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Thair Camper on a Gladiator: 3,000 Miles Later · Jeep Talk Show

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All right, so we are here with Chris.
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We're gonna kind of do
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an update with Chris.
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No interviews this week.
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We did have an interview scheduled
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that's gonna be rescheduled,
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but they called out on the interview day.
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So keep watching for that interview.
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I'm really interested in
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doing that interview, Chris.
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That's with Gatekeeper Off-Road.
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And they have some pretty cool products.
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Yeah, and you have some
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product on your 2021 Jeep
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Toxel Gladiator now, the knuckle lights,
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or they're on your
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steering knuckles, aren't they?
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Yeah, steering knuckles.
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Got that on there.
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I think that is really neat.
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You know how I am about lights,
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but this was a way to
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actually have the lights on there
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and have a good use for them.
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I like the idea of
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having the lights real low.
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And I think it's a wonderful opportunity
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for foggy situations, dusty situations,
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and I mean, if you live in
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California, the wildfires,
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you can actually see as
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you're trying to escape
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from the flames.
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I hope that doesn't, well, I
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guess if it was gonna happen,
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it would have already happened, right?
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Isn't the summertime
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thing for California?
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I believe so, yeah.
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Because it was a year,
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the horrible fires
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that destroyed most of LA,
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or at least the residential areas,
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I wanna say was a year plus ago.
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So yeah, we're just
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coming out over a year.
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So I've got amber lights, yellow lights.
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I don't wanna think if there's an actual
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difference in color,
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but then the other lights,
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because I've learned
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that especially off-road,
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it really makes the
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rocks and stuff stand out
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whenever you're driving off-road.
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It's almost like a 3D
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aspect of having those lights
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that are so bright, so low.
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You can really see like what's happening
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and you can really see like what's up close
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and get a feel for how
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tall those rocks are.
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So I haven't had this out on the rocks
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since I've added those lights,
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but it's a lot of fun to drive around in.
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And you know, like in the morning time,
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I mean, the sun may be up,
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but in the first part of the morning
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where it's kind of a little dark outside,
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I think it helps you
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stand out for other people
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to see that you're coming down the road,
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especially for those nut jobs
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that are pulling out of
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the side strip centers.
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Like they got their McDonald's,
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they're all excited
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about their McNuggets,
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not McNuggets,
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McSandwich or whatever it is,
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and they're not paying attention.
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I mean, it doesn't
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matter how big and red it is,
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you have to have lights on it to say,
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pay attention to
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(beep)
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Exactly.
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Yeah, so obviously you
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run them on the street
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and because they're below,
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it's my understanding in most states,
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if they're below the headlamp line
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and they're on, they're
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legal, is that correct?
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Obviously you're running on the street.
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Texas, yes.
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And they are the approved color.
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You can have amber or you
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can have white on the front.
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Now, I mean, blue or red,
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or that would be kind of a problem.
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And you know, it's interesting too,
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I believe the law is written
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where it says a direct view of the light.
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So if you have mood lighting or rock
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lights that are red,
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as long as people
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can't see the light itself,
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the thing generating
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the red light, it's legal.
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So you could, I could have,
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I don't have any red
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lights on for the rock lights,
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but I could turn those on.
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And it's the way I read
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it is they're white lights.
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So they are not directly
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visible front or rear or side.
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They should be legal
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for me to run those too.
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They are.
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And I do know I just had a
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conversation with Mike Mumbly,
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Mumbly's off-road, give him a shout out.
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He's a long time friend.
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His son has quite a few
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rock lights under his truck
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and he gets stopped all the time.
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Young younger guys,
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he's pushing his luck,
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but they always let them
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go because you're right.
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They're legal.
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They're not in line of sight.
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They're white.
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They're not red.
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They're not blue.
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They're not flashing.
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They're legal, but that
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won't prevent you necessarily
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according to Mike
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from getting pulled over.
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Oh yeah, because
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there's a lot of discretion.
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The cop might get in trouble,
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but you're still getting pulled over.
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Exactly.
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All right, so I started today off
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with a little information about Josh.
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We didn't have an
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episode last week with Josh,
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a flagship episode with Josh.
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And if you guys recall,
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Josh has an ailing mother
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that's going through chemotherapy.
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So I wasn't gonna ask him,
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I'll be recording this week.
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I'm completely leaving it
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up to him and his schedule,
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especially since he's
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working more than one job.
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But I reached out to him today.
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I wasn't sure if we were
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gonna record this week at all
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for the flagship.
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And I reached out and just
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asked him, how's it going?
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And I got a paragraph back.
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(laughing)
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Sorry to ask.
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No, no, not at all.
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I was serious when I asked.
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So I'll just relate some
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of the stuff about Josh.
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He says, I was
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actually going to text you.
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There is a bit of things going on.
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No, things aren't great right now.
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So of course there's some
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mom related information here,
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but she's being looked
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after by the medical staff.
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And Josh says he woke
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up with a bad abscess
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at his upper jaw on Sunday.
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And it ruptured last night.
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Google is saying I need
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to go to the ER right away.
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Life threatening, yada, yada.
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(laughing) So it's been about a
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year since my gallbladder
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left the chat room and I had
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to have the emergency surgery
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because I was going sepsis.
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So I was relating to him
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that Diane wasn't so bad.
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I mean, I was just like really sleepy.
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(laughing)
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Oh, which got him chuckling.
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So yeah, it seems like to me,
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Josh has gone through this before
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with something having
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to do with his teeth
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and an infection type thing.
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So I'm not quite sure what that is.
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I mean, for some reason
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I have very hard teeth.
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Oh, and my youngest son was
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thanking me the other day.
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He goes, I think I've got that
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same hard enamel teeth you do
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because I never have any teeth problems.
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And I just don't have to
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do anything to my teeth.
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Ever since I've got
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my permanent teeth in,
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I think I've had one surface cavity
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that they cleaned up a
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little bit or something.
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But so very lucky they're very lucky
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not having the abscess.
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Not so lucky with the gallbladder.
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But you know, this is
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the way things goes.
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Lucky in love, not
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lucky with gallbladders.
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(laughing)
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So anyway, I don't think we're gonna be
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recording this week.
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He could surprise me, but I don't think
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we're gonna be recording a flagship
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episode this week either.
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It doesn't mean we're
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gone or we're pod fading.
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It just means that life is
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going on and so on and so forth.
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All right, so that's
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what's going on with Josh.
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And I was gonna find out,
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I thought we'd get together and find out
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what's been going on with Chris.
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So Chris, you recently emceed,
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and this wasn't the
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first time you emceed.
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You recently emceed over for Forefest in
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Detroit, didn't you?
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Yes, just two weekends ago,
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the first or mid part of September.
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So the, I believe it was
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the fourth annual Forefest
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and I had the privilege to
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emceed for the third year
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in a row and was an all in all good day.
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Bit of rain, spitting rain all day,
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little cool, not too cold.
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So might've kept some people away,
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made the Jeeps extra muddy.
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And there was the Tom
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Zielinski, good friend of the show,
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who runs Forefest and Forefest events
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and Hollyoaks ORV Park had the national
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rock racing association.
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So the, I mean, they're not Jeeps,
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but they're the buggies and UTVs or ATVs.
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So they had the rock bouncers,
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which are the purpose built,
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and I learned from talking to the drivers
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and was able to have
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a couple up on stage,
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big block, big block
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forward, big block Chevy,
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purpose built buggies, solid
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axle rear, solid axle front,
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and they were just getting after it.
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So go to YouTube, look up,
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nationalrockracingassociation.com
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or go Forefest.
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I just saw someone posted a video today
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of the racing activities.
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So that was really neat to see.
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Again, it's not cheap and
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it's not slow and curious.
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It's kind of the, it
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is the fast and furious
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of the off-road community.
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And I had a great time out there,
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announced some of it.
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I was able to announce the awards
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and just an all in all good time.
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Unfortunately, just
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the rain put a damper,
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a literal and a
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figurative damper on the day,
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but saw a lot of muddy Jeeps,
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was really neat to see.
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And then Forefest has
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always been powered by Jeep
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and really neat to see mostly Jeeps,
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not a lot of Broncos,
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mostly Jeeps, a lot of JLs.
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Gladiators, JKs, but
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not a lot of Broncos,
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which warms my heart.
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So was there anybody that
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you were surprised to see
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out there at the Forefest?
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Any interactions that
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were something interesting
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to report on?
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Yeah, I got to meet a
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listener, a long time listener
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to learn Madram Mike.
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And he was the videographer
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for the National Rock Racing Association.
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He came over to me, been a
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listener since episode one.
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So that was really neat to meet him
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and to hand out some stickers.
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Also met Anastasia from
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a former Chick Chat host.
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Now she doesn't have a Jeep.
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Also met her husband
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who does have a Jeep.
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So Anastasia was out
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there and the Grenadier,
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the NEO Grenadier, which
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it's an off-road vehicle,
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Land Rover style type vehicles,
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but it was really neat to meet her.
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Really talked to her husband more.
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He's got a JL on 38s and tons.
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So good conversation
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with Anastasia's husband
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and good to see Mike.
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And good recognition folks
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had listened to the show.
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I recognized the Jeep Talk
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Show logos on my Gladiator
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and just some good fan interaction.
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But again, it was just
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a very muddy, rainy day.
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So people really weren't hanging out
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and farting around too much
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because it just wasn't great weather.
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Yeah, that's a shame.
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But I mean, that's
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the risk you always have
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for any event.
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Yes, especially an outdoor event.
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I think EJS had some flooding
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or at least some vigorous rain last year.
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I think I remember hearing about that
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from the Jeep Talk Show
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folks that were out there.
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So, you know, it's all
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part of the adventure, right?
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Absolutely.
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That's what it's all about.
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Get a little muddy, get a little dirty.
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So I know from talking with Anastasia,
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we did an interview.
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Don't remember, it was over a year ago.
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Did an interview.
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I remember her talking
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about her love for Jeeps.
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And, but she got this Grenadier.
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I think it was a family purchase
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and she's been driving that.
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I was surprised to hear from you
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when you were talking to her husband
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that if he made that, correct me on this,
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I think he made a comment that you or him
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would not fit so well in the Grenadier,
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which I was very surprised
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because that thing looks like a bus.
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It looks huge.
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I mean, it's perfect for her
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because I don't think
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she's much over five two.
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Maybe she's five four.
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Never met her in person.
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But seems like to be
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a lot of room for her.
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It is, I'm sure.
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And I sat in one, not at
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this four fest, but last year.
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And it's a European vehicle
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and the European vehicles, I believe,
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are built a little smaller.
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I would say it's at least
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the overall length of a JL,
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a four door JL.
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They do have a quarter master,
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which I believe is almost lengthwise
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identical to a Gladiator.
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But you're right, it
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doesn't have the interior space
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that a JL or Gladiator has.
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So yeah, it would be a
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little uncomfortable.
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Maybe they have some
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aftermarket parts or kits
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to move the seat back.
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Maybe not, but definitely
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a European style vehicle,
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if that makes sense.
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Was the physical outside?
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I mean, I've never seen one in person.
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But was the physical outside of it small?
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It seems like it's large.
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No, to your point, it's deceiving as
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large as it is outside.
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It's cramped inside for
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much over six foot two,
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like you or I or Anastasia's husband,
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we're about six, three, six, four,
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depending on which convenience store
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you're running out of.
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But yeah, it's deceiving.
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But it has a very tall,
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it's got a tall posture to it,
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probably the wrong word, like Land Rover.
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So it's got the skinny tires
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and just the tall roofline,
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I guess, instead of
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posture, tall roofline.
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And it's got great stop.
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I was teasing our
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friend, Chris from G-tops.
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It's got G-tops already in it,
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but they're glass and they open.
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So it gives a, even
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when you're inside of it,
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gives a much more wide open feel
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because you have the open,
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the windows that can open, you know,
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three inches over your
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head, driver passenger.
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You know, I'm glad you mentioned G-tops.
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They're not G-tops, it's part of the
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Ennio's Grenadier design.
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Correct, yes.
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But they're like G-tops.
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And it is really neat.
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You have a set of
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G-tops on your Gladiator.
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I've got a set of G-tops on my Gladiator.
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And it's just like having a sunroof.
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I think the last time I had anything
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that I could see out of
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above me was my 82 iRock Z
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that I bought used with the
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T-tops that you could take off.
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And that was so cool to
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be able to drive around
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and have that or to take
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them off and have it open.
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Much the same type of deal that you have
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with the ability to take
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the freedom panels off.
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And I guess it's after having the G-tops
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and talking to Chris
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over at G-tops so much
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that I just kind of shake my
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heads when I see clear lids
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or this 360, 365 single
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sheet of glass type thing.
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And I will say that the
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one, I think it's the 360,
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that's a really cool look.
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It's completely clear from one side
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all the way over to the other.
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My concern about it is
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that if you wanna do something
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like you do with freedom panels,
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just take them off, put them in the bag
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and drive around open air,
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you need doing that with the 360.
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I mean, you don't have to
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have the top off in your Jeep.
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You can just have that thing
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on there and leave it on there.
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But it really keeps you from
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being able to take that off
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in those rare days, especially down here,
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where it's fall weather or pre-winter
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and it's nice and chipper outside
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and driving just the
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smells and everything
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that you can experience with the top off,
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it makes it worth it.
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The G-tops for me, I don't
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know how you feel about it,
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but the G-tops for me
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means I can treat this
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as like a regular freedom panel.
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I can stick it in the
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bag, carry them with me,
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as long as I don't have a
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bunch of people with me,
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carry the freedom panels with me,
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it starts raining, put them back on,
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but I can still see through them.
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Yes, and then they're
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modified freedom panels.
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I absolutely agree.
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And it gives you plenty of
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light, plenty of visibility.
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The other thing, the
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365, and I don't know this,
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if they have a
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screen, I have also have a,
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my wife drives a 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee
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with the glass roof and it's great,
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but when you forget to close the shade
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and it sits outside in the morning,
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especially on the weekend,
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maybe you're getting a little bit later,
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starting the day, it's
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quite warm under the glass.
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So that would be my concern
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as well with the 365 G-tops,
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comes with optional screens to put in,
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I like the way you did
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that, you're in sales.
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I like the way you did that,
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comes with optional screens.
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It doesn't come with
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it, they're optional.
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Optional, yes.
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But hopefully you
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slide that right through,
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you get the sale and go,
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hey, where's my screens?
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Oh, like I said, those are optional.
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Yeah, those are a little
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bit more, but no, I agree.
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And I enjoy the freedom,
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taking the freedom panels off
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for those days, like you mentioned,
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but you don't wanna travel too far,
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you don't wanna be
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without the freedom panels
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that are in the back seat or in my case,
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I throw them in the bed of gladiator.
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So you always have them
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with you, you can button it up.
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And my thing, I've always had anxiety
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when I had my JK in the freedom panels
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or having the top off, I just had anxiety
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and it's probably not justified
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if somebody crawling in
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there and doing something
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or an animal or a bird.
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Spiders.
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Yeah, something, I mean.
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I'm gonna be doing 75 miles an hour
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and a spider's gonna go, eee!
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Right in front of me.
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(laughing)
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Yeah, they're pretty cool.
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So I think it was 2025, my
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wife and I went out there
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and that was the first
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year that I had the G-tops.
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And when we were out
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there, and don't get me wrong,
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I loved the changing weather,
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in fact, on our way to EJS in New Mexico,
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I think it was New Mexico,
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we got through quite a bit of snow.
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I mean, it was for two
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native Southeast Texans,
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it was just so cool
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to see that much snow.
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And because of the
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G-tops, you could look above,
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you could look down, you look all around,
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but we were still in a
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nice warm environment
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with a heater on.
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And I know you guys are going,
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"Oh, boo, you're
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supposed to have the top off,
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"be getting wet or
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burned up or whatever."
18:27
Yeah, that's fine, you peasants do that.
18:30
I'm gonna use the clear tops.
18:33
Absolutely, absolutely.
18:35
I still wanna get that one put in
18:38
for the rear part of the top.
18:42
I don't know what you
18:43
call it, the main cabin top,
18:44
not the freedom panels,
18:46
because he has a
18:47
panoramic that goes in the back.
18:49
I just like that.
18:50
I just love those things.
18:51
Ever since we, you
18:52
actually set up an interview
18:53
with Chris, that's how
18:54
I found out about him.
18:56
But I was nervous about
18:58
having my freedom panels cut
19:01
and the stuff put in there.
19:03
I mean, you can, and this
19:05
is like I've told Chris,
19:06
it's difficult to, I
19:09
mean, the price is great.
19:10
The price is the same
19:11
as the best flip top,
19:13
that thing that you
19:14
flip out of, by the way,
19:16
that 360, 365, I think is around $1,200.
19:20
The clear lids, which I
19:22
personally would never touch,
19:23
that thing looks like a nightingree.
19:25
And they're all the same price.
19:28
So the only one that I
19:31
know that passes the test
19:33
for impact resistant polymer and meets
19:37
the automotive standard and also too,
19:41
has the advantage of the
19:43
still just being freedom panels
19:45
where you can just take them off, but on.
19:47
I mean, seeing more is always nice,
19:49
but you gotta say something
19:51
about the convenience of it,
19:52
and still being able to
19:54
use it as a record of Jeep.
19:55
Anyway, very happy with it.
19:57
Didn't mean to do a
19:58
commercial for Chris and GTOPS,
20:00
but it's one of those
20:01
things that I think,
20:02
I know I love and I
20:03
think you love it too, Chris.
20:04
Absolutely.
20:07
It's one of those things though,
20:08
that most people don't see,
20:10
especially on a lifted Gladiator,
20:11
because it's kind of up high.
20:13
When they sit down, they
20:15
go, oh, what's that light?
20:16
Oh, that's neat.
20:19
Yeah, but since I've
20:20
looked at my Gladiator recently,
20:22
it is more apparent
20:24
when you open the door.
20:25
Obviously, if you've got
20:26
somebody getting in your Jeep,
20:27
they're gonna see it eventually,
20:28
but it is a lot more
20:29
apparent when it's lifted
20:30
and they're looking up or
20:31
looking for the grab handle,
20:33
because it's obviously
20:34
taller to get in a lifted Jeep.
20:37
So it draws more
20:39
attention to it initially.
20:41
Yeah, and as I was saying, out at EJS,
20:44
we went through a little bit of snow,
20:47
little bit of rain,
20:48
little bit of sunshine,
20:50
a little bit of, it was
20:51
kind of cold, so cold weather,
20:54
but it was just amazing
20:58
with the view that we had.
20:59
I mean, it was 180 side
21:02
to side and vertically.
21:04
So, and especially with
21:05
those cliffs and stuff,
21:06
as you're the rock
21:07
formations that you're driving by
21:09
that are several hundred feet
21:10
high or a thousand feet high,
21:12
you can just look up and look at them
21:13
as you're driving along.
21:14
You don't have to hang
21:15
your head out the window
21:17
and take anything off
21:18
to be able to enjoy that.
21:22
All right, so you have another MC event
21:27
that you're gonna be doing
21:28
this weekend, aren't you?
21:29
Yeah, the Bowling Green
21:31
4x4 Fest, Bowling Green Ohio,
21:33
recent Rachel, Rachel was
21:34
a recent interview guest,
21:36
she had on just a week or two ago.
21:37
So the privilege to MC
21:39
that event for the second year
21:40
in a row, so it's one day, October 3rd,
21:43
Saturday, October
21:44
3rd, Friday, October 2nd,
21:45
they're doing a hype event
21:47
at Thayer Chrysler Jeep Dodge
21:51
in Bowling Green, Ohio,
21:52
right down the street.
21:53
And yeah, gonna be a mud pit,
21:56
which was really neat last year.
21:58
I'll get some video and
21:58
some more content on that,
22:00
but they have a purpose built mud pit,
22:02
car crushing Friday
22:03
night, balance blocks,
22:04
and then the mud pit all day on Saturday.
22:07
They'll also have the sled pole.
22:09
So it's at the Wood County Fairgrounds
22:12
in Bowling Green, Ohio,
22:13
which I learned last year
22:15
that is the site of the
22:17
National Tractor Pole Association.
22:19
And the end of August, every
22:21
year from around the country,
22:23
and I believe some parts of Canada,
22:25
the professional tractor pole folks,
22:27
and we've all seen them since the 70s,
22:30
they have the tractors
22:32
that have four or two
22:34
or five or six engines.
22:36
That's where the national championship is
22:38
at the last weekend in August.
22:40
So they use that same track.
22:44
With grandstands on both sides,
22:47
and you have the
22:48
opportunity for a donation
22:49
that all goes to charity to
22:52
give your shot at pulling,
22:54
seeing how far you can pull,
22:55
seeing if you can get a full pull.
22:56
And that's just pretty neat.
22:58
I don't know that I'm
22:59
gonna do it with my gladiator,
23:01
but there were a couple of Jeeps
23:02
that gave a pull at the sled.
23:04
So that's going on for a
23:06
couple hours on Saturday.
23:08
Then we're gonna have stuff for the kids,
23:10
and they're gonna have some kiddie poles
23:13
with some pedal tractors and vendors.
23:16
So just a good one day event.
23:18
This year they've also added a
23:21
concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday,
23:23
and then a drone show that's
23:25
gonna go off at nine o'clock
23:27
on the third Saturday night.
23:28
So just a good fun day.
23:30
The weather looks
23:31
about 50-50 rain or shine,
23:34
maybe a little rain in the morning,
23:35
which would obviously help the mud pit.
23:37
So it's gonna be a fun day.
23:39
Well, I'm sure they got
23:40
a hose for the mud pit.
23:42
The thing I thought was really cool
23:44
is you can get out
23:45
there in your XJ or your JK
23:47
or your JL, GLU, and pull the tractor.
23:51
And I think I had asked Rachel, I said,
23:53
"So do you guys do
23:55
something different with the sled?"
23:58
So that, I mean,
23:59
because they get out there
24:00
with huge tractors and
24:02
diesel trucks for the sled pull,
24:04
and I can't imagine an XJ.
24:07
Not saying it can't.
24:09
I can't, not saying it will
24:10
be drivable once it's done,
24:13
but she said they adjust it.
24:15
So I think that would be really cool
24:18
to see an XJ do it a sled
24:19
pull on a national track.
24:22
Yes, and it is, I learned too, it is,
24:25
they have different classes,
24:26
and that's by weight of the vehicle.
24:27
So weight of an XJ, weight of
24:30
say a F-250 with a big diesel,
24:32
and that's how they make the adjustment.
24:34
I don't know what it is, but yeah,
24:36
they're not out there to break it.
24:38
There was a gentleman last year,
24:39
I saw on a two-door JK that was a manual,
24:42
and that was impressive.
24:44
He got it a lot farther
24:45
than anybody thought he would,
24:46
and I thought the front wheels
24:47
were gonna come off the ground.
24:48
They didn't, but he was
24:50
pulling it pretty good.
24:51
He was in the mud pit
24:52
later on in the afternoon,
24:54
and he drove it home, presumably.
24:57
So yeah, that's just neat to see,
24:59
it need to be at that facility.
25:00
It has seating for 5,000 people outside
25:05
along either side of this track.
25:08
Unfortunately, some family
25:10
stuff got in the way this year,
25:11
but really, if you're
25:13
within a few hundred miles
25:15
of Bowling Green, Ohio,
25:16
it's just south of Toledo,
25:18
I think at the end of August,
25:19
that would be quite a party
25:20
and quite an event to see,
25:22
because again, they come in
25:23
from all over the country.
25:25
The Wood County
25:26
Fairgrounds is a great facility.
25:28
I'm also gonna be
25:29
camping there Friday night
25:31
in the Gladiator and Theracamper,
25:34
and I was also told last year
25:37
that it is the
25:37
largest permanent campground
25:39
adjacent to a
25:40
professional motorsports venue,
25:42
larger than NASCAR, so
25:44
very, very large campground,
25:46
which useless fact, but I
25:48
thought was interesting.
25:50
No, it's cool, especially if
25:51
you don't wanna rent a hotel.
25:54
Hotels are so expensive.
25:56
So is it, was it, I should
25:58
remember this, but I don't,
25:59
was it BG?
26:00
BG, I'm trying to remember the website.
26:04
Is it BG4x4fest.com?
26:07
Yes, that's correct, yes, BG4x4fest.com.
26:12
Yep, so go out there and check it out
26:13
and say hello to Chris.
26:15
If you can, interrupt
26:17
him while he's talking.
26:18
Best of them.
26:20
Okay, you mentioned camping,
26:23
and I definitely wanted to talk to you
26:24
about the Theracamper,
26:27
and let's explain the Theracamper,
26:30
because it sounds hoagie.
26:32
A par, well, I mean, I guess
26:34
if you got a name like par,
26:35
it makes perfect sense.
26:38
(laughing)
26:38
Yes.
26:39
Par, Thar, but it's like
26:42
the air camper without the E.
26:44
Yes.
26:45
So he loves it.
26:47
He kind of giggles, because we
26:48
interviewed him too.
26:49
He kind of giggles at
26:50
how well it worked out,
26:51
getting the tharacamper.com.
26:55
And through par and the theracamper.com,
26:59
we have a camper, it's
27:01
an inflatable camper.
27:03
No, it's not what you think,
27:04
because I think most
27:05
people think like me,
27:06
they think it's like one
27:07
of those inflatable dolls
27:08
or something.
27:09
There's no basic shape to it.
27:12
It's just whatever
27:12
the air holds in place.
27:14
But this is different.
27:15
It has built-in stuff
27:18
in it between the walls,
27:19
so it forms its shape.
27:21
And I mean, it knows its shape,
27:23
and then when you put air in it,
27:24
it just kind of
27:25
solidifies the whole thing.
27:26
And Parr sent you a
27:29
camper for your gladiator,
27:32
a much better choice for you than me,
27:34
because you go out and do stuff.
27:36
Mine would be sitting in
27:37
the back of the gladiator
27:38
or in the garage.
27:40
So, and you've been
27:41
very impressed with this.
27:43
I mean, you've done
27:43
tent camping for a while,
27:46
and this is your first
27:47
time getting a little bit
27:50
out of the bear harm's way.
27:53
Yes, you have tent
27:54
camp for my whole life,
27:55
say for one trip to a race
27:59
where we rented a proper motorhome,
28:02
but that was a
28:03
work-related thing many years ago.
28:05
So I've tent camped for my
28:06
life for over 25 years camping.
28:09
And this is a camper, and
28:12
it's an inflatable camper.
28:14
Like you said, it's the stand-up
28:16
paddleboard material
28:17
or drop stitch technology.
28:20
In fact, if you go to JeepTalkShow.com,
28:23
search drops, drops stitch technology,
28:26
and you'll find the
28:27
interview that you did,
28:28
Tony with Parr, the
28:30
inventor and owner of their camper.
28:32
And it becomes rigid, like you said,
28:35
and it runs only four to
28:37
five PSI in all of the chambers
28:39
or six chambers, I believe.
28:41
Well, you were running at 10 or 15
28:44
when you first got it, weren't you?
28:46
And you couldn't make it fit.
28:48
Yes, read the
28:50
directions, read the directions.
28:52
You just have to wing it
28:53
first, then read the directions
28:54
so it doesn't work out.
28:56
It didn't fit.
28:56
So on the valve, just like a tire,
28:58
maximum do not exceed pressure of,
29:01
maximum pressure is.
29:02
And it says 15 on the valve.
29:04
So it was a lot bigger or more rigid,
29:07
so it wouldn't quite fit
29:08
in the bed at the gladiator.
29:09
So after reading the
29:11
directions for a moment,
29:12
I figured that out and
29:14
it's rigid at five PSI.
29:16
So I run all the panels at five PSI.
29:19
It can sleep three men.
29:22
I think kids or maybe the
29:24
wife would be a little cozier,
29:26
but it is a fully, I love Parr's tagline,
29:31
inflatable and interstatable camper.
29:34
So you inflate it,
29:36
install it, inflate it,
29:37
strap it down to the bed and the top
29:39
and go down the road with it.
29:41
Yeah, that's a lot of
29:42
people don't understand that.
29:43
You've run across that with people
29:45
that they don't
29:45
understand that you air it up
29:47
and then you drive wherever you're going.
29:49
It's not something you're installing.
29:51
It's not like a 10th you're putting up
29:53
every time you go to a new place.
29:55
Correct, and I had a
29:56
woman at work at the office.
29:58
So to clarify, I've done five nights in
30:00
it so far since June
30:02
and five nights of my sixth night
30:05
will be at the Bowling
30:06
Green, the four fasts
30:07
and probably have about 3000 miles on it.
30:11
I've left it on, it drive to work in it.
30:14
I mean, you're not
30:14
gonna go through the drive
30:15
or the McDonald's drive through
30:17
because it is quite tall
30:19
over top, the gladiator.
30:20
And like I mentioned
30:21
before, I've got a bit of a lift
30:22
and 35's on my gladiator.
30:24
So I guess, it's about
30:26
nine feet off the ground,
30:27
maybe nine and a half
30:28
feet at the top of it,
30:30
over top the gladiator.
30:32
So it's up there, but yeah, you drive
30:35
down the road on it.
30:35
You're not inflating it when
30:37
you get to your destination.
30:38
You put all your stuff
30:39
right down the middle,
30:41
your firewood, your
30:42
chairs, your coolers, your boxes,
30:44
whatever you take on your camping trip,
30:47
you put it right down the middle.
30:48
I've left, I used it last weekend.
30:51
I'm obviously gonna use it this weekend.
30:53
I left my sleeping mat,
30:54
my sleeping pad, my pillow,
30:56
some clothes, so it's ready to go.
30:58
It's ready to go just
30:59
like a real camper is.
31:01
That's what I love about it.
31:03
So that's really been different.
31:05
And then for me, I did a last minute trip
31:08
to a sprint car race this past weekend
31:11
and everything was in there.
31:13
I put a cooler with some
31:14
waters and some food in the back
31:16
and my buddy and I got to
31:17
the race late, pulled up,
31:19
went in, watched the race, race ran late.
31:21
My point saying all that,
31:22
we got back, it was late.
31:24
I'm like, yeah, let's just crash.
31:26
Crawled up inside,
31:27
crashed, got up in the morning,
31:29
had a little coffee, you ready to go?
31:31
Put the cooler, put the
31:32
chairs back in and you drive away.
31:34
And for me, I say, yes.
31:36
You're not doing a lot
31:37
of work, you're tired.
31:38
You just lay down, go to
31:39
sleep, get up, drive away.
31:42
It sounds like a perfect situation.
31:44
Now the important question is,
31:46
how does it sleep versus the tent?
31:49
I would say about the same.
31:51
It's a little more insulated than a tent
31:54
because it's about two inches each.
31:57
Wall is two inches wide.
31:58
So you're gonna be a bit more insulated
32:00
than a tent on the ground.
32:02
But for me, sleeps very well.
32:05
You can adjust the pressure.
32:06
I also got the buddy bunk.
32:09
So you can configure
32:10
the inside of the camper
32:12
and then you can go to theracamper.com.
32:14
You can see how you can configure it.
32:16
So basically you have
32:17
two sides or two benches.
32:19
And then you have a cab over portion
32:21
that goes over the cab.
32:23
And the first couple nights,
32:24
my buddy slept over the cab with no issue
32:27
and then got the buddy bunk.
32:28
So there's two, down to two,
32:31
you can get a buddy bunk
32:32
for either or both sides
32:33
of those benches, which
32:35
extend the sleeping area,
32:36
which makes it more comfortable.
32:38
And that's what we've been doing now
32:40
is just sleep on one side or the other.
32:42
There's also a twin and a queen mattress
32:46
that you can get to go side by side.
32:47
And I've seen on the website,
32:49
you'll see some folks,
32:50
maybe they're
32:51
sleeping with their partner,
32:52
their wife, their husband,
32:53
whoever it is, their kids.
32:54
So they'll sleep side to side.
32:55
So you've got a little
32:56
more room side to side,
32:57
but it wouldn't be something you do
32:59
with one of your buddies,
33:01
one of your drinking
33:01
buddies or your fishing buddies.
33:05
But it's your business teacher's own.
33:07
But in all seriousness,
33:08
so you can configure
33:09
it a few different ways.
33:11
And I've connected with some
33:12
other users of Thayer Camper
33:14
that they take their
33:15
wife, their son and their dog,
33:17
or they take their son, their dog
33:18
and their fishing gear.
33:22
So it's just endless
33:24
ways to configure it.
33:25
I'm really getting used to, like I said,
33:27
coming 25 plus years in a tent.
33:29
Now it's like, wow,
33:30
you don't have to take
33:32
stakes out of the ground
33:33
and roll it up.
33:34
You can leave your sleeping bag in place.
33:35
It's not gonna go anywhere.
33:37
You can leave your camp
33:38
chair, your camp table,
33:40
your box of firewood.
33:41
You can leave it all
33:42
there, which is great.
33:43
And then everything's been
33:45
in mind since last weekend.
33:46
I'm gonna put some sandwiches and some
33:48
waters in the cooler
33:49
Friday morning when I go
33:51
to work and I'm ready to go.
33:53
But yeah, it's still,
33:55
people still struggle with it.
33:58
You inflate it when you get there.
33:59
It's like, no, it's just like it is.
34:02
Well, it makes sense.
34:02
It's inflatable.
34:03
So you'd figure that,
34:05
and I'm sure they think of the idea
34:06
of you driving down the
34:07
highway at 70 miles an hour
34:08
with this big, huge inflatable thing
34:11
that you probably have to
34:13
deflate it at least somewhat.
34:14
And that's not the case at all.
34:16
You set it up and then you just go and go
34:18
until you're ready to
34:19
take it off and store it.
34:21
Yes, and it weighs total
34:23
180 pounds, the camper itself.
34:25
So it is not virtually
34:27
no weight in the bed.
34:29
It's not top heavy.
34:31
I mean, some other folks say,
34:32
oh, your gas mileage must be horrible.
34:34
It's gone down about one and a half MPGs.
34:36
I've calculated it.
34:37
No, I've got it.
34:37
It's just the wind.
34:38
Yeah, it's just the wind break.
34:41
But it's not going from 15 to five.
34:45
And the only time you feel it
34:47
is when you pass a semi truck
34:50
with the tractor trailer.
34:52
That's the only time you feel it.
34:54
Oh, I'm sorry, before we
34:54
get too far away from it,
34:55
I wanted to ask you, you
34:57
were talking about the tent
34:58
or the car camper, the
35:02
comfort is about the same.
35:03
Do you have anything for
35:04
the tent, a cot or anything?
35:07
Or are you laying straight
35:09
on the ground in the tent?
35:11
I've done both.
35:11
Recently in the last year,
35:13
I've added a cot to my
35:15
tent camping equipment.
35:17
So now you don't have to have the cot.
35:19
You can just lay in the, again,
35:21
the convenience factor of
35:23
this thing and it's ready to go.
35:24
Oh, how long does it
35:25
take you to air it up?
35:27
It takes about 15 minutes, to air it up.
35:30
It comes with a pump.
35:32
It comes with an electric pump,
35:34
as well as a hand pump,
35:36
which works very well.
35:37
I say 15 minutes in total,
35:39
because you've got to get it in the
35:41
gladiator or any truck,
35:42
you put it to about two or
35:44
three PSI to give it structure.
35:46
Then you get it fitted,
35:47
you get it strapped down,
35:48
get it locked down with the straps,
35:50
and then you take it to five PSI.
35:51
So total half hour, if
35:56
you're doing it by yourself,
35:57
maybe a little bit more.
35:58
But it's, yeah, and it's
35:59
something that can be done
36:00
and Parr has on his website.
36:02
He does it himself.
36:03
It just helps if you've
36:05
got a buddy helping you out,
36:06
just pulling the straps
36:08
and makes it go along.
36:09
But I'd say 15 minutes to inflate it.
36:12
But you do need to inflate
36:13
it to give it some structure
36:15
before you tilt it up into the bed.
36:17
Because when it's deflated,
36:19
it's a big 180 pound mass
36:22
of rubber, more or less.
36:24
So it seems like you've mentioned this,
36:26
correct me if I'm wrong,
36:27
but I think that the air
36:29
pump that comes with it,
36:30
the electric air pump that comes with it,
36:33
it's not 100% duty cycle.
36:35
So you can only run it for a little bit,
36:37
and then you gotta let it cool off
36:39
and then continue running it.
36:40
Is that correct?
36:42
No, actually, I've heard duty cycle.
36:47
It doesn't get real warm.
36:48
It does not get real warm.
36:50
Now, again, I made the
36:51
mistake initially thinking
36:52
I need to go to 15 PSI, and
36:54
it was taking a long time.
36:56
But depending on the
36:57
vehicle, the Gladiator,
36:59
the five PSI, I've messaged other people.
37:02
They run between five and seven.
37:03
I'd say no more than 10.
37:06
I mean, it has structure at three PSI,
37:09
and it doesn't sound
37:10
like a lot, but it is.
37:12
But the pump I've
37:13
been very impressed with
37:15
in deflating it, reinflating it.
37:17
So I've initially put it
37:19
on and fitted it, drove it,
37:21
took it off.
37:23
So I've had it on and off three times,
37:26
just from trying it.
37:27
And I took it off for a bit
37:29
because I didn't have any travels.
37:31
You do lose, obviously,
37:33
the rear view out of the back
37:36
of the Gladiator, the glass.
37:38
And it is because of the lack of length
37:41
and that of the Gladiator or
37:43
the length of the Theracamper,
37:45
your tailgate's down.
37:46
So if you rely on a backup camera,
37:48
which in my opinion, you shouldn't do,
37:53
it's a bit long.
37:54
So you've just got to
37:54
pay a little more attention
37:55
when you're pulling
37:56
into a tight parking lot.
37:57
And I back in a lot more places
38:00
because you can throw
38:01
your head out the back window
38:02
and hug the line and back in.
38:04
So just be aware of
38:06
what's behind the Gladiator.
38:08
And it's really no issue.
38:09
But again, you're not
38:10
going through the McDonald's.
38:10
So my question about the air
38:12
pump was that I was thinking
38:14
that you might invest in a
38:16
100% duty cycle air pump,
38:18
but do you think that
38:19
this air pump is adequate
38:21
for just every day, I
38:23
mean, weekend camping
38:25
where you shouldn't
38:26
have to worry about it.
38:27
You mentioned the hand pump.
38:29
I can imagine that would
38:30
take a little while longer,
38:31
but is there any
38:33
reason to get a better pump?
38:35
No, not in my experience, no.
38:37
Though the pump--
38:38
But you could have a pump for your tires
38:41
and probably use that, right?
38:42
So I mean, if you had a VIAIR system or
38:45
something like that,
38:45
you could use that to air up.
38:48
I don't know because the opening,
38:51
and if anybody's listening that has a
38:53
standup paddle board,
38:54
I would say it's probably
38:55
half inch round with a locking.
38:57
Oh really?
38:57
Yeah, so you--
38:58
So it's not a standard tire fitting.
39:01
No, no, it is not.
39:03
And then again, I
39:04
learned the hard way of trying
39:05
to inflate it to 15
39:07
PSI took a lot of time,
39:08
but it gets to five,
39:09
six PSI very quickly.
39:12
So the electric pump that comes with it,
39:14
I've been very impressed with.
39:15
And then I've used the hand pump as well.
39:19
And when you're not trying to go much
39:21
above five or six PSI,
39:23
it gets there really quick.
39:26
And I carry the pumps
39:29
with me just in case,
39:31
but the electric pump has a
39:33
cigarette lighter adapter,
39:34
and then it also has USB A connector.
39:37
And I just carry it with me.
39:39
I leave it on the floor of the gladiator.
39:40
I have USB-A and USB-C ports in the back.
39:43
I just plug it in.
39:44
So it's always charged.
39:45
It's always with me
39:47
and you're good to go.
39:48
So now the pumps, I mean it,
39:50
again, I mentioned it's stand up
39:52
paddleboard material
39:53
so that the pump that comes with it
39:55
or the pumps that come
39:56
with it have been around
39:57
a lot longer than their camper.
40:00
But yeah, I don't.
40:01
Oh, okay. That's interesting.
40:02
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
40:04
And it's something I
40:05
recall Parr mentioned
40:07
when you interviewed him
40:07
is that most paddleboards
40:09
these days are inflatable,
40:11
stand up paddleboards.
40:12
And during COVID, going back many years,
40:15
I got a couple of cheap
40:17
plastic kayaks for my son and I,
40:19
we're doing some fishing
40:20
and just doing some different stuff.
40:22
And that's when I saw these people
40:23
would basically take a backpack out of
40:25
the trunk of the car
40:26
and five minutes later,
40:28
they'd have this paddleboard
40:29
and they'd be paddling
40:30
around in the lake or the pond.
40:33
So 200 years ago, you and
40:35
your son would have been burned
40:36
at the stake for being witches,
40:38
carrying a boat or two
40:39
boats around with you.
40:41
Yes.
40:42
So let me ask you this.
40:44
And this is also a common
40:45
question that people have
40:47
about inflatable things.
40:48
And if they haven't had
40:49
the paddleboard thing,
40:50
they probably don't know that.
40:51
I think the paddleboards
40:52
are made very, very well
40:54
and don't have issues with leaks.
40:57
But I could see that
40:58
somebody would be concerned
40:59
about leaks on the Thar camper.
41:02
You've been running this since June
41:04
or using it since June.
41:06
Have you had any leaks?
41:07
And if so, what'd you do?
41:09
Yeah, I did find a, I
41:11
was having a real slow leak
41:12
and I was just getting
41:13
some feedback from Parr.
41:15
And I just found an
41:16
abrasion on the side under the bed.
41:19
I don't know what it is from,
41:21
but it does come with
41:22
a patch kit as well.
41:23
Three tubes of glue, plenty of patch.
41:25
And I just was able to patch that.
41:27
So back in action.
41:29
And again, it is inflatable.
41:31
Some folks will say, I mean,
41:32
you could take something off the road.
41:33
I mean, people get flat tires every day,
41:36
but it was in the
41:38
lower portion in the bed.
41:39
I did have it out at Holly Oaks,
41:42
one of my initial trials
41:43
and drove down some trails and scraped
41:45
some trees, no issue.
41:47
But no, they came with
41:48
the included patch kit
41:50
and that took about 15 minutes.
41:52
And most of that was
41:53
waiting for that to cure
41:55
and it's back in action.
41:57
So it does come with a patch kit.
41:59
I mean, that is certainly a possibility
42:02
versus a composite or
42:04
fiberglass or whatever,
42:06
a 10 or $15,000 camper is made out of.
42:10
But I mean, but you
42:11
gotta think about it though.
42:12
Keep saying stand up paddle board.
42:14
Also there's ribs, which rib
42:17
boat was rigid, inflatable.
42:20
You see them certainly in
42:22
the armed forces uses them,
42:23
the Coast Guard.
42:24
I mean, I live in
42:25
Michigan and the Great Lakes.
42:26
We see them, the Coast Guard uses them,
42:28
but it's basically an inflatable surround
42:31
of a rigid floor for a speed boat.
42:35
And it's the same material that their
42:37
camper is made out of.
42:39
So no concern with
42:42
that going down the road
42:43
or going down the trail.
42:45
So you mentioned off-road.
42:46
This probably is not
42:47
something you'd want to stay inflated
42:50
if you were taking
42:51
your Gladiator off-road.
42:54
No, and then that's not
42:57
anything against their camper.
42:58
Again, with the Gladiator,
43:00
and if you look on theircamper.com,
43:01
you'll see other trucks,
43:03
the tailgate most likely,
43:05
depending on bed size
43:06
is gonna be flat or down.
43:08
And the Gladiator is,
43:09
as you know very well,
43:12
the drawback and
43:12
people say it's too long.
43:14
It is a long vehicle.
43:15
You're gonna scrape the tail of it.
43:18
And I know you, I think you
43:19
recently got another product
43:21
to protect your hitch, your hitch there.
43:24
So yeah, that would
43:26
be a drawback off-road.
43:28
I did post a short
43:29
Instagram video at Mount Magna,
43:32
at Holly Oaks, going up that.
43:35
Went down a couple of hills.
43:36
I don't know that
43:37
there's any content about that.
43:39
That'd be my biggest concern.
43:40
Secondarily, it is quite large.
43:42
It does look a little funny.
43:47
It's huge compared to the Gladiator.
43:49
I mean, it was built
43:50
for a full-size pickup,
43:52
but it does work for the Gladiator.
43:54
But yeah, I mean, but it's nice
43:56
that you have the same area,
43:58
whether you have a mid-size
43:59
truck or a full-size truck.
44:01
So I would assume that it
44:03
takes less than 15 minutes
44:05
to deflate it.
44:06
So if you were going to EJS,
44:10
and you probably could
44:10
wheel EJS with it inflating,
44:12
because there's not a
44:13
lot of tight spots at EJS.
44:16
But let's say you go to EJS,
44:18
and you have your
44:19
camper right there with you.
44:21
It's only 180 pounds.
44:22
So you get there, maybe
44:24
you get there in the evening,
44:26
and the camper is already set up.
44:28
You get in there, you're gonna sleep.
44:30
Next morning, you get up, you deflate it,
44:32
and then you just have to put something,
44:34
some mechanism in
44:36
there to keep it tied down.
44:38
Like if you were off-road and
44:39
you got to bounce it around,
44:40
you had to go pick up
44:41
your camper off the trail.
44:43
But it fits completely in the
44:45
bed of the Gladiator, right?
44:46
I mean, what is deflated?
44:49
I would say no, not in the Gladiator.
44:52
Just because the Gladiator is
44:54
obviously a smaller pickup bed
44:55
than an F-150 or a
44:57
Silverado or other full-size.
44:59
I believe it would be, it
45:01
would look like a mushroom.
45:03
But what I was going to do
45:06
before I had to leave my
45:08
Gladiator with the dealer
45:09
for some warranty work for three weeks
45:10
is just simply remove it.
45:12
It's, like I said, 15
45:13
minutes to inflate it,
45:14
a half hour total to get it in.
45:16
So you would just leave it at camp?
45:18
Yes, leave it at camp.
45:21
And to remove it and install it.
45:24
Again, I've done it a few times.
45:26
Like I said, going down the road,
45:28
all the chambers are at five PSI.
45:30
You wanna give it a little structure.
45:32
You don't want it to be too rigid,
45:33
like I did the first time at 15 PSI.
45:36
But you inflate the sides, you get it,
45:39
basically the shape of it.
45:41
You take the roof to five PSI,
45:43
the front wall that goes
45:44
over the cab to five PSI,
45:45
the rear wall and door to five PSI,
45:48
and it slides right in and out.
45:49
So what I would like to
45:51
do, and it's my intention,
45:53
and life got in the
45:54
way the past few years
45:55
is to get to EJS, use
45:57
it to go cross country,
45:59
because it's about 20-ish
46:00
hour ride for me, a little more.
46:02
And then if necessary at EJS,
46:05
just remove it when you go to the trail.
46:07
It probably take five or 10 minutes,
46:09
and then put your
46:10
cooler, your camp gear in it,
46:13
then just leave it there at camp.
46:15
Yeah, you could strap it down.
46:16
I mean, it does get quite windy
46:18
at Moab from time to time.
46:21
It'd be a shame if it was a
46:22
2,000 foot down off the mesa,
46:26
and try to figure out how to get to it.
46:28
Yeah, I'm sure it
46:29
would survive just fine.
46:31
Well, anyway, that's some
46:32
interesting information.
46:33
I wanted to go over this
46:34
because it's a cool concept.
46:38
I have a lot of questions
46:39
about it, and you've used it,
46:41
and I'm sure some of
46:42
our viewers and listeners
46:45
were curious as well.
46:46
And we'll have more
46:47
information on it in the future,
46:49
but you just go over to thearcamper.com
46:52
and check it out yourself.
46:54
If whatever you call,
46:55
if you call over there
46:56
or contact somebody over there,
46:57
make sure you tell
46:59
them you heard about it
47:00
on the Jeep Talk Show.
47:01
All right, Chris, I
47:02
wanted to go over a few things,
47:04
that a few new things that
47:06
we're doing on the Jeep Talk Show.
47:08
I think first and foremost,
47:11
the newest thing is movie night.
47:14
So I'm sure that you guys
47:17
have seen Mystery Science Theater 3000,
47:20
where they would have a sci-fi show
47:22
and a group of three individuals
47:25
would be making comments on the show.
47:27
It's pretty funny and
47:28
it was fun to watch.
47:30
I'm sure you've gone to see
47:32
a movie with a friend or two,
47:34
and they always want the
47:36
smart ass comment guy to go,
47:40
or a woman, I think
47:41
it's more guys than women.
47:42
They want the smart ass to go
47:45
so that they can hear funny things
47:47
being said during the movie.
47:49
Well, that's kind of what our Jeep Talk
47:50
Show movie night is.
47:53
We have the round table,
47:54
which you're probably
47:55
aware of every Tuesday.
47:57
The round table itself
47:58
starts at 8 p.m. Central time,
48:00
but the Zoom room,
48:03
which we use to get together
48:04
for the round table,
48:06
starts up usually before,
48:08
but at least by 7.30.
48:10
7.30 p.m. Central time,
48:12
we are now running a movie,
48:14
and we're picking YouTube
48:16
videos that are about Jeeps.
48:19
And what you do is you
48:20
join the round table,
48:22
the Zoom meeting, and then
48:23
you go to jeeptalkshow.com,
48:25
slash watch along, like in a browser,
48:28
something different than Zoom.
48:29
You leave the Zoom thing running,
48:31
and then you go to the browser,
48:33
and the host me presses play,
48:38
and the video starts playing,
48:40
and you see that same video that
48:42
everybody else is watching.
48:44
So it's not like, it's
48:46
not that thing where you go,
48:47
"Okay, everybody get
48:48
ready, press play now."
48:51
And somebody says,
48:52
"Oh, I missed the button."
48:54
And we do it again, you know,
48:55
synchronize your
48:55
watches like in World War II.
48:57
So this is pretty cool
48:58
because you see the same thing
49:00
everybody else is watching.
49:02
And keep in mind,
49:04
there's no copyright here
49:05
because it's playing
49:06
directly to your computer,
49:08
your phone, from YouTube.
49:10
So it's individual streams from YouTube
49:13
to everybody that's in the movie night.
49:16
So that also means that
49:18
if you wanted to watch
49:20
you can just go after
49:22
the movie night's over,
49:25
you can go to
49:26
jeeptalkshow.com, slash watch along,
49:28
and see past movies,
49:31
and hear the comments
49:33
that we're all making
49:34
during the movie.
49:36
And there is individual
49:38
volume for the movie aspect of it,
49:41
or the Zoom room people aspect of it.
49:43
So you can turn it up on the movie,
49:45
turn it down on the movie,
49:46
turn it up on the Zoom people,
49:48
turn it down on the Zoom people.
49:50
I think I've been really, really excited
49:52
about how well this is working out.
49:54
And Chris, I don't think
49:55
I've mentioned this to anybody.
49:57
I'm thinking that we might get guests on
50:00
to join the round table
50:02
whose video we're playing.
50:04
And the- Great idea.
50:05
Yeah, the first one
50:06
comes to mind is Marvin
50:08
for 24 hours, Helen back.
50:12
He has some really cool
50:14
videos that he puts up.
50:16
We know Marvin, he's been
50:17
on the show a few times.
50:18
I interviewed him out at EJS in 2025.
50:22
And I think it'd be fun to have Marvin on
50:25
and hear some of the
50:26
stuff from the background,
50:28
the things that is not in the video.
50:31
You know, director's
50:32
cut type of perspective.
50:35
Yeah, exactly.
50:36
And so, and that's not just them.
50:39
And keep in mind that when we have your
50:42
video on movie night,
50:44
however many people are
50:45
watching it along at that time,
50:48
I mean, it could be 10
50:49
people, it could be 20,
50:50
it could be a hundred.
50:51
That's how many videos, I mean,
50:53
that's how many downloads or views
50:55
that you're getting
50:55
on that YouTube video.
50:57
So this is a great way for
50:59
you to promote your video
51:01
and get people watching it.
51:02
I think it's gonna build over time
51:04
because it's a lot of fun.
51:05
Everybody's having a
51:06
lot of fun watching it.
51:08
And we watched a 1958 abandoned Jeep
51:13
that was resurrected
51:15
on this past Tuesday.
51:17
And it got to be 8 p.m.
51:19
The video was still going.
51:20
And I said, "Do you guys
51:22
want me to stop the movie?"
51:23
And you can just use
51:24
the round table as usual.
51:26
And it says, I think it
51:27
was Steve O that says,
51:28
"No, I'm invested now.
51:29
I wanna see what happens."
51:31
(laughs)
51:32
Staying up late, I'm gonna
51:33
go and work early tomorrow.
51:34
Going to work late,
51:35
because I gotta see the whole thing.
51:37
Well, we were waiting to
51:38
see him start this thing.
51:39
And there was no way in
51:40
(beep)
51:41
I mean, for example, one of
51:43
the cylinders was kind of rusty.
51:45
He honed it without
51:46
taking the piston or rings out.
51:50
So, and the
51:51
(beep)
51:52
thing started.
51:52
But he was trying to
51:53
start it with the old piston.
51:55
I mean, with the old spark plugs.
51:57
Wow.
51:58
He finally invested in new spark plugs.
52:01
He got one of those,
52:02
what do you call those?
52:03
Insect spray pumps,
52:05
you know, the container.
52:06
It has the pump thing,
52:07
so you build up pressure.
52:09
So you can spray them.
52:10
Oh yeah, the lawn sprayer.
52:12
Yeah, they spray the...
52:13
You don't have to just use insect poison,
52:15
but that's the way I look at it.
52:17
So he put gas in that.
52:18
So he put gas in that, pumped it up,
52:21
and hooked it into the
52:22
fuel line of the carburetor,
52:24
because the fuel tank had a hole in it.
52:27
He's driving, he got it started,
52:29
and he's driving around with this.
52:31
Wow.
52:32
It was really, really cool.
52:34
So we had a lot of fun.
52:35
And I don't think
52:36
anybody saw that twist coming.
52:39
All right, so another thing that we have
52:42
is JTS Flix.
52:45
So we have a, this is website,
52:48
it's not a program that you have to
52:50
download and install.
52:51
You just go to, and
52:53
this is a bit confusing,
52:54
I apologize for this,
52:55
but if you go to
52:56
jeeptalkshow.com slash watch,
52:59
different from watch along,
53:01
because that's the movie thing,
53:02
jeeptalkshow.com slash watch,
53:05
you get a Netflix style interface
53:07
of all the Jeep Talk
53:09
Show videos that we have up.
53:12
Answer a few
53:13
questions about what you like,
53:14
what you dislike,
53:15
about what you wanna see,
53:16
what you don't wanna see,
53:17
and it will present it in the screen.
53:19
Like I said, it's Netflix,
53:21
but it's all the Jeep Talk Show videos.
53:24
So you can just go there.
53:26
And I think the main
53:27
advantage to the JTS Flix thing
53:29
is it's really configured for work.
53:32
So if you're in a job
53:34
where you can watch videos,
53:37
you can do JTS Flix,
53:40
and whenever the video
53:41
you start, it's done,
53:43
it automatically starts another one.
53:46
Not the same one, but another one.
53:48
So if you're sitting in the
53:49
office eight, nine hours a day,
53:51
you can watch these videos.
53:53
You can make it a picture in
53:54
a picture that stays on top,
53:55
and you can move it around
53:57
to your screen or screens,
53:58
wherever you wanna put it.
53:59
So now you're listening,
54:01
and maybe you're glancing up at the video
54:02
whenever you want to see what's going on.
54:04
I think it's amazing.
54:07
And I'm throwing out these links to you.
54:09
If you just go to jeeptalkshow.com,
54:12
the menu at the top of the page,
54:14
you'll see the watch and the movie night,
54:18
and all those things are right there.
54:20
So Chris, we're doing things.
54:23
We're making
54:23
modifications to the Jeep Talk Show,
54:25
so we can make it easier for you.
54:28
It's kind of like the R Camper.
54:29
You have a convenience thing
54:31
of having the camper right there.
54:32
You just get in, get out.
54:34
We want the same thing
54:35
for the Jeep Talk Show.
54:35
We wanna make it easy
54:36
for you to review content,
54:39
listen to it, and we
54:40
haven't forgotten about you guys
54:42
that listen to the show
54:43
because the vast majority
54:45
of our, I'll say viewers, listeners,
54:48
are listening to the show through the
54:51
various podcast means.
54:53
Of course, if you go, yeah, well, duh,
54:55
that's how I listen to the show.
54:57
We're on YouTube as well.
54:59
So you can see the video side of things
55:02
for these episodes as
55:04
well, if you care to do that.
55:05
Of course, the JTS
55:07
Flix is all audio video.
55:09
You don't have to watch the video.
55:11
It's there in case you wanna see it.
55:13
Also to Spotify, I think
55:14
you're still doing on Spotify.
55:16
You can listen on the
55:17
Spotify on your phone, most likely,
55:19
within the app, and you can seamlessly,
55:21
which is very
55:22
impressive that Spotify does,
55:24
move between audio and video.
55:26
So maybe you're, don't do
55:27
it while you're driving,
55:28
but maybe you've got the auto feed and
55:29
you're mowing the lawn
55:31
or taking a run or
55:32
whatever, riding the bike
55:34
and you hear something
55:35
and you hear something
55:36
that's referenced, you wanna see it.
55:37
You can, without
55:38
missing a beat in the audio,
55:40
turn your phone sideways.
55:41
I haven't done in a while,
55:42
but then you get the video right there
55:45
and then you can watch the few minutes
55:47
and maybe you gotta get back to your run,
55:48
get back to mowing the lawn,
55:49
and you can turn the audio,
55:50
put it back in your pocket.
55:51
So check out the Spotify app.
55:53
That's what I listen to the show on.
55:54
That's why I like the
55:55
Spotify app and it's free.
55:58
Jeep Talk Show is always free.
56:01
So check out Spotify as
56:03
well as Apple Podcasts
56:04
I heard a great saying
56:05
anywhere you find your finer podcast.
56:08
So anywhere you find finer podcasts,
56:10
you'll find the Jeep Talk Show.
56:12
Yeah, very good.
56:14
Well, that's it for the evening.
56:16
Chris, was there anything
56:17
that you wanted to throw in
56:18
before we wrap up?
56:20
No, thanks.
56:20
Great to be on with you again.
56:22
And yeah, come out to
56:23
Bowling Green 4x4 Fest
56:25
and come check it out.
56:28
All right, guys, thanks a lot.
56:29
Remember to check us out at
56:31
jeeptalkshow.com slash contact
56:34
to see all the ways
56:35
that you can contact us.
56:37
You can leave us a video voicemail.
56:39
That's there on the contact page.
56:41
We love those.
56:42
Those are fun.
56:43
That's where you can
56:44
call in and see yourself
56:46
on an episode of the Jeep Talk Show.
56:49
And call in about anything you like.
56:51
Funny is better.
56:54
So until next week, have a great week
56:57
and have fun in your Jeep.
56:59
You're my friend.
57:00
You're my new friend.
57:01
(laughing)
57:03
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