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Rubi Kunsch Built & Raced Her Own KOH Jeep · Jeep Talk Show

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IDO boys and girls,
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it's time for another
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Jeep Talk Show interview.
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We're gonna be talking with Ruby Kuch.
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I gotta ask you about that first name.
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Ruby Kuch is a, did I say that right?
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We went over that.
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Is Kuch the correct thing?
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It is, yes.
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Amazing, I can't
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pronounce the K to anything.
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Ruby Kuch is an ultra four
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racer, 808 and 4600 class.
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I think I know the 4600 class.
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What's the hashtag or the pound sign 808?
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What does that mean?
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It's my race number.
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That makes a lot more sense.
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I thought it was like
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a class or something.
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So you're number 808 whenever you race.
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Do you pick that or do
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they assign it to you?
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Yeah, you pick it and actually
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because they're
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tightening things up this year,
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I actually had a message
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like a month or so ago,
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there was more than one 808.
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And I said-- Well that's why
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we're gonna ask you.
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Yeah, cause anybody could come with it
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or they could copy you
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like they do on Instagram
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and stuff. Yeah, right.
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So typically your
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race number starts with,
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if you're a 4600 car,
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now it's, it'll be 46
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and then two numbers afterwards.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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I went to KOH in 2021 and
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watched Shannon Campbell
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sending it up Chocolate Thunder.
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And I was like, I'm gonna do this.
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And so while I was on the lake bed,
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I registered a race
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profile and picked the number 808
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cause I wanted it.
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So there was just a whole thing.
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It's like, okay, only
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one person can have it.
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And then I said, well,
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whoever has it the longest
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should have it.
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And I had it the
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longest, so I get to keep it.
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Is this 808, maybe
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you just explained this.
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Does 808 mean something?
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It does.
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It's the area code for Hawaii.
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Ah, there we go.
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So she was talking about living in Hawaii
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before we started recording.
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So yeah, you must really miss that place.
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I've never been, I hear it's nice.
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It's amazing, it's amazing.
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It's great for two wheels.
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So I've done some, I love hard enduro
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and I've raced some dirt bikes.
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So if you do that out
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there, it's great, but full size,
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you have to be on the mainland.
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Yeah.
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We'll just visit.
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Yeah, so ultra four
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racer, number 808, 4600 class
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who builds and races her own Jeep.
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This is racing a Jeep on the
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King of the Hammers people.
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That's really cool.
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She finished 19th at
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King of the Hammers in 2026.
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But I think the big
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deal there is finished.
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Because not everybody finishes.
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Yeah, well, and I have,
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because KOH is so
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difficult, if you do one lap,
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that's considered a finish,
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but a true finish overall is both laps
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and I did not do both laps this year.
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Oh, okay, okay.
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I ended up breaking second lap, so.
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All right, so is an AWS certified
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welder, fabricator and instructor.
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She runs Send It Nation
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from St. George, Utah,
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sharing builds, races and shop work
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as Send It Ruby on Instagram.
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A mom of four, she wheels and
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races with her husband, Joe,
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a combat army veteran builder and racer.
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Ruby, thanks a lot for being here.
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All right, so we have to,
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the first thing I have to ask is Ruby.
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I asked the computer, is that a nickname?
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Is it short for something?
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I mean, it's a great
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name for a Jeep person.
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Yeah, it is what I go by.
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I have a government name, as I say,
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but the only time my husband,
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he's called it me that twice
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and it was when I got
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baptized and when we got married.
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So even my mom calls
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me Ruby, like it's just,
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it's just what I go by.
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So it's a long-term thing.
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It's not something
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that you did here recently
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for racing and everything else.
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So it came about when I first started
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in Off-Road in 2020 because I,
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so I was a contractor
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but a fashion blogger
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and people on the internet are crazy.
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So when I started the Jeep page,
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everything was by design
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and I only put out
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what I wanted out there.
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So people didn't know my name.
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My initial handle online was Ruby in red
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and I had a Rubicon and I am red.
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So I thought people
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would have gotten that
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but I started filming and other YouTubers
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just thought my name was Ruby
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and everybody started calling me Ruby and
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it just kind of fit.
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Like, so it's just, you know,
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it's my second half
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identity, if you will.
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Oh no, it's perfectly fine.
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I was just curious if it
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was a nickname or what,
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but you've done good
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because I asked Rock,
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where did the name come from?
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It couldn't find it.
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Couldn't find any information on it.
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No, you did.
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The only thing Rock didn't cover
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was that I am a machinist as well.
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Oh, cool.
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So my dad did that
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for a dresser industries
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for many, many, many years.
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And it was interesting seeing some
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of the stuff he'd bring home.
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You remember the
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screwdrivers that had the little cap
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that you could unscrew
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and take the bits out of it
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and put it, change the ends?
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Yeah, so they were building those.
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So we had a bunch of them at the house
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and we're talking the seventies.
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So I think they had just first come out,
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but he brought them
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home, ones that he had built.
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And I thought that was really cool.
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I think the machinist
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thing is a real neat thing.
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He would actually, he
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probably wasn't supposed to be,
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but he would actually
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get replacement parts.
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I'm trying to think, I
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think we had a microwave
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that he did a handle that
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had broke the plastic handle.
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So we had like, yeah,
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that was really cool.
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So I find all that stuff interesting.
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I've never done it, but
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I find it interesting.
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I like the whole CNC, the
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plasma cutters, all that stuff.
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I'd love to have it.
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And I would have nothing to do with it.
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I mean, I would use it for something
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and then it would go years.
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You'll find things.
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Oh yeah, just having tools.
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I mean, I like the 3D printing too,
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but it's not the same thing as metal.
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All right, anyway, so
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you mentioned the red.
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So people are, long-time viewers and
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listeners are going,
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oh, he hasn't said anything about red.
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All right, so my
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Cherokee, my 98 Cherokee is red.
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That's my first Jeep.
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The second Jeep that
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we got was a TJ in 2003,
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same exact paint coat.
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And we got it used.
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So it was just meant to be.
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And then one of our,
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we ordered the gladiator
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had to get it in red.
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So it's not the same paint coat
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because it's a different
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red, but it's still bright red.
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It's not that maroon.
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I have cracker.
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Yes, exactly.
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It's a new one, yeah.
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So I have a thing where I say,
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all Jeeps are red or wannabe.
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So if you got a Jeep,
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and like we have my
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co-host Josh has a black Jeep
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and I just tell him,
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that's a so depressing,
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a black Jeep.
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I don't think the only
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thing worse than a black Jeep,
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unless you're gonna
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wrap it, is a white Jeep.
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I hate white vehicles.
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It's so unimaginative.
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They're everywhere here,
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but I think it saves the paint
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being in the Southern Utah desert.
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Like I'm looking all my window right now
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and there's four cars
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and they're all white
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and they're not all mine.
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It's just like what's on the road.
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Oh, you look at a parking lot
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and you see all those white vehicles.
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I just shake my head.
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And of course my wife likes white,
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even though she's a big fan of red,
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she does like white.
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She says it looks elegant.
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Says, oh, it looks like
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cheap and unimaginative.
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But you're married, you know how it goes.
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All right, so you told me
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before we were recording,
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you're from Boston,
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you've lived in Hawaii.
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How long were you in Hawaii?
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About seven years.
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Wow, that's long enough to get broke,
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buying all the expensive stuff there.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I call it, it's like paradise tax.
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I mean, living on the West
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coast isn't cheap either.
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But I think living in
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Hawaii, I needed less.
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You know, it was the beach
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and hiking and all of that.
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And you have such a small
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footprint for your property.
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Like you just have less stuff, you know.
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Compared to, you know, here I have a
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5,000 square foot house.
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We would put 10
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families on this on the rock.
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So yeah, it's simpler.
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It was good.
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So where else have you lived?
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You mentioned California.
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Where else in the country have you lived?
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I lived in Nebraska for a year.
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That's actually where
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I started off-roading.
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I lived there during COVID for a year
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and started going off-road
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in a place called Tuttle Creek, Kansas.
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I've lived in Florida,
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all over New England.
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I was a competitive skier.
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So we moved to Maine when I
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was in like middle school.
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Did that for a while.
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When I left Hawaii the
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first time I moved back to,
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I lived in New Hampshire on the beach.
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And then, yeah, just kind of all over.
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And I chose St. George
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because it's awesome.
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And as an adult, you get to choose where
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you want to be from.
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So we picked this.
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So how far is it for you to go off-road?
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Two seconds.
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I have great rocks. Well, I'm not talking
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about the driveway.
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I mean, you know,
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there's big rocks and things
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that are somewhat challenging at least.
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So I've filmed a few
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different commercials.
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Like there's rocks like
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right above my neighborhood.
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It's called Airport Hill.
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Gnarly rocks, like
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crazier than you'll have
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most of the country.
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San Hollow is about 15 minutes though.
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Yeah, that's just amazing.
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I'm three hours from a
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place where I can go off-road
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in Central Texas.
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And there's arguments
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about whether or not
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it's a right place to go off-road.
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I like it a lot.
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But my former co-host
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Wendy lives five minutes
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from Gold Mountain.
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And it's literally a five
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minute drive from her house
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to get on, not John Glenn.
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I can't remember what it's called now.
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John Bull.
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Yeah.
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And I actually flew up there.
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Nexon Tires had me come
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out for a very small thing.
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And they rented Jeeps.
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I got to drive a TJ on the Nexon Tires
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and go off-road at John Bull.
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Oh my God, that is gorgeous.
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Absolutely gorgeous.
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I think I still like Moab better,
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but it's different.
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It's very different.
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Yes, yes.
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They're in California.
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But still very--
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Believing here is so different.
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And we're still in Utah.
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The rock, I don't know, I love rocks.
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I find them super fascinating.
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And rocks all over
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the country are, I mean,
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everything is formed
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differently at different times.
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So yeah, it's always fun to feel the
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difference in the rocks
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and it's a different type of wheeling
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and the traction is different.
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I mean, I say the traction
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out here is like cheating
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similar to Moab.
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Yes, sandpaper.
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Yeah.
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But the rocks at King
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of Hammers, for instance,
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are very sharp, very smooth.
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Not as much traction.
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Willy in Kansas,
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there was a lot of shale.
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So you put any sort
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of skinny pedal to that
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and it just kind of crumbles.
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So yeah, it's all different.
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It's pretty cool.
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Yeah, it's kind of an adventure.
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I don't know how you feel
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about it, but I often say,
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having an off-road vehicle, for me
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specifically a Jeep,
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I don't want anything else.
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But having an off-road capable Jeep,
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which they're off-road
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capable from the factory,
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it's like having a superpower
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because you can go places
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that I just call them civilians
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can't.
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And it's amazing.
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It's an amazing feeling.
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And especially so whenever
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you're driving over stuff
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and you make the mistake of getting out
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and trying to walk up a
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hill and you go, my God.
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Especially when you bust your ass.
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It's just like, my God,
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this Jeep is really amazing.
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So yeah, I think it's wonderful.
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Okay, so let's get to the ultra four.
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People are getting pissed off.
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Talk about ultra four.
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So you mentioned COVID.
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Were you looking for
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something to do during COVID?
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Is that how this got started?
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Were you like, oh, I
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hate being in the house.
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No, I was so busy during COVID.
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Yeah, so I was a
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disaster restoration contractor
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for many years and
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during COVID, I was one.
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I've had four Jeeps,
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five Jeeps at that point.
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I ordered a diesel Rubicon and they said,
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oh, it's not gonna show up.
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And it actually showed up on April 1st,
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which was hilarious.
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And I was like, are
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you playing by the way?
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Yeah, no, I literally have the test.
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You better not be screwing with me.
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So that Jeep came in and I
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did want something to do.
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So I started the Instagram with the Jeep
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because I saw girls monetizing
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it and I'm a business person.
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I was a fashion blogger at one point.
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So I do know how to
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monetize things on the internet,
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but I saw girls with
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their cars and I was like,
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I could do that.
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So I started the page and
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then I didn't wanna just be
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a girl with a car.
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So I was like, I need to go
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find some rocks, some dirt,
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what have you and
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join the local Jeep page
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and figured out where I
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could go and went off road
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and got the bug and six
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years later, here we are.
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How successful has it been for you?
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Because I think a lot of
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people see, I ought to say it,
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people that don't know
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what the hell they're doing.
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And like you said, I can do that.
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And then you try it
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and you go, holy crap,
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what's the magic?
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I told you we've been
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doing this for 16 years
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and we're only four years away
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from being an overnight success.
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You have to put in 20 years.
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You may not have had to,
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but it seems like a
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lot of people out there.
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And you find out there's a lot of people
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that other people find interesting.
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You may not, but it's like I always,
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and I tell myself this so I
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don't get down on sometimes
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the show not doing as good
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as what I'd like it to do
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is there's a lot of
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talented people out there
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for radio, TV, so on and so forth.
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And you don't see them.
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It's a crapshoot.
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I mean, you have to try,
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absolutely you have to try,
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but it's really just a crapshoot.
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I think visibility is a huge part of it.
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And one of the reasons
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that I've been as effective
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as I have been,
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that first year started going off road.
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I connected with Rockstar
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Energy and Rockstar Garage.
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They had the great American crawl.
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So I was traveling all
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over the country during COVID.
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I traveled more during COVID
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than I ever had before COVID.
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And still, I have spent hundreds of
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thousands of dollars
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on travel and events
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and racing, obviously.
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I love racing, but one of the reasons I
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stepped into it was,
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I mean, I love competing.
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Like I just need something to compete in.
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But if it wasn't for the racing,
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my cashflow was very
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different before racing.
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When I first started.
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I bet.
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Yeah.
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Well, when I first
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started on the internet,
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Instagram was paying for reels.
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So I was making over
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$10,000 a month just on views.
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So all of 2021, I was
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on the road traveling
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and everything was
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paid for just for views.
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And then Instagram took that away.
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And now they pay a
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little bit, but it's not much.
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I would say Facebook pays more.
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But that was like how I monetized that.
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And then obviously
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working with companies and now,
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I do brand deals and I
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have yearly sponsorships,
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multi-year sponsorships.
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Like it just depends on
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how we structure the deal.
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But everybody thinks,
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"Oh, you have the best life.
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I just wanna travel
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and wheel and send it."
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But being broke is a thing.
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You can go in all in on this and do this.
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But I had months where I'm like,
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"Am I gonna be able to make this payment?
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I've had to say no to things."
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There's just a
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couple, like two years ago,
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I was talking about this
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with my sister the other day,
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I had jeans and they had holes in them.
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And this year, everything is paid for.
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It was $10,000 just to go to
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Hammer's, not the race fee,
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just to bring my small team that I have
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to spend the time there
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and do the race was $10,000.
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This year we've done that.
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We've done Jeep Beach,
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we've done Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion.
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I've been to the Indianapolis 500.
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I've been top fuel.
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We're going back to Vegas for a week.
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I just did Fabtech.
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I'm driving a NASCAR car on Halloween.
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Just all these cool opportunities
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that are paid or paid for, I now have.
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But the money and the
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sweat and the stress
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that I had to put into
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building this over six,
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we're over six years now,
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but it didn't just happen overnight.
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And if I didn't have the capital
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and the flexibility initially,
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I wouldn't have been able
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to build it the way I have.
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Are you going to SEMA?
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Of course.
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Well, I really appreciate you making time
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for this interview,
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because SEMA is just
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right around the corner.
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I'm literally driving a
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NASCAR pro car in two days.
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Yeah, you mentioned Vegas,
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but I wasn't sure if it was SEMA or not.
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I'm, NASCAR invited me out,
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so I'm doing that in Vegas.
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And then the next day I
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have top fuel nationals
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and I'll sit down with Fox Sports
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and all of those people then.
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And then we go right into SEMA.
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So it's crazy.
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And we had Fabtech last week, so.
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So after driving the NASCAR,
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get out and tell them it
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pulls a little bit to the left.
18:36
I will, just for you.
18:38
And I'll make sure my
18:39
media guy gets that.
18:43
So in any of the stuff that I ask you
18:46
that's too much information
18:48
or you don't want to share with anybody,
18:49
feel free to skip.
18:52
So now I gotta remember
18:54
what I was gonna ask you about.
18:55
I was too busy
18:56
thinking of an NASCAR joke.
18:59
Whenever you were, oh, do
19:01
people just reach out to you
19:03
for these deals?
19:05
Or do you have you or your team
19:07
actually reach out to individual
19:10
companies and stuff?
19:11
And I mean, sometimes
19:12
you have to be mentioned.
19:14
I mean, you have to be on their radar.
19:17
I mean, if you're doing
19:17
a good job media-wise,
19:19
you probably know you,
19:20
but sometimes it's just the like,
19:23
oh, they're interested in
19:23
working with us type thing.
19:25
And then you start
19:26
getting into consideration.
19:28
It's both.
19:29
Up until I would say the past two years,
19:33
it's been me just grinding.
19:35
I mean, companies reach
19:36
out to do collaborations
19:38
all the time, but it's a
19:39
lot of times it's stuff
19:40
that I'm not necessarily interested in.
19:43
My sponsorship with Lincoln Electric,
19:45
that came about because I went to PRI,
19:48
which is kind of like
19:49
a CMA, but for racing
19:51
and it's pretty small,
19:52
but if you're in racing,
19:54
you go to PRI.
19:55
It's in India in December.
19:56
So I walked up to the Lincoln booth
19:59
and the motorsports
20:00
marketing guys were like,
20:01
you're Senate Ruby.
20:02
I see your stuff everywhere.
20:04
You just popped up like two weeks ago.
20:06
Like what the heck?
20:06
What are you doing?
20:08
So that happened.
20:10
I'm gonna be doing a lot of work with 3M
20:12
and American Welding
20:13
Society this next year.
20:15
And those are all like bigger contracts.
20:18
That all came out because of visibility.
20:21
But I still, I'm
20:23
still always reaching out
20:25
to different brands and not,
20:27
especially with racing
20:28
because it is so expensive
20:30
and I'm trying to do more
20:31
than one type of discipline.
20:33
Oh, I forgot about that.
20:33
You really have to reach out
20:34
if you wanna be able to afford to race.
20:37
Oh yeah.
20:37
Like I have one of the
20:39
lowest budget programs,
20:40
even just in my ultra four class.
20:42
I'm competing a large part
20:44
of the people that at the top,
20:46
I placed ninth nationally this year.
20:51
Five of those people
20:52
are Ford factory racers.
20:55
And those cars are all
20:57
half a million dollar cars.
20:59
I think the cheapest one's like 350.
21:01
And my retail on my
21:03
race car is like 40 grand.
21:06
So we are a lot less money,
21:08
but it's still an entry
21:10
fee for King of Hammers
21:11
like over $3,000 and every
21:14
other race is about three
21:16
to $4,000.
21:17
So it's a lot of money.
21:19
So yeah, we're this
21:21
between now and January
21:23
is just fundraising, getting
21:26
out there, high visibility,
21:28
getting your metrics as beefy as you can
21:31
so you can show a positive conversion
21:33
rate that's appealing
21:34
that will make them
21:35
wanna give you $20,000
21:37
or whatever it is that you're asking for.
21:39
It amazes me that there's,
21:40
I mean, I know it exists,
21:41
but it amazes me
21:42
there's companies out there
21:44
that would just write you a check.
21:46
Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
21:48
For a large amount of money.
21:49
Of course, then you have to
21:50
apply that and sometimes more.
21:54
So, it's gotta be a very
21:58
big confidence builder too.
22:00
If when a company, you're
22:01
probably used to it now,
22:02
but it's like, wow, I mean,
22:04
a Wolfbox sent me a mirror
22:07
and I'm like, oh, this is cool.
22:08
(laughing)
22:10
It is cool and you need to
22:12
treat every step along the way.
22:15
Like to me, I think being
22:17
humble is like the biggest thing
22:19
and getting money
22:21
thrown at you is really cool,
22:23
but to me, it's also
22:24
very stressful because I-
22:26
Well, you have to perform.
22:28
Yes, that is always my
22:30
biggest thing is like,
22:31
am I doing enough?
22:33
And I think the fact that
22:34
I always think that I'm not
22:36
is one of the reasons
22:37
that I do do such a great job
22:38
and I do a lot of above and beyond
22:41
and I put a lot of thought and attention
22:43
into these relationships
22:45
and I try to hit things
22:46
at a different angle than most people
22:49
and brands really like that.
22:51
And I won't do a deal
22:53
with somebody with a company
22:55
if I don't like the people.
22:56
Like the product, there's
22:57
tons of great products out there,
22:58
but the people have to be like,
23:00
I'm gonna be spending time with you.
23:02
You're the ones that the
23:03
people I'm sending to you
23:05
are gonna interact
23:06
with, like how you treat me
23:09
and how you treat them.
23:09
Well, there's gonna be the association
23:10
from the people that
23:11
are being treated by them
23:12
and you don't wanna just,
23:13
it's just like doing reviews.
23:15
You do not want to review something
23:17
that's a piece of shit
23:18
and then people buy it
23:19
and they're gonna remember
23:20
that you told them it was great.
23:22
And there's a lot of that out there
23:23
and that's something that
23:24
I've never done nor will I.
23:26
And I think to me, it's all sustainable
23:30
if you do things right.
23:32
And so that's
23:32
something that I really strive
23:34
to consistently do.
23:35
So let me ask you about this.
23:39
I learned a couple of years ago, I guess,
23:42
that companies were starting to check
23:45
with the influencers
23:47
or the people that
23:47
they were partnering with
23:49
to make sure the women, I
23:50
guess it could be men too,
23:51
but generally it's
23:52
not for obvious reasons
23:55
about them having an OnlyFans account.
23:58
Yeah, so I-- Did you have an opinion
24:00
on the OnlyFans thing?
24:02
I mean, I try not to judge,
24:04
people should do whatever they wanna do.
24:06
But it turns me off.
24:08
Yeah, so it's funny, when I
24:10
first started the OF girls,
24:13
a lot of companies were working with them
24:15
and there's been a shift
24:16
the past couple of years
24:18
away from that, which I think is cool.
24:21
I think a lot of it has to do with
24:23
a lot of people in this industry.
24:25
Yes, there's older people like you and I,
24:27
but there's a lot of people that were
24:30
fresh out of college
24:31
and they were doing what was cool,
24:32
but now these people are married
24:34
and they're having
24:34
daughters and they're having.
24:36
So I love that, I have multiple deals
24:41
because of how I conduct myself.
24:44
I appeal to the masses, the moms, the
24:46
daughters, the teens,
24:48
like it's everybody
24:50
can see what I'm doing
24:51
and it's still good.
24:52
I've had a bunch of
24:55
OnlyFans accounts created
24:57
pretending to be me.
24:59
(laughing)
25:00
That used to happen a ton during COVID.
25:04
If you look up Send
25:06
It Ruby, there's a few,
25:07
Send It Ruby Backup, Send It Ruby XXO,
25:10
that Instagram won't take down still.
25:12
I don't know what they
25:13
post on these things,
25:14
but my fan base is pretty loyal.
25:16
So if something is
25:17
popping up, they're like,
25:18
"Hey, I'm pretty sure this isn't you."
25:21
In the beginning,
25:21
they're like, "Is it you?
25:23
I mean, if it is, it's okay."
25:24
I'm like, "No, dude, we don't do that."
25:27
I had an interview
25:28
with, well, I auditioned,
25:30
Netflix had reached out
25:31
to me a couple months ago
25:33
for a show and one of the
25:35
things they asked me was,
25:36
"Have you ever or do
25:38
you have an OnlyFans?"
25:39
And if I did, it would
25:41
have disqualified me from it.
25:42
So I was like, "Right there."
25:44
I mean, I chose for personal reasons
25:46
because the internet's
25:48
forever and we do have kids.
25:53
My, I'm a stepmom, but
25:55
we were full-time parents.
25:57
But I have three girls and a son.
26:01
The son is the big thing.
26:02
It's like, he's almost 21.
26:05
I don't want his friend saying,
26:07
"Hey, look at your stepmom."
26:11
The internet's forever
26:12
is what I tell people.
26:13
So don't ever put something out there
26:14
because even if you
26:15
take it down 20 bucks,
26:16
somebody already screen
26:17
recorded or screenshotted it
26:19
and it's not gone.
26:20
Oh yeah, no, internet's forever.
26:22
I like the one where there's, is it,
26:28
diesel XJ, there's a really pretty girl.
26:30
She has a bunch of Jeeps.
26:32
She's pretty funny.
26:34
I like it.
26:35
She's a big XJ fan.
26:36
And she comes on every so often and says,
26:42
fake account, if you
26:44
bought something from me,
26:45
I don't interact, I don't DM people,
26:48
I don't sell anything.
26:50
And my comment was,
26:52
"Whose feet is in these
26:53
pictures that I bought?"
26:56
(laughs)
26:57
So I always try to make
26:58
people laugh on the social medias.
27:01
But yeah, and there was another one.
27:03
Somebody was complaining
27:04
about all the fake accounts.
27:07
And I think my comment was,
27:08
I look forward to being popular enough,
27:11
the Jeep Talk Show being popular enough
27:12
that they make copy accounts
27:15
because they want to be part of the fun
27:18
of the Jeep Talk Show.
27:19
But anyway, it's like
27:20
you say, being humble.
27:21
And we always try to
27:23
maintain being humble here.
27:24
Getting back to what you were saying
27:26
as far as performing for the companies
27:29
and the individuals
27:30
that are supporting you.
27:32
We don't do this for stuff,
27:35
but occasionally stuff comes up.
27:37
I mentioned the Wolfbox camera.
27:39
There's a very nice company, G-tops,
27:43
that takes the freedom
27:44
panels and they cut a hole
27:46
and they replace it
27:47
with see-through panels.
27:49
And it was so neat.
27:51
I had to have those and he offered
27:54
and I took him up on it.
27:55
In fact, when we went to Moab in 2023,
28:00
my wife and I, it was wonderful being
28:02
able to see at the top.
28:04
And also too, I liked it
28:05
because I didn't have to worry
28:07
about hot, cold or anything else.
28:09
It was all sealed up.
28:11
So we've always tried to do stuff
28:14
to help support that company
28:16
because it's a great product
28:18
and because like what you say,
28:19
you wanna go the extra mile for them,
28:22
thinking of you the
28:23
way they think of you.
28:24
So I think that's wonderful.
28:25
I think that's the way you
28:26
have to be or should be anyway.
28:28
I think it's the only way for it
28:29
to be sustainable, honestly.
28:32
All right, so you're king of the hammers,
28:36
you're 4,600 class vehicle.
28:39
What is that again?
28:41
Who built that originally?
28:43
So I built it.
28:46
I dealt with that. No, no, no.
28:47
It's a Jeep.
28:47
That's the point I wanna
28:48
make was you're using a Jeep.
28:52
So it's a 97 Jeep TJ.
28:58
Its name is T-Rex
28:59
cause it was that like
29:01
emerald greenish color,
29:03
like that metallic, I don't
29:04
know what the paint coat is
29:05
on it, but originally he was green.
29:07
So we named him T-Rex.
29:10
He now has a four-O
29:12
in his original birth.
29:14
He had a two-five and a manual.
29:17
We put the four-O in it
29:19
because it was available
29:21
the year that it was
29:22
built and part of the rules
29:23
of the 4,600 class,
29:24
which is the stock class
29:26
in the Everyman Challenge engine wise,
29:29
you can only put whatever
29:31
power train was available.
29:32
So if there was two options,
29:34
obviously we chose the four-O
29:36
cause it's the better motor.
29:37
It has an AX 15, it's a
29:39
manual and you have to keep
29:42
the same transmission that was available.
29:44
Transfer case however, you
29:45
can put whatever you want.
29:47
So I have a JK Rubicon
29:49
transfer case in it currently.
29:51
Yeah, I was just gonna ask
29:53
you if you put an AW4 in it,
29:54
I know that a lot of
29:55
TJ owners will do that.
29:56
And especially for
29:57
traveling on rocks and stuff,
29:59
because a lot of people don't understand
30:03
manual transmissions
30:04
because they just never used one.
30:06
My first vehicle was
30:07
a manual transmission.
30:08
And if you're ever on an incline at a
30:10
stop sign or a light,
30:11
you learn some fancy
30:13
footwork and it has to be triple,
30:16
quadruple that doing a race,
30:19
going over rocks and stuff.
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Yeah, I have a hand
30:57
throttle as well though.
30:58
So if it's like, if I'm like this,
31:02
I will use that just a
31:03
hair to get it started.
31:04
And then, you know, just cut it off
31:07
and just drive from there.
31:09
But you can ride it more,
31:11
but the way I have mine set up,
31:13
it's not, it doesn't go
31:14
high enough necessarily.
31:16
So, but the hand
31:17
throttle is very helpful.
31:19
Oh, I can imagine.
31:20
Super steep gnarly stuff for sure.
31:22
Yeah, so, you know, I do all the work
31:27
on all our Jeeps myself.
31:28
I hate it, but I like
31:30
knowing how it was done.
31:32
Yeah.
31:32
And I've replaced the
31:36
clutch in my wife's 2003 TJ.
31:39
And I think I had an
31:40
interview with Centerforce.
31:42
I was just gonna say that.
31:43
About a month after that.
31:45
And I did not know anything
31:47
about heavy duty flywheel,
31:49
is it the extra weight?
31:50
So obviously you had to
31:53
have done that in your TJ.
31:54
Who did you go with?
31:56
Yeah, I have a Centerforce clutch.
31:57
Yeah, anytime, if
31:59
Centerforce makes a clutch for it,
32:00
I will utilize it for sure.
32:02
Yeah, it seems to be a great company.
32:04
We've had them on the
32:05
show a couple of times.
32:07
And those bastards, they'll
32:09
put up the pressure plate,
32:13
you know, a picture of them changing
32:14
or putting a clutch in there.
32:16
And their pressure plate is
32:17
this bright, beautiful red
32:19
that nobody will ever
32:20
see again, if you're lucky.
32:23
Yeah, I mean, I, it's
32:26
funny, one of my co-drivers,
32:28
I have a guy that he
32:29
always races hammers for me.
32:31
And if I do anything in
32:32
California, he'll race with me.
32:33
And then I have another guy that I use
32:35
for everything else.
32:37
And the hammers guy is like very,
32:39
like he worked with UFO.
32:42
So like they build all
32:43
like the Gomez brothers cars
32:45
and a lot of like the
32:46
top king of hammers cars.
32:48
So he's super like diligent OCD
32:50
and all the things that I'm not.
32:51
And he's like, we need
32:52
to change this clutch.
32:53
And he was so pissed that we didn't
32:55
change it last year.
32:56
And I'm like, we pulled it up, like
32:58
pulled everything apart,
32:59
took pictures.
33:00
I'm like, it's perfect.
33:01
Like I didn't have any issues with it.
33:03
So I've raced, you know,
33:05
two seasons on it already
33:06
and it's still great.
33:08
Well, and I know a lot
33:10
of people don't know this.
33:11
You can cook a clutch if
33:13
you don't use it properly.
33:14
And that's one of the reasons for a
33:15
heavy-duty flywheel,
33:16
at least in my mind,
33:17
is that you don't have
33:18
to feather it as much.
33:20
And so yeah, you can, I think it was my,
33:23
I mentioned my first
33:24
vehicle when I was 16
33:27
was a three-speed manual transmission.
33:30
It was the Nova 73 Nova.
33:34
And because of the way I drive,
33:36
because let's just put it this way.
33:38
I was never going to
33:39
die because I'm immortal,
33:41
but somebody else was going to die
33:43
with the way I would drive my vehicles.
33:46
I went through 12 clutch changes.
33:50
When I was 16, there was no internet.
33:53
There was Chilton manuals,
33:55
which I hated because I
33:57
never showed it correctly.
33:59
Really? I think they're so good
34:00
compared to what you find nowadays.
34:02
Well, maybe I just can't read.
34:04
(laughing)
34:04
I think that laring,
34:06
you should go to one
34:08
of those laring centers.
34:10
They have the Indianapolis.
34:12
Oh my God, that is horrible.
34:14
But anyway, I changed the
34:16
clutch 12 different times.
34:18
The first time, a
34:20
neighbor friend of mine,
34:21
I think is about four years
34:22
older than me at the time,
34:23
and well, he passed
34:25
away relatively recently,
34:26
but anyway, he helped me with it.
34:28
It took 12 hours to change the clutch.
34:32
Wow.
34:33
And I'm sure I didn't
34:34
have all the nice tools.
34:36
Oh, and you won't believe how happy I got
34:38
whenever I saw something
34:39
at the auto parts place
34:40
that was a wooden dowel
34:42
that was shaped funnily
34:43
like the end of my transmission.
34:46
The thing that I was stabbing
34:47
because it took so long
34:49
because I was moving
34:49
the pressure plate around,
34:51
picking up that
34:51
transmission, stabbing it.
34:52
But anyway, so I finally
34:54
found out, you'll like this,
34:55
I finally found out
34:57
that you can't just change
34:59
the clutch disc.
35:01
You need to resurface the
35:03
pressure plate and the flywheel.
35:05
Oh, and you might want to
35:07
change the throwout bearing.
35:08
I literally had to drive home from school
35:11
by starting it in gear and
35:14
shifting without a clutch
35:15
because the throwout
35:17
bearing went through the fingers
35:19
of the pressure plate.
35:20
You.
35:20
(laughing)
35:21
Anyway.
35:22
You weren't.
35:23
Oh yeah, absolutely.
35:25
So it's fascinating.
35:29
But anyway, it's really cool.
35:31
And I think that's one of the reasons
35:32
why doing these things,
35:34
and I'm sure you've had excitement too,
35:36
even though that you have
35:36
a team and stuff like that,
35:38
you've had things that
35:39
you've learned that were like,
35:41
oh, I mean, this is like
35:43
the heavy duty flywheel.
35:44
It makes sense once
35:45
you find out about it,
35:46
but I had no clue.
35:47
And I've done a lot of
35:49
standard transmission stuff.
35:51
Yeah, no, and I think
35:52
that's the great thing.
35:53
I mean, that's one of the big reasons
35:54
I started doing my own work,
35:56
because I had the
35:57
money, I was paying people
35:58
and stuff was going wrong.
36:00
And before I met my
36:02
husband, I traveled by myself
36:04
and I don't want to
36:06
have to rely on people.
36:07
And sometimes there's not somebody there.
36:09
Like even though you have a body,
36:10
you're out wheeling,
36:10
not everybody's mechanically inclined.
36:12
So I have self-taught some things,
36:17
but I also am one of those people
36:18
and I tell everybody this,
36:20
surround yourself with
36:21
people that know all the things
36:23
that are doing what you want to do
36:24
and be humble and add value where you can
36:29
so they can share the
36:30
knowledge and help you out.
36:32
And most people I feel
36:33
like in the automotive world,
36:34
they're pretty helpful
36:35
if they're good people.
36:36
And if they're not,
36:37
then find somebody else
36:39
because we can't take
36:41
the knowledge with us.
36:42
So share it.
36:44
But I would say, yes, YouTube
36:46
is great, manuals are great,
36:48
but there's also a lot of
36:49
bad information out there.
36:50
Oh, absolutely.
36:51
Finding people that have been successful
36:56
and you can see they are
36:57
doing things the right way,
36:58
seek those people out
37:00
and just ask questions.
37:02
Even with my welding,
37:05
no, I'm a certified welder,
37:06
I teach whatever, Igor
37:08
from Triton Engineering,
37:09
he builds like all of Von Gittin Juniors
37:12
and he builds top trophy trucks.
37:15
I go over there when
37:16
they're building cars
37:18
and just watch because-
37:20
Oh yeah, absolutely.
37:22
Can you ask questions?
37:24
Oh yeah, absolutely.
37:25
Ask questions, even say like,
37:28
hey, like I'll text you or
37:29
sometime if I'm struggling
37:30
so I'm like, hey, this
37:31
is the result I'm getting.
37:32
Do you have any suggestions?
37:34
Because he, in my eyes, is
37:36
one of the top fabricators ever
37:38
and he'll say, yeah, try this.
37:40
And so having people
37:42
like that in your network,
37:43
I think are priceless.
37:44
And I have people all the
37:45
time, like I teach people,
37:47
but I also have people
37:49
that I'm just friends with
37:50
and they'll text me, they're like,
37:51
hey, I'm struggling with this.
37:53
I'm like, send me a picture of your weld.
37:55
Okay, try this.
37:56
If they're still
37:56
struggling, I said, set up a camera
37:58
so I can see what you're
37:59
doing and then tell them
38:01
because I can look at and
38:03
hear things and say, okay.
38:05
You know, if somebody films a video on
38:07
YouTube or Instagram
38:08
and they're showing their welding
38:09
and they're doing their things,
38:11
I need to watch a lot of
38:12
this stuff to be able to say,
38:14
their metal's not clean,
38:15
they need higher amperage,
38:17
they don't have good gas coverage,
38:18
like their angle is wrong just because
38:21
I've done it enough.
38:22
So find people like
38:23
that for whatever it is
38:25
that you're looking to
38:25
do to have as a resource,
38:27
I think is pretty awesome.
38:29
I have never welded.
38:31
If I ever weld, it'll be self-taught.
38:34
It's gonna happen
38:34
eventually because I say--
38:36
Let's do it.
38:37
Yeah, yeah, I think
38:39
that knowing how to stick
38:41
two pieces of metal
38:41
together gives you the ability
38:44
to do pretty much anything
38:46
given the time and money.
38:49
I mean, battleships are welded together.
38:52
Tanks are welded together.
38:54
So to me--
38:56
Every railing or bridge
38:59
or, you know, big buildings,
39:02
like everything is welded together.
39:04
And once you start
39:07
welding, sorry to cut you off,
39:08
once you start welding
39:09
and you go out to say
39:11
like the Grand Canyon or like an
39:13
amusement park or anything,
39:14
you're just gonna be like,
39:16
that guy was 15 bucks
39:18
an hour, what is this?
39:19
Who paid the inspector off?
39:23
Because like the better
39:24
you get, I tell people this,
39:26
the better you get at say welding or
39:28
driving or whatever,
39:29
all of these things and these
39:30
people that you looked up to
39:32
and you thought were the bomb.com,
39:35
the more you know, the less you love.
39:38
I am more often
39:40
disappointed than I am loud,
39:41
but when you're loud now, it's like,
39:43
okay, that works really good, but--
39:46
Well, I think knowing
39:47
stuff ruins movies and books
39:50
because the people that are doing it,
39:52
they don't know what
39:53
the hell they're doing.
39:54
I saw a video the other day
39:56
where they were shooting a gun
39:57
and the whole cartridge was going through
40:02
the air.
40:03
I think my comment was
40:05
you should check your bore
40:06
on that rifle, because I think it's time
40:10
to change the barrel,
40:11
but it's really funny.
40:12
People just put stuff out there
40:13
and they don't know what
40:14
the hell they're doing.
40:14
All right, so I'm really
40:16
having fun talking to you
40:17
about this, I have so many questions
40:19
and we have so little time.
40:21
So 4600 or King of the Hammers,
40:25
I spoke with Tony Pellegrino,
40:29
did several interviews with Tony
40:31
and Jen Wright, and
40:33
we were talking about,
40:34
I got on this thing
40:36
where I was finding out
40:37
what he had to do to
40:39
race at King of the Hammers.
40:41
And I think the most
40:43
off-putting thing for me
40:45
was the catheter.
40:47
Yeah.
40:49
I was like, oh, holy crap.
40:51
I figured it'd be a nice set of the pins,
40:54
maybe a roll when you need it.
40:55
You can do that and
40:56
there's, guys have it easy, okay?
40:59
That's what I was wondering about,
41:01
guys have options for catheters.
41:04
I actually had this
41:04
conversation with Amber Slossen,
41:08
Randy Slossen's wife the other day,
41:10
because she is gonna have a
41:12
suit made by my suit maker
41:14
and she's like, question for you.
41:16
I'm like, what's up?
41:17
She's like, do you use a catheter?
41:19
And I've had catheter talks with like,
41:23
Sarah Price and Kristen and
41:27
just like all these top girls
41:28
because before I started racing,
41:29
I'm like, what do you do?
41:30
What do you do?
41:31
Of course, you wanna know.
41:32
Yeah, so for KOH it's hard,
41:34
cause it's a long race.
41:37
Catheters fail, so you
41:39
could even torture yourself
41:41
and wear one and you
41:42
still peed your pants.
41:43
Poor Amber has gone
41:44
through that a bunch of times.
41:46
I have catheters, I
41:49
have not been using them
41:51
because I haven't been fast enough yet.
41:56
Like first year, we were
41:57
just happy to get out there.
41:59
Last year, we made a lot of changes.
42:02
We felt good, we just wanted
42:03
to do it and to not time out.
42:06
This year, I'm
42:08
probably gonna wear a catheter
42:09
cause I'm hungry and I wanna finish
42:11
and I'm gonna not time
42:13
out, I'm gonna finish.
42:15
And I showed last year that
42:16
I could be pretty competitive
42:19
before it was just like,
42:21
we're just happy to be here.
42:22
We wanna finish and do okay.
42:24
And now I'm like, all
42:25
right, I need to do better.
42:27
So yes, the catheter is a thing,
42:29
but guys, they have
42:31
options, things can go over,
42:33
they don't have to just go inside.
42:35
Oh my goodness.
42:35
Yeah, so girls, they
42:37
have some new designs
42:39
that are a little bit nicer,
42:40
but it's questionable if it stays.
42:43
And like gluing something to your body
42:46
and being bounced around
42:48
in a race car for 10 hours.
42:49
Oh, that's horrible.
42:51
It's not great, so I don't know.
42:54
I just don't trust it either.
42:56
My luck, I just know it
42:59
probably is gonna fail.
43:01
So I actually-- Well, you should
43:01
need to try them, you
43:02
need to start trying them.
43:03
Just walk around the
43:04
house with the catheter on
43:05
and see how it works out.
43:07
My suit design is something
43:09
that I take into consideration
43:11
and I tell people this, I'm like,
43:13
I have a lot of design and
43:16
artwork and stuff on my suit.
43:18
So I try to pick colors and styles
43:20
that if there is an
43:21
accident, it kinda hides it.
43:24
Yeah, yeah, so the current
43:27
suit doesn't hide it as well,
43:29
I would say, but if I have that happen,
43:33
I'm just gonna pour water all
43:34
over myself before I get out.
43:36
Team, get the Gator razor in.
43:38
So if you see me covered in water,
43:39
you can re-clip this in.
43:42
I give you permission
43:43
to make a reel out of it.
43:45
Ruby Peter self is what
43:48
you can put out there.
43:49
Hey, when you're racing,
43:50
I don't, peeing is the
43:51
last thing you carry,
43:53
I don't know what to think about, seriously.
43:55
Winning is the whole thing.
43:57
All right, so again, I told you,
44:00
you called a timeout
44:01
on any of these things.
44:02
So when you're doing the catheter,
44:05
is that a medical professional, yourself,
44:08
or maybe a close friend?
44:10
I think it depends on the person.
44:12
I'm talking about for you.
44:15
So my husband was airborne and he was--
44:19
Oh, he was a medic, wasn't he?
44:21
If you look up Joe Coonch,
44:23
you'll find pictures
44:24
and videos of my husband
44:25
treating Afghani children.
44:27
So if I need a
44:29
professional, medical professional,
44:31
I'm married to one.
44:33
I would be so nervous.
44:35
Even if I did it all the time,
44:38
I would be so nervous with my wife.
44:41
Yeah, probably.
44:43
But I mean, if you're
44:44
a medical professional,
44:45
like you're not, so he, I don't know,
44:48
things don't bother.
44:49
I'm a diabetic and I give myself
44:54
obviously injections
44:55
and I'm anemic as well.
44:57
So I have lupus, so
44:58
basically my blood's all messed up.
45:01
So I stabbed myself a lot,
45:02
but initially when I
45:03
first had to stab myself,
45:05
I was like, I can't do it.
45:06
And so I would make Joe do it.
45:07
And then eventually I
45:08
was like, screw this,
45:09
I'm just gonna do it.
45:10
Because he wasn't
45:11
that, he was not gentle.
45:15
People are dying and I
45:16
don't have time to be gentle.
45:17
Yeah, exactly.
45:18
Or he's like, I'm like, I just tell him,
45:20
I'm not your soldier,
45:21
dude, be nice to me.
45:24
Is it type one or type two?
45:27
Type one.
45:28
You know they got a cure.
45:30
I'm sure you've seen that.
45:32
I mean, no telling how
45:33
long it'll be available
45:34
or how much it'll cost.
45:35
They literally have a
45:36
cure, it's wonderful.
45:38
There's a lot of cures
45:39
out there too though.
45:40
I don't know.
45:41
I kind of like Gen one
45:43
of like a drive train.
45:46
I don't wanna be the test dummy.
45:49
There's a lot of things out
45:51
there that should be good,
45:53
but down the road we learn.
45:55
Well, it's the islet. There are things
45:56
that are not great.
45:57
It's the islet cell
45:58
thing that I'm talking about
45:59
where they actually, it's
46:00
like an organ transplant
46:02
that they put in there.
46:03
So, but I think with that too though,
46:05
you need rejection drugs.
46:07
And so I had a tumor in my throat,
46:13
living in Hawaii during Fukushima,
46:15
radiation, so my thyroid,
46:18
I had to have that removed
46:19
and I lost my parathyroid.
46:21
So they transplanted
46:22
them and I am one of like
46:25
less than 10 cases ever documented
46:27
that I had spontaneous parathyroid
46:29
function 10 years later.
46:31
But the previous 10 years,
46:33
I had seizures all the time.
46:36
So they were doing
46:38
parathyroid transplants
46:39
and I was looking at that,
46:40
but I would have to
46:41
be on rejection drugs.
46:43
And rejection drugs are
46:44
really hard on your body.
46:45
So I think just keeping my body healthy
46:50
and stabbing it when I have to is--
46:53
Well, I'm very hopeful for you.
46:55
I hope that, because
46:56
I think the type one,
46:57
I have type two and type two
46:59
is the way you live your life.
47:01
But type one isn't and I love the idea
47:05
that especially children with type one,
47:07
potentially I'm not
47:08
having to go through that.
47:10
All right, so anyway,
47:11
off the medical stuff,
47:13
onto the thing that gets me--
47:15
It's not run at all.
47:16
Oh, I know.
47:17
The thing that gets me
47:18
is that you got the 97 TJ
47:22
that is your ultra four racer.
47:24
Is that also the king
47:25
of the hammers vehicle?
47:27
Yeah, so ultra four and king of hammers
47:30
are the same series.
47:31
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not
47:32
into any kind of racing.
47:34
So that, I mean, you
47:37
have more than one Jeep,
47:38
but I love my Jeeps.
47:40
And I don't want to tear my Jeep up.
47:43
Yeah, so I have a--
47:45
You wanna finish the race
47:46
and you don't wanna tear something up.
47:48
How was it for you,
47:50
especially putting time and effort
47:51
in building that
47:52
Jeep, to take it out there
47:54
and potentially trash the thing?
47:56
That's fine.
47:57
That's why I built the TJ for the race.
47:59
Cause initially, so I
48:00
have a 2020 EcoDiesel
48:02
that I thought I was gonna
48:04
turn that into a race car.
48:06
And then Kevin Stearns,
48:07
he's raced the unlimited class
48:10
and he's won a bunch of other classes.
48:11
He's like, people are gonna see your Jeep
48:14
and they're gonna hit you
48:14
just cause it's so nice.
48:16
Don't do that.
48:17
Right.
48:19
And it's funny because I'm
48:21
actually gonna be selling
48:22
the diesel soon and it's super built.
48:24
Like I've got custom axles, suspension,
48:28
it's freaking money
48:29
and the thing just walks.
48:31
But it's so much money
48:33
to roll and to jack up.
48:35
Now I have the
48:36
ability to build these cars.
48:39
Why would I roll that?
48:40
I just, she's just
48:42
sitting in the driveway.
48:43
So yeah, like my
48:46
co-drivers are great too.
48:48
Like if we're in
48:49
something very technical and slow,
48:51
Bryce will be like, I
48:51
don't wanna get into the body.
48:53
And if we're trying
48:54
to just get through it
48:55
and especially if I'm like, let's go.
48:57
I'm like, I don't care
48:57
about the body, whatever.
48:59
Like let's just go.
49:01
I have, like my fenders,
49:03
Nemesis made my fenders
49:04
and I have been, I've used
49:07
those as skid plates, rolling,
49:09
like all the things,
49:12
they are still great.
49:13
They're aluminum, they're super strong.
49:14
So I don't know, I've not been kind to it
49:18
and it still looks good.
49:19
Yeah, well, I think you
49:20
have to have that mindset.
49:21
You can't go out there
49:23
second guessing yourself
49:24
simply because you don't
49:25
wanna bend or break something.
49:26
You wanna continue the
49:27
race, but at some point,
49:29
you just have to be a
49:30
racer and do what you're doing.
49:32
Now, like I said, I don't
49:33
know a lot about racing.
49:34
I don't know a lot about
49:35
racing only from my street days
49:38
with my Nova and my 327,
49:40
all the crap I did to it.
49:42
I guess it's a good
49:42
thing I couldn't afford
49:43
a Hurst quick change rear end
49:45
and four 10 or four 11s for the Nova.
49:48
I guess it's good that that happened
49:49
because I'd probably be dead.
49:51
But it's actually the
49:52
reason why I got into Jeeps
49:53
because people, if you're
49:54
in a Jeep, they still do,
49:56
but mostly they don't try to race you.
49:59
I've just gone from not
50:01
racing or ignoring them
50:03
because it's kind of
50:03
drifting over into their lane
50:05
and it scares the hell
50:07
out of the little Hondas.
50:08
(laughing)
50:11
Good Lord, this has been
50:12
such a fun conversation.
50:15
And people think I'm just saying this,
50:18
gonna have to have you back.
50:19
There's a really lot of fun.
50:20
Literally, I feel like
50:22
hardly touched on anything.
50:23
I know, I know.
50:25
You've been awesome to talk to
50:26
and very easy to talk to, so.
50:28
Thank you, but my wife is
50:29
still surprised by that.
50:31
Great.
50:31
She says, "I don't like anybody."
50:34
(laughing) Well, it's like we were
50:35
talking before we got started.
50:37
There's so much stuff out there
50:38
that I don't give a shit about,
50:39
what you're doing,
50:40
your hobbies, whatever.
50:43
But if you're doing
50:44
something that I'm a part of
50:46
and I'm knowledgeable about,
50:47
I'll actually, I'll talk your ear off.
50:50
Anyway, I'm sorry.
50:51
So you know how the
50:52
kids love the social media.
50:54
Where can people find you online?
50:57
And if it's just look for Send It Ruby
51:00
or Send It Media?
51:03
So Send It Ruby,
51:04
R-U-B-I, is on all the socials.
51:07
And then YouTube,
51:08
which I'm always editing,
51:11
but getting it out
51:12
there, I'm not the best,
51:14
is you can either find it on Send It Ruby
51:17
or Send It Nation.
51:18
Send It Nation is the
51:20
race program that we have
51:21
and it's also kind of
51:22
like a community effort.
51:25
So we, you know, not
51:27
just to squirrel on you,
51:28
but the whole reason
51:30
that I'm still racing
51:31
and building this is I
51:32
wanna give kids and adults
51:35
seats, spots on pit
51:37
crews, teaching them to weld,
51:39
teaching them the business side of
51:40
things, all the things.
51:41
And also Send It Nation is a community.
51:44
So if you are new to
51:46
off-roading and you have no friends,
51:48
guess what?
51:49
I can help you find some.
51:51
As you know, the off-road
51:52
community is super friendly
51:54
and it's definitely a family,
51:56
but sometimes finding
51:57
that family is kind of hard.
51:59
So I want everybody to have a home,
52:02
have a seat at the table, if you will.
52:04
So, you know, people reach out to me
52:06
if you have questions about off-roading,
52:08
what are the things
52:09
you need for your vehicle
52:10
that are a must, how to go about things.
52:12
And you just, you wanna have safe places
52:16
and environments to wheel and to grow.
52:18
We help connect
52:19
people if you're not local
52:20
or somewhere we're gonna be.
52:22
That's one of the things that we do too.
52:25
Send It Ruby, R-U-B-I,
52:26
and then we have a website.
52:28
If you have any questions and
52:29
you don't like social media,
52:31
senditnation.com.
52:33
There is a contact box,
52:34
goes right to my email.
52:36
We can chat.
52:38
It also has event schedule, merch.
52:40
I teach welding for free at certain expos
52:44
throughout the year.
52:44
So it's an opportunity to
52:46
connect with us on that.
52:47
Or if you have an event
52:48
you want us to come do it at,
52:50
message us on there as well.
52:52
I'm glad you mentioned that stuff.
52:54
We don't have the level of guests
52:57
that actually goes
52:58
places that can be seen
53:00
or be watched at some event.
53:02
So I'm glad you mentioned that
53:03
because I need to ask the question.
53:05
Where can people, what's next for you?
53:07
You're gonna be at SEMA.
53:09
Are you gonna be at a booth
53:10
where people can come
53:11
by and say hello or?
53:13
Yeah, so I have a big autograph signing
53:15
with Lincoln Electric on
53:18
Wednesday at two o'clock.
53:20
Do you weld it like
53:21
on metal with a stick?
53:23
With a stick welder?
53:24
I do stick weld, yeah.
53:26
That would be great autograph to have.
53:28
Right?
53:29
No, I think we're gonna autograph
53:31
some special license
53:32
plates for the first few people
53:35
or I don't know how many they have.
53:36
It's going to be me
53:37
and a few other girls.
53:38
So we have Cynthia Gautier.
53:39
She drives the Lucas Oil Monster Truck.
53:43
Monique Embrezi, she's a
53:44
drag racer, Chloe Hudson.
53:45
She's an AWS CWI,
53:48
which welding inspector.
53:50
We have Maddie Gordon
53:51
from Ron Cap's Motorsports
53:55
with us this year.
53:56
And so it's gonna be me and a few girls
53:58
and usually we give stuff away.
54:00
So that's at two
54:00
o'clock on Wednesday at SEMA.
54:03
I'll be at PRI, which is that racing expo
54:09
that's in Indy in December.
54:12
I'll have an autograph signing there.
54:14
And then I'm just
54:15
traveling the rest of the year
54:16
just doing some
54:17
different promotional stuff.
54:20
Going to different races, et cetera.
54:21
But next year, we're
54:23
always at Trail Hero.
54:24
It's where we live.
54:25
I'll be at Jeep Beach, King of Hammers,
54:28
Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion.
54:31
And then I'm probably
54:34
gonna go to Bike Week and Race,
54:36
which Jeep people
54:38
like bikes to sometimes.
54:39
So yeah, we're just, we
54:42
have the calendar this year.
54:43
And it's funny, I came
54:44
back from Tennessee in August
54:46
and was like, we're home finally,
54:48
because I've been gone all year.
54:50
And then we're just gone.
54:51
So I don't know what
54:52
next year looks like.
54:54
That's what it's at at the moment,
54:56
but I'm sure we're gonna add things.
54:58
So you're doing a lot of hotel stuff.
55:00
What's your favorite
55:01
food to have at the hotel?
55:03
Please don't say pizza.
55:07
It depends on what I'm doing.
55:09
So if I'm on camera, like--
55:11
There's not something that you go,
55:12
oh, I especially
55:13
would have the same place
55:15
that you've been before.
55:16
That Salisbury steak was so good.
55:18
My favorite thing to eat in,
55:20
okay, if you go to
55:21
Smokey Mountain Jeep Invasion,
55:22
which is Pigeon Forge, Tennessee,
55:25
Windrock is close by Killer Wheeling.
55:27
So if you go to that area,
55:29
the best quesadilla I've
55:31
ever had out of my life
55:32
at the Carne Asada Quesadilla,
55:35
and oh my gosh, why am
55:36
I forgetting the name?
55:38
I literally, when I went to
55:41
Smokey Mountain this year,
55:42
I ate it every day.
55:45
I love that.
55:46
Quesadilla and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
55:48
Hold on.
55:51
Sure. I know.
55:52
No, it's fine.
55:53
Quesadilla, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
55:59
It is, I know as soon as I see,
56:02
I'm like, yes, that's what it is.
56:03
Oh yeah.
56:05
Shoot, Gorilla Taco.
56:08
Gorilla Taco, I wish it was a chain.
56:10
It is the best quesadilla ever.
56:13
I don't know, I live on,
56:16
like this body is
56:17
built on burgers and steak.
56:19
I'm allergic to
56:20
chicken, fun fact, so I eat--
56:22
Oh, do you know Greg Henderson?
56:24
He's a builder, he's a SEMA builder.
56:26
He does a lot of stuff in Michigan.
56:28
I'm sure if I saw him, I'd suck at--
56:30
I have never, he's a
56:31
kilt, he always wears a kilt,
56:33
especially when he's out
56:35
like at SEMA and stuff.
56:36
Anyway, I couldn't believe that he is
56:38
allergic to chicken.
56:39
I've never heard of such a thing.
56:40
Yeah, it's the, a lot of the,
56:44
so there's two different
56:45
ways you can be allergic to it.
56:46
I'm allergic to the way they process it.
56:49
I've learned, so if it's air chilled,
56:52
I can eat it and not have a reaction,
56:55
but I haven't eaten chicken,
56:56
I ate chicken the first
56:57
time in like years last week,
56:59
and it just felt weird.
57:00
So I don't think I'm gonna eat it again.
57:02
I'll just stick to steak.
57:04
So you know Baja Designs, right?
57:06
Yes, they're one of my sponsors, yeah.
57:08
Are they?
57:09
I forget the gentleman's name,
57:10
had him on probably a
57:11
year or two years ago,
57:12
and we got to talk about--
57:13
Is it West?
57:14
I'm not sure.
57:16
I think it's him and some
57:21
other guys were owners of,
57:24
was it Rugridge, Rugged Ridge?
57:26
And then they sold the company,
57:27
and then he started the Baja Designs.
57:29
Anyway, I thought it
57:30
was really, really cool
57:31
that he's a big Nachos fan,
57:33
and he was talking about the Nachos,
57:36
like you're talking
57:36
about the KCDAs, that's fine.
57:39
I'm just too interested
57:40
in food, but not just food.
57:41
I love food, that's my
57:43
favorite part of traveling,
57:44
and that's like the biggest
57:46
benefit to going to Vegas,
57:47
because like Vegas is whatever.
57:49
Well, it's like a road trip.
57:50
A road trip is licensed to eat bad,
57:52
and get all the stuff
57:54
that you would normally eat.
57:56
Well, I think if you
57:57
don't drink especially,
57:59
like you need horsepower,
58:01
good food, and yeah, brooks.
58:06
That's my happiness.
58:08
Obviously, we could sit here
58:09
and have a Joe Rogan three hour episode.
58:11
So I'm gonna wrap this up.
58:12
Thank you so much for being here.
58:14
It sounds like you're
58:15
having a great life,
58:16
and continued success.
58:18
And yeah, so hopefully
58:20
you can join us again here
58:22
really, really soon.
58:23
You know, we have the interviews weekly,
58:25
so don't be shy.
58:28
We always do that interview.
58:30
Well, maybe we could
58:31
have send a Joe next time,
58:33
and maybe we could do
58:34
a little hammers recap,
58:36
because at that point,
58:37
we'll know where we're
58:38
gonna be most of the year.
58:40
Maybe we can get Joe
58:42
to give us a hand signal
58:45
if you're feeling
58:46
threatened about talking freely.
58:49
Blink twice.
58:50
I actually said that
58:51
in a meeting yesterday.
58:53
No, I said it.
58:54
I had a meeting with Milestar yesterday,
58:56
and the guy wasn't talking.
58:57
I was like, "Hey, blink
58:58
twice if you're safe."
58:59
And he was just like,
59:01
"You can talk, dude."
59:03
Yeah, all right, thank you so much.
59:05
We'll let you run.
59:06
Thank you. Have a great day.
59:07
Yeah, continued success.
59:09
Thank you.
59:10
And we're gonna weld,
59:11
so let's make it happen.
59:13
You're my friend, you're my new friend.
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