 on a pack of hot dogs because

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we could like demolish them in a day. So we've

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been buying the cheap stuff, and I took a bite

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of those, and I was like, oh, this is heaven.

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This is heaven. I don't understand why they're

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so expensive. And I found an alternative to hot

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dogs, and they're like the $2, $3 smoked sausage.

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They're like 12 inches long. They come in a two

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-pack. I will cut those in hot dog -style lengths.

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I'll cut them into threes on each one. Six hot

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dogs, that's enough for our typical family. And

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then I'll throw those in a hot dog bun after

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I throw them on the grill or over the fire. And

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those are better quality. They taste better.

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There's more of them. It's like two hot dogs

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in one bun. It's the preferred hot dog method.

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I will take those smoked sausages and cut them

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in thirds and throw them on the grill for a second

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so they get warm, and then I will throw some

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honey mustard on them, and then boom, it's perfect.

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Yep. Honey mustard, clutch. Real mustard, only

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for brats. Honey mustard, everything else. I

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like real mustard on everything. I like mustard

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really good on those. Real mustard, for me...

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Only goes with like fried onions on brats or

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sauerkraut on brats. And then I think other than

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that, we're looking at corn dogs. Corn dogs real

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busted all the way. So do you want to hear what

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made my chili so delicious? Was it two parts

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canned chili? No. Okay. No. So you know how people

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will add like water or take the water from the

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beans to get like the base of the chili? Yeah.

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I drain all of that away, and I use three cans

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of IPA. Oh, yeah. I didn't even get a hint of

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that, to be honest. Like, it was damn good chili,

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don't get me wrong, but it almost tasted like

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generic canned chili, but better. Like, it's

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hard to explain when I'm trying to explain this.

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So, that, I used a different. Because usually

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I have in my head what I want, and then I just

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go buy a bunch of crap from Walmart and just

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kind of throw it together. I never measure it

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out. This one, I had found a recipe that sounded

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kind of good, so I took their list of ingredients

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and then just threw it all together. It's not

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as good as my chili normally is, but it was still

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pretty damn good. Yeah, it was definitely good,

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but it gave me PTSD from... Um, the chili attack

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from the couple months ago to last year to where

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I bought the Hormel's chili for corn, uh, chili

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dogs. And you guys remember that when I was telling

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you guys about that, I will never touch Hormel

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chili again. I tasted that and I burped and I

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was like, Oh man, I get PTSD from this. Like,

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Oh man, horrible time. But yes. Chili, very good.

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Alex is fully recovered. And mustard. So mustard

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is very preferential. You know how just a second

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ago I was telling you I was looking for these

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pins for my fender flares because I knew I was

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going to need some? Yeah. Well, I just can't

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find them. Most places I find one pin, and they

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want $18 plus $20 shipping for it, right? I just

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found someone who's 3D printing them. And that's

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the only way to actually get these pins. Like,

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Toyota does not have them anymore. Yeah. I'm

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not surprised. Yeah. Next topic. I just forgot,

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as I said, next topic. But also, I'm really upset

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because I talked about the video stuff earlier.

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I ended up forgetting my main fucking mount.

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for the video at home i blame the kid distracting

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me but so i actually had to use like a phone

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bipod or a monopod that had like the pull apart

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thing to put in the phone i had to use that and

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put the camera in that and that was so sketchy

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putting it out the window like i know the camera

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could take it uh as far as like weather goes

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but if it was to fall off and roll under my tire

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i i'm not really going to give much credit to

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anything um So that really sucked because I was

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going to do a lot of like the POV camera work

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while I was filming on my phone to get vertical

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and horizontal. So thankfully we had Leo. Leo

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was a very good cameraman at horizontal video.

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And that's unusable for me. So he did take some

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vertical and I have used it. 88 % of what he

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took was horizontal, and it's unusable in my

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current platform. So that sucks. And someone

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got video of me driving by too. Truck looked

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very cool. I went and checked it out, downloaded

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the file. It's in horizontal. I was like, son

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of a bitch. So if you're trying to make YouTube,

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or not YouTube, Instagram content, you get the

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best picture quality because. Everything in Instagram

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is pretty much vertical. So anything shot in

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horizontal, you would have to crop. And when

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you crop it, it gives you like this shitty, shitty

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quality. So that's why I kept telling him to

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shoot. And he was using his phone and my camera

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phone, my spare phone that I use for video, using

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both, holding one horizontal, one vertical. But

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the cool parts in the video were... I would have

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liked to see was looking at the dash of my truck.

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So like he wasn't like he was and he was not

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supposed to be camera guy. Like I did not put

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him on that job. So props to him for just picking

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it up and going because he was the whole time

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he was taking video here and there. Like I was

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like, dude, you can relax like this isn't a job.

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You're supposed to come here and see how fun

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it is so that I can convince you into buying

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a Toyota and coming out with us more. But he

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was just like, in his mind, he was work, work,

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work, and he was trying to. But Alex got to meet

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him for the first time in a couple years. It

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had been a while. That wasn't the first time

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because I went to high school with Sienna, so

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her dad was always kind of around. Yeah. Yeah,

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as they should be. Yeah. As opposed to not being

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around at all. So, yeah, that was fun. I got

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to find a better way. I want to get a drone,

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but if anybody has been following the DJI stuff

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now, they have been outlawed. And so they will

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not be sold into the U .S. anymore. If you have

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them, this hasn't been clear. I haven't done

00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:27.110
enough research on this, but it's looking like

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if you have them, you could still use them. You'll

00:16:29.570 --> 00:16:33.409
be grandfathered in. But I don't know that they've

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made up their mind on whether they're going to

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stop all firmware and stuff updates. So you're,

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I don't know. The DJI has also, and I don't care

00:16:45.529 --> 00:16:48.350
what anybody says, DJI has come up with an off

00:16:48.350 --> 00:16:53.049
-brand. That is much cheaper and pretty much

00:16:53.049 --> 00:16:58.090
the same damn thing. Just completely off brand.

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So I think they're going to try and sneak their

00:17:00.590 --> 00:17:04.650
drones into America using that brand. And I might

00:17:04.650 --> 00:17:06.690
get on that train because of how cheap they are.

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So only newly announced DJI products are banned.

00:17:11.170 --> 00:17:16.089
Okay. So everything else they'll have. Yep. Okay.

00:17:16.269 --> 00:17:18.450
That's good for everybody who already has them.

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And honestly, if that means we could still get

00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.779
some of the DJI products that are already out,

00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.759
I think that'll just influence DJI not to keep

00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:32.480
making new products, if that makes sense. They're

00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.240
just going to keep up with the DJI Air 2 and

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just keep that line going because that's a steady

00:17:39.859 --> 00:17:43.259
flow. Those are really good drones for catching.

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They have the market pretty much cornered in

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America. For U .S., like police, for farming,

00:17:51.630 --> 00:17:55.630
for overlanding and videos, they have the market

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pretty well cornered. So to completely stop them

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from any drones hurts America kind of more, in

00:18:07.569 --> 00:18:10.230
my opinion, as far as the creators go. I mean,

00:18:10.269 --> 00:18:12.690
yeah, it's going to push American drone makers

00:18:12.690 --> 00:18:16.380
and stuff. Yeah, I think. I think in the long

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term, obviously, it pushes American makers or

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other brands from other countries that have access

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to do it. There's going to be a short term hurt

00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:31.359
with long term gain. Yeah. And that's everything

00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.500
with all of the, you know, what we're getting

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with tariffs and all that. Short term, it fucking

00:18:40.299 --> 00:18:43.259
blows. Long term, it's going to be better. Yeah.

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I don't know that they do so much harm that I

00:18:52.430 --> 00:18:55.069
could justify the short -term hurt that it does

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to... And thankfully, what they're doing right

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now, it doesn't really create any short -term

00:19:00.369 --> 00:19:04.930
harm, really, other than to DJI themselves. But

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if they were to completely outlaw the usage,

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the... any licensing and firmware updates, and

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completely cut all these drones off from any

00:19:15.190 --> 00:19:17.589
use, like from the apps, from America at all,

00:19:17.809 --> 00:19:21.950
that would hurt a lot of content creators. It

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would hurt a lot of farmers. A lot of police

00:19:24.769 --> 00:19:31.190
forces use the DJI drones for scouting, for finding

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perps, etc. That is actually why I disagree with...

00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:44.160
app lock -in drones like dgi because i don't

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like when a company could just decide i can't

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use my product or government for that matter

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yeah um because the u .s can tell me it's illegal

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but i can still fly whatever the fuck i want

00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:56.319
right as long as the app doesn't limit me from

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doing in a way like i feel like the government

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is stopping you and telling you no you can't

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use this um i think it's kind of an overstep

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if there hasn't been any real issues and maybe

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I just haven't seen them. Maybe I'm just ignorant

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to the actual issues that they're having with

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DJI, of them being some kind of spy. I think

00:20:18.970 --> 00:20:22.650
it's very likely the 5 % that is being misused

00:20:22.650 --> 00:20:26.450
is affecting the other 95 % of users. Yeah, and

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to me it doesn't justify the hurt put onto them.

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I feel like I can't think of anything from the

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top of my head, but I can't think of anything.

00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.960
like this that has been done that like actually

00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.279
warrants like that actually makes sense where

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you're like yeah like maybe we shouldn't like

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fuck we still have tiktok we still have roblox

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those have hurt more people than helped uh i

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would say so so doing a product that has been

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has a wide reputation for being one of the best

00:21:02.779 --> 00:21:06.589
products out there Like completely stopping them

00:21:06.589 --> 00:21:09.769
for all content creation for police use and all.

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The thing is that we actually have a history

00:21:14.769 --> 00:21:18.029
of this happening. Not so much with drones per

00:21:18.029 --> 00:21:21.130
se, but same kind of thing. The CCP controls

00:21:21.130 --> 00:21:24.289
a majority of Niantic. Niantic is the company

00:21:24.289 --> 00:21:27.849
that had Pokemon Go, if you aren't aware. It's

00:21:27.849 --> 00:21:30.750
now been found that they were using Pokemon Go

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to get an accurate. um map of the u .s to be

00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:39.440
able to sell to the ccp um so what they were

00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.500
doing is you know people would go they would

00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:44.740
use their phone camera whatever to get their

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ai poke or ar pokemon bullshit and then nyan

00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:51.480
tech would take that little video to make an

00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:55.099
accurate 3d map to then sell to the ccp so the

00:21:55.099 --> 00:21:58.400
ccp has the majority of the u .s mapped by nyan

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tech in 3d yeah How much of that's genuinely

00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:08.960
useful? It's very, because they were actually,

00:22:09.140 --> 00:22:13.779
again, this is Niantic, not DGI. So Niantic would

00:22:13.779 --> 00:22:17.019
take, like, let's say there was one area of the

00:22:17.019 --> 00:22:18.880
map they didn't have very accurate. Like, let's

00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.079
say near a senator's mansion. They would make

00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:24.839
that a hotspot, which they did often. And then

00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:27.180
people would go there to get the... the shiny

00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:29.799
Pokemon or whatever, so they would always have

00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.319
accurate depictions of every section of the map

00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:36.359
to then sell later. And this happened on military

00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:40.240
posts. This happened all over the U .S. Yeah.

00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.799
No, I could see that part. I just mean, like,

00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:46.940
as far as knowing the hot points, satellite imaging

00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:50.539
has already kind of... I don't know. Like, you

00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:52.940
kind of already know. You can see it from above.

00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:58.509
I get that it makes it more in -depth. But Chinese

00:22:58.509 --> 00:23:01.130
satellites, I'm sure, have everything already

00:23:01.130 --> 00:23:04.450
mapped out. Like, if they really wanted to limit

00:23:04.450 --> 00:23:07.490
it, they would make out blackouts for the USA

00:23:07.490 --> 00:23:10.630
for any Chinese satellites. They've got inside

00:23:10.630 --> 00:23:14.170
photos of buildings. Yeah, and how would you

00:23:14.170 --> 00:23:17.029
get inside photos of, like, senators' mansions

00:23:17.029 --> 00:23:20.769
and stuff with Pokemon Go? Not so much senators'

00:23:21.029 --> 00:23:22.990
mansions, but people are playing Pokemon Go in

00:23:22.990 --> 00:23:26.470
their house, dude. Like, they have an accurate

00:23:26.470 --> 00:23:30.329
3D map of, like, I think it was 96 % or 97 %

00:23:30.329 --> 00:23:33.049
of the U .S. inside buildings and outside. Yeah.

00:23:33.509 --> 00:23:36.569
I mean, as far as what they can use for war,

00:23:36.829 --> 00:23:40.569
most of that I feel like just doesn't matter.

00:23:41.109 --> 00:23:43.630
But, again, you're on a whole different side

00:23:43.630 --> 00:23:45.829
of me. Like, I just, like, what the fuck are

00:23:45.829 --> 00:23:47.769
you going to, like, whatever. Like, what are

00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:50.579
you going to do with it? So to me, it's like

00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:57.380
I don't really care. Pokemon Go isn't a moneymaker

00:23:57.380 --> 00:24:02.819
or a revenue maker or a necessity in some parts

00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:07.059
as like the DJI drones are a revenue maker. People

00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:10.819
need them for parts of their content. And just

00:24:10.819 --> 00:24:15.259
to push that all aside, a lot of our police force

00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:20.380
uses those for the heat -seeking. heat seeking

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:24.299
thermal the thermal optic drones um they use

00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:26.799
a lot of our departments use things like that

00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:29.759
uh and dji has the best equipment out there the

00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.400
most user friendly and there's just not a there's

00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:35.839
what i can't remember what it's called autotel

00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:38.380
or something like that there's like there's only

00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:41.960
there's like two or three name big name brand

00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.220
drone makers there's only a handful of police

00:24:45.220 --> 00:24:47.480
departments that are actually using dgi though

00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:53.480
uh most of them are using like the fuck what

00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:55.500
is the name of the one that we were selling them

00:24:55.500 --> 00:24:59.940
from the army most of them are using hand -me

00:24:59.940 --> 00:25:01.940
-downs from the army i was gonna say i don't

00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:03.880
i i mean i don't know how much that's true anymore

00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.279
because of the prices they've been able to upgrade

00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:09.839
that stuff because a lot of the police footage

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.619
now that we watch like the chase cams and stuff,

00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:17.279
they have been using DJI drones. So, I mean,

00:25:17.299 --> 00:25:21.220
who knows? Only New York uses it. I've got a

00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:26.259
list right here. NYPD, California State Police

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:33.359
Department, and Chula Vista Police Department,

00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:39.859
wherever that is. And that's about it. Hmm. This

00:25:39.859 --> 00:25:42.680
is... It's like I get my information from one

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:44.720
spot and I feel like Alex gets it in a completely

00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:48.099
different one. And then I can't go and cross

00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:56.339
-reference it. Okay, this is from the... What

00:25:56.339 --> 00:25:59.519
website is this? Something .gov. One second.

00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:05.079
I'm trying to go through fucking Google's AI

00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:07.859
to get this information for you. So I've got

00:26:07.859 --> 00:26:11.500
to dive deeper, you know? Yeah, not a huge deal.

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:17.099
I had heard and read up that they were being

00:26:17.099 --> 00:26:21.140
used in a lot of the rural police departments

00:26:21.140 --> 00:26:24.740
because they were cheaper to buy. And you have

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:27.140
to be careful, especially if you're getting your

00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:31.599
information from TikTok. Nope. Because... But

00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:34.000
I'm saying you have to be careful because anything

00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.619
tied to the CCP, they're going to only show you

00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:39.099
information that validates them. Right. Yeah.

00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:41.960
I wouldn't trust wouldn't trust TikTok for that

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:46.079
commie stuff. Yeah. But yeah. So either way,

00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:49.980
even if you were to take them away from those

00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:51.960
police departments and force them into going

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.359
back into a different style, it's money spent

00:26:55.359 --> 00:27:00.569
that doesn't need to be spent. But to me, I don't

00:27:00.569 --> 00:27:07.390
get it, the major push for it. Now I'm on Axon

00:27:07.390 --> 00:27:09.970
.com, which, again, this is a company that sells

00:27:09.970 --> 00:27:14.150
drones to police departments. There are 1 ,400

00:27:14.150 --> 00:27:18.190
departments in the U .S. using drones, and almost

00:27:18.190 --> 00:27:21.509
all of them are using Axon except for a handful.

00:27:21.789 --> 00:27:25.190
Yeah. Well, that's good for Axon. I don't even

00:27:25.190 --> 00:27:29.559
know, is Axon the American version? That's the

00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:33.640
one specific for police and military. Yeah. It

00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:36.000
gives better heat seeking stuff like that than

00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.579
what... Heat seeking. It gives better heat vision

00:27:39.579 --> 00:27:45.000
and stuff than what DJI has. Heat vision. Better

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:51.140
thermals. Thermal optics, yeah. So, yeah, it's

00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:56.140
kind of a bummer. And honestly, I hope DJI figures

00:27:56.140 --> 00:28:00.900
something out. because i personally don't want

00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:03.420
to see i don't know if that i want to wait for

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:06.940
another company to get their stuff around to

00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:09.319
where i is now i don't feel like waiting for

00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:14.980
that i don't necessarily care about what happens

00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:18.019
with dgi or a next company or anything because

00:28:18.019 --> 00:28:21.339
again All of them require an app that then can

00:28:21.339 --> 00:28:24.160
tell me I can't fly somewhere. Regardless of

00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:26.039
whether the government wants me to, I should

00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:28.440
have the ability to make my own decisions. Yep.

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:33.519
And with building open source stuff, you have

00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:36.440
the ability to have a better device with better

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:41.259
cameras that's upgradable and repairable without

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:44.140
being locked into an app like that. Right. Two

00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:47.809
sides of the same coin, man. I like to be able

00:28:47.809 --> 00:28:54.750
to buy a well -made or decently made drone that

00:28:54.750 --> 00:28:59.269
has the app already built in that is pretty user

00:28:59.269 --> 00:29:03.049
-friendly, especially right now because I don't

00:29:03.049 --> 00:29:06.230
have a lot of drone experience, so I would need

00:29:06.230 --> 00:29:09.250
something that can handle a lot of that for me.

00:29:09.529 --> 00:29:12.609
So, I don't know. Consumer -wise, I feel like

00:29:12.609 --> 00:29:15.680
I'm more of the consumer end where... Alex is

00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.319
more of the build -it -yourself end, if that

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.900
makes sense, to be away from that kind of thing.

00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:26.480
I don't like nannies. Nannies suck. I like to

00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.119
just have my own stuff and do it my own way.

00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.160
He just doesn't like Big Brother. I know. That's

00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:37.299
really what it is. And I don't know. I feel like

00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:40.759
there are some things that we have to just deal

00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:47.049
with, right? Is DJI a subscription model? No.

00:29:47.049 --> 00:29:49.769
I have multiple DJI products. I don't have to

00:29:49.769 --> 00:29:56.109
subscribe to use any of it. So... I don't think

00:29:56.109 --> 00:29:58.710
any of theirs... I haven't had to pay for any

00:29:58.710 --> 00:30:01.269
of my stuff for DJI other than just buying the...

00:30:01.269 --> 00:30:06.130
I meant specifically the drone. Oh. I haven't

00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:08.920
heard anything about it, but who knows? I'm sure

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:14.039
if I say no, Alex will say yes. No, there's not

00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:16.660
unless you're trying to do mapping with it, which

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:19.880
I 100 % don't think anybody should ever use something

00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:24.259
from China to do mapping. Yeah. That wouldn't

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:26.440
be a recommendation for me either, honestly,

00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:31.140
but you do you. But that's about it. Yeah. And

00:30:31.140 --> 00:30:34.720
then for operations management, you got to...

00:30:35.210 --> 00:30:38.309
uh for flight hub but for the most part no there's

00:30:38.309 --> 00:30:41.269
not good because that's my other thing i hate

00:30:41.269 --> 00:30:44.230
subscriptions subscriptions are stupid yeah yeah

00:30:44.230 --> 00:30:46.230
unless it's for an air freshener that gets sent

00:30:46.230 --> 00:30:48.990
to my house once a month you know not sponsored

00:30:48.990 --> 00:30:55.130
but um but yeah no uh hopefully hopefully that

00:30:55.130 --> 00:30:58.910
situation gets figured out um drone drone shots

00:30:58.910 --> 00:31:04.009
are absolutely beautiful and it doesn't take

00:31:04.009 --> 00:31:06.390
a lot of effort to get really good shots with

00:31:06.390 --> 00:31:09.990
them. So whether that's them following you, whether

00:31:09.990 --> 00:31:11.769
that's them getting the larger picture of where

00:31:11.769 --> 00:31:14.690
you're at, I can't tell you how many times I've

00:31:14.690 --> 00:31:16.869
been blown away by a drone shot on the top of,

00:31:16.890 --> 00:31:20.869
like, a mountainside or a cliff. It's just a

00:31:20.869 --> 00:31:23.170
really cool bird's -eye view, and it's a really

00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:26.650
big piece of nowadays overlanding content creation

00:31:26.650 --> 00:31:29.849
in general. It's a really big piece. Because

00:31:29.849 --> 00:31:31.509
you could just set it and forget it sometimes.

00:31:31.630 --> 00:31:34.269
You could just set it to follow, and it'll follow

00:31:34.269 --> 00:31:36.950
your vehicle through a path. You could set it

00:31:36.950 --> 00:31:39.509
to go around you and get visual around your vehicle.

00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:45.230
So there's all sorts of different. This is when

00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:47.190
we find out there's actually a little Chinese

00:31:47.190 --> 00:31:49.309
boy that's doing all that. They don't actually

00:31:49.309 --> 00:31:54.109
use AI. They do a damn good job. Keep it up,

00:31:54.109 --> 00:31:57.170
boys. Because there's been a lot of that where,

00:31:57.250 --> 00:32:00.630
like, AI chatbots have actually been little Indian

00:32:00.630 --> 00:32:03.410
kids sitting in a fucking sweat throne. I've

00:32:03.410 --> 00:32:05.549
heard something about that. That's funny. Like,

00:32:05.549 --> 00:32:07.849
no wonder they fucking work like shit. They can't

00:32:07.849 --> 00:32:13.950
understand you. But it's so crazy. AI is getting

00:32:13.950 --> 00:32:17.430
nuts. It is. It's getting harder and harder.

00:32:17.529 --> 00:32:20.309
And by the month, it's getting harder and harder

00:32:20.309 --> 00:32:23.369
to tell what's real anymore. Hey, sorry, guys.

00:32:23.430 --> 00:32:24.970
We're going to get political here for a second.

00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:31.740
So if you just skip to... time stamp 49 .15 it's

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:35.380
cracking me up because ai right now is the biggest

00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:38.380
producer of greenhouse gases and globe like what

00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:41.079
which i don't necessarily believe in global warm

00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:45.019
man -made global warming but um it's like the

00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:47.259
biggest cause of it and then the left is pushing

00:32:47.259 --> 00:32:49.099
it so hard while saying we need greener power

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:52.619
but not allowing nuclear which is just oh it's

00:32:52.619 --> 00:32:57.289
hilarious And then to not know the actual damage

00:32:57.289 --> 00:33:02.369
throwing an AI data processing center does. Oh,

00:33:02.369 --> 00:33:06.529
it's terrible. It's terrible. And they're popping

00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:09.210
up all over Michigan because of the amount of

00:33:09.210 --> 00:33:12.730
fresh water we have. All over. They've been blocked.

00:33:13.410 --> 00:33:17.089
Part of it's because our governor's been begging

00:33:17.089 --> 00:33:19.470
them to come here. Yeah, because it's all revenue

00:33:19.470 --> 00:33:21.609
that she wants. It's all about money. It's not

00:33:21.609 --> 00:33:25.329
about... conserving what we have she'll if it

00:33:25.329 --> 00:33:28.490
was all about money which it is for her and if

00:33:28.490 --> 00:33:30.349
she had enough time she'd strip this whole fucking

00:33:30.349 --> 00:33:34.130
state to a concrete slab and to for the listeners

00:33:34.130 --> 00:33:36.210
it's not about money for the state it's about

00:33:36.210 --> 00:33:38.869
money for governor whitmer yeah it's about more

00:33:38.869 --> 00:33:42.650
income because we've seen our money go absolutely

00:33:42.650 --> 00:33:47.069
fucking nowhere so i mean we've followed money

00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:50.509
trails from uh bills that she pushed to her pocket

00:33:50.509 --> 00:33:55.890
so I'm pretty sure I can't remember what is exactly

00:33:55.890 --> 00:33:59.269
some of the solar or some of the mining centers.

00:33:59.450 --> 00:34:01.809
I think it's some of the solar fields that they

00:34:01.809 --> 00:34:06.150
want to put in are linked directly to the secretary

00:34:06.150 --> 00:34:10.730
of state's husband that owns the company or is

00:34:10.730 --> 00:34:12.570
the chairman or something like that. Correct.

00:34:12.750 --> 00:34:16.079
And they're getting deals. to put those in in

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:18.760
Michigan and pushing those in in Michigan. Really

00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.719
odd if you really just want to follow the money.

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:26.019
And that took me four seconds to look up, and

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:29.119
Alex already had them looked up. So when I found

00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.199
out, I started looking up. He called me just

00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:35.880
a bullshit like we do. And I'm like, hey, have

00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:37.440
you heard about this? And he goes, oh, yeah.

00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.199
And I'm like, yeah, okay. So we started bullshitting

00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:42.730
about that for half an hour or so. Me and Alex

00:34:42.730 --> 00:34:44.909
just bullshit randomly. He, like, calls me up,

00:34:44.929 --> 00:34:47.429
and he's like, hey, what are you doing? Do you

00:34:47.429 --> 00:34:50.989
see this bullshit? Yeah. Yep, I've seen it. So,

00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:55.449
yeah, the money trail is ridiculous, and not

00:34:55.449 --> 00:34:57.750
to mention that it's happening in every state.

00:34:58.110 --> 00:35:00.210
It's happening in every state, and we're seeing

00:35:00.210 --> 00:35:04.449
this right now with the Somali daycares. That's

00:35:04.449 --> 00:35:08.190
fucking crazy. Have you seen anything about these?

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.980
Dude, we are so off of off -road now. Listeners,

00:35:11.980 --> 00:35:14.659
this might be one to skip. You're half an hour

00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:16.800
in, and I'm telling you that. All right, so the

00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:19.380
Somali daycares are off. Also, you want to enlighten

00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:21.000
me because I have no idea what you guys are talking

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.940
about with daycares. I have not heard anything

00:35:22.940 --> 00:35:25.559
about these yet. These Somali daycares, oh, my

00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:27.380
God. Okay, so here's what's happening, right?

00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.039
A bunch of Somalis came over, and now it's getting

00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:31.699
linked back to Somali government, by the way.

00:35:31.940 --> 00:35:35.360
Just a little tidbit. So they're coming over.

00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:38.250
They're opening up. Daycare centers, which might

00:35:38.250 --> 00:35:40.949
even just be their house, and they're taking

00:35:40.949 --> 00:35:44.070
state funds to run these daycare centers, but

00:35:44.070 --> 00:35:50.409
there's no kids. Oh, gotcha. And not only, so

00:35:50.409 --> 00:35:55.429
the government of, what is it, Minnesota? Yes.

00:35:55.489 --> 00:36:00.289
They get money for every asylum person from Somalia

00:36:00.289 --> 00:36:03.269
that they get. So they get that money to them.

00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:07.210
They make these Somali. mostly Somali -ran or

00:36:07.210 --> 00:36:11.050
all Somali -ran daycares. They get funded for

00:36:11.050 --> 00:36:15.050
that. The more kids, the better. So their private

00:36:15.050 --> 00:36:17.130
investigator that came in and cracked the whole

00:36:17.130 --> 00:36:20.349
fucking case and came in and said, you know,

00:36:20.369 --> 00:36:23.829
hey, where are these kids? You guys have $2 .6

00:36:23.829 --> 00:36:27.269
million in funding for this daycare or these

00:36:27.269 --> 00:36:29.670
string of daycares by that name, whatever it

00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:32.909
is, and I don't see a single fucking kid in this

00:36:32.909 --> 00:36:36.349
daycare. On paper, it's the learning center.

00:36:36.650 --> 00:36:40.110
The actual signs are the leering center. Yeah.

00:36:40.389 --> 00:36:43.809
Can't even spell them right. So they're saying

00:36:43.809 --> 00:36:45.409
they have all these kids. They're like, hey,

00:36:45.449 --> 00:36:47.550
can we come in here? Can we see if there are

00:36:47.550 --> 00:36:50.329
even any kids in here? No, no, no. They're locking

00:36:50.329 --> 00:36:53.309
the doors. They don't want any attention. There

00:36:53.309 --> 00:36:55.090
is even one clip where they said they don't even

00:36:55.090 --> 00:36:58.909
have kids. They didn't say it verbatim, but he

00:36:58.909 --> 00:37:00.650
asked them, hey, do you even have kids? And they

00:37:00.650 --> 00:37:04.199
said, no. And the thing is, he came in and he's

00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.059
like, hey, I've got my son, little Johnny. I

00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:09.659
really need a daycare for him to go to. You know,

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:11.360
do you have a pamphlet or something? No, no,

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:14.360
no, no. Would he have friends to play with here?

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:19.539
No, no, no, no. Like, yeah, dude. And then there's

00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:22.559
have been people that have gone to Somali houses

00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:25.679
like in, you know, nice neighborhoods that are

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.190
listed as a. uh daycare center they go in there

00:37:30.190 --> 00:37:32.429
and then the they ask like you know is this a

00:37:32.429 --> 00:37:35.710
daycare center oh no no no we we don't do we

00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:39.369
don't do daycare yeah like so it's bad yeah so

00:37:39.369 --> 00:37:41.750
trump is doing like a full investigation now

00:37:41.750 --> 00:37:45.869
on this and usually you could go hey you know

00:37:45.869 --> 00:37:48.510
maybe that's just a scam maybe it is going somewhere

00:37:48.510 --> 00:37:53.369
except if that was the case why would all of

00:37:53.369 --> 00:37:58.809
a sudden Mr. Waltz, stop announcing his reelection

00:37:58.809 --> 00:38:02.789
for governor. He stepped down. Yeah. 100%. He's

00:38:02.789 --> 00:38:07.250
not running. So if that is a true indicator,

00:38:07.550 --> 00:38:10.230
this dude is good. We're going to see some cool

00:38:10.230 --> 00:38:15.909
stuff here soon. And then also on that same topic,

00:38:16.090 --> 00:38:20.789
all the liberal like. The big liberal names are

00:38:20.789 --> 00:38:23.429
now starting GoFundMes to fund these daycare

00:38:23.429 --> 00:38:26.269
centers because they might be losing their federal

00:38:26.269 --> 00:38:31.130
funding. Yeah. Yep. Which, since we're going

00:38:31.130 --> 00:38:33.630
to bring this, and we could chapter this, so

00:38:33.630 --> 00:38:37.329
let's do five to eight more minutes of politics

00:38:37.329 --> 00:38:38.869
because I want to talk about one more thing since

00:38:38.869 --> 00:38:43.630
we're on politics. The liberal cries for Venezuela.

00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:49.079
have been fucking hilarious. I have, like, eight

00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.679
Venezuelan friends who are cheering. They're

00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:56.139
like, and I'm not saying America is innocent.

00:38:56.440 --> 00:39:00.059
I'm not saying that they're doing it for the

00:39:00.059 --> 00:39:02.920
good of Venezuela. Oh, no, we're in it for the

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.199
oil. They smell oil, and we heard the bald eagles

00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.820
screech. Like, we get it. We know, and trust

00:39:10.820 --> 00:39:15.630
me, Venezuelans know that, America's not there

00:39:15.630 --> 00:39:20.269
to liberate, and that's it. So with that underway

00:39:20.269 --> 00:39:26.190
and so that little caveat there, the eight Venezuelan

00:39:26.190 --> 00:39:30.389
friends that I have don't give a shit. That's

00:39:30.389 --> 00:39:33.170
how bad that is. David's like, I'm not racist.

00:39:33.329 --> 00:39:35.769
I have Venezuelan friends. Yes, I have friends

00:39:35.769 --> 00:39:38.869
that are Venezuelan, but they've never been there.

00:39:40.110 --> 00:39:42.150
I actually play a game where there's a bunch

00:39:42.150 --> 00:39:45.510
of them down there, and they're ecstatic, dude.

00:39:45.610 --> 00:39:48.449
They're like, finally. Yeah. This guy appointed

00:39:48.449 --> 00:39:52.630
himself. He was not even supposed to be there.

00:39:52.690 --> 00:39:55.090
A lot of people don't support him. They were

00:39:55.090 --> 00:39:58.409
ecstatic that he's gone. They were cheering in

00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:02.250
the streets. They were happy. The biggest issue

00:40:02.250 --> 00:40:05.409
that they have right now is that they can't travel

00:40:05.409 --> 00:40:08.940
by airport right now. Sorry. We had to take some

00:40:08.940 --> 00:40:13.340
precautions. But from what I see, there weren't

00:40:13.340 --> 00:40:16.139
any casualties, civilian casualties, right? 80.

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:19.940
Was there 80? Okay. Hey, we're sorry, civilians.

00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:27.300
But, you know, shit happens. Oh, I sent that

00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:31.800
to Mark. Supposedly, they bombed a previous dictator's

00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:37.420
grave. Good, good, good. Just for no reason.

00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:41.059
And when I tell you Trump has had some of the...

00:40:41.059 --> 00:40:47.260
Look, I don't love Trump. I'm not a MAGA. But

00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:49.420
when I say he's had some of the most successful

00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:54.440
operations... 100%. Go ahead. And not only that,

00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:57.039
have they been some of the more badass operations?

00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:01.969
Like, he went into another country... Seal Team

00:41:01.969 --> 00:41:04.230
6, and I know he didn't use Seal Team 6, but

00:41:04.230 --> 00:41:06.590
I'm using this as, like, the general. Yeah. He

00:41:06.590 --> 00:41:08.969
sealed Team 6 into this guy's fucking house,

00:41:09.110 --> 00:41:13.809
stole him out of his sleep in the dead of night,

00:41:13.829 --> 00:41:17.110
and came back with a helicopter that got a few

00:41:17.110 --> 00:41:21.010
gunshots in it. That was it. This is after. This

00:41:21.010 --> 00:41:23.630
is after the dude's, like... Do it, America.

00:41:23.909 --> 00:41:28.090
Come for me. I have a top -notch air superiority

00:41:28.090 --> 00:41:33.269
system to keep you at bay. The one thing Trump

00:41:33.269 --> 00:41:36.210
is really good at is calling your fucking bluff.

00:41:36.550 --> 00:41:39.269
The last thing a third -world country should

00:41:39.269 --> 00:41:42.369
be doing is talking shit. And that's what they

00:41:42.369 --> 00:41:45.730
get. I mean, I really do think that, like, if

00:41:45.730 --> 00:41:49.570
you're like a 5 -year -old and you're talking

00:41:49.570 --> 00:41:53.480
shit to a 13 -year -old, And then they come in

00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.119
and whoop your ass. Who are you blaming? You

00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.260
shouldn't have been talking shit. From a world

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:03.960
stage standpoint, right, I think taking Venezuela

00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:06.360
is the best thing we could have done. Because

00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:10.440
that now cuts off oil to China and Russia, who

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.340
have been using Venezuela's massive oil reserve.

00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.860
Which, that's kind of a big deal. And it's going

00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:21.809
to kind of take the wind out of... russia sales

00:42:21.809 --> 00:42:25.309
here going into their constant conflict with

00:42:25.309 --> 00:42:29.730
ukraine right um and honestly i would be happy

00:42:29.730 --> 00:42:32.869
to see a setup shop and just take care of Venezuela

00:42:32.869 --> 00:42:35.829
as if they were a 51st state. Right. And you

00:42:35.829 --> 00:42:39.389
know what? The best things that I've seen are

00:42:39.389 --> 00:42:42.309
the videos of these guys going on a marketplace,

00:42:42.449 --> 00:42:45.469
changing their locations to Venezuela, and low

00:42:45.469 --> 00:42:48.989
-balling the fuck out of Venezuela, guys. I've

00:42:48.989 --> 00:42:50.849
been seeing this a lot, especially with someone

00:42:50.849 --> 00:42:53.210
getting hit with storms. Yeah, they get down

00:42:53.210 --> 00:42:56.030
to Venezuela, and they're looking, and there's

00:42:56.030 --> 00:43:01.289
like a... 2018 F -250, which, why is that in

00:43:01.289 --> 00:43:07.349
Venezuela? But anyway, the 2018 F -250, and they're

00:43:07.349 --> 00:43:11.590
like, $1 ,500, I'll meet you at the border. Cash,

00:43:11.869 --> 00:43:15.889
$1 ,500, USD. And I'm like, I got to do the translation.

00:43:15.909 --> 00:43:20.070
That might be a deal. It's a deal. Yeah. Well,

00:43:20.210 --> 00:43:22.949
for anyone, from anyone down there, it's a deal.

00:43:23.050 --> 00:43:25.610
If it wasn't for import and issues like that.

00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:28.440
But if they become a 51st state, we don't have

00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:34.639
to worry about that. But if we kind of set up,

00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:36.920
even if we set up a really good trade deal with

00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:40.280
Venezuela for oil, it's going to absolutely tank

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.139
the oil prices, which is going to draw gas prices

00:43:43.139 --> 00:43:47.980
down to like $1, $1 .50. Dude, if gases went

00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:51.179
down to $1 .50, that is an overlander's biggest

00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:57.179
expense, other than parts. But for the general,

00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.840
like, if I could go to fucking Colorado and back

00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.880
for $400 or $500. Yeah. Because it would usually

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.719
take, it would probably take about $1 ,000 to

00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.780
get to Colorado and close to back. So if I can

00:44:10.780 --> 00:44:14.219
get there for half of that. Oh, yeah. So the

00:44:14.219 --> 00:44:17.099
economy booms. Gas prices go down. Like, dude.

00:44:17.300 --> 00:44:22.360
Economy booms. Inflation's gone. It also now

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.360
gives us a product that we can undercut Saudi

00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.119
for, which tensions with Saudi Arabia are fucking

00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:31.760
crazy. So if we can undercut Saudi Arabia and

00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.099
start selling oil cheaper than them, that now

00:44:34.099 --> 00:44:37.880
gives a bigger money intake to the U .S., which

00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.460
helps the economy even more. From a world stage

00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:45.780
standpoint, it makes sense for us to take over

00:44:45.780 --> 00:44:49.719
Venezuela. As greedy as this sounds, yes. Dude,

00:44:49.820 --> 00:44:52.039
100 percent. I'm not saying that this is like

00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.420
the nice thing to do, but this is it makes sense.

00:44:55.420 --> 00:44:59.400
Right. Logical. Yes. And honestly, it helps Venezuela,

00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.119
too, because they're constantly dealing with

00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:04.960
dictators. So if we can go in there, make them

00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:07.760
I want to see them a state. I don't want to see

00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.349
them a territory like. I'm trying to think of

00:45:11.349 --> 00:45:13.929
one. Guam, right? I don't want to see them as

00:45:13.929 --> 00:45:16.329
a territory. I'd like to see Venezuela as a state

00:45:16.329 --> 00:45:19.050
because then they help make decisions on who's

00:45:19.050 --> 00:45:21.349
president, what laws are passed. Yeah. What would

00:45:21.349 --> 00:45:27.409
be really nice to see is if we can do a state

00:45:27.409 --> 00:45:31.730
to where Venezuela can retain and keep their

00:45:31.730 --> 00:45:36.030
nationality, their practices, keep their individuality,

00:45:36.030 --> 00:45:39.670
but to be governed. by some, like, a democracy.

00:45:42.070 --> 00:45:46.809
But the issue is, like, Native Hawaiians have

00:45:46.809 --> 00:45:48.530
a huge issue with the U .S. because of how the

00:45:48.530 --> 00:45:51.150
U .S. came in and pretty much, not that they,

00:45:51.230 --> 00:45:53.809
you know what, they whitewashed them. Set up

00:45:53.809 --> 00:45:56.309
shop. Yeah, they set up shop and pushed everyone

00:45:56.309 --> 00:45:59.309
else. Yeah, and they don't like that. Of course,

00:45:59.309 --> 00:46:03.250
nobody does. But, like, I'd like for it to be

00:46:03.250 --> 00:46:05.949
a win -win for Venezuela. I want them to feel...

00:46:06.699 --> 00:46:09.760
that they can be themselves, that we're not pushing

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.119
them out. But I want them to have a healthy government

00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:18.019
and a healthy economy. I want to see them jump

00:46:18.019 --> 00:46:23.360
out of second or third world. And honestly, I

00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:26.159
want that for the rest of South America as well.

00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:29.260
But let's be realistic that that won't happen.

00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.639
And if we could set up a good trade deal with

00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:35.579
them, if we could set up a good social deal with

00:46:35.579 --> 00:46:39.989
them, That's a win -win for everybody. The other

00:46:39.989 --> 00:46:44.050
thing is, if we do claim them as a 51st state,

00:46:44.090 --> 00:46:48.190
that gives us military control over South America,

00:46:48.309 --> 00:46:51.690
which is now we're keeping ourselves safe bottom

00:46:51.690 --> 00:46:54.250
to top on our side of the world, right? We've

00:46:54.250 --> 00:46:56.929
got South America on lock. We've got, obviously,

00:46:57.050 --> 00:46:59.070
North America's on lock. Who's our biggest competitor?

00:46:59.429 --> 00:47:01.949
Fucking Canada. Fuck you. They got what, like

00:47:01.949 --> 00:47:06.289
eight people? Fuck you. Sorry. So I love our

00:47:06.289 --> 00:47:09.809
Canadians, but we do. We do. But like, seriously,

00:47:09.949 --> 00:47:14.449
we we have a military superiority right now in

00:47:14.449 --> 00:47:17.190
North America. If we can set up something in

00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:20.190
Venezuela based on location right next to Brazil

00:47:20.190 --> 00:47:22.489
where it's at, we'd have military superiority

00:47:22.489 --> 00:47:25.849
over all of South America. And that also squeezes

00:47:25.849 --> 00:47:30.480
Mexico to help them stop allowing. All the drugs

00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.159
that they've transported. Yeah, that's what I

00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:35.619
was going to say. It's a push in the right direction

00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:38.380
to get rid of these cartels because they have

00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:41.380
been let go for too long. They've become too

00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:46.039
integral to the governments. And now I don't

00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:49.280
think the governments can function without the

00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:52.519
cartels' money flowing into them, into the pockets

00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.300
of these people. I don't think that they know

00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:59.210
how to run anymore without it. I think it would

00:47:59.210 --> 00:48:01.550
be really cool, but we're getting in on 10 minutes

00:48:01.550 --> 00:48:07.550
of politics, so any last words? No, that's it.

00:48:07.769 --> 00:48:10.690
I'm very happy. Oh, I'll get a last word. Very

00:48:10.690 --> 00:48:13.369
happy for Venezuela that their dictator is gone.

00:48:13.510 --> 00:48:16.289
Yes. And I hope that we can set up a trade deal

00:48:16.289 --> 00:48:19.090
and social deal that keeps them safe from becoming

00:48:19.090 --> 00:48:21.809
part of the U .S. Secretly, I just want them

00:48:21.809 --> 00:48:23.670
to become part of the U .S., but don't tell anyone.

00:48:23.909 --> 00:48:27.340
Yeah. That's the logical side of me, right? I'm

00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:29.539
very logical when it comes to government, not

00:48:29.539 --> 00:48:35.980
so much, like, feel -goody. Yeah. But... I'd

00:48:35.980 --> 00:48:40.360
like the U .S. to... Like, U .S. has had, obviously,

00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:43.880
a spotty history with displacing the residents,

00:48:44.179 --> 00:48:46.599
the prior residents. Like, we all know. Like,

00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.239
we're not dumb. We're not saying that we haven't.

00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:54.090
But I would like us to not do that. And I would

00:48:54.090 --> 00:48:57.329
like them to feel like themselves and to be their

00:48:57.329 --> 00:49:00.769
own thing, to govern their own selves once they

00:49:00.769 --> 00:49:03.710
get set up. That's what the feel -good side of

00:49:03.710 --> 00:49:06.449
me wants. But the logical side of me is like,

00:49:06.530 --> 00:49:08.929
man, that's such a good thing to control. Yeah,

00:49:08.989 --> 00:49:13.809
absolutely. Yeah. So moving on. All right. That's

00:49:13.809 --> 00:49:17.690
the end of our political rant. Mark, when are

00:49:17.690 --> 00:49:19.969
you going to get new tires? What's your next

00:49:19.969 --> 00:49:26.039
tire? I think I'm going to go Gladiator X -Comp,

00:49:26.099 --> 00:49:29.019
and then we're going to mess around putting his

00:49:29.019 --> 00:49:33.119
35s onto my truck here. Gladiator X -Comps? Is

00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:35.500
that what you said? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Like what's

00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:38.320
on Devin's little truck. What brand is that?

00:49:38.380 --> 00:49:41.880
Is that Gladiator or X -Comp? Gladiator. Oh,

00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:44.659
okay. Gladiator. I'm not familiar with... I've

00:49:44.659 --> 00:49:46.679
heard of X -Comp, but I'm not familiar with Gladiator.

00:49:47.219 --> 00:49:50.880
Is that like an off -brand, or is it like a...

00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:54.849
No? Not really. Is it like Kenda? Like they started

00:49:54.849 --> 00:49:56.969
like an off brand and now they're kind of mainstream.

00:49:57.929 --> 00:50:01.710
Yeah, kind of. Not as mainstream as Kenda. The

00:50:01.710 --> 00:50:05.409
big thing with the Gladiator brand is the X -Comp

00:50:05.409 --> 00:50:08.570
MT because it's one of the most aggressive mud

00:50:08.570 --> 00:50:12.409
tires you can buy and street drive. Yeah. The

00:50:12.409 --> 00:50:19.090
AT, which we tried first on Devin's F -150, they're

00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:22.980
an amazing tire, dude. He's got probably 60 ,000

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.239
miles on him now, and they still have good tread,

00:50:25.460 --> 00:50:30.960
barely worn. Sweet. Amazing traction in every

00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.260
situation. They were on a two -wheel drive truck,

00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:34.840
and he was getting around in the winter without

00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.840
weight in the bed. Right. That's good. Yeah.

00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:40.920
They're a very good tire, and they're relatively

00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:44.099
cheap. We've had them now. Devin's had them on

00:50:44.099 --> 00:50:46.360
three trucks, the same set that he just rotates

00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:48.980
through. I've had them on, my sister had them

00:50:48.980 --> 00:50:52.219
on her Jeep, and they were great on that. And

00:50:52.219 --> 00:50:56.039
then, yeah, they're a good tire. Sweet. Are you

00:50:56.039 --> 00:50:57.760
changing your wheel setup, or are you staying

00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:01.800
the same and just going bigger tires? I haven't

00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.599
quite decided. I'm thinking of potentially going

00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.980
to a different wheel setup because mines aren't

00:51:07.980 --> 00:51:09.739
really looking rough, especially now there's

00:51:09.739 --> 00:51:12.530
rust forming on the inside of one of them. Yeah,

00:51:12.769 --> 00:51:16.610
what the hell? That's weird. I've never seen

00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:21.030
that. What are those, visions? Yes. Aren't these

00:51:21.030 --> 00:51:24.449
really good? I'm not impressed. I think they're

00:51:24.449 --> 00:51:27.670
good if you don't use them like I do. That's

00:51:27.670 --> 00:51:31.590
true. I would say Mark does send it more without

00:51:31.590 --> 00:51:36.389
a care. Okay, so Mark sends it without having

00:51:36.389 --> 00:51:40.090
the long arm suspension or long travel like Alex.

00:51:40.150 --> 00:51:43.139
He sends it more. with a closer -to -stock truck.

00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.659
So I feel like he does more abuse to his vehicle.

00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:52.119
So back when my truck was stock and Mark had

00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.219
his black truck, we did that first trip where

00:51:55.219 --> 00:51:56.900
we went up and around Lake Michigan, up through

00:51:56.900 --> 00:51:59.719
Keweenaw and all that. And this was right, like,

00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:03.099
Mark's... put his for this trip yeah literally

00:52:03.099 --> 00:52:06.059
like a week before it literally just got in just

00:52:06.059 --> 00:52:09.300
in time we got back from that trip and they were

00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:11.940
already fucking destroyed and we were doing the

00:52:11.940 --> 00:52:15.780
same stuff my rrw's just held on and the visions

00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:19.000
just full of nicks full of being chewed up i

00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.920
mean it was yeah pretty much instant maybe they're

00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.780
and then now it's like social overlanding not

00:52:24.780 --> 00:52:28.360
the real and now the whole in you know they've

00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.530
got those fake bead locks on them That whole

00:52:30.530 --> 00:52:33.909
section in there has formed rust where it's actually

00:52:33.909 --> 00:52:35.989
pitting it. It's not just that you can paint

00:52:35.989 --> 00:52:38.730
it. It needs wire wheeled out and then painted.

00:52:38.949 --> 00:52:42.070
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I still paint it. You

00:52:42.070 --> 00:52:45.130
can't even remove the lip either. Yeah. The lips.

00:52:45.150 --> 00:52:48.550
Yeah. It's, I'm not impressed. I'm really not.

00:52:48.690 --> 00:52:52.309
Kind of a bummer. So moving on from the wheels,

00:52:52.530 --> 00:52:58.329
let's say for all the listeners, Riggs and Cafe.

00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:02.820
When are we starting that? Do we have an official

00:53:02.820 --> 00:53:05.219
date yet? I don't think we do. You know what?

00:53:05.500 --> 00:53:07.780
This is something we actually need to talk about.

00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:11.159
Courts and Calf. Yeah, Courts and Calf. I'll

00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:15.960
never remember. But I just figured I'd bring

00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.179
it up. We're getting close to the hour, so maybe

00:53:19.179 --> 00:53:25.739
we can get a date figured out. I would like to

00:53:25.739 --> 00:53:32.179
see it end of January. I would be down for that

00:53:32.179 --> 00:53:40.219
last weekend of January, so the 31st. Okay. Do

00:53:40.219 --> 00:53:44.840
we have a location that we... Why don't we just

00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:48.500
do that place in White Cloud? I've had that out.

00:53:49.219 --> 00:53:52.480
It's a large area. It's right next to the lake.

00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.280
There's trails up and down it, so if we want

00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:59.780
to do some trails, we could do some trails. How

00:53:59.780 --> 00:54:03.960
far off a main road is that spot? Not very. Because

00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:07.599
part of my thing is, to the spot, I'm trying

00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:11.800
to limit trail usage. Just because we're pulling

00:54:11.800 --> 00:54:14.440
in a high amount of vehicles, so I don't want

00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:18.420
a chance damaging the trail. So I'm trying to

00:54:18.420 --> 00:54:22.579
do... I guess we should scout it out. Yeah, we

00:54:22.579 --> 00:54:25.679
should scout it out. Yeah, we should do that.

00:54:25.820 --> 00:54:31.389
I have been... Saying that. Well, we've been

00:54:31.389 --> 00:54:36.769
busy. Let's see. Oh, why am I in New Jersey?

00:54:36.829 --> 00:54:38.829
Oh, yeah, someone was telling me I need to come

00:54:38.829 --> 00:54:42.190
wheeling in New Jersey with him. Why? There's,

00:54:42.210 --> 00:54:45.289
like, no wheeling there. Well, there is a little

00:54:45.289 --> 00:54:48.329
bit in that area, but he says there's some cool

00:54:48.329 --> 00:54:51.289
stuff up there, and I'm like, yeah, maybe someday

00:54:51.289 --> 00:54:54.650
when I need to drive all the way to New Jersey

00:54:54.650 --> 00:55:00.420
for a weekend or something. You just don't hear

00:55:00.420 --> 00:55:03.500
about let's go wheeling in New Jersey. Well,

00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:07.219
that's the thing. I think I would like to open

00:55:07.219 --> 00:55:10.619
up that. You don't see that a lot in the Northeast

00:55:10.619 --> 00:55:14.300
as much, and I think that would be a really cool

00:55:14.300 --> 00:55:19.539
tour if I was to ever get money to explore the

00:55:19.539 --> 00:55:23.039
unexplored in that kind of way. Like, to go and

00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.880
drive around, talk to local people that are in

00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:27.400
the area and go, hey, what are your favorite

00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:30.159
spots? You know, there are mountain ranges in

00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:33.260
that area. There are, you know, you have Maine,

00:55:33.380 --> 00:55:36.239
which as a coastal state, I'm sure it's beautiful.

00:55:36.500 --> 00:55:38.219
I'm sure there's some places that are really

00:55:38.219 --> 00:55:40.699
nice to go to. I'd love to do that northeast

00:55:40.699 --> 00:55:45.039
area. Maine, I could see having some wheeling.

00:55:45.619 --> 00:55:49.179
I actually want to go, I'm pretty sure it's Maine.

00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:55.219
Where's Acadia at? No idea. I would assume New

00:55:55.219 --> 00:55:59.360
Hampshire and Vermont might be kind of iffy of

00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:02.480
finding trails. I mean, I know you got quads.

00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:06.719
Acadia is in Maine, and that's where I want to

00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:11.719
go. I'm not going to lie to you, and I'm sorry,

00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:15.179
listeners, for this. I thought Maine was completely

00:56:15.179 --> 00:56:18.719
separated. Like, in my head, I thought it was

00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:23.500
separated, like ocean around it. no and it's

00:56:23.500 --> 00:56:27.219
not at all i'm like looking at it i'm like what

00:56:27.219 --> 00:56:30.440
the fuck new brunswick is like the canadian border

00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:33.880
is on the whole other side like in my head where

00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:36.000
new brunswick is is ocean you thought it was

00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:39.480
a pencil or a peninsula yeah just for that other

00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:43.230
part like i knew the backside touched But, like,

00:56:43.230 --> 00:56:45.449
that was, like, it was kind of like, what the

00:56:45.449 --> 00:56:47.989
hell? Like, I'm looking at it, and I'm like,

00:56:48.050 --> 00:56:50.949
wait, we could go trailing in New Brunswick?

00:56:50.969 --> 00:56:53.989
That's cool. There are mountains in there. There's

00:56:53.989 --> 00:56:58.130
a big river. And there are, like, there are trails

00:56:58.130 --> 00:57:00.289
peppered all the way through that around, like,

00:57:00.309 --> 00:57:02.869
there's, like, called Billy Brown Mountain, Howard

00:57:02.869 --> 00:57:07.750
Peak, Upper Stone Ridge, Winter Run, like. I

00:57:07.750 --> 00:57:10.829
really want to go to the Acadia National Park.

00:57:12.329 --> 00:57:14.409
There's one in Minnesota that I would like to

00:57:14.409 --> 00:57:22.289
do, but there's Baxter's Park. There's not really

00:57:22.289 --> 00:57:26.809
any off -roading in Acadia. It's just somewhere

00:57:26.809 --> 00:57:30.630
I've always wanted to go. Yeah. The Golden Road.

00:57:30.769 --> 00:57:34.210
They have a Golden Road. Oh, man, that's beautiful.

00:57:35.769 --> 00:57:39.119
Hey, Gavin. You talk about the main on the map

00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.260
for how you perceived it reminds me of the people

00:57:41.260 --> 00:57:44.460
that perceived Alaska as a giant Island. Yeah.

00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:47.400
I think when I was younger, I thought that, but

00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:49.880
I just, I don't know why. Like when I, when I

00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:53.940
think of the U S map, I thought main had water

00:57:53.940 --> 00:57:57.440
all around the top of it. But I, I want to say

00:57:57.440 --> 00:57:59.340
that the only reason is because when I think

00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:01.480
of the U S map, it doesn't include any other

00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:06.300
maps, right? Yeah. It's just the U S. So I, It's

00:58:06.300 --> 00:58:08.760
not that I obviously think that there's no Canada

00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:11.420
attached to us. It's just I thought that the

00:58:11.420 --> 00:58:13.980
way that the U .S. map with just U .S. in it,

00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:17.440
that Maine was just kind of out on its own. Because

00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:21.760
I remember visiting the sea, the ocean, in Maine,

00:58:21.860 --> 00:58:23.800
and just for some reason I thought we were on

00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:28.500
the tip part of it. But now I'm not so sure anymore.

00:58:29.019 --> 00:58:32.179
And just think, when we take over Venezuela,

00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:34.760
people are going to think Venezuela is a floating

00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:37.179
highland. Yeah, right. It's just going to be

00:58:37.179 --> 00:58:41.739
down at the bottom. It's going to be next. It's

00:58:41.739 --> 00:58:43.519
just off the coast of Florida. What do you mean?

00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:45.820
We're going to get Gulf of America over there

00:58:45.820 --> 00:58:49.960
by Venezuela now. Oh, God. I didn't even think

00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:56.360
about that. Hold up. What? Yeah, the Gulf of

00:58:56.360 --> 00:59:03.699
America touches Venezuela. It really would be

00:59:03.699 --> 00:59:08.300
the Gulf of America then. Maybe. I don't know.

00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:11.980
I don't even know the map. No. Oh, no, I guess

00:59:11.980 --> 00:59:14.179
it doesn't. That would be the Mediterranean.

00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:19.280
Or the Caribbean. Caribbean. Sorry. Hey, see,

00:59:19.420 --> 00:59:22.599
Americans love the Caribbeans anyway, so we're

00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:26.239
already in that area a ton. I mean, we got, what,

00:59:26.280 --> 00:59:29.679
stuff in Cuba. We have Puerto Rico. Oh, yeah.

00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:33.869
Yeah. No, it'll be cool. But I would like to

00:59:33.869 --> 00:59:36.550
do the Northeast and do like a – there's a –

00:59:36.550 --> 00:59:38.869
the guy that I told you about that had the Subaru

00:59:38.869 --> 00:59:42.250
Baja and the FJ just like I did, he lives in

00:59:42.250 --> 00:59:44.909
that Northeast area, and he's got some beautiful

00:59:44.909 --> 00:59:48.869
views up there. So I'd love to do that area and

00:59:48.869 --> 00:59:51.429
just document it well because I don't know any

00:59:51.429 --> 00:59:53.849
– I'm going to look tonight on YouTube, but I

00:59:53.849 --> 00:59:56.650
don't know any mainstream overlanders that have

00:59:56.650 --> 00:59:59.230
really tried to branch out over there. Maybe

00:59:59.230 --> 01:00:01.309
because there's nothing that crazy to see, but

01:00:01.309 --> 01:00:06.389
I just looked at a one trail near a mountainside

01:00:06.389 --> 01:00:10.010
and it had like big cliff faces off the side

01:00:10.010 --> 01:00:14.090
of the trail that were like deep, like 30, 40,

01:00:14.130 --> 01:00:18.329
50 feet. So, I mean, there's views. I mean, there's

01:00:18.329 --> 01:00:20.590
views everywhere. I just like to be able to get

01:00:20.590 --> 01:00:24.389
out and do them. Right. So fun facts. Did you

01:00:24.389 --> 01:00:28.119
realize that the Appalachian mountains? And the

01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:31.159
Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range?

01:00:31.619 --> 01:00:36.940
No. So the Scottish Highlands used to be connected

01:00:36.940 --> 01:00:39.940
at the top of the Appalachian Mountains. And

01:00:39.940 --> 01:00:42.579
then when Pangaea broke apart, it dragged that

01:00:42.579 --> 01:00:46.280
section of mountains up to Scotland. So Scotland

01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:50.599
should be America. Exactly. We should just take

01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:55.889
over. And actually, the Scottish and Irish immigrants

01:00:55.889 --> 01:00:59.630
mostly settled in the Appalachian Mountains because

01:00:59.630 --> 01:01:03.070
it reminded them of home. And a lot of the stuff

01:01:03.070 --> 01:01:05.309
that you think of as Appalachian is Scottish

01:01:05.309 --> 01:01:08.389
or Irish. Like bluegrass is actually a Scottish

01:01:08.389 --> 01:01:12.550
thing. Yeah, it's super cool, super interesting,

01:01:12.710 --> 01:01:17.070
fun info to learn. And they settled there because

01:01:17.070 --> 01:01:19.900
it reminded them of home. Because it was the

01:01:19.900 --> 01:01:22.500
same mountain range. Yeah, it's like the, what

01:01:22.500 --> 01:01:25.199
is it, the Finnish or Swedish? I can't remember

01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:27.800
the big population that moved into the northern

01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:30.539
part of the UP where the coal mining or the copper

01:01:30.539 --> 01:01:33.420
mining was. It's like a Finnish, Dutch. Well,

01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:35.679
there's a couple different ones from that area,

01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:38.460
though. Yeah. But a lot of those guys moved over

01:01:38.460 --> 01:01:40.500
there, and a lot of them still retain a lot of

01:01:40.500 --> 01:01:45.699
the heritage. They still even talk Sweden, Swedish.

01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:49.389
Who is it that have all the saunas? Is that Sweden?

01:01:50.150 --> 01:01:54.670
I think it's Sweden. Yeah. Because there's a

01:01:54.670 --> 01:01:57.150
bunch of them up there that still have houses

01:01:57.150 --> 01:01:59.389
all over that still have saunas up there, and

01:01:59.389 --> 01:02:03.070
they use them frequently. So that's really cool.

01:02:03.550 --> 01:02:07.349
Fun fact, but right before we get off here, the

01:02:07.349 --> 01:02:11.429
basalt in Lake Superior is like the oldest exposed

01:02:11.429 --> 01:02:17.139
rock, and the mountains. in the up lake superior

01:02:17.139 --> 01:02:19.559
area are like the oldest mountains in the world

01:02:19.559 --> 01:02:23.380
one of them and the basalt that's pretty oldest

01:02:23.380 --> 01:02:27.880
so that is pretty cool too yeah so this basalt

01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:30.860
you see is some of the oldest that has been exposed

01:02:30.860 --> 01:02:34.179
to the world so it's pretty cool you got anything

01:02:34.179 --> 01:02:38.239
to add alex before we head out uh geography is

01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:41.400
fun yeah sorry about the politics but we did

01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:46.619
keep it under like 20 minutes So in the grand

01:02:46.619 --> 01:02:48.360
scheme of things, I think we did pretty good.

01:02:49.619 --> 01:02:52.820
Thanks for listening to Botches. We'll try to

01:02:52.820 --> 01:02:56.059
stay off the politics a little more. We should

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just start a second show that is politics at

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this point. We just need a 30 -minute segment

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where we can rant. And if they want to listen,

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they can listen. If they don't, they don't. I

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kind of want to make a politics show. I wish

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I had time for it. Yeah, that's the thing is

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I don't have time for a whole other one, but

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I would sit for 30 minutes and do a rant where

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we just bullshit about the politics and then

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move on. So I don't know. We'll see. And there

01:03:27.159 --> 01:03:30.059
might be something in the future. Leave a voicemail

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if you don't want us to do it. Leave a voicemail

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if you have any trail tips for how not to fart

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while overlanding. Yeah, because apparently Overland

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Farts is a good voicemail. It's a big deal. It's

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a big deal around here, so I appreciate everybody

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for doing that. Voicemail about CameraWorks.

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CameraWorks, yes. Just techniques, styles, equipment,

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whatever you want to say. Real quick, I want

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to do a little tail end of this voicemail segment.

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I'm going to read off a Radio Chatter card, and

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you can call in and answer the card. Yes, we

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will do that. Oh, right now? Oh, we're doing

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it right now. This was unscripted, but we did

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have this actually planned to do at some point.

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I just didn't know it was going to be right now.

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I have spaghetti waiting for me. I'm hungry.

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All right. So for the voicemail segment, that's

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a bad card. All right. Take two. What close encounter

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with nature have you had? All right. You heard

01:04:40.900 --> 01:04:43.739
it here first, folks. Call us up on the voicemail.

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What close encounter in nature have you had?

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We'll give our answers. Yep. Give us the answers,

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and if we actually get any voicemail, we will

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read off our answers. Correct. There you go.

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So if you don't send any voicemail, you won't

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hear our really cool answers that we told you

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back in Season 1, which you won't find because

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we have so many episodes for you to binge. So

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many. We're on Season 3. So you won't find it.

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You have to leave a voicemail to figure out our

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crazy, kooky stories. And on that note, we'll

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see you later. Catch you guys later. Later.