WEBVTT 00:00:16.109 --> 00:00:20.410 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. It's hot. It's 00:00:20.410 --> 00:00:25.870 very fucking hot. Very hot. I think today we 00:00:25.870 --> 00:00:28.730 got up to like 92, I think is what the barn was 00:00:28.730 --> 00:00:31.070 reading. So, I mean, that's pretty fucking hot. 00:00:32.329 --> 00:00:35.229 Oh, yeah. Yeah. We've been cooking in here, dude. 00:00:35.289 --> 00:00:38.649 I just put in the AC in our room yesterday and 00:00:38.649 --> 00:00:42.750 the kid and I went outside earlier. Nope. Started 00:00:42.750 --> 00:00:46.159 sweating up a storm. Came inside, the kid asked 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:49.140 to go sit in the room just because he was so 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:53.460 hot. So, yeah, it's nasty. Even worse than Europe, 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.119 apparently. Yeah, but we caused that with our 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.920 large carbon footprint, you know. Yeah, somehow. 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.659 It's not the fact that China makes up 90 % of 00:01:04.659 --> 00:01:07.159 the world's carbon or anything. Yeah, it's always 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.420 our fault. Blame the U .S. if you have a heat 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:16.799 wave, a super El Nino. Yeah, heat wave where 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.219 it gets up to what? I think they hit 85 degrees 00:01:19.219 --> 00:01:23.400 Fahrenheit, maybe. Yeah, well, I think this week 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:30.420 they were supposed to get it to 100, which they've 00:01:30.420 --> 00:01:34.819 had the subway tracks or something like that 00:01:34.819 --> 00:01:37.420 that's out on the road. All the tar is starting 00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:39.980 to get sticky and stuff, so it's got to be in 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:43.959 the hundreds for them. At least that's what the... 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.400 the news report I was seeing was saying that 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.579 it was close to that. So since they were saying 00:01:50.579 --> 00:01:54.939 that it's hot in France specifically, uh, I'm 00:01:54.939 --> 00:01:58.079 pulling up Paris just for the hell of it. Okay. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:00.299 Are you ready for the temps for Paris this week? 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:08.060 Yeah. One sec. I got a cough. Okay. So in Paris, 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.520 it's going to be 76, a high of 76 degrees Fahrenheit 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:17.550 today, 75 tomorrow. 81 Friday, 81 Saturday, 85, 00:02:17.930 --> 00:02:22.909 86, 86, 88. They're not even hitting 90 degrees. 00:02:23.330 --> 00:02:29.490 I thought they hit 100. Maybe that was last week? 00:02:29.849 --> 00:02:32.650 They say that their highest day on record was 00:02:32.650 --> 00:02:38.610 112. That was this week. Yeah, okay. So at least 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:42.650 it's cooling down. Paris hit 108. Other cities 00:02:42.650 --> 00:02:48.430 hit up to 112. 108 is hot, 100%. I'll give them 00:02:48.430 --> 00:02:51.669 that. And especially with, what, only 10 % of 00:02:51.669 --> 00:02:56.729 them having AC? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Arizona, 00:02:56.969 --> 00:02:59.210 them guys don't really have ACs. They have swamp 00:02:59.210 --> 00:03:03.330 coolers. Yeah, but they have some way to cool 00:03:03.330 --> 00:03:05.289 themselves. Paris doesn't even know about them. 00:03:06.069 --> 00:03:11.680 Yeah. That sounds like a them problem, honestly. 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.259 They probably should have, as the rest of the 00:03:14.259 --> 00:03:17.280 world progressed with cooling technology, maybe 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.400 they should have just done some of it. I mean, 00:03:21.419 --> 00:03:24.840 hell, even Korea, almost every window has a fucking 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.340 AC in it, or there's a mini -split box on the 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.199 roof, you know? Mini -split especially. I know 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.300 I have a friend in Paris, which, by the way, 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:41.009 I make fun of because... she is from venezuela 00:03:41.009 --> 00:03:45.110 and she says paris stinks and that in this heat 00:03:45.110 --> 00:03:50.969 it's even worse and uh and yeah they said that 00:03:50.969 --> 00:03:53.830 nobody's got ac and that some people are like 00:03:53.830 --> 00:03:56.789 volunteering to get ot at work just to stay in 00:03:56.789 --> 00:04:02.729 some of the her business has ac and it's it's 00:04:02.729 --> 00:04:05.689 nuts i mean it's hot over there i'm not like 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.560 At least we do have some kind of AC, and our 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.099 houses are built to kind of shed heat, too. Not 00:04:12.099 --> 00:04:15.539 absorb them and keep them in, but... Oh, but 00:04:15.539 --> 00:04:20.879 our houses are built, like, with sticks, and 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.379 they're cheap, you know? Yeah. But we could better 00:04:24.379 --> 00:04:27.120 thermal regulate our houses for the climate. 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.420 Almost like brick isn't the way to go for every 00:04:30.420 --> 00:04:34.339 situation. Yeah, almost. Like... Having a brick 00:04:34.339 --> 00:04:36.779 house in 100 degree heat isn't going to retain 00:04:36.779 --> 00:04:42.600 that 100 degree heat. Weird. So anyway, now that 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.040 we spent five minutes dogging on Europe. Yeah, 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.560 you know, it's my favorite hobby. We could do 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.920 an hour on it. We could. Oh, dude, I could spend 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.959 a whole hour just making fun of the stupid shit 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.220 that Europe does. But that's not what we're here 00:04:56.220 --> 00:04:59.600 for. How was your weekend? It was really good. 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:03.459 We finally got out. I guess we should start this 00:05:03.459 --> 00:05:07.220 with it's me, Alex, and him, Gavin. There's no 00:05:07.220 --> 00:05:12.519 Mark. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, no, my weekend was 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.439 really good. We went up to the Buckley area, 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.160 and I was leading the West Side Best Side trip 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.120 with Minton State Tours. West Side Best Side? 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:27.899 West Side. And it was kind of funny because Zach 00:05:27.899 --> 00:05:30.560 canceled his trip, the East Side. which is the 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:35.379 same weekend. So West side one and Zach ended 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:40.079 up coming to mine. So I mean, it's really, it 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.480 was just kind of a longer drive for everybody 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.560 on the East side. He had some guys that were 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.000 interested. They canceled. And then there was 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.540 one guy that was going to come by like Saturday. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.000 And Zach was like, at that point, just come over 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:58.160 here. It was really good. I went to my first 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.759 camp spot, the really good one, that was like 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.180 15 plus cars. It would be more than enough for 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:07.420 15 cars to be spread out evenly and comfortable. 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.699 Aw, how beautiful. Yeah, it's Mark. One second, 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.519 I'm going to answer it. It's Mark. Hey, Mark, 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:22.879 we're recording without you. I figured you... 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.019 You didn't respond, and you didn't sound like 00:06:25.019 --> 00:06:28.379 you really wanted to anyway today, so we got 00:06:28.379 --> 00:06:35.620 started. Do you want to record? Do you want to 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:39.720 record? You could hop on. All right. You have 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.180 a good night, buddy. All right. You have a good 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:49.060 night. Bye. Yeah, that sounded ambitious. Mark 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:52.079 has been working outside in the seat all day, 00:06:52.139 --> 00:06:54.980 and he doesn't just spring back from it the way 00:06:54.980 --> 00:07:00.379 I do, so he's all, like, mopey and tired. I don't 00:07:00.379 --> 00:07:07.959 blame him. It's hot, dude. I'm tired, too. Don't 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.959 you start yawning. I'm yawning. But, anyway. 00:07:11.550 --> 00:07:14.370 So, yeah, the campground that I was choosing 00:07:14.370 --> 00:07:18.290 to go to with 15 -plus cars ended up being taken 00:07:18.290 --> 00:07:22.509 by one lonely, like, three -person tent. And 00:07:22.509 --> 00:07:25.410 there was no one there, so there wasn't anyone 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:27.509 I could, like, talk to about it and be like, 00:07:27.589 --> 00:07:29.709 hey, you know, what time do you guys plan on 00:07:29.709 --> 00:07:32.610 leaving? They did have a piece of paper set up, 00:07:32.629 --> 00:07:35.069 and it said they were going to be leaving, like, 00:07:35.069 --> 00:07:39.509 the next, like, a week into July. So I was like, 00:07:39.529 --> 00:07:43.970 oh, fuck. Okay, well, so we turned around, started 00:07:43.970 --> 00:07:47.449 looking for other spots. The other big spot that 00:07:47.449 --> 00:07:51.730 I found had, like, a whole fifth wheel on it. 00:07:51.870 --> 00:07:55.029 I have no idea how they got it out there. I literally 00:07:55.029 --> 00:07:57.170 have no idea how they got it out there. But, 00:07:57.189 --> 00:08:02.790 yeah, it had a fifth wheel on it, and so I went 00:08:02.790 --> 00:08:05.050 the other side of that blue trail. It was a loop. 00:08:06.050 --> 00:08:08.649 But because they were right at the end, like 00:08:08.649 --> 00:08:11.199 in the middle of that loop, They kind of blocked 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.779 off going from the other side, and I didn't feel 00:08:13.779 --> 00:08:15.319 like trying to figure out how to drive around 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:19.639 them. So I just turned around and went through 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.699 the other side of that loop and found a good 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:32.179 probably 8, 10 car spot. And, oh, okay, sorry. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.720 Mark sent the message. I was reading it. ADHD 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.759 caught. But I found a nice little spot. It was 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:42.009 nice and shaded. And I knew people were going 00:08:42.009 --> 00:08:44.970 to be showing up to camp soon, so I was like, 00:08:44.990 --> 00:08:48.029 screw it. We're just going to land it here, plan 00:08:48.029 --> 00:08:51.629 it here, and be done with it. So updated the 00:08:51.629 --> 00:08:57.509 coordinates. Everybody came, and gross. Oh, you 00:08:57.509 --> 00:09:02.289 heard that? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I forgot to mute 00:09:02.289 --> 00:09:08.710 my mic. Man, amateur hour today. All this crinkling. 00:09:09.899 --> 00:09:13.600 All the smartphone calls. It's just crazy. We're 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.460 all tired. We're all hot. We're dying here. I 00:09:18.460 --> 00:09:20.240 don't know what you're talking about, dude. It 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:23.139 is 65 degrees in my house right now. I'm jealous. 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.840 And I'm living the life. Now, I have worked outside 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.519 all day in 90 degree heat, so with turkeys. Yeah, 00:09:31.539 --> 00:09:36.360 disgusting. But yeah, so we got everyone there. 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:39.750 uh we just kind of hung out friday all the kids 00:09:39.750 --> 00:09:42.129 were there and the first night someone started 00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:46.149 bumping music um i don't know a couple hundred 00:09:46.149 --> 00:09:49.830 feet away from us at a different site that showed 00:09:49.830 --> 00:09:55.049 up after we were there and so we kind of hated 00:09:55.049 --> 00:09:57.690 that but it was just it was whatever we had to 00:09:57.690 --> 00:10:00.669 make do with what we had all the campsites were 00:10:00.669 --> 00:10:03.149 pretty packed that weekend and apparently will 00:10:03.149 --> 00:10:09.350 be this next weekend too so um So that area doesn't 00:10:09.350 --> 00:10:11.769 sound like somewhere super fun to hang out. Then 00:10:11.769 --> 00:10:13.350 there's going to be that many fucking people. 00:10:13.830 --> 00:10:17.429 Well, so they kept to themselves and they had 00:10:17.429 --> 00:10:21.090 their music kind of bump in, but like we were 00:10:21.090 --> 00:10:24.029 very spread out. Like it, it probably sounds 00:10:24.029 --> 00:10:26.590 like we were a lot closer than we were. It was 00:10:26.590 --> 00:10:30.970 enough to hear them, but they would be, I don't 00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:34.429 know, like a little less than a quarter mile 00:10:34.429 --> 00:10:37.169 to. maybe a little over to a quarter mile give 00:10:37.169 --> 00:10:40.090 or take you know away it was just enough to hear 00:10:40.090 --> 00:10:45.450 the the bass beat um and it wasn't that bad like 00:10:45.450 --> 00:10:47.529 i didn't didn't bother me it bothered some other 00:10:47.529 --> 00:10:53.409 people and we got up saturday and got everything 00:10:53.409 --> 00:10:57.029 around ed and rebecca came and you you know them 00:10:57.029 --> 00:11:00.590 they always kind of set up later and so we left 00:11:00.590 --> 00:11:04.730 around 11 and the first First trail I took him 00:11:04.730 --> 00:11:08.129 to, to start out the loop, because of where we 00:11:08.129 --> 00:11:11.090 were, I just decided to go to that area and do 00:11:11.090 --> 00:11:14.049 some exploration there. Yep, first trail, it 00:11:14.049 --> 00:11:18.730 was a river crossing. And river is a very loose 00:11:18.730 --> 00:11:22.950 term. It was a creek. And it was absolutely beautiful. 00:11:23.090 --> 00:11:25.750 I did it two years ago, and I was hoping it would 00:11:25.750 --> 00:11:27.509 still be there. There was an old bridge that 00:11:27.509 --> 00:11:30.649 went out. And there's not a lot of these in Michigan. 00:11:31.289 --> 00:11:33.230 where a bridge goes out and there's an actual 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:36.730 creek crossing around it. So I wanted to bring 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:41.610 them back in there for the experience. And, yeah, 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:43.789 that kind of went a little bit more complicated 00:11:43.789 --> 00:11:48.149 than I thought it was going to. I uploaded a 00:11:48.149 --> 00:11:51.710 video on my YouTube on what exactly happened, 00:11:51.750 --> 00:11:56.590 but basically the routes on either side where 00:11:56.590 --> 00:11:59.600 we were trying to get down into the creek. rubbed 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.840 right into the wheels and were pushing in on 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.559 the wheels and pretty much got our buddy Austin 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.379 stuck, which he's one of the most experienced 00:12:07.379 --> 00:12:10.120 ones there. He shouldn't have gotten stuck. It 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:13.659 just happened that way. Bad luck. So we made 00:12:13.659 --> 00:12:16.620 some enhancements to the area to help with that. 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.679 Nothing permanent or dangerous or, you know, 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.500 environmentally bad. Just stacking some rocks 00:12:23.500 --> 00:12:27.399 and stuff. Oh, you freaking rock stackers. I 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:30.830 know. And yeah, we got everyone through that. 00:12:31.090 --> 00:12:34.250 We all took a second because after you got out 00:12:34.250 --> 00:12:36.090 of that river, you had to do this little winding 00:12:36.090 --> 00:12:39.690 hill climb that was pretty steep. And Austin's 00:12:39.690 --> 00:12:42.690 girlfriend was getting in everybody's car that 00:12:42.690 --> 00:12:45.590 actually didn't care and was moving it up for 00:12:45.590 --> 00:12:48.350 them. Like mine, like I was like, yeah, hop in 00:12:48.350 --> 00:12:50.269 there, move it up so that other people could 00:12:50.269 --> 00:12:54.070 go get up there. And so that was pretty cool. 00:12:54.730 --> 00:12:56.769 We hung out for a second, and then we continued 00:12:56.769 --> 00:12:59.710 on our trail ride. And, yeah, we did some other 00:12:59.710 --> 00:13:04.830 cool stuff. Found a single -lane bridge that 00:13:04.830 --> 00:13:09.649 was closed that we crossed anyway. And the reason 00:13:09.649 --> 00:13:11.549 why it was closed is because the other side of 00:13:11.549 --> 00:13:14.090 the bridge is a massive washout, and, like, a 00:13:14.090 --> 00:13:15.870 typical Honda Civic couldn't get through it, 00:13:15.889 --> 00:13:20.269 so they closed it. Sounds like Michigan DNR. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.240 Yeah, but they left one lane open for, like, 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.559 ORV or something because we were not the only 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.980 ones crossing. Like, a Jeep went through, Razors 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:31.879 and stuff went through, no problem. So we all 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.559 went across that. We did some more trail rides, 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.580 found some more fun, bumpy stuff, and then came 00:13:38.580 --> 00:13:43.720 back to camp. And, yeah, had a blast. There was 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.299 a girl that had never been camping before and 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:51.220 Rebecca's niece. And she built a fire for the 00:13:51.220 --> 00:13:53.259 first time, so that was cool. And then you could 00:13:53.259 --> 00:13:56.139 see her really getting into being outside and 00:13:56.139 --> 00:13:59.100 camping. All the kids were playing, having fun. 00:13:59.259 --> 00:14:02.960 We all had some good food, good laughs. And the 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.100 person that was bumping music, I guess, the night 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:09.000 before walked all the way over to camp and apologized 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.279 and said that, you know, she doesn't want any 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:16.159 trouble and she's sorry. And if they're too loud 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.519 to just come and... tell them they're being too 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:23.480 loud i guess uh some guy with a dog came up to 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.159 them and started yelling at them that night friday 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.480 night about their music and she thought it was 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.059 one of us which we assured her it wasn't um but 00:14:33.059 --> 00:14:35.460 she left us some sparklers and stuff for the 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:40.879 kids and and i probably that felt like a bribe 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.980 and we shouldn't have taken it we were just being 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:47.710 nice Because their music was louder and longer 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:51.070 that night. People did not like that. But the 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:53.409 kids had fun with the sparklers. Again, I didn't 00:14:53.409 --> 00:14:55.710 give a shit. Once I fell asleep, I was gone. 00:14:55.750 --> 00:14:57.850 I didn't care about whatever music was bumping. 00:14:59.289 --> 00:15:02.509 Yeah, I don't know. I like being off in my own 00:15:02.509 --> 00:15:05.870 space so I can bump the music. Yeah, me too. 00:15:06.110 --> 00:15:07.789 And nobody gets to bitch at me. Yeah, me too. 00:15:07.909 --> 00:15:12.750 It was just where I was at. I knew there was 00:15:12.750 --> 00:15:15.590 people that were only like an hour behind me. 00:15:15.950 --> 00:15:18.889 We got out later than I was hoping to. Sienna 00:15:18.889 --> 00:15:24.350 is never on time for anything. And she wasn't 00:15:24.350 --> 00:15:26.710 even on time for our wedding, actually. So there's 00:15:26.710 --> 00:15:32.129 a fun fact. And so we got there later. We got 00:15:32.129 --> 00:15:34.649 to our spots to scout later than we were hoping. 00:15:34.730 --> 00:15:37.250 So people were almost there already. We just 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:41.559 had to pick a spot and deal with it. If it makes 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.460 you feel any better, Caitlin was late for our 00:15:43.460 --> 00:15:45.159 wedding, too, because she was at the hospital. 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.679 Oh, no. Sienna just, I'm pretty sure she just 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.779 lost track of time while they were getting her 00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:53.240 ready. I was like, I was sitting there at the 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:58.679 altar like, come on, come on. But, no, I mean, 00:15:58.700 --> 00:16:00.860 it was a really good weekend. We all packed up 00:16:00.860 --> 00:16:04.620 Sunday, said our goodbyes. The camp when we got 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:09.220 there was absolutely trashed. With wire and garbage 00:16:09.220 --> 00:16:13.679 and glass and a couple cans. And as a community, 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:16.600 we did what was right and cleaned it all up. 00:16:16.659 --> 00:16:22.120 I filled up a full garbage bag full of some random 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:29.299 wire. Were there dirty diapers in the fire pits? 00:16:29.659 --> 00:16:33.460 Actually, no. We got lucky there. No dirty diapers, 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:37.529 just an absolutely... fuck ton of wire like a 00:16:37.529 --> 00:16:41.149 literal house garbage bag full were you on the 00:16:41.149 --> 00:16:46.830 uh the high rollaway river loop then um let me 00:16:46.830 --> 00:16:54.309 let me just take a quick check i've never wheeled 00:16:54.309 --> 00:16:56.169 down by buckley but i'm looking at all these 00:16:56.169 --> 00:16:59.950 pictures beautiful it looks it looks pretty beautiful 00:16:59.950 --> 00:17:03.870 it is it's gorgeous dude uh looks like fall It 00:17:03.870 --> 00:17:06.789 looks like fall is the time to go. Fall is good, 00:17:06.950 --> 00:17:09.490 yeah. Summer, there's something about it when 00:17:09.490 --> 00:17:12.269 everything's green. There's just something about 00:17:12.269 --> 00:17:16.930 it, but let's see. Where am I? Where am I here? 00:17:17.069 --> 00:17:22.509 I think that's actually it right here. Yeah, 00:17:22.690 --> 00:17:25.210 high rollaway river loop, I believe it is. Yeah, 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:29.069 that looks sick. My Onyx on my computer just 00:17:29.069 --> 00:17:35.680 froze. Yours too. Mine's not even loading the 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.480 data I had set up there. But, yeah, that was 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:44.619 an absolute blast. And, yeah, that trail is beautiful. 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:47.759 But as you can see, it's easy to get to. Yeah. 00:17:48.299 --> 00:17:51.140 The trail itself wasn't, like, super hard or 00:17:51.140 --> 00:17:53.980 anything. Pretty bumpy and stuff. Like I said, 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:55.319 I don't know how they got a fifth wheel through 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.720 it. But, yeah, no, absolutely great weekend. 00:18:01.589 --> 00:18:05.049 Perfect temp during the day, you know, 70s, almost 00:18:05.049 --> 00:18:09.210 80, and perfect temperatures at night, you know, 00:18:09.250 --> 00:18:12.990 50s, 60s. And, yeah, I couldn't ask for anything 00:18:12.990 --> 00:18:16.029 better except for quieter and less people driving 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:19.049 by because people were driving by quite a few 00:18:19.049 --> 00:18:22.950 times. That was annoying, but they were also 00:18:22.950 --> 00:18:26.250 really friendly. They weren't like assholes. 00:18:26.609 --> 00:18:29.920 Right. And it kind of became a game for the kids 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.359 because where we were on the edge of camp was 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.160 a really steep decline to the river. So they 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:39.240 weren't allowed to play over there. So we had 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:43.000 them playing in the road. And that was the only 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.660 safe place with dirt and stuff. So it was kind 00:18:46.660 --> 00:18:49.119 of a game that anytime we heard a car coming, 00:18:49.220 --> 00:18:51.480 you could hear it from a while away. You'd say, 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.720 car, car. And then they'd jump up and scramble. 00:18:54.740 --> 00:18:56.319 And it was like a game for them to get everything 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:58.630 out of the way. And then we all just kind of 00:18:58.630 --> 00:19:01.750 sit to the side and wait for him to go by. So, 00:19:01.910 --> 00:19:09.230 yeah, absolute blast. I filmed most of, I'm sorry, 00:19:09.369 --> 00:19:13.509 Sienna, my videographer slash wife, filmed most 00:19:13.509 --> 00:19:17.910 of Saturday. And we didn't do much at camp because 00:19:17.910 --> 00:19:21.549 I don't like filming other people's kids without 00:19:21.549 --> 00:19:27.579 permission. And I didn't ask permission. yeah 00:19:27.579 --> 00:19:31.940 i actually greatly appreciate that um just because 00:19:31.940 --> 00:19:34.200 i feel like kids should have the option to be 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.900 put on online or not and i don't mean like when 00:19:37.900 --> 00:19:40.680 they're four they say yeah it's fine i mean when 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.900 they're 18 they should have the decision on whether 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:45.640 their stuff's online or not yeah like my son 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.960 he's kind of a gray area because he's kind of 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.200 a part of it and right um that's one thing i 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.180 think it's okay i support it i'm okay with it 00:19:55.180 --> 00:20:00.420 you also You don't, like, you tend to record 00:20:00.420 --> 00:20:03.079 him from behind. You don't tend to get his face 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:05.660 a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah, I try not to get his 00:20:05.660 --> 00:20:08.700 face a whole lot, and obviously I prefer him 00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:11.099 fully clothed when I'm filming, so I don't try 00:20:11.099 --> 00:20:14.079 to film him in his diaper or something. Because 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:16.319 we did get cute pictures of him playing down 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:19.039 at the river in his diaper. It's just not something 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.839 that we post online for others. Right. Because 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:26.490 of creepos and stuff, so. But yeah, so I try 00:20:26.490 --> 00:20:29.009 to respect everyone else's kids. So I never get 00:20:29.009 --> 00:20:32.970 a lot of camp film. And maybe one of these times 00:20:32.970 --> 00:20:35.950 there won't be so many kids and I can get some 00:20:35.950 --> 00:20:39.509 more camping. I actually got more camp footage 00:20:39.509 --> 00:20:42.109 on this video than I have at any other video. 00:20:42.670 --> 00:20:46.490 And got more interesting things happen on this 00:20:46.490 --> 00:20:48.849 video than anything else. Like we had the winch 00:20:48.849 --> 00:20:52.569 line snap. I almost got taken out by a log. We 00:20:52.569 --> 00:20:56.380 had a deer jump in front of us. um you know the 00:20:56.380 --> 00:20:57.940 whole trying to get everybody through that creek 00:20:57.940 --> 00:21:02.319 thing um so yeah we had we had a few things go 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.000 down that actually made the video kind of exciting 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.079 you know there was some boring spots in the middle 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:12.240 and stuff to fill it but yeah i was it was nice 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.960 i i re -watched it and sienna was actually in 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:19.160 the room with me while i was editing and putting 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:22.390 everything in there and she was like into it 00:21:22.390 --> 00:21:24.809 she was like oh this is cool like i and i was 00:21:24.809 --> 00:21:26.670 like yeah you got really good footage i'm proud 00:21:26.670 --> 00:21:29.829 of you and except for the one part where they 00:21:29.829 --> 00:21:31.650 were all walking up the hill and she got one 00:21:31.650 --> 00:21:33.970 person's butt like the whole time because she 00:21:33.970 --> 00:21:38.369 wasn't like tilting the the camera right so was 00:21:38.369 --> 00:21:42.710 it a nice butt at least it was rebecca so okay 00:21:43.109 --> 00:21:45.890 she was a good friend and i was like i'm gonna 00:21:45.890 --> 00:21:48.410 cut this part out just out of respect for her 00:21:48.410 --> 00:21:52.049 because i was like i don't know why the angle 00:21:52.049 --> 00:21:54.109 of your camera was like this i said but it got 00:21:54.109 --> 00:21:58.190 hers and ed's butt and she was right behind ed's 00:21:58.190 --> 00:22:02.789 butt too huh oh hell yeah yeah he's got a nice 00:22:02.789 --> 00:22:06.130 hell yeah but i'm trying to be respectful you 00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:09.359 know we're not here to objectify women just men 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:14.400 yeah so yeah no dude it was an absolute blast 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.740 uh some other people got to take a look at the 00:22:16.740 --> 00:22:20.599 tent they were super impressed with it uh zeke 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:24.079 really liked it um even mike and melissa came 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:29.279 all the way from indiana to come up and see us 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:31.859 and hang out so that was really cool that's yeah 00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:35.859 i wish i wish that i could have came but i was 00:22:35.859 --> 00:22:39.109 too busy fixing the forerunner which I am proud 00:22:39.109 --> 00:22:44.410 to report the 4Runner has been solved and it 00:22:44.410 --> 00:22:48.890 is operational again. The whole time, it was 00:22:48.890 --> 00:22:52.529 a crank position sensor. The whole time. Okay, 00:22:52.589 --> 00:22:58.150 so you did not swap the engine. Nope. It is still 00:22:58.150 --> 00:23:02.720 an NA 3 .4 liter. Because I wasn't sure. I knew 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:05.619 that you were getting a truck with a supercharged 00:23:05.619 --> 00:23:08.140 engine in it. And I thought finally you just 00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:10.359 gave up and swapped it in a night because I figured 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:14.440 you guys could do that. And so when you sent 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:18.259 that small video clip, the top intake part, I 00:23:18.259 --> 00:23:20.480 was like, I don't remember that on this truck. 00:23:20.579 --> 00:23:22.240 Was that a supercharger? I don't think it is. 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.079 I don't see the other pulley. I was like, the 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.619 video's too fast. It sounds like it's whirring 00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:30.410 a little bit. I was like, I don't know. I think 00:23:30.410 --> 00:23:32.450 that was a five -second video. Like, I didn't 00:23:32.450 --> 00:23:35.670 give you time to figure it out. Yeah, no. I was 00:23:35.670 --> 00:23:37.990 like, dude, there's no way he just supercharged, 00:23:38.029 --> 00:23:41.190 like, swapped his fucking motor in, like, a night. 00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:44.190 I mean, I've done it with my Subie, but that's 00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:46.750 a little different with a fucking, with something 00:23:46.750 --> 00:23:49.930 like that. That's a whole other beast. We're 00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:52.269 swapping it in a night this weekend. Just kidding. 00:23:52.390 --> 00:23:54.269 I don't think I'm going to swap it. I think what 00:23:54.269 --> 00:23:56.369 I'm going to do is pull the supercharger off 00:23:56.369 --> 00:24:00.369 the other one, put it on mine. And then probably 00:24:00.369 --> 00:24:03.430 drop the trans out and put the five speed in. 00:24:03.950 --> 00:24:06.750 Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, no reason to 00:24:06.750 --> 00:24:09.509 take out a perfectly good engine. Yeah. Especially 00:24:09.509 --> 00:24:12.089 with all the work you just put into it. When 00:24:12.089 --> 00:24:14.730 I blow this one up, I've got a good core ready 00:24:14.730 --> 00:24:17.809 to go. So I've actually got two good cores ready 00:24:17.809 --> 00:24:20.730 to go. Right. Dude, there's so many. The funny 00:24:20.730 --> 00:24:24.319 thing is all the parts trucks are 98s. And my 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:27.220 truck's a 98, so I have parts for 98 4Runners 00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:30.099 fucking everywhere. That's how I feel about the 00:24:30.099 --> 00:24:33.700 Saabs. Like, I have three Saabs, including my 00:24:33.700 --> 00:24:36.319 wife's and my father -in -law's, who he's basically 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:41.799 gave to us for parts. So we have Sienna's Saab, 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.440 which is the same exact one, same year, same 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:49.720 color, same, like, trim as Sienna's dad's Saab. 00:24:50.099 --> 00:24:53.039 And then we have mine, the Aero. which has the 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.299 V6 or whatever in it. And a lot of those same 00:24:56.299 --> 00:24:59.839 components are still the same, like the turbo 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:04.400 solenoids and stuff. So we did swap a few things 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:06.380 over just to make sure that wasn't the issue 00:25:06.380 --> 00:25:09.579 when we were trying to figure out the ECU. And 00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:13.640 we got our ECU one dayed in. So that was nice. 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:16.640 Oh, shit. We got to send that back. CNR, don't 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:20.720 remind me. We got to send the old one back. Yeah, 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.380 I... I just got so many fucking parts. Yeah. 00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:27.799 Then I finally figured out my brake issue I've 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:31.200 been having for the last two years. And I adjusted 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.380 the rod in the brake booster, which gave much 00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:37.759 better braking. I actually went too far and went 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:39.819 to the hardware store. And when I went to leave 00:25:39.819 --> 00:25:41.700 the hardware store, my brakes were locked up. 00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:44.579 So I had to dial the rod back a little bit so 00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:47.500 I could back out. Yeah. I have to go through. 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:52.839 and completely bleed out my brakes. I want to 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:54.839 get a system where I can hook all the lines up 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:59.559 and just refeed them back in to get every little 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:01.460 bit of air out of there because I'm sure I still 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:05.140 have a little bit in there from when we did them 00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:09.339 because that was a problem. I mean, they work 00:26:09.339 --> 00:26:13.380 and stuff, but there's a few times in traffic 00:26:13.380 --> 00:26:15.740 where people stop fast, and I'm like, yep, going 00:26:15.740 --> 00:26:20.000 off -road. just in case just in case i've been 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:23.180 able to stop most times but others i was like 00:26:23.180 --> 00:26:25.339 my brakes are just not that good enough and i 00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:28.220 have four -wheel drive so i'm going this way 00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:34.720 yeah after after driving the ford i can't just 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.980 deal with bad brakes anymore because i got used 00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:40.779 to good brakes and i just randomly found a trail 00:26:40.779 --> 00:26:48.630 that looks absolutely amazing on onyx Yeah. It's 00:26:48.630 --> 00:26:58.390 NFS 7515. Oh, you know what? We might have done 00:26:58.390 --> 00:27:02.230 this trail. I definitely might have, if it's 00:27:02.230 --> 00:27:06.369 up by where we were. It's Cadillac area. We totally 00:27:06.369 --> 00:27:08.509 did this trail. It's right by our camping spot 00:27:08.509 --> 00:27:11.250 from Botches Yearly a couple years ago. What 00:27:11.250 --> 00:27:15.420 was it? NFS? 75 .15. Yeah, we've done this show. 00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:23.059 Yeah, that sounds familiar. It's just more washed 00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:26.400 out than it was then, and it looks like a blast. 00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:32.559 Oh, yeah. Let's see. Oh, yeah. I think this is... 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:37.420 Oh, that's not my loop. I recorded my loop. There 00:27:37.420 --> 00:27:43.500 it is. Such a... Oh, dude, such a fun time doing 00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:53.420 that. Is it here? Oh, that was our rock hunt. 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:55.359 I have so many different routes from up here. 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.400 I tend to not save routes because they just gum 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:05.099 up my map then. I like to see where I've gone 00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:08.359 before because I typically will go to the same 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:11.559 place over and over. and try to discover more 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:13.519 and more of it so i like to see where i've gone 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:17.220 so i can plan to like go around it choose something 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:20.460 else i guess my my new ego county stuff's kind 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:22.740 of like that because i recorded a lot of that 00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:29.640 yeah i think it is yeah uh the place that we 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:34.180 did the it's now called filer creek crossing 00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:41.660 um but A lot of fun. The whole trail was actually 00:28:41.660 --> 00:28:47.799 pretty cool. We hit kind of a steep downhill 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:51.200 on this one. I told you about it before. And, 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.779 dude, they got massive berms. You know those 00:28:53.779 --> 00:28:56.940 ones up here by Prairie? Mm -hmm. Yeah, just 00:28:56.940 --> 00:29:00.460 like those times two. I was turtling on a couple 00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.440 of them for a half second, and it were one after 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:05.920 another, like four or five of them. And then 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:08.140 there were some that articulated. It felt like 00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:12.680 a test course. It was so fun. Just to get to 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:16.980 this, like, really far out, like, camping spot. 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:20.759 It was like a mile trail of just burns and stuff 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.720 like that. It was awesome. You got to do it next 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.900 time you're out. You know, it really makes me 00:29:26.900 --> 00:29:29.299 sad that the only obstacles we have in Michigan 00:29:29.299 --> 00:29:34.180 are mud. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm sitting here. 00:29:34.589 --> 00:29:36.990 looking at blue trails in the area right and 00:29:36.990 --> 00:29:39.029 they're like yeah this is a blue trail and i 00:29:39.029 --> 00:29:42.190 click it and it's like it's blue because of mud 00:29:42.190 --> 00:29:45.450 and i'm like yeah yeah it's really like that 00:29:45.450 --> 00:29:47.890 until you get into the up and then there's some 00:29:47.890 --> 00:29:50.589 really good rocky places but a lot of them are 00:29:50.589 --> 00:29:54.549 very um hush hush protected so that they don't 00:29:54.549 --> 00:29:58.130 get flooded out by people yeah um but yeah there's 00:29:58.130 --> 00:30:00.210 a lot of really good trails up there in the up 00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:04.799 but yeah in lower michigan it's usually mud deep 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:08.859 stand or washouts with articulation and that's 00:30:08.859 --> 00:30:12.900 that's pretty much it like i won't do mud i'm 00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:15.660 not caking up my radiator i'm not purposely sinking 00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:19.319 my truck for any reason unless there is no other 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.079 way and i just got to go through it i won't do 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:29.640 it but i i like i yeah i hate mud i hate cleaning 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.839 mud but i like driving I'd rather have miles 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:38.579 of washboard trail than mud. I could at least 00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:40.720 take washboard, like hit it at 20 mile an hour. 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:44.160 That was the other thing, too, is I was going 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:49.220 way too fast for these people. They're like, 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.339 oh, I guess we got Derek on the trail. And I'm 00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:55.279 like, what? And I'm like, oh, I look behind me. 00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:59.059 Their Ed's keeping up, but Zeke and everyone 00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:01.700 else are almost a mile behind. I'm like, oops. 00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:07.339 Keep slowing down. I was bombing those. All right, 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.039 Gavin. Well, I think it's about time we get off 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:13.240 and get ready to record the hour. All righty. 00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:15.559 We'll see you guys on the next one. Catch you 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:15.980 guys later.