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Josh's FIRST Episode Back Hits Different · Jeep Talk Show

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So we normally have interviews every
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Friday and this Friday we
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just didn't have a guest.
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Actually we had a guest but they
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rescheduled later this month.
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So I thought I would get Josh on here and
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Josh and I would just, as
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I told Josh in the message,
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this is a little bit. But first what I'd
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like to do Josh is I saw a
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recent TikTok video where
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this lady mechanic was going around
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measuring tire tread depth.
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And it's a little tool, I can't believe I
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don't have this, a little
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tread depth measuring tool.
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And I thought to myself, you know this
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question is always, I've
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always had this question as far as
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tread depth and four wheel drives.
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Because you know, I think
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everybody knows how critical it is
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for the tires to be matched closely. You
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know if you have a locker or
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if you have a limited slip,
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you don't want those tires to be very,
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the diameter to be, or
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the circumference to be
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very much different between them. And it
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really depends on what
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you're doing with the rig and
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you know four wheel drive, lockers, so on
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and so forth. So I thought
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we'd tease this a little bit
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for talking about this in depth next
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week, both with you and on our round
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table. What's your idea
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as far as having a four wheel drive and
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buying tires? Oh you're
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gonna give me a chance to speak.
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Outstanding, I didn't think I was gonna
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get a word in edgewise today. Well I'm
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glad you called on me
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Tony because I know the rest of the class
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had their hands up too. Real quick, I
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wanted to share with
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you that you know the waiting mechanic
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that you were watching going
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around and measuring people's
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tires. I do this all the time, it's a
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public service
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announcement. I kind of consider it a
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you know my good deed of the day, but
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nobody ever appreciates it.
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I'm always getting heckled and
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chased around and people yelling at me
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like you know what the hell
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are you doing and why are you
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in my garage at 3am? Oh no, no, no, no,
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the public bathroom is not where you go
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to say Mr. Gaka measure
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that for you. You do not, you do not
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solicit in the public
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bathrooms. Yeah you raise a good
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point Tony about tires matching and stuff
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like that especially if
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you've got a locker. This would
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apply more so especially true if you've
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got like a spooky, like a full-time
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locker. You know that
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type of thing it becomes very very
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critical. Anybody who owns
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an all-wheel drive Jeep or an
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all-wheel drive vehicle knows how to
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critical it is and kind of how necessary
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it is that all tires
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match and in fact anytime you go in to
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replace a tire they're gonna
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say that we need to replace
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all four because it's an all-wheel drive
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vehicle. So this would apply to a lot of
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the grand chair keys
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out there and any other Jeep that has
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full-time all-wheel drive.
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Now for those of us who have
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selectable lockers or have limited slip
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differentials or a lunchbox locker it
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isn't as critical but you
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certainly want your tires to match and
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that's for the for the
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sake of ease on the gears and
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everything. You wouldn't want a 28 inch
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tire on one side and the 32
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inch tire on the other side.
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You know even in the case of an emergency
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that's why your spare
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should match what you are running
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as well. And probably why they don't have
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space savers on the
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wranglers and gladiators. Exactly
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exactly because things can get very very
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ugly very quick both in
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the differentials or in the
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transfer case even the transmission too.
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So yeah whether it comes
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down to oh well one side is is
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7 30 seconds the other side is 10 30
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seconds you know that's not really going
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to be a big of a deal
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and yes tires are measured in 30 seconds
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of an inch. And so they
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they kind of you know use the
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old uh wincolns head on a penny trick to
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measure your tire width
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depth and uh if you can see uh
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what is it wincolns crown then your your
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tires are too uh too low
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or something like that. I'll
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have to add that to my research uh but
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I'll tell you when we stop
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recording I was surprised the
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difference the circumference difference
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that you can get away
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with on a four-wheel drive
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and in four-wheel drive uh with lockers
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on. But I'll share that
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with you when we get down here
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and I think it'll surprise you too. Oh
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yeah because there's some
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serious tricks. Yeah and next week
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our our viewers will find out what what I
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found out. Of course you can
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you can go ahead and google
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search it yourself but uh just wait it'll
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be more fun hearing it from
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us. Now it's going to be a
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great conversation too this is going to
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go down some rabbit trails you're not
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expecting. All right
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Josh so I thought it'd be kind of cool uh
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I bet you there's there's
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a a large number of people
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that know about you being on the show and
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being here for many many
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years and actually being in a
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situation where you were in more of a
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studio set up with a better microphone
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studio on audio equipment
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and stuff and uh well I was like one day
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I was just like hey Josh
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is there is there any way do
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you have any time to come back on the
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show and um we got to
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spitballing it back and forth and it's
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hey let's uh let's see if we can do it
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from the phone. So that's why you see
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shaky video from Josh
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and a headset that he's talking into
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because we tried it without the headset
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initially and it was
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okay. Oh good. I mean we could hear you
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but yeah yeah Tony and I
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have long since been sticklers
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about audio quality on the show and it's
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one thing that we have
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prided ourselves uh with over
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many other podcasts is being able to
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deliver high quality audio um large
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bandwidth free storage you
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know all that kind of stuff bringing you
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the best quality show that we
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possibly can and I know this
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isn't ideal shaky video and a headset and
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stuff like that and we're
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going to try and get me in
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the studio a little bit more I should say
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back in the studio but of
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course that's going to require
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your uh your help as a listener uh
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spreading the word helping us get the
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exposure we need for the
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and uh and subscribing so that you don't
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miss any content at all and of course
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with me being back on
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the show well there's going to be a
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little bit more content coming your way.
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Yeah and uh some some uh
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I don't want to say fighting but let's
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say disagreements
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because we Josh and I agree on
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many things but not everything and
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sometimes it could be kind of
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funny. Oh I missed the debates
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where we get like we get the uh the you
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know the boxing ring bell
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going and stuff like that.
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So I don't know if you remember this we
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were having a discussion I
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think about antenna length
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on the on the the Jeeps. Oh god those
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bullet antennas and stuff
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and then I kind of I kind
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of messaged you because I said let's go
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for it you know the word let's fight uh
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you know yeah and you
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like yeah and then and we got after it we
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got after it and and one of the the
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regulars sent me a note
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jeep talk show a note saying I don't like
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it when you guys fight. I
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don't like it when mommy and dad
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and finally yeah. I don't like it when
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you guys fight. I could I fight at home
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that's not the reason why
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I listen to the jeep talk show. Right I
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did plenty of that at home I don't need
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it from you guys yeah.
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And you know that was it was all it was
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all for fun. Yeah that was a valid
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response too it's like I
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don't need no totally. It's entertainment
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I was looking at it like a
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drama thing but it wasn't
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I mean you felt the way you felt but
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we're we're generally more
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respectful and polite than what we
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were in that conversation. Oh yeah no the
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guards were down a little
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bit on that one here we're
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letting uh Josh is like finally. I get
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this I get to talk about
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what I want to talk about.
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You know if we were in a studio we would
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probably have a lot of fun
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that we'd have to have a wide
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angle camera so when we got up to fight
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push each other around push
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each other away from the table
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all right that's it. That's it we could
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have a ref with a flag man
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so the flow of the flag in
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there when we got a little too. Throw the
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yellow flag. Oh I got a red card. Oh
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speaking of red card
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and this is the thing I told you about
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where we just the bull about
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something. Did you follow any
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of the soccer stuff and shouldn't it be
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called soccer and not
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football? Well yeah I've long since
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had a beef about that yeah really quick
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I'm almost running out of
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time but I'll share this
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little anecdote with you about this uh
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this year's world cup. So the
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guy who I worked for he has a
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daughter who ended up marrying an
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Australian and they they she
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actually moved to Australia
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for the better part of a few years and
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they just moved back not
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quite a year ago. This is his
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first time in the states at least living
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here now so he's he's a
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dual citizen now and is living
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in the United States. So when the United
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States and Australia faced
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off and it was like us in
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USA ended up winning the second in a row
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and it was the the own goal
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like in the first 20 minutes
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or something like that and and oh oh boy
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we did not let him live that
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down you know how Australia
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is you know they've given us the points
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you know things like that oh no I mean
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just endless endless
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absolutely obnoxious so that was a lot of
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fun of course he was
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giving it right back to us and
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stuff like that so oh there's no crime
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but no there's good times
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good time so I'm not following
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every game and I'm not a huge soccer fan
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by any stretch of the
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imagination but you know when the
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US plays I'll try and try and catch a
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little bit of the other match
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and and see how things go and
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of course try and stay up on top of the
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points and and all that and
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when we win try and rub it in
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anybody's face that we can yeah I think
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they need to make the
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field twice the size
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that it currently is that would make it
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more interesting I don't
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think you know if we start
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including brass knuckles into the game I
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think that could get
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really interesting well see just
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my two cents if you're listening I'm just
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saying what is it what is
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the one where you beat the
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sh** out of each other oh it's rugby
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that's hockey that's
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hockey oh yeah hockey too yeah
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and we're especially we're the women
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these big ball burly women are beating
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the sh** out of each
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other now we're talking josh how much
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does an uber driver make in a day
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funny thing is is I
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just can't get a passenger
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you need to put the uh the jeep talk show
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logo on the side that
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uh what was it the cash cab was that cash
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cab thing you know we could
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do we should do interviews
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from uh uh josh isn't doing an uber uh
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he's he's uh delivering i'm
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getting stuff for the company
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taking stuff away from the company they
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worked for but it'd be
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pretty funny to actually do
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interviews deep talk show interviews and
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uh you go pick them up
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and drive them around
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that would be funny i just a random
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person i see in a
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parking lot somewhere hey
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do you got a ticket for a ride yeah i
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don't think so here pal you
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want to make a you want to make
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five dollars the easy way oh god shots
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fired shots fired and
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then there's always that one
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he goes sure and then you drive away all
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right so um anyway we were we were
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talking earlier about
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uh the um how you've been on the show for
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a long time i think we
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got sidetracked talking
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about something else you've been on the
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show for a long time you
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uh you left the show uh
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what we agreed like three years ago right
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yeah it was uh may of 2023
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i believe that i had to step
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back so it's been it was three years ago
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this may and i'm sure
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people would understand why you
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wouldn't want to record with me any
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longer but that wasn't the case uh you
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know it was definitely
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nothing that was uh forced on me by by
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tony or by the show or by
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sponsors or any any supporters of
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the show by any stretch of the
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imagination it wasn't anything that that
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you the listeners wanted
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in fact it was something that life forced
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on me uh and uh and so it
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was a number of factors that
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contributed to me just not having any
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spare time uh to do anything with the
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show i thought that i
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kind of still be somewhat uh able to to
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provide some content you
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know from the back end um you
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know a little bit of work in the studio
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and stuff but that very quickly
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evaporated and uh and i
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wasn't able to continue to do that either
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so uh three years ago uh a
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little bit more i had to step
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away from the show and uh still active in
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the discord server where
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i was able to chat with
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people here and there drop some grenades
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every now and again a
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little sniper hit and pop in
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and say what's up but that was about the
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extent of it until what has
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it been tony about a few weeks
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back a month ago or so um and we figured
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out logistics of trying
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to make this happen and uh
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and yeah it seems to be working out at
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least somewhat skype had
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beat the hell out of us
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years ago just trying to do when you're
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sitting in a house with high speed
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internet the technical
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difficulties from the beginning so
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thinking about doing this
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from a moving vehicle was like
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no that won't work but we tried it and
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here we are well and the
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service area that i work in
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has a fair bit of mountainous terrain and
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rural area and stuff like
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that where even cell phone
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service isn't that great we see that and
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so we we ran we ran into
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that a little bit even trying
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this even in today's technology of 5g and
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all that so a lot of
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people uh they they think they
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don't see anything i mean this show isn't
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about building jeeps uh
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this show isn't about wheeling
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videos i mean there's plenty of that on
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the internet plenty of
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that on youtube uh we're here
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for entertainment and uh giving you guys
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information about uh
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about jeeps and infotainment
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infotainment infotainment uh jeep stole
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that uh from us and is
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using it for their infotainment
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now allegedly yeah right so we didn't
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trademark that one we
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should have yeah yeah so uh that
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that's what we do here and if you're
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looking for uh how-to's and all that
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stuff there's plenty of
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that out there uh but we're doing okay
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for entertaining people
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and uh i mean i remember
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when we initially started the show it was
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more about um teaching
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people stuff how to do things
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but not initially in a garage setting
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that would have been nice but
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you know i was just thinking
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about this the other day i was looking at
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a uh a youtube uh it's a
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podcast but it's a youtube
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uh as well and i was looking at axles and
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it was a toyota one about
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axles they were doing building
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this that the other welding on things and
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and i got to thinking to
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myself how in the world do they
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afford this because that cost a lot of
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money and could you
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imagine us doing this show
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and making nothing
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well i mean we we for years uh we we
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didn't monetize the show i
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think for the probably the
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first decade oh yeah uh but aside from
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that um yeah there's
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there's been high hopes that that
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you and i have both had pipe dreams for
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this show for years um
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wishing that we could do one thing
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or another i mean we've we've always
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wanted to be in the same studio that
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would that would be cool
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but we have to rely on on technology for
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that until i can move to
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texas which may or may not
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happen but uh anyways uh being able to go
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on road trips and and stuff
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like that it would be really
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cool to do be able to have somebody be a
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videographer for us and and actually be
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able to um to get into
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a garage and do something with a listener
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or something like that i
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think that would be kind
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of neat too it's like hey i'm getting
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ready to you know switch the
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coilovers it's like sweet the
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jeep talks you'll be there in three days
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and we'll give you a hand
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oh and could you imagine
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the coilovers are sent to us by somebody
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that wants the uh the
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notoriety and i just want to
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mention really quick neither of us do
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this for money i mean we
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would have tried monetizing we
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would have given up a long time ago if it
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was no it's just fun and i
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think that you guys can sense
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that so yeah we talk a lot about money
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and monetizing things but
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only because how cool would
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be to be able to do this full time well
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not only that that's what the
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rest of the industry is doing
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i mean you can't go and find a a you know
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any kind of a decent amount
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of content on on youtube or
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or tick tock even even facebook for that
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matter um about jeeps or
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about somebody doing a build or
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technical um things that you know tech
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tips and things like that
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that don't have a bunch of
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commercials on the front and the back end
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of it so it's it's one of
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those things to where you know
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everybody's trying to monetize every
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little thing because
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everybody wants to be a youtube star
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everybody wants to be the next tick tock
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viral sensation and and
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it's just i everybody i wish
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everybody the love and but what tony
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you've been we've been keeping form or
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another for 13 14 years
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yeah correct me if i'm wrong there but um
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and uh neither one of us are millionaires
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neither one of us are gone viral so i
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blame i blame joe
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rogan for high expectations
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oh 100 you know how much we've been
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bugging him to get on the
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show yeah well it wasn't just us
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no it we've been trying for some some
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some big names to get on the
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show because there are people
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out there who are gearheads who are
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enthusiasts who are like us
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and own jeeps and stuff i'm john
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one of his favorite vehicles one of his
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favorite rides is an old jeep
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yj and he finally tracked it
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down and bought it back years later of
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course he had the means and
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the money and and and all that
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to do it but you know it would be awesome
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to get him on the show and
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and have him talk about that
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story in detail um there's been a number
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of people i mean joe rogan is is a car
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collector he's got a
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bunch of stuff there's been a jump bunch
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of uh of jeep enthusiasts over
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the years who are celebrities
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who we would love to get onto on on the
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program uh adam carola huge jeep guy um
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and just the notoriety
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and the and the exposure of of those kind
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of people just to having a
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conversation like you are now
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about vehicles that they own or have
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owned in the past or things
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that they do or have done in the
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past that relate to jeeping and
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off-roading and that sort of stuff so
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it's it's it's out there
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there's a lot of people to talk to about
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this stuff we're just such a
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yeah we're just such a small
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fish in a big pond uh just like jeep who
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you know and no we're
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not going to talk to you
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you know how much you're going to pay me
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oh you're not you know we've actually
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we've actually had a
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couple of individuals out there and i'm
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we're not talking about
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john sean or anything like that
18:43
uh people people that are probably you
18:46
could consider them youtube famous that's
18:49
they said uh how much can you pay uh or
18:52
or i don't think they said
18:53
they said that blatantly i think
18:55
um what's in your budget or what do you
18:59
budget for yeah what's what's your
19:01
compensation schedule
19:02
look like and then another one and
19:05
another one this is one from way back
19:07
when uh said what's in
19:08
it for me which that is the is it
19:12
mentioning dollars but well
19:16
what was it what was the uh
19:17
the saying that we would use uh i think
19:19
it might be who you were
19:20
talking about never go full
19:21
was that what it was oh no that was an
19:24
interesting one that was a whole nother
19:26
one do you do you know
19:28
that i was i was looking at uh off road
19:32
which we we love tarry
19:34
off road right here on this
19:35
oh yeah this uh this on this show i saw a
19:40
tj that was on the the site
19:43
and uh they were talking about
19:46
the owner of the tj and they were they
19:48
apparently tarry does work
19:50
with this guy it was i had to go
19:53
look up the information you're kidding oh
19:56
my gosh yeah so the big
19:58
deal about never go full
20:01
was um back she went out and was talking
20:04
to some man because he was
20:08
how is he on the show this is
20:09
way back uh early on so yeah so we we
20:13
brought him on sort of as a segment
20:15
producer and um he was
20:18
willing and able to do a little bit of
20:21
traveling to go around and
20:23
talk with uh companies or people
20:25
um that were near him and um the thing
20:29
was is that these
20:31
companies or people would then
20:33
contact back to the show saying uh you
20:36
know does this person
20:36
work for you uh does is this
20:39
representing you just wanted to make sure
20:41
um because because
20:42
they're asking for this that and
20:43
the other thing and and he was wanting
20:46
freebies and compensation
20:48
and and free stuff given to him
20:50
under the name of the show i mean and we
20:52
weren't even we weren't even
20:54
as big back then and i'm just
20:56
going to say for clarity we we heard from
21:00
somebody that like you said they
21:02
contacted us verifying
21:04
that was with the show and that he had uh
21:07
wanted compensation for
21:09
coming out to do an interview
21:10
and so on and so forth which that was not
21:13
something that we had
21:13
discussed now i don't know that did
21:17
that this is all allegedly uh this is
21:20
because we never talked about it never
21:23
said yeah that's what
21:24
i did as far as i remember it was uh what
21:27
we heard from somebody that
21:28
contacted us it was actually
21:29
a company that contacted you directly uh
21:31
josh and uh i believe so i
21:33
can't remember the company
21:35
well you actually went out there and
21:36
talked to them because they had for the
21:38
tj they had a clear top
21:42
which i thought was a really cool idea it
21:45
was cheap lids or
21:46
something like that and yeah there
21:49
there was a whole nother thing with that
21:53
um yeah i mean that could have been a
21:55
scam that the guy was
21:56
running so i don't want to i just thought
21:57
it was funny but we the term never go
21:59
full rod that you may
22:00
hear comes from that um that issue that
22:04
we had with anybody selling
22:05
trying to make money off the
22:06
jeep name that we weren't right yeah we
22:09
interviewed the guy he showed me his
22:11
manufacturing process
22:13
and it was out there close to you what
22:15
prototypes and stuff it was
22:17
about a three hour drive for me
22:19
hour it was good couple hour drive two to
22:22
three hour drive i believe
22:23
if memory serves me right
22:24
not not huge it wasn't out of the state a
22:27
little bit of a trek not
22:28
not uh out of the realm of
22:30
expectation but to get one-on-one content
22:33
like that um you know i was
22:35
willing to uh to do a little
22:37
bit of uh footwork oh yeah so well it was
22:39
really cool and i i thought
22:40
it was neat a great idea of
22:42
course i do g tops now in the gladiator
22:45
so i have uh clear panels
22:47
on the freedom uh the freedom
22:48
panels which i really really like but
22:50
back then because because
22:51
this would have been gosh like uh
22:54
2012 or 2011 yeah i was gonna say right
22:58
around 2012 yeah right
23:01
around there so this was something
23:02
brand new and i think it was if i
23:03
remember remember right it was the same
23:06
type of uh it wasn't like
23:08
this glass it was the same type of stuff
23:10
that's on f f16 uh canopies
23:12
yeah that was literally it
23:13
was literally the same uh composite
23:16
material that uh they used on on fighter
23:19
fighter jet canopies
23:21
um so it was it was essentially
23:22
bulletproof yeah uh and it was
23:24
like super uv resistant and it
23:27
blocked all of you know it blocked every
23:30
uv ray i think there was or
23:32
something like that and it
23:33
made your made your jeep like 20 degrees
23:35
cooler you know you know
23:36
the temperature outside was
23:38
like 107 and the temperature in the jeep
23:40
was like 80 yeah yeah
23:41
but anyway i just want to
23:46
reiterate we haven't talked about this
23:48
before but i want to make
23:49
sure that it's not we don't know
23:51
what happened for sure we just have you
23:54
know these two things anyway
23:56
we parted ways with uh with
23:59
this wasn't uh worth going down that
24:01
trail uh no pun intended and uh now he's
24:05
uh he's working with
24:06
tarry lights which which is great which
24:08
may mean that uh wasn't
24:10
doing anything he wasn't supposed
24:11
to do maybe it was this uh this other
24:13
person that was uh was
24:15
scamming or something oh uh one
24:16
other thing so we're pretty trusting here
24:19
on the jeep talk show we're you know
24:20
we're jeepers we want
24:21
to help other jeepers out i mean you see
24:23
somebody on the trail broke
24:24
her down you stop uh no jeeper
24:26
left behind that type of thing uh and and
24:28
fortunately we really
24:30
haven't gotten burned
24:31
that often i mean the thing with really
24:33
wasn't a burn but it was it
24:35
was a little shady uh that was
24:37
just something that didn't work out and
24:38
it was maybe a conflict of
24:40
ethics at worst case scenario
24:42
but um but yeah and and it's not you know
24:45
gears don't always mesh
24:46
um and so you say you can't
24:48
can't always force an issue or you know
24:50
force an employee to work
24:51
the right way or you know
24:53
in this case uh you know a interviewer
24:56
representing the podcast uh you know
24:58
whatever it may be so
24:59
this is this is kind of cool i think you
25:01
uh yeah i think this was
25:03
going on while you were still with
25:04
the show um i did an interview uh with a
25:08
very nice uh gentleman he
25:10
had a shop and he would work on
25:13
jeeps and other vehicles and then i found
25:15
out uh after the interview
25:17
was recorded i found out from
25:19
a few people this is before oh no i think
25:21
it actually was
25:22
published that's how i found out
25:23
about it people were contacting me uh he
25:26
was under indictment
25:28
for uh working on vehicles
25:31
and uh accepting money and then not
25:34
providing the vehicle
25:35
back to who uh to the owner
25:39
so we were talking about like 30 40 you
25:41
can't do that yeah that's
25:43
that's you can't do that
25:45
i mean i i understand you know mechanics
25:47
liens and and things like
25:49
that how all that stuff sort
25:50
of works and and i get it you know you
25:52
came in for what you thought
25:54
was going to be an oil change
25:55
you know and and hey you've got a blown
25:56
head and now you really want yeah
25:59
oh man well i when i used to work in car
26:03
audio uh and for those who
26:05
don't know i spent about 10
26:06
years in mobile electronics and and it
26:08
was one of those things
26:09
you know the customer states
26:11
those things are awesome uh those videos
26:13
if you haven't if you don't
26:14
know what i'm talking about
26:15
do yourself a favor go to youtube and
26:17
just type in customer states
26:19
and and you will be entertained
26:23
but you know the all these there's
26:24
countless times somebody would come in
26:26
and it was like i was in
26:27
here just three days ago you guys put a
26:30
stereo in and now my
26:31
transmission is making funny noises
26:34
it's like i'm sure the two are related
26:36
lady okay let me get right
26:37
on that uh all kinds of stuff
26:40
like that it's like you guys put replaced
26:42
my speakers and now my
26:43
rear defrost doesn't work
26:44
anymore and it's like the two aren't
26:47
related and we weren't even in that area
26:49
you know so it's just
26:50
all these sorts of things that that
26:52
people will blame on just because you
26:53
were you were adjacent
26:55
you know guilt by association you were
26:57
the last one that touched
26:57
it it must be your fault yeah
27:00
uh and then there was there was one more
27:02
where i did an interview
27:04
with a with a gentleman and uh
27:06
after the interview not right after not
27:08
during uh but within a
27:10
about a week or so he requested
27:13
interview not be aired oh i remember that
27:17
yeah that i was uh that
27:19
was during my hiatus um but
27:22
it was really really weird course of
27:25
events um that after this interview
27:28
somebody decided that
27:29
they didn't want that aired and that was
27:32
just the oddest thing
27:33
because of the potential exposure
27:36
and and other just like the cross
27:38
promotion and everything else was there's
27:41
nothing wrong with it
27:42
right um and i think i remember hearing
27:45
like you know behind the scenes a
27:46
a brief snippet of it there you know the
27:49
audio quality was fine the
27:51
person was articulate well
27:52
i mean i found out i think i found out
27:54
through uh one of the other uh
27:56
members of the jeep talk show
27:58
team because they he had called that
28:00
person and i didn't ask him
28:02
the questions that would help
28:03
him promote his channel i was supposed to
28:07
it was supposed to be a
28:08
promotion interview for him
28:10
which he never you didn't give him enough
28:12
opportunity for the plug
28:13
yeah he'd never articulated that
28:16
and he didn't say anything in the in the
28:18
in the interview i know a
28:19
lot of people and keep in mind
28:21
none of these interviews are in person
28:23
but i understand that
28:24
there's lots of people out there
28:25
that don't like conflict so i can
28:28
understand where he may have been nervous
28:30
about telling me no this
28:31
is what i want to talk about or or so on
28:33
and so forth in fact we've
28:35
made changes in the interview
28:37
where people read through this uh this uh
28:41
understanding and they
28:42
have to you know click
28:43
the sign to understand that this is our
28:45
property yeah no yeah you
28:47
know you think the white house
28:48
was the first to have a memorandum of
28:50
understanding no the jeep
28:51
talk show had that first
28:53
saying yeah so i mean i think we should i
28:56
mean but anybody that
28:57
doesn't want to air that's fine i
28:58
mean i don't i can't see us putting
29:00
something out unless they uh
29:02
they confess to killing john f
29:04
kennedy or something and that's going out
29:06
wow that's that's good
29:08
podcasting but you say you know
29:11
where the bodies are yeah okay i don't
29:14
know can you hear the corso i
29:16
don't know what she's barking
29:17
at there's nothing out there i've got
29:18
security cameras set up here
29:20
i just like being able to see
29:21
outside especially when the dogs bark and
29:23
she's just going to it's a
29:24
thing she she wants her owner
29:26
to come home i'm in a big rattle trap
29:29
right now so there's all
29:30
sorts of things that make noise in
29:31
the truck and i can't believe that it
29:33
hasn't uh hasn't come over
29:35
the mic yet i don't hear it
29:37
yeah well maybe i'll hear it maybe i'll
29:39
hear it during edit yeah and
29:41
i'm trying to think i think
29:42
that's it we've had some interesting
29:44
situations but given that we the number
29:48
of people that we've
29:48
interacted with through the jeep talk
29:50
show and before that the
29:52
xj talk show um i'm really
29:54
surprised things have gone as well as
29:56
they've gone um i mean most people are
29:59
honest most people are
30:00
forthcoming uh and i don't know of any
30:02
situations where people just
30:04
lied except for the one that
30:05
was wearing an ankle monitor while i was
30:07
interviewing him
30:09
seriously honestly i can't
30:11
believe i can't believe that we didn't
30:12
get a cease and desist
30:13
or or get canceled or or
30:15
or something i'm talking about when we
30:17
were doing the tony and josh show oh yeah
30:21
that you know that's on youtube you guys
30:23
can still find tony and
30:24
josh but yeah yeah those
30:27
gems are still out there oh good god but
30:30
uh but no you're right i
30:31
mean the fact that we've been
30:32
able to be doing this for for so long and
30:34
uh there's been so many that
30:36
that uh have also attempted to
30:38
do something similar to what we uh what
30:41
we're doing and they've
30:42
they've come and they've gone
30:43
and and we're still here so i and i think
30:46
we've talked about this
30:46
before i'm really surprised
30:48
at the chemistry that you and i have
30:51
because it was like i was
30:52
doing the show and i said i need
30:54
this show to help me uh and i said uh
30:57
somebody want to be on the
30:58
show on the xj uh talk forum
31:01
you chimed in and then you had some
31:04
background doing djs and
31:05
stuff and also too i don't i think
31:07
you're aware of this you just like to
31:09
talk which is perfect because you don't
31:12
like having somebody
31:13
just kind of you know looking at you and
31:15
going yep so but the the
31:17
chemistry it wasn't and and i've
31:19
had other fellows and the other and
31:21
they're very good but it's
31:23
not the same as the chemistry
31:25
between you and i there we go go ahead
31:27
well i was gonna say it wasn't
31:28
just that you know i threw my
31:30
hat in the ring and you picked a name out
31:31
and it was me it was uh it was one of
31:33
these where you know
31:34
yeah i had the gift of gab i think i was
31:37
i was only a few years out
31:39
from my retirement of being
31:41
a strip club dj and so i i had you know
31:45
years and years there's
31:46
people on the mic experience
31:48
that just did that dog thing hearing a
31:49
noise strip strip club huh yeah i know
31:53
that was surprising to
31:54
me i think you were doing the show for
31:56
two or three years before i
31:57
found out that little tidbit
32:01
it's like no tony i've got all kinds of
32:02
mike on the mic experience
32:04
such as well let me tell you
32:07
no no there's we we've oftentimes joked
32:09
about uh how i should
32:11
write a book or something like
32:12
that from you know tale tales of a strip
32:14
club dj and things like that i've i've
32:16
shared a few campfire
32:17
stories over the years of of some of some
32:20
incidents that have been
32:21
noteworthy and and whatnot
32:23
but there's so many that have come and
32:24
gone that was there's a lot of water
32:26
that's been under the
32:27
bridge since uh since those days that
32:28
ain't water yeah alcohol tears
32:33
and uh the stuff that squirts
32:36
um so uh yeah it's actually really really
32:40
interesting oh and by
32:41
the way josh is up in
32:43
i think you've been in oregon all your
32:45
entire life right uh in the
32:47
northwest my entire life i moved
32:49
around a bunch by the time i was 21 i had
32:51
moved more times than i had
32:52
birthdays uh but i've lived
32:54
in oregon and washington my entire life
32:57
oh uh and uh this may be too personal uh
33:00
the the company that
33:01
you did cad design for uh they let you go
33:07
and then what was it six
33:08
months around covid six months
33:10
or a year they they wanted you back is
33:13
that right or was it oh no it
33:14
was like it was like six days
33:16
i got the phone call um and it was and
33:19
you found a job you found another job
33:21
immediately i had three
33:23
i had three job offers before i got home
33:25
that day i mean it was it
33:26
was a friday afternoon it was
33:29
june or july of 2020 and you know right
33:33
in the middle of covid um
33:34
everybody's freaking out i
33:36
had been working from home uh you know
33:39
doing the telecommuting thing because i
33:41
had i had a computer
33:43
in my in my studio i had a computer set
33:46
up that was capable enough
33:47
of doing the cad work that i
33:49
was doing and so they set me up with the
33:51
secure connection so i
33:52
could do the dod work and stuff
33:53
like that and and be able to securely
33:56
transmit the the data and
33:57
the jobs and the designs and
33:59
and all that sort of stuff and um uh and
34:02
you know i had it was great
34:03
because my commute it was um
34:06
uh i was two days in the office and three
34:10
days at home or something
34:11
like that and and then it would
34:13
switch but um the commute that i normally
34:15
had was a minimum of 45
34:17
minutes to an hour in the morning
34:20
when covid came around that dropped down
34:22
to like 25 minutes oh
34:23
my god because there was
34:24
nobody there's nobody on the freeway and
34:26
so i'm like you know i'm
34:27
normally doing 17 miles an hour
34:29
i'm doing 85 and like this is just
34:31
freaking great uh but i'm sure everybody
34:34
experienced that to some
34:35
some degree or another and i had that
34:36
note that said i was i was
34:38
an essential employee and all
34:39
that sort of stuff we started making
34:41
because uh the machine uh
34:42
the company i worked for had a
34:43
machine shop attached to it and we
34:45
started making ventilator parts and stuff
34:47
like that that was a
34:48
freaking joke but uh uh yeah it got to
34:52
the point where uh the industry was
34:55
really getting hit hard
34:57
and i was too high up on the totem pole
34:59
had been there too long
35:00
was making too much money
35:01
and so it was uh here's your severance
35:03
package and we're letting
35:04
you go so six days well i was
35:08
real happy that they were calling you
35:09
back but i certainly understand not
35:11
wanting to go back to that
35:12
that drive back and no and i just want to
35:14
correct something that was
35:14
just it is yeah i just want to
35:16
correct something you you were doing 85
35:18
on the highway but you were
35:20
not driving your xj you had
35:22
a commuter that's the only reason why you
35:25
were able to do 85 on
35:26
the highway yeah yeah yeah
35:28
people that know you go an xj 85 and he's
35:32
still alive yeah so anyway
35:38
circling back to the first
35:39
part of this conversation we like to
35:41
entertain we like to tell you guys
35:43
stories and experiences
35:46
and hopefully you're enjoying that and
35:48
like enjoying this conversation you're
35:50
listening to us today
35:51
again this is in lieu of a interview that
35:54
was supposed to be
35:55
recorded but we were they
35:57
rescheduled so i think that this is kind
35:59
of interesting
36:00
conversation and it kind of gives
36:01
you and i a chance to catch up a little
36:05
bit i think this is
36:06
probably some of the most that
36:07
people have heard of me if you're new to
36:10
the show in the last couple few years
36:13
and getting to know a little bit more
36:15
about me and what's going
36:16
on behind the scenes and
36:18
and that sort of stuff so yeah i hope you
36:20
guys enjoyed we had
36:21
several and i told you this just
36:23
letting everybody else know we had
36:24
several people go is josh
36:26
back is josh really back
36:28
and i think you are i mean this is like
36:30
uh the john wick thing like yeah i'm back
36:36
yeah i'm back because we've been we found
36:39
a way to get you back on the show
36:41
it's not as great a studio thing that you
36:44
had going there there's
36:45
no green screens there's no
36:48
people coming in catering with the cart
36:51
with food and all of this stuff that
36:53
that people can have in the business but
36:57
it's you're here and they're getting the
36:59
good interaction between the two of us so
37:04
that's all that matters so
37:05
what's next josh i know that
37:07
next week we're going to be talking about
37:10
the tire size differences
37:12
and measuring your tread
37:13
depth i have not got to it yet but i want
37:15
to find out if the tread depth measurer
37:20
whatever it's called
37:22
if you have to have a different one for
37:24
mud drains maximum
37:25
tractions because the lugs are so
37:27
so big i get the feeling it's they have
37:30
it set up where you use the
37:32
same one for street tires or mud
37:35
mud terrain tires that is correct all
37:37
tires are measured tread depth is
37:40
measured in 30 seconds of
37:41
an inch so yeah it's whether you have a
37:45
metric or a standard rim or
37:47
mud terrain or a street tire
37:49
it doesn't matter the the tread depth is
37:51
measured the same way with
37:53
a tread depth indicator tool
37:54
looks like a little like almost like a
37:56
very very small tire gauge
37:57
that has a flat tip on it
37:59
uh or a flat flange on it and a little
38:02
tip that comes out and a little
38:04
spring-loaded thing that
38:05
goes down into the into the tread
38:07
measures the uh uh it sits on
38:09
top of the tread and measures
38:10
the depth of it so you know they're like
38:12
five or six bucks on
38:13
amazon oh super cheap yeah 100
38:16
and a really good thing to have too
38:18
especially if you if you have uh
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inspections in your state your
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county uh it's it's a good thing to know
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before you go there um i
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mean well not only not only that
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let's let's look at it this way you're
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maybe around 50 60 75 tread or maybe
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you're at a position
38:34
where you're ready to upgrade size or
38:36
maybe you're ready to go
38:37
from all terrain to mud terrain
38:39
or something like that and so you're
38:40
getting ready to maybe perhaps sell those
38:43
tires getting ready to
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help move those on to somebody uh
38:46
somebody else you can actually give them
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an accurate measurement
38:49
of how much tread is left you can
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translate that into a percentage if you
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want a little bit of math
38:54
um and and it's just worthwhile
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information and it's going to cost you
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three to eight dollars
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so why not yeah and also too you can make
39:02
plans uh also too you can
39:04
use it to lie to the wife and
39:06
say but honey i i gotta get new tires
39:10
look look it's the i got it right here
39:12
the tool tells me so
39:13
yeah all right josh well i think you are
39:18
designated uh i remember on the ham radio
39:21
uh whenever it was big
39:22
and popular in the 80s
39:24
you know before cell phones and stuff
39:26
people would say they uh they
39:27
had reached their destination
39:29
uh but they would shortcut it and say
39:32
i've designated or some
39:33
of them would say i've
39:34
detonated uh which was uh yeah which i
39:38
thought was pretty after a
39:40
trip to taco bell hams are
39:41
hilarious i just gotta tell you so anyway
39:46
73 to all my ham buddies
39:48
out there yep uh always and
39:50
also too uh i think it's 73 because it's
39:53
best wishes so if you say
39:56
73s you're saying best wishes
39:59
is yeah kind of like uh kind of like the
40:03
boys did in living color
40:04
when they were talking about the
40:05
uh anatomy of a female oh nice all right
40:09
well anyway timely
40:09
reference timely reference yes i
40:11
know you guys know the the ordeal here uh
40:14
the thing that people
40:15
always say uh on youtube if
40:17
you're watching us on youtube or spotify
40:19
make sure you uh like share
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and subscribe just uh and give
40:23
us a comment do you know do you already
40:25
know about the tire size
40:26
thing and what you can what
40:28
tire size difference you can get away
40:29
with uh give us give us your
40:31
information uh how do you like
40:33
this episode it's this is just kind of a
40:35
general chat uh that were
40:37
that that we had and josh and i
40:38
can always come up with something to talk
40:40
about so oh yeah oh no
40:42
yeah we can we can do more of
40:44
these uh if uh if if you like it not all
40:46
the time because we we do a
40:48
show we don't just do some um
40:51
what's going on with josh and tony we did
40:53
that when we first
40:54
started doing it it was just hey
40:55
what's been going on so tell me about
40:57
that peanut butter and jelly sandwich
40:59
that you had a little
40:59
while ago is it crunchier was it
41:03
crunchier smooth was
41:05
it gif or jiff yeah so
41:08
and nothing wrong with those podcasts
41:10
that do that i just think
41:11
that's not that's not why you
41:12
come here anyway uh go over to jeep talk
41:15
show.com slash contact reach out to us
41:17
there's all different
41:17
ways josh mentioned the the voicemail you
41:20
can actually send us
41:20
video voicemail um and we can
41:23
have fun with that we could uh play your
41:25
uh your voicemail uh your
41:26
video voicemail here and then have
41:29
me and josh respond to it well i'm
41:32
waiting for one corny out
41:35
there to uh to you know really go
41:38
above and beyond some nicky g and like do
41:40
some costume stuff or get
41:42
really weird i mean i know
41:44
there's some weirdos out there i live in
41:46
oregon you think i know
41:48
about weird all right so uh don't
41:51
me do it i want to see you guys do it uh
41:52
use that jeep talk show.com slash
41:54
voicemail link and and let's
41:56
have some fun we could do the jeep talk
41:58
show uh weirdo meter uh where
42:01
uh i rate it and you rate it
42:05
all right you guys thanks for watching
42:06
and uh make sure you give us
42:07
comments and uh you know do all
42:09
the stuff you're supposed to do uh that
42:11
all the all the listeners out there and
42:12
viewers are supposed
42:13
to do we'll see you later thanks josh you
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bet bye-bye you're my
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friend you're my new friend