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Florida Jeep Beach, Mud Wheeling & RV Rentals | Jeep Talk Show · Jeep Talk Show

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(upbeat music)
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Hi, D.O. boys and girls,
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it is time for another
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Jeep Talk Show interview.
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We're gonna be talking with Natasha.
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Natasha, Natasha, you remind
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me of your name every time.
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All our viewers here know I
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have a problem saying names.
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If I get the name
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anywhere close, I'm doing good.
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So our co-host April,
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I'll often call her Amber.
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Don't know why, it just happens.
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So we've made it into a drinking game.
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So today we're exciting to
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welcome our guest, Natasha,
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from Lithia Fireside RV rental.
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Natasha and her team have more Jeep stories
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than most people can keep up with.
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From delivering eight units with Judd
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for the Treasure Coast Jeep Club,
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and 14 more to the Pinellas Jeep Club,
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to being long time vendors
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at events across the country.
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This year, they delivered campers
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instead of hitting the trails themselves,
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but the adventure continues.
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That had to have been hard.
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I mean, one thing to
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have business and deliver,
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stuff that you make any income on,
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but not being, going off road
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and not being able to go off road.
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That's gotta be a killer.
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Yes, definitely.
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I'm always one to get on those trails
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at Jeep and with Judd, they're amazing.
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I think it's the Orlando Jeep Club
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that spends like two
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months before Jeep and with Judd
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to get those trails ready.
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And we were vendors the year before.
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And we didn't, I only
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got to go on the trails
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the very last day and like a couple.
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(laughs)
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This time, we just didn't have time at all.
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Well, actually in the intro here,
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we continue about you guys being vendors.
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They're regular vendors at Jeep,
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Toberfest, I wanna say October,
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Jeeptoberfest at Ocala, have sent Jeeps up
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to the new off road park north of there
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and made it a point to
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attend Jeep Beach every year.
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They also joined the great
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Smoky Mountain Jeep invasion
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in Tennessee, currently running two TJs,
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Natasha's Jeep has taken several show winds
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and Ricky's pumpkin gladiator,
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Ricky's not here, don't look around.
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Ricky's pumpkin gladiator was fully built
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for out for over landing,
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complete with a RuPOP
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tent, propane, awnings, water,
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a shower, changing
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room, and even portable AC.
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Oh God, the AC's gotta be,
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I mean, especially when you're in Florida,
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because I know it's a lot
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like Texas during the summertime.
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At Jeep Beach, their setup
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was the envy of the event.
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But after purchasing the
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franchise nearly two years ago,
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they upgraded to heavier duty trucks
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capable of serious towing,
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because those gladiators
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max out at 7,500 pounds
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and their customers need rigs
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that can haul the campers and here.
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Natasha, thank you for being
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here and welcome to the show.
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Thank you for having me.
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All right, so what in the world
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besides the need for money,
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especially for Jeep mods,
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would you buy a RV franchise?
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Well, I think jeeping and camping
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are kind of hand in hand,
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like you're going out into the woods,
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you're going out to do an adventure.
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And how we got started is
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in 2019, I believe it was,
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we went to Sedona and
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we rented a Jeep Wrangler
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and we took that rental all over the place
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up a mountain and everywhere.
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And we were like, oh
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my God, this is amazing.
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We have to get a Jeep.
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So when we got back,
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because it was always
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something that was expensive, right?
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Something that you had to save up for.
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And we got back and I saw the gladiators,
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they just come out in 2020, I believe.
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Yeah.
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And I got mine first.
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I got a white gladiator, I think it's,
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what was it, Overlander?
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Over, what was it called?
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I can't remember.
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It's not the Rubicon.
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Not even the Overland, I
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can't remember the motor.
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Yeah, Overland, I think is what it was.
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And then Ricky decided he wanted to get one.
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And so we went to a dealership
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and in the way back of the parking lot
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was this pumpkin gladiator.
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And it was still had the
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plastic on it and everything.
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He's like, I want that one.
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And so that gladiator was amazing.
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He did so much to it and we really loved it.
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And especially with the
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270 awning and the bathroom
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and the, we had water
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tanks in there, water pump,
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water heater, the whole thing.
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And so at Jeep Beach,
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you can't get it any better
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with that awning and
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having the changing room
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to go to the bathroom,
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because that's the problem
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for Jeep Beach, it's cold
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and you really don't
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want to go into the water,
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which I had to do this year.
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But yeah, and then we went from,
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I think I went from the gladiator to,
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oh, I had the electric
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one, the E, what's it called?
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Four by E.
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Yeah, four by E.
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So I had one of those.
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And then we switched that out for the 392.
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So I had a Tuscadero 392
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Rubicon, which was gorgeous,
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amazing, I loved it.
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I was, like I'm a realtor also for 20 years,
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I was Jeep and realtor.
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And so I have videos of me and my pink Jeep
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going through a
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community and stuff like that.
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So then I had to give up my
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392, my pink 392 for a truck.
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So and-- Was it the
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Tuscadero, Tuscadero pink?
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Was it the one that was
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the one from Happy Days?
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Yeah, that was an interesting color.
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I think that's a great color.
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And I don't want to leave out men,
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but I always thought it
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was a great color for women.
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I could really see women
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gravitating towards that,
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especially with the 392.
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Now you got two things
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there that are extra special.
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Yeah, I loved it.
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I took it to the Bradenton drag racetrack,
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because we have a GTR R35
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with like 1200 horsepower.
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So my husband did the quarter mile in that
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and got like eight something seconds,
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but I did the quarter mile
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in about 12 something seconds.
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It's not bad for a box,
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you know what I'm saying?
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(laughs)
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It was pretty good, it was awesome.
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I mean, I was nervous and everything,
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because you're like,
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because somebody's next to you,
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you don't know what they're gonna do, but--
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Oh yeah, they can always cross the line.
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They need a big wall there.
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So it was an automatic,
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well, I think that's the, the
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392 is only coming automatic.
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So you're automatic.
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Did you, do you remember what your speed was
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on the quarter mile?
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I mean, the time is the
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most important, but the,
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you know, this the
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thought of doing 120 or 130
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or you know, whatever that's,
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that can be a little daunting,
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because not all tires are
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made for that kind of speed.
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Right, they do limit the speed on,
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I think all, I don't know
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if it's just that 392, but--
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Oh, you're right, they
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have a governor in there.
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Yeah, 99 miles an hour, I
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think is as fast as it'll go.
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Well, I have the recon
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package, so it did go to 110.
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I don't know if I've ever got it to 110.
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You know, that sucks for the quarter mile.
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You need to be able to get those,
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you need to have that,
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that whole range of speed.
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I was following my friend
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to Moab a couple of years ago
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and he passed a vehicle and
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then I was gonna pass him,
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I have a gladiator as well with a three six.
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And I don't really look at the speed
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whenever I'm passing somebody,
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it's more important to see oncoming traffic
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and the vehicle that
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you're passing or vehicles.
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And I got around it and I looked down
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as I was getting ready to slow down,
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I think I was at 108 or something.
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And I told my friend
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that had the 392 ahead of me
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and he was like, "Damn, I'm governed at 99."
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I said, "I don't know, I
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thought this one was too."
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So.
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Yeah, that's crazy.
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I don't even think my husband,
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I think his speed on his GTR was only like,
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maybe like 115 or
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something in the quarter mile.
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Right.
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Well, the high end isn't as
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important in the quarter mile,
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but sometimes you see people go very fast
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and their ETA is usually smaller
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because they've gotten up to speed faster,
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which means they're
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traveling faster in the quarter mile.
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But yeah, the speed on the quarter mile
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isn't as important as the time.
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So you remember the biggest part of it.
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Right.
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And then I took it off road one time
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and of course I sunk it almost.
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It was pretty scary because
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like I was leading the trail
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and I went last and I thought the side
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would have been the best, but it wasn't.
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And it just sank in.
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And I think they had
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dug it out or something,
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like all the people going before me.
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Oh yeah, well the big
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trucks that have those huge,
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like 40, 45 inch tires with digging it out,
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it definitely, and you can't
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see if it's filled with water.
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Now I looked up Florida ahead of time,
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just to make sure this was correct.
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The wheeling in Florida
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is primarily swamp, mud,
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that type of thing, not
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really rocks or anything,
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nothing like Moab or something.
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So I think everybody in a
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Jeep or an off road vehicle
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has enjoyed the mud once, maybe twice,
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but the hours that go
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along with cleaning it up.
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(laughs)
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That's the difference
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between me and my husband.
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I am like, let's go to
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the mud, like all the way.
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I'm like egging people on when we used to go
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in our big group, like
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you can do it, let's do it.
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It's a blast, that out
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of control squishy feeling
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and it's a lot of fun.
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So I'm guessing your
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husband cleans your Jeep.
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Yes, so he doesn't like it.
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And it isn't good for the Jeep to be honest.
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No, it's not, it absolutely isn't,
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especially the alternator.
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Oh yeah, it's like my whole, on my Barbie,
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I call her BarbieCon, my TJ,
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she's the one that I off road with.
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She's got a six and a
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half inch lift with 37s.
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I have a dirty life rims.
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I mean, she has a PRP race seats in them
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that I customized, all the things.
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And she's super cute, right?
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And when you lift up the hood,
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we have to clean it under there.
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Cause it is so bad.
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It's like just dirt everywhere.
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I'm like, we gotta clean,
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he was scared to clean it.
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And Red Scorpion, which is a big,
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repair shop here in Tampa area.
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He's like, no, you can just, you know,
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you can get it wet and stuff.
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Yeah, it may be
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difficult starting initially,
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but it dries and it should be fine.
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Do you still have the,
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assuming you have the four liter
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or had the four liter and
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it's still the same engine
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that you have in there, the straight six?
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Yeah.
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And actually it was, it was
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just a regular sport, I guess.
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It's a 2005.
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It only, I just hit 30,000 miles, which is.
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TJs are great.
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My wife has a TJ and that's
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probably my favorite wrangler
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is the TJ.
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That's before they started
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making them out of tin foil
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and other things.
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Yeah, you try to put a
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magnet on the side of your thing
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and it's like, boop.
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Yeah, what the hell is this?
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So that is true.
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Then the Florida is
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mostly mud and that type of,
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I mean, I'm sure
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you've got woods and things,
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but as far as challenging obstacles,
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it's going to be water, swamp, alligators.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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There was a park called Hard Rock
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and it did have some like
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good hills, like hill climbs,
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but not really rock.
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I mean, there would be some like places
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where they would make it
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kind of like an obstacle,
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but not like Sedona.
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Cause we just went to Sedona in the summer.
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And of course we rented another Jeep.
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It was a Rubicon at least,
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and it had some kind of lift on it, I guess.
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And we went on some
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amazing trails in Sedona.
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It was absolutely
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gorgeous, but you're in a rental.
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So it's like.
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Right.
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Well, I've never been to
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Arizona to go wheeling,
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but that's one of the
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areas I'd really like to go.
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I think New Mexico as
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well, New Mexico, Arizona,
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cause I think that desert
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environment would be just a lot
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of fun just to be out inside that area,
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even if it wasn't any hard off road
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technical type things.
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A lot of jeeping, I think,
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and I think most people know this,
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we do have newbies all the time listening
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or watching the show.
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I think the big thing about jeeping
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that you learn really quickly,
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it's not what you're doing
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that is particularly scary
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or dangerous for you and or your Jeep.
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It's going places that most people can't go
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and they'll never see because they weren't
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in an off road Jeep.
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So I learned this very
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well by going to Moab,
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which I mean, Moab is not
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a difficult place to go to
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and you could go out there in a car,
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but I think there were
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areas that I got to go to,
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dinosaur footprints and
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drawings on the ancient drawings
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on the rock surfaces that I
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would not have been able to see
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unless I was out there
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in an off road vehicle.
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So I think that's one of the cool things.
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You basically have
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superpowers when you have a Jeep,
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an off road vehicle to go in,
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go places that most people can't.
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Right, exactly.
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I mean, when we went to Tennessee,
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somebody told us about a trail,
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we had to find it in somewhere,
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it was like just off the side
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of the road and we found it.
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And it was a little scary
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because the road was
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only as wide as my Jeep.
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And we had a gladiator and they were okay,
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but my Jeep's so tall and so tipsy.
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And my husband was out like, spotting me,
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telling me where to go,
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but it was like one slip
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and we could have went down the hill.
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But once we got all the way to the top,
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it was like, the view was like, oh my God,
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we just sat there and we're all like,
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oh my God, this is amazing.
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So we just love the
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Jeep family, the Jeep life,
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any time I can go.
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We're so busy with the
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campers and the RVs and stuff.
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Summer is our slow time.
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So this is now our time
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that we can actually do stuff,
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go to some more events that are local
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that we couldn't before.
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We wanna plan a trip from
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here to go to the panhandle.
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There's a place where
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you can camp on the golf
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and right on the beach, which is amazing.
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And then hit Louisiana
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and then go to Sedona again
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and just tow one of our TJs.
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We have his up for sale.
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I mean, we had four Jeeps.
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We had his Gladiator,
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my 392 and the two TJs.
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And now we're down to two
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TJs and probably down to one,
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just because we just don't have the time.
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But we took it to Jeep
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beach, it finally got out there
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because he did a bunch of stuff to that one,
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like coil overs and
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triangulation welding whatnots.
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And I was like, you gotta use this thing.
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I know we're trying to sell
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it, but like we gotta use it
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because he barely used it
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the whole time that he's-
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Sounds like he enjoys working on them a lot
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and upgrading them.
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Yeah, he's done all the lights on our Jeeps,
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even putting the DSA
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team soundbars in there.
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He did all of that, the radios,
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he didn't do the lifts
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or anything like that,
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but like just any little modification
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that you could come up with, he put it in
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and him and his buddy with the over landing,
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they did so much.
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They would go on forums and
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do all that and learn all that.
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Well, here at the Jeep talk show,
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we like to save people
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money and we can save you money
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by not getting the thousand watt amplifier
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and all that bass and
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the special speaker things
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because you don't need all
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that to listen to a podcast.
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Just listen to the Jeep talk show
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and we'll save you thousands of dollars.
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Yeah, right.
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Well, I think people
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spent thousands at Jeep beach
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at those DS 18 and all those sound places.
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They were, yeah, the sound shows,
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I don't know if you've been to Jeep beach.
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But it's at the Daytona Speedway.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with it.
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We've had individuals from the show go,
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but I'll tell you what,
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I've been ruined by going to EJS
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because the thought of parking the Jeep
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and walking around and looking at booths,
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it's not the same as
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meeting with your friends,
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going to eat, going on the trails
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and just being out there in the environment.
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And that's kind of how I
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judge all Jeep events now.
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And also too, I don't know about you,
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you've got to be concerned about this.
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Salt water, salt water is
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not friendly for our Jeeps,
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especially the TJs.
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Well, on Jeep beach, you're pretty far,
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you don't go into the
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water when you're on the beach.
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It's, you're close to the,
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the shore, the, what do you call it?
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Yeah, the ocean, yeah, the Gulf.
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You're not in the wet stuff.
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Right, but you're close
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enough for it to do damage.
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I'm just gonna tell people
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that you really need to
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rinse those things off
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if you've been anywhere close to the beach
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because the air is very salty as well
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with the water inside the air.
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If you're planning on
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keeping your Jeep, you got TJs,
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those are old and I'm sure
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you don't want to have to
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go through them.
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So I'll just tell our
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friends here listening,
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just wash it down whenever you get it back.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, we didn't, they
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have like a off-road park
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that some people have,
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that went, they went to,
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but it's in the, you
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know, it's not in the ocean
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or anything or near it.
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I would imagine that a
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lot of the water in Florida
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is salt water, isn't it?
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Or is it just adjacent to
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the Atlantic and the Gulf?
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Well, not where the trails are, you know.
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Daytona is pretty much the only place
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that you can drive on the beach.
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And people do, I mean,
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I think it looks cool,
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it looks fun.
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It's almost like driving in the mud.
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It's fun, but at what cost?
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Right, right.
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It's just a big party really is what it is.
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Oh, sure.
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It's a big parade of Jeeps, you know.
19:11
So everybody lines up, everybody's grilling,
19:14
enjoying all their stuff, you know.
19:16
People are throwing ducks to
19:18
each other, beads, whatnot.
19:22
And they're just passing by.
19:23
But they've kind of, this
19:26
year, they had a lot of rules
19:29
and they really are cracking down.
19:31
It kind of hurt because of spring break.
19:35
There was a big issue in spring break,
19:38
which has nothing to do with that.
19:40
I'm sure the 50-year-old man
19:41
didn't mind spring break being there.
19:44
Well, it was on the beach and it was like,
19:47
I can't say too much
19:49
because I don't want to say.
19:52
Anyway, it was a big
19:53
thing that was on the beach
19:55
and it's younger people, I don't know.
19:58
And they kind of ruined it.
20:00
So they were like, your
20:01
music has to be really very,
20:03
they were pulling people
20:04
over for having loud music.
20:06
Really?
20:07
Main Street, which is the main,
20:09
that's where Bike Week is and everything.
20:11
And they really had cops every, everywhere.
20:16
It was just--
20:18
That's interesting
20:18
because this is a big time
20:20
for people, for companies to make money
20:22
whenever crowds like that come in.
20:24
And you don't want to,
20:25
I mean, there's a level
20:27
at which you don't want to go over,
20:28
but a large police presence is gonna kind of
20:31
make people leave and
20:32
make people not come back
20:33
the next year.
20:35
I definitely, because that place,
20:39
I don't think people go to Daytona normally
20:42
unless there's a big event.
20:44
Like, I mean, people do, but
20:45
it's not like the main place
20:47
that people would go.
20:49
So they're kind of messing it up.
20:52
I think, you know, it
20:54
was not even half as busy
20:55
as it was the year before.
20:58
Well, this is a bad time of year too
21:00
because of the Iran war and the,
21:03
all the gas prices
21:04
being as high as they are.
21:06
I think it would have been a lot better
21:07
had the gas prices been
21:08
where they were before the war.
21:10
Cause it's like, why not?
21:11
It's not gonna cost much.
21:12
But now, you know, being like twice as much
21:15
or 75% more for gasoline,
21:17
people gotta consider it.
21:19
Right, yeah, definitely.
21:22
People coming from out of state especially,
21:25
we're about two, two and
21:27
a half hours from Daytona.
21:29
So we just- Oh, that's not bad.
21:30
Yeah, we took our truck, our 3500
21:34
and just flat towed the Jeep there.
21:37
So we don't have to, you know,
21:40
I don't wanna drive two and a
21:41
half hours in the TJ really,
21:43
honestly.
21:44
Well, and that's kind of
21:44
the bad thing about modifying.
21:46
It's really cool.
21:47
And for short drives, I mean,
21:48
you can drive it a long ways,
21:49
but it's not a comfortable thing to ride in.
21:53
A lot of bumps.
21:54
I don't know if you still have air
21:55
conditioning hooked up,
21:57
you know, all those niceties that you get
21:59
from full-size pickups
22:01
or even the newer Jeep.
22:03
So yeah, I get you.
22:04
I did 19 hours to EJS and in the Gladiator
22:08
and it was wonderful.
22:10
I mean, it's modified, but
22:11
it's not overly modified.
22:13
So the ride, everything was very nice.
22:16
So let me ask you about this.
22:17
We wanna talk about the RV business.
22:19
I had asked you about buying the franchise
22:22
and getting involved in that.
22:23
Have you ever done RV
22:25
rentals or rentals before?
22:29
So we owned a class A, which is like a bus,
22:32
like a big bus and it was a diesel pusher.
22:37
And then we, I told my
22:40
husband when we bought it,
22:41
I'm like, we have to rent it out
22:43
because I came across
22:44
someone who did a lot of rentals
22:47
with Daytona, like at the
22:49
races and stuff like that
22:50
for luxury, things like that.
22:53
And that didn't pan out.
22:55
We thought he was gonna get
22:57
us some rentals, but he didn't.
22:59
And then we're like, well,
23:00
we'll just do it ourselves.
23:02
And then we bought a little 16 foot,
23:04
I call a bed in a box.
23:06
And it's basically a bed.
23:08
It has air conditioning and heat.
23:10
It has a little fireplace.
23:11
Wow.
23:13
Yeah. Fancy.
23:14
It's got an outdoor
23:15
kitchen with a refrigerator,
23:16
a microwave, a griddle,
23:19
and of course, Ricky put rock lights on it.
23:22
So it's got the underglow.
23:24
Well, it's nice, especially if you've gone
23:26
to the bathroom and you
23:27
can't find your way back.
23:28
Yeah, exactly.
23:29
It has the bathroom room off
23:31
of it, just like the Jeep had.
23:34
Had it, we put a 270
23:36
awning on it, everything.
23:38
It's pretty cool, little Jeep.
23:39
And it has rugged
23:40
off-road tires and the wheel,
23:45
what do you call it? Fenders, flares?
23:48
Fenders, yes.
23:49
The fenders, they're all metal.
23:54
And so it's 16 foot, it's
23:55
probably like 2,700 pounds.
24:00
So most Jeeps, bigger, the four door
24:04
wranglers can tow it.
24:06
We've had multiple Jeep owners rent that.
24:09
And so it's one of the few
24:11
units that a wrangler can tow.
24:14
Right.
24:16
And-
24:17
Is this like for two people, three people,
24:19
two adults, two kids?
24:20
Two people. Yeah.
24:21
Two people.
24:22
We do have a rooftop tent
24:23
that was on his Gladiator
24:25
that we're thinking about
24:27
adding to the top of that.
24:29
So then you could have four.
24:30
So you'd have the
24:31
rooftop tent and then inside.
24:33
Right.
24:34
So that one, so we put them up for rent
24:38
and we tried to do it on our own
24:41
and we weren't really getting anything.
24:44
Like on Facebook, we put it
24:46
on there and it was 250 a night
24:48
for the big class A
24:51
and people would be like,
24:52
oh, is that 250 for the month?
24:54
I'm like, are you crazy?
24:57
Like this is $150,000
24:59
piece of equipment now.
25:02
But so I don't know,
25:05
somehow GAR advertisement
25:08
on Facebook, I saw an ad on Facebook
25:12
and I was like listening to it and I'm like,
25:16
oh, use other people's RVs and rent them out
25:20
like an Airbnb
25:21
management for RVs and campers.
25:24
And I was like, well, that's interesting.
25:27
So I talked to somebody,
25:29
my husband was just like,
25:30
he's always skeptical of everything.
25:32
And so I'm like, let's
25:34
just listen, let's just see.
25:36
And we talked to GAR and we felt comfortable
25:39
and we decided, and this
25:41
was the time that real estate
25:43
was really going down.
25:45
I mean, really bad.
25:48
What was it?
25:48
Two years ago, July is
25:50
when we made the change
25:53
and my business as a realtor for 20 years
25:57
was very, very good.
25:58
That's how we afforded all of our stuff,
26:03
because I did really well as a realtor.
26:05
And I was like, we gotta do something else.
26:08
We have to do something
26:09
else and what can we do?
26:11
And we came across this and it's something
26:13
that the two of us are doing together.
26:16
So he does the tech,
26:18
he's an RV tech basically.
26:20
He does all the manual prepping and repairs
26:24
and all the things
26:25
that have to do with that.
26:28
And I do all the reservations,
26:30
logistics when we're planning a big event,
26:33
like all that kind of, and I do deliveries.
26:36
So we both, I do deliveries.
26:38
I have a 3500, he has a 3500.
26:40
I am towing campers, like 37 foot.
26:43
I even do fifth wheels.
26:45
So like we have a 44 foot one.
26:48
So let me ask you this real quick
26:49
before we get too far from it.
26:50
You mentioned GAR a couple of times.
26:52
I don't think we've told
26:52
the audience who GAR is.
26:55
Who is GAR?
26:57
GAR is the owner of Fireside RV rental.
27:01
So at Fireside, when we started,
27:04
I think there was maybe 30
27:06
locations across the country.
27:08
Now there is, I think over 60
27:11
locations across the country
27:14
from Vegas to Green Bay to, you know,
27:17
there's some in Tennessee,
27:19
Alabama, all over Georgia,
27:22
all over the place.
27:24
So GAR is the one that owns the company
27:25
that you got the franchise from?
27:27
Yep, so he's the franchise
27:29
or I guess is what they call.
27:31
Yeah, so I think a lot of
27:33
us know what franchises is
27:35
from like the McDonald's aspect.
27:37
And I think we all know that
27:39
McDonald's is very particular
27:40
on how the franchisees run
27:42
the McDonald's restaurants.
27:44
They have to be the same
27:45
ingredients, the same quality.
27:47
Does GAR tell you guys,
27:49
hey, you can't put that
27:50
pop up tent on that thing
27:52
or you can only have this
27:53
and you can only have that.
27:55
And he doesn't want it to vary
27:56
very much between franchisees.
27:59
No, it's not strict like that.
28:03
We are all individually owned and operated.
28:06
So they do support
28:09
training systems, all of that.
28:13
I mean, of course there is guidelines
28:16
that we're trying to get that is universal
28:19
because we strive for five
28:21
stars in all of our reviews
28:23
and how we treat our customers.
28:24
And we're very, very,
28:25
very particular about it.
28:27
And for whatever reason,
28:30
when something goes
28:31
wrong with another franchise
28:33
that's in our area, somewhat in our area,
28:37
somehow they call us.
28:38
I don't know if it's because
28:39
my Google page is higher up
28:41
or whatever, but I'm like--
28:44
They've heard good things about you guys.
28:45
That's why they're calling.
28:47
Yeah, I'm just like, well, it's not us.
28:49
I want everybody to be similar
28:52
to how our work ethic is,
28:54
but you can't make everybody do that.
28:58
But yeah, we're in the top,
29:00
probably in the top three
29:03
of franchises in the country.
29:06
That's wonderful.
29:07
That says a lot about you
29:08
guys and your work ethic.
29:09
So let me ask you this.
29:10
One of the things that
29:11
would scare the hell out of me
29:13
is given my stuff,
29:14
especially my expensive stuff,
29:16
and I know it's all relative
29:17
to how much money you have,
29:19
but given my expensive
29:20
stuff to somebody I don't know
29:22
and expecting it to come back
29:24
in at least working condition,
29:27
have you had some horror stories?
29:28
Do you check these people out
29:29
before you give them the keys
29:32
or you let them hook up and tow it off?
29:34
The renters?
29:36
Well, I would say we do about 98%.
29:41
We deliver setup and pickup.
29:43
Oh, okay.
29:44
So, sorry, my phone's blowing up.
29:47
So we do about 98% where
29:51
they don't tow it themselves.
29:53
Now the driveables, they
29:54
do, of course, you know,
29:58
I mean, we have delivered
30:00
camper vans to me personally.
30:02
I don't know why they would
30:03
rent it just for it to sit
30:05
because it costs way more money.
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But as far as driveables, we haven't had,
30:22
we've had a couple of little bumps,
30:24
like a little, like
30:26
somebody ran into the pole
30:28
at the, did something
30:30
to the step or whatever.
30:34
But no major--
30:35
Is there a deposit that you guys have?
30:37
So in case there's problems,
30:39
is there, is it like renting an apartment
30:41
where you have to have it in clean state
30:45
when it's turned back in?
30:46
And if it's not, you get
30:47
charged for the cleaning?
30:49
Yes, we charge them a prep fee,
30:51
which is a cleaning fee
30:53
and prepping the, you know,
30:54
unit with propane and toilet
30:56
paper and different things.
30:58
And as long as they give it back to us,
31:00
broom swept, counters
31:01
wiped down, dishes done,
31:02
garbage removed, you
31:03
know, the basic cleaning,
31:05
they won't be charged any other fees.
31:09
They, we only take a credit card.
31:11
And so there is a--
31:12
Good idea.
31:13
That way you have the identity,
31:14
or at least of the credit card,
31:16
who knows if they stole it or not.
31:19
(laughs) But, well, this is a lot of
31:21
the things that I talk about
31:23
these robo-taxis that are coming about.
31:25
My wife goes, "You know
31:26
people are gonna make messes
31:27
in there if there's nobody watching them."
31:29
I said, "Yeah, but they're gonna have
31:30
their credit card information,
31:32
and they'll have already
31:33
agreed to pay for any damage
31:34
or cleaning that has to be done."
31:36
I would assume that's kind of this--
31:37
Talk about the ones where there's no driver.
31:39
No driver, driverless, full self-driving.
31:41
Yeah, I did that in Vegas.
31:43
They have cameras in there.
31:44
Oh yeah, cameras, and they know who you are,
31:46
and all that stuff.
31:48
So I would assume you guys
31:49
kind of do the same thing.
31:50
You've not had any
31:51
issues with just that kind of
31:55
knowing who they are type thing.
31:56
People haven't done
31:57
anything crazy in the rentals?
32:02
No, I mean, we did do a
32:03
big music festival up north.
32:08
And when we got there,
32:10
Ricky was kind of like,
32:11
"Holy cow!"
32:13
Because there was all kind of people--
32:15
Damn hippies.
32:15
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
32:17
Yeah, I mean, it was wild there.
32:20
And we had a pretty big
32:22
group that was staying in
32:23
one of our big fifth wheels.
32:25
And when we got, I mean, it
32:27
could have been way worse.
32:28
I've heard way more
32:29
horror stories of crazy stuff
32:33
at the music festivals.
32:35
It was dirty.
32:36
They didn't really do much damage.
32:38
Well, you can wind up
32:39
having a drug paraphernalia
32:40
left in there.
32:41
Yeah.
32:42
Oh yeah.
32:42
So you really have to go through things,
32:44
and you probably have to be really careful,
32:46
especially if there's a
32:47
potential of needles involved.
32:49
Yeah, yeah, we
32:50
definitely, I mean, in our contract,
32:53
they have to sign a rental agreement.
32:55
Sure.
32:55
And there's a bunch of rules,
32:57
and it's all in our favor, of course.
32:59
You know, like--
33:00
(laughs)
33:01
But they have to have a deposit.
33:04
Their driver's license is, you know,
33:06
even if they're not towing or whatever,
33:08
they do have to provide that in the system.
33:11
It's all in the system.
33:12
And if they break,
33:16
they also have to have a protection plan.
33:19
So they have to pay daily
33:21
for that protection plan.
33:23
Whatever--
33:24
So like insurance is
33:25
what we're talking about?
33:25
Yeah. Yeah.
33:27
So it doesn't cover interior though.
33:30
So like it's mainly for
33:31
accidents, that kind of stuff.
33:33
So if they just damage stuff,
33:35
then that comes out of their deposit.
33:36
Then of course you guys
33:37
have insurance on your stuff
33:39
for lost, stolen, all
33:41
kinds of stuff, I'm sure.
33:42
So I think people don't understand,
33:45
and not saying that you
33:46
all is expensive stuff,
33:48
but people look at it
33:49
like cell phoning or renting,
33:51
and they go, my God, renting's so high.
33:53
Well, you're running a business.
33:55
You have to make sure that
33:57
your assets are protected.
33:59
And there's fees, there's
34:01
work that has to be done
34:02
when you get these things back.
34:04
So all this stuff adds up.
34:06
And I think, you guys
34:07
have probably studied this,
34:09
unless you're going
34:10
driving or camping someplace
34:14
a lot every year, owning your own trailer
34:19
or vehicle to camp in is
34:21
probably way more expensive
34:23
than just using it when you need it.
34:25
Exactly, and that's the whole thing.
34:27
And most of the people that are owners here,
34:30
we have about, I think we have 29 units now.
34:34
Wow.
34:35
So we have a pretty good fleet,
34:37
and we own, I think four of the units.
34:42
Everything else is owned by other people.
34:44
And we treat it as if our own.
34:45
I mean, we call it the Ricky
34:47
bubble bath for the campers,
34:50
especially for the vans,
34:52
because we have four camper vans,
34:54
and those are very, very popular right now.
34:57
Some people don't even sleep in it.
34:59
They just want to have a bathroom
35:01
and have a little refrigerator
35:03
as they're traveling to go see family.
35:05
We had people that someone
35:07
was sick and they wanted to,
35:09
it was kind of sad.
35:11
This lady, her sister
35:12
was, stage four cancer,
35:15
and she wanted to see the
35:16
Tennessee, the Smoky Mountains.
35:18
And I'm gonna cry a little bit here,
35:21
but so took her to the
35:23
Smoky Mountains in our van.
35:25
Oh, nice.
35:25
Just so she could see it.
35:26
And she literally passed
35:28
away the day they got back.
35:31
So I enjoyed that,
35:34
that we could help people.
35:36
Yeah, absolutely.
35:37
Get out there.
35:38
No, because you can't afford,
35:39
I mean, the van they took is $200,000.
35:43
That's not something
35:44
that most people are gonna
35:46
wanna afford or even qualify
35:49
for, you know what I'm saying?
35:50
It's like buying a call some of those.
35:52
Well, not nowadays, but anyway.
35:54
The good old days it was.
35:56
So my wife watches this show,
35:58
I think it says "Doctor Now" in it,
36:00
he does surgery on people that weigh in
36:04
excess of 800 pounds.
36:07
And then quite often, he's in Houston.
36:09
So they'll travel from
36:12
wherever they are to Houston,
36:14
and they might get them in a
36:15
van that they barely fit in.
36:17
Or sometimes they even put
36:18
them in the back of the van
36:20
because they don't fit in any of the seats.
36:22
And I'm thinking now,
36:23
I think that most of their
36:24
money has been spent on food,
36:26
but what a wonderful it would be deal to be
36:28
like if they were coming from Florida
36:29
to get one of your trailers
36:31
that they could
36:32
literally be more comfortable in.
36:34
Cause that's always been a problem for them
36:35
is the travel is very difficult for them
36:37
because their body size and
36:38
weight is so big and heavy
36:41
that they just can't be comfortable.
36:43
The only thing with our
36:44
vans is there's a lot of stuff
36:48
in it, you know, like you have a bathroom
36:50
and so the hallway, it
36:51
would be very hard to get them
36:53
in there because it's very narrow.
36:58
Like we do have, the one
37:00
van has a bed in the back,
37:03
but you can't get to it.
37:04
It's like a car seat in the back.
37:07
Now that folds down.
37:09
So I don't know, well, maybe
37:10
you could go through the back,
37:12
but it would be pretty hard to do it.
37:14
It's just a thought.
37:15
And I know there's some
37:16
people out there that watch that
37:17
and go, oh yeah, that would be nice.
37:20
Well, and I mean, if
37:21
they're not so big or, you know,
37:24
they're like just sick
37:28
or need to be comfortable
37:31
while they're traveling,
37:32
like be able to lay down
37:33
at some point or have access to a bathroom
37:36
is a very important
37:37
thing for a lot of people
37:39
and have a refrigerator there.
37:41
So in case you need, you
37:42
know, to keep something cold,
37:44
like I don't know,
37:45
insulin or whatever, you know,
37:47
like medications or
37:48
something or have water or whatever.
37:51
But yeah, we have all types
37:53
of people that rent from us,
37:55
you know, from Jeepers
37:56
that are going to events
37:57
like Jeeping with Judd, or
37:58
they just tow it up themselves
38:00
to the different events.
38:03
To, we do the races, we do
38:05
Daytona 500, we did that.
38:07
We had, I think like eight units at Daytona.
38:12
We had a couple drivers.
38:14
Bobby Earnhardt is the
38:16
grandson of Dale Earnhardt.
38:18
He stayed in one of our campers.
38:20
One of the,
38:25
Noah Gregson, he was in the
38:28
Daytona 500 in the main race.
38:30
We also do Sebring, which is
38:32
a big race here in Florida.
38:35
It's called the 12-hour race.
38:37
It's like the Rolex 24-hour race,
38:39
which is also in Daytona
38:41
where they race for 24 hours.
38:44
That's another one that we did.
38:46
And then Sebring's a 12-hour race.
38:48
And that's a huge camping thing,
38:50
like 10,000 campers go and camp there.
38:54
So we do Talladega, our Alabama location
38:57
in our Georgia, Tennessee,
39:00
where whoever's close to
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Talladega, our main guy,
39:05
Dathan, he does like
39:06
50 units into Talladega.
39:08
It's a huge production.
39:10
So I think with
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Fireside, it's like a family.
39:15
We can talk to other franchises
39:18
and see how they're
39:18
doing, what they're doing.
39:20
We mentor other franchises.
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So that's the benefit of the franchise.
39:25
We do get discounts on the big platforms,
39:28
like it's called RVShare,
39:30
where you can go and look for rentals,
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but we have our own website.
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So if you ever wanna rent one,
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you're gonna come to us directly.
39:37
Give us that website.
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I was just getting ready to mention that.
39:39
I was looking up.
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It's lithya.firesidervrental.com.
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And if you wanna call, it's 813-309-9808.
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But on our website,
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it'll have all the units.
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You can plug in your dates
39:58
and see what's available.
40:00
It'll give you the prices.
40:01
I do have to approve it
40:03
because I approve all the reservations
40:06
because I wanna make sure 100%
40:07
that the unit is working properly,
40:11
that it's not double
40:12
booked or anything like that.
40:12
And just to make sure that we're not double booked or anything like that.
40:14
And just kinda see where you're going
40:16
and what you're doing.
40:18
I'm not that nosy, but I just--
40:21
Oh no, it's just something
40:22
that you have to do as a business owner.
40:25
So does the website show what's available
40:28
and what's not available?
40:29
Or can they click on something
40:32
and then they may find out
40:33
that it's already been rented out?
40:36
Yeah, so if they put their dates in,
40:37
it's gonna show if it's available or not.
40:39
Perfect.
40:40
So what they're gonna do is like,
40:41
okay, I wanna travel trailer.
40:43
So they click travel trailer
40:45
and they put their dates in and hit search.
40:48
And it's just gonna show them the ones
40:49
that are available for their whole trip.
40:52
If they're new to towing,
40:55
do you guys wanna know that?
40:57
Maybe they have some questions about it.
40:59
Maybe they don't even
40:59
know what the range of weight
41:03
that they can tow with
41:05
their Jeep or their Gladiator.
41:07
Well, that's when I would talk to them
41:09
and be like, we do ask that question,
41:11
what are you towing with?
41:12
What is the maximum towing
41:14
capacity of your vehicle?
41:16
And they may not know or we
41:18
can help find out for them.
41:21
So yeah, we definitely need to know
41:23
what's your towing capacity
41:25
because some of our travel
41:27
trailers are 10,000 pounds.
41:29
And that's a no to a Gladiator.
41:31
I'll just tell you people right now,
41:33
that's a no to a Gladiator.
41:34
Do all your trailers--
41:36
We only have like three campers,
41:37
I think that a Gladiator can even tow.
41:41
I mean, some are close, but
41:42
you don't wanna max it out.
41:43
Yeah, there's gonna be a
41:44
safety factor in there,
41:45
absolutely, like 80% or something like that
41:48
that they can do with electricity.
41:49
So on the RVs that you're towing,
41:52
the trailers that you're towing,
41:54
do they have brakes on the trailer?
41:57
We have a brake controller that,
41:58
so you wanna have that
42:00
adapter in your vehicle.
42:03
So that--
42:03
That was gonna be my next question.
42:05
Cause you can put one in a Gladiator,
42:06
but it generally doesn't come
42:07
with a trailer brake controller.
42:11
Yeah, we want them to
42:13
have that in their system.
42:17
They need to have the
42:17
ball, the hitch, you know?
42:19
Right.
42:20
That fits, you know, each,
42:22
most of them are two and five sixteenths,
42:24
but we have like that
42:25
little guy is two inch.
42:27
And then I think we have
42:28
one other one that's two inch.
42:30
What do you do with a lifted Jeep?
42:32
Because that can have an adverse angle
42:35
for the trailer that you're towing.
42:38
Well, we did have a jeeper
42:39
that was helping us with
42:40
deliveries with this Gladiator.
42:44
We had to borrow him,
42:46
we have hitches that are adjustable.
42:48
So they're about, you know, this long
42:50
and they have different holes and you can,
42:53
you know, pull it up
42:53
high and stuff like that.
42:54
Is that something that you
42:55
rent along with the trailer?
42:57
Or is that something that you charge for,
43:00
or just that they get to
43:02
use when they use the trailer?
43:04
We want them to use their own,
43:06
but if they don't have one at all,
43:08
we can borrow one if we have one available.
43:12
Yeah, so their best situation would be
43:14
to get an adjustable hitch,
43:15
especially if they're
43:16
planning on towing very often.
43:19
Right, yeah, you need
43:20
to have that, you know,
43:22
it's the best type of hitch to have is,
43:24
you know, you need to be
43:25
able to move it up and down,
43:27
you know, because--
43:28
Oh yeah, absolutely.
43:29
Low too, you need to raise it up
43:31
because you don't want
43:31
your trailer super low.
43:33
And I think most people understand this,
43:35
but just in case, and you
43:36
correct me if I'm wrong,
43:38
you may not want to take
43:39
that trailer to an off-road,
43:43
or I don't wanna say off-road,
43:44
because off-road can be a flat surface
43:46
that doesn't really change in elevations.
43:48
But if you're going out on something
43:49
that has stair-step
43:51
shelves, even six inches or so,
43:54
that trailer hitch may not be the thing
43:57
that you want to do.
43:59
Do you guys actually tell people,
44:00
"Hey, you can't take this on the Rubicon.
44:02
You can't take this, you
44:05
know, up the side of a mountain."
44:08
We haven't had that come
44:10
up, I guess, you know, like--
44:11
Yeah, most people aren't gonna do it.
44:13
Right.
44:15
I think that's the reason why we do have
44:18
a Class C Mercedes all-wheel drive.
44:24
It's called an Integra Condor.
44:27
And you can see it on,
44:29
there's a YouTube couple
44:31
that go all over the place.
44:33
They've lifted it, they've
44:35
done all kinds of stuff to it.
44:38
Ours is lifted, but not to
44:39
the extreme that they've done.
44:41
And it's a dually where they
44:42
eliminated the dually on theirs,
44:44
I guess, because it was easy for them to--
44:47
That's expensive, yeah.
44:49
Yeah, so we just got that
44:52
and we only used it one time at Daytona.
44:57
We're gonna use it again soon.
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It was time and also it
45:13
was at the dealer a lot.
45:14
It was brand new,
45:15
that's a whole nother story.
45:16
I don't get upset about--
45:19
You get to learn a lot of things
45:20
when you're in business, don't you?
45:22
Well, man, there is no
45:24
regulation on how these
45:27
campers and RVs are built.
45:30
I mean, the chassis, yes, because it's Ford,
45:33
it's Dodge, it's Mercedes, right?
45:35
But the houses,
45:38
they put them together like, you know what?
45:41
And then the dealerships,
45:43
they just push them out.
45:45
Like they have, you do a walk,
45:47
but they want you to get it out.
45:49
Like, take it.
45:51
So once you've taken
45:52
possession of your camper or RV,
45:55
now you're in warranty
45:56
service hell is what I call it.
46:00
So I was like, I should be an advocate,
46:05
consumer advocate for
46:09
people because it's really bad
46:10
and they don't care.
46:12
Well, it's not profitable.
46:13
So they're trying to stay profitable.
46:15
They need to sell it and get it out there
46:17
and then let some other
46:18
group handle it, absolutely.
46:20
Yeah, it's like, if I
46:21
would have caught these things
46:23
before I took it off their lot,
46:25
they get it fixed in like hours.
46:29
But that costs them money.
46:30
They much better get that profit
46:32
and then go on to the
46:32
next one to get the profit.
46:34
I understand the game,
46:35
but it can be very frustrating.
46:39
Oh yeah, because we got
46:40
that in I think October
46:43
and it's been in the
46:44
dealership two weeks at a time,
46:46
every month, the last time
46:48
it was there for a month.
46:50
And we're paying $1,300 a month for nothing.
46:55
For something we can't even use.
46:57
So it's kind of frustrating.
46:59
But anyway, I do need to get that listed.
47:01
And that's our, he's kind of pushing it off.
47:05
He's like, oh, people are gonna take it
47:07
and go like off-road with it.
47:11
It's scary.
47:11
Yeah, you think about all
47:12
the things that could happen,
47:13
but if you think about it too much,
47:14
you wouldn't be in business.
47:16
You know, it surprises me
47:18
just how much information
47:20
that we've gone through here.
47:21
And I feel like we really
47:23
haven't scratched the surface.
47:25
We're gonna have to have you back on.
47:27
But you've mentioned the website
47:29
and I'm sure you guys are on social media.
47:32
Where can people find
47:32
you guys on social media?
47:34
So we're at Lithia
47:35
Fireside RV rental on Facebook.
47:40
I'm on TikTok.
47:43
I have about 20,000 followers on there,
47:46
but I don't know the name.
47:48
It's something different.
47:50
Like I put Jeep stuff, I put camper stuff,
47:53
I put all kinds of things on there.
47:55
Right.
47:56
My TikTok is where I do a lot of videos.
47:59
Yeah, people like seeing that.
48:01
And I can well imagine
48:02
people are gonna wanna go
48:03
to the website, lithia.firesidervrental.com.
48:10
And you can see what they have there
48:13
because we've just
48:13
described them with words.
48:15
You can actually go over
48:16
there and see what they've got.
48:17
And I'm sure that'll generate a lot of ideas
48:20
about how to get these.
48:21
I would assume that
48:22
you guys are just renting
48:23
in the Florida area, right?
48:25
Near the place or what kind
48:28
of distance do you guys go?
48:30
I mean, we've delivered to
48:33
the Keys, which is about,
48:36
I think it's like five
48:37
or six hours from here.
48:43
We'd mainly stay around here,
48:46
but we go to Daytona,
48:47
that's two and a half hours away.
48:49
We'll go wherever someone
48:50
will pay us to go, right?
48:52
So if people are in the Florida area
48:53
and they're interested in having an RV
48:55
someplace to camp in,
48:58
you can go over here to this website,
48:59
check out the Facebook page.
49:02
Did you get your TikTok information?
49:04
Did you wanna get that in there?
49:05
Yeah, I have it here.
49:06
I don't know which name is
49:08
the name that you search for,
49:10
but it's at RV rental fire starter.
49:15
And then I do have it
49:19
under Natasha X for Gen X.
49:22
That's a big thing on TikTok right now,
49:25
if you're a Gen Xer, Jeep in realtor.
49:28
Very, very cool.
49:29
Oh, and speaking of the realtor thing,
49:31
you had sent me an email
49:32
earlier before the interview,
49:34
and I saw on your little signature there
49:36
at the bottom of the
49:37
email that it said realtor.
49:39
And then, oh, holy crap, we've got a realtor
49:41
that has snuck in that
49:43
wants to use the Jeep talk show
49:43
to get the realtor. I used the Jeep talk
49:44
show to try to sell houses.
49:47
So I did a little research
49:48
because we don't have anything protected.
49:50
Anybody can go in and set up an interview.
49:53
And I was happy to see that
49:55
you guys had the Jeep stuff.
49:56
Well, I think we've gone
49:57
back and forth in the emails
50:00
a couple of three weeks ago, maybe a month.
50:01
So I just had forgotten
50:02
the names and who it was,
50:04
but I thought that was funny.
50:05
I was like, oh no, a realtor.
50:06
Do you know this?
50:07
I bet you do know this.
50:08
I learned recently, you
50:10
never make eye contact
50:11
with a realtor because you're gonna be
50:13
in a conversation shortly.
50:15
Yes, definitely.
50:17
I'm not a pushy realtor.
50:20
That's why when I was very active,
50:23
that's why people would
50:24
stick with me and use me.
50:27
But I've met people and
50:29
I've sold some Jeepers,
50:30
some properties, you know?
50:33
So when I listed properties,
50:36
I did, this lady had a five acre property
50:40
and I took my little TJ
50:41
and I did a full video
50:43
driving through her property.
50:45
Oh, that's neat.
50:46
That's a great idea.
50:47
It was great.
50:48
And I don't know if it's on the email.
50:50
You'll have to look.
50:51
I used to have links to that video.
50:54
And then there was one
50:56
other one that I took my 392.
50:58
It was just through a
50:59
community, like driving through.
51:00
It was a big lagoon community.
51:04
That's like, it looks like
51:05
the ocean, but it's a pool.
51:07
I don't know if you've heard of those.
51:10
It was the first one in
51:11
the country is in Florida.
51:14
They're called crystal lagoons.
51:17
They look like, they're like five acre pools
51:22
that look like the ocean.
51:23
So I think that's where I
51:24
did the video with the Jeep.
51:26
And so anyway, yeah, that's, I called myself
51:30
the Jeep and realtor for a while.
51:32
That's not a bad idea
51:33
because I think everybody
51:34
at some point in their life
51:36
has wanted the Jeep.
51:37
And for some reason
51:38
they haven't got one yet.
51:39
Get a Jeep, you'll really appreciate it.
51:41
And you'll understand the Jeep family thing.
51:43
Natasha, thanks a lot
51:44
for being with us today.
51:45
Very interesting conversation.
51:47
And again, we'll have to get you back
51:48
so we can delve into this deeper.
51:51
All right, sounds good.
51:52
Thanks for having me.
51:53
Thank you.
51:54
All right, stay Jeepin'.
51:56
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