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Jeep Scrambler Coming in 2028? Tony & Josh React to the Halo Desert Truck · Jeep Talk Show

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  (rock music)
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  Idaho Jeep Talk Show people,
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  you know, Josh, I never talk about this.
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  And I always kind of feel a little
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  like I'm bragging too much,
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  but this is the number one
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  (beep)
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  Jeep podcast.
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  Yeah, we are.
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  There's nobody else
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  that's been doing it as long
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  or as good, quality,
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  funny, all that stuff.
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  Nobody else doing it better.
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  And nobody brings you
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  the Jeep infotainment
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  like the Jeep Talk Show.
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  That's just all there is to it.
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  And I decided that it is a personal
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  problem that I have.
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  It wouldn't matter if we had
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  a million downloads a second,
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  I would still be
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  going, why isn't there more?
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  You know?
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  I mean, I'd be happy with the million,
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  but there's always room for improvement.
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  Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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  That's the way I look at it.
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  So I'm tired of thinking that way.
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  This is a good
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  (beep)
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  show.
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  And you should tell people about it.
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  Even if you don't enjoy
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  it, you should just feel bad.
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  There's a show that
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  you watch or listen to
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  that you're not sharing.
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  So share the
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  (beep)
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  show.
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  That goes for you too, Josh.
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  Well, being people's dirty little secret,
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  I mean, I'm no
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  stranger to that, I suppose,
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  but hey, whatever shoe fits.
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  I don't wanna share.
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  I don't wanna share.
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  I just want you by myself.
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  (laughing)
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  All right, besides giving you
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  (beep)
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  in this episode, we're
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  gonna be talking about
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  Jeep's plan for a scrambler.
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  No, I'm not talking about
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  the CJ8, the old scrambler.
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  Talking about a brand new scrambler.
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  I know, I've got some thoughts on it.
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  Oh, I've got some thoughts.
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  I do too, especially one
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  feature that just pisses me off.
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  I think it might be the same feature
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  I'm thinking about. Yeah, I'm sure it is.
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  We'll get into that
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  here in just a minute.
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  But will it happen?
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  Or do you think the
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  scrambler will really happen?
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  I think it's going to.
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  Yeah, okay, you wanna dive into this?
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  All right, so-- Yeah, wait, wait.
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  I'm still doing the teaser.
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  Start pulling on my cord.
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  I'm gonna go, brother.
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  (laughing)
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  Yeah, I understand.
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  So keeping your battery
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  charged without cooking it,
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  and we will have a
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  video voicemail to share.
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  Yes, finally, somebody
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  called in a voicemail,
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  video voicemail besides Josh.
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  Also, and I didn't
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  mention this to you, Josh,
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  are you up for another bonus segment?
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  Oh yeah, I know, I
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  love the bonus material.
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  So yeah, we'll
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  definitely get into some of that.
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  All right. And I've got a
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  (beep)
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  you, you
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  (beep)
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  all lined up for you all too, so.
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  Excellent, so in our bonus segment,
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  which we'll talk about
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  on this show briefly,
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  but you'll have to
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  actually be a YouTube member
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  to our channel to be able to see,
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  or a Patreon
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  subscriber to be able to listen.
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  So in our bonus segment,
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  we're gonna be talking about hard shackle
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  versus soft shackle.
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  Oh, good discussion. That was a request
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  that came in from our
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  listeners, our viewers.
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  They wanted to know about the scrambler,
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  and they wanted to know
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  about the hard shackle
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  versus soft shackle.
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  I think they're trying to wind me up,
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  so I'm talking about like
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  winch, cable, or synthetic rope.
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  Oh no, they might be lining us up
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  to get into a good
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  debate or something like that,
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  but we've got all kinds of good
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  infotainment for you
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  on these topics to fill your ear holes
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  all during whatever
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  you're doing right now.
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  Yes, right, and no, no, I'm
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  not gonna go down that road.
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  All right, so Josh, let's start,
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  let's go with the brand new,
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  coming up soon, Jeep Scrambler.
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  Yeah, so will it happen?
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  I think that is the big question
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  because we've been teased
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  with things before from Jeep,
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  and they've been really, really good
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  at bringing out some
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  amazing looking concepts
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  during Easter Jeep Safari.
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  I mean, for decades,
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  they have brought out
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  some really
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  eye-catching, amazing looking,
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  even like really
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  substantially engineered vehicles,
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  and we never see any of it at all.
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  And so it's time to, I think,
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  listen to the customer base,
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  and Jeep's been doing that
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  for the last six,
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  seven, eight years or so.
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  Now, Jeep's got a new head of design or
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  something like that.
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  His name is Ralph Miles, I
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  think is what his name is,
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  I might be brain farting on that name.
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  Ralph Maggio, yes.
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  No, well, yeah, okay.
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  He's doing a wax on, wax off for sure,
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  but he seems like he's
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  got his thumb on the pulse
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  of what the Jeep world wants.
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  And he says, this is going to be it.
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  We know that we've fallen short.
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  He's admitting mistake.
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  He's admitting fault,
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  which I really, really like
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  because that's something we haven't seen
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  from the C-suite of
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  Jeep in a very long time.
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  So the fact that he's
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  admitting that, yeah,
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  we've kind of dropped the ball
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  and we're going to make up for it,
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  or at least we're going to try.
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  And we're going to do that
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  by giving you a scrambler.
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  Now they could have come
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  up with a different name.
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  Okay, this is one of the things-
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  Like gladiator.
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  Pissing me off, yes.
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  This is one of the things
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  that's been pissing me off
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  with Jeep over the last
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  10 years is they just,
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  they can't come up with an original idea.
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  So they're just going to
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  resurrect a name badge,
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  pull something out of
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  the depths of the anals
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  and go ahead and here you go.
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  Here's the renegade.
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  You son of a-
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  (beep)
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  And it's like, no,
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  that's not what we wanted.
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  I think they've gotten
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  somewhat of a clue of what we want,
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  of what the Jeep world wants.
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  And I think that Ralph is
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  kind of directing the ship
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  towards giving us what we want.
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  Now, are they-
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  Well, Josh, we've
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  talked about this before.
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  We didn't like them calling the new
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  Cherokee a Cherokee.
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  No.
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  It looked too much like a tennis shoe.
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  And I think we agreed.
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  It should have been
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  called the baby grand.
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  Don't insult my Jeep.
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  No doubt.
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  So yeah, Jeep since, I
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  mean, like, what was that?
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  2015 or thereabouts?
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  Yeah, they haven't done
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  themselves or the Jeep world
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  any favors by just
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  resurrecting old name badges.
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  They haven't contacted us.
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  I've mentioned this before.
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  All they have to do is ask us.
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  I've been willing to be a
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  consultant for a very long time.
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  I've put it out there.
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  I just, they've blocked my calls.
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  If you would work for cheap,
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  all we need is a couple of
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  mentions in their social media.
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  You know, that's not too much to ask.
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  No.
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  So will it happen?
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  It seems like it's going to.
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  It seems like the scales
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  are tipping this direction.
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  We have a soft date of around 2028.
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  I'm guessing.
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  That's exactly right.
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  We'll probably see some,
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  now this is kind of what they did with
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  like the Grand Cherokee.
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  L, this is what they
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  did with the Wagoneer.
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  This is what they do with the Recon.
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  We're going to kind of see some test
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  models maybe out there.
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  We're going to see
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  some of those spy shots,
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  those spy photos that are
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  probably leaked on purpose.
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  We're on the moo moo.
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  We'll probably see that.
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  I'm going to guess second or third
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  quarter of next year
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  at the earliest.
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  So that's what we can
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  probably be expected
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  as far as what's on the immediate radar.
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  Now, what is this
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  thing going to look like?
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  Well, that's been the big question.
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  Are they going to do the
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  original Jeep scrambler,
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  the original CJ-8, any justice at all?
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  And I thought that
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  they could have done that
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  just by shrinking up the bed of the
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  Gladiator a little bit.
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  Perhaps making a,
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  what was the kit that
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  you could buy for the TJ
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  to make it a pickup?
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  Or was that was the JK?
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  The Brute.
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  The Brute, yeah.
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  There was the TJ and I found that later
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  it was a JK as well.
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  Yeah, something along those lines.
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  I could have gotten a little bit behind
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  as far as a scrambler-esque kind of look.
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  The Brute was cool.
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  Henderson, unofficial use only,
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  has put two old Brute kits,
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  AEV Brute kits on new, or not new,
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  but unused Brute kits
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  on TJ, two TJs recently.
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  Now, seeing one on an LJ,
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  I think would be more along the lines
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  of what we would expect as
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  far as a Jeep looking scrambler,
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  as far as a modern day
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  scrambler, I should say.
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  So whether or not it's going to have
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  a whole lot of homage from what I've seen
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  from the artist renderings so far.
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  And honestly, nobody
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  knows what this thing
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  is going to look like.
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  All this is, is artist renderings
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  from what you can see online,
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  the images that you're going to see
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  are not production vehicles.
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  These are artist renderings,
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  what people think it's going to look like
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  based on previous models,
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  previous design standards,
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  and what Jeep is saying,
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  what we know from Jeep,
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  what Jeep official is saying about
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  what this scrambler is
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  going to be as far as--
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  I've done a little research.
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  Let me tell you what I've found here,
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  what some information that I've found.
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  So key design and utility
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  features, true two door layout
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  with a significantly longer front door.
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  So get ready for it to sag,
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  because you remember the two door cars,
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  the door was a lot of--
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  Jeep and door hinges, you know.
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  We all know how that story ends.
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  So it's going to be a coupe style
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  for easier rear seat access
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  while keeping the sporty two door look.
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  That is what I've got a
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  little hitch in my craw
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  about right now is, okay.
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  So we're basically going
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  to build a Porsche here.
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  It has to have rear seats.
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  Great, okay.
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  So the scrambler is going to have
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  Porsche-like rear seats.
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  It's going to be able
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  to fit a two year old
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  and maybe a bag of groceries.
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  And that's about it.
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  Why the
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  (beep)
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  in all things that are glorious,
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  would they force two seats
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  into the back of a scrambler?
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  No.
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  Well, they can't have,
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  this is the one they,
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  the four doors sell, the four door,
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  the JLUs sell so much
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  better than the JLs,
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  because everybody
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  wants to have that ability
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  to either fill up the back seat with a
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  (beep)
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  Everybody can
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  (beep)
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  off.
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  Well, this is why we don't get two doors,
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  is because people want four doors.
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  Yeah, okay.
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  So here's how they're
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  getting around them being
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  itty bitty tiny midget back seats,
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  is apparently they're going
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  to be a little bit modular,
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  meaning you can kind of flip them around
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  or rotate them or something,
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  because Tony, there's a feature in here
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  that I know that I
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  don't particularly like,
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  but it might be the one
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  that you're thinking of.
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  It's the rear hatch
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  comes off type of thing.
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  It is a K, according to my research,
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  it is a K5 Blazer style top.
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  You remember the old blazers?
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  Oh yeah, where it was kind of like the L,
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  it was like kind of a quarter top, yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, it was
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  cool, it really looked cool
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  when it was driving around,
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  you'd own Friday,
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  Saturday night downtown.
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  You know what else had
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  that thing like that?
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  The Bronco. The Chevy Avalanche.
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  Oh really?
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  I didn't know about that one,
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  but the Bronco was that way too.
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  They had the back panel that came off
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  and gave you like an
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  actual eight foot bed
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  that basically the rear seats fold down,
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  you put this panel down in the floor,
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  and now you've got like an eight foot bed
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  that intrudes into the cab.
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  I see nothing but
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  problems with this, honestly.
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  That is how they're
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  describing the scrambler,
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  like what you're talking about.
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  Ah.
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  And they also say the bed
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  will have more room in it
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  than the gladiator because of this.
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  You'll be able to carry more stuff
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  in the back of a scrambler
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  than you can with a gladiator.
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  And see, that's not, that shouldn't be,
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  that shouldn't, it shouldn't be that way.
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  The gladiator should
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  be in a full pickup bed.
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  Honestly, they put the
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  rear wheel in the wrong place
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  on those, but still nonetheless, it's,
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  they're trying to, okay, there's
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  something that I read
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  about this truck being like
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  a Swiss army knife of Jeeps.
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  Exactly.
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  This thing can become
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  anything that you want or need it to.
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  And I think trying to
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  please all the people,
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  all the time for all the
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  things is not the way to go.
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  But what if they do it?
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  What if they actually
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  accomplish something
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  that we know can't happen?
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  You know, cause you can't
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  make all things to all people.
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  I don't know about all that.
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  I mean, if anybody
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  could do a Junior Unicorn,
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  it would be Jeep, wouldn't it?
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  Well, okay.
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  I do have an ounce of faith
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  behind the new design guy.
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  He, it sounds like he
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  knows what he's talking about.
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  It sounds like he has good intentions,
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  but you know what
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  they say about, you know,
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  the road to heaven is
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  paved in good intentions.
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  And this thing has the potential
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  of being an absolute nightmare.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  So I'm gonna do some foreshadowing here,
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  some guessing I'm
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  gonna put on my Jombie hat.
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  And I'm gonna predict
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  that this back hatch thing
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  is going to be a problem for Jeep.
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  It is going to have a recall.
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  Oh, do you think it's gonna leak?
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  Absolutely it's going to leak.
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  Like the Freedom Tops,
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  it's going to leak like a Civ.
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  I'm sorry, but you know,
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  maybe they get it right.
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  I don't know, but I think maybe, okay.
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  Maybe it's right off the showroom floor.
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  And maybe a couple of few
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  years later down the road,
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  it's still okay.
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  But as you get closer to
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  a hundred thousand miles,
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  and if there's any off-road
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  use with this thing whatsoever,
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  I see those seals starting to leak.
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  Absolutely.
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  So we'll see.
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  Let me throw this in,
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  because I think this will set you off.
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  I was kind of concerned about it.
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  So you were right.
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  The research I have read here is,
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  rear seats removable, foldable,
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  and flippable to face rearward.
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  Tailgating jump seat style.
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  Now this is the part I was,
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  they're gonna, that I want you to hear.
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  Side step lets people climb in the back
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  without opening a door.
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  We all know what side
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  steps are good for off-road.
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  Oh no.
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  I don't, I haven't seen it.
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  It may be done right.
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  The saying.
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  It's, yeah.
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  Okay, one of two things.
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  It's either gonna,
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  it's gonna be in the way,
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  like you're talking about,
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  or it's just gonna be a mud pocket,
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  where it's just gonna
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  collect rocks and mud,
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  and it's gonna be a
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  point where there's gonna be
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  a lot of rust that
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  happens 10 years down the road.
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  The other thing I see is
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  it being an absolute wart
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  as far as an eyesore on
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  the side of the vehicle goes.
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  I could see this being
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  very out of place, but I mean,
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  look, they're turning a
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  scrambler into a Subaru brat, Tony.
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  Yeah, you're right.
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  That's a good one.
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  I thought those were cool looking,
• 14:18
  but I never was gay enough to get one.
• 14:21
  Just that's what I'm saying.
• 14:22
  It's like, come on, man.
• 14:23
  You can't come up with an original idea.
• 14:25
  This isn't necessarily
• 14:26
  what people are wanting,
• 14:27
  but I don't know.
• 14:28
  Okay, maybe.
• 14:30
  Okay, okay, wait a minute.
• 14:31
  So, okay, with top off.
• 14:35
  Hold on, I hit the desk and
• 14:36
  now my mic is cutting out.
• 14:38
  Okay.
• 14:39
  There it is.
• 14:40
  Okay, we're back.
• 14:42
  Edit, edit, edit.
• 14:46
  Okay, get this.
• 14:47
  It is a higher bed line, lower,
• 14:51
  and I don't know what they're talking
• 14:52
  about here, greenhouse,
• 14:53
  lower greenhouse than a
• 14:55
  gladiator for more muscular,
• 14:58
  less military purposeful side profile.
• 15:02
  So it's like, I don't understand that.
• 15:05
  Why would you want to be less military?
• 15:07
  I'm thinking more
• 15:08
  military is what you want to be.
• 15:09
  I mean, put a turret on
• 15:10
  this thing if you have to.
• 15:12
  Well, okay, so there's
• 15:13
  something else that I've read,
• 15:16
  and this came from Ralph
• 15:19
  Miles, the designer guy,
• 15:21
  or Millie's or whatever his name is.
• 15:23
  And he says that there's
• 15:25
  something about a halo.
• 15:27
  Like there's going to be a-
• 15:28
  This is the halo vehicle.
• 15:30
  No, no, I had to look that up
• 15:31
  because I didn't understand what the hell
• 15:32
  they were talking
• 15:33
  about, the halo vehicle.
• 15:34
  Video game, halo, yeah.
• 15:35
  And so there-
• 15:37
  No, no, no, no.
• 15:38
  Let me tell you what it means.
• 15:39
  I was confused as well.
• 15:41
  I actually had to look it up.
• 15:42
  So the halo means this is the showpiece
• 15:47
  of the Wrangler Gladiator Scrambler line.
• 15:51
  This is like the Hellcat.
• 15:53
  This is like the, what is it GM has
• 15:57
  that's the high performance thing?
• 15:59
  I'm trying to find it here.
• 16:00
  Because I was like, I had to ask AI,
• 16:03
  what the hell did they mean by halo?
• 16:05
  Because I was
• 16:05
  thinking of the game as well.
• 16:08
  That's exactly the direction I was going
• 16:10
  because a lot of the artist renderings
• 16:13
  I think are picking up on the halo
• 16:16
  and they are making it sort of-
• 16:18
  Oh really?
• 16:19
  Yes, yes.
• 16:20
  So they're confused about it as well.
• 16:22
  So, or I don't know
• 16:24
  because wouldn't ordinarily
• 16:26
  something like this,
• 16:27
  if that's the direction
• 16:28
  that you're talking
• 16:29
  about be considered flagship.
• 16:32
  This is your flagship vehicle.
• 16:33
  This is what you put, this
• 16:35
  is like the flagship store.
• 16:37
  This is the pinnacle, at the top, the
• 16:40
  number one, the best.
• 16:43
  No, Wrangler would be at the top
• 16:46
  or the Grand Wagoneer
• 16:48
  as far as that goes.
• 16:49
  This would be in a
• 16:49
  separate tier into itself then.
• 16:51
  Of the Wrangler and the Gladiator,
• 16:53
  the Scrambler is
• 16:54
  meant to be the pinnacle,
• 16:57
  above all the other off-road style Jeeps.
• 17:01
  Anyway, halo as in halo
• 17:03
  model or halo vehicle.
• 17:06
  Is car industry slang for a
• 17:09
  special high profile model
• 17:11
  that sits at the top
• 17:13
  of the brand's lineup
• 17:14
  and is meant to create
• 17:16
  excitement and prestige
• 17:18
  for everything else the company sells.
• 17:21
  And it says, think of
• 17:22
  it like a glowing halo
• 17:24
  over the whole brand.
• 17:26
  So for example, the Dodge
• 17:27
  Viper that Dodge used to have,
• 17:30
  the Corvette ZR1 or
• 17:32
  the Z06 for Chevrolet,
• 17:34
  the Hellcat Demon cars for
• 17:37
  Dodge, the Ford GT for Ford,
• 17:39
  Wrangler Rubicon 392 has
• 17:42
  already been a mild halo for Jeep.
• 17:45
  So that's what they mean by halo.
• 17:46
  I was confused by that.
• 17:48
  The Grand Cherokee
• 17:49
  has a Trackhawk version,
• 17:52
  an SRT version as well.
• 17:54
  Well, you know, the halo
• 17:55
  is, I mean, not the halo,
• 17:56
  the Scrambler is supposed to
• 17:58
  have an SRT version as well.
• 18:01
  Did you know about that? Well, okay.
• 18:02
  So I did hear or read
• 18:04
  something about that.
• 18:06
  But there's no way
• 18:07
  they're gonna be able to Scram
• 18:08
  a fit of 392 into this thing.
• 18:09
  No, it's a 6.4 liter Hemi
• 18:13
  that you're talking
• 18:14
  about putting in there.
• 18:16
  No. Yes.
• 18:18
  That's the information I got.
• 18:19
  I mean, that's why we're discussing this,
• 18:21
  but the information I
• 18:22
  got, yes, absolutely.
• 18:23
  Is a Pentastar V6 and
• 18:25
  the Hurricane Turbo 4
• 18:28
  are what I've seen for
• 18:32
  approved drive train options
• 18:33
  at this point.
• 18:34
  Now you've seen that
• 18:36
  officially they're gonna put
• 18:37
  a Hemi into this thing?
• 18:38
  I'm not saying
• 18:39
  official because I don't know
• 18:42
  that any of this stuff has come out,
• 18:43
  but based on the research that I've done,
• 18:47
  there, let me see, let me get here.
• 18:48
  Yeah, SRT version is the centerpiece.
• 18:52
  Expect it's 6.4 liter, 392 Hemi V8.
• 18:57
  Currently 470
• 18:59
  horsepower, 470 pounds torque
• 19:06
  in the regular 392 paired
• 19:08
  with eight speed automatic.
• 19:10
  Possible base engine, a
• 19:12
  2.0 liter Hurricane Turbo 4
• 19:15
  or a 3.6 Pentastar V6.
• 19:19
  So that's what I've read is--
• 19:21
  I'm gonna kind of give it away here,
• 19:22
  the thing we don't like.
• 19:24
  Focus on high speed off-road capability
• 19:27
  rather than pure rock crawling.
• 19:30
  And I think this is the biggest error
• 19:32
  that they're gonna make.
• 19:33
  Yeah, I did hear that
• 19:34
  they are going to try
• 19:36
  and the design of this
• 19:39
  is around Desert Racer.
• 19:41
  Now there was a couple
• 19:43
  of concepts that Jeep had
• 19:44
  over the last 10 years.
• 19:46
  They did have a two door beach cruiser
• 19:50
  type of concept vehicle
• 19:52
  that they brought to Easter Jeep Safari
• 19:54
  a number of years back.
• 19:55
  I think it was like a baby blue
• 19:56
  or something like that
• 19:57
  two tone paint job stuff.
• 19:58
  It looked sick, I mean, it was amazing.
• 20:01
  But this seems to have,
• 20:04
  from the renderings
• 20:05
  that I have seen so far,
• 20:06
  a lot of those sort of
• 20:08
  design features to it.
• 20:10
  They are focusing on Desert Rat.
• 20:13
  They're focusing on Desert Racing,
• 20:14
  off-road racing and stuff like that.
• 20:16
  Well like the Raptor, the
• 20:17
  Ford Raptor, the Bronco.
• 20:19
  And I don't know,
• 20:22
  do you know the three letters
• 20:25
  that we're talking about here?
• 20:27
  The thing that no jeeper
• 20:28
  ever wanted a Jeep to have?
• 20:30
  For XE?
• 20:31
  Oh, I'm sorry.
• 20:34
  IFS.
• 20:36
  Oh yeah, that's right.
• 20:37
  I did read IFS front and rear likely.
• 20:40
  Exactly, that's the one
• 20:42
  that surprised me was the rear.
• 20:43
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  So when I read rear IFS.
• 20:50
  Who gives a
• 20:51
  (beep)
• 20:51
  about driving fast off-road?
• 20:54
  When I read rear IFS,
• 20:57
  immediately this thing
• 20:58
  turned into a Polaris Razor.
• 21:00
  This thing turned into a side by side.
• 21:02
  I didn't think about that, perfect.
• 21:03
  Okay, so in my head, all of a sudden,
• 21:06
  it just like the design concept
• 21:07
  completely morphed into a
• 21:09
  vehicle that I was like,
• 21:10
  oh God, no, no, please don't.
• 21:13
  So it's one of those
• 21:14
  things where I hope they keep
• 21:16
  at least a live rear axle,
• 21:18
  a solid rear axle in the back.
• 21:20
  I have a sneaky
• 21:22
  suspicion that that may only come
• 21:25
  with their SRT model.
• 21:29
  I believe that the base models
• 21:30
  are going to have an IFS variant,
• 21:32
  which is gonna be really interesting
• 21:34
  when it comes down to the frame,
• 21:36
  because I've heard that a lot of the
• 21:39
  underpinnings of this
• 21:41
  are what makes this truck is gonna come
• 21:43
  from the
• 21:44
  underpinnings of both the Wrangler
• 21:45
  and the Gladiator,
• 21:46
  which they said is going
• 21:48
  to have a similar frame,
• 21:50
  but modified.
• 21:52
  Now I'm wondering if that
• 21:53
  means that they're gonna put
• 21:54
  subframes on the front and
• 21:56
  rear to house IFS variants.
• 22:00
  What is that gonna look like?
• 22:03
  Are you gonna be able to work on that?
• 22:05
  And if you jump this
• 22:06
  thing, went out on the dunes,
• 22:07
  because you're expecting the Desert Racer
• 22:09
  to be able to jump off of
• 22:11
  that Razorback that you just hit,
• 22:13
  is it gonna completely
• 22:14
  fold underneath of you?
• 22:15
  So let me see if this
• 22:18
  matches what you've been reading.
• 22:20
  Again, this is the research that I did.
• 22:22
  So expected classic Jeep traits,
• 22:26
  removable roof and
• 22:27
  doors, seven slot grill.
• 22:30
  I don't know why they
• 22:31
  didn't make it eight.
• 22:32
  But anyway, front end
• 22:34
  styling, lean retro influences,
• 22:37
  Anvil 715 concept, if
• 22:39
  you've seen the 715 concept,
• 22:42
  which I think is not a bad looking,
• 22:44
  it's a concept,
• 22:45
  Kaiser era type of things.
• 22:48
  Yes, I've been waiting for this for you.
• 22:50
  And I was hoping that
• 22:51
  they were gonna do it
• 22:52
  with the Gladiator, but they didn't.
• 22:53
  But I was looking for some
• 22:54
  Kaiser-esque design traits
• 22:56
  to come up on the front end a little bit.
• 22:58
  And the Gladiator would
• 22:59
  have been the absolute perfect
• 23:01
  opportunity to do that with.
• 23:03
  Instead, they're going
• 23:04
  to sort of shrink it down
• 23:06
  a little bit and from the
• 23:07
  renderings that I've seen,
• 23:09
  it's gonna even have
• 23:10
  square headlight or headlight.
• 23:11
  Oh yeah, that's the next
• 23:13
  thing I was gonna read.
• 23:14
  It's a possible shark nose,
• 23:16
  which you can explain
• 23:17
  to me what that means.
• 23:18
  So that's the pointed
• 23:20
  nose. Forward, canted hood.
• 23:21
  And then of course the square headlights,
• 23:23
  which I was amazed
• 23:24
  at, that's kind of cool.
• 23:25
  Yeah, so remember the Kaiser truck,
• 23:30
  how it kind of had, if
• 23:31
  you're looking from the top down,
• 23:33
  the grill kind of had
• 23:35
  like a W shape to it almost.
• 23:36
  Yeah, it was like
• 23:37
  slanted forward, wasn't it?
• 23:38
  And it was slanted forward.
• 23:39
  So this is going to have that same sort
• 23:42
  of appearance to it.
• 23:43
  It's gonna have that forward slant to it.
• 23:46
  The headlights are gonna be
• 23:47
  recessed in a little bit deeper.
• 23:50
  A little bit deeper of
• 23:50
  a headlight surrounds
• 23:51
  is what we're expecting.
• 23:53
  Again, all of them. Well, this is kind of
• 23:54
  what we were bitching
• 23:55
  about way back when,
• 23:56
  when we were talking
• 23:57
  about the new Cherokee.
• 23:58
  They had an
• 23:58
  opportunity to take the Cherokee,
• 24:01
  modernize it, but have
• 24:03
  cues from the original.
• 24:06
  Retro cues, exactly, yeah.
• 24:08
  So I like this idea
• 24:10
  because they're pulling things in
• 24:12
  and even from far back on the Jeep line.
• 24:15
  Yes, but here's where,
• 24:17
  so seven slot grill, square headlights.
• 24:19
  Ooh, now we all know what a
• 24:22
  whole bunch of the Jeep purists
• 24:24
  are going to think about that.
• 24:25
  So they're like, "Wow,
• 24:26
  now I got a true Jeep,
• 24:28
  "a seven-stop grill, two
• 24:29
  doors and round headlights."
• 24:31
  And this is, I think, gonna
• 24:34
  (beep)
• 24:35
  some people off
• 24:36
  as far as that's
• 24:37
  concerned. Of course it is.
• 24:38
  But that being said,
• 24:41
  from the renderings that I have seen,
• 24:44
  looks freaking cool.
• 24:46
  If they go anywhere near
• 24:48
  as far as what I've seen
• 24:49
  from designs in their actual design
• 24:52
  in the production vehicle,
• 24:53
  anything near the concepts
• 24:54
  or the artist renderings that I've seen,
• 24:57
  it is going to be one
• 24:58
  of the coolest front ends
• 24:59
  Jeep has released in the last 50 years.
• 25:02
  I agree.
• 25:03
  It's gonna be, the only
• 25:04
  problem I really have with this
• 25:06
  is the IFS front and rear.
• 25:09
  That's not a Jeep for me.
• 25:10
  And I will never buy
• 25:12
  this because it's IFS.
• 25:16
  I will agree with you
• 25:18
  to a certain extent.
• 25:19
  I'll put an asterisk
• 25:20
  on that and say that,
• 25:22
  okay, if they're really
• 25:24
  leaning into this desert racer aspect
• 25:26
  of this thing, and
• 25:28
  this is the design concept
• 25:30
  they're going with,
• 25:31
  okay, I can kind of see
• 25:33
  some potential
• 25:35
  possibilities if they do it right
• 25:38
  and they really make the front IFS beefy
• 25:40
  and they really focus on
• 25:42
  good suspension geometry
• 25:44
  and they absolutely put
• 25:46
  in some good name branding.
• 25:47
  I wanna see some Fox,
• 25:49
  I wanna see some King,
• 25:50
  I wanna see something in that front end
• 25:52
  like Ford did with the Raptor.
• 25:54
  I wanna see some Bill
• 25:56
  Steens up there, some King,
• 25:58
  I wanna see something up
• 25:59
  there that is going to be like,
• 26:00
  yes, look, that means business.
• 26:04
  Now, let's be clear or let me be clear.
• 26:08
  Can you build a very robust
• 26:10
  IFS front or front and rear?
• 26:13
  Absolutely you can.
• 26:15
  Yeah.
• 26:16
  You're gonna pay for it.
• 26:17
  Think trophy truck.
• 26:19
  100%, 100%.
• 26:20
  And that's the direction I think
• 26:21
  that they're trying to go with this.
• 26:23
  They want this thing to be a trophy truck
• 26:25
  off the showroom floor.
• 26:26
  Right, but let's get
• 26:27
  realistic about this.
• 26:29
  Are you going to take
• 26:30
  your scrambler in the desert
• 26:34
  and go racing?
• 26:35
  Are you gonna--
• 26:36
  That's what they're saying this thing is designed for.
• 26:37
  Are you gonna get on the--
• 26:38
  High speed off road.
• 26:39
  Off the feeder road
• 26:40
  and all fall to the side.
• 26:42
  We've all seen it on social media
• 26:43
  where you're heading all that
• 26:45
  (beep)
• 26:45
  it's really cool looking,
• 26:47
  but what are you gonna use it for?
• 26:49
  I think they're
• 26:50
  trying to appeal to people
• 26:51
  that enjoy to seeing
• 26:53
  the trophy truck racing.
• 26:55
  And they're giving you
• 26:56
  one that you'll never use.
• 26:59
  I mean, think about all the people
• 27:00
  that have the off road solid axle version
• 27:04
  that they never take it off road.
• 27:06
  So you're gonna have a
• 27:06
  trophy truck-esque Jeep
• 27:09
  that you never take in the desert.
• 27:12
  I think you're more
• 27:13
  likely to take it off road
• 27:15
  like rock crawling or mud,
• 27:17
  something, stuff that
• 27:18
  solid axles are built for it
• 27:20
  more so than IFS.
• 27:21
  I'm gonna delve down the rabbit trail
• 27:25
  of conspiracy theories here a little bit
• 27:27
  and just humor me slightly.
• 27:30
  Of course, of course.
• 27:31
  So what have we seen a growing trend
• 27:34
  over the last six,
• 27:36
  eight years or thereabouts?
• 27:37
  We've seen a massive growing trend
• 27:40
  in the expansion of
• 27:41
  the side-by-side market.
• 27:43
  Yep.
• 27:44
  The rate that that is expanding,
• 27:46
  the rate that it is going,
• 27:47
  the amount of aftermarket support
• 27:50
  that is coming out for
• 27:51
  the side-by-side market
• 27:52
  is absolutely astonishing.
• 27:55
  And I think that Jeep as
• 27:58
  the off road king brand
• 28:01
  has seen a dramatic drop
• 28:03
  in sales to a certain extent
• 28:06
  and they know where it's coming from.
• 28:08
  Now you can talk about tariffs,
• 28:10
  you can talk about economy,
• 28:12
  you can talk about gas
• 28:13
  prices and all this sort of stuff
• 28:16
  and how that comes into play.
• 28:17
  And there may be some arguments for that.
• 28:19
  But if we look at the strictly,
• 28:25
  not utilitarian, but
• 28:27
  a play aspect of Jeep
• 28:30
  and the weekend warrior stuff,
• 28:32
  well now people are using the Jeeps
• 28:33
  to tow their
• 28:34
  side-by-sides to go play with.
• 28:36
  I think Jeep wants to
• 28:37
  bring people back into the fold
• 28:39
  and I think they're saying,
• 28:41
  you don't have to go buy another vehicle,
• 28:43
  you don't have to go buy a side-by-side.
• 28:45
  You can go do all that stuff,
• 28:47
  the side-by-side guys
• 28:48
  are doing now with this.
• 28:51
  And I think they tried
• 28:52
  to do that a little bit
• 28:52
  with the Recon, but it fell flat
• 28:55
  because they didn't know
• 28:55
  what the F they were doing.
• 28:56
  They didn't have the
• 28:57
  right people behind it.
• 28:58
  But Jeep now has a couple of people
• 29:00
  that have mixed some
• 29:01
  things up in the C-suite
• 29:03
  and they've got some people now
• 29:05
  that are head of
• 29:05
  departments that are kind of,
• 29:07
  well, shaking things up a
• 29:09
  little bit and doing things,
• 29:10
  I think the way that they should have
• 29:11
  been done years ago.
• 29:13
  And they are trying to get in
• 29:16
  on some of this side-by-side cash.
• 29:18
  And that's why when I
• 29:19
  heard IFS rear suspension,
• 29:21
  that's immediately where my mind went.
• 29:23
  And there's a reason for that
• 29:25
  because when you go
• 29:26
  out onto the sand dunes,
• 29:27
  when you go out into the
• 29:27
  desert, that is all you see.
• 29:31
  And for Jeep to wanna
• 29:33
  capitalize on at least some of that,
• 29:36
  okay, so we've got to
• 29:37
  spend $100 million on R&D
• 29:39
  to create this thing.
• 29:41
  And we better make sure that this thing
• 29:43
  is going to appeal to the masses
• 29:46
  because we're trying to not
• 29:48
  only get some old Jeep crew back,
• 29:50
  we're trying to get some
• 29:51
  of the young blood in here
• 29:52
  who's got a lot more disposable income.
• 29:54
  And we don't want them
• 29:55
  to buy it side-by-side,
• 29:56
  we want them to buy this.
• 29:58
  Now, if Jeep
• 29:59
  Performance Parts gets behind this
• 30:01
  and has some more stuff
• 30:02
  in store for this Jeep,
• 30:06
  then I could see the scrambler being one
• 30:08
  (beep)
• 30:09
  of a vehicle in that category.
• 30:12
  But could this thing
• 30:14
  be the Swiss Army Knife?
• 30:15
  Could this thing be the Desert Racer
• 30:18
  and the Grocery Gator and a Rock Crawler?
• 30:21
  Could it be a Trail Rig
• 30:23
  as well as Desert Racer
• 30:24
  and your daily driver?
• 30:25
  No, I agree with you,
• 30:26
  but I'll tell you the
• 30:27
  thing that pisses me off is,
• 30:29
  is that Jeep is finally
• 30:31
  making a two-door little truck,
• 30:33
  what I would have liked
• 30:34
  to see in the variant,
• 30:35
  the Gladiator, but it's not for me.
• 30:40
  So they may make this,
• 30:42
  but it's not gonna be a Jeep
• 30:44
  that I want because it's IFS.
• 30:46
  Do I think it might be a success?
• 30:48
  Absolutely, because you
• 30:49
  remember we were dogging
• 30:50
  the new Cherokee and it
• 30:56
  was like, this is crap,
• 30:57
  this is crap, we wanna get one
• 30:59
  and then beat the
• 30:59
  (beep)
• 30:59
  out of it,
• 31:00
  put it on YouTube and
• 31:03
  all the rest of that stuff.
• 31:04
  And the sales were actually very good.
• 31:07
  They read the market well.
• 31:10
  Ish.
• 31:12
  Yes, for a few years
• 31:15
  and then it kind of--
• 31:15
  Oh yeah, no, no, of course.
• 31:17
  The Gladiator was
• 31:18
  really good for a few years,
• 31:19
  sales then it went down.
• 31:22
  But at least I can take it off road
• 31:23
  and I don't have to drive
• 31:24
  fast because I've got IFS.
• 31:27
  You have to drive fast
• 31:28
  because it's gonna break at any moment.
• 31:29
  You wanna get as much
• 31:30
  fun out of it as possible.
• 31:31
  Momentum, yeah, you gotta keep going.
• 31:33
  You can slide on that undercarriage a
• 31:34
  little bit more, yeah.
• 31:37
  So anyway, bottom line
• 31:38
  Jeep is finally building
• 31:40
  the two-door truck fans have wanted
• 31:42
  but they're not short wheelbasing it,
• 31:45
  or not short wheelbasing a Gladiator.
• 31:47
  They're treating it as a true halo
• 31:49
  with unique utility tricks
• 31:52
  and high speed desert focus.
• 31:55
  Still years away but the
• 31:56
  details already make it
• 31:58
  one of the most interesting
• 31:59
  things in the Jeep pipeline.
• 32:02
  I agree, it is, it's very interesting.
• 32:04
  Even if it pisses you
• 32:04
  off, it's still interesting.
• 32:06
  Well, it's got us
• 32:07
  talking, that's for sure.
• 32:08
  And I'm sure there's others out there
• 32:10
  that are talking about this as well.
• 32:11
  In fact, if you're
• 32:12
  listening to this right now
• 32:13
  and you've got an
• 32:13
  opinion about the scrambler
• 32:16
  and what it could possibly
• 32:17
  mean for the automotive world
• 32:19
  or even for the Jeep world in general,
• 32:21
  we wanna hear what you
• 32:21
  have to say about it as well.
• 32:22
  You can always chime in
• 32:23
  in any number of ways.
• 32:25
  I encourage you to head
• 32:26
  over to jeeptalkshow.com
• 32:27
  slash contact to find out all the ways
• 32:29
  that you can reach out
• 32:30
  to the show and engage.
• 32:32
  Yeah, we love hearing from you guys.
• 32:33
  Comments and the YouTube videos,
• 32:35
  comments anywhere
• 32:36
  you're listening online,
• 32:38
  even if you wanna go
• 32:40
  over and give us a review,
• 32:41
  we love hearing from you.
• 32:42
  All right, so Josh, we
• 32:44
  don't normally beat up
• 32:45
  on our listeners, our viewers,
• 32:48
  and I don't want to embarrass you,
• 32:49
  but I thought about this today.
• 32:51
  I want to understand why,
• 32:54
  if you can be here working multiple jobs,
• 32:57
  taking care of your elderly mother
• 33:00
  that is seriously ill,
• 33:02
  and you look forward to
• 33:04
  being here to do the show
• 33:07
  with all the other
• 33:07
  stuff that you're going on,
• 33:09
  and our listeners and our viewers
• 33:11
  don't have to do a
• 33:12
  thing but press a button.
• 33:15
  That's all they have to
• 33:16
  do to be part of the show.
• 33:18
  I mean, we like hearing from you,
• 33:20
  but all you have to do is press a button
• 33:22
  to listen to the show,
• 33:23
  and you can share the
• 33:25
  information with other people,
• 33:27
  and you don't do it.
• 33:29
  So here's what we're gonna do.
• 33:30
  We're gonna start
• 33:30
  making it really difficult
• 33:32
  for you to listen to the show, all right?
• 33:33
  So it's gonna involve math,
• 33:35
  it's gonna involve some puzzles.
• 33:37
  No, it's gonna get really f****** tricky.
• 33:39
  So if you thought it was easy before,
• 33:41
  you thought it was, "The
• 33:41
  gravy train's over, people."
• 33:43
  You wanna listen to
• 33:44
  the Jeep talk show now?
• 33:45
  Trigonometry, b******.
• 33:47
  You remember that stuff
• 33:48
  they used to do on the computer
• 33:49
  where you'd move your
• 33:50
  mouse to the button,
• 33:50
  the button would move?
• 33:52
  That's what we ought to do.
• 33:53
  You have to be, to train.
• 33:56
  You have to train to listen to the show.
• 33:58
  You have to work for it, d******.
• 34:01
  (laughing)
• 34:01
  Anyway, listen to the show,
• 34:03
  listen to more of the episodes,
• 34:05
  watch us on YouTube,
• 34:07
  comment, like, share,
• 34:08
  all that b****** thing that you hear
• 34:10
  from everybody that says it.
• 34:12
  You know, I love cussing
• 34:13
  because I'm bleeping all this stuff out.
• 34:15
  I think it's funny hearing the bleep.
• 34:17
  I've thought about
• 34:17
  doing the dolphin noise.
• 34:18
  Have you ever run
• 34:19
  across one of those videos
• 34:20
  where they get the,
• 34:21
  yeah, where Flipper gets in there?
• 34:23
  Time and reference, where
• 34:24
  Flipper does the flipper noise.
• 34:25
  Yeah.
• 34:27
  All right.
• 34:28
  (laughing)
• 34:29
  Enough of that.
• 34:29
  And I'll just say, you know,
• 34:31
  I'll back it up a little bit.
• 34:33
  We love you.
• 34:33
  We love you, listen.
• 34:34
  We love you, listen.
• 34:35
  Oh yeah.
• 34:35
  I can't do this without you guys.
• 34:37
  Well, we could.
• 34:37
  It's just a lot less fun.
• 34:39
  Exactly.
• 34:40
  All right, Josh.
• 34:41
  So, I'm very-
• 34:44
  Soft or hard, right?
• 34:44
  Is that what we're talking about now?
• 34:46
  What's that?
• 34:47
  Soft or hard?
• 34:49
  Well, I was just gonna say-
• 34:51
  I heard there was gonna be some Viagra
• 34:52
  at the end of the show.
• 34:53
  So I was just, I'm
• 34:54
  kind of getting excited.
• 34:55
  Well, good, stiff drink, yeah.
• 34:56
  So, the, anyway,
• 34:59
  Stellantis is doing this.
• 35:00
  I think it's gonna happen.
• 35:02
  And we're gonna get a two-door Jeep,
• 35:04
  which I think is great.
• 35:05
  We'll just see.
• 35:06
  I don't have to like it.
• 35:07
  I don't have to buy one.
• 35:09
  And some of the other things
• 35:11
  they're talking about doing
• 35:12
  is a V8 and a Gladiator.
• 35:14
  And it sounds like the
• 35:15
  Gladiator may be sticking around,
• 35:17
  which we had heard-
• 35:18
  As well it should.
• 35:19
  Yeah, yeah.
• 35:20
  Well, which we had heard
• 35:21
  they may be dumping it.
• 35:22
  All right, Josh.
• 35:23
  So, you remember when you
• 35:24
  did the video voicemail?
• 35:26
  Not talked about it,
• 35:27
  but you actually got on
• 35:28
  and gave us a video voicemail.
• 35:30
  Yeah.
• 35:30
  Well, we've been
• 35:31
  promoting the video voicemail
• 35:32
  and somebody finally left us one
• 35:36
  and we're gonna play it
• 35:36
  here in just a second.
• 35:38
  So if you wanna see the video voicemail,
• 35:40
  which is kind of a key
• 35:42
  to the video portion,
• 35:44
  you need to be over on YouTube or Spotify
• 35:47
  so you can see it.
• 35:48
  But we appreciate the video voicemail.
• 35:50
  But before we get into that,
• 35:52
  one of the things the gentleman
• 35:54
  complained about was,
• 35:56
  you remember when we used
• 35:57
  to get those audio voicemails
• 35:59
  and they had three
• 36:00
  minutes and they ran out of time
• 36:02
  and then they had the call back in?
• 36:05
  Yeah, we had-
• 36:05
  And continued.
• 36:06
  It was a, Travis, I
• 36:08
  think was notorious for that.
• 36:09
  And there was a couple of
• 36:10
  people that I think that,
• 36:12
  that yeah, we had some
• 36:12
  great, great, great stories.
• 36:15
  Oh, I'm brain-forming the game.
• 36:16
  I had three minutes, I had a call back a
• 36:17
  couple of few times.
• 36:19
  Exactly.
• 36:20
  So that's what happened on this one
• 36:21
  because he didn't know it was 30 seconds.
• 36:23
  So it was like, okay, good.
• 36:25
  We need to mention that on the show.
• 36:26
  You got 30 seconds,
• 36:28
  script it if you need to.
• 36:30
  Oh, and before you
• 36:31
  start the video voicemail,
• 36:33
  turn your phone sideways
• 36:35
  so it'll be widescreen.
• 36:37
  Because he found out that
• 36:38
  whenever he left the voicemail,
• 36:40
  the video voicemail,
• 36:41
  that he couldn't turn it
• 36:42
  after he started the thing.
• 36:44
  And so it's a vertical-
• 36:45
  Well, if it's any consolation to whoever it is
• 36:47
  who did leave us a video voicemail,
• 36:49
  I think I had to do it about 17 times
• 36:51
  before I got one that was, you know,
• 36:54
  I had all the things I
• 36:55
  wanted to say, it was in time.
• 36:56
  I had the phone going
• 36:57
  the right direction.
• 36:57
  You know, there wasn't
• 36:58
  something else going on
• 36:59
  in the background.
• 36:59
  No, there's a hundred things I had to do.
• 37:01
  Like, oh, it's not it.
• 37:02
  It is easy, but the
• 37:04
  first time you do anything,
• 37:06
  you do something wrong.
• 37:07
  I mean, I think we've all
• 37:08
  experienced the girl saying,
• 37:10
  that's not it.
• 37:11
  So it's hard the first time
• 37:13
  you do it, no pun intended.
• 37:14
  So anyway, 30 seconds,
• 37:16
  make sure you get your
• 37:17
  phone positioned properly.
• 37:19
  And the other thing,
• 37:20
  tell people what you were
• 37:23
  telling me about the guy
• 37:24
  that you had to email.
• 37:26
  Because he thought he was being spammed.
• 37:28
  Spammed or, you know,
• 37:29
  fished or something like that.
• 37:30
  Yeah, no.
• 37:31
  So there is a piece
• 37:32
  of third-party software
• 37:34
  that makes this all happen.
• 37:36
  Look, I know the Jeep talk
• 37:37
  show is pretty big, you know,
• 37:39
  and we're pretty cool.
• 37:40
  We're kind of a big thing
• 37:41
  and all that sort of stuff.
• 37:42
  Have a lot of
• 37:43
  technology going on, real fancy,
• 37:44
  all that kind of stuff.
• 37:46
  There's certain things we just cannot do.
• 37:47
  And so we need the help of
• 37:49
  this thing called Camflare.
• 37:50
  And that's what makes the
• 37:51
  whole video voicemail thing
• 37:53
  possible.
• 37:54
  It's like a third party that
• 37:55
  makes this all come together.
• 37:57
  You bringing to us and
• 37:59
  the video and the audio
• 38:00
  and all that sort of stuff.
• 38:01
  And so when you click,
• 38:02
  when you go to the jeep
• 38:03
  talk show.com slash voicemail,
• 38:07
  it will show up as another page.
• 38:09
  Like there's going to
• 38:10
  be a pop-up if you will.
• 38:11
  Yeah, it'll take you to the other site,
• 38:13
  which is Camflare.
• 38:13
  To the Camflare site.
• 38:15
  Yeah, it's kind of this
• 38:16
  redirect sort of thing.
• 38:17
  And that's on purpose.
• 38:18
  It's meant to be there.
• 38:19
  And so some of you may
• 38:21
  think, well, no, it's a scam
• 38:22
  or their link is
• 38:23
  broken or they got phished
• 38:25
  or this is something that
• 38:27
  it's not supposed to be.
• 38:28
  All good things you should be careful of.
• 38:30
  Yeah, it's actually really good.
• 38:31
  Yeah, your gut is
• 38:32
  telling you good instincts.
• 38:35
  And so go ahead and
• 38:36
  install that software.
• 38:37
  It is safe.
• 38:38
  It's trusted, all that sort of stuff.
• 38:40
  And that enables you to send
• 38:42
  all kinds of video voicemails
• 38:43
  to us at that point.
• 38:45
  Tiny little itty bitty app on your phone,
• 38:46
  not even to know it's there.
• 38:48
  And then once it doesn't
• 38:49
  work in the background,
• 38:50
  anything like that, it only pops up
• 38:52
  when you are using that link.
• 38:53
  Right, once you have
• 38:55
  installed the Camflare app
• 38:57
  on your phone, and you can do
• 38:59
  this from a desktop as well,
• 39:00
  but without having,
• 39:01
  it's all browser based
• 39:02
  on the desktop or laptop.
• 39:04
  But once you've
• 39:05
  installed the app on your phone,
• 39:06
  you can do the video voicemails anytime
• 39:08
  without having to go
• 39:09
  through that whole rigmarole
• 39:11
  to record it.
• 39:13
  And I want to mention really quick,
• 39:14
  you got an event that
• 39:16
  you want to publish.
• 39:18
  You got a company that you
• 39:20
  want to get free advertising
• 39:21
  here on the show.
• 39:22
  Hey, 30 seconds. You got 30 seconds.
• 39:24
  And I understand if you got a business,
• 39:26
  you may feel like, well, I can't do this,
• 39:29
  especially I think we've all--
• 39:30
  I can.
• 39:31
  I've got a long
• 39:33
  history of voiceover work.
• 39:34
  So if you want to reach
• 39:35
  out to the Jeep Talks,
• 39:36
  you want to have Josh
• 39:37
  voice you a commercial,
• 39:38
  I can do that.
• 39:40
  So I don't know, I think
• 39:42
  we've all experienced this,
• 39:43
  the going on to a Facebook group,
• 39:45
  and then you post
• 39:46
  something that they don't like
• 39:48
  because it has to do with,
• 39:49
  even if it's not your business,
• 39:50
  they don't like to advertise it.
• 39:51
  Who doesn't want to see my junk?
• 39:53
  Oh, sorry, we're talking something else.
• 39:55
  Okay, yeah, keep going.
• 39:56
  Well, remember, I can blur things out.
• 39:58
  So really talking to the ladies.
• 40:00
  Well, it's so small.
• 40:00
  Talking to the ladies, yeah.
• 40:03
  But anyway, voicemail, video voicemail,
• 40:05
  give it a try, we'd like to see from you.
• 40:07
  And Josh, I was thinking,
• 40:08
  there's no telling how many people
• 40:10
  tried doing the video voicemail,
• 40:12
  figured they were being scammed
• 40:14
  or that was taking them to a place
• 40:16
  where it wasn't supposed to go
• 40:17
  and didn't leave us a video voicemail.
• 40:19
  So hopefully--
• 40:20
  Well, hopefully this clears things up
• 40:21
  and yeah, and yeah, put
• 40:22
  some people's worries at ease
• 40:24
  and we'll get some more interaction.
• 40:25
  I think that'd be kind of cool.
• 40:26
  Yeah, I think it'd be a lot of fun.
• 40:28
  And there's no telling what we may see
• 40:30
  and what we may get.
• 40:31
  We used to have a lot of fun
• 40:32
  with the regular voicemail.
• 40:33
  Nathan from Pittsburgh here.
• 40:35
  It's been quite a while since I joined
• 40:37
  any of the roundtable episodes.
• 40:39
  Just got a little busy there with life
• 40:41
  and everything going on.
• 40:43
  So if you're gonna take the opportunity
• 40:44
  to try out your video
• 40:46
  voicemail submission here,
• 40:48
  download the app and
• 40:48
  we'll give it a shot.
• 40:50
  Plus, since I've been cleaning out the
• 40:52
  garage here this week
• 40:53
  because the garage has
• 40:55
  gotten completely out of control.
• 40:57
  Found this nice lock box
• 40:59
  here from Tuffy Security.
• 41:01
  Actually want it from you
• 41:02
  guys almost four years ago,
• 41:04
  four years ago next month.
• 41:05
  So, found it buried in my garage.
• 41:08
  Gonna get her installed.
• 41:09
  Wanted to say thank you guys
• 41:10
  and hopefully I can catch you on one
• 41:12
  of the upcoming roundtables.
• 41:13
  See you guys there.
• 41:15
  Oh yeah.
• 41:16
  All right, Josh.
• 41:16
  So tell me what you
• 41:17
  know about trickle charge.
• 41:20
  I've got about 20 of them at the shop
• 41:22
  running at any given time.
• 41:24
  Well, like you've got
• 41:25
  a Jeep in your garage
• 41:26
  that is sitting there
• 41:27
  because it's been damaged.
• 41:28
  You can't drive it.
• 41:30
  And you may not be
• 41:31
  concerned about the battery.
• 41:32
  I've got an XJ that's been in my garage
• 41:34
  since I got the Gladiator.
• 41:36
  And I had it on a trickle charge.
• 41:38
  And I think the trickle charge,
• 41:39
  and it was a trickle charger.
• 41:41
  I think the trickle charger
• 41:42
  actually killed the battery.
• 41:45
  Interesting.
• 41:46
  Yeah, looking, doing some
• 41:47
  research on it using AI.
• 41:50
  That can happen if you leave it
• 41:52
  on trickle charge all the time.
• 41:53
  Of course it depends
• 41:54
  on the trickle charge.
• 41:55
  Depends on the heat in the garage
• 41:58
  because you could overheat the battery.
• 42:00
  And it just says it can lower the length
• 42:02
  of life for the battery.
• 42:04
  So I came up with the idea
• 42:06
  because I've got the
• 42:07
  Amazon Echo thing here
• 42:09
  and I can schedule stuff.
• 42:10
  So I put a device, a remote device
• 42:14
  on the battery trickle charger
• 42:16
  so I could turn it on and off.
• 42:18
  And the problem,
• 42:19
  because instead of schedule,
• 42:20
  so it turns off for hours
• 42:23
  and lets everything cool
• 42:24
  down and so on and so forth.
• 42:25
  And the problem I was
• 42:27
  having was the trickle charger,
• 42:29
  when you turn it off,
• 42:31
  it feeds off the battery.
• 42:35
  So it stays, yeah, it stays on
• 42:38
  because it has voltage from the battery.
• 42:40
  There are these things called diodes.
• 42:42
  They're basically
• 42:43
  electron flow regulators.
• 42:45
  They'll prevent the electron flow,
• 42:47
  negative or positive
• 42:48
  from going through them
• 42:49
  depending on which way you orient them.
• 42:51
  And so you can sort of with a small hack
• 42:54
  and make sure you get the right size
• 42:56
  with a little diode be able to prevent
• 43:00
  that backflow voltage
• 43:01
  coming back through there.
• 43:02
  So you might be able
• 43:04
  to modify that yourself
• 43:05
  and save that from happening.
• 43:06
  So I have a simpler
• 43:07
  solution that requires--
• 43:09
  Buy something that
• 43:10
  works and doesn't do that.
• 43:11
  Something that would cost 20 bucks,
• 43:13
  which is about $5 more
• 43:14
  than the trickle charger
• 43:15
  that I had on there,
• 43:17
  that doesn't power
• 43:18
  itself from the battery.
• 43:20
  So it probably has a diode and--
• 43:22
  I was gonna say, this
• 43:23
  technology should be built in.
• 43:24
  Yeah, it has proper electronics in there.
• 43:26
  And that's one of the
• 43:27
  reasons why I'm talking about this
• 43:28
  is because if you did this
• 43:31
  and you wanted to do
• 43:31
  something similar to what I'm doing,
• 43:33
  turn it on and off remotely,
• 43:35
  you can actually do this and it won't
• 43:37
  draw the battery down.
• 43:39
  I'm curious about the
• 43:40
  turning it on and off
• 43:41
  and whether or not it
• 43:42
  went when it gets turned on
• 43:44
  goes into the right mode
• 43:46
  because a lot of these
• 43:47
  things now are so smart,
• 43:48
  they're too smart for their own good.
• 43:50
  And so you have to
• 43:50
  select the battery type
• 43:52
  and select the voltage and
• 43:53
  select the time duration.
• 43:55
  There's 17 things, you got a menu,
• 43:56
  and then these 10, 10, 10,
• 43:57
  too many buttons.
• 43:59
  And one of these things where it's like,
• 44:01
  well, does it do what it's supposed to do
• 44:04
  when it's just fed power
• 44:05
  or do you have to manually turn it on?
• 44:08
  So this one seems to be very simple.
• 44:10
  It was a 1999 from Amazon.
• 44:12
  We'll have a link in the show notes.
• 44:14
  And I actually went through AI
• 44:17
  and told it what I was trying to do
• 44:19
  and give me some
• 44:19
  suggestions for doing this.
• 44:22
  Then I read the information on Amazon.
• 44:24
  But what I bought was
• 44:26
  a Moto Power MP00206A,
• 44:30
  12 volt, 1.5 amp,
• 44:32
  automatic battery charger,
• 44:34
  battery maintainer for
• 44:35
  cars, motorcycles, ATVs,
• 44:36
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 44:38
  And there is no buttons.
• 44:42
  You turn it on and then it
• 44:45
  does what it needs to do.
• 44:47
  My only concern is the other trickle
• 44:52
  charger that I have,
• 44:54
  it has a button on it
• 44:55
  so that you can switch
• 44:56
  from normal charging to
• 44:59
  pulse, I think is what it is.
• 45:01
  So what happens is when
• 45:03
  the battery gets so low,
• 45:05
  the trickle charger
• 45:06
  doesn't really see the battery.
• 45:09
  So it will not charge it.
• 45:11
  And then I press the pulse
• 45:13
  so it pulses voltage to it
• 45:16
  and it gets it up to a
• 45:17
  level where I can switch it over
• 45:18
  to regular charging and
• 45:20
  then it charges the battery.
• 45:22
  That is largely due to the
• 45:24
  problem I'm talking about.
• 45:25
  I turn off the charger and
• 45:26
  it draws down the battery.
• 45:28
  So I'm hoping that this new charger,
• 45:31
  I won't have that issue.
• 45:33
  But I'll let you guys
• 45:34
  know in future episodes
• 45:35
  if it works out.
• 45:36
  The next thing I'm gonna do
• 45:37
  is I'm gonna set a schedule
• 45:39
  so it turns the charging on.
• 45:42
  And the thing I learned
• 45:43
  about the battery getting hot,
• 45:45
  I'll charge it at night.
• 45:47
  I'll charge it in the cool of the year.
• 45:50
  There you go.
• 45:50
  Or over.
• 45:51
  It comes on at 12 o'clock at midnight,
• 45:54
  goes to six in the
• 45:55
  morning or something like that.
• 45:56
  That's the best thing I
• 45:57
  can do to keep that battery
• 45:58
  going as long as possible.
• 45:59
  Because the XJ will drive again.
• 46:02
  I mean, mine's not down.
• 46:03
  It's just I got, you
• 46:04
  know, I have to do a button.
• 46:05
  Mine is though.
• 46:06
  And by the way, I will drive again.
• 46:08
  The garage is just a mess.
• 46:09
  I would have to move
• 46:10
  tires and all kinds of things
• 46:12
  just to back the XJ out.
• 46:13
  It would take me a good 30 minutes
• 46:15
  and it would be all this crap outside.
• 46:17
  My Jeep will start right now.
• 46:19
  I mean, there's nothing
• 46:20
  wrong with the engine.
• 46:21
  It just doesn't have a
• 46:21
  front end on it right now.
• 46:23
  So yeah, check that out.
• 46:24
  And I just wanted to mention that
• 46:25
  because you guys may
• 46:26
  not know either as far as,
• 46:28
  if you're trying to
• 46:29
  trickle charge your battery.
• 46:31
  I could see that coming
• 46:32
  from some of the older
• 46:33
  solid state ones perhaps, but you know,
• 46:36
  with today's
• 46:37
  technology and stuff out there,
• 46:38
  that shouldn't be happening.
• 46:39
  I would think that that's a,
• 46:41
  you have a faulty unit there,
• 46:43
  but you know, who knows?
• 46:44
  I don't know.
• 46:44
  Maybe that's just the
• 46:45
  way they're doing it.
• 46:46
  I bought another one,
• 46:47
  the exact same model
• 46:49
  to put on there.
• 46:50
  And I mean, I haven't
• 46:51
  cooked another battery, but yeah.
• 46:55
  Kind of with the price of batteries.
• 46:56
  I'm hoping I owe 180 bucks.
• 46:58
  Good news.
• 46:59
  I know man, geez.
• 47:00
  But I'm hoping that this
• 47:01
  one's okay, but we'll see.
• 47:03
  But anyway, whatever I do,
• 47:05
  I think I've got a
• 47:06
  better charger on it now.
• 47:08
  Do you have a load tester?
• 47:11
  I do.
• 47:12
  It's Bluetooth thing.
• 47:14
  I don't know if I
• 47:15
  ever told you about that
• 47:16
  since you were on the show.
• 47:16
  Oh, interesting.
• 47:17
  Bluetooth load tester.
• 47:18
  Yeah, it's a little
• 47:18
  thing that you hook up
• 47:20
  to the battery.
• 47:21
  It's Bluetooth connection.
• 47:22
  So you got an app on your phone
• 47:24
  and it will actually tell you,
• 47:26
  it has several tests that you can run
• 47:27
  just with your phone.
• 47:28
  That's cool.
• 47:29
  Yeah.
• 47:31
  Ansel, I think is the name brand.
• 47:33
  You guys look it up.
• 47:34
  I don't have information in front of me,
• 47:35
  but it's very inexpensive.
• 47:37
  It's like one of those $20 things.
• 47:39
  I got it on the
• 47:41
  Gladiator, the TJ and the XJ.
• 47:44
  And the only problem
• 47:45
  with it is it's Bluetooth.
• 47:46
  So I can't check the battery voltage
• 47:48
  like right here in the office.
• 47:49
  I need to be close to the garage,
• 47:52
  close to the driveway.
• 47:53
  But I can literally see
• 47:54
  what the battery voltages are.
• 47:56
  It's a draw, but it's a minimal draw.
• 47:58
  And it's on there all the time.
• 48:00
  Well, you're not running it all the time.
• 48:02
  You're just, I'm gonna
• 48:02
  run this for 30 seconds
• 48:04
  to see where things are at.
• 48:05
  Okay, shut it down.
• 48:06
  But it tells you the
• 48:06
  health of the battery.
• 48:08
  That's neat.
• 48:08
  I like that.
• 48:09
  Yeah, well, we've talked
• 48:10
  about it on the show in the past,
• 48:11
  but I don't think you
• 48:12
  were on the episode.
• 48:15
  Yeah, I think I missed that one.
• 48:16
  All right, so this is interesting.
• 48:17
  And Josh, you were excited
• 48:19
  about this whenever I told you
• 48:20
  on chat about it.
• 48:21
  So, we talk about
• 48:23
  having over 1400 episodes.
• 48:27
  And I'm on most of them.
• 48:28
  Yeah, you really are.
• 48:30
  (laughing) You might wanna listen
• 48:31
  to some of the old shows.
• 48:33
  Maybe you've even tried,
• 48:34
  but with so many
• 48:35
  choices, where do you start?
• 48:37
  Josh, where do you start?
• 48:38
  You start with episode one?
• 48:40
  Wow, you're gonna be in for a store
• 48:44
  before you think that episode one is out.
• 48:46
  Anything like what we
• 48:47
  got going on right now.
• 48:49
  How do you feel about listening
• 48:51
  to episode five times with an episode?
• 48:53
  That's a tough episode to get through.
• 48:56
  But hey, man, you know.
• 48:58
  You gotta start someplace.
• 48:59
  We got some troopers out
• 49:00
  there that have got their teeth.
• 49:03
  They've gotten their wings, as it were.
• 49:06
  So, yeah, I have listened
• 49:07
  to a lot of the old episodes.
• 49:08
  But no, how do we sort through them all?
• 49:10
  Because I came on,
• 49:12
  what, around episode 50,
• 49:13
  give or take, somewhere around there.
• 49:15
  But I think we found that 43 when I was--
• 49:17
  Okay, so in the 40s.
• 49:18
  Yeah, and we're up to
• 49:19
  1,400 some odd episodes now.
• 49:21
  And so, that's a lot of episodes.
• 49:25
  A lot of water under the bridge.
• 49:26
  A lot of growth that the
• 49:27
  podcast has gone through since then.
• 49:30
  And so, yeah, what we did
• 49:31
  then and what we do now,
• 49:33
  definitely quite different.
• 49:34
  Different technology,
• 49:35
  different microphones,
• 49:36
  different studios,
• 49:37
  all that kind of stuff.
• 49:38
  And we talk about
• 49:39
  different things, kind of,
• 49:41
  to a certain extent.
• 49:42
  But yeah, the earlier episodes,
• 49:45
  very much focused on the XJ stuff.
• 49:47
  But as we kind of got through
• 49:48
  and started doing stuff more and more,
• 49:51
  we expanded and that's
• 49:53
  when the Jeep Talk Show,
• 49:53
  you really became, hit
• 49:55
  its stride, as it were.
• 49:56
  Yeah, and now you can
• 49:57
  let the audience decide
• 49:59
  what are the best
• 50:00
  episodes for you to start with.
• 50:01
  No, we can't trust them.
• 50:02
  No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 50:04
  We're not letting them decide
• 50:05
  (beep)
• 50:06
  Oh, no, no.
• 50:07
  Who thought of this idea?
• 50:09
  Wait a minute, I'm gonna
• 50:10
  backtrack a little bit.
• 50:11
  I might be taking my
• 50:12
  support away from this idea.
• 50:13
  Yeah, so anyway, if you go
• 50:15
  over to jeeptalkshow.com,
• 50:16
  you will see up there on the top menu
• 50:19
  that you can pick most popular.
• 50:22
  And when you click on most popular,
• 50:25
  you will see the most
• 50:26
  popular 50 shows that we've done.
• 50:31
  And again, rated by you, the listener.
• 50:34
  The top 50, we've got a list.
• 50:36
  Ooh, are we cool?
• 50:37
  Yeah, and the cool thing is,
• 50:39
  is that it goes from the
• 50:41
  most number of downloads
• 50:43
  to the least amount, and
• 50:45
  they're all in the thousands.
• 50:46
  So these are like 4,000
• 50:48
  downloads and these episodes.
• 50:50
  And some of them are
• 50:51
  from two or three years ago,
• 50:53
  some are older.
• 50:53
  They like me.
• 50:54
  They really, really like me.
• 50:56
  So you go there, you
• 50:57
  pick the most popular,
• 50:58
  the website will update,
• 50:59
  and this is mobile or desktop.
• 51:02
  And so you'll have the top
• 51:03
  50, and then you can play them.
• 51:05
  And they say, oh, that's fine,
• 51:07
  but how am I supposed to remember what
• 51:09
  episodes I've heard?
• 51:11
  Because if you use this more than once,
• 51:13
  so we built in, this is something
• 51:15
  that was specifically designed for us.
• 51:19
  So you won't get this on any other show.
• 51:22
  So it actually will remember
• 51:25
  what episode you've listened to.
• 51:28
  So you don't have to fight with,
• 51:31
  and I don't wanna call it an app because
• 51:32
  it's on the website.
• 51:34
  And at least on the Android
• 51:36
  phone, if you start playing it,
• 51:38
  it's audio only, and
• 51:40
  you start playing it,
• 51:42
  you can turn the
• 51:43
  screen off on your phone,
• 51:45
  and it continues to play.
• 51:47
  God, take that, YouTube.
• 51:49
  Yeah, so I'm still
• 51:50
  waiting for the iPhone users
• 51:52
  to get back with me on the iPhone
• 51:55
  if the iPhone does the same thing.
• 51:57
  So anyway, it's really simple.
• 51:58
  Like I said, go to gtokshow.com,
• 52:00
  look for most popular on
• 52:02
  the top menu, pick that,
• 52:04
  and then you'll be right there.
• 52:05
  Now, I will give you a shortcut,
• 52:09
  which you can save as a
• 52:10
  favorite, or just remember,
• 52:12
  go to gtokshow.com slash best of.
• 52:16
  It's a lot shorter than most popular.
• 52:17
  Oh, that's a good one.
• 52:18
  That's a good one.
• 52:19
  So really, it's the best of
• 52:20
  the "Gee, Pock Show" episode.
• 52:22
  How easy are we
• 52:22
  making this for people now?
• 52:24
  You got to, you gotta spoon feed.
• 52:26
  We can't get a dollar from you.
• 52:27
  Good God.
• 52:30
  I'm gonna come over there
• 52:31
  and start doing the show
• 52:31
  in your living room next,
• 52:32
  still not gonna get a subscriber.
• 52:34
  We can stand outside your shower.
• 52:38
  What a great AI video that would be.
• 52:42
  I can hand you a towel.
• 52:45
  It'd rag.
• 52:48
  All right, so we got
• 52:51
  all kinds of great things
• 52:52
  going on here on the show.
• 52:54
  So yeah, hopefully we can
• 52:56
  get you as a regular listener,
• 52:58
  subscribe, all that stuff.
• 52:59
  You know, that
• 53:00
  everybody says like, subscribe.
• 53:02
  I hate hearing that.
• 53:04
  I hate saying it.
• 53:06
  And everybody's used to saying it now.
• 53:08
  We got to come up with something more
• 53:11
  creative and clever.
• 53:13
  Pimp us out, pimp us out.
• 53:15
  You start, you know, yeah,
• 53:17
  that's what you got to do.
• 53:18
  It could happen.
• 53:19
  All right, well that's about as much time
• 53:21
  as we have for tonight.
• 53:22
  Good Lord, Josh, that was fun.
• 53:23
  You know, this episode
• 53:25
  is almost an hour long.
• 53:26
  We were shooting for 30--
• 53:27
  Anytime I get into the
• 53:28
  studio and we connect,
• 53:30
  yeah, things get out
• 53:31
  of hand pretty quick.
• 53:33
  We had a lot to talk about.
• 53:34
  Yeah, I was shooting for 30 minutes.
• 53:35
  I'm really excited about this.
• 53:37
  See how that goes.
• 53:38
  All right, anyway, I want to
• 53:40
  roll with the Jeep Talk Show
• 53:41
  crew, jump on board as a Patreon member.
• 53:44
  This is a couple bucks
• 53:45
  you were talking about.
• 53:46
  It's literally like three bucks.
• 53:48
  Patreon member, just go to
• 53:50
  jeeptalkshow.com slash contact
• 53:52
  and unlock exclusive perks.
• 53:54
  I didn't mention the bonus
• 53:55
  content that's coming up.
• 53:56
  Oh, bonus content.
• 53:58
  Yeah, we're gonna do the bonus content,
• 54:00
  which is a hard
• 54:01
  shackles versus soft shackles.
• 54:04
  And yes, us bastards
• 54:06
  are not gonna have it
• 54:07
  on this free version.
• 54:09
  You're gonna have to
• 54:09
  be a member on YouTube
• 54:12
  or a subscriber on
• 54:14
  Patreon to be able to hear it.
• 54:16
  So yeah, we're getting Josh and I.
• 54:17
  Don't be a cheap Brad bastard.
• 54:19
  You thought we were done,
• 54:20
  but we still have to
• 54:20
  record the bonus part, Josh.
• 54:22
  Oh no, my eyeballs aren't floating yet.
• 54:24
  We're good to go.
• 54:26
  So anyway, be a Patreon member
• 54:27
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• 54:31
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• 55:03
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• 55:06
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• 55:07
  We will see you on the next adventure.
• 55:08
  And I'll just mention this.
• 55:10
  We say, if you got any ideas
• 55:12
  for stuff we should talk about,
• 55:15
  that's what we did tonight is
• 55:17
  we talked about the scrambler
• 55:19
  and we're getting ready to
• 55:20
  talk about the hard shackles
• 55:23
  and the soft shackles.
• 55:24
  And that was all user requested.
• 55:27
  So we do listen to you.
• 55:29
  Yeah, we do listen to
• 55:30
  you and we are doing it.
• 55:31
  So we really appreciate it.
• 55:32
  Oh, and I mentioned reviews.
• 55:35
  I didn't mention that on
• 55:37
  the going to jeeptalkshow.com
• 55:39
  slash best of not only can you listen
• 55:42
  to the high rated episodes, you can
• 55:45
  actually leave a review
• 55:47
  by clicking the stars that are there.
• 55:49
  There's five stars.
• 55:50
  So you can give a review
• 55:52
  and you can type in a comment
• 55:55
  what you'd like or don't
• 55:56
  like about the episode.
• 55:57
  So you can literally leave.
• 55:58
  Who's this guy making all
• 55:59
  these voices in the background?
• 56:01
  I don't like this guy too much.
• 56:02
  I'm not going to
• 56:03
  listen to you guys anymore.
• 56:05
  Oh, good Lord.
• 56:06
  Five more minutes,
• 56:07
  actually four more minutes
• 56:08
  and we got an hour show.
• 56:09
  All right, guys, thanks a lot.
• 56:10
  I hope you're enjoying the show.
• 56:11
  And I'm so glad to
• 56:13
  have my buddy back here
• 56:14
  on the show with me.
• 56:15
  Thanks, Josh.
• 56:16
  You betcha.
• 56:17
  You're my friend.
• 56:18
  You're my new friend.
• 56:19
  (laughing)
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