welcome to botches off road you know i may as
well introduce this guy as a guest because at
this point it's been a while but we got a gavin
yay i'm back sorry guys been a difficult couple
of weeks just uh trying to get some of my uh
finances and home stuff figured out so haven't
had the time to hop on um but hopefully i'll
be hopping on it uh more regular schedule now
i i give him three more weeks uh before i find
a new a new interim oh yeah someone to just fill
in while he's gone yeah no i i am uh looking
pretty hard for a good full -time job so depending
on what that schedule gives me will depend kind
of of when i can get on and off but i'll still
be able to record we'll just have to figure it
out as we go like we always do so yep well on
that note yeah gavin's back and we got voicemails
today i have two whole voicemails i know we don't
get those very often no so i'll play the first
one and then i guess we'll go from there you
guys ready for that yep Yeah, do it. Email fourwheelmagazinesocial
at gmail .com. We want Top Truck Challenge to
come back because it would be great. It'd be
even better if they brought it back on DVD or
VHS. Yeah, I mean, they won't. I could see that
being maybe a TV special or a YouTube video for
sure. But wouldn't it be sick if they did like
a... a special like yeah limited run dvd yeah
limited run dvd i could see for sure but uh i
personally i had to look it up real quick because
i thought he said top gun challenge at first
and then he said it and but yeah top truck i
haven't seen it but the concept is pretty cool
it kind of reminds me of 24 what is it 24 hours
hell and back the youtube videos where they go
and kind of pit each other's trucks up and go
and tackle it's not like quite of a challenge
it's not like they're going against each other
but it always it's pretty cool have you ever
watched truck night in america no okay well that
that was a tv show that was kind of similar yeah
um yeah very i can't say it was as good the cool
thing about truck night in america is that we
had a local guy who was on there yeah yeah don't
i think the the show wise trying to remember
i remember like i can't remember what it was
like on like there was like a muscle car uh station
or something where it was like four by four something
or other and always had the same guy and they
were always working on some truck and fred williams
probably he's like today we're gonna every day
today we're gonna replace this dana something
something and or it was ian johnson uh Did he
have crazy hair? Yeah, it was kind of like just
regular bouncy hair, I think. But it was like
a repair show. That really sounds like Ian Johnson.
Here, I'll send you a link. Ian Johnson's a super
cool fucking guy. Here's his Instagram. I know
he was older. the guy because i can think of
two shows that are like that um ian johnson's
i think it was big tire garage or something like
that and then the other one i can think of is
fred williams four by four fred um who's also
a super cool fucking guy yeah it was on i i just
remember that and We used to watch that all the
time. Oh, wait. It would be Trucks. I think it
is. Classic Trucks or something. I could see
it. Yeah, it's called Trucks. 1999. It's got
the dude. He's got his middle part here. I can't
remember who he is. They just go over all sorts
of stuff. It was a cool show. We used to watch
that. Yeah. As far as shows that brought me into
this kind of thing went, we had trucks. On that
station, there was a couple other muscle car,
truck -related, kind of like that TV show. Then
we had Top Gear. Which wasn't really off -road
related, but... That was, what, on Power Nation?
Yeah. Is that... Yep. Because then Power Nation
kind of got sort of replaced by Motor Trend.
Right. Yeah, Motor Trend. Which was kind of like...
That was more my era, right? I watched, like,
Roadkill, Dirt Every Day, that stuff. Um, yeah,
I just remember, I remember trucks a lot as,
as a younger kid watching that. And yeah, I mean,
it was that, like I said, top gear and we didn't,
I don't try and remember, but then we had that
Alaska off -road truckers one, the one where
they had the off -road rigs that did the challenge.
It was actually on your server that I watched
it for the first time, but it was, it played
back when we were younger. Yeah, it was like
2011 or 2014. Yeah, which was actually pretty
good, too. I kind of enjoyed that. That one,
it had the craziest, like, fake drama involved.
Yeah. I loved it, too. Yeah, you know, like,
Discovery, like, they always have to throw drama
into it. Like, Deadliest Catch was one of them.
Like, I loved Deadliest Catch. And then to figure
out, like, some of the shit was, like, acted
out later. I didn't think Deadly's Kiss had that
much drama. I mean, they always filled it with
drama. Like, someone was always going off. Wow.
Someone's going overboard. Someone's being stupid,
almost dying. It was like they were always trying
to fill it. I feel like that was just kind of
the way. The captains are almost dying from heart
attacks and shit all the time. It was just a
good show, though. When I was a kid, I remember
my dad would always put Extreme 4x4 on. That
was with Ian Johnson. And it was good. I mean,
Ian Johnson's just a really fun entertainer to
begin with. So, I don't know, man. I like off
-road TV shows. I wish we had non -shitty off
-road TV shows and movies. That'd be pretty cool.
Yeah, no, I don't know either of those dudes
that you showed me. Really? Yeah. Power Nation.
They're like two of the biggest faces in the
industry, man. Especially Fred Williams. So I
came into it pretty late. I would say four years
ago that I started thinking about this stuff.
So it really wasn't. I was more into Bear Grylls
and Dual Survival and documentaries, stuff like
that. And, of course, my cryptid stuff. Conspiracy
theory is encrypted. I didn't really get into
the overlanding or off -road truck thing until
probably when I got my Toyota. I did ponder it
when I had the Baja, but that had so many issues
that it wasn't worth getting into that. So I'm
relatively new to the show scene of that. Now
that you're here, you should definitely get on
YouTube and just look up Dirt Every Day. I think
they're still available on YouTube, but you would
really enjoy it. They do some really fun builds.
I think now on YouTube, other than watching my
Overland camping, there's a guy who's from Michigan
who's pretty... popular that does a lot of like
canoe trips i watched like like uh what was it
weston chaplin um i thought he had an alaska
one where they buy cheap cars like he had a k
truck and he built a cabin in a home depot parking
lot and they went and tried to drive it up to
alaska and i thought you know i think kind of
nowadays youtube is really taking it's it's its
own um like tv series so you can get a lot more
off -road related tv shows with air quotations
around that um around that like i i'm not a big
fan of whistling diesel like some of this stuff's
pretty cool but i some of this some of the like
the way he just thrashes those trucks it does
hurt i hate to be that guy but it hurts to see
him thrash square bodies to nothing At least
Weston tries. He doesn't care as much, but you
don't see him destroying them all the time either.
He tries to give back to the community more.
He at least builds some cool shit. Yeah, he does.
Some cool stuff. Yes. I really enjoy seeing the
challenges, like buying cheap cars, taking them
up to the Alaska challenges. On that... episode
they had the some nasty trucks that we would
find around here so it was kind of funny uh there
was like a it was like a 94 extended extended
box and they built like a 12 foot cabin on it
on the top of that thing i don't know how the
fuck that thing stayed all the way up i have
no idea how that thing stayed up there dude they
they must have really put some time into those
so i enjoy that i think that's kind of replaced
you know they Like the TV channels kind of replaced
all those. They weren't getting the ratings they
want, and YouTube pays out per view. So it's
not as much of a budget or a cost loss, I guess,
would make more sense. So anyways, I would love
to have more off -road TV shows on. actual tv
like netflix and like top truck would be cool
to have back on i'd love to see more power nation
kind of stuff come back but um in ian johnson
has one that he's doing right now if i remember
right it'd be right in that that that like uh
foothold for you you know i also enjoy the guy
um is it tacoma lifestyle Dirt Lifestyle. Dirt
Lifestyle, where he's got the portals on the
Tacoma. He's always got a snow wheel and his
stuff. I enjoy his builds, too, watching his
builds. He's building up a rock -crawling, what
is it, an E450, like a Ford van? Yeah. He's building
up one of those. That's pretty cool. So I enjoy
watching his build on that. He's super creative.
He is very creative. I think YouTube really pulled
it away. I would like to see surveys now seeing
how much TV views have dropped and how much YouTube
has picked up because you get some of those niche
areas like truck builds and camping and stuff
like that that you wouldn't normally get on a
TV channel. And that stole that away from places
like Discovery and NetGeo. Not in a bad way,
but I'd like to see how much their views and
stuff had dropped since they stopped doing stuff
like that. Is Discovery still around? I don't
have, like, I don't even have normal TV shows.
I have whatever's free that comes with Roku,
and then I have, like, Netflix, FreeHulu. um
your server and youtube and i primarily use youtube
i don't know about the channel itself but i know
they have a discovery plus app yeah yeah discovery
channel pretty much their streaming service yeah
gotcha yeah i've just got my server so Which
I just added Motor Mythbusters, Engine Masters,
and regular Mythbusters. So there's some new
content for you guys to listen to. Nice. Or watch,
not listen to, I guess. I was going to say, what
do you mean watch? But depending on what you're
doing, if you're occupied doing something else,
you just need background noises. Yeah, me most
of the time. A lot of times when I watch Engine
Masters, that's what it is. Like, they do some
really cool stuff, but... it tends to just be
background for me well let's go on to the uh
the next message here see what we got yeah definitely
do that it's uh oh my god i don't even know who
this is here we go ready yep Sounded like a butt
dial. That was definitely a butt dial. Alright,
we made it. Sounded like a fart right at the
end. We've had a handful of voicemails now, not
very many, but we got our first VUT dial very
early. Like Wreck -It Rob, and he has it in his
back pocket, and he just farted or something.
Well, I have Wreck -It Rob's number saved. I
don't even know whose number that was. Well,
thanks for calling in. We appreciate the background
music. They're from the 601 area code. Where's
that at? California. I feel like I've heard that
in a rap song, or Oklahoma. Hold on, let me look.
601 area code. Central or Southern Mississippi.
Like Jackson, Hattiesburg, stuff like that. So,
thanks for whoever called from 601 Mississippi.
Oh, we have a text message. That's what they
meant to do. A stage fright. All right. Zales
is having a sale. If you guys are looking for
any jewelry. Oh, yeah. I don't think so. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And it's from two months ago.
Oh, and Zachary, one of our longtime listeners.
asked about what's the baker incident um baker
overland he uh he took a stumble on one of his
hikes and ended up having to be rescued so i'll
make that nice yeah they just they just broke
his ankle to find him do you break it or spring
it i think he sprang i think he sprained it but
he was like down a cliff and couldn't get back
up Yeah. No offense to Baker, but if you guys
have read Jurassic Park, where the owner, I can't
remember his name, Hammond, falls down the hill.
Yeah. And he can't climb back up the hill. And
those little lizards start shooting shit at him
and biting him. When he said that, that's what
happened. Dude, the guy that, that wasn't the
owner. Well, in the book, it's John. In the book,
it's John Hammond. So, yeah, it's different.
I never read it, so I didn't know that. Yeah,
so at the end of the book in Jurassic Park, John
Hammond is freaking out for something. I can't
remember exactly what, but he ends up falling
down the hill and then trying to crawl back up,
and he can't crawl. And then those little lizards
that when they bite you, they release toxins
that give you, like, euphoria. He was fighting
them off for a while, and they ended up just...
eating them and he was like oh it feels so good
while he's getting eaten but uh it's just what
it's what it reminded me of and i just picked
the baker down there like waiting sorry baker
if you're listening the funny thing is baker's
a big jurassic park fan yeah he would get it
he would get it oh man he would know and being
compared to luckily is not like the baker baker
is okay uh he's you know moving on with life
he's i don't know if you've seen that dude has
been putting in the work to cut down pounds though
yeah he said he stopped drinking as much and
he started putting in some work and losing some
weight and that's pretty cool man that's inspiring
yeah i've been working too trying to take some
weight off and be a little bit healthier and
trying to figure out like what i want to do for
my career because i'm like i don't know about
you guys but fuck i'm 31 and i have no idea what
i want to do for the rest of my life huh hey
we should just cut this episode right here that
is a great topic for a whole nother episode Yeah,
listen in on the next episode. You're going to
hear all the plans or wishes and wants. Yeah.
But, yeah, I don't know. I'm just glad Gavin's
back. I've been worried about him. Yeah. Worried.
I was about to fall off the side of the hill
on my truck. RIP Toyota World Runners. This is
their year anniversary. I just want to get that
out there. Is today the year anniversary? Today
or yesterday or something like that. I think
it was yesterday. RIP. You guys are still one
of my favorite YouTube channels. It was so sad.
Anyway, bye guys. Bye. Bye.