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Ep. 36 Last XJ Talk Show of 2011: Winch Giveaway & New Sites · Jeep Talk Show

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Episode number 36, December 31st, 2011
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Welcome to the XJ Talk Show.
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And now here's your host
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Tony Mudaroy on XJTalk.com.
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Yes that's me. And we're doing video
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tonight. Not doing the
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Ustream, Samul, broadcast thing.
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But doing a little video for our YouTube
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friends, assuming there are some out
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there that only watch the YouTube video.
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I bumped it up a notch doing high def.
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And it's the first go at it so who knows.
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It looks good, but I don't know if I've
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got it set right or not.
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I'll know more after I
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post it up on YouTube.
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And hopefully the sound will be a little
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better on the YouTube
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broadcast than what it has been.
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Something comparable to
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what we have here on the show.
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Anyway, so last show of 2011. And if my
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own prophecies are correct, we may not
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have too many shows in 2012.
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Well, maybe some in 2012,
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but certainly not in 2013.
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You know, I guess the number 13 wasn't
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unpopular back then because 2013 makes a
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lot more sense for the end of the world.
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Anyway, we'll get
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started here in just a minute.
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[Music]
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XJTalk.com. It's where you
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go when you're not off-road.
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[Music]
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OK, so first off, I
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want to apologize for this.
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This is in black and white. See, I
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thought I'd make one of these little
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things. I think they're
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called flags, microphone flags.
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And I didn't want to spend the 80 bucks
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that they sell these
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things for. So I made me one.
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And I put a little XJTalk logo on there,
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but I'm apologizing for the part that
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it's black and white.
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And I know you guys on the podcast can't
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see this, but if you check out the
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YouTube video, then you'll
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see what I'm talking about.
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If you can imagine, if you have an XJTalk
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sticker, one of the nice color ones, just
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imagine that in black and white.
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I don't have color ink right now. And it
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hasn't been on the thing
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to do list to buy color ink.
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Have you guys priced the color
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ink for HP printers? Good God!
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But I guess, you know, they've got to
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make their profit where they can.
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And, you know, truth be told, the
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printers are very nice and
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the is very clear and crisp.
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I just wish that it
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wasn't 30 bucks for color ink.
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So as I said in the opening, this is
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December 31st, the last day of the year.
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And you might actually hear the fireworks
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being popped in the background.
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So I'm not under fire. It's not a random
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and cyclical drive-by shooting.
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They're actually
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popping fireworks outside.
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So if you hear that, consider it part of
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the festive occasion.
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So anyway, don't
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really have a lot planned.
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Just wanted to throw out another podcast,
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let you guys know what's
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going on with XJTalk.com.
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The website, the forum,
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hopefully you've been there.
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Hopefully you've joined
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and you are participating.
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And I used to hate
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that as a kid, you know.
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Tony, we need you to participate.
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And, you know, that just made me not want
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to participate even more.
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But I guess because I've put a lot of
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time and effort, and also too, the amount
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of fun that I have on the site,
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I guess that's the reason why I say you
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guys should...they often said it.
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I didn't often say it.
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That's why I would like
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for you guys to participate.
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It's just a lot more fun and it's a lot
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more engaging when people are there
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making comments and sharing their
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adventures and problems
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that they have with their Jeep.
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You know, it's a mechanical device.
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No matter how good the design, you're
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always going to have some
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issue with a mechanical device.
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And that's the beauty is that we can get
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on there and figure out what the problem
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is and hopefully get you back
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on the road or back off-road.
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Anyway, get on the site and post.
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Make comments.
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Give some people a hard time.
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Have some fun.
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I mean, that's what the ultimate goal is
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anyway, is to have fun.
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So recently we gave away...we did our
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third contest, or I guess it's not really
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a contest, the third giveaway.
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We completed that.
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And that was for a
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Smittybilt 8000-pound winch.
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And that went to a young man, what is it,
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Jeep XJ95, I believe.
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And I think his profile
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says he's 20 years old.
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So what a great item to receive.
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And it was awarded on Christmas Day.
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I don't think he's
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actually received it yet.
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I haven't seen anything from him.
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But the shipping company was trying to
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contact him about
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getting it there to him.
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Got that off of Amazon.com
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because shipping was free.
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Price was good too.
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So we were very happy to do that.
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And in November we gave away a new item
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from detoursusa.com
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called the Knucklebone.
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And the Knucklebone is a tire carrier
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that fits in your 2-inch receiver trailer
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hitch on the back of your Jeep.
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And I don't know.
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I guess it really depends on the vehicle.
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But since the mounting is kind of a
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universal mount, it might
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work on other vehicles as well.
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But you could call Mark at detoursusa.com
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and ask him about that.
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But it's a really cool way of having a
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spare tire carrier on your vehicle and
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not having to go to the expense
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of buying a swing away tire
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carrier or building your own.
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It's very affordable.
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And because it's not a lot of metal
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there, it doesn't cost that much to ship.
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So it's a plus plus.
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A win-win.
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Then going back to October, we did
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something a little different in October.
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We had some gift certificates from
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jeepinoutfitters.com.
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And I think we had about $300 worth of
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gift certificates that
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we gave away that month.
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And on top of that, our main giveaway
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item was, again, going back to detours,
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they make great products.
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A pair of A-pillar light mounts and a
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pair of KC high light,
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daylighter, 100-watt KC lights.
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So we had three months of giveaways all
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designed to stimulate
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some interest in xjtalk.com.
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Getting people on there, getting people
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all designed to get them to participate a
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little bit more in the site and making it
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more interesting for everybody there.
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And also, too, I think people have a bit
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of a hard time getting
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in and starting to post.
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You never know what the, I guess, what
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the click or what the people on the site
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are like and how
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they're going to react to you.
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How they're going to treat you.
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Are you going to get flamed?
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Are you going to get
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treated like an idiot?
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And I know I've mentioned this before.
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That's one of the reasons why we started
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xjtalk.com was we didn't like
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seeing that on the other sites.
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And we wanted to have a Jeep site and
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have all the good aspects, the
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information, the friendship, the, you
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know, giving each other a hard time, of
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course, but respectfully.
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Hell, we even have a
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politics and religion section.
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And nobody's died yet.
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So that, that tells you right there that
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you can get on and express yourself on
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xjtalk.com and you'll get some opinions,
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but it's unlikely that
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anybody is going to shut you down.
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It's unlikely that
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anybody's going to flame you out.
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And, you know, it's, it's very natural
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and normal for people
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not to like conflict.
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And, but hopefully we've created a site
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where you don't have to worry about that.
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So if you've been looking for a site that
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you would like to get on and have some
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fun and talk about the things that that
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happened to your Jeep, maybe there's
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maybe you think they're too simple.
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Maybe you have a check engine light and
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you're not quite sure how to handle it.
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And you think that's some basic things
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that anybody should know, but you don't.
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Well, we all had to learn at some point
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and, um, you know, the xjtalk isn't the,
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the short bus of a Jeep sites, but I
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guess kind of the way it is because we're
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going to make sure that everybody gets
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the question answered.
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Uh, if you don't raise your hand and make
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some noise, say, Hey,
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I asked this question.
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I didn't get an answer.
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We do get a lot of posts.
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So sometimes we do miss things, but we
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even have a, a no replies.
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Um, uh, menu item so that people can
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click on the no replies and see the posts
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that have not had any replies yet and
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hopefully, you know, catch up on that
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where, uh, somebody is, uh, been left out
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and had had their question answered.
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We even have a moderator that made a
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suggestion that we create a, a form
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where, uh, when people would like to do
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something, um, change the fluid in their
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transmission, for example, that he would
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actually do that and do a write up on it.
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And that way it would be
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kind of a made to order thing.
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And that's a, that's a big gym three 50
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that, uh, that did that.
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Actually, uh, that reminds me.
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I just wanted to say XJ talk is the best
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fucking site in the world.
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And if you think, you know, a better
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site, by the way,
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this is big gym three 50.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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That's big gym.
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So big gym will do a write up for you on
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what the things that you
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would like to do to your Jeep.
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He's got a Jeep and, uh, he pretty much
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has to do all of it, uh, to his Jeep.
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So he'll do a write up.
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So get on there, look for the forum, uh,
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where you can request a write up and a
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big gym will help you out.
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Chances are good that
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somebody else has already done it.
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And you made, I didn't have to wait
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around for a big gym to do the write up.
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We may be able to find that even on
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another site and, uh, and get you, uh,
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get you back up and go in on
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your Jeep that much faster.
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Uh, there are other Jeep sites out there,
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so we're not trying to
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pretend that there's not anyway.
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So that's what we've got going, uh, what
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we had, I'm sorry, what we had going on
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in the last three
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months as far as giveaways.
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And, uh, you know, if you're new to XJ
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talk, maybe you're listening to this, uh,
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this podcast, uh, several months down the
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road and you go, man, I missed out.
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I didn't get in on that.
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What the hell?
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Well, it's not over.
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It's just over for now.
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Or as I said in the post, I just posted a
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few minutes ago, it's not over.
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It's just sleeping.
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We're going to have more giveaways, but,
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uh, three solid months of
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excellent giveaway items.
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I think we need a little rest.
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Also too, we don't want to
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want you guys getting spoiled.
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We don't want you thinking that, uh, Hey
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man, where's my stuff?
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Uh, I should be getting something.
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And while they gave away a winch next
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thing, they should be given away as a
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Jeep or a, an airplane or maybe a yacht.
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Oh, speaking of which, if, uh, if you'd
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like to help support, uh,
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uh, XJ talk.com and, uh, this podcast,
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you can do so very easily for really no
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money out of your pocket at all.
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Just anytime that you're going to make a
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purchase on amazon.com, you can go over
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to XJ talk.com on the very front page.
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You'll see a little
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banner there for amazon.com.
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This click that banner.
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It'll take you to amazon.com.
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You'll log into your amazon.com account,
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make your purchase, and
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we'll get a little percentage.
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Off of that.
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Now it's a little percentage
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off of their portion, not yours.
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So in other words, you don't pay any
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different than what you
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were going to pay before.
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So it costs you nothing.
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You were going to buy
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something at amazon.com.
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Anyway, it's certainly
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going to cost you for that item.
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But, uh, the, the money that comes to XJ
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talk.com didn't cost you a dime.
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Literally not even a dime.
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We get a few percent of whatever the sale
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is, depending on the sale item.
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So obviously if you're going to buy a
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yacht or house, I'm not sure
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if they sell houses on amazon.
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I'm sure that's just something that they
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haven't started yet.
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Um, but, uh, that would be a bigger
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percentage, uh, or not
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necessarily not a bigger percentage.
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That would be a bigger dollar
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amount, uh, for XJ talk.com.
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So we, we want to encourage you if you're
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going to, if you're looking by a, maybe a
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fleet of Boeing 747s for your
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airlines, do it on amazon.com
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and make sure you click that
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banner ad before you do it.
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We'll really appreciate it.
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And actually, I guess we probably would
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give away Jeeps at that point because we
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would be able to afford it.
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Yeah, I know.
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As my wife would say, and
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then you woke up anyway.
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So let's see what else we got going on.
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Um, I'll tell you about a couple of
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others, uh, other
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websites that we have going.
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Um, we have a, uh, this is kind of a, uh,
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a rejuvenated site that
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we had up for a while.
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Uh, didn't really get a lot of interest
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and, um, we let the license laps on the
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software and being good legal minded
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people, we didn't want to keep the
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website up and not have a, a legal
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license for the software.
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So we let it go down for maybe a year or
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so, but, uh, recently
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we've brought it back up.
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And that means that, uh, uh, you have the
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ability to get on there now and, um, I
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don't know, have fun with, uh, some other
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Jeeps, some other
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jeepers, some other type jeepers.
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Anyway, uh, jeepers, I wonder if jeepers
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creepers, uh, is available anyway.
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Um, so, uh, the, uh, the site is wrangler
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talk, uh, wrangler talk.com.
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It originally was TJ talk.com and, uh,
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had in mind what it would be as just a
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series of, uh, talk sites like
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TJ talk YJ talk, uh, CJ talk.
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And, uh, so we started with TJ talk and,
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uh, uh, we thought that it
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might be that it was too narrow.
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Uh, uh, uh, an audience, uh, for this,
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the, this, the TJs, they were built for
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quite a while and a
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very, uh, robust vehicle.
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Um, from what my understanding is more
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robust than the, uh, the new JKs and
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certainly had the, uh, the 4.0, uh,
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leader engine, which I think has been one
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of the downsides to the JKs is a power
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and torque on those engines.
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Of course they were, you know, trying to
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go along with the government's wishes for
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a better gas mileage.
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But anyway, so we changed the name to
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wrangler talk.com and that encompassed
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the, uh, you know, a wider audience, the,
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uh, the TJ, the JK, the YJ.
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And, uh, just like, just like XJ talk,
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you do not have to have
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a Jeep to join the site.
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Uh, everybody's welcome to come in and
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join in the fun and get the,
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and join in the information.
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Obviously, if you don't have a Jeep
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Cherokee, the, the, uh, amount of, uh,
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information you get from the site may not
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be very useful because that's primarily
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what we're going to be talking about.
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We talk about other things as well.
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Uh, I mean, uh, man
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cannot live by Jeep alone.
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So anyway, there's a wrangler talk and
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there's another hobby that I have, uh,
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which is amateur radio, ham radio.
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Uh, and I've been an amateur radio
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operator since I was 16.
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So many, many years ago I got into that
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hobby and, uh, recently, um, you know,
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there's ham sites out there.
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The thing that has always, uh, kind of
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turned me off to the ham radio sites is
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they seem to be very,
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very, um, is stodgy.
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Is that even a word?
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Um, old guys, uh, not wanting, not
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wanting to do anything new, uh, which
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weirdly wasn't my understanding of
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amateur radio anyway, was it was
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something, something, it was something
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that was supposed to be new and
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innovative and
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interesting and cutting edge.
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But, um, I don't know if you guys are
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familiar with, uh, the,
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the free email system Juno.
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There was, uh, quite a few, uh, uh, of
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these, uh, at the time, admittedly they
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were retired, uh, and they were trying to
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minimize their costs, but they were using
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this, the Juno email system because it
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was free or nearly so.
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I think it was free actually.
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But, uh, as part of that, Juno made sure
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that the bandwidth that you used on
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emails was very, very low.
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And, and I guess the overall, the
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overriding sense I got was that they
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didn't want to have,
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well, Juno was text only.
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You couldn't do, uh, pictures.
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You certainly couldn't do video and it
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was designed for a dial up internet
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world, not high speed internet.
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And, uh, I'm a member of, uh, of some
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mailing lists and I've been on some
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forums and that, that type of mentality
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seems to pervade, uh,
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the, the high speed world.
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Now some of these, some of these hams,
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some of these, uh, and I'm just going to
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say older hams because I think that the
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majority of them are older hams.
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Uh, I understand that they may be living
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out in the sticks and
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maybe still be on dial up.
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Um, but come on guys, it's, it's 2011
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getting ready to be 2012 high speed
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internet is available on a smartphone.
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I would like to be able to see pictures,
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videos, and hey, maybe some sound with
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that video would be great too.
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And that's one of the reasons why I went
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ahead and started up
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an amateur radio site.
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You know, when you start a site, it's
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like starting a business.
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Uh, most likely it's going to fail.
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The nice thing is it really doesn't cost
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anything to keep it up
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other than maybe some time.
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So, uh, anyway, I was trying to think of
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a name and, uh, you know, if you guys
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have ever tried to buy a
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domain name, um, buying is easy.
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Finding one that is not in use, finding a
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domain name that's not
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in use is more difficult.
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So I had to go for a bit of a stretch
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back whenever I started, uh, amateur
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radio, the way it worked back then back
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in the olden days, you got a, your first
20:11
license was a novice license.
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Now you could test up further, but I
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guarantee you at 16, I wasn't going any
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further than the novice
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from my first license.
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And, uh, anyway, I got my novice license
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and as a novice, you could send Moore's
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code, send and receive Moore's code on
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the HF bands, high frequency bands.
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So that meant I had to learn Moore's code
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or the two letter, uh, designator for
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that is CW continuous wave.
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So I had to learn more's code.
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I had to learn more's
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code and had to pass a test.
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I had to be able to send, um, send more's
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code to pass that test and receive it.
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Receiving the sending is easy, but the,
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the receiving is more difficult.
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Anyway, one of the things that you would
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do, there was all these little, uh,
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tricks, uh, little shortcuts and little,
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uh, abbreviations that you
20:59
would use and, and more's code.
21:01
Why? Because nobody
21:02
wants to send more's code.
21:04
Now there's, there's some people out
21:06
there that really, really enjoy it, but,
21:08
uh, there are a lot of little tricks,
21:09
shortcuts and stuff.
21:11
And one of the things that you would do
21:13
whenever you were involved in a
21:14
conversation, a QSO, uh, on, uh, the, uh,
21:18
HF bands, you would, um, in CW, you would
21:21
send, um, you know, you would send the
21:24
information you were going
21:25
to send to the other person.
21:26
And then if they received it, if they
21:29
were able to understand what you had, had
21:31
sent to them in Moore's code, the first
21:33
thing they would do is send you the
21:35
letter R, did I did.
21:37
And, and because of the signals would go
21:42
up and down, depending on band
21:43
conditions, they would
21:44
usually send it three times.
21:46
So you would see, I'm sorry, you would
21:48
hear, did I did, did I did, did I did.
21:51
And that would mean that they received
21:53
everything that you had sent them.
21:55
Now, quite often, uh, I guess it got to
21:58
be a habit and people would send that,
22:00
that are one or three of them.
22:02
And then I started asking you questions
22:03
about what you said.
22:04
So obviously they didn't receive
22:06
everything that you had sent them.
22:09
So I think that sometimes people were
22:12
just, you know, copying what other people
22:14
did and didn't really
22:15
understand the meaning of it.
22:16
Um, you know, just to fit in, just so
22:18
they wouldn't be an oddball out.
22:20
So anyway, uh, I thought about it because
22:22
while I was looking for names for the,
22:24
uh, the new, uh, ham website that was
22:26
going to do and I got,
22:27
and I thought about it.
22:28
Hey, wait a minute.
22:29
Uh, instead of like ham talk or, uh,
22:34
radio talk or, you know, going along with
22:36
the talk theme, um, which
22:39
was my, my first choice.
22:40
Uh, I really couldn't find anything.
22:42
So I went, Hey, wait a minute.
22:44
What about R and you know, r.com that
22:47
would be kind of hard to, uh, to get.
22:49
That's a, that would be a one letter
22:50
domain and the three letter
22:52
domains are, are impossible.
22:54
And I'm not even sure they're, they even
22:55
have one that are domains, but certainly.
22:57
The, uh, mores code, when you write mores
23:01
code, they, they have specific ways of
23:04
writing the, the, the periods and the,
23:07
um, I don't know if
23:08
they're minuses or underlines.
23:10
They have specific
23:11
ways of writing those out.
23:12
Uh, I guess it would be phonetically.
23:15
And, um, I thought about that R that we
23:18
would send, you know, on our first
23:20
transmission after, uh, listening to the,
23:23
uh, the other person's transmission.
23:25
And I went, you know, that kind of makes
23:26
sense because it's like, you know, we're,
23:29
we're, we're a forum,
23:31
an amateur radio forum.
23:32
And when you post, we're going to
23:34
acknowledge what you said, and then we're
23:36
going to respond to you.
23:38
So I thought, Hmm, I want, you know,
23:41
three R's r r r.com that
23:43
might, might be available.
23:45
I certainly doubt it, but certainly the
23:48
phonetic spelling of R and mores code,
23:52
you know, who in, who in the world.
23:54
And who in their right mind would
23:55
actually register domain
23:57
like that me, it was there.
24:00
So I looked up so I could make it, make
24:03
sure that it was correct.
24:05
The phonetic spelling for
24:06
the letter R and mores code.
24:08
And that is D as in dog, I as an India.
24:11
So D a D I the minus sign, uh, da, which
24:17
is D a H that would be the little, the
24:19
little minus little hat,
24:20
uh, hyphen and then dash, uh,
24:23
DIT. So it's did I did
24:25
it, did, did it.com on that?
24:28
Wow. Did dah, did.com that that doesn't
24:30
really roll off the tongue.
24:31
Does it? That sounds a little confusing,
24:33
but, uh, interestingly enough, it's not D
24:36
I T D A H D I T it's D I
24:40
because the, the first, uh,
24:43
uh, dot and of, of, you know, mores code,
24:45
like the dot and the dash, the first dot
24:48
phonetically is, uh, are spelled in a
24:51
text way is just D I.
24:54
So it's D I dash D A H dash D I T dot C O
25:01
M basically R dot com, but in
25:03
Morse code written Morse code.
25:05
Are you confused yet?
25:09
I've had, I have had on, on Twitter
25:11
because we have, we're
25:13
on Twitter with Facebook.
25:14
Uh, I'm sorry. I want to say
25:16
talk about the Facebook too.
25:18
Um, we're on Twitter with XJ talk
25:20
Wrangler talk and, uh, did I get so, uh,
25:25
one of the hams that friend did this on
25:28
Twitter, uh, on did I did said, you know,
25:31
one of the things he said
25:32
was another amateur radio site.
25:34
You know, really seriously.
25:38
That's like, well, yeah, you
25:39
know, uh, we do it differently.
25:41
And I, and I think, uh, there are people
25:45
out there that, that like it done
25:47
differently than the status quo.
25:49
And, uh, I think that we have something
25:52
that people will be interested in, but,
25:54
uh, told him that basically is not like,
25:56
yeah, you know, give it a try.
25:57
What the hell?
25:58
And, uh, make a lot of new friends and,
26:03
and, and share information
26:04
and enjoy the hobby more.
26:06
But anyway, the one thing, the positive
26:09
thing that he did say was love the name.
26:12
He got it.
26:13
That made me feel really good because you
26:15
know, CW was, uh, or Morse code, uh, the
26:18
CW stuff was, was very popular back in
26:20
the days that it was required to get the
26:22
license, but maybe not so pop popular now
26:25
because it's not a requirement.
26:27
You can still send
26:28
and receive Morse code.
26:29
Uh, but, but why would you
26:31
do that when you can talk?
26:32
Well, it's more of a challenge.
26:34
People, you know, people build trains,
26:36
uh, and towns and train,
26:39
train towns and their basement.
26:42
Why?
26:42
Well, it's challenging.
26:43
They, they like the
26:44
sense of accomplishment.
26:45
It's a hobby.
26:46
They enjoy it.
26:47
So that's kind of like what Morse code is
26:49
now on the hand bands.
26:50
It's, it's a hobby thing.
26:51
And, uh, by the way, it is the most
26:54
efficient way to communicate over long
26:57
distances because it requires the least
27:00
amount of power and, um, radio
27:04
propagation to get the
27:06
signal from one place to another.
27:07
I don't know if you recall or not.
27:08
I know I've gone really deep in this
27:10
rabbit hole, this amateur radio rabbit
27:12
hole, and this is a cheap podcast, but
27:14
I'll just mention this.
27:15
If you, if you go and watch the old Will
27:19
Smith movie independence day, there is a
27:22
scene in there where they talk about
27:25
amateur radio operators where they're
27:27
coordinating this worldwide effort to
27:29
bring down all these mother ships.
27:31
And they're doing it using Morse code and
27:35
they went with Morse code because that
27:37
was the, um, mode of communications that
27:41
was least likely to be disrupted by
27:44
their, by the aliens.
27:46
Um, uh, blocking system, their jammers.
27:50
And that was probably factually correct.
27:53
If, if it ever gotten to that, that point
27:56
that probably would be the only way that
27:58
we would be able to get anything through,
28:00
uh, more than likely that it would need
28:02
to be wideband, uh,
28:03
wide spectrum type stuff.
28:05
But anyway, uh, that was pretty cool.
28:07
And, uh, as an amateur radio operator, of
28:09
course, I, I saw that and I
28:11
went, yeah, look at that, man.
28:12
Amateur radio operators.
28:14
All right.
28:15
Saving the world.
28:16
And, uh, actually, uh, that, that's, that
28:18
kind of happens from time to time.
28:20
Uh, not really saving the world, but, uh,
28:22
maybe saving a life or two,
28:23
uh, whenever there's disasters.
28:26
And if you've never listened, I'm sure
28:28
most of you have listened to CB radio.
28:32
I don't know if how many of you have
28:34
listened to, uh, two
28:35
meter, uh, ham radio.
28:37
Uh, CB is am and, uh, you
28:41
have an am radio in your Jeep.
28:45
And if you have ever listened to an am
28:48
radio station during a thunderstorm, you
28:51
know how much noise the thunderstorm, uh,
28:54
makes on am radio am, uh, am radio that
28:58
the type it's a mode of, uh, transmission
29:01
of data, uh, of
29:02
information across a frequency.
29:05
Uh, am is very susceptible to electric
29:08
electrical noises and
29:10
lightning is an electrical noise.
29:12
Uh, any kind of electrical motor coming
29:15
on and off can generate electrical noise.
29:18
And am is very
29:18
susceptible to picking that up.
29:20
FM on the other hand, you know, the, the
29:22
good time FM radio, the stereo that you
29:25
listen to, FM is not likely to pick up,
29:28
uh, that electrical noise.
29:30
It's less likely.
29:31
And, uh, as an amateur radio operator,
29:33
uh, when you get a technician license,
29:36
you can send and receive, uh, audio over
29:40
FM two meter, 70 centimeter.
29:43
There's various bands, but the most
29:45
popular one is generally two meters and
29:47
you can get on the two meter band and,
29:50
uh, you can talk to people
29:51
using FM and FM is great.
29:55
It's nice.
29:56
It's quiet.
29:57
There's not a lot of people, uh,
29:58
clamoring, uh, for, uh, the space on the,
30:02
the frequency and you can actually have a
30:04
conversation with somebody and basically
30:07
you could be out on the trail and with
30:10
the radio squelched so that you hear no
30:13
background noise until your buddy says,
30:16
gets on his two meter ham radio and says,
30:18
uh, Hey, uh, we're going to
30:19
head back to get a bite to eat.
30:21
Don't know why don't you
30:21
come over there or better yet.
30:23
Hey, I just flipped.
30:25
Can you get your ass
30:26
over here and help me out?
30:29
So it makes it really nice because you
30:32
hear what the person has to say and you
30:34
don't have to listen to a lot of static
30:36
in the meantime and two meter radios go
30:39
for, you can get them on
30:40
eBay for a hundred bucks.
30:41
And that's like a 50 watt mobile radio.
30:44
They're, uh, they're very small in size,
30:46
very easy to install.
30:48
Oh, and, and I didn't mention the
30:50
antennas are at least six feet shorter
30:54
than the CB antennas.
30:56
If you're using the
30:56
full size, uh, CB antenna.
30:59
And if you're using one of the short
31:01
ones, like one of the, uh, the four foot
31:02
whips, uh, you can put a two meter, uh,
31:06
antenna, full quarter wave, two meter
31:09
antenna on your Jeep that most people
31:12
would never even see.
31:13
Uh, they're only about a foot and a half
31:15
long and they're very, very, very thin.
31:18
So you don't have to worry about whipping
31:20
somebody in the head with it, uh, that
31:22
may be watching you go up a embankment or
31:26
crawl over rocks because you're whipping
31:27
the Jeep around ain't going to happen.
31:30
Uh, if you mount that two meter antenna
31:32
in the middle of the roof where it should
31:34
be, uh, the only thing that's going to
31:36
impact that is, uh, well, frankly, the
31:38
Jeep when you roll it over, if you roll
31:40
it over, don't roll it over.
31:41
I don't like that.
31:41
I don't like it when Jeeps roll.
31:43
It's a, it's interesting
31:44
to watch, but it hurts me.
31:45
Uh, I have a Jeep and I don't want it to
31:48
roll and I hate it when I see other
31:49
people's role, but
31:50
anyway, that's my problem.
31:52
So anyway, if you have time and, uh,
31:55
please visit xjtalk.com and, uh, visit
31:58
one of our other sites, our sister Jeep
32:00
site wranglertalk.com.
32:02
And if you're all at all interested in
32:04
amateur radio, uh, please come over and
32:07
join us, uh, this
32:09
conversation at, uh, didadit.com.
32:12
And, uh, actually I'll put the, uh, I'll
32:14
put the, uh, the websites and the show
32:16
notes because I'm thinking that
32:18
didadit.com might be a
32:20
little hard to understand.
32:21
Uh, if you're not an amateur radio
32:23
operator and by the way, even if you're
32:26
not an amateur radio operator, just like
32:28
the Jeep sites don't have to have a Jeep.
32:30
Well, you don't have to be an amateur
32:31
radio operator and you
32:32
don't have to have a ham radio.
32:34
Just come over, join us, uh,
32:36
and, uh, post up questions.
32:38
Happy to let you know.
32:39
We've got, uh, a few members over there
32:42
on didadit.com and they've asked some
32:45
questions about various radios and, uh,
32:48
several people that are, uh, Jeepers that
32:50
are interested in ham radio and, and
32:52
hopefully they'll be getting their, um,
32:54
you know, be getting
32:55
their licenses pretty soon.
33:59
So, uh, we recently had a, uh, XJ talk
34:13
member and moderator decide that he was
34:16
going to sell his
34:17
beloved, uh, green Jeep XJ.
34:20
And, uh, you know, I don't know if you
34:23
guys know about the, uh, the, the red
34:25
versus green Jeep, uh, rivalry that we
34:27
have going on, uh, on XJ talk.com, but,
34:31
uh, you know, it's all good natured.
34:33
So I don't really care.
34:36
I have a red Jeep and the moderator that,
34:39
uh, recently, uh, well, he joined the
34:42
dark side because he's, uh, he hasn't
34:44
sold his, uh, his, his beloved green Jeep
34:47
XJ yet, but he's, it's on the market.
34:50
And I think he just got tired of, uh, of,
34:53
you know, dealing with some of the issues
34:55
that he was having from, uh, off road.
34:56
He was, he's a hard off road Wheeler.
34:59
So, uh, I think it was this
35:01
time for him to make a change.
35:02
And what he did was he
35:04
went and got a, a Jeep TJ.
35:06
And, uh, so, uh, I don't have any problem
35:11
with, uh, having a person that knows
35:14
about Jeep Cherokees as a moderator on XJ
35:18
talk.com and, um, you know, still willing
35:21
to be a moderator and it helps.
35:23
So whenever he was offering up his
35:25
resignation, uh, I and the other
35:27
moderator said, no,
35:28
man, you need to stay.
35:30
Well, we also, uh, uh, we also made him a
35:32
moderator over on, uh, Wrangler talk.
35:35
So you'll see Wayne can tab 27 from
35:39
Christ Church, New Zealand on both sites.
35:43
So if you have a TJ, uh, a JK or a, um,
35:49
YJ, you might want to come visit us over
35:51
at wrangler talk.com, post up your
35:53
pictures, tell us what you're doing.
35:54
Maybe you've got some
35:55
questions about things.
35:57
I'm learning about the TJ finally,
35:59
because, uh, it's, it's been my wish to
36:01
get a, uh, uh, a TJ actually, you know,
36:04
I, and I've mentioned
36:05
it several times here.
36:06
Uh, actually we were getting ready to buy
36:08
a TJ whenever we went ahead and decided
36:10
to get the, the XJ instead because of,
36:12
uh, it having the four doors and still
36:15
being a four-wheel drive.
36:16
I went most importantly,
36:17
it's still being a Jeep.
36:19
And, uh, I was very, very lucky that I
36:21
was able to find a, uh, a red TJ because
36:26
why I knew that the, I knew that the,
36:30
the, the, the Jeep gods were going to the
36:33
layout, uh, a beautiful, very inexpensive
36:36
green Jeep, uh, TJ for me to buy.
36:38
And I was just going to have to walk away
36:40
from it because there's this no way in
36:42
the world I could get a green Jeep with
36:44
all the, uh, the green Jeep, uh, red Jeep
36:47
robbery going on on XJ talk.com.
36:50
Oh, red Jeeps are sexy.
36:52
Yes, they are.
36:54
I have to agree with you there, but, uh,
36:56
you know, there's
36:57
nothing wrong with green Jeeps.
36:59
There really isn't.
37:00
So if you've got a
37:01
green Jeep, don't feel bad.
37:03
I'll never make you feel bad about it.
37:06
Well, I won't make you
37:07
feel much bad about it.
37:09
So, um, anyway, uh, it's kind of
37:11
interesting that the, the, the green, I'm
37:14
sorry, the TJ that Wayne
37:16
got is not really green.
37:18
It's, I guess it's kind of green.
37:20
It's kind of a blue green.
37:21
It's really pretty.
37:22
Uh, I like Wranglers always have.
37:24
And, uh, like I was telling somebody the
37:26
other day, uh, they were kind of trash
37:28
and Wrangler owners.
37:29
And like I was telling somebody the other
37:31
day on the site, you know, the only
37:33
reason why I have a Jeep Cherokee.
37:35
Is because I went there to buy a TJ.
37:38
I went there to buy a Wrangler.
37:39
Uh, the only reason I went about go there
37:41
to buy a Wrangler is because I see them.
37:42
They're neat.
37:43
They're neat vehicles.
37:45
Um, and I'm glad we got one.
37:47
Uh, we, we picked up a 2003, uh, 2003, I
37:51
guess it's, uh, the model
37:52
is an X, uh, Wrangler X.
37:55
And, uh, so I'm, I've been learning
37:57
about, uh, about TJs now because I've
38:00
been doing modifications to that Jeep.
38:01
That is my wife's Jeep, by the way.
38:03
And, uh, I've been working on her about
38:05
trying to get a, uh, lift kit installed.
38:08
Um, I was looking at a, gosh, what is it?
38:12
A four inch?
38:12
I think it's a four inch.
38:14
Yep.
38:14
A four inch, uh, rough country lift.
38:17
Um, and, um, I probably would have
38:21
already gotten it, but I have so many
38:23
things that I've purchased to put on my
38:26
red XJ that, uh, I didn't want to have
38:29
another box of stuff laying
38:31
here waiting for me to do.
38:33
Me feeling bad that I'm not taking care
38:35
of, uh, taking care of the Jeeps and also
38:37
to as far as taking care of the Jeeps, I
38:39
am doing the oil changes, getting tires
38:41
put on them and everything else.
38:42
So, you know, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
38:45
sticking to, I'm, I'm keeping
38:46
up with the important things.
38:48
Oh, and my, uh, my 18 year old daughter
38:50
just started driving on her own and it's,
38:53
it's just scary as hell.
38:54
I mean, she's 18, she's an excellent
38:56
driver, but you know, it's, it's
38:59
different with, uh, with
39:00
girls and it is with boys.
39:01
Anyway, she just started driving herself
39:04
by herself and she's
39:06
driving the 1999 Jeep Cherokee.
39:08
So I can feel good that she's in a good
39:11
dependent vehicle and that along with,
39:15
uh, uh, her cell phone, um, you know,
39:18
things should be pretty good.
39:19
Yeah. It kind of dawned on me that the
39:21
day, I think I was in the middle of a
39:22
podcast that kind of hit me
39:24
that, uh, uh, we're all Jeeps.
39:27
We, that's all we have or Jeeps now.
39:30
Uh, we had a Ford Mustang before and I
39:32
guess technically we still do.
39:33
Uh, it's just up at, uh,
39:35
MS. Morinburg's, uh, shop.
39:37
He's a, the other admin on xjtalk.com.
39:40
Yeah. It started, it's either got a
39:42
cracked head or a blown head gasket.
39:45
And, uh, I just, I looked at how much it
39:48
would cost, uh, to do and how much it
39:51
would be to sell it.
39:53
And it would be how much I'd be able to
39:55
get to get forward if I sold it.
39:57
And it just, it just
39:58
wouldn't break even thing.
39:59
So, uh, we're either going to part it out
40:01
or I think Matt may, uh, may fix it.
40:04
So we'll just have to wait and see how
40:05
that, uh, how that winds up.
40:07
I thought it might be a good vehicle.
40:09
I was willing to fix it, uh, replace the
40:11
head or the head gasket in the head and,
40:14
uh, you know, have it
40:15
milled, whatever it took.
40:16
I was willing to do that.
40:17
If my youngest daughter would be
40:19
interested in driving it,
40:20
she doesn't like the Mustang.
40:22
And I thought that was,
40:23
thought that was kind of funny.
40:24
Actually, uh, uh, my youngest daughter
40:27
may be more of a Jeep girl herself and,
40:29
and I've, I've, uh, I haven't told her
40:31
and I really haven't told the wife yet.
40:33
I'll tell you guys.
40:34
I'm kind of thinking, I'm kind of leaning
40:36
towards maybe a JK, you know, an older,
40:40
an older Jeep, um, for her.
40:42
I think that might be kind of fun.
40:44
Um, fun for her certainly, but also too
40:47
fun for me because I could see, uh, yet
40:50
another model, uh, have intimate
40:53
knowledge of another model.
40:54
Of a Jeep.
40:55
And I like the older Jeeps.
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I like the older Jeeps with the, uh, the
40:58
four point oh liter engines.
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You know, I, I know those, I know what to
41:02
expect from them and
41:03
you know, good engine.
41:05
So anyway, uh, that's my life.
41:07
That's my problems.
41:08
It's really not much of a, it's not
41:12
really much of a problem, is it?
41:14
Yeah.
41:15
We've been very fortunate this year, uh,
41:18
that we've, uh, able to, uh, you know,
41:20
get that new Jeep Wrangler, uh, bring up
41:23
these new Jeep Wrangler.
41:23
Uh, bring up these new sites.
41:24
Uh, been very fortunate with all the
41:26
members, the new members
41:27
that we have on XJTalk.com.
41:30
And, uh, you know, things
41:31
are just going really well.
41:32
I really hope 2012 isn't the end of the
41:35
world because, uh, things are going well.
41:39
I don't want to see it end.
41:41
So, uh, you know, if you got time, jump
41:43
in, have some fun with us.
41:46
Uh, you can find us on Facebook.
41:48
You can also find us on Twitter.
41:50
Uh, oh hell, we're
41:51
even on Google Plus now.
41:53
And, uh, uh, the, the Twitter and the
41:57
Facebook, you can actually get some of
41:59
the feeds, uh, coming from the XJTalk.com
42:02
site or Wrangler.com
42:04
site or dit.dit.com site.
42:06
They're all, all those websites, all
42:09
those forums are also on Twitter,
42:12
Facebook, and Google Plus.
42:14
So just search for us on there and friend
42:17
follow or what's the other one circle?
42:21
That sounds like a vulture
42:22
friend, follow or circle.
42:23
Uh, yeah, I guess it
42:25
would be add to your circles.
42:26
So circle is like a
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virtual vulture on Google Plus.
42:30
And, uh, there's a, you know, we've got
42:32
things, uh, things coming up.
42:33
We've got things going on on the site
42:35
that you may find interesting
42:37
things that are Jeep related.
42:38
Things aren't cheap related.
42:39
Like I'm, I'm getting ready to put in a,
42:41
uh, a pan tilt zoom camera
42:44
on, uh, my security system.
42:47
Not because anything's bad
42:48
around here in the neighborhood.
42:49
It's just something fun to play with.
42:51
Uh, and I think there's a lot of you out
42:54
there that are the same way.
42:55
Actually, I'm probably gonna put that up
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on the ham side as well.
42:57
Cause that's a very
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electronic gadgety type thing.
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Anyway, join us on one
43:02
of our, one of our sites.
43:03
Uh, join us on Facebook,
43:05
Twitter, uh, or Google Plus.
43:08
And, uh, we'll catch
43:09
you on our next podcast.
43:12
Hopefully very, very soon.
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Oh, and of course have a very, very happy
43:16
and profitable new year.
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