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welcome to botches off -road we are this is a

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weird recording me and gavin are in the same

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room on the same mic so all the audio is probably

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garbage we're doing our best over here yeah sorry

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i had a little complication with uh well i live

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in a double wide and all my wiring for my room

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is connected to my next bathroom And also connected

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to my father -in -law's wall of his room because

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our rooms butt up against each other. And we

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smelled burning plastic a couple, like a week

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ago. And we were like, huh, something's getting

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hot. We don't know what. We found out it was

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the light switch in the bathroom. We took that

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off. Bunch of melted, burnt plastic on the wires.

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And so we stripped those out, replaced them.

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and then went to work and blah, blah, blah. Come

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back and no power, and breaker keeps tripping.

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We can't figure it out. We take that same switch

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cover off. Melted wires. Looks like it was a

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fire, but wasn't because that trailer would have

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been gone by then. So, yeah, we're not sure what's

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going on, and we got to get an electrician in,

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so he might be here tomorrow. He might be here

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next week, we don't know. And if Gavin sounds

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extremely tired, it's because he started a new

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job and they're working the piss out of him.

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Yeah, I'm just not used to it. I started a job

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at a factory and I didn't really think clearly

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about starting a job at a factory that involves

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a lot of dust, which I'm allergic to. Oh. And

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that's pretty much, I live in it, so. Do they

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not give you masks? It's like 85 degrees in there.

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I'm like on the edge of heat stroke every single

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shift by the time I leave that I don't know that

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I could do a mask too. Fuck, I could barely do

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it during COVID. And that was like not bad because

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you're in a store and stuff. Right. I fucking

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hated the masks. Yeah, so Gavin's life's all

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changing and getting topsy -turvy and stuff.

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Yeah. Yeah, sorry I'm not around a lot. I'm getting

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used to getting up at 3 a .m., getting to work

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at 4, and then getting out at 2 .30 and deciding

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to move because my feet fucking hurt like crazy,

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and I'm just dead tired. I'm a night owl, so

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getting up at 3 a .m. is not working out for

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me right now. Yeah, I feel it, dude, in the same

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way. Especially because Jasper. Like, I could

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try to train myself to go to bed earlier, but

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Jasper's up 10 or 11 p .m., so that only leaves

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me with, like, a couple hours of sleep every

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night. Yeah. And this is a wrap. Me and Mark

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did do stuff this weekend, which is pretty sick.

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Yeah. I didn't do anything. Well, I mean, we

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didn't do anything off -road related, but me

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and Sienna went to a... Took the kid to a petting

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zoo park in Cedar Springs. And two weeks ago

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he went to what, a car show? Yeah. That was pretty

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sick. Yeah, that was horses and, or hooves and

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horsepower. And that was in the Cedar Springs

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area too. And that had, it was like a wedding

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venue. They had a bunch of cars there and they

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had food trucks and the fire department. So that

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was pretty fun. Not doing a whole lot of off

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-road stuff right now, but I don't think. I need

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to do a whole lot of off -road maintenance. My

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truck really needs an oil change, a water pump,

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or a power steering pump. And it does this weird

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chugging thing if it sits idling. Oh, it's still

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doing that? Yeah. So it probably needs spark

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plugs and wires. So if I redline it. for a couple

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of seconds, and then let off the gas, it stops.

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I'd start with spark plugs and wires. Yeah, it

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hasn't been done since I've done it, so it'd

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probably be a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, we, what

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day did we actually go out, Mark? Yeah, Saturday.

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Saturday, yep. We went up to the, we started

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in Baldwin. We're working on the toad, the...

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The Troll Overland Adventure Drive. Currently,

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it starts in White Cloud. I'm hoping to be able

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to make it a little farther south, but it's hard

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because there's not a lot of dirt roads south

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of the Nuevo White Cloud area. It starts in Nuevo,

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not White Cloud. There's not a whole lot of dirt

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roads south of there, so it's hard to link everything

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together. It starts there, and we have... What

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have we driven, 120 -some miles of it, Mark?

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I think so. You just posted about it recently,

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I thought. Yeah, so we have 120 miles of it driven,

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and I have another 100 -and -some miles planned.

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I realize that after MESIC... The drive from

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Misek West, there's not really any big cities

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along the route to stop it. So we're going from

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60 -mile segments to all of a sudden a 100 -mile

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segment, and that fucking blows. Yeah, you said

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224 of mostly dirt currently mapped for Nuego

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to Grayling, and we've only done 118 of it. I

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know. I need salt. Gavin just took a drink and

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he made a face. I have really hard water and

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have to run a water softer. And my water softer

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must be out of salt. It needs something. You

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feel like you need another drink? I feel like

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I need to do well. I'm spoiled, aren't I? It's

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a double wide, but you know what? It's got some

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of the best tasting water in the world. So. I

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can't even drink the water out of the jugs that

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work now. It just tastes like plastic or something.

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My water is so good when the water softener is

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working. And yesterday, I was like, man, my water

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is really good. And then I got a glass this morning,

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and I'm like, oh, God. That was the end of the

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good water. Yeah, it tastes like I'm drinking

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Dasani that's been sitting in the sun all day

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and then poured back into a glass and had it

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iced. Yeah. it's okay i'll but uh so yeah we

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got we got all that mapped art we had a really

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fun one this time because we uh we linked up

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with some of my wife's friends from work um we

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met them in what the carryville area yeah roughly

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yeah i think we're like the north end of the

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big manasty loop was it yeah so we rode with

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them for like five hours we uh we probably could

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have mapped more of it that day but we did a

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lot of like backtracking and just just playing

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right yeah we've got a map some but we want to

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play as we go um there's nothing hard that kind

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of sucks like that whole area it's all just basically

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service roads with maybe a hill climb here and

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there uh we had one section that had washed out

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that was really fun to to work our way through

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um then we stopped for lunch at like two which

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was fucking awesome we did wraps but because

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i now have the fridge and the counter so you

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just pull it out you just take what you need

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out of the fridge fantastic no need to like slide

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a cooler around or anything you just pull the

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drawer out and boom you're done so excited to

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see alex like upgrading into the true overlander

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i knew he could be Fridges, awnings. I didn't

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even buy an Overland fridge. I bought an RV fridge.

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So he's more of an RVer now. Dude, I'll show

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it to you before you leave, though. It's really

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sick. Because your standard Overland fridge,

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right, it's kind of shaped like a cooler. And

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then you have to add a drawer slide so you can

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pull the whole thing out. And you need to tip

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down almost to get into it. Mine, literally,

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it's just... It's like a drawer. Like, it's fantastic.

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I think for you it would be really good. I just

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need, I think, something bigger for, like, a

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whole family in the weekend. Yeah. How many quarts

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is your fridge? 38. So it's only four quarts

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bigger than mine. Yeah. It's got an ice maker.

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I don't use it. I do. I do wish that I had sprung

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for the dual zone because they have one that's

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a little bit bigger. It's a deeper drawer. And

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then the, no, it's same size drawer with another

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drawer on top. And then you can decide which

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one's which zone. Yeah. I kind of wish I'd sprung

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for that because then I could do like ice cream

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and stuff. Yeah. It'd be pretty sick. Put the

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booze in the top drawer. Yeah. Make it cold.

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No, I. I mean, I like my fridge. I don't have

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any complaints about it really anymore. I mean,

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it's always, you know, it's always done what

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it's supposed to do, and it's done it pretty

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well. So until that breaks, yeah, I'll get an

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ice coat. The new ice coats that came out with

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the pullout now. Dude, they're so hot. Yeah,

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because ice coat, theirs opens either direction

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on the top, and then they also have a drawer

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that slides out. Yeah. Genius. And I'm keeping

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it on my drawer slot. I don't even care. That's

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what I was wanting to get for mine so that I

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could do basically the same thing I did and build

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something that comes up around it. Well, then

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I found this one that's like, I think I paid

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$200 for it. Yeah. I didn't even pay that because

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I sold Mark my cooler and they gave me a discount.

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Yeah. I think I paid a total of like $50 for

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this thing. Yeah, it's pretty sick. It made lunch

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a lot... Really, the whole weekend was... I can't

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say it was easier. The thing that made it easier

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had nothing to do with it being a fridge, but

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it was easier to access because it wasn't high.

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Yeah. I think it's hard to explain to people

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who don't have a fridge and don't use it. Like,

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it's hard to explain to them the convenience

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because you can't really put it into words. Like,

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when, you know... go back eight months or nine

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months ago and me and alex were you know jabbing

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or jiving about having a fridge and not having

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a fridge what was better a cooler fridge now

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that he's got one i wonder if now he's kind of

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like yeah this is actually pretty cool um it's

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not like in the battery part and the having to

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charge it kind of put that aside but like just

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the convenience of it's pretty nice to not have

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to worry about ice and us having cold I wouldn't

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pay more than I paid for it. Oh, for sure. If

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I had to spend $300 or more on it, I'm less interested.

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And really, for me, the whole point in going

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to the fridge had nothing to do with it being

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a fridge and everything to do with form factor.

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And that alone makes it worth it. Because the

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cooler in my 4Runner, it's always been a pain

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in the ass. And I kind of made it better by doing

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that drawer slide thing, which worked great.

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But this... My wife, who's kind of on the shorter

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side, she can actually reach what she needs to

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get to. And it's got its own little light, so

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that's pretty fancy. Yeah, I really like that

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mine had its own light, too. It also kind of

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doubles as a table, which is really nice. And

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thankfully, the height is perfect for it. I can

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have it as a nice table. It has a separator for

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a dual zone that you can use as a cutting board.

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That's pretty sick. I've never done it. milwaukee

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coolers have a separator like that yeah we've

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we've used as a what a cutting board one time

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mark yeah i think so i've i've used it as a divider

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for it comes to like meat and stuff but other

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than that yeah yeah the only time i've taken

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mine out is to show people that there's a divider

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for dual zone yeah we uh because we always put

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If we had food in there, so it's got the Milwaukee

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coolers have the divider and then they've got

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like this little basket. So we put the stuff

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we don't want to get wet in the basket. So it

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stays cold, but it's dry. And then we put like

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meat and stuff on one side of the divider, drinks

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on the other and ice on the side with the drinks.

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Because that kind of kept the water from getting

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into everything as much. If we didn't have that.

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I would say a cooler sucks because, like, your

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standard cooler that you just get from, like,

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Walmart or even, like, an igloo, like, they kind

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of blow, dude. Yeah. I do remember back in the

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day when I had this black igloo I bought from

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Menards, and I went down a trail, and I did not

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realize it, but most of my ice had melted because

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it was a shitty cooler, and I just had, like,

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sloshed water everywhere. And my bologna was

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soggy. and it was just like watered down bologna

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that was good yeah so the fridge was cool then

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we we continued on the trip a little bit again

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i i want to talk more about the oh we can talk

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about the people that were with us so we had

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a 73 cj5 with an amc 360 with us that thing was

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fucking sick it was um twin stick transfer case

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five speed and we're going along he's doing great

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there's there hadn't been too much mud up to

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this point carbureted amc 360 mine yeah and all

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of a sudden we go through a puddle and he just

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pulls over on the side of the trail as much as

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he could and block the trail um that's important

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in a second and mind you we're at like a choke

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point yeah so like no one can really get around

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anyone We ended up with, like, a lineup of, like,

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10 or 15 side -by -sides because there were so

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many side -by -sides on the trail Labor Day weekend.

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Yeah. I don't doubt that. So then we kind of,

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like, as much as we could, maneuvered all the

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other trucks off to the side and got it running

00:15:03.580 --> 00:15:06.059
again just by kind of running it to get the moisture

00:15:06.059 --> 00:15:07.980
out of the cylinder and then spray and brake

00:15:07.980 --> 00:15:12.129
clean to get it started to have ether. Yeah,

00:15:12.190 --> 00:15:15.309
so she fired up. We get going. There was also

00:15:15.309 --> 00:15:22.090
a 2015 Duramax with us. Yeah. So part of why

00:15:22.090 --> 00:15:25.269
the trail was so hard to maneuver around. And

00:15:25.269 --> 00:15:30.009
then a XJ. Yep. A pretty well -built XJ. Oh,

00:15:30.009 --> 00:15:33.409
yeah. He had like three inches of lift, 33s.

00:15:33.409 --> 00:15:36.409
Yep. I don't know. It was a mini -built roof

00:15:36.409 --> 00:15:38.970
rack, but it's not one I've ever seen. It was

00:15:38.970 --> 00:15:43.629
really cool. And then he had a 270 -degree awning.

00:15:44.129 --> 00:15:46.309
Completely an off -road, like just off -road,

00:15:46.309 --> 00:15:48.909
not overland truck with a 270 -degree awning

00:15:48.909 --> 00:15:54.190
on it. Hey, man, shades of ice. So then we kind

00:15:54.190 --> 00:15:57.149
of worked our way out, and then all of a sudden

00:15:57.149 --> 00:16:00.370
the XJ just stopped at a trailhead. And, of course,

00:16:00.429 --> 00:16:02.769
again, blocks traffic for all the side -by -sides.

00:16:03.429 --> 00:16:08.129
His gas tank was falling off. So we had to ratchet

00:16:08.129 --> 00:16:10.230
strap that up, and we pull off the trail after

00:16:10.230 --> 00:16:11.750
we get it fixed, and we let all the side -by

00:16:11.750 --> 00:16:14.669
-sides by. And they're, like, cussing at us and

00:16:14.669 --> 00:16:18.190
stuff. Like, they were really bad. Yeah, Labor

00:16:18.190 --> 00:16:21.389
Day is side -by -siders, dude. Belligerent. And

00:16:21.389 --> 00:16:24.649
it kept giving me flashbacks to 2023 when Labor

00:16:24.649 --> 00:16:28.570
Day hit my truck. Yeah. Oh, was that Memorial?

00:16:28.649 --> 00:16:33.950
Yes, it was Memorial. Okay. Well, still, it was

00:16:33.950 --> 00:16:37.830
bad. It was ridiculous. It was. Yeah, they're

00:16:37.830 --> 00:16:41.870
pretty bad. Usually on Labor Day, we're up in

00:16:41.870 --> 00:16:45.269
Paradise, and we decided to skip this one just

00:16:45.269 --> 00:16:48.710
because I didn't know what my schedule was. She

00:16:48.710 --> 00:16:51.490
just switched to Cedar Springs store. I didn't

00:16:51.490 --> 00:16:55.690
know that. Yeah, which has later closing times

00:16:55.690 --> 00:16:58.860
and earlier opening times. So we weren't really

00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:00.919
sure what she was going to be able to get off

00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.680
or not. So we just ended up skipping it, and

00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:08.640
it turns out that was probably a good idea. But,

00:17:08.779 --> 00:17:12.619
no, it was the past three years that we've gone,

00:17:12.819 --> 00:17:18.819
the side -by -sides are a menace. Yeah. And if

00:17:18.819 --> 00:17:20.859
anyone's listening and they do drive a side -by

00:17:20.859 --> 00:17:23.880
-side, not all side -by -siders are bad. Just

00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:28.740
99 .999 % of them are. Right, like XJ owners.

00:17:29.059 --> 00:17:32.380
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like XJ owners. Not all of

00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:36.200
them are bad, just 99%. Or, as Jimmy and Tyler

00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.119
calls them, dumpsters. They are. They're the

00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:45.019
Teslas of the Jeep world. Wait, speaking of Jeep,

00:17:45.140 --> 00:17:48.720
have you seen their new release? Which one? Yeah,

00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:50.579
with all the doors and windows that's removable.

00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:55.819
Yeah, I mean, that's all Jeeps, right? This one,

00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:02.099
it looks like they tried to copy a Land Cruiser

00:18:02.099 --> 00:18:08.299
or a Lexus or a Bronco. If you were to mix a

00:18:08.299 --> 00:18:10.400
Bronco and a Lexus. It looked more like a little

00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:15.880
version of their wagon. Yeah, but to me, the

00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:25.920
edges and stuff. Yes. And it's EV. Why? Right.

00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:29.960
They call it a Wrangler. This doesn't even look

00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:33.279
like a Wrangler. Are you sure? I thought we were

00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:39.859
talking about the Jeep Scout. No, it's like a

00:18:39.859 --> 00:18:43.519
new EV four -door. Yeah, it looks kind of like

00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.720
a Bronco and a Range Rover had a baby. Yeah.

00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.839
They're trying to compete with, like, Lexus and

00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:55.839
the new... What is it? Land Cruiser? Land Cruiser,

00:18:55.900 --> 00:18:59.559
yeah. It's ridiculous. That looks terrible. That

00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.900
looks like a terrible product. They're just trying

00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:08.039
to compete, but Stellantis is Stellantis. Yeah.

00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.319
Oh, Recon. I thought you guys were talking about

00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:17.039
the Jeep Recon. Yeah, the Recon. The Recon looks

00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:23.109
alright, but this EV... wrangler thing oh man

00:19:23.109 --> 00:19:27.089
they didn't realize that like hmm people don't

00:19:27.089 --> 00:19:30.589
like electric things notice how our chargers

00:19:30.589 --> 00:19:34.630
uh what is it the challengers yeah are going

00:19:34.630 --> 00:19:37.609
for thirty thousand dollars below asking price

00:19:37.609 --> 00:19:40.349
because they've been sitting maybe we should

00:19:40.349 --> 00:19:44.220
just make an suv that's electric probably was

00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:46.000
already in the pipeline and they're like oh we've

00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.579
already gotten this far we may as well just push

00:19:47.579 --> 00:19:50.059
it out yeah you see everybody that's talking

00:19:50.059 --> 00:19:52.839
up doing like what is it the 392s and the jeeps

00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:55.960
like everybody loves those and they're like hmm

00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.660
everybody loves those what should we do let's

00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:04.079
do electric let's do another one so we uh yeah

00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:09.650
all again all cheaps aside we uh then Went down,

00:20:09.849 --> 00:20:11.369
I don't even remember what the trail number is.

00:20:11.369 --> 00:20:12.789
We went down this trail that's supposed to be

00:20:12.789 --> 00:20:17.210
a harder trail. It had like one mildly difficult

00:20:17.210 --> 00:20:21.990
section. And this is when the CJ driver announces

00:20:21.990 --> 00:20:24.049
that he's starting to run out of fuel, which

00:20:24.049 --> 00:20:28.089
is pretty standard for CJs. You know, we had

00:20:28.089 --> 00:20:30.529
Bill with us. He was always running out of fuel.

00:20:32.250 --> 00:20:36.809
Dude, I know all James aside, but your story

00:20:36.809 --> 00:20:42.019
is like. all jeeps are fucking off today so yeah

00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:44.140
we uh we got through that trail and we split

00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:46.279
off with them because we're like a quarter mile

00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.160
from our campsite at that point and we went to

00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:52.299
our year our botches yearly campsite from a couple

00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:54.720
years ago our first one had fucking been there

00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:59.769
dude like the yeah the our the trail was overgrown

00:20:59.769 --> 00:21:03.130
yeah like really bad overgrown and then we get

00:21:03.130 --> 00:21:05.670
out to the site all the wood was stacked exactly

00:21:05.670 --> 00:21:08.849
how we left it i just walked up to the tree that

00:21:08.849 --> 00:21:11.250
i left my sway bar by and boom there was my sway

00:21:11.250 --> 00:21:14.309
bar like it literally looked like we just left

00:21:14.309 --> 00:21:16.710
got up and left and then came back yeah yeah

00:21:16.710 --> 00:21:20.329
i it wasn't my favorite spot but it was peaceful

00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:24.619
It was open, and the owls were fucking nuts.

00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:30.940
We'll get to that. So I can't say it's my favorite

00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:33.200
campsite, but I do really like that campsite

00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:35.920
because you don't see anybody. You know, there's

00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.180
other campsites that are prettier, but someone's

00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:39.920
going to drive up on you. Someone's going to

00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.140
be there. This one, you don't. We saw one guy

00:21:43.140 --> 00:21:45.900
two years ago who was looking for somewhere to

00:21:45.900 --> 00:21:49.700
hunt. That was it. We didn't see anyone this

00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:51.160
weekend. No. I mean, there wasn't even tracks

00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:57.180
out to it. It was abandoned, abandoned. And it

00:21:57.180 --> 00:22:01.019
was beautiful, just like always. We're going

00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:02.779
to go there for third gen weekend this year,

00:22:02.859 --> 00:22:05.039
but we're going to bring a weed whacker with

00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.500
us. Yep. Because I will say, the weeds are a

00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:11.259
little ridiculous. I have an electric one that's

00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:13.859
the same battery as my chainsaw on, so I should

00:22:13.859 --> 00:22:16.319
just bring that if I end up coming. Yeah, and

00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:18.789
then I'm going to... Probably snag the one from

00:22:18.789 --> 00:22:21.210
the farm. That way we do have a gas one. Because

00:22:21.210 --> 00:22:22.990
I have an electric one too, but the gas one just

00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:26.670
has more power. My electric one. My electric

00:22:26.670 --> 00:22:30.009
one's pretty badass, man. I'm not a big electric

00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:33.450
fan, but my electric weed whip is one of the

00:22:33.450 --> 00:22:35.509
best weed whips I've ever had in my life. It's

00:22:35.509 --> 00:22:39.670
awesome. I like that. So, yeah, so we set up

00:22:39.670 --> 00:22:42.990
camp. Literally put my tents in the exact same

00:22:42.990 --> 00:22:46.230
spot that we had. who put our tent last time

00:22:46.230 --> 00:22:49.009
and it worked out good so i put the two swags

00:22:49.009 --> 00:22:51.549
side by side and then i opened the flap on the

00:22:51.549 --> 00:22:54.769
on what's normally kaylin's side of the bed and

00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:56.869
then i just zip tied it to the top of jackson's

00:22:56.869 --> 00:22:59.769
swag so that he had like his own tent but it

00:22:59.769 --> 00:23:02.609
was connected so he could see us right and we

00:23:02.609 --> 00:23:04.630
kept the bug netting down so he was in his own

00:23:04.630 --> 00:23:10.109
space and then we i don't even remember i pulled

00:23:10.109 --> 00:23:12.210
out the awning on my truck i'll probably never

00:23:12.210 --> 00:23:17.200
do that again The onion's not worth it, man.

00:23:17.299 --> 00:23:21.759
It's too much work for what you gain. You're

00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:24.119
making that harder than it needs to be. You got

00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:27.079
to roll it out, and then you got to set up the

00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.759
poles. It's not that hard. But it's more work

00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.880
than what you gain. Then there was one point

00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:36.079
I wanted to go somewhere, and I didn't go because

00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:37.740
then I'd have to tear down camp. That's just

00:23:37.740 --> 00:23:40.700
too much fucking work. Yeah, I get you. I guess

00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:44.450
I'm used to having that. that shower haunting

00:23:44.450 --> 00:23:47.309
that i had on the passenger yeah and rolling

00:23:47.309 --> 00:23:51.109
that up but i only took like i don't know i'd

00:23:51.109 --> 00:23:53.450
be seconds i'd honestly say that's easier to

00:23:53.450 --> 00:23:55.730
put away than mine oh for sure yeah because mine

00:23:55.730 --> 00:23:57.690
you gotta like it's got the two poles that come

00:23:57.690 --> 00:24:00.349
down you gotta like swing them to the side roll

00:24:00.349 --> 00:24:03.170
up the main tat and then you have to set that

00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:05.809
up on the roof while you pull the two poles in

00:24:05.809 --> 00:24:11.519
and it's It's kind of a bear. I don't like it.

00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:14.680
But that's for sale. If anyone needs an awning

00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:18.180
and an awning tent, let me know. $250 buys everything.

00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:21.980
And that's less than the cost of just the tent

00:24:21.980 --> 00:24:28.720
alone. And it's been used two times. Yeah. I

00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:30.039
was just saying, I think I was there for a while.

00:24:30.259 --> 00:24:35.119
Yeah. So, yeah, we rolled that out. We did put

00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:38.390
a table under it, which was... if it was raining

00:24:38.390 --> 00:24:40.250
i guess that would have been nice because then

00:24:40.250 --> 00:24:43.269
jackson could have eaten in a dry space okay

00:24:43.269 --> 00:24:46.250
it has its warrants not worth it to me right

00:24:46.250 --> 00:24:49.930
um so then and we cooked off the back of the

00:24:49.930 --> 00:24:53.309
forerunner which with the new setup is so much

00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:56.289
easier yeah because the drawer is nice and low

00:24:56.289 --> 00:24:58.450
you just pull the table out boom you put the

00:24:58.450 --> 00:25:03.930
stove on we made a uh a camp classic some good

00:25:03.930 --> 00:25:08.690
old sloppy joe dude that's funny with we used

00:25:08.690 --> 00:25:12.950
pork instead of beef because pork steak and i

00:25:12.950 --> 00:25:15.369
couldn't find ground pork but pork steak i got

00:25:15.369 --> 00:25:18.190
two pounds for three dollars yeah that's so cheap

00:25:18.190 --> 00:25:20.970
so then i just brought the steak here threw it

00:25:20.970 --> 00:25:23.650
through my meat grinder yeah i mean you know

00:25:23.650 --> 00:25:27.569
that's what you're yeah that's the way i i want

00:25:27.569 --> 00:25:30.710
to get a meat slicer too i keep talking about

00:25:30.710 --> 00:25:34.789
a meat slicer but because i have turkeys so like

00:25:34.789 --> 00:25:37.309
i could just roast my turkey meat, and then slice

00:25:37.309 --> 00:25:41.029
it. Yeah. Can you imagine that? Garbage can roasted

00:25:41.029 --> 00:25:44.109
turkey. Oh, dude. Garbage can turkey sliced.

00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:49.569
Oh, my God. That'd be delicious. There you go,

00:25:49.670 --> 00:25:52.910
listeners. If you're long -time listeners, you'll

00:25:52.910 --> 00:25:55.289
know that reference. Yeah. I was going to do

00:25:55.289 --> 00:25:58.089
a barbecued turkey leg today because I have some

00:25:58.089 --> 00:26:01.670
turkey leg from the other night. Someone hit

00:26:01.670 --> 00:26:05.839
one. No, we loaded out. Whenever I'm in loadout,

00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:08.660
there's a, this one, usually we end up with dead

00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:10.359
from loadout where they just have heart attacks

00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:13.079
or whatever. The next morning we go out there

00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:14.720
and there's just a turkey sitting in the field.

00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.400
Yeah. Yeah. And I've got, I've still got one

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.539
that's running free. Uh, he, uh, joined up with

00:26:21.539 --> 00:26:24.460
the wild turkeys and I haven't been able to shoot

00:26:24.460 --> 00:26:28.000
him yet, but you know, he's living his best life.

00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:29.740
Yeah. He's probably getting that good wild turkey

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:35.460
post. Oh, speaking of getting hit, uh, I did

00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:38.500
lose my dog here a couple days ago. Yeah. He

00:26:38.500 --> 00:26:42.500
got hit. That's terrible. Yeah. CNN and I were,

00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:46.640
I don't know, where were we? At Jasper's dentist

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.660
appointment, and I'm just scrolling on my phone.

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.460
They only allow one parent in the dentist office

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:55.420
with the kid, so I'm just sitting in the fucking

00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:58.740
waiting room like a square and scrolling through

00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:01.740
Facebook, and someone posted in the Grand Gazette

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:05.130
that there's a white dog looks like husky on

00:27:05.130 --> 00:27:09.369
120th and spruce on the corner dead and you know

00:27:09.369 --> 00:27:14.730
rip and i'm like fuck i have a white dog it looks

00:27:14.730 --> 00:27:17.490
like a husky and we live off of spruce and that's

00:27:17.490 --> 00:27:21.609
like a mile from us if that and so i was like

00:27:21.609 --> 00:27:24.250
i sent that to sienna i'm like we gotta get home

00:27:24.250 --> 00:27:28.410
soon and we went up and down 120th all around

00:27:28.410 --> 00:27:31.470
spruce we went all around looked and looked and

00:27:31.470 --> 00:27:35.279
looked couldn't find him someone must have taken

00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.339
him and buried him and you know saw a poor little

00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:40.579
doggy on the side of the road and decided to

00:27:40.579 --> 00:27:42.400
take care of him and i appreciate whoever did

00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:48.440
it um not to be a soulless butthead but i didn't

00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.140
feel like digging a hole but so i appreciate

00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:56.099
whoever that did it and but yeah no usually he'll

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:58.319
run out and grab a deer or something and and

00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.779
try to chase some deer and He's usually back

00:28:01.779 --> 00:28:04.339
at the end of the day, and Sienna and I are still

00:28:04.339 --> 00:28:08.559
kind of just waiting for him to show up. Yeah.

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:12.420
So, yeah, it's sad, but he went out doing the

00:28:12.420 --> 00:28:15.460
shit he loved to do, and he was a good dog. Not

00:28:15.460 --> 00:28:17.599
a good inside dog. He was a good outside dog.

00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.140
Yeah. That was pretty sad. I saw that posting,

00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:23.960
and I went to send it to you, and I clicked it,

00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:25.519
and you were, like, the top comment. I was like,

00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:27.980
fuck. Yeah, I was talking to everybody, trying

00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:30.759
to figure out. Because, like... A lot of the

00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.000
times people take pictures of the animal, like

00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.240
the unhit part or, you know, the undamaged part.

00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:39.339
So I'm, like, looking for pictures and, like,

00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:41.859
no, no pictures at all. I'm like, okay, well,

00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:43.759
I guess we'll never know. Someone could have

00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:47.839
stolen them. But, yeah, because someone else

00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:49.680
commented on it. It was like, well, my dog's

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.259
a way husky and he's missing. I'm like, well,

00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:56.900
there's a chance. Still sucks. Yeah, it sucks.

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.980
I told Sienna that it'll take us a few years,

00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:05.220
but we can get another animal. I said we get

00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:08.140
a black wolf dog this time. Wolf dogs are illegal

00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:13.500
in Michigan. This was a legal non -wolf dog.

00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:17.019
Okay, yeah, okay. So it was not wolf hybrid at

00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:20.019
all. It just looked wolfish? Yeah. Cool, cool,

00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:22.819
cool, cool, cool, cool. But out of state. I will

00:29:22.819 --> 00:29:25.180
say that that is one of the things I hate about

00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:28.019
Michigan because you can't... Let's say that

00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:30.519
you own a dog who has wolf in them, right? Yep.

00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:33.299
And you're just driving through Michigan. If

00:29:33.299 --> 00:29:35.259
you get pulled over, they can take that dog and

00:29:35.259 --> 00:29:38.759
destroy it. Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't enough that

00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:42.359
he was considered wolf dog. He was a very low

00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:46.079
percentage wolf. But it was enough that he was

00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:49.500
not an inside dog. Like, he would chew your shit

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:53.079
up. He would piss and mark on everything. I can't

00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.109
say that's... That's common. So I had a buddy.

00:29:56.150 --> 00:30:00.230
He had a wolf dog. He was Wolf Akita, I think

00:30:00.230 --> 00:30:02.190
is what he was mixed with. This motherfucker

00:30:02.190 --> 00:30:05.730
was 280 pounds. Yeah. And when he stood on his

00:30:05.730 --> 00:30:08.809
back legs, because he was like 82 % wolf. Oh,

00:30:08.809 --> 00:30:10.990
yeah. When he stood on his back legs, dude, he

00:30:10.990 --> 00:30:13.990
was seven foot tall. Like this massive fucking

00:30:13.990 --> 00:30:17.900
dog. He was an inside dog. He'd take up the couch.

00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:20.779
He'd loaf in your lap. I mean, just laziest motherfucker

00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:23.839
ever. It requires a lot of early on training,

00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.720
which they didn't have. Yeah. Siano was in the

00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.119
Navy. Michael, who was the original person that

00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.380
got him, went into the Army. So he was just kind

00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:36.099
of stuck hanging around and he trained him. Then

00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:43.039
I had my Husky had like 10 % wolf. When I found

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.359
out it was illegal to bring wolf dogs into Michigan

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:50.500
was when I, you know, got one. But he was never

00:30:50.500 --> 00:30:52.539
a problem, except for the fact that you couldn't

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:54.279
keep him in crates because he would destroy them,

00:30:54.380 --> 00:30:57.200
and he hated women and children, which is why

00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.559
he is no longer on the face of this earth. Yeah.

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.319
Because he tore up one of my buddy's wives, like,

00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:05.119
30 puncture marks, starting from her left hand

00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:07.680
all the way across her chest and then down her

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.920
right arm. Was she a bad lady? No. absolute sweetheart

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:14.519
she was sitting on the couch they were watching

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:16.420
him because i was in the field yeah she was sitting

00:31:16.420 --> 00:31:18.500
on the couch and he he was sleeping next to her

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:19.740
and all of a sudden he just stood up and attacked

00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:24.319
her yeah that would be crazy he'd have been gone

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:27.880
he didn't i came home from the i literally told

00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.920
my uh my first sergeant that i had to go back

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:35.440
to the uh to the unit for like a few hours he's

00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.579
like what are you gonna do and i told him the

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:42.059
story and he let me go back with or without government

00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:46.259
-issued ammunition, you know. And I came back

00:31:46.259 --> 00:31:48.339
to the field like three hours later, showered

00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:52.400
and no longer covered in blood. Yeah. No, that's

00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.440
a no -go. And I've always said that, too. Any

00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.960
dog that was slightly aggressive towards my son

00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.119
is going to end up in the dirt. Thankfully, Kilo

00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:05.519
was actually the nicest dog, complete bitch,

00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:09.519
for being... as big as he was and as intimidating

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.900
as he was he was just a horrible just pussy but

00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:19.220
he was a good dog yeah so sad stories aside we

00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:24.880
uh we ate dinner yeah yeah see welcome back my

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:29.079
adhd takes place we uh we ate dinner and then

00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:31.019
we were hanging out around the fire for a while

00:32:31.019 --> 00:32:34.920
and kaylin and jackson went to bed like like

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.119
eight o 'clock like she was tired he was tired

00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:40.980
so they went to bed and oscar she took oscar

00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:42.859
to bed with her because we had the border collie

00:32:42.859 --> 00:32:45.980
with us who by the way my two healers love them

00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:48.240
to death they've always been a pain in the ass

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:49.839
on the trail because they want to be in the front

00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:53.220
they're just pain in the ass oscar laid in the

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:55.720
back seat the whole time at camp he stayed around

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:58.579
he had no interest in going anywhere absolutely

00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:05.109
the best camp dog i've ever had um so She goes

00:33:05.109 --> 00:33:07.170
to bed and she took Oscar with her. And after

00:33:07.170 --> 00:33:09.609
like, I don't know, 30 minutes of hearing her

00:33:09.609 --> 00:33:11.910
call Oscar, I was like, what the fuck is going

00:33:11.910 --> 00:33:15.609
on? So I go over there. She's on my side of the

00:33:15.609 --> 00:33:20.230
bed. He was in between the two swags that are

00:33:20.230 --> 00:33:22.869
butted up to each other, stuck between the bug

00:33:22.869 --> 00:33:25.009
netting. She was trying to get him to come around.

00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.000
To come around and come in the tent. And he just

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.460
kept jumping into that bug net. He tried to figure

00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:35.680
out how to get to her. Dude, it was so funny.

00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:37.599
And I'm like, come here, Oscar. Come around.

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:39.779
And he would come out and she'd call him. And

00:33:39.779 --> 00:33:42.240
I'd be standing by her, right? He'd come around

00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.480
to me. She would call him. He'd go back around

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:46.279
the tent and try to go through the bug netting

00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:50.039
again. Absolute fucking moron. So it's just like

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:53.019
when you had the awning camp he set up and everything.

00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.480
And he was trying to. go through the side that

00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:00.799
was not open at all dude he just doesn't understand

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.400
bug netting it's confusing great dog dumb as

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:10.679
hell but so yeah and he's a bitch too dude if

00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:12.380
anything came into our tent he would have fucking

00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:15.280
just rolled over on his back like oh my god so

00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.699
they go to bed and I go back and we're sitting

00:34:17.699 --> 00:34:20.059
talking to Mark I'm sitting talking to Mark and

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:27.730
Alan and also I'm here And a little while later,

00:34:27.789 --> 00:34:32.650
about half a mile away, we hear, and they talked,

00:34:32.789 --> 00:34:35.550
what did you say, about a half hour mark? Yeah.

00:34:35.869 --> 00:34:38.909
Those two owls talked? Yeah. oh god yeah the

00:34:38.909 --> 00:34:43.030
last time we were there it was all night i they

00:34:43.030 --> 00:34:45.230
probably kept going but we we didn't stay up

00:34:45.230 --> 00:34:47.530
though no we probably went to bed at 10 i woke

00:34:47.530 --> 00:34:50.329
up around i think three and they were still talking

00:34:50.329 --> 00:34:54.349
but they were like further off yeah talking shit

00:34:54.349 --> 00:34:56.710
yeah yeah they're pissed off because you guys

00:34:56.710 --> 00:34:59.409
are sitting in their weasel field and again That

00:34:59.409 --> 00:35:01.489
one that, you know how we had one right over

00:35:01.489 --> 00:35:03.590
our head two years ago? He was in the tree right

00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:05.610
above us. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's one of

00:35:05.610 --> 00:35:08.989
their main feeding grounds. Yeah. Because for

00:35:08.989 --> 00:35:12.210
listeners who might not have been here, last

00:35:12.210 --> 00:35:18.510
year when I was there, we ended up putting our

00:35:18.510 --> 00:35:22.309
tent right over weasel holes. So middle of the

00:35:22.309 --> 00:35:25.769
night, we start feeling some thumping on the

00:35:25.769 --> 00:35:28.949
underside of the tents. There's a weasel running

00:35:28.949 --> 00:35:33.849
underneath the tent on the ground, and you could

00:35:33.849 --> 00:35:36.230
see his little lump moving through the underside

00:35:36.230 --> 00:35:39.050
of the tent. I mean, I'm trying to play whack

00:35:39.050 --> 00:35:40.809
-a -mole here, trying to get him to not bite

00:35:40.809 --> 00:35:43.789
through the tent. It was a pain in the ass. I

00:35:43.789 --> 00:35:46.630
wonder why I did not love that spot, but that

00:35:46.630 --> 00:35:48.610
was just because of where we had to put our tent.

00:35:48.769 --> 00:35:53.139
Right. I'll never forget two years ago, we had

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:55.860
a weasel under our tent, and Mercy just jumped

00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:58.599
diving two feet on top of this weasel all across

00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:02.059
the floor. It's funny how they have that fox

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:05.980
-like instinct. Because that's indicative of

00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:10.960
snow foxes jumping through snow cover to get

00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:13.480
the mice and stuff underneath. It's funny how

00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.400
dogs and stuff just have that nasty instinct

00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:21.280
to just dive bomb anything. Yeah. So then me

00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:25.840
and Mark went to bed around 10, 10 .30 -ish.

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:31.280
Alan, he says he stayed up, but I heard that

00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:33.940
motherfucker snore for like two hours. He was

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:36.260
out within like a half an hour of us going to

00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:40.659
bed. I don't believe that shit for a second.

00:36:40.699 --> 00:36:43.760
Alan will fall asleep in a chair, and you'll

00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.619
hear him snore, and then he'll wake up and be

00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:49.460
like, oh, I'm fine. Yeah. I didn't go to sleep.

00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:53.239
I've been awake. You know what? I'm just resting

00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.219
my eyes. Resting your eyes with snoring. So he

00:36:58.219 --> 00:37:01.699
went to bed at some point. I was out by the time

00:37:01.699 --> 00:37:04.480
he went to bed. Yeah. At some point. He went

00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:09.239
to bed between 10 and 3 o 'clock at some point.

00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:14.320
Oh. And me and Kaylin had forgotten our bedding.

00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.619
Okay, you can put your bedding in the swag. But

00:37:17.619 --> 00:37:19.659
our bedding that we used to have in the swag,

00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.380
we took out a long time ago because it was not

00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:25.260
great bedding to begin with. And we keep forgetting

00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:28.619
to put new bedding in there. So I was just going

00:37:28.619 --> 00:37:30.920
to bring the bedding off our bed with us this

00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:33.380
trip, and I left it all sitting on the bed. So

00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:35.860
when we got there, we had the one blanket I keep

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:38.619
in there, the sheet that's on the swag, but we

00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:41.559
had to borrow from Mark and Alan to have. Which,

00:37:41.619 --> 00:37:43.960
thank God, Mark had a spare wool blanket and

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.849
Alan had a sleeping bag. I wouldn't say spare

00:37:47.849 --> 00:37:50.210
wool blanket. I just didn't need my wool blanket

00:37:50.210 --> 00:37:55.389
yet. Right, right. It wasn't spare. We just gave

00:37:55.389 --> 00:37:59.530
it up. And it wasn't, it really wasn't cold.

00:38:00.090 --> 00:38:03.150
But man, I will tell you that that is probably

00:38:03.150 --> 00:38:05.210
the worst night of sleep I've ever had in my

00:38:05.210 --> 00:38:07.929
swag, which is really saying something. Because

00:38:07.929 --> 00:38:09.730
usually I sleep better in there than I do in

00:38:09.730 --> 00:38:14.130
my own bed. Yeah, me too. But my pillow was my

00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:16.230
assault pack with clothes in it. Like, it was

00:38:16.230 --> 00:38:18.309
not a great sleeping pillow. That's usually,

00:38:18.489 --> 00:38:20.469
you know, we have a little camp pillow, and then

00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:23.670
I'll throw my little luggage, like clothing bag

00:38:23.670 --> 00:38:25.590
underneath it, and now that's just kind of what

00:38:25.590 --> 00:38:30.239
we do. So I definitely need to spend some money

00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:33.380
on a couple pillows and at least one more blanket

00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:36.340
for the swag. I've even got three wool blankets

00:38:36.340 --> 00:38:40.039
that are supposed to be in there. Yeah. But I

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:44.099
need pillows, so. Yeah, we ended up, one time

00:38:44.099 --> 00:38:46.119
we forgot our pillows and we just went to the

00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:48.880
dollar store and they had these giant long $5

00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.639
like shag pillows. And we used those for like

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.530
a couple times camping. I don't even know where

00:38:55.530 --> 00:38:57.409
the fuck they're at now. It was shoved in a closet

00:38:57.409 --> 00:39:01.130
somewhere. Yeah. I, I had to go, I got up to

00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:05.590
go to the bathroom at like three ish. And when

00:39:05.590 --> 00:39:07.489
I got up, Oh yeah. The owls were still going.

00:39:07.530 --> 00:39:08.969
Cause the whole time I was going to the bathroom,

00:39:09.010 --> 00:39:10.969
I was just listening to these owls, just alert,

00:39:11.130 --> 00:39:16.010
like nonstop. Um, it was a good trip, man. It

00:39:16.010 --> 00:39:18.210
was a lot of fun. It was. Yeah, I don't doubt

00:39:18.210 --> 00:39:21.150
that one bit. And then we woke up Sunday and

00:39:21.150 --> 00:39:24.389
just kind of tore down camp. Oh, actually, Sunday

00:39:24.389 --> 00:39:28.530
or Saturday night, I got a bug up my butt and

00:39:28.530 --> 00:39:31.710
decided to rewire my GMRS radio. Yeah. So it's

00:39:31.710 --> 00:39:35.110
now under the hood. Does it stop all the issues?

00:39:35.369 --> 00:39:40.769
No. Okay. Not at all. And it's wired directly

00:39:40.769 --> 00:39:42.630
to the battery, all the things they say to fix

00:39:42.630 --> 00:39:47.139
it. I have some ferrite traps coming. tomorrow

00:39:47.139 --> 00:39:50.619
uh to put on the power cord because it's getting

00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:53.579
alternator feed is the problem yeah i talked

00:39:53.579 --> 00:39:58.900
to tyler from what was it first it was uh my

00:39:58.900 --> 00:40:01.639
off -road radio yeah because that's the mor and

00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:03.920
more flight is my off -road radio tyler's whole

00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:07.480
thing is radios um but talk to him he recommends

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.599
some ferrite traps if that doesn't work i'm gonna

00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.000
put a noise filter in i'm so sick and tired of

00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.380
it dude i don't know how it's how you're having

00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:17.099
issues with it because it was hooked up the same

00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:22.199
way so like mine was older cars yeah have a different

00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.139
uh they have wine that gets sent through the

00:40:25.139 --> 00:40:29.780
negative cable from the alternator so mine just

00:40:29.780 --> 00:40:31.500
happens to fall into that because the one in

00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:34.219
my truck my power stroke yeah it used to be in

00:40:34.219 --> 00:40:36.039
the forerunner and it doesn't have a single problem

00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:40.690
but it did in the forerunner so I've got some

00:40:40.690 --> 00:40:43.070
solutions coming. Hopefully that fixes it. I'm

00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:44.869
so sick and tired of people not being able to

00:40:44.869 --> 00:40:46.769
hear me because they're too busy listening to

00:40:46.769 --> 00:40:50.130
squealing. Can't you do, I don't know electrical

00:40:50.130 --> 00:40:52.030
very well, but can't you do like an isolator

00:40:52.030 --> 00:40:55.030
or something? Yeah, that's the sound filter.

00:40:55.469 --> 00:40:59.889
Oh. Yeah. So that isolates both the negative

00:40:59.889 --> 00:41:03.210
and the positive, which should eliminate it,

00:41:03.250 --> 00:41:07.010
but they're $40. Ferrite traps might also solve

00:41:07.010 --> 00:41:12.340
it, and they're $9 for like. 30 of them. So hopefully

00:41:12.340 --> 00:41:14.780
the ferret traps fix it. Otherwise, I'm spending

00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:16.519
$50 on a problem that could have been solved

00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.219
for $40. Yeah, he's going to... I'm calling it

00:41:20.219 --> 00:41:24.900
now. It's $40 for the isolator. I'm calling it

00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:28.139
now. It's just annoying, man. And I didn't always

00:41:28.139 --> 00:41:29.800
have this problem with the Forerunner either.

00:41:29.860 --> 00:41:32.000
It's only with the most recent alternator I put

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:37.110
in it. Yeah, that's weird. So... Yeah, I rewired

00:41:37.110 --> 00:41:39.210
that. I kind of like the way it is now because

00:41:39.210 --> 00:41:42.429
the radio is under the hood and the only wires

00:41:42.429 --> 00:41:46.769
coming through are the Cat5 for the mic and then

00:41:46.769 --> 00:41:50.489
the headphone for the speaker. Yeah. And I've

00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:53.190
got the speaker down on the center console right

00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:54.769
in front of the shifter now instead of right

00:41:54.769 --> 00:41:57.329
next to my head. I liked it next to mine because

00:41:57.329 --> 00:42:00.230
my ADHD, I could sit there and pick up, oh, I

00:42:00.230 --> 00:42:03.849
can actually hear you. I did like it up there,

00:42:03.929 --> 00:42:07.920
but my cord wasn't long enough. Yeah. And my

00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:09.960
really long cord that I have running from the

00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:11.519
back of the truck where it used to be to the

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:13.659
front is underneath that whole carrier in the

00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:15.860
back of my truck. So I'd have to disassemble

00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:20.420
all that to rerun it. No thanks. So it works.

00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:23.579
It'll be better when it quits squealing. Yep.

00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:28.679
And then we packed up and came home. And as you

00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.380
can see, I have not gotten very far on the 4Runner.

00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:33.780
It still has the swags on the roof. It still

00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:36.159
has chairs strapped up there. It's still muddy.

00:42:36.849 --> 00:42:38.630
Yeah, the only thing I noticed was the mud. I

00:42:38.630 --> 00:42:40.190
was like, oh, it looks like he had fun. Where

00:42:40.190 --> 00:42:43.230
did he go? And I forgot that he went out. Most

00:42:43.230 --> 00:42:47.949
of my mud washed off because of the rain. Yeah.

00:42:48.050 --> 00:42:54.130
All I did was the day after we got back, I cleaned

00:42:54.130 --> 00:42:56.869
out the fridge. Yeah. Everything else is still

00:42:56.869 --> 00:42:59.889
in the truck. Yeah, I always clean out my fridge,

00:42:59.949 --> 00:43:02.389
take everything out, spray a bunch of cleaner

00:43:02.389 --> 00:43:04.670
in there, wipe it out, and then spray a little

00:43:04.670 --> 00:43:07.090
more and just let it sit there. Yeah, I just

00:43:07.090 --> 00:43:09.349
pulled my drawer open and let it dry. Stinky

00:43:09.349 --> 00:43:15.989
fridge is enough. So, yeah, it, uh... Yeah, the

00:43:15.989 --> 00:43:18.530
truck looks absolutely fucking terrible right

00:43:18.530 --> 00:43:26.030
now. Looks fine to me. But... Oh, yeah, then...

00:43:26.030 --> 00:43:30.400
See, we're back Sunday, so Monday night... Yeah,

00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:32.079
Monday, because I was cleaning out the fridge.

00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:33.539
I was cleaning out the fridge, and I started

00:43:33.539 --> 00:43:35.519
hearing coyotes, like, freak out behind me. Oh,

00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:37.619
yeah. And I turn around, and they're coming around

00:43:37.619 --> 00:43:41.380
the fucking shed at me. Like, they were coming

00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:44.900
after me. Damn. And I was on the phone with Mark,

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:48.440
and I pulled out my XDS, and I just fired, like,

00:43:48.460 --> 00:43:51.860
at them. I couldn't. I need to do something about

00:43:51.860 --> 00:43:54.480
the sights on my XDS, because I can't aim it

00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.559
at nighttime. Mm -hmm. So I just kind of fired

00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.860
in their vicinity. I kind of heard them all yelp

00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:03.659
and then take off running. I didn't see any blood,

00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:06.599
but at least I scared them off. Dude, I don't

00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:08.860
know what's going on. Like, I've never had coyotes

00:44:08.860 --> 00:44:11.159
come after a person. They've got to be fucking

00:44:11.159 --> 00:44:13.340
desperate, dude. There were like 10 of them.

00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:15.940
I mean, I'd be pretty pissed, too, if there was

00:44:15.940 --> 00:44:19.039
a farm of like 20 ,000 turkeys and I couldn't

00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.679
get my hands on one. I'd be coming after the

00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:25.219
person walking around that fucker, too. You asshole.

00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.739
I don't. You know, bears don't really scare me.

00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:31.400
They're just, we have black bears here, so they're

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:33.539
not really going to do anything to you. They're

00:44:33.539 --> 00:44:35.639
kind of pussies. They're just big raccoons, basically.

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:39.599
Actually, we're scared of raccoons. We're black

00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:44.840
bears. But wolves and coyotes, those things fucking

00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.039
scare the fuck out of me. Because they don't

00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.099
hunt alone, right? Yeah, right. Like, you might

00:44:49.099 --> 00:44:52.219
take out one coyote, but then there's like five

00:44:52.219 --> 00:44:54.860
more coming at you. I'm not really afraid of

00:44:54.860 --> 00:45:00.059
wolves just because of how low population there

00:45:00.059 --> 00:45:03.719
is and just around here. I'm afraid of cougars

00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:08.420
just because they're cats, and I feel like fucking

00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:13.940
cats are assholes. And cougars or any other large

00:45:13.940 --> 00:45:17.260
animal could just jump on you, get your jugular,

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:19.420
and you would be able to do nothing. But, like,

00:45:19.500 --> 00:45:21.519
those are pretty elusive. But they're popping

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.119
up all over Michigan. There was one just down

00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:26.000
the road here. Yeah, dude. And apparently we

00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.739
have pythons now. I don't know if you saw that.

00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:31.719
I didn't hear about that one. Just throwing pythons

00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:34.480
out. That was a big fucker, too. It was. He was,

00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:36.920
like, 10 foot, I think is what they recorded.

00:45:37.139 --> 00:45:40.260
Thankfully they don't, yeah, thankfully they

00:45:40.260 --> 00:45:42.579
won't make it through the winter. But, no, I'm

00:45:42.579 --> 00:45:46.159
afraid of, like, moose. and and cougars everything

00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:50.440
and raccoons i do i did think it was funny the

00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.579
report about the python they've got this one

00:45:53.579 --> 00:45:55.880
new sheriff and like she's pretty right she's

00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:59.900
a cutie and it's like every day i see a post

00:45:59.900 --> 00:46:01.760
that the sheriff department made and they make

00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:06.659
sure to have her in it engagement like she is

00:46:06.659 --> 00:46:10.059
she's a really attractive girl but when is she

00:46:10.059 --> 00:46:13.829
holding the python yeah yeah You know they made

00:46:13.829 --> 00:46:17.610
her do that. Like, just for a second. Just for

00:46:17.610 --> 00:46:19.010
a second. Here, put it on your shoulders. It's

00:46:19.010 --> 00:46:23.190
funny as hell. Yeah. No, I don't like raccoons

00:46:23.190 --> 00:46:25.590
because they're super unpredictable. Yeah. Like,

00:46:25.630 --> 00:46:27.309
one second they could be super friendly, and

00:46:27.309 --> 00:46:29.590
the next second they are jumping out and attacking.

00:46:30.050 --> 00:46:32.789
And the same problem with dogs, right? They come

00:46:32.789 --> 00:46:35.329
in packs. No. What do you call a group of raccoons?

00:46:37.389 --> 00:46:42.389
I don't know. I don't know. I'm looking it up,

00:46:42.409 --> 00:46:44.010
but I don't have my computer, so I got to tap

00:46:44.010 --> 00:46:48.969
it. I don't know. Coyotes do concern me a little

00:46:48.969 --> 00:46:52.969
bit, but I do. My sights are kind of fucked up

00:46:52.969 --> 00:46:55.849
on my gun, too, as in my rear sight fell off

00:46:55.849 --> 00:46:59.670
at some point. Oh. So I got to try and pretend

00:46:59.670 --> 00:47:02.590
like I have a rear sight and aim it up and mash

00:47:02.590 --> 00:47:06.510
it up with my front sight. See, I've got. I mean,

00:47:06.530 --> 00:47:08.389
I've got everything. It's just not set up for

00:47:08.389 --> 00:47:10.730
nighttime because it's just two white dots in

00:47:10.730 --> 00:47:14.510
the back. So a group of raccoons is a gaze or

00:47:14.510 --> 00:47:20.809
a nursery? Bunch of gays. We should tell the

00:47:20.809 --> 00:47:22.869
men's state tours. You don't want a group of

00:47:22.869 --> 00:47:24.750
you guys get together. You're just a bunch of

00:47:24.750 --> 00:47:34.269
gays. We'll watch their animal switch up real

00:47:34.269 --> 00:47:38.829
quick. We're the mitten state muskrats. They

00:47:38.829 --> 00:47:40.610
might try and steal skunks. We don't want that.

00:47:41.969 --> 00:47:47.849
Mitten state muskrats. Yeah, so, I don't know,

00:47:47.889 --> 00:47:51.449
man. That was fucking terrifying. I'll admit

00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:54.289
that I don't get scared by a lot. Not a lot spooks

00:47:54.289 --> 00:47:57.269
me up. But I can see, you know how the way coyotes

00:47:57.269 --> 00:47:59.409
hunt is they all just start yapping really loud?

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.219
And it's to distract or confuse whatever they're

00:48:02.219 --> 00:48:05.099
hunting. Yeah. I see how small animals get scared

00:48:05.099 --> 00:48:07.920
because that shit was, I didn't know where to

00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.079
go. There's some over here. There's some over

00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:13.659
there. Like it was, it was a lot, man. Yeah.

00:48:13.780 --> 00:48:16.320
I mean, I just, I have a bad experience with

00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:19.539
raccoons. I just, I've had one straight up, like

00:48:19.539 --> 00:48:22.940
try to jump out of a tree to get me. And I shot

00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:27.769
him with a shotgun and I had. Another years ago

00:48:27.769 --> 00:48:29.969
when I was a kid that traumatized me, my dad

00:48:29.969 --> 00:48:33.690
was getting an intake or something out of the

00:48:33.690 --> 00:48:36.969
attic of his garage. And he goes, oh, fuck. And

00:48:36.969 --> 00:48:39.030
I'm like, what? What? And I was probably like

00:48:39.030 --> 00:48:43.130
10. And he's like, grab me the 22. It's just

00:48:43.130 --> 00:48:44.909
like leaning up against the side of the garage

00:48:44.909 --> 00:48:48.289
on the inside. And so I give him the 22, this

00:48:48.289 --> 00:48:50.690
little banana clip. And then he goes up the ladder.

00:48:51.170 --> 00:48:54.610
And he's here. Pow, pow. Fuck. Pop, pop, pop,

00:48:54.769 --> 00:48:56.510
pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And then he falls

00:48:56.510 --> 00:48:59.889
down the fucking ladder, falls on the ground,

00:48:59.889 --> 00:49:02.570
and he's shooting at the fucking ceiling. Go

00:49:02.570 --> 00:49:04.909
pop, pop, pop. And then you see this fucking

00:49:04.909 --> 00:49:09.070
raccoon dive bomb out the hole of the ceiling,

00:49:09.150 --> 00:49:12.369
the attic, and go straight diagonally sideways

00:49:12.369 --> 00:49:16.300
onto the... table on the side of the garage and

00:49:16.300 --> 00:49:18.639
then come down and start fucking running towards

00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:23.199
us. And he goes, run! And I have never run that

00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:26.659
fast in my fucking life, dude. And I did not

00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:30.360
look behind me for, next second I know I'm in

00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:35.159
the back of his Ford F -150 in the bed. And he

00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:36.880
looks and he's looking around for me and he goes,

00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:41.119
I've never seen you fucking move that fast. And

00:49:41.119 --> 00:49:45.559
I go, and I was like, I don't want nothing to

00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:48.000
do with him no more. Closest I've had. When I

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.980
was a kid, I was out doing chores, and I lifted

00:49:49.980 --> 00:49:52.659
up a hay bale, and there was a possum under it.

00:49:52.780 --> 00:49:56.219
It just started hissing at me. He was out for

00:49:56.219 --> 00:49:59.139
blood, man. I swear he's frothing at the mouth,

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:03.260
and he's jumping at me. It was terrifying. I

00:50:03.260 --> 00:50:05.039
just reached behind me, and there was a pitchfork,

00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:09.019
and I just shoved it down on top of him. Then

00:50:09.019 --> 00:50:11.920
he's pinned, right? He's just sitting there fucking

00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.260
flopping around. And I'm like, how am I? Still,

00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:17.820
to this day, possums are fucking, they're just

00:50:17.820 --> 00:50:20.099
gross because of it. We had a possum a few years

00:50:20.099 --> 00:50:23.480
ago. We feed the outdoor cats that come around

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:27.260
from the farm and stuff. And I don't know if

00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:30.519
I did or Dad did. Someone left, like, a quarter

00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:32.579
of a cat food bag out, like a 40 -pound bag.

00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:35.599
And I went to grab it outside. I'm like, fuck,

00:50:35.739 --> 00:50:37.599
this is heavier than normal. And I start hearing

00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:41.219
hissing. And I look inside and the fucking possum

00:50:41.219 --> 00:50:43.960
is in there. And I fucking drop it. And I'm like,

00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:47.039
oh, I'm going to fucking shoot this bastard.

00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:48.960
And then I go, oh, I can't. It's sitting on the

00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.900
deck. Dad comes out there with a fucking shovel

00:50:51.900 --> 00:50:54.739
and he's just whack, whack, whack, whack, whack.

00:50:55.659 --> 00:50:59.780
And I'm like, Jesus, dude. And I go, did you

00:50:59.780 --> 00:51:01.820
hit him? Are you hitting the cat food? He's like,

00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:04.300
I don't know. I'm just hitting the bag. And then

00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:06.400
we threw it off the deck, and then I popped it

00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:08.920
with the 12 -gauge. And I was like, I don't like

00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.079
him suffering. Like, I don't like them. They're

00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:16.380
nuisance animals. But I don't like suffering

00:51:16.380 --> 00:51:19.070
either. I'm just fucking. blow them apart we

00:51:19.070 --> 00:51:21.309
uh we'd always have them get in the horse barn

00:51:21.309 --> 00:51:24.789
yeah and for anyone that doesn't know possums

00:51:24.789 --> 00:51:27.610
carry what's called epm yeah and it makes horses

00:51:27.610 --> 00:51:30.030
really sick and then it will kill them like you

00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:32.769
know pretty quick yeah so we'd have them get

00:51:32.769 --> 00:51:34.449
in there and it would be a common occurrence

00:51:34.449 --> 00:51:36.789
go out to do chores and then dad just says wait

00:51:36.789 --> 00:51:39.469
here you just hear pop pop pop pop pop and he

00:51:39.469 --> 00:51:41.969
i mean he'd hit him with a 12 gauge like 10 11

00:51:41.969 --> 00:51:45.409
times and they just keep going dude yeah No,

00:51:45.469 --> 00:51:47.869
you know, it's funny to think about the farm

00:51:47.869 --> 00:51:51.190
I grew up on. You know, I never thought about

00:51:51.190 --> 00:51:54.550
gun safety, but in the milk house, there was

00:51:54.550 --> 00:51:59.210
a fucking .30 -06, a .22, just sitting on the

00:51:59.210 --> 00:52:03.550
desk in the milk house. There was a fucking another

00:52:03.550 --> 00:52:06.769
.30 -30, like a lever action, sitting in the

00:52:06.769 --> 00:52:09.170
other old horse barn. There was just fucking

00:52:09.170 --> 00:52:12.329
guns laying around all over the place. Now I'm

00:52:12.329 --> 00:52:13.889
wondering where the hell they went because that

00:52:13.889 --> 00:52:15.269
would have been so cool to get some of those

00:52:15.269 --> 00:52:18.230
old guns. I mean, yeah, growing up, you know,

00:52:18.230 --> 00:52:20.710
dad had an open gun rack right in the entryway.

00:52:20.949 --> 00:52:23.090
And it's still there, but you don't got the guns

00:52:23.090 --> 00:52:26.789
on it anymore. And us kids, we just knew you

00:52:26.789 --> 00:52:28.269
don't touch a gun unless you had permission.

00:52:28.909 --> 00:52:30.989
And if you had permission, you were probably

00:52:30.989 --> 00:52:34.070
just going out back to target shoot. The .22

00:52:34.070 --> 00:52:42.079
was for pigeons and cats. Hey, man, I get it.

00:52:42.099 --> 00:52:44.500
I've shot a lot of cats. And that farm, dude,

00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.159
they were a huge menace. Like, they were everywhere.

00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:49.920
People dump them. Yeah, exactly. Then they breed,

00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:51.860
and then they breed again, and then they're in

00:52:51.860 --> 00:52:53.840
all your stuff. They're shitting on everything.

00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.900
On a farm, they kind of become a nuisance because

00:52:57.900 --> 00:53:01.929
they're not really mousers. sometimes sometimes

00:53:01.929 --> 00:53:05.570
yeah like we you know dad's house uh because

00:53:05.570 --> 00:53:07.750
again farm everyone dumps their fucking cats

00:53:07.750 --> 00:53:10.150
there yeah there was one point we had 50 cats

00:53:10.150 --> 00:53:14.590
on that farm yeah and we had one cat we called

00:53:14.590 --> 00:53:16.969
her callie because she was a calico she lived

00:53:16.969 --> 00:53:20.989
to be like 22 or something yeah and up till the

00:53:20.989 --> 00:53:23.190
day she died every day she'd bring a mouse up

00:53:23.190 --> 00:53:24.829
to the door and set it in front you know right

00:53:24.829 --> 00:53:28.139
in front of where we step out That was her ticket

00:53:28.139 --> 00:53:30.280
to keep going. They were like, all right, well,

00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:33.539
you live to see another day, Callie. Keep up

00:53:33.539 --> 00:53:37.940
the work, farmhand. And she was the rare farm

00:53:37.940 --> 00:53:39.800
cat that was friendly, too. Because, you know,

00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:42.820
you always, for the most part, these aren't like

00:53:42.820 --> 00:53:45.239
your pet cats, right? No. Like nine times out

00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:48.460
of ten, a farm cat is feral as feral can be,

00:53:48.519 --> 00:53:51.599
and they will attack you. But she was one of

00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:54.099
those rare ones where. She just showed up one

00:53:54.099 --> 00:53:56.440
day and never left, and us kids would go play

00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:59.260
with her, and she was super friendly. We had

00:53:59.260 --> 00:54:02.400
one that was a big orange male cat called Oscar,

00:54:02.579 --> 00:54:06.039
and he was the fucking nicest cat ever. I mean,

00:54:06.059 --> 00:54:09.119
he was useless, but he was really nice. We had

00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:11.179
one of those too. His name was Fuzznuts because

00:54:11.179 --> 00:54:14.840
he was fuzzy and had big balls. That was Oscar.

00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:17.300
I'm pretty sure he sired like half of the cats

00:54:17.300 --> 00:54:20.489
there. Yeah, after Fuzznut showed up, we kind

00:54:20.489 --> 00:54:22.349
of just had orange cats after that. Yeah, you

00:54:22.349 --> 00:54:25.130
had a lot of orange cats. Yeah, so we had Ringer,

00:54:25.170 --> 00:54:28.389
who was orange with a circle on his side. Then

00:54:28.389 --> 00:54:32.030
we had Ringer Jr., who was orange with a circle

00:54:32.030 --> 00:54:35.750
on his side, but was Ringer's son. Then we had

00:54:35.750 --> 00:54:39.349
O .K., who lived to be, like, Mark's met O .K.

00:54:39.369 --> 00:54:40.909
That tells you how long that cat was around.

00:54:41.090 --> 00:54:46.010
He was around for, like, 18 years. And then...

00:54:46.750 --> 00:54:49.170
dad got a bonus or something from the funeral

00:54:49.170 --> 00:54:51.809
home and he paid to have like 30 cats fucking

00:54:51.809 --> 00:54:56.389
fixed. Like, and within two years, all the ones

00:54:56.389 --> 00:54:58.349
that he paid to have fixed disappeared and no

00:54:58.349 --> 00:55:00.969
more babies showed up. And then we got down to

00:55:00.969 --> 00:55:05.730
just, just the one cat and it was just him. And

00:55:05.730 --> 00:55:08.030
then, okay. Died like what? Three years ago,

00:55:08.070 --> 00:55:11.610
Mark. It sounds about right. Yeah. 14, yeah.

00:55:12.110 --> 00:55:16.050
My wife, we have all those cats, and my wife

00:55:16.050 --> 00:55:19.130
is probably the worst person at naming animals,

00:55:19.329 --> 00:55:22.570
especially cats. One was Little Man, the other

00:55:22.570 --> 00:55:28.570
one was Fat Man, and a bunch of others. It was

00:55:28.570 --> 00:55:32.039
like Burrito. And just, like, stupid, like, now.

00:55:32.380 --> 00:55:35.880
I like the name Burrito, though. It didn't even

00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:40.039
look like a burrito. It was black. I was like,

00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:43.900
how did you get this name? I don't know. If you

00:55:43.900 --> 00:55:46.960
had, like, a tortoiseshell. Yeah. Like, a burrito

00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:48.659
would be a good name for a tortoiseshell. A little

00:55:48.659 --> 00:55:51.440
brown spots. Yeah. A little tortilla burrito.

00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:54.760
Or, like, what are they, Siamese? Like, a Siamese

00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:58.480
could be named Burrito. Yeah. It's just the craziest

00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:01.489
name. I started picking out all the names for

00:56:01.489 --> 00:56:05.010
them, and then you get cats like Cinder, because

00:56:05.010 --> 00:56:06.710
it looked like Cinderella, because she was kind

00:56:06.710 --> 00:56:09.289
of ashy, white with a little bit of ash on her.

00:56:09.670 --> 00:56:11.550
And I was like, there, there's some creativity.

00:56:12.349 --> 00:56:16.190
She's like, it's okay. And then we have Okay,

00:56:16.389 --> 00:56:19.989
which is Orange Kitty. Yeah. I thought it was

00:56:19.989 --> 00:56:23.469
just Okay, like he's okay. No, no, his name was

00:56:23.469 --> 00:56:26.869
Okay, Orange Kitty. Oklahoma. And then we had

00:56:26.869 --> 00:56:30.179
Fuzz Nuts. We've had some good ones. I had a

00:56:30.179 --> 00:56:33.539
cat named Conquistador, which changed to Conquistadork.

00:56:35.380 --> 00:56:38.579
Dude, another thing I used to be really scared

00:56:38.579 --> 00:56:44.039
of is male chickens. Really? They used to fuck

00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:47.400
me up. I used to grab them by the throat and

00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:49.579
everything, and they'd get me with their spurs.

00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:52.940
I always had good roosters, but that's because

00:56:52.940 --> 00:56:55.719
from the day they were a chick, I was messing

00:56:55.719 --> 00:56:59.599
with them and training them. Dude, speaking of

00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:01.420
farm animals, that petting zoo we went to in

00:57:01.420 --> 00:57:04.619
Cedar Springs, it also has a safari, a drive

00:57:04.619 --> 00:57:07.119
-thru safari. That's sick. Super cool. Did you

00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:11.679
go to something tracks? Yeah, deer tracks. Yeah,

00:57:11.820 --> 00:57:14.059
it was super cool. Super cool. They had these

00:57:14.059 --> 00:57:16.960
weird sheep that, don't know why, but if you're

00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:20.400
going to have exhibits with animals, you should

00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:22.500
probably fucking tell people what these animals

00:57:22.500 --> 00:57:26.139
are. I had no clue what these animals are, but

00:57:26.139 --> 00:57:29.940
there was a sheep. that I was like, I want you.

00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:35.199
I don't like sheep. I'm like, but he came right

00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:37.179
up. He was eating carrots out of my hand, and

00:57:37.179 --> 00:57:40.360
he was the friendliest fucking, like, ram I've

00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:42.199
ever met. I was grabbing him by the horns and

00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:44.380
going like this. I'm like, do something. And

00:57:44.380 --> 00:57:47.519
I was like, you got to like that. Like, you have

00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:49.000
to like it when you're, like, knocking horns

00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:53.619
and stuff. He was so nice, so tame. See, I'm

00:57:53.619 --> 00:57:55.280
the opposite. I'm trying to get Dad to let me

00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:59.360
get sheep. Yeah, he was so cool. I just want

00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:02.699
six of them so my dogs can play with them. Yeah.

00:58:03.039 --> 00:58:11.440
Well, and then Jasper got bit by a pig. One of

00:58:11.440 --> 00:58:15.119
the little baby pigs. No. You got his shit bit

00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:18.739
hard. Well, yeah, because pigs have that snout.

00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:20.800
When they bite, man, this shit hurts. Yeah, it

00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:25.420
is not pleasant. There it is. Here. This guy.

00:58:27.789 --> 00:58:29.869
Oh, it's just a normal sheep. It's not normal.

00:58:30.289 --> 00:58:37.570
Yeah, that's a normal sheep. His horns, not this

00:58:37.570 --> 00:58:40.250
guy, but the other one that I really liked, they

00:58:40.250 --> 00:58:43.789
went fucking way back in. Yeah, that's a normal

00:58:43.789 --> 00:58:47.449
sheep, just not dehorned. A normal sheep? Yeah,

00:58:47.469 --> 00:58:49.869
normal sheep have curly thorns. Like a breed.

00:58:50.050 --> 00:58:52.829
I'm looking for a breed. Fine, I'll find the

00:58:52.829 --> 00:58:55.289
standard breed for a sheep. There is no standard

00:58:55.289 --> 00:58:57.269
breed. It's like saying there's a standard breed

00:58:57.269 --> 00:59:02.329
of cat. There is. Cat. No. Oh, the listeners

00:59:02.329 --> 00:59:04.030
probably can't hear me because I'm so far away.

00:59:04.170 --> 00:59:06.369
Yeah. There is a standard breed of cat. It's

00:59:06.369 --> 00:59:13.389
called cat. No. Did this episode turn into our

00:59:13.389 --> 00:59:17.050
hour long? Yeah. Yeah. This is all three episodes

00:59:17.050 --> 00:59:21.769
in one. A Suffolk. Yeah. A Suffolk sheep. A Shuffle?

00:59:22.690 --> 00:59:25.289
Suffolk. Suffolk? Oh, Suffolk. Yeah, like that

00:59:25.289 --> 00:59:28.650
city. Suffolk, Norway? Yeah. It's either that

00:59:28.650 --> 00:59:31.969
or a Dorper, but I'd assume it's a Suffolk because

00:59:31.969 --> 00:59:34.610
it's the most popular breed. Oh. I want one.

00:59:34.750 --> 00:59:36.670
And they're not self -shedding, which that one

00:59:36.670 --> 00:59:38.369
that you just showed me was not a self -shedding

00:59:38.369 --> 00:59:39.789
sheep. Yeah, you have to shear them, right? Yeah.

00:59:39.909 --> 00:59:45.360
Yeah. I doubt all that. I can shear sheep. Like

00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:48.039
I said, dude, I want six of them. I think it'd

00:59:48.039 --> 00:59:52.719
be a blast. Dude, Jasper, number one, could not

00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:56.440
handle getting fucking bit. He was petrified

00:59:56.440 --> 01:00:00.420
of that pig. He was up on me crying. I said,

01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:04.019
dude, just touch him. No, no, no, no. I had to

01:00:04.019 --> 01:00:06.719
show him. I was feeding him. I said, he just

01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:08.260
accidentally bit you, dude. You accidentally

01:00:08.260 --> 01:00:12.630
fucking bit me. I said, dude, he's fine. Took

01:00:12.630 --> 01:00:14.989
him like 15 minutes to fucking calm down and

01:00:14.989 --> 01:00:17.670
actually pet him. And then he started playing

01:00:17.670 --> 01:00:20.809
with all the baby coats. Yeah, Sienna had a blast

01:00:20.809 --> 01:00:23.789
too with that. It was a good time. We're not

01:00:23.789 --> 01:00:26.449
doing a lot of camping right now because it costs

01:00:26.449 --> 01:00:28.969
a lot of money and there's time involved and,

01:00:28.969 --> 01:00:32.750
you know, whatever. But just taking some nights

01:00:32.750 --> 01:00:36.889
out. We haven't done that at all. Like the times

01:00:36.889 --> 01:00:40.340
where I was very camp focused. we were camping

01:00:40.340 --> 01:00:42.340
like every weekend but we never did anything

01:00:42.340 --> 01:00:45.400
like a car show or going out doing family stuff

01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:48.860
it was just camping only and sienna was kind

01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:51.760
of one of the days she was like you know i like

01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:55.579
camping i don't like doing it every weekend i

01:00:55.579 --> 01:00:57.940
was like you know that's fair i didn't really

01:00:57.940 --> 01:01:01.239
think about that i just assumed you did like

01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:03.139
because she doesn't really say she doesn't really

01:01:03.139 --> 01:01:06.239
like say that she doesn't want to do something

01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:08.260
right it's like okay i'm here for the ride like

01:01:08.909 --> 01:01:11.449
So I just assumed that she was down for it. And

01:01:11.449 --> 01:01:15.510
one day she finally was like, not every weekend

01:01:15.510 --> 01:01:18.630
we have to go somewhere camping. I'm like, that's

01:01:18.630 --> 01:01:21.610
a fair point. Maybe like once a month. Yeah.

01:01:22.610 --> 01:01:26.250
Yeah, we'll get to that. I am still, we are still

01:01:26.250 --> 01:01:31.150
doing the fall one. The cryptid, cryptid fall

01:01:31.150 --> 01:01:33.989
hunt kids camp. We're going to do caramel apples.

01:01:34.250 --> 01:01:37.550
We're going to go snipe hunting. Do some fun

01:01:37.550 --> 01:01:42.300
kid stuff. And then I still, and I got Sienna

01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:46.800
to agree to it, do a Taquamanon camp at the state

01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:50.760
park. Just a cold weather camp sometime in the

01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:54.820
winter. Oh, like December or January? Yeah. Retard

01:01:54.820 --> 01:01:58.300
run 2027? Yeah. I just want to, you can't do

01:01:58.300 --> 01:01:59.940
any of the trails up there, but it would be fun

01:01:59.940 --> 01:02:02.820
to take a road trip up there and then just see

01:02:02.820 --> 01:02:04.940
the falls in the winter and winter camp out there.

01:02:05.099 --> 01:02:07.570
It has got to be cheap camping. There's not going

01:02:07.570 --> 01:02:09.150
to be a fuck ton of people out there at all.

01:02:09.449 --> 01:02:12.889
If anyone. Yeah. So the campground will be really

01:02:12.889 --> 01:02:15.429
quiet. It's like, it'd be really cool to do like

01:02:15.429 --> 01:02:17.849
a small group of people. Is it open in the winter?

01:02:18.070 --> 01:02:21.170
Yeah. Taquamanon's open year round, the campground.

01:02:22.030 --> 01:02:26.769
So I was like, and it's plowed. So I was like,

01:02:26.769 --> 01:02:29.590
that's got to be the best way to get up, see

01:02:29.590 --> 01:02:32.530
Taquamanon. And if it's too cold, we'll pack

01:02:32.530 --> 01:02:34.469
our shit up and go get a hotel. So you got diesel

01:02:34.469 --> 01:02:37.730
here for it, right? Yeah. That's just my wife.

01:02:37.889 --> 01:02:40.269
I'm worried. I might have to pick up a second

01:02:40.269 --> 01:02:45.710
diesel heater. You can borrow our, yeah, pick

01:02:45.710 --> 01:02:48.130
up a second diesel heater, borrow our canopy,

01:02:48.289 --> 01:02:50.550
right? Yeah. That way you've got your bedroom

01:02:50.550 --> 01:02:52.530
area and somewhere to hang out during the day.

01:02:53.010 --> 01:02:55.590
Because that's, when we winter camp, you know,

01:02:55.610 --> 01:02:57.789
we don't hang out outside. Yeah. Fuck that. It's

01:02:57.789 --> 01:03:02.809
cold out there. No, I know, well, it's supposed

01:03:02.809 --> 01:03:04.750
to be really, I mean, you've seen the weather

01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:07.789
for this. Supposed to be a super al dino or something

01:03:07.789 --> 01:03:11.269
like that? Supposed to be a very mild, mild winter.

01:03:11.670 --> 01:03:13.750
One of the warmest winters. It's going to be

01:03:13.750 --> 01:03:16.070
wet and soggy and icy. They say it's all going

01:03:16.070 --> 01:03:19.929
to be down south. Yeah. And everyone's screaming

01:03:19.929 --> 01:03:22.949
already, climate change. And I'm like, man, this

01:03:22.949 --> 01:03:25.349
is how it was in like 2013. Like nothing's changed.

01:03:25.630 --> 01:03:28.309
It's just looping back around. I remember living

01:03:28.309 --> 01:03:32.829
in Kalkaska in 2013 and 14. We had like five

01:03:32.829 --> 01:03:36.059
feet of snow. That was 14. Yeah. Yeah. That was

01:03:36.059 --> 01:03:39.099
crazy. That was crazy. My dad called me from

01:03:39.099 --> 01:03:41.079
my buddy Hayden's house and was like, you're

01:03:41.079 --> 01:03:43.320
coming home? I'm picking you up. I'm talking

01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:47.000
2012 to 2013. Yeah. Because that winter, there

01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.239
wasn't anything. Yeah. And I remember him calling

01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:52.800
me up and I'm like, no, I'm at Hayden's house.

01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.920
I'm having a blast. We're jumping off his balcony

01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:59.530
into the snow banks. He's like, no, you're coming

01:03:59.530 --> 01:04:01.590
home. You're shoveling our fucking roof with

01:04:01.590 --> 01:04:06.809
me. Yeah, I remember. So 2013 into 14. So that's

01:04:06.809 --> 01:04:09.690
the year I graduated. I have that little Buick

01:04:09.690 --> 01:04:13.210
Roadmaster. It wasn't a little car. And my mom,

01:04:13.309 --> 01:04:16.030
she couldn't get out with her Equinox. And I

01:04:16.030 --> 01:04:17.469
was driving Equinox, couldn't get out of the

01:04:17.469 --> 01:04:21.170
driveway. And I just got in the fucking Roadmaster.

01:04:21.880 --> 01:04:24.179
wiped off my windshield mind you this car doesn't

01:04:24.179 --> 01:04:26.579
have heat so i had to run like a little heater

01:04:26.579 --> 01:04:29.360
to even warm it up in there and then i got the

01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:31.440
window frosted and i just floored it man and

01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.400
this thing is just bombing across our driveway

01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:37.639
and there's like so my mom lived in a field at

01:04:37.639 --> 01:04:40.139
the time yeah so it'd be like eight foot drift

01:04:40.139 --> 01:04:43.380
nothing you know eight foot drift nothing and

01:04:43.380 --> 01:04:49.119
i just cleared a path from the garage All the

01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:51.320
way down the driveway and down our private road,

01:04:51.420 --> 01:04:54.300
which is like half a mile. Yeah. And I cleared

01:04:54.300 --> 01:04:56.599
it with a two -wheel drive Buick Roadmaster on

01:04:56.599 --> 01:05:02.090
bald tires. I did that with a Saturn SL2. Fucking

01:05:02.090 --> 01:05:05.550
thing was amazing. If I knew how to work on Saturns

01:05:05.550 --> 01:05:07.610
at that time, dude, it would have been so cool

01:05:07.610 --> 01:05:09.829
to keep because it was old lady kept. Right.

01:05:09.889 --> 01:05:13.369
So it was absolutely mint until the trans seal

01:05:13.369 --> 01:05:16.469
went out. Automatic or manual? Automatic. Oh,

01:05:16.469 --> 01:05:18.969
okay. And that thing, I would bomb that through

01:05:18.969 --> 01:05:22.969
fucking half a mile of snow off of, what's that

01:05:22.969 --> 01:05:28.590
dirt road right off of 98? 92nd? That's right

01:05:28.590 --> 01:05:30.329
next, kind of right next to our house, like a

01:05:30.329 --> 01:05:33.329
couple minutes away. I don't know. That road?

01:05:33.530 --> 01:05:39.989
Yeah. It's off of Thornhample. But he had a driveway

01:05:39.989 --> 01:05:42.670
that was half mile. I'd fucking bomb that in

01:05:42.670 --> 01:05:46.250
and out, get down, no problem. One day I started

01:05:46.250 --> 01:05:50.090
sliding off of the driveway and I stopped, stuck

01:05:50.090 --> 01:05:52.909
right there. And I was fucking ramming it in

01:05:52.909 --> 01:05:55.670
reverse and drive back and forth and back and

01:05:55.670 --> 01:05:58.510
forth. My trans got super hot and I blew that

01:05:58.510 --> 01:06:01.599
fucking trans. Dude, so. this will be the last

01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:03.360
thing and then we'll get off and we'll go to

01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:05.699
our half. What's going to be our half hour topic.

01:06:05.880 --> 01:06:07.880
Normally the wrap is a half hour, but this became

01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:09.900
an hour. So, you know, you get what you get.

01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:16.139
Um, yeah. So the manual Saturn. Yeah. Those things

01:06:16.139 --> 01:06:18.800
are rock fucking solid. Like they are just good

01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:21.260
fucking cars and they're, they're cheap as fuck.

01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:23.440
If you break one, you just throw it away and

01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:26.400
get another one. Like they're nothing, but they

01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.670
go forever. Yeah. I, that was, uh, I wish I knew

01:06:30.670 --> 01:06:33.369
how to work on cars then because I bought it

01:06:33.369 --> 01:06:37.690
for $400 and it was mint. You could probably

01:06:37.690 --> 01:06:41.969
buy a Saturn that's mint today for $400. Their

01:06:41.969 --> 01:06:45.909
value has not changed. No, it is pretty jank.

01:06:47.210 --> 01:06:50.309
Are we at an hour or an hour and a half? We are

01:06:50.309 --> 01:06:53.829
an hour and six. Yeah, I was going to say. So

01:06:53.829 --> 01:06:55.550
this is where we're going to call it and then

01:06:55.550 --> 01:06:58.340
we'll go to our half hour topic, which... We

01:06:58.340 --> 01:07:00.539
talk about every year and we'll get to that.

01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:02.920
So we'll see you guys on the next one. Later.

01:07:03.139 --> 01:07:03.360
See ya.