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**🔥 Jeep Talk Show: Gazelle Tents Interview with Rob – Fast-Setup Hub Tents & Gazebos for Jeepers & Overlanders!**

In this episode, Tony sits down with Rob from Gazelle Tents (part of Artisam) to talk about their innovative pre-assembled hub tents and gazebos that set up in under 90 seconds. Perfect for Jeep owners, overlanders, weekend campers, and anyone who hates wrestling with traditional tents in the wind and rain.

From the popular T3X and T4 Overland models with stand-up headroom to ice fishing shelters, cold-weather Backcountry tents with stove jacks, and upcoming privacy/shower tents — Rob shares why Gazelle gear is a favorite among serious outdoor enthusiasts.

Topics covered include why the unique gazebo/hub design works so well, wind and rain performance (tested in 55+ mph winds), setup tips, packing, and Jeep storage, removable floors, ventilation, insulation, and durability, cold weather and ice fishing use, new products coming soon including the privacy tent, and real-world stories from Alaska to overland expos.

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If you’re into Jeep camping, overlanding, or just need a reliable quick-setup shelter, this episode is packed with practical info.

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Episode Transcript

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IDO boys and girls, it’s time for another Jeep Talk Show interview. We’re going to be talking with Rob. Rob has been

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at Artisam, the company behind Gazelle, Rob has helped grow the brand’s reputation for innovation, preassembled hub tents and portable gazebos that set up in under 90 seconds. Rob, why do women like gazebos so bad? I mean, so much. Is it novels, those romance novels? I don’t know. You know what I’m talking about though, right? I know what you’re talking about. Yeah. I think it’s just getting out of the elements, having a little bit of a, you know, retreat from harsh winds and, you know, blazing. They like that geometric shape though. So it’s confusing to me. It’s cool. I mean, I don’t care. I just find it interesting. I tell you, it really lends itself to conversations, right? Oh yeah. Talking around fire and stuff. So yeah, that’s a, that’s a big part.

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All right. So Gazelle’s rugged designs, especially the popular T3X and the T4 Overland models are favorites among Jeep owners and Overlanders. They offer spacious interiors with standup headroom. I think that’s important too. You never like to have to crouch down, you know, especially if you’re six foot or over, uh, packed down, compact enough to fit in the back of a wrangler fast, reliable shelter for everything from weekend car camping to serious off-road adventures. You can learn more about Gazelle tents is simply by going over to gazelletents.com. All right, Rob, but you got a tent. I think everybody wants a tent. Um, some people like to have it attached to their Jeep, but that, that has a problem with storage and you may want to use your, like a, like a gladiator, for example, you might actually want to use it to carry something around in the bed of the truck. And this seems to be a way of, uh, having a place to stay, which how often do you have to have a place to stay? I mean, you get in trouble occasionally and you have an option of the couch or the tent, right? Right. Exactly. Well, the big thing about it too, is that, you know, you can set up your base cam leave for the day and not have to pack up your sleeping arrangements. You know, you kind of stake your spot and get off to do what you went for in the first place. And, uh, the speed of execution of assembling it, that’s, that’s the key to it all because nobody goes, no, nobody goes out to set up a tent.

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The least favorite part of it, especially if it’s windy and rainy. Uh, and, uh, that, that can be quite cumbersome. Uh, what do you guys recommend if you are in a windy, rainy environment? I mean, you can be really sleepy, really tired from the long trip to getting there. Uh, do you recommend not setting it up until maybe the weather gets a little better? I tell you what, if you, it’s, it’s fine. If you have a couple of people do it. So one person can hold it while the other one starts popping out the walls. And stuff, but really the biggest thing is, is that if you’re setting up at windy, rainy conditions, check your location first, right? You don’t want to set up in a low spot. Yeah. And then the second, are you feeling damp? Did you go, did you pee yourself? What’s going on here?

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And then the, uh, the second part of it is, is if you stake off and tie off to the hubs, that’s going to set your, set your walls against the strongest wins. I mean, we’ve had them out at some overland expos where the winds have reached excess of 55 miles an hour and they’ve done just fine. I was going to ask you about that high wind situations. Yeah, it’s, it’s, we’ve, uh, this was originally developed by RSM in the, uh, in the hunting and ice fishing divisions. And, uh, so they’re meant to take a lot of, a lot of the elements, right? So, uh, we saw people actually camping and sleeping in her, in her ice fishing shelters or in her hunting guides. And we just said, that’s a terrible idea. So we developed a camping line to kind of, you know, get the features to match the match the product that people are using it for. Now, uh, I’m a Texan, I’ve been in Texas all my life. Uh, I’ve seen, uh, seen snow a few times being down here in Southeast Texas, the general Houston area. Um, and I got to say, I am fascinating, fascinated about, uh, the ice hole where you cut the hole in the ice and you’re camping on it. And there’s some of these people have houses that they drag out there. And I just think, I think the whole ideas is so cool where you got nothing to do. Now with Starlink, you could have internet now, but maybe they get, they want to get away from that too. But I think that is so cool. So you, you actually have tents that people can do the same thing, which is a lot easier than dragging a house. Right. Right. You can go out on the ice and ice fish and, you know, camping the, camping the same tent, you’re, uh, you’re fishing out of. So yeah, those are, those are definitely specifically designed for ice fishing. I wouldn’t, wouldn’t camp in the summer and I mean, might get a little warm and all, and, uh, you know, because they’re insulated, they, they tend to take on some water. Well, that’s, that’s cool that it’s insulated. So you can have, and I would assume you can have a fire or some, something that would generate heat, uh, inside. Generally what some people do, because there’s no floor in our ice shelters, they’ll run a, run a diesel heater, some venting through to get some heat in. But then, you know, up here, they’re pretty rugged. So they, they kind of enjoy that, that cold. Yep. Yep. Um, so, uh, why the gazebo style? Why, why the multi angles? Is that just to be a little different than a standard tent or was there another reason for, for the, I mean, even though the pack size is larger by doing the, in the, uh, hexagonal or pentagonal shapes, it gives much more space. And like I said, people like it because they like, like to sit around in a, in a circle and, you know, share camp stories. So that’s been a big thing. But it also does a nice job as far as like, and for backyard use and stuff, you can fit a full, full size picnic table in there and, you know, four to eight people, depending on which gazebo you go with. What is it that I’ve heard? Is it, is it Michigan that the state bird is a mosquito? Uh, I would, I think it’s all up there on the Midwest. Yeah. Yeah. I think that that might be handy. You know, if you wanted to, if it was nice outside and you wanted to go have a picnic and not have to worry about the mosquitoes.

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Exactly. Exactly. And we’ve, uh, we’ve got a proprietary mesh that we use in ours. It’s called Tri-Tech. So it’s 25% more airflow, which if anybody’s using one of our competitors, gazebos or one of our previous models, you know, that in the heat, they retain heat, so, but this one allows the airflow to go through plus it, it’s stronger and it keeps out no see them. So yeah, it’s a, it’s definitely a nice, uh, you know, retreat from the, from the bug infant station we see here in summers. Sometimes it’s nicest to get outside, especially if it’s a nice day. So, uh, how long does it take? A lot. Did I read 90 seconds to, uh, set up most of these? Yeah. For the gazebo, it takes 60 because you don’t have a rain fly to install, but, uh, for the tents, it’s 90 seconds. So this could be a whim. Uh, this could be like that last minute idea about it for a road trip. Uh, you can say, Hey, let’s, let’s, let’s take lunch outside today. And, uh, 60 seconds or so, even if you’re a clumsy, it’s not going to take you a long time to, uh, to get that. And I would assume it has a, some sort of, uh, uh, container pack or, or something that it’s, that you keep it in.

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Yeah. So all of our bags that we use, whether it’s the tents or the gazebo, they’re oversized. So at the end of the day, when you’re packing it up, you’re not, you know, thank God it’s not like stuffing sauce and drag. Right. Get it in as easy as you took it out. Yeah. It’s like, okay, let’s take some pictures so we can get it back to the back of the same shape it was to get it back in as the bag. It seems like they sell the bag right around the tent. So yeah, exactly. I had a square inch to spare 3d printer. It’s a 3d printed, uh, tent bag. Um, and so, uh, what kind of colors do you have? I would assume if, if, uh, they were designed initially for hunting, you probably have some, uh, nice, um, matching colors for the outdoors. Yeah. So in the, uh, in the gazebo lines, we stay pretty neutral in the tans and Browns. So you’ve got a desert sand, which is a nice light kind of beige color, um, in our opening price points. And then we’ve got a, um, a cool top gazebo, which is really unique. Um, it basically has a rain fly on it. So the thing, again, this is a innovation that other, other brands haven’t done. It’s got a gap between the roof, the screen roof and the rain fly. So that air can heat can escape and air can come in. So it really increases the air flow. Plus by doing a rain fly, we can seal a seam. So it’s waterproof. Um, the other thing is the rain fly runs out past the base of the gazebo. So it’ll run water away from, away from the sides. So, and then that one’s in what we call badlands Brown. It’s kind of a, almost like a Carhartt Brown. And then we’ve got another one, which is a tandem gazebo. So it’s, um, it’s a six sided gazebo, but it’s two, two gazebo side by side. Oh, that’s nice. And that one, that one comes in a Gavi green. And, uh, the nice thing about that is the pack size is about 18 inches shorter than the six sided gazebo, the, the, the hat safe shaped one.

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Um, so, uh, I would assume that, uh, this is just your basic tent. You can put whatever you want to in it. Uh, the, the, the, the ones for ice fishing and stuff don’t have a floor, but do the others, uh, come with the floor? Yeah. Our tents all have, all have a removable floor. So the idea behind the removal of the floor is it’s easy cleanup. The other thing is that’s nice about it. And most tents, that’s the first thing that’s going to go is the floor. Because I get some most wear and tear. If you ever were to put a hole in it and you’re out of warranty, you can replace the, get a replacement floor and not have to scrap the tent. What kind of warranty are we talking about here? Um, we have a one year warranty. Um, we have, uh, but we carry parts for 10 years past the service date or past the selling date of the tents. So if you would ever, I mean, we have tents that are been out there for seven, eight years now after steady use weekend after weekend, and they’re, they’re just like the day they put them out, you know, so, um, they, they last a long time.

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Um, so, um, um, cots, uh, um, what the hell the sleeping bags. And, uh, I would assume that, uh, you guys don’t have a line of like inflatable furniture or anything like that. Right. I will say we don’t have one yet, but we’re constantly, we’re constantly working on. Oh, I was going to say, maybe you were going to give us a little information. It’s something to come up. Uh, something that’s coming out. Um, yeah, we’re constantly working on that type of things. We, we should see something here in relatively near future. I think that’s really handy too. Cause if you can pack it and it’s small, but it makes the, the, the in there, uh, more comfortable, I mean, you can get those folding chairs and stuff, but sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of a cushion.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So all of our tents are, you know, are a little bit over. So people are always saying, what do you mean? You know, three person, 10, four person, 10, you can’t put four people in that tent. Well, what we’ve done, you know, everybody bases it off industry standard, which is, you know, most people don’t fit within that. So ours are actually slightly larger than what industry standard. That’s a safe way to go. In fact, so yeah.

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Yeah. That is us men will order a large and then find out we need an extra large or a two X large, so, uh, yeah, being a little bit bigger is, uh, saves you some, some time and expense, uh, whenever you’re buying things. Um, so, uh, let’s looking at some of the ones here, the really big tents, which I think are cool. Uh, what would you say that the big tents are, are best for? I mean, you don’t have to have eight friends or six friends to go camping with you, but I would imagine if you’re coming out of the line of furniture type stuff, that would make it very convenient. Maybe a place where you could set up a Coleman stove or, uh, where you could actually have room to set things up, especially if you were staying there for, uh, three days a week or two weeks. Yeah. So when you’re looking at the tandem tents, you’ve got a dedicated sleeping area in the back. Um, and then you’ve got a separation panel that you can zip closed from the front end. And that front end is convertible. You can use it as another sleeping area by putting down the privacy panels, or you can leave them open as like a screen tent for a place to hang out in the afternoon. Um, so it’s very versatile from that standpoint. And like I said, it works great for just a couple of people going out up to, you know, six to eight people going out, you know, depending on, you know, what you needed for very, like I said, with that convertible screen room gives you a lot of options. Um, so, uh, have you done any kind of, uh, testing and Jeeps to see how much, if there’s enough room, uh, in a Wrangler? I mean, gladiator probably is not a bad, not hard because it’s got a five foot bed on it, but, uh, do you have a limit on some of these tents as far as storing it successfully? So, so this, these are long pack tents, you know, it’s kind of the, kind of the nature of the beast when you’re making something that’s already preassembled where you can’t break poles down to, to assemble it. So, um, generally what we see people doing is either putting them up on the roof or if they’re just a couple of people traveling, they’ll drop the back seat down in SUV or something and slide them in that way. Okay. And is that for all the tents, all the tents that you sell will fit? Uh, certainly they should fit on top, but, um, for the most part, yeah, I mean, the gazebos actually get a little longer because it’s based off of the longest pole. Um, and that’s the roof pole. And when you’re spreading it over, over that large area, it gets pretty long. But, uh, like I said, we’ve got that, we’ve got some, some models that are, that are out or coming out that are, that are shorter pack lengths. We launched, um, last year, the, uh, T four e X P, which will be back in stock here at the end of May. And that one, um, is the size of a, of a T four, person tent. The original T four fit in a bag that was 68 inches long. We were able to reconfigure how the poles work and got it down to 58 inches in length. So now that one is much more comparable to what we see a lot of Jeep owners using in the T three X. So they’re the same length, but you get, you know, the 10 more inches in headroom and you get another, another about a 25 square feet in space there.

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So it sounds like, uh, the pole isn’t the main pole isn’t collapsible. So I would think that that would means that it gives you a lot of strength.

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Yeah. So it, that gives you a lot of strength. And also, like I said, it just makes the assembly that much easier when you’re not fishing, fishing poles through, you’re just popping walls and pushing up the rough hub and you’re, you’re ready to go. And then the last thing you do is stake out from the hubs and you’re, you’re ready to ready to rock from the weekend. Yeah. Time, time to take a nap. Um, so, um, well, it doesn’t sound like it’s overly stressful putting up these tents. So you probably don’t need a nap for, uh, putting the tent up. Although I can imagine there’s some tents out there. I think even the pop-up tents, uh, can be a little more, um, require a little more effort, uh, than what we’re doing here. Cause these, these things are pretty light, right? Yeah. When we say 90 seconds assembly, that’s for one person. So that’s, that’s the biggest difference from a lot of people that say we got a quick setup. So when you’re talking about easy ups and stuff, it does go much easier. If you got a second person. Yeah. So reading, reading between the lines, if that second person is your wife, it could take double that amount of time. Did you read the instructions? What are you doing over there? What does, are you sure about this? We always try to guess how many marriages we’ve saved.

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All the reduced arguing that goes on. Oh, and I was going to ask, so I would assume you use some sort of tent stakes or something to keep this thing down and from blown away. So we with the, uh, with the Overland additions, we use what’s called an all terrain stake. Um, we did a, we did research where we grabbed a bunch of different stakes and different geometries and stakes and, and measured them in all kinds of different, all kinds of different base, whether it be sand or wet, but for sure our hard pan and the stakes that we came up with overall held the best in all those conditions. So, um, you get a really good steak with the Overland edition tents. So, uh, maybe you’ve taken this into account, but what do you do when you have the perfect beautiful camping area and it’s all rock? I mean, you really don’t have, I mean, you know, I’m saying it’s not just, just a boulder, but the four points or the six points or whatever you want to tie down to, it’s just mostly rock. And I mean, you have like weighted things that you could put on there. What we’ve seen or what I’ve done in the past is what I’ll do is I’ll take a five gallon series of five gallon buckets with me and just load them up with the rocks and tie right off to that. And it seems to do quite well. Yeah. I mean, I’m sure there’s people out there that have gone camping and tenting and they figured out, I mean, you, you find a little shrubs and maybe your vehicle or anything you can do to keep the tie it down where you necessary. Uh, do you have to have, uh, does the, the, the tent have any, uh, rigidity by itself or do you absolutely have to have all the points attached to the ground? Yeah, I would say that, um, like I said, if you tie off to the four spots on the hubs, that’s really all you need. It has some rigidity to it. It’s just that, you know, you never know when that renegade wind is going to come through. Right. You know, so yeah. And of course that’s what I’m asking about. Yeah. Best case scenario or worst case scenario, you want to make sure all the, all, all the tie down points are tied. Now you’ve mentioned the hub a couple of times and I forgot to ask you, um, you know what the hell that is. I mean, Oh yeah. But, uh, for our audience, what is, what is the hub? Is that like the central point for the, the gazebo? That’s a central point you have, you have, uh, on a, on a standard T four, you have four wall hubs and a roof hub. Basically in each wall, there’s four poles that are anchored in each corner. And then the, they go into a central hub, which is right in the center of the wall. They all go in there. When you push it in, the whole thing flows, folds up. When you pop it out, that’s when it assembles. So like I said, it’s just a matter of popping things. It’s not, like I said, you’re not, we’ve, uh, we’ve done this at Expos where we, uh, we get, get the smallest kid that walks by and have them set it up themself just to show how easy that process is. You know, the five and six year olds that are popping the walls and maybe a little help with pushing the roof up, but, uh, right. They can usually do it really easily. Um, so you mentioned, uh, the ability to open up, to allow, the heat to rise out of the tent. Is that in the center or on the sides or yes. So when you pop the, pop the roof up, you get a doming effect and the, the rain fly domes over that. So you’ve got a gap between the screen roof and the rain fly. And that’s where the, all the air floor comes, comes through. Yeah. So there’s, there’s no, oh, hurry up and close that up. It’s the, this is the gap from the, the, the not, I want to, I want to call it a tarp, but it’s not a tarp, basically people would understand it. It’s like a tarp over the top. Uh, then it’s the rain that flows the rain off of, uh, off the tent itself. So you have an opening between that, by having that, having that gap in between, especially on the tent, it really helps to reduce condensation. Oh yeah. That makes sense. And the tent. So yeah, I get it. Like I said, it provides a lot of air flow.

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Um, how does that, uh, how does that work whenever it’s really cold outside or, or should you be in another tent? Uh, if you’re going to be camping at very cold. Yeah. That’s kind of why we launched the new exp last year is cause that one there, um, that one has an HVAC port so you can run diesel heat through it. And it also has sealable roof panels. So you can, a lot of people in the summer, they’ll take, if it’s not going to rain, they’ll take the rain fly off so they can walk at the stars at night. But when you’re in the, in the colder weather, the exp works up. Cause you can seal those, seal those screen vent panels in the roof to trap heat in. Right. Um, what is the, if you have this information, what is the longest that somebody’s used the tent, you know, like one one outing has been out there for 30 days or a week. Yeah, we’ve had, we’ve had some people that we’ve, we’ve seen that have taken it on month long trips up to Alaska or, you know, um, and just used it every night and, uh, they’re still using it today. And that was, I started here, well, it’s going on eight years now. And, uh, I correspond with one of you, somebody who’s still using the same tent. Yeah. He’s using it. He’s using it daily. So, yeah. So is he traveling around and then, uh, breaking down camp and setting it back up or is it set up and they just kind of do the thing in that general area? How does that work with the 30 days? He’s, he’s actually, uh, leading people on tours and he sleeps in the tent. I sleep in his RV. So he’s setting it up and taking it out on every night. So travel. So this has been a Greece Lee bear tested up in Alaska. I’m assuming. Yeah, I hope not. It always scares the hell out of me when you think about camping and it’s head. It’s just a wrapper, you know, for the goodies that are inside.

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Yeah. We’re, we’re up here in bear country. So we know about that. Yeah. And I think, and I think a lot of people like me, I mean, I think we have some Brown bears around here close, close by, but certainly not in the, the, the Houston area. Uh, so I think it’s, the, it’s the, uh, well, it’s like everybody, you know, there’s tornadoes here down here, uh, quite a bit. Yeah. And, uh, people are always talking about tornado, this tornado, that they’re so scary and so on and so forth. And I’ll tell people, I’ve been here all my life. I’ve never seen the tornado. Uh, I mean, I think I’ve heard them. I think that they’ve been close by, but there’s such a local phenomenon that it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of weird if you, if you see one, uh, or even get affected by one. And as always tell people, unless you’re living in a mobile home park, you’re never going to have a problem with a tornado.

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So anyway, uh, I think that’s the same thing with bears and other animals that it’s, it’s more of a concern based on and especially now with social media and even more so with AI, uh, there’s a lot more animal, uh, situations than there, there really is. And, uh, all together, I still like the idea of having a 50 caliber handgun with me just to say hello.

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Um, so, uh, there’s, uh, do you think is, do you think it’s better to have a bright colored tent or a neutral colored tent? I like the neutral style, uh, up until the helicopters looking for me for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. I guess, you know, there’s, there’s, uh, theories out there about attracting, attracting, uh, pests and stuff like that with brighter colors and stuff. But I think it comes down to preference and what you’re using it for. If there’s some people that like the bright colors, just so they don’t lose their lose their spot and they can see their campsite from a ways away. And there’s other ones that like to blend in nature. And so we offer a little variety of colors and in the tents that we sell. Yep. Yep. Um, the friend of mine, I think it was Chris that you had dealt with to get the interview set up here. Chris was telling me that the gazelle tents are very well known as quality, uh, tents. And if you, if you want a good tent, that’s what you should get.

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Yeah, we’ve, we’ve done a lot of work and, um, over the past few years, we’ve, we’ve loosened up our, our return policies over, over, well it was pretty much first when I started hearing, we, uh, we try to take care of our customers, um, best we can. And the thing over the last few years, what we’ve seen is that our, that our quality rates have gone up, returns have gone down. So I think we’re, I think we’re in the sweet spot. That’s not to say it’s things going to happen because the size of these tents, there’s still a lot of hand sewing that goes on and there’s things that can happen. But you know, our customer service is right on, right on premise with us here. So if you call in there, somebody there that’s going to answer and help you out with any issues that you have. This is a good time to mention the website again, uh, gazelle tents.com, g-a-z-e-l-l-e-t-e-n-t-s.com. gazelle, gazelle tents.com. So, um, the, uh, oh yeah, I was going to ask you earlier, we were talking about putting the tents on, on top of the Jeep or the vehicle, whatever you’re driving. Um, and obviously the bags are waterproof and you don’t have to worry about anything. Uh, the tent being damaged or getting water in the bag because they’re made, uh, to survive weather. Yeah. So our, our, uh, our bags are, uh, seam sealed. On the override edition, our bags are seam sealed. They have a zipper cover to stop any egress into the, in through the zipper. They also have an external stake pouch. So you’re not putting dirty stakes in with your, oh, that’s good. Yeah. So yeah. And like I said, being oversized and stuff like that, they, they tend to, uh, you know, if you want to stuff more in there, you’ve got some room. So,

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now I would assume, uh, and not everybody assumes this, especially people that haven’t, uh, they like the idea of going outside. They like the idea of having a tent, but the tent is really just the starting point because you really need a lot of support stuff. Uh, we were talking about furniture, chairs, um, the diesel heater if you’re in that environment, uh, but maybe a place to use the bathroom, uh, cause they make a standup things. You guys don’t have any, uh, uh, facilities for that. Uh, do you, um, we do have a, have a privacy tent that is coming out in June. Um, it’s a, it’s going to be a premium, premium model. It’s a extra tall. So there’s plenty of head room in there when you’re showering, that’s extra big. So, you know, room for the shower and the bathroom in there. And then the other thing is, is it’s, it’s got a rain fly on it, which a lot of them don’t. And again, it’s got that gap in there. So, uh, I don’t know how it’s, I think, yeah, I think methane is a light, a light gas. So anything, I was going to ask you if it came with a little pouch for matches. Yeah. It comes with a lot, it comes with a lot of bags, whatever you put in there, that’s up to you. Oh, that’s good. I like that. Cause that way you could have a washcloth, soap, shampoo, that type of thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That’s cool. And I know you can buy these things several places, but if you’re like me, it’s nice to go to one place, uh, one stop shop. Yeah. Yeah. It’s, and like I said, it’s, it will, we’ll be sending out all the details on it here very soon, but it is really, it is really well built. I’m very impressed with what our engineers have come up with. Um, it’s one of the, one of the feature for feature. I don’t think there’s many out there like it. Um, so, um, the, uh, are you going to have a shower system or just a place where you could take the shower? Right now, right now, it’s just, there’s a lot of systems out there and a lot of really good ones. We’re just providing, uh, providing the shelter for it. Um, and again, this is a pop-up pop-up shelter. So it’s about a 90 second assembly. So if you, uh, have the desire, I think you’ve probably seen the same things I’ve seen where there’s a, some house on a mountain and the bathroom has this, this top, the bottom wall so that you can sit on the toilet and look out, uh, your setup’s not like that. I mean, a nice gazebo a pop-up for your bathroom would be nice. Yeah. Well, I don’t know, it depends on how comfortable you are. You can probably leave the door open and do that. There you go. I just was thinking about the gazebo aspect. Cause this is kind of smaller and you know, you sit there and have it, have all the, all the windows open for the neighbors. Right. Right. Um, okay. So as I was saying, you know, you start with a tent, but then you have the other things that you use to support that. So now we’ve got a bathroom and shower, uh, not that, not that you can take the shower. There’s no shower, uh, accessories for that, but something that you can hook one of the showers up to it. And, um, yeah, so a place to stay, a place to sleep, a place to

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with other people. Uh, and, uh, I would assume it would be great to have a half company over. I think the, the most fun, and this is certainly true when you go off road in a Jeep, you want to have other Jeepers with you. It’s a safety thing. And also too, it’s just fun to share that experience with other people. So, um, yeah, I could see that it would be neat and also too, you can, and I’ll, I’ll just mention this. Everybody’s aware of this, but I’ll just mention this. The cool thing is talking about your equipment because somebody’s going to have something and they’re going to notice something that you have on that gazelle tent and go, who made this tent? You know, where’d you get this thing from? So then you have that thing, that little bit of pride that you made a good decision. Yeah.

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It’s a, it really is a community. We see people out there, you know, traveling in packs, you know, and they’ll have, they’ll have 10 people set up in their, in their campsite. So it’s, yeah, it really is, has become a community out there. It’s our, um, so, uh, just to recap a little bit, you, you have tents that are really good for general weather, hot weather and stuff, but if you’re going to go a really cold weather and when, what, oh, I didn’t, was guys that earlier, uh, for the cold weather tents, uh, what is the coldest that you guys recommend? And I know it depends, but, yeah, we just launched a line called the back country and, uh, this one did take some cues from what we do with our ice fishing shelters. And so it’s got the normal screen windows in it, but those can be either replaced or just covered with vinyl windows again, to up the R factor. Plus you have the ability to, we’ve got a stove jack that can, you can get, if you want to do a wood burning stove. And that’s like the whole, the insulated hole that you can run the stove, uh, exhaust. Yeah. So this one actually, this one actually runs out of, runs out the window. So you angle it, angle it just under the, uh, under the rain fly and, uh, yeah, you can burn, burn wood in there and keep it, it gets really toasty. We’ve, we’ve tested that out here and, and, uh, you know, the weather we get up here sometimes 20 below or worse, and we’ve had it out there and it, uh, it, it warms up nicely. The other big thing that we do, like I said, and I keep hate to keep going back to our rain fly design, but the way it works on a, on a cold weather tent, if you get snow or a lot of snow, that gap between the roof and the rain fly doesn’t let the rain fly get warm. So it’s not going to melt the snow and cause ice dams on your roof. It allows the snow just to run off because it’s, it’s cooler than the rough below it.

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So it’s a, it’s a Friday afternoon, maybe around one or two o’clock in the afternoon, there’s a major snow storm coming in and the boss, the CEO sends out an email, okay, we need somebody to go out and test the tent, uh, this weekend.

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That, you know, that would, he would have, he would have a ton of, I was just going to say that, that probably wouldn’t be too bad. It’s not like having that TPS report in by Monday. Yeah. When you, uh, when you look at, look at the crew that we have assembled here, they’re all outdoorsmen all year long, you know, whatever the, whatever the season, whatever the occasion they’re out there in the wild. We’ve got, we’re up here in Northern Wisconsin. It’s just absolutely beautiful in the North woods. So we got a lot of, a lot of good sites and a lot of good areas to go that, uh, and explore. So let me ask you this. Um, you’re in Wisconsin. You got to definitely, the guys definitely get cold up there. Um, the, um, when you’re using the tent, uh, in the winter time, I would assume,

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damn it, I forgot what exactly where I was going with this now. Uh, I’m, I’m, I’m thinking about being in Wisconsin out and, uh, actually I’m thinking about everybody goes on and on about cheese, uh, the cheese curds and stuff in Wisconsin. Oh yeah. Yeah. We’re, uh, we’re, we’re probably about 30 miles from the biggest cheese curd, uh, manufacturer in the country. Um, Ellsworth. And we were, we were actually in Flagstaff and some guy goes, I got a delicacy from Wisconsin. He goes Ellsworth cheese curds. I bet you’ve never heard of them. Yeah. They’re just down the road from us.

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Um, all right. Well, I’ve lost that one. It was probably the, what the best question I would have ever asked if I could just remember it. Probably. This is the problem with paying attention. You know, if you don’t pay attention, you can remember what the questions are that you’re going to ask. All right. You know how, and I’ll, I’ll remember this before we get done. Uh, you know how the kids love the social media. Uh, how can people follow you guys along on the, on the social media? Yeah. We’ve got, uh, we’ve got a gazelle tense Facebook page. We were on Instagram. And, uh, if anybody ever has any questions, we’re, we’re up all hours of the night answering people. So just feel free to reach out there or, you know, contact us through our customer service chain at a info at gazelle tents.com. And we’d be happy to answer any questions you might have. All right. So we’ve got viewers that are absolutely in love with the tent, but they’d like to see it and touch it and get a good feel for it. Uh, you know, before, before buying, is there a way, what’s the best way for them to, to look at the tent? Yeah. Well, we, we attend all the overland expos. Um, we just got back from SoCal here in March. We’re going to be in Flagstaff in May, um, Portland in Redmond, Oregon, and, uh, June, I think I’m trying to remember all of them. Loveland, Colorado in August. And then, well you’d think probably go to your site and see where you’re going to be. Right. Yeah. Harrington, Virginia in October. And, but if you, REI carries our tents. So if you’re near an REI, just pop in there and take a look and we’re gathering more retailers all the time. So.

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Excellent. Yeah. It’s, it’s fun. Do you guys ever go to EJS or SEMA?

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We haven’t, we haven’t, we’ve looked into it, but, uh, I run six other divisions in the hunting and camping area. So it, you know, beyond the hunting shows and all that stuff, time is kind of a premium. So, Oh yeah. I can, I can well imagine. Um, so, uh, do you guys have other divisions that do other things besides tents? Or is it just tents for the hunting? Yeah, we’ve got, we actually, uh, have 15 brands in our, um, portfolio. And anything you can do up here in the North woods of, uh, Wisconsin, we, we probably pretty much do, uh, all the way down to chicken pluckers. So you got your hands on all this stuff then. That’s gotta be a really interesting job. Oh, it is. It is. Yeah, for sure. How many, uh, how many wonderful ideas do you get? Uh, and then you have to kind of act like, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. What do you think you get into that? Kind of like whatever the kid wants something at the store and then you say, yeah, yeah, let’s, uh, we’ll see. We’ll see. To be honest, the way, uh, the way Gizelle really, really took off was actually just that listening to what, what the customers are saying. And we incorporate a lot of those ideas into the products. Now, unfortunately it doesn’t happen overnight cause we are our engineering group. They try and try everything, test it out, make sure it’s perfectly, perfectly good before it’s launched. But, uh, a lot of our best, uh, our best ideas come from, come from the people that are actually using it out there. Yeah, absolutely. That’s wonderful. All right. Uh, well, I think that we’ve had a really good conversation here. I think a tent is something, a good tent is something that you really want to start with. And, uh, it doesn’t sound like this would be a bad tent to start with. Uh, and you may, uh, stay with the brand and get bigger tents and bigger tents depending on how much fun you have doing it. And the great thing is, is that it doesn’t cost you a lot of money, uh, like getting an RV or a pop-up tent that you got a bolt onto your vehicle and then you’d have to take it off for some things and put it back on for other things. So, uh, I think everybody ought to have a good tent. You never know when you’re going to have to bug out.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Oh, was, uh, was COVID a big help for you guys? Because I’ll be in cooped up. I could well imagine that getting out and away from the, the, the stresses of being under lockdown would be a good thing. Yeah, it was, it was, it was very good. It got us well known in the industry and stuff like that. And the other thing is that our gazebos that we talked about earlier, make a great outdoor office. We see people get the hell out of their house desk and computers set up in there and just hanging out outside. Do you guys encourage the, uh, the customers to send in pictures like that, put it up on Instagram? Did you mention Instagram? Yeah, we always, we always use our consumer customer pictures. In fact, the person who does our, does our content for us, that’s how she started out was she sent in a few pictures. You ever thought about doing this professionally and she’s, she’s just knocked it out of the park. That’s neat. That’s really cool. Yeah. You never know. She get out there, share things. And some people might really enjoy it. And you, uh, you may go from the comfortable life to working the nine to five, but I think working at home on social media is pretty fun. All right, Rob, thank you so much for being here and we’ll have to get you back on when you get new products out so we can update everybody on what you got. So, uh, what do you guys think about the gazelle tents? Have you been over there to gazelletents.com and had a look? Maybe you’ve gone to, what was it? REI that you said that, uh, have these tents. So, uh, go, go have a look and let us know what you think.

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Thanks again, Rob. Oh, thank you. I

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You’re my friend, you’re my new friend.