WEBVTT 00:00:10.589 --> 00:00:14.189 Welcome to botches off road and it's just gonna 00:00:14.189 --> 00:00:18.510 be a little me and mark action today Alex has 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:20.510 Yeah, I don't know. What does he got going on? 00:00:20.510 --> 00:00:23.050 He's just I think he just wanted to play something 00:00:23.050 --> 00:00:25.769 helping his mother. Yeah Yeah, something like 00:00:25.769 --> 00:00:29.609 that. We postponed it for a day to record and 00:00:29.609 --> 00:00:34.530 then he backed out on us. So dang it So I guess 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:37.530 we're gonna do a little rap. What did we do this 00:00:37.530 --> 00:00:41.000 weekend? I had a pretty interesting weekend. 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:46.079 How about you, Mark? I went car shopping with 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.899 Alex. Yeah, how'd that go? Or truck shopping. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.899 Pretty good. A couple of the trucks that he originally 00:00:55.899 --> 00:00:59.399 looked at were all fucking lemons. Yeah, that's 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:05.579 surprising. Yeah. No, a lot of them had. some 00:01:05.579 --> 00:01:08.120 form of an issue dealing with exhaust or had 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:13.079 a major blowback issue. I lost, I think we looked 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:19.420 at one, two, three, four, five, five trucks. 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.700 Yeah. I think he settled on the sixth truck. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.879 No, the fifth truck we looked at. Man. And what 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:37.930 is that, a 2014? So it was 2014 F 250 Believe 00:01:37.930 --> 00:01:40.290 the six point seven. Yeah, I think there was 00:01:40.290 --> 00:01:45.269 it six seven or six five It was a six seven, 00:01:45.269 --> 00:01:52.230 yeah Black right pictures I can tell Yep, yeah 00:01:52.230 --> 00:01:54.310 black. It's pretty clean. Look at truck. You 00:01:54.310 --> 00:01:56.189 sent one picture, but that's all I've seen of 00:01:56.189 --> 00:02:00.450 it so far And then I think you went and picked 00:02:00.450 --> 00:02:04.459 it up yesterday towed it home and then towed 00:02:04.459 --> 00:02:07.040 the car that he drove down there on the trailer 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.800 with it. It was a good break in to see if it 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:11.719 would actually get back home and everything. 00:02:13.219 --> 00:02:16.060 From what he said, it needs a couple of things, 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:22.340 but it's drivable and good to go. I think the 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:25.860 front needs to get alignment done. It needs a 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:28.539 new headlight. The one headlight has a crack 00:02:28.539 --> 00:02:33.310 in it. The when you work on the body amounts 00:02:33.310 --> 00:02:37.629 this weekend Yeah, so yeah a few things, but 00:02:37.629 --> 00:02:40.590 at least he's got a running vehicle right now 00:02:40.590 --> 00:02:47.349 Only call yeah two arms and a leg So yeah, that 00:02:47.349 --> 00:02:51.169 was uh and you do anything during the week anything 00:02:51.169 --> 00:02:55.889 with your truck or anything No trucks still held 00:02:55.889 --> 00:03:00.330 up in the shop they Apparently, I pinched the 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:03.610 wire when I rerouted the knock sensor wire. Yeah. 00:03:04.389 --> 00:03:07.150 Because I couldn't get the knock sensor old harness 00:03:07.150 --> 00:03:11.050 out of the valley fully. So we rerouted it, thinking 00:03:11.050 --> 00:03:13.490 it might be an OK area where we routed it. But 00:03:13.490 --> 00:03:17.689 I guess we pinched or broke a wire doing that. 00:03:20.110 --> 00:03:22.509 They called, I think it was Monday. They called 00:03:22.509 --> 00:03:24.210 Alex. I didn't know that he got it done. But 00:03:24.210 --> 00:03:26.870 then all my fuel injectors I put in are all bad 00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:31.129 now. Oh, my god. I wonder if it shorted them 00:03:31.129 --> 00:03:33.849 out. Plus, I knew they're having that bad wire 00:03:33.849 --> 00:03:35.389 or something. I don't know. Something happened. 00:03:35.430 --> 00:03:39.250 Yeah. Yeah. Something happened, so they're all 00:03:39.250 --> 00:03:42.370 getting replaced. We're waiting for it to be 00:03:42.370 --> 00:03:44.689 shipped in, so I probably won't see the truck 00:03:44.689 --> 00:03:47.889 until next week at this point. Wow. Well, at 00:03:47.889 --> 00:03:52.150 least you'll be getting that back soon. Yeah. 00:03:52.889 --> 00:03:58.370 Yeah, for me, I had a U -joint. go to toast for 00:03:58.370 --> 00:04:04.009 me this last uh was it last week and i wanted 00:04:04.009 --> 00:04:07.569 to go to riggs and coffee sunday so we found 00:04:07.569 --> 00:04:10.689 out on friday seeing i came home from work and 00:04:10.689 --> 00:04:13.930 was like there's a new sound and i'm like oh 00:04:13.930 --> 00:04:19.269 fucking fantastic love hearing that so well i 00:04:19.269 --> 00:04:20.889 took it on a drive didn't hear anything and i 00:04:20.889 --> 00:04:23.649 was she's like no i'm not fucking crazy i know 00:04:23.829 --> 00:04:26.790 There's a sound. I know it. So we took it down 00:04:26.790 --> 00:04:29.550 prairie and all of a sudden the sound started 00:04:29.550 --> 00:04:34.750 and it was loud. It sounded like, I don't know, 00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:38.810 like a pipe hitting a metal fan blade. Just to 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:43.250 do, to do, to do, to do, to do. And I was just, 00:04:43.250 --> 00:04:45.430 I was freaking out. I'm like, dude, that's, I 00:04:45.430 --> 00:04:47.970 can, I had my head out the window. I could hear 00:04:47.970 --> 00:04:51.810 it only happening in low speeds. And I was like, 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:54.519 that's my, I bet you that's my diff. That diff's 00:04:54.519 --> 00:05:01.040 finally leaving the chat. So I got out, let her 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.019 drive around a little bit. I got under the truck, 00:05:03.459 --> 00:05:05.800 put my hand on it while she threw it in gear 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.699 and everything. And it felt like it was still 00:05:08.699 --> 00:05:15.480 the diff. So we held our heads very low and went 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:20.069 home. I called Alex up and told him what was 00:05:20.069 --> 00:05:22.470 going on and he's like, are you sure? And I'm 00:05:22.470 --> 00:05:27.930 like, yeah, as far as I know, I am. And I explained 00:05:27.930 --> 00:05:29.250 the sound and he goes, you know, that sounds 00:05:29.250 --> 00:05:31.490 like a lot like a U -joint. I'm like, really? 00:05:32.189 --> 00:05:35.470 Yeah. So I went and checked, looked at my U -joint 00:05:35.470 --> 00:05:38.550 and sure as shit that U -joint was shot, which 00:05:38.550 --> 00:05:43.750 was great. So we looked around everywhere to 00:05:43.750 --> 00:05:45.930 try to get it fixed that night so that we could. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.220 You know have it for Sunday Alex is going to 00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:53.139 check out that truck, so he wasn't gonna be there 00:05:53.139 --> 00:06:00.839 till on Saturday, so We waited waited Tried to 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:04.040 find a u -joint and apparently nobody had a u 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.019 -joint had to be shipped in from gr and They 00:06:08.019 --> 00:06:11.360 got there Saturday at about 3 p .m.. Or something 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.639 like that so I went, refilled my diff, because 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.660 I was checking my diff earlier when I thought 00:06:18.660 --> 00:06:24.860 it was that. Refilled that, and we got out there, 00:06:25.100 --> 00:06:27.740 picked it up, came back, and waited a couple 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:30.699 hours until Alex was supposed to be home, and 00:06:30.699 --> 00:06:34.360 I pulled out to his house to use the press he 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.740 had, and we spent the next couple hours. Mark 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:40.899 helped a lot, and Alex helped a lot, just trying 00:06:40.899 --> 00:06:43.360 to get the press and everything. to pop that 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.500 U -joint out. And it was kind of a bitch. That 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:53.439 U -joint was dust. It was rusty, dusty. At one 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.519 point, it was pressing so hard that it flew across 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:01.100 the shed. Like three different pieces. It was 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:05.819 like ricocheted. But yeah, finally we got that 00:07:05.819 --> 00:07:10.209 out. Got the new one in. Took it up and on the 00:07:10.209 --> 00:07:14.129 road. Holy crap. It felt like I just added You 00:07:14.129 --> 00:07:18.009 know 50 horse to the car You know like it did 00:07:18.009 --> 00:07:21.209 like it was like a significant increase in acceleration 00:07:21.209 --> 00:07:25.689 and everything it felt Shaking that I didn't 00:07:25.689 --> 00:07:29.910 know necessarily Was the cause of that went away 00:07:29.910 --> 00:07:32.610 steering wheel shake kind of went away a little 00:07:32.610 --> 00:07:37.689 Just everything everything felt better And so 00:07:37.689 --> 00:07:41.290 yeah, we went on my merry way. And Sunday, we 00:07:41.290 --> 00:07:45.850 got everything packed in the tent. I'm sorry, 00:07:45.889 --> 00:07:48.290 packed in the tent. We got the tent packed on 00:07:48.290 --> 00:07:52.470 the truck, and we did rigs and coffee. But I 00:07:52.470 --> 00:07:54.790 did skip some stuff. We spent most of the day 00:07:54.790 --> 00:07:59.410 Saturday pulling stuff out of the truck and putting 00:07:59.410 --> 00:08:02.970 stuff into the truck, pulling the winter gear 00:08:02.970 --> 00:08:06.399 out, cleaning it out, putting these. camp gear 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:11.740 in for the summer of the season. And Sienna and 00:08:11.740 --> 00:08:13.560 I, while we were waiting, we were both, she had 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.379 a day off on Saturday, finally. And so we just 00:08:17.379 --> 00:08:20.040 started plugging away at it. I knew that I had 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:21.639 to get the tent on the roof, it was not gonna 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.519 fit in the truck, so we started trying to pull 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:32.940 gear and, you know, consolidate gear into one 00:08:32.940 --> 00:08:36.159 box. get rid of doubles of tools that I didn't 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.700 need. So we ended up getting rid of all the boxes 00:08:39.700 --> 00:08:42.759 on the right side of the truck that was holding 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:49.320 recovery gear and tools and all that. And we 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.179 mounted one of them on the back wheel at a spare 00:08:52.179 --> 00:08:54.840 tire tray. So we mounted one box with recovery 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.320 gear in the back tire. Then we got everything 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.899 else consolidated into a box and I have that 00:09:01.899 --> 00:09:05.799 inside the truck. and then we took the, it's 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.759 a 60 -40 split in the rear seat and I took the 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:15.259 60 out and put that inside so we have that whole 00:09:15.259 --> 00:09:17.360 flat area now and then we put a couple tools 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:22.740 in there, we got more space. I lifted up my shelf 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:26.100 platform that I had some of my drawers and stuff 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:28.740 on in the back just a couple inches so that it 00:09:28.740 --> 00:09:32.570 stopped rubbing against the fridge. So yeah, 00:09:32.570 --> 00:09:35.129 we did a bunch of that stuff and then we then 00:09:35.129 --> 00:09:38.029 we went to Riggs and coffee we got to Riggs and 00:09:38.029 --> 00:09:41.350 coffee and it was a different location than last 00:09:41.350 --> 00:09:44.470 time it was a Basically like a park pavilion 00:09:44.470 --> 00:09:49.009 area. It was yeah, that's what it's like a little 00:09:49.009 --> 00:09:52.330 park there in Hopkins Yeah, and it was it was 00:09:52.330 --> 00:09:55.309 right there next to the fire department it was 00:09:55.309 --> 00:09:59.929 basically just Like it was very weird like it'd 00:09:59.929 --> 00:10:02.070 be like parking in the front of Grant High School 00:10:02.070 --> 00:10:04.590 Just right in the right there in the lawn. It 00:10:04.590 --> 00:10:09.850 was weird And we had a really good turnout lots 00:10:09.850 --> 00:10:13.330 of cars there it filled up the little it's a 00:10:13.330 --> 00:10:19.350 smaller area than the parking lot and Yeah, I 00:10:19.350 --> 00:10:22.269 would say it's probably about half the size or 00:10:22.269 --> 00:10:29.309 close to it of usable Like area and it was super 00:10:29.309 --> 00:10:33.690 soft, dude You take it was I kind of saw one 00:10:33.690 --> 00:10:36.789 of them I think the Lexus is like the Lexus had 00:10:36.789 --> 00:10:39.789 it was next to you. Yep fucking tore up the grass 00:10:39.789 --> 00:10:42.289 Yeah, and I actually pointed that out too But 00:10:42.289 --> 00:10:45.710 uh, you know how Alex's ground is kind of spongy 00:10:45.710 --> 00:10:48.509 there next to his shed you step on it You could 00:10:48.509 --> 00:10:51.570 feel your foot smush. Yeah, that's pretty much 00:10:51.570 --> 00:10:55.879 how it was. Yep And so we all got parked out 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.000 there though. It got really nice out and I set 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.840 up the tent in the front. So we had a little 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:03.919 lounge area and people could look at the tent. 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.820 I asked about it. And yeah, we got to see some 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:10.559 people we haven't seen in a year or, you know, 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.340 or since a new year anyway, but we saw Derek. 00:11:14.580 --> 00:11:17.399 We saw a couple other other guys that always 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:22.100 come up. And then we saw an Azuzu via cross. 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.240 That showed up. That was pretty cool to see. 00:11:24.340 --> 00:11:27.580 Oh yeah, I saw that. Yeah, that was dope. We 00:11:27.580 --> 00:11:31.039 had Volkswagen guy with his, what was it? What 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.000 do they call that? Tourig? Something like that. 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:36.659 It's the all -wheel drive version. I didn't see 00:11:36.659 --> 00:11:39.779 the picture. But it was that silver Tourig, and 00:11:39.779 --> 00:11:43.899 he has another car cut in half, another Volkswagen 00:11:43.899 --> 00:11:47.279 cut in half, and it's his camp trailer. Oh, you're 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.419 talking about that one. He has the giant basket 00:11:49.419 --> 00:11:53.570 on there. So that guy showed up, like I said, 00:11:54.110 --> 00:11:58.250 the normal people. And yeah, they had some good 00:11:58.250 --> 00:12:02.090 cookies. And my kid ate about 1 ,000 of them. 00:12:03.509 --> 00:12:07.029 And then Derek's kids brought out their 3D printed 00:12:07.029 --> 00:12:13.370 rock crawling course. That was sick, Mark. I 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:16.610 think you would have loved that. Like you, Shane, 00:12:16.710 --> 00:12:20.190 that was sick. Like they had their little land 00:12:20.190 --> 00:12:24.389 cruisers on there and they were crawling throughout 00:12:24.389 --> 00:12:27.009 that course. And it all comes together, it's 00:12:27.009 --> 00:12:29.230 all 3D printed and it comes together like a puzzle, 00:12:29.269 --> 00:12:32.129 like the interlocking pieces. So you can kind 00:12:32.129 --> 00:12:34.210 of mix them and match them to get like a different 00:12:34.210 --> 00:12:38.429 course. That was cool. And so everybody kind 00:12:38.429 --> 00:12:40.830 of huddled around that and watched them play 00:12:40.830 --> 00:12:44.190 with that for a while. I made hot dogs in the 00:12:44.190 --> 00:12:46.129 back of the truck, and it was just a good time, 00:12:46.269 --> 00:12:48.169 man. Lots of people there that you haven't seen. 00:12:48.889 --> 00:12:51.750 Lots of talking. There was even people coming 00:12:51.750 --> 00:12:56.929 from, you know, just in town, just trying to 00:12:56.929 --> 00:12:59.830 see what's going on. And so we were all kind 00:12:59.830 --> 00:13:02.789 of talking to them and, you know, sharing what 00:13:02.789 --> 00:13:05.830 what's a very small town there. So I'm not surprised 00:13:05.830 --> 00:13:07.669 you have random people come up and join. Yeah, 00:13:07.669 --> 00:13:12.049 we had one guy. He had a Jeep Compass. or no, 00:13:12.309 --> 00:13:16.129 not compass, what's the commander? Big old fucked 00:13:16.129 --> 00:13:18.590 up jeep commander, and he was talking about coming 00:13:18.590 --> 00:13:21.529 out and doing some of this, and he's like, what, 00:13:21.529 --> 00:13:23.549 you got a card? I'm like, no, no, this isn't 00:13:23.549 --> 00:13:25.049 my group or anything, I'm just, you know, I was 00:13:25.049 --> 00:13:28.370 just telling him about it. And Derek comes up, 00:13:28.429 --> 00:13:31.210 I said, this is the boss man. And he goes, you 00:13:31.210 --> 00:13:34.029 got a card? And he goes, no, it's all online. 00:13:34.090 --> 00:13:36.090 And the guy kind of gave him a stink eye from 00:13:36.090 --> 00:13:38.710 that. And I was like, dude, everything is now. 00:13:39.450 --> 00:13:41.509 You're not going to get a magazine or anything 00:13:41.509 --> 00:13:46.289 out of it. So that's pretty cool. And Midwest 00:13:46.289 --> 00:13:50.789 4x4 had some patches and stuff for sale. Stickers, 00:13:50.929 --> 00:13:53.690 patches, some t -shirts, some hats. They actually 00:13:53.690 --> 00:13:58.830 had some merch. I think I'm used to seeing them 00:13:58.830 --> 00:14:01.909 with like shirts and stuff, but not like patches 00:14:01.909 --> 00:14:04.169 and stickers, like decals. I don't know that 00:14:04.169 --> 00:14:06.610 I've ever seen that. I've seen stickers a couple 00:14:06.610 --> 00:14:09.309 of times. I don't know if I've seen patches yet. 00:14:09.389 --> 00:14:11.950 I'll probably get a patch because. Yeah. Might 00:14:11.950 --> 00:14:15.090 as well since I bought from them. Yeah. They 00:14:15.090 --> 00:14:17.269 should just give that to you when you buy it. 00:14:17.389 --> 00:14:19.110 That should just go on your truck. Oh, I know, 00:14:19.190 --> 00:14:21.549 true. You should tell them that. It's the least 00:14:21.549 --> 00:14:26.509 you could do. So, yeah, and then Brian showed 00:14:26.509 --> 00:14:29.950 up from Midwest and he brought the FJ that they're 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:34.470 working on. So, they just picked up an FJ a little 00:14:34.470 --> 00:14:36.250 while ago that they're going to turn into like 00:14:36.250 --> 00:14:41.049 their... It's not a show truck, but it's the 00:14:41.049 --> 00:14:43.230 truck that they bring around to shows to have 00:14:43.230 --> 00:14:45.809 all their products and stuff in and to advertise. 00:14:46.649 --> 00:14:48.909 But the truck itself isn't going to be the show, 00:14:48.909 --> 00:14:53.779 I guess. So. Yeah. But yeah, so that was pretty 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:57.539 cool. It was just nice to see everyone So we 00:14:57.539 --> 00:15:00.840 did that it started to trickle right as we were 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.019 all getting ready to leave We stayed for a couple 00:15:03.019 --> 00:15:05.820 hours. It was just nice enough that You know 00:15:05.820 --> 00:15:08.820 the kids were playing It wasn't really raining 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:11.659 or nothing. It was getting chilly But we just 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:14.100 went inside the tent. We had that tent popped 00:15:14.100 --> 00:15:16.299 up in front of the truck I have some pictures 00:15:16.299 --> 00:15:18.220 on my Instagram for anybody who wants to like 00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:21.480 see how rigs and coffee was set up and all that 00:15:21.610 --> 00:15:25.149 But we had all that set up, and we went in there 00:15:25.149 --> 00:15:26.990 when we wanted to get away from the wind a little 00:15:26.990 --> 00:15:28.970 bit. And I can tell you what, the wind was blowing 00:15:28.970 --> 00:15:32.350 pretty decently. I'd say like 10 mile an hour, 00:15:32.950 --> 00:15:35.590 enough to like move the awnings and stuff, and 00:15:35.590 --> 00:15:37.309 it makes stuff kind of flap around a little. 00:15:38.070 --> 00:15:40.409 You wouldn't even know it was moving inside that 00:15:40.409 --> 00:15:42.990 tent from the outside, like from the inside. 00:15:43.070 --> 00:15:46.200 You couldn't even tell. So. hope that's a good 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.299 omen as we're gonna find out I'm gonna I agreed 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:53.080 to do the east side camp trip that Zach's doing 00:15:53.080 --> 00:16:00.120 so that's gonna be early April I think let me 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.720 double check here because I don't think we have 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.460 anything going on so and Sienna had the weekend 00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:13.720 no I think Because Alex has the turkey run thing 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.419 that he's part of. Yeah. It's like late April. 00:16:16.580 --> 00:16:18.500 So I don't think he was planning anything big 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:21.500 for April. Yeah, no, I have. I think the next. 00:16:22.779 --> 00:16:27.679 It's April 18th is the East Side trip. So we're 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.059 going to go do that. And I'm going to bring the 00:16:29.059 --> 00:16:30.759 diesel here and stuff just in case it's still 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.120 cold. And we're going to test out the tent. But 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.539 I set it up on my own. This is the first time 00:16:36.539 --> 00:16:41.019 I set up a six person. eight person tent by myself 00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:46.019 and put it away by myself. But, you know, it's 00:16:46.019 --> 00:16:49.039 it's not that it's hard or anything, but like 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:53.340 two people just make it way easier. And but that 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:55.879 was that was really nice. We just sat in there. 00:16:56.100 --> 00:16:57.919 We just threw the chairs in there like you guys 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.960 did with your gazebo and relaxed in there to 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:05.619 take a break. So. Yeah, we got home from that. 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.599 Talked with Benji from. Whoo, that's something 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:14.960 my face newfound overland Yep, and we talked 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:26.559 to Benji and what? Yeah, yeah Midwest adventure 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.900 outfitters, yeah, but we talked a little bit 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:34.240 cuz I saw something on his Page and I said, well, 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:38.089 I'd love to you know, I'd love to do a podcast 00:17:38.089 --> 00:17:41.569 with you if you were you know open to it and 00:17:41.569 --> 00:17:45.829 So we ended up doing an episode. I think it's 00:17:45.829 --> 00:17:50.009 gonna come out tomorrow So for the people who 00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:54.789 are listening to this it should be already out 00:17:54.789 --> 00:17:59.730 So check that out if you want I mentioned botches 00:17:59.730 --> 00:18:02.769 a couple of times, but really we're just talking 00:18:02.769 --> 00:18:07.160 about all sorts of other shit, too Just about 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.640 the the overlanding climate and like what's going 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:14.160 on with it and What we see trends this and that 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.900 so Yeah, we you're supposed to only talk for 00:18:17.900 --> 00:18:21.640 like 40 minutes and Benji likes to talk and I 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.180 love to talk. So yeah, I mean That's that's why 00:18:26.180 --> 00:18:28.740 without me here Alex says is sometimes it gets 00:18:28.740 --> 00:18:34.059 a little quiet but no, I We ended up talking 00:18:34.059 --> 00:18:37.420 for probably two hours. So Interesting to see 00:18:37.420 --> 00:18:39.660 how much of that actually stays in the podcast 00:18:39.660 --> 00:18:43.359 we started to get off rail a couple times and 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.200 I tried to circle back and Make it a part of 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:51.539 it, but I haven't talked to Benji since Benji 00:18:51.539 --> 00:18:54.779 was one of our first interviews I think with 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:59.799 botches, right? Yeah Think he was one the first 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:02.500 yeah, and I hadn't talked to him in person since 00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:05.859 we had that phone interview with him Because 00:19:05.859 --> 00:19:08.279 he was in his truck getting ready to go somewhere 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:12.579 do something So I hadn't I hadn't talked to him 00:19:12.579 --> 00:19:15.500 in person since then chatted over Instagram a 00:19:15.500 --> 00:19:19.380 few times and on Facebook a few times, but yeah, 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:24.240 I know it was a great time Really enjoyed it. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.720 He's a great dude as always we knew that and 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:29.859 Hopefully, we're going to get something figured 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:33.500 out to do a couple more in the future. And then 00:19:33.500 --> 00:19:35.740 I also made the plans to go down to Friendsgiving, 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:39.539 because I wanted to go and see those guys. So 00:19:39.539 --> 00:19:43.119 instead of Jasper's birthday is on the 18th, 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:46.000 and I think Friendsgiving's on the 20th. So I 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.299 think we're just going to spend Jasper's birthday 00:19:48.299 --> 00:19:53.440 down there. Yeah, it's the weekend before Thanksgiving, 00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:56.829 usually when he's done it. spend the birthday 00:19:56.829 --> 00:19:59.349 down there and maybe we'll maybe we'll take a 00:19:59.349 --> 00:20:02.309 couple trails around the Ozarks or you know maybe 00:20:02.309 --> 00:20:04.910 something around there just to say that we saw 00:20:04.910 --> 00:20:07.849 some stuff and we'll see we'll see how everything 00:20:07.849 --> 00:20:11.450 plays out it's a lot warmer down there that time 00:20:11.450 --> 00:20:15.289 of year so hopefully I won't need my oh yeah 00:20:15.289 --> 00:20:20.109 you know my heater or anything he said the last 00:20:20.109 --> 00:20:22.170 year everyone was around in their t -shirts pretty 00:20:22.170 --> 00:20:30.349 much Yeah, I think it was It was got kind of 00:20:30.349 --> 00:20:32.890 cool at night because it was very misty and stuff 00:20:32.890 --> 00:20:36.450 in the mountains. Yeah Where we were at so it 00:20:36.450 --> 00:20:38.910 was kind of chill for the most part, but you 00:20:38.910 --> 00:20:41.210 could probably run around t -shirts almost all 00:20:41.210 --> 00:20:44.109 day Yeah at night though. It'd be good with just 00:20:44.109 --> 00:20:46.710 a sleeping bag. You won't need like a diesel 00:20:46.710 --> 00:20:51.630 heater, right? No, me and Alan survived in earth 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:54.819 sleeping bags in our tents. We had the winter 00:20:54.819 --> 00:20:57.019 kit on, but other than that, you could have probably 00:20:57.019 --> 00:21:00.019 survived without it. Yeah. Yeah, I just wonder 00:21:00.019 --> 00:21:04.539 what else. I think a couple of them bought their 00:21:04.539 --> 00:21:06.920 diesel heaters out just to have, though. Yeah. 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.339 Yeah, maybe we'll do that, too. It's looking 00:21:09.339 --> 00:21:11.180 like I might have the space to be able to throw 00:21:11.180 --> 00:21:14.460 that extra stuff in there now and just keep it 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:16.619 around, but I don't see a point in having the 00:21:16.619 --> 00:21:18.579 diesel heater in the truck unless I'm using it. 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:23.140 I won't have it in there unless I actually plan 00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:26.200 to use it while camping. And once summer comes 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:27.740 around, it's just going to get tossed back in 00:21:27.740 --> 00:21:33.200 the house. So yeah. Yeah, Benji was our first 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:35.859 interview. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah, we 00:21:35.859 --> 00:21:38.980 started it off big. We started off big with Benji 00:21:38.980 --> 00:21:44.160 and just went downhill from there. No, we had 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:47.819 a lot of cool interviews. It's a little bit more. 00:21:49.579 --> 00:21:53.279 amateur than what we are now. Our interviews, 00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:56.079 the style, we were just getting used to doing 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:58.960 it, the recording equipment and our techniques 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.799 that were kind of new. So it's a lot less refined 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:05.900 than it is now, but they were still really good 00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:09.980 quality reviews. And we had Cindy Pope and we 00:22:09.980 --> 00:22:13.579 had a radio chatter and I forget the one guy. 00:22:15.859 --> 00:22:17.980 There's a couple, I mean, there's a few of them. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.319 And this is what now going on to our third year 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.799 of doing this season. Yeah. Third season, second 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:28.160 and a half year though, right? Like it's been 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:33.019 about two years almost. I just round up to three. 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:42.119 Oh, we, I would say two and a third because technically 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.200 we started in October. So it was like tail end 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.150 of the two and a third. Yeah. Okay. That's good. 00:22:49.670 --> 00:22:52.130 It's still a good amount of time. We have a lot 00:22:52.130 --> 00:22:55.750 of episodes. If you're hearing all these now, 00:22:55.910 --> 00:22:58.769 we talk about a lot of stuff that we try not 00:22:58.769 --> 00:23:02.690 to talk about again. But we might be bringing 00:23:02.690 --> 00:23:06.210 up some stuff from our older episodes to update. 00:23:07.990 --> 00:23:11.910 So this is where we were two years ago. Now let's 00:23:11.910 --> 00:23:14.130 see where we're at. Because as we talked about 00:23:14.130 --> 00:23:17.319 in our last podcast. We've changed a lot in those 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:20.559 two years. So we might be bringing, bringing 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.900 a couple of those topics back to see if anything 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:25.839 in our minds have changed. I know my mind has 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.839 changed quite a bit from then and my experience 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:30.960 has gone up. I'm a lot more daring than I was 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:35.420 and it's probably Mark and Alex's fault for making 00:23:35.420 --> 00:23:38.220 me go and probably making me do these trails 00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:40.339 and then me realizing that, you know, I can do 00:23:40.339 --> 00:23:44.420 them and it's not so bad. It's just I have horrible 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:47.220 mechanical sympathy for Barry, and I just do 00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:50.819 not want to see him hurt. I've talked about that 00:23:50.819 --> 00:23:55.059 a little bit with Benjamin about how when we 00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:58.039 do our trip, Barry's the name of my truck for 00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:01.759 anybody who might just be listening, but I always 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:03.960 will pat Barry on the steering wheel and be like, 00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:07.420 good boy, good job, man. You made it. You got 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:10.420 us through it, man. I swear to God, he listens. 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:13.819 Like he's all about it. I always apologize to 00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:16.440 him after we do something hard. I'm like, good 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:18.039 job, man. You didn't break down right in the 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.180 middle of it. I'm proud of you. I promise I'll 00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:25.079 be nicer. I promise I'm going to give you a really 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.779 good car wash. I'm going to give you some premium 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:32.000 fuel, get you some fuel additive. I'll change 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:35.460 your oil. You're going to be spick and span, 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.819 buddy. We're going to get you taken care of. 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.579 Other than a few little incidents, he's never 00:24:41.579 --> 00:24:46.500 let us down. We've never had that problem. I 00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:48.680 mean, like I said, little instances that we could 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:53.619 fix right there. But I'm a firm believer that 00:24:53.619 --> 00:25:00.299 he's a living thing. So I won't ever treat him 00:25:00.299 --> 00:25:06.000 that poorly on purpose. Have you named your car? 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:11.819 Did we name her? I don't like a hat. I'm trying 00:25:11.819 --> 00:25:15.119 to remember. Like Sylva? Like Sylvia has popped 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.680 up. Yeah. Yeah, like Sylvia. Beatrice? I think 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:21.720 that's popped up in my head. I was thinking more 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:26.000 just the silver. Yeah. Beatrice just sounds like 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.339 a stubborn, stubborn old lady. Right now that's 00:25:30.339 --> 00:25:32.559 kind of what your truck's reminded me of as a 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.279 stubborn old lady. Yeah. What do you call her? 00:25:36.339 --> 00:25:39.880 Like her husband. Kathleen or... Something like 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:46.980 that. Give her a stubborn Helga. I don't know. 00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:49.299 I mean, she might as well. She's spent a good 00:25:49.299 --> 00:25:51.299 amount of my money in the last couple of months. 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:55.819 Call her Goldie, because she's a gold digger. 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.099 She's taking all your money. Which would be kind 00:26:00.099 --> 00:26:01.980 of funny, because she is silver. So to call her 00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:07.809 Goldie would be interesting. Well, all right. 00:26:07.890 --> 00:26:10.710 Well, this is our wrap. We're going to head off 00:26:10.710 --> 00:26:13.230 and try to figure something out for an hour. 00:26:13.730 --> 00:26:15.569 And you know what? Maybe we'll bring back one 00:26:15.569 --> 00:26:19.049 of our old episode topics and rehash it out and 00:26:19.049 --> 00:26:23.130 see. But until then, we will see you on the next 00:26:23.130 --> 00:26:26.470 one. Catch you guys later.