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Ep. 14 He Interviewed This NZ Jeep Owner One Week Before the 6.3 Quake! · Jeep Talk Show

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Welcome to Jeep Cherokee XJtalk.com show.
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My name is Tony, also known
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as Mudderoy on XJtalk.com.
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This is a talk show about XJ vehicles,
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which is the two letter
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designator for the Jeep Cherokee.
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Produced for many years,
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almost 3 million units sold.
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We love them, we drive them, some of us
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take them off road. Most
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of us take them off road.
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Tonight we're going to be playing a
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pre-recorded interview with Wayne Lang,
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CanTab 27, from
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Christchurch, New Zealand.
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This interview was recorded just a week
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before the 6.3 earthquake that they had
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and devastated the Church Christ area.
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So, and we may actually have a call from
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Wayne after the interview just to catch
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up with him from last
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week's live interview.
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Okay.
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So just looking here at the chat room,
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we've got Dalton 4x4.
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Dalton, we can always
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count on you to be here.
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I know that a couple of the guys are out
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doing a vehicle recovery tonight.
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We had a new member come up in the chat
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room on XJTalk and say,
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"Hey, need some help out
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night wheeling with a friend of mine?"
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They rolled the Jeep.
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So I'm not sure if it was an XJ or not.
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It certainly doesn't matter as far as the
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rolling of a said
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vehicle because we're all
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part of a community and we want to try to
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help out anybody that needs the help.
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Anyway, there wasn't
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anybody available last night.
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It was around 10.30, I guess, Central
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Time, when that information came in.
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And it seems everybody up in North
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Houston goes to bed early
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because they have to get
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up early to go to work.
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So I believe Renee and Matt were going to
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be going out there
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tonight or after work and
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trying to roll the vehicle back over.
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That new member is Big Jeep, Big Jeep, I
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want to say Big Jim, Big Jeep, Big Jeep.
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And he was a passenger in the vehicle.
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So hopefully we'll get some images,
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whether it be video or
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stills, up on the site.
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And of course the site is XJTalk.com in
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case you didn't know.
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So what I have here tonight is an
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interview that we were
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originally going to play last
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week, but the 6.3 devastating earthquake
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in Christchurch, New
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Zealand occurred just the
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day before the normal Wednesday show.
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So it was just by luck.
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So Wayne was actually able to call in via
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Skype from
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Christchurch and just give us a
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good idea of what was going on there and
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his thoughts and feelings
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that he was going through.
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And it was a very interesting interview
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for me anyway, being
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on the other half of it.
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Hopefully it was for you as
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well, but that was last week.
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And because of the events and because
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Wayne was able to call
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in live, we did not play
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that recorded interview.
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So that's what we're going to do tonight.
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The recorded interview was done one week
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before the 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand.
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And I believe there's even some
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discussion about the
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earthquake that happened back in
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September and also to the threat of new
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earthquakes coming up.
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And of course we had no idea what was
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going to be occurring
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just one short week away.
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So that's the end of the interview.
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Thanks for joining us Wayne.
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Thanks for joining us Wayne.
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It's a pleasure to be here Tony.
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Wayne is down in New Zealand and Wayne I
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guess you've been
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there all your life, right?
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Yep, born in Britain Christchurch, but I
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did spend 10 years living in Australia.
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How was that?
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Hot, very hot.
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So it's not as hot in New Zealand?
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No, Australia is one big desert.
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She's pretty close to what you guys get
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by reading your Texas
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weather, you're a bit of
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Interesting.
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I didn't realize that.
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So it depends what part Queensland.
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Right, certainly, well it's a long long
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ways away from us, which
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is the thing that I find
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most interesting about Jeep
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Cherokees and other countries.
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It's such a long way from
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where they were manufactured.
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Of course parts come from the market and a lot of the things that they were able to
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in other countries. It's such a long way from where they were manufactured. Of course, parts come in from all over the world, so
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it's hard to have
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anything these days that
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is built by one country, although I guess
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the Russians probably
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did it with varied results.
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So Wayne, what do you do in Christchurch?
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I'm a concrete place, though. I do
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decorative concrete,
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driveways, pettios and such.
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Oh, that'd be great to have here. I'd
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like to have some work
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done. I guess the travel
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expense would probably kill me.
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No job too big or
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small, Tony. Three quotes.
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So how long have you been doing that?
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Must have come up
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nine years again on that.
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My goodness. So something interesting
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happened, I guess last
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month or so, interesting to us
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because we don't really have a month off.
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You were off for a month, right?
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Yeah, they've just increased your
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holidays in New Zealand.
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You were entitled to three
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days of Christmas time plus your four
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stats, which is Christmas
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day, Boxing Day, New Year's
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Day, New Year's Eve or whatever it is.
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They've just increased into
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four weeks plus your stats.
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So is that just for your company or is
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that like a national thing?
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That's all over New Zealand.
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So how do you buy
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anything if everybody's off?
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No, it just works out. All the holidays,
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you can take them
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whenever. Most companies close
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down. Like the building industry, like
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Ironman, close down, but
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shops, bars and everything
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else keeps going. They just have the
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holidays different times of the year.
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I got you. That makes sense. It's simple,
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but I kind of had it in my mind. It was a
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national thing and I thought, man,
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everybody's off for a
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month. What do you do? You get to
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like stock up and eat beans.
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It's staggered. The holidays are
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staggered. Like when I
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was, before I was conquering,
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I was working in bars, running bars and
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I'd take my holidays in
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the middle of the year
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kind of thing, which is kind of cool
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because no one else is on holiday.
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Right. Well, that makes it nice to, I'm
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sure it makes it nicer
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to get out and do things
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during the day when
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everybody else is working.
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Yeah, it was good. I enjoyed that. You
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could get to do more stuff.
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This really isn't related to anything,
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but probably New
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Zealand. Do you have like fast
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food places like Jack in a
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Box and things like that?
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We got the Golden Arches, your pizzas,
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your Pizza Hut, Subway.
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What was it? We call it
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Burger Kings over in Australia. It's
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Hungry Jack's. We got
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all those ones, KFC. Then
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we got, yeah, corner fish and chip shops
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or burger bars where
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they'll make the burger
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you kind of want and grill, grill in
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front of you kind of
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thing. Just like a little size
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of average lands kind of a shop.
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See, that was the thing that disappointed
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me the most about visiting Mexico. I went
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over there with my wife. She's originally
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from Mexico and I went over there to, um,
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this was years ago too, before our second
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daughter was born and she just turned 16.
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So we were in Monterey. I was very
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disappointed because, um,
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they had a Chili's. They had
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a water burger. It was like, you know,
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going into Houston. So,
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you know, that's just the
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way things go. But you know what? I think
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that the American
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vision is, well, it's like
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people in other parts of the country.
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They speak with
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somebody in Texas. They want to
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know if you have an oil well and how many
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cows you have. So an interesting,
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I'm sorry, interestingly
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enough, I did have a cousin.
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It's funny. We also have, they're called
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dairies and it's like a,
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you call them convenience
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stores, but they're only little stores.
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They're usually old
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houses and the land just turned
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into a, into a, we shop and you got one
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of those in most
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corners. I've got two within
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five minutes where I am drive. You'll go
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into a sub herbs or town
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and there's usually one
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in every third corner and they're run by
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Indians or Chinese. It's
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quite, quite bizarre. It's
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always been like that. It's handy. It's
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just like your
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cigarettes to your ice creams.
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You just little household
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products are everywhere.
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I got you. So it's, it would be like our
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stop and go or a seven
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11 or I can't remember
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the one I never stop at them. I hate
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those little things. They're convenient.
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Yeah. I'll pay, we call them dairies
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here. I'll post a couple
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of pictures that are quite
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bizarre. Cause like I said, they're on
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the corner and just
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like old houses converted
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to little shops. Been, been
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like us as I can remember.
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That would be, yeah, that would be
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interesting cause it's not,
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that's not how we do it here.
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Of course the places that, the places
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that we have here are
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kind of like gas stations
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and convenience stores. And if you forget
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your, your can of
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green beans on Christmas
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or Thanksgiving, you can go buy a can of
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green beans at the
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convenience store for like eight
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bucks. And you know, they're normally
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like a buck or something.
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So our surveys are going like that now
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we're, cause we're, we're
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about 10, 20 years behind
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everyone. So our survey stations, you get
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your groceries in there. They're now kind
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of seeing us all beginning to change. So
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it's killed, it's killed most of the main
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town and shopping. Our CDV or whatever
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you call it, yeah. The
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central business district
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is all dying because of the big malls are
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going up. But like I
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said, we're, we're, we're
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far behind. We're slow to catch up and
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why people shop and whatnot.
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Well that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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I mean the malls are,
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are fine, but most men
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don't like going to the malls because
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it's, you know, you,
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it's an adventure. You can't
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just go get what you need and get back to
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the television or the
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computer or whatever
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it is you want to get back to. Of course,
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the women like, you know, cruising around
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and seeing everything and doing the
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window shopping. So yeah,
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you get caught for cruising
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around looking at the woman cruising
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around. Well, that's why
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they make dark sunglasses
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way. I told you we were way behind. It's,
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it's, it's like
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looking at the sun. You just
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don't look at it very long. If you look
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like it's too long, it's
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going to burn your eyes.
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Yeah, not wrong. Okay. So anyway, getting
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to the meat of it, the Jeep, you've got a
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Jeep Cherokee XJ. What year is it again?
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It's 95. And how did you
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come up, come, come across
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that? Um, actually, this would be nice
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for Jim. I had a Toyota
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Hilux double camp. That
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was slightly modern and I kept
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overheating. So the wife
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told me to get rid of it. She
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didn't like it. So I was actually looking
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at Land Rovers, their
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discoveries, the V8 ones.
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And I come across an ad for the Jeep
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Cherokee, went around and
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drove it. And I liked the
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way the window wife, you know, how it
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washes the whole screen.
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And I liked that. So I brought
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it. Yeah, it was insane. I didn't, I
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didn't know nothing
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about it. I didn't even know
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that it was a uni body that they didn't
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have chassis back
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then. So how many miles?
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Sorry, 160. I didn't want to be less. It
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was very tidy when I
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brought it and I paid just
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over three for it. I think it was three
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and a half. How long ago
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did you do it? It would
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be three and a bit years ago. So that's
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not a, that's not a bad
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price. I mean, even here,
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that would have been a really bad a
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price. If you could, when
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I first started posting,
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you can see some photos of it. It was
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actually quite a tidy one.
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It's not so tidy now, but
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okay. Well, you've used it quite a bit.
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Yes. It's, um, I brought
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it had all these clunky
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noises as they don't and whatnot, but
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cause of joining these
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forums, I just slowly weeded
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it out myself, ask questions, try things,
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fix things. It's
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great. That's what I like
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about them. Yeah. It's great knowing how
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the, how they're put
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together. And it's a big confidence
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builder when you know, uh, what to look
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for and what to expect.
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And it's, it can be very
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maddening at times because, you know,
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especially when you fix
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something and it, it fails again
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or something similar or in that area
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fails and you wonder when
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you're ever going to get
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to it or get done with it. It's like,
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well, I think I read
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Steve saying to one of the
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boys yesterday, Brian, I'm one of his
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saying to Brian about,
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don't worry about it. It's
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only a piece of metal. Go back to a kind
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of thing, which it is.
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We walk away and go back
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to it and have another go. Right. Well,
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we, I think we have a little bit
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different perspective
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because we can go down or you can go
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pretty much anywhere and
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find a one with a whole
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set of problems, uh, for $500. And of
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course that's one of
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the problems you guys have
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there. The owners of Jeep Cherokees in
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New Zealand is parts,
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getting parts. And actually,
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I guess getting the parts aren't so bad
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as the price that you
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have to pay for them.
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Yeah. Price pricing's yeah, that's the
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color. But in saying
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that not many people do the
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XJ's, that's another reason why I got
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one. Cause it's
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different. Everyone's like, they
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do the Japanese stuff over here, all the
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British stuff, the Land
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Rover's, the Nissens or the
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Toyota's, the surfs, the Hilux's whatnot.
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I wanted something different and a lot of
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people do Wranglers, but I just wanted to
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be a bit different. So I got the XJ.
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What was it? I can't remember if it was
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you that told me that
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the XJ is a, like a luxury
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vehicle.
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Yeah. When they first come out, they were
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worth a lot of money
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when mine probably retailed
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in 95 for near on $60,000.
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My God. So it's viewed as a luxury
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vehicle and anybody that
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makes modifications to it
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is viewed as being insane.
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Well, that's funny cause the Jeep Club, I
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was going to join.
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They've got a lot of older
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blokes here, even older than me beer that
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brought them brand new and I've rocked up
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and I've cut it and gutted it and dented
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it. And they kind of
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look down their noses at
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me. So I didn't really end up joining.
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Young whippersnappers.
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I reckon.
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Well, that's, that's true. That's what
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the Jeep is for. I
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mean the name Jeep, I mean
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it's a military vehicle. It's, it's, it's
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birth was military vehicle, World War II,
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and it's designed to go places. So you're
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doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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And I understand how people, if they
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don't want to do that,
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that's perfectly acceptable.
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But to me, you're having fun with it.
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You're enjoying yourself.
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That's what it's for. It's a four wheel
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drive. Mine actually
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coming from Japan too. It's
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imported from Japan. So left America,
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went to Japan. I don't
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know when they would have
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the right hand conversion, right hand
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drive conversion, but I
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was actually water blasting
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the motor the other day. One of the
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stickers, Japanese
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stickers come off and it's got the
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American writing, you know, watch your
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fingers for the belt or
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whatever it is morning.
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Right.
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So I'm not sure where they did their
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right hand drive
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conversion. I think Japan drives
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on the same side as us. So maybe over
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there or before I left
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the country, I'm not real
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sure.
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I wonder if they have a plant there. I
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was thinking they
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actually built them there.
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It might be assembled there maybe.
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I mean, I don't know. I'm just assuming I
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don't remember reading anything about it.
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I was just assuming that they maybe sort
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of licensed it to or
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Jeep licensed it to be built
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over there and they just they built it
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and then it was closer
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to ship from there to the
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very underrated vehicle over here.
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They get look down your nose as that, but
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more people have seen
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my one out and about.
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They, you know, they need to take notice
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and looking at them and
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what am I one of those?
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And there are a couple of
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nice ones being built up now.
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That's interesting. Well, there was that
18:11
red one that the gentleman.
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I have updated photos of that. I'm just
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waiting for it to be
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emailed to me. I took a lot of
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photos the other day when we were
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flashing my transmission
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out. I'll do it. Actually,
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I'll do it right up on it as well.
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Oh, great. Yeah, that that was very
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interesting. I forget his I
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forget his name on XJ talk,
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but it was interesting. He sent me a
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message telling me he was
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going to create a Jeep look
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just like mine. I was very flattered. And
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my gosh, that was a
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beautiful Jeep. Once he
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got the lift and the
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tires and stuff on it.
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Okay. Yeah, we went out wheeling a few
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times, but I think I
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told you to sell it. You've
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started his business. And he couldn't
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sell it lifted looking
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like that. He had to break
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it down. He had to put a stock suspension
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back on and tires. He
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sold the then he sold
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the Jeep was a 2001 for 6000. He had 1300
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on the left and 1300
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for those rims and tires.
19:03
Which was quite a good deal. Yeah. Can
19:06
you just pause for a
19:07
minute Tony? My landlord's
19:08
going right ahead. So it sounds like he
19:10
broke everything apart.
19:11
He got more money for it.
19:13
If he and then he would have selling it
19:15
all together. Of course,
19:16
the buyer made it. Maybe
19:18
they didn't want all that crap on it.
19:19
Yeah, it's not correct when it's lifted.
19:21
It's rude not to lift
19:21
the Jeep. Actually, I agree
19:23
with you. But over in New Zealand, it may
19:26
have been that people
19:27
didn't want it being
19:28
a luxury vehicle. They wanted it, you
19:30
know, like I think I
19:31
think the guy wanted it for
19:32
towing. But I would have lifted it. You
19:33
know, a guy paid sex. He
19:35
could attend before that
19:36
was a very good looking. J. Oh, it's
19:39
beautiful. Like he might not want it.
19:41
Yeah, it was beautiful.
19:42
It really reminded me of mine. Whenever I
19:44
first started making
19:44
modifications to beautiful
19:46
color that read that read photos. Yeah,
19:50
sure did. But you guys
19:52
like your green and that
19:53
wouldn't mind a green Jeep. I mean, green
19:54
is great for you
19:55
know, off road and back in
19:56
the woods and
19:58
Hey, don't play this but but you will but
20:00
I don't care what color
20:00
they are long as they're
20:01
like, green is just an in house joke.
20:04
Yeah, I'm the same way. I
20:06
mean, they're all of them
20:07
have it's just the body lines and how
20:10
they look, especially
20:11
lifted. Yeah, they look cool.
20:14
Yeah, whenever it's a stock thing, it
20:16
looks a lot like a, you
20:17
know, a station wagon, even
20:18
though they're very capable of stock. But
20:21
once you lift it, oh
20:22
my gosh, it's just an
20:23
amazing transformation.
20:25
Lifted in a seat of muddies, they go
20:28
well, because it's so
20:29
light the powder ratio thing
20:30
isn't it? Yes, they really they really
20:33
get going fast. I mean,
20:34
I routinely we go over
20:36
well over 100 in mind. That's back in the
20:38
stock configuration. I
20:40
took the trip in this
20:41
stock when my mate stock limited 94
20:43
limits, I'd delete the
20:44
ladda ladda ladda. And I forgot
20:46
how nice they drive stock standard and
20:48
the power. Beautiful.
20:49
Yeah. Well, you never didn't
20:52
put the gears in yours, did you? Yours
20:53
took at the 355. Yes.
20:55
Yes. It's on the list, but
20:56
it's a, it's not really a daily driver.
21:00
Right. But I just, it is
21:01
on the list. I was just
21:02
going to mention that when I put the 456
21:05
gears in mind, it was
21:08
like driving it when it was
21:09
stock, except you're sitting high. I'm
21:12
going to have to do it
21:12
then. It was, it was an amazing
21:15
thing that for the, the fun of driving
21:18
the Jeep, that was the
21:20
biggest thing that I've
21:22
done to it. It was expensive, but it was
21:25
the, it was the best
21:26
thing because you notice it
21:27
every time you drive it. One of us was
21:29
pricing up some gears and
21:31
how I put that post up with
21:32
my friend going to Hawaii. You know,
21:35
that's not a bad idea. The
21:37
gears are a little heavy,
21:38
but I don't think they'd be as heavy as
21:41
wheel bearing
21:41
assemblies. I got to put all your
21:44
list on there. So hopefully people can
21:46
price or put us links to
21:47
some pricing and then me
21:49
and him are going to nut out and think
21:50
what would be a good
21:51
stuff to bring over, just
21:51
throwing our gear bear kind of thing. I
21:54
have a lot of senses we
21:55
always bring it back. And
21:56
I'm sorry, the, the people listening that
21:58
don't understand what
21:58
we're talking about.
22:00
It costs a lot of money to get parts in
22:02
New Zealand and it's
22:03
largely due to getting it
22:05
shipped there and the parts, the parts
22:07
themselves are expensive too, but the
22:09
shipping is outrageous.
22:11
So he's got, he's got a friend. Yeah.
22:13
He's got a friend that's
22:14
going to be going to Hawaii
22:17
and in the United States we have a deal
22:20
with the U S post office
22:21
where they have this deal
22:23
where if it's, if it fits in a box, it's
22:25
a certain size box.
22:27
It's 70 pounds or less.
22:29
It ships for a fixed rate. So for
22:31
something like eight bucks
22:32
or something, we can ship
22:34
something from Houston to Hawaii. And
22:38
then, and then his
22:39
friend, whenever his friend gets
22:40
on the plane to come back home, he can
22:42
check it as luggage. And
22:44
now the, the, the whole
22:45
shipping thing, the gosh, I guess gears
22:48
would probably cost 50,
22:49
60, a hundred bucks to,
22:51
to get shipped to, to New Zealand. And
22:53
now we're talking about
22:54
eight bucks and the guys,
22:56
you know, on the plane anyway. So, you
22:58
know, that, that
22:59
obviously is a cost, but it's a,
23:00
it's not going to be a shipping cost.
23:03
There's an example where our front hubs
23:06
or bearings, like $250,
23:08
$100 a side. I think it's
23:10
a one tiny selling a hundred bucks a pair
23:12
American. Right. And I'm
23:14
sorry, how much was the shipping?
23:16
There's just, our one's landed here for
23:18
me to go to where I buy
23:20
them from to buy new ones.
23:22
There's two 50 to $300 a side. Okay. I
23:25
see what you're saying. So you can
23:26
probably figure that
23:28
a lot of that is shipping and it just
23:29
amazes me that, that, that
23:31
they're gosh, you would think
23:34
that somebody would snap up the idea of
23:37
putting a bunch of this
23:37
stuff on a boat. Well, again,
23:39
there's not that many Jeep Cherokees over
23:41
there. So I guess it's not
23:42
worth doing it. And that would
23:43
be another reason why the prices are
23:45
high. That's a, someone should
23:46
have been decent hubs for the
23:49
ones you could read, grease and repack
23:50
maybe. That was a little
23:52
disappointing to me as well.
23:53
I'm not used to that. A sealed
23:55
non-serviceable bearing.
23:58
Sam, cause I'm like, I'm on beyond to
24:01
you. I know my left front one
24:03
is playing up. That'll be my,
24:04
you can see in three years since I've had
24:07
it and the last set be
24:09
like, if I've done 10,000
24:10
K's on them, but it does play in a lot of
24:12
rubbish. Right. Well, you,
24:14
you, you get in the river a lot
24:16
and that's gotta be washing out that
24:17
grease. Exactly. So it's a
24:19
four wheel drive. You pay
24:21
for things. Yeah, that's true. It's a
24:22
hobby. Same as the body
24:24
works, but banged up. But hey,
24:26
so, uh, what kind of things do you do
24:28
over there? I mean, uh, I'm asking this
24:31
because you've been on
24:32
our site and there's a lot of, um, a lot
24:34
of American things and
24:35
American ideas that we,
24:37
that we talk about there. What are the
24:39
things that you do
24:40
differently with your Jeep than,
24:42
than we do over here or, or
24:43
are there different things?
24:45
Nothing really. It's more a learning
24:48
curve for me personally, myself and
24:51
getting ideas from yous,
24:52
which can make my modifications cheaper.
24:56
If you get what I mean, um,
24:58
or silly or not stupid or silly
25:00
ideas. The good example is the, uh, uh,
25:03
pulp noodles. Yeah. And so
25:05
I had no idea how to sort
25:06
that out. And Renny, he said, yeah, two
25:09
bucks. And it was, it did
25:10
cost me two bucks and that was,
25:11
that was brilliant. Probably one of the
25:13
better things I've done
25:14
cause it keeps all the
25:15
crap and stuff out of the hinges and
25:17
inside the cab. Right. Yeah. I was a
25:19
little surprised by that
25:20
too. It makes perfect sense, but, uh, he
25:23
talked about it on the
25:24
website and then one of our Houston
25:25
area meeting greets, I said, show me the
25:28
pool noodle. I was a
25:30
little nervous at first, but he
25:32
pointed towards the Jeep. Yeah, that's on
25:36
his interview. Wasn't
25:37
it? I remember that. Yes,
25:38
it was a video interview. Yeah. And the
25:40
thing, and the thing I
25:41
found interesting was I believe
25:42
he had a pool noodle on one side, but not
25:44
on the other. So just the
25:47
driver side. So he was pool
25:50
noodle pacing himself. It says more,
25:54
more, more that I get more
25:55
ideas. A few, he's just like,
25:56
we can't go to the junk yard as you call
25:58
them. We call them car
25:59
wreckers and make a so-called bus
26:02
and pack up or get Springs or best pieces
26:05
of Rex. We just, we just
26:06
don't have the vehicles over here
26:08
for that. Yeah. Yeah. I think you used
26:10
your broncos or your F
26:11
one fifties or your Mustang
26:13
injectors, for example. We just don't
26:15
have that. And if they did,
26:16
cause that rear over here,
26:17
that'd be so expensive. So what is the, I
26:21
guess all the cars, there's no national,
26:24
a local built or a New Zealand vehicle.
26:27
We never built cars. We Australian cars,
26:30
the Ford Falcon and the Holden, then it's
26:31
your Japanese, your
26:33
Toyota's, your Nissen's.
26:35
And then you got your, your British, your
26:37
Land Rover and whatnot.
26:39
Or the Land Rover.
26:40
A lot of European cars
26:41
here now very cheap to BMWs,
26:42
yeah. Pugeos and whatnot. They're getting
26:45
very cheap over here now.
26:47
Are the Land Rover's very prevalent?
26:49
They're probably classed the same as the
26:51
Jeep. They underrated,
26:53
but people reckon they got
26:55
electric problems. It's, it was got a
26:56
personal, what you like.
26:58
It's what you like. I've never
26:59
owned one. So I can't back one of owned
27:02
Toyota. I can bank that.
27:04
Yeah. No, I mean, I was thinking maybe
27:05
there was a lot of them there.
27:07
I know they're usually the soccer mom
27:09
cars, the big V8 ones. I
27:11
think your gangsters drive
27:12
around and then with the bling bling. Oh
27:14
yeah. Well, they're,
27:15
they're, they are luxury vehicles
27:16
here because they cost so much. They're a
27:19
nice vehicle, but I have
27:20
seen there are a few modified
27:21
over here, but same that coming down in
27:24
price cause the cost of
27:25
petrol. So the older ones were
27:27
95, 90, even to the 10,000, you probably
27:30
pick up for $10,000. New Zealand.
27:32
Right. So you can really go
27:34
four wheel drive in a luxury.
27:36
Yeah. And I don't know, something kind of
27:38
rubs me the wrong
27:38
way. Of course, I've got
27:40
power windows, heated mirrors. I've even
27:43
got a block, a block
27:44
heater on mine. I guess mine,
27:47
mine is probably next to the fanciest one
27:49
you could get. I think
27:50
the, the one that I saw that
27:52
had the only, the only one that I've ever
27:54
seen that had more was a sun or moon roof
27:57
built into it. And I didn't know that I
28:00
didn't realize they came
28:01
that way from the factory.
28:02
I didn't actually realize that until I
28:04
saw the movie castaway with Tom, Tom
28:07
Hanks. He was driving
28:08
a blue Jeep Cherokee, beautiful Jeep
28:11
Cherokee. And I think it was
28:12
about the same year as mine.
28:14
And it had a, it had a sun or moon roof
28:18
on it. And I thought, what
28:18
the hell? I thought I had
28:20
everything on mine. I was missing that.
28:23
Get Jimbo to guest cat you want on.
28:26
Yeah, I don't know. I don't, everybody
28:28
says they leak. And of
28:30
course that wouldn't be a
28:31
problem with you, would it? It'd be a
28:33
good way to get out and
28:34
when it's drowned maybe.
28:36
You take yours in the
28:38
deep water a lot, don't you?
28:40
Yeah. That's, that's really all we got
28:42
here. We got rivers, we got, have got
28:44
some trails and some
28:45
real hard stuff on the west coast, but
28:47
most of our runs in
28:48
Canterbury were all level crossage.
28:50
Involved Mardine rivers.
28:52
Well, I personally like them.
28:53
Oh, the freshwater rivers good too. Cause
28:55
you just wash it on the way home.
28:57
That's true.
28:57
We, we, we haven't got rocks.
28:59
Yeah. I'm not a big rock person. I don't
29:01
like the idea of rolling my vehicle
29:03
in the process of
29:04
kind of climb over rocks.
29:06
I'd be worried about busting the old
29:08
running gear, I think.
29:10
Maybe.
29:10
The old, um, this is, um, yeah, this,
29:13
this, all we got down well
29:14
here with it. We, we got,
29:16
we got some really hard stuff on the west
29:17
coast, which is all Mardine,
29:20
one chain of making your own trails and
29:21
probably, um, push passion
29:23
a bit to get around them.
29:24
But we're pretty lucky to go wheeling,
29:25
wheel out of wheel most places.
29:27
You stay there, obviously not on private
29:29
land and farms and stuff,
29:30
unless you get permission and most of the
29:31
farmers are quite good.
29:34
We're really lucky.
29:35
Oh, uh, actually speaking of, uh, the
29:37
land there, you've been,
29:38
uh, having quite a few,
29:39
there was a, a 7.1 or so very close to
29:42
Christ church back in, was that July?
29:45
September, September the 4th, I know this
29:48
one well, six minutes
29:49
past four, I wake me up.
29:51
Didn't want to wake me up.
29:53
Yeah, I'm sure. And, and it was, uh, it
29:55
was fortunately, nobody
29:57
was, was killed in that,
29:58
but it did a lot of damage as, as well as
30:00
seven, uh, point anything
30:02
should do, but the thing we've,
30:04
I'm sorry.
30:06
We, um, was just very lucky. It happened
30:08
when it happened at that time of morning,
30:09
Tony, I think looking at the damage in
30:11
town and said, sub hoops.
30:13
It was amazing.
30:13
Seven.
30:14
It was, it was really amazing, especially
30:16
the, the, the links
30:17
that you were sending us.
30:19
I was very enthused that you were, you
30:21
had internet access
30:22
because I was afraid we weren't
30:23
going to hear from you for some time.
30:25
We're really lucky. They, the
30:27
infrastructure or the bandage that up
30:29
really, okay. There was some
30:30
sub hoops. You lost it for weeks. The
30:31
stuff we're only out for like three,
30:33
five, six hours kind of
30:34
thing. Yes. There's a sub just up the
30:37
road where my mate, my boys
30:39
mate lives. They've still got
30:40
porta potties or your toilets outside.
30:43
They've still got no sewer down there.
30:45
And that was from the, the initial
30:47
earthquake and not the, the aftershocks.
30:50
We've had over 4,000 aftershocks. We've
30:53
had, we had four years
30:54
today. We've only had one today.
30:55
I think that's the thing that shocked me
30:57
the most. The, here in
30:58
the 7.1 was a big deal,
31:00
especially when I heard Christchurch
31:01
because I was like, that's
31:02
where Wayne lives. And, and,
31:04
and then I got on the, the, the site and,
31:07
and got ahold of a Rene
31:09
Arginard and told him about it.
31:11
And I don't know what he may have
31:12
actually called you on the
31:13
phone. I can't remember, but.
31:14
I think he was, I think he was trying to
31:16
email and stuff. Right.
31:19
Because we, we, we, we, we in
31:20
no power. And I was actually spent the
31:22
first couple of three
31:23
hours sitting in my work here,
31:25
listening to my aim, the aim stationed on
31:28
the radio, finding out
31:30
where the earthquake was.
31:32
First truck, we live real, real close to
31:34
the coast and we were
31:35
worried if it was out to sea,
31:36
we're going to get washed out anyway. It
31:37
was tsunami or something.
31:38
It was our biggest fear.
31:40
Yeah. That was, I found out it was, it
31:41
was inland. So we were
31:42
kind of happier after that.
31:44
Right. So, uh, the, uh, and then the
31:47
thing that surprised me the
31:48
most was not, not only all of the
31:51
aftershocks, but so I heard such little
31:54
about the, the quake and the
31:57
after, and almost nothing but
31:58
aftershocks. So really the only reason
32:00
why I knew about any of this
32:01
stuff is because you were on
32:03
XJ talk telling us how many quakes you
32:05
are, how many aftershocks
32:06
you had that day. And some of
32:07
them were three, four, uh, did you, you
32:10
had some, uh, uh, bigger
32:11
than a 4.0, didn't you?
32:13
We, we, we had some fives, good fives.
32:15
We, the plus decent white
32:17
rock we had was probably not
32:19
the Friday gone. The one before was a
32:21
four nine. That rock house pretty good.
32:23
My goodness. And you're getting quite a
32:24
bit of damage to your
32:25
house as well, aren't you?
32:27
Well, they've quoted 20,000 and that's
32:30
just visual, but we, we
32:32
begged to differ. We've had story,
32:34
I think it was, um, Warren who's on XJ
32:36
talk as well, another key
32:37
week. He's got friends who are
32:38
same boat. They were 16,000 visual damage
32:42
and the quotes started coming in and, uh,
32:44
people looking at the work today, the
32:46
contractors and they've quoted over
32:47
60,000. So I don't know,
32:50
it's gone to flechers now who are doing
32:53
all the rebuilds over
32:54
$10,000. We'll just have to wait and
32:56
see. And you really don't want to get
32:57
started on rebuilding
32:59
anything with all the aftershocks,
33:00
I would assume. We are doing our first
33:03
rip out replace of a
33:04
driveway next week. He's quite
33:06
damaged. They've given us the go ahead.
33:08
So they think that maybe
33:09
this is on the downside then.
33:12
There's a guy predicting a big one next
33:14
month, March the 19th away teens.
33:16
But was that a reliable
33:18
scientific kind of guy or?
33:20
Um, my, my steps. I was just standing and
33:22
sitting on the couch saying,
33:24
he's just predicting the most, most of
33:26
them so far. I
33:27
actually put a link up, um,
33:29
Steve 4.3. He's read that it's quite a
33:32
good right. I read actually, if, if you
33:33
don't know the link, um,
33:35
MP mean, I'll MP yeah. It's a very good
33:37
read. He's called the moon
33:38
mean he's very good on tides and
33:39
whatnot as well. He's, it's, it's really
33:41
good reading as in it makes you wonder.
33:44
Right. So, but it's a, uh, it's, it's a
33:47
guy that has made
33:48
predictions in the past and has,
33:49
has probably come pretty close. We're all
33:51
on the moon and the water
33:53
and the pull of the gravity
33:54
and ladle out, but I've my head actually,
33:55
but yeah, yeah. Stretching, uh,
33:57
stretching the crust
33:58
and it moved. He's got everyone worried
34:00
about the 19th, 18 to the
34:02
19th. So next month, these people
34:03
actually leave in Christchurch.
34:05
Interesting. So March 19th,
34:07
18th or 19th, it'll be, uh,
34:09
if you don't hear it well, if you don't
34:11
hear from it, you know, it
34:11
was, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
34:14
mark that down so I can pay attention and
34:17
make sure I think happy
34:19
thoughts. And maybe I'll jump
34:20
up and down over here and see if I can
34:22
counteract it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
34:24
That'd be real cool.
34:27
Well, Wayne, we're, we're hitting about
34:28
the 30 minute mark. So
34:29
was there anything that you,
34:31
that you wanted to cover that we haven't
34:32
already? Yeah. I'd like to,
34:34
um, no, I'd like to just say
34:36
that one day we were planning on coming
34:37
over there. Oh, that'd be
34:39
great. And, um, we're just
34:41
to pick somewhere. I know America's a
34:43
really big place. We won't
34:44
be able to catch up with most
34:45
people, but we'd have to sort something
34:47
out. And I like to go, um,
34:49
we're dealing with hardcore beer,
34:50
but I think he's a bit too hardcore for
34:52
me now. And maybe do a
34:55
bit, a few more with, um,
34:56
big German. He's a wild man as I'm sure
35:01
you've been able to ascertain from,
35:03
he will. I gotta get, I gotta get some
35:05
video of me doing some stuff. Yeah.
35:07
That's a lot of fun. I feel love to see
35:10
some videos. I do stuff like that.
35:13
This is good, but they're cheap. I
35:16
actually use the job, the
35:18
Jeep, the winch in the garden. The
35:19
other day pulling out stumps. It was
35:20
great. Oh, the winch is
35:21
a wonderful tool. I love,
35:23
uh, I've pulled out a rose bush for the
35:25
wife. I said, look, honey,
35:29
it's well worth the $500.
35:30
I spent on it just to pull up this one
35:32
bush. Yeah. I pulled out, I
35:36
posted pictures and stuff.
35:38
They pulled quite a good nice stump out
35:39
actually. I forgot what that's a,
35:44
is that a Warren winch that
35:45
you have or I can't remember.
35:46
No, no. The Chinese one has the, um, team
35:50
medical team mark or something like that.
35:51
It's like a 12,000 pound winch. Yes. 12
35:54
is a big one, but it's same
35:56
kind. It was under that water
35:57
long, long time and it still goes. So it
35:59
must be sealed up pretty well. Yeah. Oh,
36:02
they've approved a hell of a lot there,
36:03
which is the Chinese
36:04
ones. Yes. Well, the,
36:05
the Smitty belts have really amazed me
36:08
because I think Renee's
36:09
been using his for well over a
36:10
year now and, and, uh, it looks like hell
36:12
and he puts that Jeep
36:13
through hell and it's still going.
36:15
And, uh, we have a vendor right now
36:17
that's selling them for $279 shipped. I
36:20
think actually you were
36:21
asking about it because you were asking
36:22
if the shipping was still
36:24
good for, for New Zealand.
36:26
Yeah. I knew what the answer was. I was
36:28
going to ask hell of a price.
36:29
You never know. Yeah.
36:31
That's a good price. I'm sorry.
36:35
This many American bottle. No, I believe
36:38
it was a Chinese. I mean, the Smitty,
36:39
the Smitty built name is, is an American
36:41
name, but I believe that's
36:43
a, uh, a Chinese winch with
36:45
a Smitty built name on it. And I think,
36:47
don't quote me on this, but
36:48
I think that rough country,
36:50
that the, the, the winch that they've
36:51
recently started selling
36:53
is the exact same winch.
36:54
I think it's also, it also the same
36:57
Chinese, the same Chinese winch.
36:59
Sure. I'm asking, um, uh, I really need
37:01
to post a decent picture of
37:02
his winch and you probably
37:04
find that there's not much difference in
37:05
the shape or how they look to my one
37:08
because being Chinese.
37:09
Right. You know, if it works, the
37:11
cheaper, the better. I mean,
37:13
well, if it works once when you really
37:15
need it, man, it's worth paying for.
37:17
Yeah, exactly. And, and for $279, you
37:20
know, if I had the funds,
37:21
I would get one and put a,
37:24
one of those little, um, those little
37:26
trays that you can plug
37:27
them into a two inch receiver
37:29
and I'd keep it in the back of my Jeep.
37:31
And I would put the wiring
37:32
back there so that I could
37:33
run it from the back of the Jeep because
37:34
you don't always get stuck in the front.
37:37
Oh, exactly right. You can do all that
37:38
with the old blocks and tackle, but yeah,
37:40
one on the back would be nice. Like
37:41
Steve's got all you, he
37:43
was modding one up and he,
37:44
Oh, that's a beautiful, beautiful setup.
37:46
It's a very slow course. You know,
37:48
Steve does all that stuff that is just
37:51
all the thinking and the
37:52
drawing and the doing. And
37:53
yeah, it's amazing. He does some good
37:56
stuff. Some nice stuff.
37:56
Especially there. Uh, mighty Mike. Yes,
37:59
that's true. He gets to
38:00
play with a lot of stuff.
38:01
I just wish he wasn't in California. It'd
38:02
be better to have him here in Texas.
38:04
Well, I see. See, I just got to tell
38:06
those young fellas, all this comes off
38:07
age. They'll be like
38:08
that one day. You know, I wish that was
38:10
true. I think there's
38:11
some people, some people that
38:13
don't go to that level of detail and
38:15
don't spend the time
38:16
learning that much. I mean,
38:17
you can see the level of detail that he
38:19
goes into just looking at
38:20
that aluminum rear bumper.
38:22
That's nice piece of work. It really is
38:25
very, very fancy
38:26
functional, but very fancy.
38:29
Well, Wayne, thank you very much. I
38:30
really appreciate this.
38:31
We've been trying to get you
38:32
on here and schedule conflicts because of
38:35
the huge time
38:36
difference. I think there's like 19
38:38
hour time difference between you and me.
38:40
And we're 90 years in front.
38:42
Yeah. And so it's great that
38:44
we were able to get on here and actually
38:46
get 30 minutes into a
38:47
recorded interview. And I just
38:48
want to tell you, thank you very much
38:50
because you're one
38:51
interesting fella and we really
38:53
appreciate having you on the site. I
38:54
mean, you're on the site
38:55
quite a bit. And actually
38:57
Wayne is a moderator on our site now
38:59
recently became a moderator.
39:01
So thank you for that as well.
39:02
Wayne. So good. It's all good. I say you
39:05
got a night shift man,
39:06
but he wasn't there last
39:06
night. I did post about that. I see. See,
39:09
yes. Yep. Brian said he's
39:12
actually been off on vacation
39:13
and he's going back to life tonight. I
39:15
told him that you were complaining.
39:17
Well, did he put him for his vacation? I
39:20
don't know. Well, there
39:22
you go. I'd be docking him
39:23
straight away. Tony. That's exactly
39:25
right. That's all good. No, it's pleased
39:28
to talk to you, Tony.
39:29
Get out to all the rest of the boys out
39:31
there. Thank you a lot,
39:32
Wayne. Okay, Tony, I'll talk to
39:34
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39:50
Well, I think that was a really good
39:53
interview with Wayne.
39:54
Wayne's always fun to talk to.
39:56
He has a good outlook on life. And if you
40:02
listened to the live
40:04
interview that we did last week,
40:05
it was a very apparent that he was down
40:08
when the interview
40:09
started. And as it progressed,
40:12
started picking on Bear and Reaney and
40:14
several people. So it's hard to keep
40:17
Wayne in a bad mood.
40:20
I'm sure it's just like any man with a
40:22
Jeep. You can get him in
40:23
a bad mood quickly, but
40:26
he usually gets himself out of it. We're
40:31
starting to get sweetness in the chat
40:33
room. Dalton four by
40:34
four says, "Yeah, the old part's got a
40:36
big heart." So we did increase our
40:39
viewership here in the
40:40
chat room a bit. It's not big numbers,
40:43
but we appreciate everybody
40:45
that's taking out their time
40:47
to join us on the show. I see Wayne, the
40:50
cantab 27, the gentleman
40:52
we were disinterviewing,
40:54
is on. Dalton four by four. Lizard
40:57
runner. Order looks
41:00
like O R O D E R D E N E B.
41:04
Order nib. Punisher 72. Weldman and a
41:08
couple of guests. So I think we lost
41:11
somebody along the way.
41:13
Could be they just were here for the
41:16
interview. But thank you
41:18
guys for all showing up tonight.
41:20
By the way, I think I misstated there was
41:23
some chat room chatter
41:25
about Reaney and Big Jim out
41:28
doing the recovery, not Matt. And that
41:31
probably makes more sense.
41:33
Matt is helping nurses his
41:36
wife back to health. She's been sick with
41:38
the flu. And he probably
41:41
needs to stay home anyway.
41:43
So guys, did you have any questions for
41:46
Wayne? I mean, you've been
41:47
talking to him here in chat
41:48
for a while. I'm not sure if Wayne if you
41:50
wanted to call in and chat
41:52
with us a bit. If you just
41:53
in the chat room, that's cool, too. Just
41:57
reading here the chat room,
41:58
what's going on. Not much.
42:01
Well, I was kind of thinking that maybe
42:03
Jensen was going to
42:05
call in tonight. And if
42:08
Wayne wasn't available, but I don't think
42:11
he is online. You know
42:13
what, I think I'm going to try
42:14
calling him. Let's see. Wayne, you
42:16
weren't going to call in, were you? No
42:18
telling how long it takes
42:19
for the bit that I just said to get to
42:22
New Zealand and then for
42:23
Wayne to type in and answer.
42:25
Well, I'm going to try to give Jensen a
42:26
call. And we're calling
42:29
now. Shows him online,
42:31
doesn't show him active. It's ringing,
42:34
not getting him. You know,
42:36
it's a shame. I should have,
42:39
I was doing some stuff with the system
42:40
last week and Reaney Arganard sent me a
42:48
friend's request and I think it was from
42:51
his cell phone. And that
42:54
would have been pretty good to
42:56
get him on the cell phone. Well, I guess
42:59
I don't have to get him on
43:00
Skype. I wonder if we could,
43:03
I wonder if it would be too bad if he
43:05
was, if he's very busy.
43:07
We could give him a call
43:09
and see how the recovery went or how it's
43:12
going. Let me try that. He
43:14
can always tell me to go to
43:15
hell. Let me just grab his number real
43:17
quick and we'll give him a
43:18
call. So I'm going to play
43:21
some music and I'm going to see if I can
43:22
get him on the phone.
44:25
Hey man, what are you doing?
44:33
Did you get the Jeep un-flipped?
44:38
Can you talk to us on the air or do you
44:41
need to pay attention to the driver?
44:46
Yeah, I hear you.
44:53
You want to do it?
44:56
Okay, I'll put you on the line.
45:07
Somebody's calling.
45:10
Somebody entered the damn phone.
45:12
It's an XJTalk Live phone call.
45:15
Okay, well we've got Rainey on the line.
45:16
As you can probably hear some of the
45:18
background noise, he's actually driving
45:19
down the road in his Jeep.
45:23
So we're going to be very understanding
45:26
because Rainey needs to pay attention to
45:28
the driving more than
45:29
he does talking to us.
45:30
Hey Rainey, you're on.
45:32
We just got through playing the interview
45:34
with Wayne that we recorded
45:35
back before the big quake.
45:38
And I mentioned in the beginning of the
45:40
show that you were out
45:41
un-flipping a Jeep this evening.
45:45
We got it over.
45:46
He was going down a little trail that was
45:49
right next to a real big runoff stream
45:53
and dropped off in a little
45:56
ravine that was like a washout.
45:58
And it fell over and it
46:01
went literally nose over tail.
46:05
But yeah, we ended up coming up to it,
46:08
looking at it, scratching our heads.
46:09
First off, we tried to
46:10
winch an ugly ravine on its lid.
46:13
And that didn't work, so we just ran the
46:15
winch cable over the bottom of the Jeep
46:17
because the bottom was actually off where
46:19
wheels were in the air.
46:20
And hooked it to the back bumper and
46:22
pulled it over, front end dug in the
46:24
ground and it came up that way.
46:26
So it worked.
46:28
Wow. That sounds like
46:30
that was very fortunate.
46:31
It sounds like it was very
46:32
fortunate that nobody was hurt.
46:34
Yeah, it was really
46:35
amazing that nobody was hurt.
46:37
Yeah, when they said roll, I figured that
46:39
it was an actual roll
46:41
over, not a nose over tail.
46:46
That would be a hell of a ride.
46:48
Yeah, it was an end over end.
46:49
And I was like you, I'd
46:50
bought rolled over into a ditch.
46:52
But no, it was a
46:54
whole lot worse than that.
46:55
And actually, there's a
46:57
lot of pictures of it.
46:58
I have none because I don't
46:59
even have my camera with me.
47:01
But I actually just had my phone.
47:02
And of course, I couldn't see anything.
47:04
And because we got out
47:06
here just about dark.
47:07
So there is some pictures and they will
47:10
be up on XJTalk later on tonight.
47:13
But yeah, we got pictures of it.
47:15
And I actually, my winch did fine until
47:18
the very end and I've got it hot.
47:20
So I'm actually running down the road
47:22
with my winch cable wrapped around my
47:23
bumper because it got hot enough it
47:24
actually went in thermal overload.
47:26
Wow. So was your vehicle the only vehicle
47:30
out there for the
47:31
recovery or did Jim take his?
47:33
No, actually it was me and Wes.
47:34
The big CJ7 that's on the home page with
47:37
the video, it was
47:38
actually that CJ7 and me.
47:40
But his Jeep, we never even needed it.
47:42
I mean, we didn't even get it
47:43
close to the flip over site.
47:46
The only thing his Jeep got
47:47
used for was at the very end.
47:48
We kind of pushed it out by hand and then
47:50
Wes tied it and actually pulled it out
47:53
the rest of the way to the road.
47:54
So this was, was this
47:55
an XJ that rolled over?
47:57
It was an XJ.
47:59
And is it pretty bad?
48:00
I mean, I think Big Jeep was saying that
48:02
it looked like the hood or the roof was
48:05
crushed and the doors were crushed down.
48:08
Believe it or not, the only damage to it
48:10
really, I mean besides, you know, dings
48:12
and dents and stuff all over the Jeep,
48:16
right about where your mirror would be is
48:18
feed in about a foot.
48:20
But other than that, we actually broke
48:23
out one of the rear
48:23
windows winching it out.
48:24
But other than that, really not that bad.
48:26
All four doors still open or
48:28
actually the passenger door.
48:29
No, they all four. All
48:30
four doors still open.
48:31
And it had a sunroof in it and the
48:33
sunroof wasn't even broke.
48:36
That's amazing.
48:38
Oh, yeah, and the hatch is destroyed.
48:42
You know, the big
48:42
fiberglass hatch was just destroyed.
48:45
Was that, was it destroyed in the
48:47
original accident or the winching out?
48:50
No, the original accident.
48:52
Well, the only damage we did winching out
48:54
was busted out one of the rear windows.
48:56
You know, it was like,
48:57
oh, man, what do you do?
48:59
And the only reason it got busted out is
49:01
it was against the, it was
49:02
actually against the trees,
49:03
I mean against the
49:04
bankment of the ravine.
49:07
And as it was coming out, it pushed into
49:09
it and just went, pshh.
49:10
But that's really the only damage that we
49:12
did to the Jeep coming out.
49:14
So which was, you know,
49:15
pretty amazing, I guess.
49:17
Well, boys and girls, let this be a
49:18
lesson to you that
49:19
whenever you go out wheeling,
49:21
you need to be wheeling with a buddy.
49:22
And I don't mean the buddy sitting next
49:24
to you in the same Jeep,
49:25
because these guys were out probably 9 or
49:27
10 o'clock last night in the Jeep by
49:30
themselves when this happened.
49:32
You never know when
49:32
this is going to occur.
49:34
Were there recovery points
49:35
on this, on the Cherokee?
49:37
Yes, there were actually, the front
49:38
bumper was a good recovery point,
49:40
and the back had a hitch on it, so we
49:43
actually just used the hitch with a tree
49:46
saver, is what we actually did.
49:48
And of course, now we did have to tie my
49:51
Jeep to a tree because it would have
49:53
sucked me into the ravine.
49:54
But other than that,
49:56
it came out pretty easy.
49:57
Great. Well, I hope you do a write-up on
49:59
that because there's not a lot of us that
50:01
have done recoveries.
50:02
I know I haven't while I've done one
50:04
recovery, but that was just somebody
50:07
stuck in a mud hole.
50:08
This was a major deal, you can tell.
50:11
Yeah, this is actually, I've been
50:12
wheeling for a very, very long time.
50:15
And this is the very first
50:16
rollover I've had to go pull out.
50:18
So this was a new one on me, too.
50:20
So did you get to meet
50:21
our new member, Big Jeep?
50:24
Yeah, in fact, he's in the Jeep with us
50:25
right now. We're actually
50:26
bringing him back to his house.
50:28
Was the Cherokee, the rolled Cherokee,
50:32
what year was that, and was it drivable?
50:35
It's a 90, it probably would have been
50:37
drivable, but it sat overnight with all
50:40
the oil leaking into the motor.
50:43
So we didn't even try to start it.
50:46
So is it sitting out there,
50:47
or is it being trailer back?
50:50
They're going to actually call AAA.
50:53
Oh, okay. So did you just pull it out to
50:55
the road, or is it just where it is?
50:59
Yeah, it actually pulled it up to the
51:01
main road and just left
51:02
it on the side of the road.
51:04
That way they can come get it with a
51:05
wrecker without having any issues.
51:07
Wow. Well, and that's the other thing, if
51:09
you want help in North Houston, or Spring
51:11
or Conroad, you need to do it before 9pm.
51:14
Otherwise, everybody's in bed.
51:16
Yeah, pretty much, but this is one of
51:18
these things where generally it wouldn't
51:21
have been a big deal like last night, but
51:24
I didn't hear my phone.
51:25
So what do you do?
51:27
Well, you guys get up early. I know Matt
51:28
gets up early to go to work. You get up
51:30
early to go to work.
51:31
I have no excuse for Bear. I'm sorry, I
51:34
have no excuse for Big Jim. Sorry, Bear.
51:36
Yeah, Big Jim gets up
51:38
early, but he's on later.
51:39
Yeah, he was on last night. He said that
51:42
I think he was sitting there with the guy
51:43
in chat, that he had two bald tires and a
51:45
raging case of herpes.
51:47
We're going north, but yeah, okay.
51:49
Hold on, just a sec, guys. I'm trying to
51:51
figure out how to get
51:52
out of this neighborhood.
51:52
Okay.
51:54
Uh-huh.
51:56
They'll bring you back out to the main.
51:57
It's the same thing they can do.
51:58
Live radio, folks.
52:01
Okay, appreciate it.
52:02
All right.
52:03
All right. Okay, I'm back on now.
52:06
Well, what's your opinion of the Royal
52:08
Jeep? Is it salvageable?
52:10
You know, I would cut the top off and put
52:13
a cage in it and wheel it.
52:15
It actually wasn't a bad looking Royal
52:16
Cherokee. I would imagine
52:18
before the flip it wasn't that bad.
52:20
And to be real honest with you, I believe
52:23
that somebody like Jensen could probably
52:26
put a top on it because the back part of
52:28
the top wasn't crushed down that bad.
52:31
So I mean, more than likely somebody
52:33
could actually, with a little bit of a
52:35
body work experience, probably have this
52:37
Jeep back up and operational.
52:39
Well, I know they skin Jeeps pretty easy.
52:41
And I bet you, although I don't know, I
52:44
probably have to think
52:45
about it for five minutes,
52:46
but I bet you could actually cut a top
52:48
off another Cherokee
52:50
and do it, fix it quicker.
52:53
I think so.
52:53
But like you say, you know, you can, was
52:56
it a daily driver or was it a off road,
52:59
primarily off road vehicle?
53:01
Was that a daily
53:02
driver, Jim? Do you know?
53:04
No.
53:04
No, it was primarily off road.
53:06
Well, time to scrap the roof and put a
53:09
roll bar in it then.
53:10
Oh, yeah.
53:12
All right, man. I appreciate you taking
53:15
the call right here in the middle of all
53:16
the stuff that you're doing.
53:17
It's a great story, breaking story that's
53:20
going on. And I look
53:22
forward to seeing those pictures.
53:23
Yeah, so don't hide. And we actually got
53:26
pictures of it the whole way around.
53:27
I mean, as it was coming out, they were
53:29
taking pictures. So we should have some
53:31
pretty good pictures of it.
53:32
And it was a little bit, you know, a
53:34
little bit different. Like I said, this
53:35
is my first real rollover recovery.
53:38
So I'm interested to see
53:40
how the pictures turned out.
53:42
Also, too, did we get a new XJ talk
53:44
member out of this rollover recovery?
53:48
The guy knows about XJ talk. He said he
53:50
was going to sign up and put some
53:51
pictures on. So we'll see.
53:53
Excellent. It's all been worth it.
53:57
Yep.
53:58
All right, man. Have a very good night
53:59
and a safe trip home.
54:01
All right. We'll talk to you all later.
54:02
All right. Bye-bye.
54:03
Bye-bye.
54:05
Here we go, guys. And so that was, I
54:08
know, I was personally curious about what
54:11
had gone on with that rollover recovery.
54:14
And we just happened to get rainy at the
54:16
right time to where he
54:19
could actually talk about it.
54:20
They were apparently just finished, had
54:23
just finished up and were driving back
54:25
to, I guess that was a big jeep, big jeep
54:29
that was being let out at his house.
54:32
So, man, I cannot stress how
54:35
generous that is of raining.
54:37
Of course, he's just that way to go out
54:40
there on a Wednesday
54:41
night, miss the show.
54:43
I mean, you know, that's small, right?
54:47
But go out there on a Wednesday night and
54:50
help out a fellow jeeper.
54:51
And that's the big thing that really
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impresses me about you
54:55
guys is the community.
54:58
I know that we can fight and squabble and
55:00
raise hell and maybe drink too much.
55:02
And that's part of the reason all the
55:04
rest of that happens.
55:05
But when people need help, there's
55:08
somebody with a jeep willing to go out of
55:11
their way to lend you a hand.
55:13
So pretty cool stuff. It makes me very
55:16
proud to be a small part of bringing you
55:20
guys together with XJTalk.com.
55:23
So before we leave, I'd like to play our
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newest commercial, our
55:29
newest vendor, 4WheelingPlus.com.
55:33
Ron is the owner of said company, and
55:38
he's actually the gentleman that I bought
55:41
my Rough Country 4.5" lift from
55:44
that got the whole
55:45
thing started with my jeep.
55:48
So Ron was kind enough to become a paid
55:53
vendor on XJTalk.com, which if you have a
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company, you can as well.
55:59
Even if you don't have a company, that's
56:00
fine. You can be a paid vendor.
56:02
But here's
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4WheelingPlus.com's commercial.
56:07
This segment is sponsored by
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4WheelingPlus.com. Do you want a jeep? Do
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you need help getting it up?
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Check out 4WheelingPlus.com for great
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deals on Jeep lift kits. That's the
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number 4 wheeling plus PLUS.com.
56:22
XJTalk.com
56:24
XJTalk.com
56:25
It's where you go
56:26
when you're not off-road.
56:27
Hey, how would you like to advertise on
56:29
XJTalk Talk Show and reach
56:31
a worldwide Jeep audience?
56:33
Just send an email to advertise at
56:35
XJTalk.com for more information.
56:39
This is Ron XJ. He's calling in to tell
56:41
you that he really likes the website.
56:43
It's full of a lot of tech and a lot of
56:44
good people. Always get
56:46
a response back quickly.
56:47
Thanks. Have a good day.
56:48
I just wanted to say XJTalk is the best
56:51
f***ing site in the f***ing world.
56:53
And if you think you know a better
56:55
f***ing site, f*** you. By the
56:57
way, this is BigDoom350. Bye.
57:01
And guys, that's another show. In the
57:03
can. Not Porta Potty.
57:07
I want to thank Wayne very much for not
57:10
only being the interviewee, but also too
57:13
for showing up on chat tonight.
57:15
It's always good to see that you have
57:20
electricity and internet and, you know,
57:24
just so we can know that
57:25
you're there and doing okay.
57:27
I know it's probably getting pretty old,
57:29
all this shaking that you're having to go
57:30
through, but stay with it, man.
57:33
It'll get back to where it used to be.
57:35
Stable as a rock. No pun intended.
57:40
We do have a new contest on XJTalk.com.
57:44
It is a performance distributor's
57:47
FireWire 4.0 kit giveaway.
57:51
Just go to XJTalk.com and look in the
57:55
announcements and you'll see how to go
57:58
about entering and winning.
58:00
You do need to be an XJTalk member and it
58:02
will require you calling
58:03
into our voicemail line.
58:05
And you should know that number by now,
58:08
but just in case, that's 530-675-4102.
58:14
You can also follow XJTalk on Facebook
58:17
and Twitter. Just do a search, you know,
58:21
Twitter, space, XJTalk,
58:24
Facebook, space, XJTalk.
58:27
Really easy. We'd
58:28
like to see you on there.
58:30
Thanks, guys, and thank
58:32
you for another great show.
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See you on the side.
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[Music]
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Hey, sweetness.