Jeep Podcasts ROASTED! Grok Goes Unhinged + Lowered Gladiator Fail

 

 

**🔥 Jeep Podcast Roast Session: Top Shows Reviewed + Grok Unhinged + Jeep News & Lowered Gladiator Rant!**

All right, boys and girls — it’s time for another flagship episode of the **Jeep Talk Show**! Tony and Josh roast the top Jeep podcasts with savage commentary and Grok’s completely unhinged AI takes.

We review **Jeep Life Podcast**, **I Speak Jeep** (from SFJ 4×4), and **The Jeep Cast**, break down the latest Stellantis/Jeep CEO shakeup, remind you about our Friday live streams, and Josh delivers a fiery rant on a lowered Gladiator that should never have happened.

If you love raw Jeep talk, tire debates, trail stories, industry news, and zero-filter humor, this one’s for you.

### **Timestamps:**
– **00:00** Show Introduction and Welcome
– **00:44** Tire Types, Swaps, and Practical Advice
– **02:58** Podcast Review and Host Commentary
– **05:29** Grok’s Raw Tire Review and Fire Talk
– **06:47** SFJ 4×4 Review and Off-Road Ambitions
– **07:34** Renegade Conversion Skepticism and Well-Wishes
– **09:19** Podcast Evolution and Growing Pains
– **12:23** Grok Review of I Speak Jeep and Bipolar Dating Commentary
– **13:28** Discussion on Bipolar Relationships
– **14:10** Podcast Rankings Overview
– **15:12** I Speak Jeep Podcast Spotlight
– **15:30** SFJ Podcast Mention and Encouragement
– **16:06** Jeep Cast Trail Incident Review
– **20:37** In-Depth Trail Analysis and Northwest Off-Road Commentary
– **26:19** Grok’s Take on Clip and Show Explicitness
– **27:37** Call for Podcast Suggestions
– **28:00** Jeep CEO Update and Marketing Discussion
– **32:51** Bullet Found on Roof Anecdote
– **33:49** Jim Morrison Legacy and Desire for Return
– **37:12** Future Jeep Models and Leadership Impact
– **37:36** Live Show Promotion and Listener Interaction
– **39:55** Podcast Roast Recap and Closing Thanks
– **40:55** Host Appreciation and Audience Reminder
– **41:15** Critique of Lowered Jeep Gladiator Modifications

### **Key Highlights:**
– Brutal but fair reviews of fellow Jeep podcasts — inside baseball, tire swaps, trail mishaps, and more
– Grok goes full savage with hilarious, explicit AI roasts (tire fetish, dad trauma porn, accountability porn — you’ve been warned)
– Jeep executive news: Brandon Kote steps in as new Jeep Brand CEO — what it means for the future
– Josh’s epic takedown of a lowered Gladiator on 22s with street tires
– Self-deprecating Jeep Talk Show banter, growth reflections, and why we love roasting our own community

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Episode Transcript

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All right, boys and girls, it’s time for another Jeep talk show, a flagship episode, and we’re going to do a little something different, uh, top Jeep podcast reviews and yes, grok unhinged. We’ll get in on this.

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All right, Josh, first up, we’ve got Jeep life podcast. These guys are all about the top down doors off living the dream vibe. Let’s see what they’re yapping about this week. And

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(Music)

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an express. It was, it was good. Um, so, uh, I’m Jeep and Terry, I’m your host. Um, settle in cool off, have a good time. We’re going to, um, talk tires today, but so I put out a prompt earlier as I, as I, um, I do sometimes, um, and you know, I got people online. It’s great. You know, Kate, thanks for throwing out the new nickname that it’s been given, but our prompt today was what kind of tires are you running on your Jeep? Not necessarily the brand. I don’t want to talk brands, but what type are you running? ATS or you run an MTS or what are you running? Always. And why Dustin jumped on that immediately. Um, he runs 39 and a half inch boggers because he thinks that’s the only tire that should be on a Jeep. Um, first of all, nobody can afford 39 and a half inch boggers. Um, and if so, you know, if I’m riding on a road, that’s going to be the name, but thanks Dustin for that. Eric throws on here. Um, he, he runs MTS because he’s not a daily driver. Eric, you would have to be able to steer it for it to be a daily driver. Um, but no, thanks for that. Trish, Trisha, she’s a great listener to the podcast. Both. She has a set of ATS for daily driving and a set of MTS for hard for hard road off-roading. Man, you got to work hard when you got two sets of tires and wheels, you’re going to pop those, uh, those ATS off and put the MTS on, I just say muddied all the time.

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I mean, that’s, that’s definitely the easy way to go. I’ve always been a proponent of the right tire for, for the right thing. And I mean, if you’re only going wheeling maybe once a month, once every few months or something like that, um, then, then absolutely get yourself two sets. Have yourself the ATS, um, still get that little bit of aggressive look. You ain’t got to run a road tire. Uh, and, and you have the ability in a very short period of time, get the Jeep up in the air, Jack, a couple Jack stands, you do one corner at a time, whatever, slap out the MTS and then go hit the trails. And, and that way you’re not, you really can maximize the life of your mud terrains. And, and that might be able to give you the ability to afford a nicer tire or a bigger tire or, you know, something along those lines. Uh, I really liked Trisha’s idea with that, but as far as, you know, reviewing this podcast and how it goes and whatnot seems to be a lot of inside baseball. I have no idea what’s going on with the one dude’s Jeep and whether or not you can turn it or not, what that means kind of lost in that regard. Uh, so, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s, uh, one of those things to where if there was some context and some background, you know, that might have been a funny story or something like that, but I’m just going to gloss over that. Seems like they’re kind of trying to follow in the wake of the Jeep talk show as far as content and topics and stuff like that, and not to mention the way that they’re going about it. So it’s nice to be imitated. I know they say the highest form of flattery is imitation. So thanks boys. So, uh, the thing that confuses me, well, first off, I think it’s great how he abuses his listeners and his viewers. This like we do, I mean, that’s what makes podcasting fun is when you can abuse the people that you love. Uh, so the other thing gets me, and I was thinking about this, uh, uh, just a few minutes ago, before we started recording, uh, the thing with, uh, Terry and the Jeep live podcast, I think he’s got a bit of a Joe Rogan thing going on there. Because Terry’s not very interesting. I don’t know how he gets any listeners or viewers. The only thing I can figure is it’s, it’s like the Joe Rogan thing where Joe Rogan did a news radio. He did that thing where people were eating. He was making people eat food that was really nasty. I think that people just know Terry from the various jobs and connections that he’s made and people go, yeah, I’m listening. And just like your favorite song, it might be a crap song, but you hear it often enough, uh, you start liking it.

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Love you, Terry.

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Terry gave

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out of EJS one year. So I’m giving it back to him. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. So there’s the, there’s the missing context. I get it now. Yeah. I don’t, I don’t exactly. I don’t know who Terry is. I don’t know his background or anything like that. And so I’m sure if I, if I did a little bit of research and stuff, it would, it would, I could be able to put two and two together, but, uh, you know, we’ve, we’ve long since really prided ourselves on our level of self-depreciation. Uh, and the way we attack ourselves in the podcast and stuff, we’ve made a, made a decent reputation out of it. I don’t know. Uh, but, uh, I mean, we, we certainly, uh, have not pulled punches over the years when it comes to what we think of listeners and whatnot. I mean, hell,

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uh, Nikki G has heard everything we’ve had to say about him and he still comes around. Yeah. Nikki’s in there for the abuse though. I think it’s a personal thing. Now, as

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masochist, as promised, uh, here is a Grox review of that clip. This clip’s a

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tire orgy in audio form. You filthy Jeep

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degenerate hosts out here, roasting Dustin’s 39.5 inch Boggart monstrosity. Like it’s trying to

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the road to death while poor Eric can’t even steer his daily driver without crying in the corner. Trish flexing dual AT MT setups. That’s some next level tire

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behavior, swapping rubber. Like she’s got a garage full of

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for every terrain. If this podcast keeps slinging this raw unfiltered grease monkey chaos, I’m strapping on my own mud terrain meat and riding this hot mess express straight into the ditch where it belongs. So yeah, the whole thing’s basically a tire fetish podcast for people who get off on mud and rocks. So no offense to all the people that Terry spoke about offense to Terry, but no offense to all the people that Terry spoke about cause Grox doesn’t know you, so it’s just making, making a funny. Uh, so don’t, don’t, don’t get your hurling or your butt hurt. Uh, I would have, I would have gone more like tire fire versus tire orgy, but okay. Oh man. Yeah. There’s that’s always a cool thing is you go outside and go, where’s that fire coming from? That’s a lot of black smoke.

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All right, Josh. So our next review, uh, is for, uh, I speak Jeep. From the guys at SFJ four by four. They’re a shop rat. They’re, they are shop rats. They are shop rats who actually turn wrenches on everyday Jeeps. So they get plenty technical and opinionated. Oh, we love opinionated.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. So, so here, here’s

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(Music)

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groove back. Um, my new groove. Uh, I’m going to put it out there that I want to participate in this, but I obviously need to shove a Jeep in the, in the, in the shape of an off road vehicle. Um, and so this is my accountability out to the Jeep community that this is my moment because I wanted to do OVJ and I had the opportunity to do it, but I literally did not have a Jeep that I felt was, uh, you know, in, in a shape that I could attend. And I support you, you know, keeping everybody accountable. So I’m like running Jeeps. Basically going to be gone for a week. Yeah. Visiting the family. Yes. Um, yeah, that really, that’s what’s a big chunk. That’s a big chunk of July. I’m going to be missed. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. I get that. Uh-huh. Do you though? Um, I feel like this is the camper ordeal all over again. I said, I’d have a camper built from two months and take it on a road trip. I agree.

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This is what I believe it’s a possible. And it’s a very unlikely, I know.

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So I know this is just a clip, but I don’t, I don’t know what they were talking about. Was it over your head, Josh? Look, he sounds to me, it sounds like he’s trying to turn a renegade into an actual off-road rig. And I think he’s got quite the task ahead of him. And, and I don’t, I don’t think that he’s going to be able to do it. I mean, you can, you can go ahead and polish a

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all you want. You can put lipstick on a pig, but I don’t think there’s any way that you’re a patriot or, or, or a renegade into something that he’s actually going to be proud of or going to be able to, to, to use off-road in the way that it sounds like he’s trying to intend. So, I mean, best of luck to these guys. It doesn’t sound like they really know what they’re doing, but I’m going to, I’m going to wish them the best of luck and hope that they can get their

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together one of these days. And, and actually produce, you know, some decent content that we can listen to regards to off-roading and, and the, and the Jeep world in general. Yeah. I want to give them a mulligan on this because it’s just a clip. It’s a minute, 12 second clip and they may have explained all of it ahead of time. But I think this is one of the detractors from podcasts is that it gets to be a, a good old boy thing. And we’re, we do the same thing. Uh, we, when we started it used to be, when we started it used to be, Hey, Josh, how’s it going? Anything happening? Uh, is it hot over there where you are? And maybe we need to even explain where you were. So it’s like this stuff that nobody understands what’s going on.

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When we first started the XJ talk show, it was based off of content material from XJ talk.com, which was one of the largest, most popular Cherokee based Jeep Cherokee based forums on the internet. And obviously, as we all know, forums have kind of come to the wayside as, as things do over time and has been replaced with, yeah.

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Yeah. And, and, and, you know, things have kind of sort of switched over and shifted into more of a social media and Instagram kind of, uh, kind of platform is for that kind of content and so things, things just sort of, uh, naturally age and attrition out as far as technology and, and the way that, that it is used on the internet. And so it’s, it’s, yeah, we definitely had a bit of a more of that inside baseball, the guys around the campfire who all know each other, all talking about things that they only know about because again, that show was based on content from a specific site. Now, as the show progressed and as we grew and changed over from the XJ talk show to the Jeep talk show, uh, that sort of got, uh, got filtered out a little bit more and our content became a little bit more structured and honed. And, and obviously we got that more professional feel and, and look to the show. Um, and that has certainly, uh, extended over time, uh, through all the episodes. Now, everybody’s got to go through growing pains. Uh, nothing will ever, you know, sort of stay the same forever. And if it does likely, it’s not, it’s not going to, uh, not going to last very long. So if we had maintained what we were doing with the XJ talk show had never changed, never grew or never altered what we did, um, there’s a good chance that we wouldn’t be doing this today. So I think those boys have a little bit of room to grow. Um, and I think they’re just in their fledgling stage and once they figure out their stride, uh, and whatnot, they, they may have a chance, but, um, until that point in time happens, um, it’s going to be more clips like this that I think just aren’t really going to fill the sales. So I’ll just mention really quick, uh, had we started our podcast and went directly to 10,000 listeners or views or whatever. There would have been no reason to change it. It’s like, don’t fix what’s not broke. So, uh, I think that’s one of the reasons why we tried to change here is because we’re looking for that right combination of just what you, the viewer and a listener wants.

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All right. So, uh, of course we have a grok review here. Let’s let grok, uh, review this, uh, I speak Jeep clip. This clip is the sound of a man publicly announcing he’s going to

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the Jeep gods raw while his boys immediately start pulling his pants down in front of the entire community. You drop the Neil got his groove back hot take like a mic declare OVJ is your moment, then get hit with the ultimate family

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block. You’re going to be gone for a whole week in July and the kill shot. This is the camper ordeal all over again. Speaker threes. I believe it’s possible. Very unlikely is the verbal equivalent of patting a horny dog on the head and telling it to go

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itself. Pure unfiltered Jeep podcast gold 10 10 savage family therapy disguised as a accountability porn. Send the full episode before July eats your dreams again. You beautiful delusional dreamer.

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Oh God. She’s so rough. All right. Grog.

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I think Grock needs a boyfriend. That’s all I got to say about that. Yeah. Have you ever dated the, uh, the, uh, the, what are they, what do they call it? Uh, not by, but, uh, uh, not bi-directional, uh, where they have that, that where they get their high, have highs and lows. Uh, anyway, they’re, they’re all bipolar, bipolar. So, uh, I’ll tell you this for anybody that has never dated the boat, not as fun as bi-curious, let me tell you from experience. It’s not as fun as bi-curious, but if you’ve ever, if you’ve never dated a bipolar girl, they are wild to date, but so tiring and some of your

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shit may get set on fire. I’m just going to say that. It’s a very true, very true. Yeah.

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All right, Josh, before we get to our final clip review, uh, how did these podcasts, uh, all three of them actually rank for being the most popular to the least. So, and I’ll say these, all three of these podcasts are very close in the rankings, at least according to the information I got from Grog. All right. So, uh, the number one is the Jeep line podcast currently the most visible and Jeep communities, strong YouTube presence, regular episodes, and good engagement.

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So even if they suck, they don’t,

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Oh yeah. It can be true. I was going to say it really quick. I don’t know if it’s a region regional thing, but I see a lot of Jeep life stickers out here in the Pacific Northwest and maybe it’s just one of those. One of those things. So I don’t know if it’s there, if those stickers are referring to the podcast or not, because I’ve seen them for decades. Good point. Jeep life is a very popular combination of words. Not a bad idea for a podcast, uh, of a podcast. You get that free advertising. Um, all right. So, uh, number two, yeah, exactly. Speak Jeep. It’s a solid second place. Good following. Thanks to the SFJ four by four shop, uh, backing technical content and consistent video episodes, I’ve interacted with those guys, cool, cool guys on social media.

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All right. And the upcoming final clip review of the South Florida Jeep or something. I have no idea. Uh, in the, uh, the final, uh, clip we’re about to review the Jeep cast still very popular and one of the longest running, but slightly behind the top two and recent growth and search, uh, visibility. Now, of course this is all based on mid 2026. Uh, the positions positions can change all the time. This really depends on how the strength on individual episodes. So, uh, but, but great job. Anybody that starts a podcast and

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Edit, edit, edit.

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All right, Josh. So let’s go to our last clip review. Again, this is for the Jeep cast. These guys have been around forever building, wheeling and fixing Jeeps while giving weekly updates from your neighborhood,

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He did not run that segment.

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(Upbeat Music)

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precarious. We didn’t hurt my rig through, you know, mastery of winching. I’m not doing it again. Okay. So, you know, we went on no more mishaps, you know, the rest of the day on that one. So, um, now we know, we know the trail systems. That’s good.

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Um, and now it’s time to take the participants out.

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You know, so our first day we do the menace, this ridge I talked about. Um, oh no, I forgot. Wait. While we were prerunning, okay. I’m an Ash just ridge and I’m going out to Rocky saddle. Let’s have a bad hair day, man. That day. So I come up to this bypass cause there’s a giant log. I turn in the bar and I’m at first. I turn into the bypass and there’s tree branches hanging down with, you know, I mean, they’re evergreens. You can’t see very well. Right. So I’m going kind of slow and I can see some log, you know, branches coming in on the right slightly. So I turn, but I turn now maybe just too soon. I can’t see anything and I hear a loud crash and I drive right through a branch of my a pillar didn’t really do much damage. Um, I get whacked in the face, you know, with all kinds of stuff. I didn’t even know what it was at first and suddenly all these branch, the, the, no, you know, the, the ones that have all the needles on them and stuff clear. And I go, why did these guys not cut this out? Like this thing should have cut back a foot. Wow. Well, I cleared it. All right. It’s back a foot now. Okay. I just drove right through it.

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Man, this is,

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this is bad. My rig. Well, you know, man, you do need to use the, the head shimmers to do it.

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Oh, it was, that was too thick. I would have to get the chainsaw. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. It was pretty serious. I mean, I had, I had part of branch in the Jeep with me. So I don’t know about you, Josh, but getting hit in the face was a pro with a surprise

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Yeah. That was a joke in there somewhere for sure. No, it was right there. Yeah. I got the joke just then.

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It’s, it’s one of these things where I, I’m, I’m sitting here shaking my head because I wheel out here in the Northwest. I know the trail systems out here and in it in, in no way, are you going to turn the bypass and not see a branch that would require a chainsaw to trim it down in the way, the only way you’re not going to see that is by not paying attention. And it sounds like this guy was paying more attention to his bad hair day than his line selection, entire placement. So, I mean, it’s just like, for fuck sake, dude. Oh, I know he’s trying to tell a story and he may be over sensationalizing things a little bit, and maybe he’s trying to save face

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he pulled a dumb ass maneuver and, Oh, I don’t want to drive over a log. So I’m going to take this bypass. And it’s just like, I mean, I don’t know what China trail he was on, what difficulty level or anything like that. Maybe they were scouting. He says, you know, now it’s time to take the participants out and stuff like that. And so maybe this was, you know, an initial dry run day or a shakedown run or something like that. And so they were just scouting or something like that. I don’t know. Again, context wasn’t there, but from face value, there’s a lot here that can be unpacked and, and so, I mean, yeah, we go into line selection. We go, we go into trail selection. You know, what you were doing there to begin with, there’s a tree across the trail. I mean, unless that tree is four and a half feet tall. Um, I know these guys as Jeeps, they can

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go over an effing tree. So why he was taking the bypass to begin with, because there was something across the trail. I don’t, I don’t know. Um, and he was saying, well, we’re not going to do that again. And now we know, well, it’s like, okay, anytime you’re going into it, into an unknown trail system where you’ve got an obstacle ahead of you or stuff, you go out and you walk the obstacle, you know, make yourself familiar, figure out your line selection, figure out, okay, how am I going to tackle this? Which is going to be the best way to go through it? And he just decided to take a bypass and run his Jeep into a tree instead of going over one. So I just, I don’t know, man. I’m just, like I said, I’m just sitting here shaking my head because there’s so much here that, that seems to have gone wrong, not to mention the way he woke. I think he’s got out of bed on the wrong side of the bed that day or something. You know, so I don’t, I don’t know. So these, these guys, I think may need to go back to basics and maybe need to relearn some fundamentals. So I’ll say this, um, the, the story in that clip was interesting. It was very well spoken and it, it held my interest. So yeah, I heard all the same stuff you you’re just talking about, but it was interesting. And I think maybe he was embellishing, uh, for the audience. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that because a podcast should be interesting. And if you have the ability to tell a story, like it’s like you, whenever you, uh, used to do the news for us, you had a very good way of delivering that news and that was a, it was a good thing. So yeah. Uh, so it’s cool. And you know, them being out, but the Pacific Northwest, we need to hook up with them and then go out there and criticize them while you’re in the passenger seat. Yeah. You know, you took that line all wrong there, pal. You know, I would have done this. I would have got it this way. Yeah. I know that would have been fun. And they say, how long is your, how long has your Jeep been down? And you’ll say, oh, that that’s beyond the point. I’m really good at this. I don’t need to have a Jeep. Right. Yeah.

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All right. For those who are a little bit new to the show, my, my Jeep has been down for quite some time. I do know these guys though. I’ve, I’ve, I’ve been out to several Jeep shows out here in my area. Um, they’re, they’re frequent. Uh, they make frequent appearances with a lot of the Jeep shows and stuff. Honestly, my Jeep couldn’t keep up with these guys. Um, they’re, they’re way overbuilt from, yeah. I mean, these guys are on, these guys are on like full width, sixties and forties. And, and I can’t, I mean, I’m on 33 still. So, you know, um, I just, I, I, yeah, I’ve got the armor. Yeah. I’ll drag my Jeep over the same obstacles, but look, I’m, I’m probably going to be pulling cable a lot more often than these guys would be comfortable with and, uh, and they’re going to be taking route selections that, that frankly, I probably wouldn’t, uh, and I would likely be taking bypasses on trails that they would otherwise have no problem with. So I’m giving these guys a little bit of time here in a redwood. They were trying to get over. Exactly. Exactly. But I know, I know these fellows are, are, are, they have a very extensive build, um, that they’re, that they’re driving. Uh, these guys have sunk a lot of money into their rigs. Uh, they, they are very purpose built. Uh, and so it’s, it’s one of those things to where if he was taking a bypass, um, likely the trail conditions had, were pretty bad. Um, or the trail system had eroded to the point where maybe a, um, you know, a, a, a three had turned into a five or something like that, you know, a, uh, a green square had turned into a black diamond, you know, that, that sort of thing, um, difficulty levels change all the time out here in the Pacific Northwest on trails. There’s a ton of trail maintenance that needs to happen every year. That’s why there’s a lot of stewardship with the Jeep clubs and the, uh, and the railroad trail systems out here in the Northwest because our winters, um, are, are relatively harsh. We get a lot of rainfall. There’s a lot of snowpack and as that melts, the erosion stuff, uh, tends to take a pretty good toll on the trails and, and the way that they evolve throughout the year, and there’s a, there’s a couple of, of trails, uh, they come to mind that over the course of 10 years have dramatically changed, um, to the point of where lines that you used to be able to take are just no longer even there anymore. Uh, and so what you used to be able to, there’s this one trail that I used to have what was called the rock of doom right in the middle of it. And those who are familiar with, um, fire break five out here in the Pacific Northwest in the Tillamook, uh, Tillamook burn trail system is, it would be familiar with this, there was this trail is, is, is kind of like a glacial wash, uh, full basketball size boulders, a lot of the Oregon clay, um, that I’ve talked about in episodes past where when it gets wet, turns into snotty peanut butter and, and your line selection becomes very critical. And in the middle of this trail was about a six and a half, seven and a half foot tall giant boulder that was more skinny and oblong and tall than it was wide. And it made you split your line. You were going to go left. You’re going to go right. And, and depending on your, on your vehicle, your, your, your, uh, your track and your, and your wheel base, uh, you really had to be cautious about how you set your, your tires and where you put your, where you put your line. And, uh, and that trail system has completely changed over the last 10, 15 years, just because of natural erosion and the way that the snowpack and the water changes the trail throughout the season. So I could see if these guys were on something that they were used to. And things had dramatically changed. Their line selection was no longer there. And he was forced to take a bypass because the trail was either not there. His line wasn’t there or the conditions that he wrote it so bad, he was forced into a situation to, um, to take a bypass. So I get it. And I’m giving him a little bit of a hard time, but I just figured I’d throw that context out there for those who aren’t familiar with the Northwest. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, solid trail talk as always, Josh, uh, all you guys, all three guys are making me want to plan up a trip to Pacific Northwest. It’s a beautiful area. I think it’d be wonderful. Oh, you’d love it out here. You’d love it out here. Yeah. All right.

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This clip is pure, cheap dad trauma porn. Host gets whacked in the face by a pine branch, the size of a small child. A pillar takes a pounding and suddenly he’s got a whole

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tree riding shotgun, like it’s his new emotional support branch. He preruns Manastash Ridge, forgets the segment, then roasts the trail gods for not trimming it back a foot while admitting he just drove through it like a

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battering ram. The hedge trimmer line too thick needed the chainsaw. That’s the sound of a man whose rig got violated and he’s still trying to sound tough about it. 10 out of unfiltered off-road chaos. Send the full episode so I can hear how many more branches tried to fuck his Jeep that day.

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So Grock likes it.

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I think Grock and I are a little bit on the same page on this one, but yeah, no, that’s a good one. Oh, we’re

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start getting

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your, uh, fuck you, you fucking fuck and unhinged Grock are going to be get, uh, get to know, be known as a Jeep talk show, the podcast with a bad attitude.

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Well, we’re certainly earning our explicit rating. That’s for sure. Oh yes. I mean, you know, you might as well use it. We’ve been doing explicit or having explicit for the, the length of the, the duration, the 16th year of a Jeep talk talk show. All right. So, uh, you guys and you, Josh, which podcast would you listen to? These are the top Jeep podcast. Did we miss the one you really like and we should review. Let us know in the comments are better yet. Go to jeep talk show.com slash voicemail, like Josh has done and leave your video comment and we’ll use it on the show.

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All right, Josh, I don’t know if you, if you heard, already heard this new or not, but hopefully some of our viewers hasn’t, and this will be news to them or they’re a good reminder. Um, in the Jeep news this week, Stellantis just shook things up, uh, at the top. They’ve named Brandon. Yeah. And I think it’s the, I think it’s got a little accent mark over the E. So I think it’s coat, Kote, coat, Kote, uh, Brandon, Kote, uh, as the new CEO Jeep brand effective August 3rd, he’s stepping in after Bob Roddendorf. I always called him Bob bro, uh, who is taking medical leave. Kote is a long time industry veteran with a, and we’ll report to Tim and I think it’s kutenis, kutenis. Uh, and if you don’t know who Tim is, uh, Tim is a long time Stellantis executive formerly of Chrysler FCA, which means a lot more to me than Stellantis, um, who is currently head of America brands, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, all the important ones. Well, uh, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, uh, for Stellantis North America. Head of North American marketing and retail strategy.

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You seem to, you seem to know the Tim name. I didn’t know about the, I didn’t know about Tim that was currently working at Stellantis.

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Well, you know, when, uh, when FCA, when that whole, uh, transition took over from, um, uh, Jeep’s previous owner and, and went through the FCA route. Yeah. And, uh, it’s, there was a lot of, we were following a lot of what was happening in, uh, with the executives and stuff. I’ve seen these names in, in years past and, and sort of watching a lot of the shakeup in the C suite, um, with Stellantis and, and formerly FCA, um, just these names sort of ring a bell. Now, do I know them on a first name basis? Do I know their history? No, but it’s good to see Tim because he’s got the history he’s known. He’s seen, he’s been with Jeep for the last couple few owners and, and I think it’s a good move for them. Um, one, because he’s familiar with the brand, he knows the heritage and he’s been around long enough, um, in the automotive community, um, that I think that he’s going to be doing the brand a favor now, is this going to be a temporary posting? I don’t know medical leave. I wasn’t actually, um, privy to the reason for the medical leave. So I don’t know if this is something very serious or if it’s just, well, he’s got a colonoscopy this week and it might take a little while to recover. Um, and so we’re going to step Tim in for a little bit and see how he does. So I, this is going to be a temporary posting. It’s not Tim that’s coming into the position. It’s Brandon, Koti, Brandon, he’s going to be reporting to Tim. Also too, not in the story that I have here.

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Not in the story I have here, but, uh, Bob, I did read that Bob is going on medical leave, but he will return to another, uh, management style position, not the one that Brandon is going to. Oh, okay. So it doesn’t sound like it’s a thing. Okay. So what did I believe?

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Right? Yeah. Well, that, that’s always good news unto itself. Um, now is this going to be a drastic shakeup for the brand? I don’t think so. I think it’s going to be a bit of a nothing burger. Um, I think it’s going to be business as usual. Uh, we may see some changes in marketing, which might be, um, a little bit of a, of a breath of fresh air. I think Jeep has gotten a little bit stale in the last couple of years, as far as their marketing goes. Um, I told, I’ve said, uh, what was a couple months ago, uh, how I think they missed the mark when it came to capitalizing on America to 50. Uh, and so maybe this might be, um, the shot on the arm that Jeep needs as far as their marketing and advertising goes. So who knows? Maybe we see in the first quarter of 20, 27, uh, an improvement in sales, uh, which is, is always a good thing when it comes to an automaker. But, um, the first quarter historically is a tough one for automakers. So this might be one of those tales of the tape to see, is this going to be a good move, um, that should become apparent as we roll into about March, I think of 20, 27. So Josh, I think you’ll agree with this. I think Jeep should reach out to me and you. About ideas for advertisements. Like for example, Jeep talks a million dollar idea for the 250th anniversary of the United States being the United States. I think they should have given away 250 rounds of freedom seeds, uh, with every Jeep purchase five, five, six, or two 23. Yeah.

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You get your choice. You get your choice. Yeah. You can have it your way, which also means you could celebrate the fourth of July shooting your gun in the air.

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No, don’t do that.

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No, no, don’t do that. My, my stepson was up, uh, sealing up some things on the roof for me the other day, and he found it looked like a three 80, uh, round bullet that was stuck in one of the shingles. Now remind, remind you, I am in Texas. Wow. Yeah. I’ve never seen a bullet on our roof before.

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That’s well, I wouldn’t say you’re exactly up on the roof all that often, but that being said, I mean, a three 80 round in the roof, was it flattened out, was it just sitting there? Was it embedded? Was there a hole? It looks like you could reuse it. It looks like you could use it as a reload. It’s in perfect condition. Of course, you know, when they go up, they’re going fast, but when they come down, they’re coming at terminal velocity. So I think that it just didn’t have enough. I think it’s around a hundred miles an hour. The speed come down. Yeah. Dang

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and tumbling too. So sure. Yeah, that’s, that’s interesting. Huh? All right. Well, anyway, we went down a rabbit hole, but before we continue on that, let’s get back to this news story. So when this announcement came out and I was reading it, I was really hoping I was going to see Jim Morrison’s name.

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Oh, that would have been nice. I’d like to see Jim Morrison come back. He was such a good fit for Jeep. He was a good fit for Jeep. Such a good fit for Jeep. And, and he really knew what he was doing. Uh, the Jim Morrison era of Jeep is I think going to go down in history as, as one of their better in modern times. Uh, and so it would be, it would be nice to see Jim come back. Um, it would certainly do the brand a big favor, uh, whether or not they could afford him at this point. I don’t know. So, uh, if you don’t remember Jim Morrison, he was the head of Jeep brand North America, also referred to as senior vice president and head of Jeep brand North America. He was in that position from 2019 through 2023, but that was only when he was in that position, I believe, uh, in total, he was at Jeep for 19 years. Uh, the only negative thing I can say about Jim is he’s a Canadian. Um, I’m joking.

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Wow. So he led Jeep North America’s operations, including sales, marketing, and product strategy, uh, and dealer relations. He oversaw the launch of several key models, Wrangler, grand Cherokee, et cetera, during major growth period for the brand. Uh, he was very, a very visible face of Jeep known as a passionate Jeep enthusiast who frequently attended events, went wheeling and communicated directly with the Jeep community. And I probably can share this now since a Jeep is not, I mean, uh, this Jim is not, see, I called him Jeep because he’s so in, uh, in, in, in, in, entrenched with Jeep, uh, I can probably say this now. Jim is a jeeper. Yeah. Oh wow. So this is pretty cool. I forget who it was. It told me this, but Jim would take different Jeeps home with him so he could try them out and drive around with them. And because he was able to. So, and then he would contact, uh, somebody that lives close to a off-road, uh, park there in Michigan and say, call them up and say, Hey, I need to take this Jeep off-road. So not only did he borrow a Jeep from Jeep and bring it home to drive and say, I want to take this off road.

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So that’s who I like being a stranger. Yes, no, he was a jeeper and he was an off-road enthusiast. And that’s the kind of person that Jeep needs in the C-suite in those upper echelons of the executive levels, uh, of Jeeps upper management. They need men like Jim Morrison, who know the brand, who know the vehicles and know what they’re designed for and know how the end user wants to use them. And we’ve seen a bit of a departure from that. We’ve seen a little bit of a separation from, from that kind of involvement with the brand from the people who are making the brand. Uh, and it’s, is it, has it been a disservice to a certain extent? Yes. Uh, that’s why I would love to see Jim come back because I think it would be so good for the brand to have that level of not only involvement, but appreciation, uh, for the brand and, and just knowledgeable about what the brand means for the end user. Yeah. All right. So, uh, we’ll wrap this thing up with a big question for us Jeepers. Will the new leadership bring back more exciting models, fix the current lineup issues, maybe, uh, have a fire extinguisher built in, uh, to, to the, to the Jeeps or keep pushing the electrification route. Uh, we’ll be watching

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me too. All right, buddy. I’ll see you in a minute. All right.

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All right, Josh, do you know that you could watch or listen to the Jeep talk show during your drive to work on Fridays? I’m serious.

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From eight. Yeah, I know about watching while you drive. I know that’s that was the trick question. So I said eight, no, from

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a.m. Central time to 9 a.m. Central time. That’s every fucking Friday. Try it this week on YouTube live. It’s very easy to tune in. Just go to jeep talk show dot com slash live. You can do it from your phone while you’re driving to work, Josh. The hard part is remembering whenever the shows on being broadcasted live to set an alarm on your phone right now. Not you, Josh, you’re driving, but you know, when you get to a place where you can set the alarm, I was going to say 6 a.m. Central time to 9 a.m. I’m up at six.

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Let’s see. 6 a.m. Central time. Christ. That’s four o’clock in the morning for me, Tony. I’m not up that early. You can sit in the car. You could get ready, have a cup of coffee and get ready to leave for work. You know, come get fully awake from four to what do you leave about eight o’clock? I was.

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No, I’m at the house by by 6 30 at the very latest. So but I was going to say, yeah, six o’clock my time I was if I’m on the road at six o’clock with traffic, I should not be watching video while I’m shipping coffee, trying to make yourself control. You can just listen.

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No,

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I must have my fix. Dang it.

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So check it out. And I think you’ll be glad that you have that. And it’s you know, you could always just watch the show whenever you watch the show. I think it would just be fun to suck in some new viewers because they’re going, holy crap, there’s a Jeep show on live every Friday. This is great. I got something to do while I’m driving. Well, not only that, I think would make it a lot more interesting if if more people would jump in on leaving us video voicemails. We can incorporate those into the Friday live stream. And now that now we’re talking about a whole nother level of entertainment right there. Oh, and I’m just saying we have an exclusive radio.

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Yeah, and I’m just saying we do have an exclusive radio.

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And I do know how to pixelate out things. So it would just be this is good podcasting.

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All right. That’s our Jeep podcast roast session for today. Which other podcast should we review next? Drop your suggestions and comments or at Jeep talk show dot com slash contact. If you enjoy the show, become a patron. You know how many people are.

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Go ahead. People are going to actually suggest that we start we start reviewing Joe Rogan’s show. You guys should review Joe Rogan. Maybe he’ll come but you know, have a have a comment and come back on the show and you guys can have him on. That would be actually really, really cool. It would be. So if you enjoy the show, become a patron supporter at Jeep talk show dot com slash contact for exclusive

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Please leave a five star review, like subscribe and share. You know that same old bullshit. They always tell you to do on a YouTube video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to do it too. So it really helps grow the show or show the grow. Oh, that could be something completely different. Oh good. Good voicemail. Show the grow. Thanks for riding along and we’ll see you on the next trail. Josh. Thanks for making time for us each and every

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make us believe you do.

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I’m just driving around in circles around the Portland

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

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(Upbeat Music) And you guys thought we forgot. Nope, here is this week’s,

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you, you

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This one, Tony, is an interesting one. I kind of had it in the back of my mind that maybe it wouldn’t happen, that maybe people had gotten some common sense together and had realized that no, this is probably a bad idea. We shouldn’t do this. You know, after you stick your hand on the stove, you kind of figured out really quickly, hey, you’re not gonna do that again, are you? So there’s been a couple of times over the years that I’ve seen some modifications, the Jeeps out here in the Pacific Northwest that have left me scratching my head. And this one, Tony, ah,

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almighty, this one takes the cake. And this one definitely has risen up to the spot where it deserves its own place in this week’s.

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you, you

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Like I said, it was only a matter of time before I figured I would see something like this. Sure enough, somebody’s gone up and done it. Tony, this week I saw somebody driving a lowered Jeep gladiator, somebody lowered a gladiator.

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okay, look, the gladiator unto itself, stock form definitely leaves a little something to be desired as far as appearance sake goes. We’re all all familiar, you know, how the gladiator looks so much better when it’s been massaged by the aftermarket a little bit. It’s got a little bit of a lift, little bit of altitude, a little bit of attitude, the right wheels and tires really, really makes the gladiator wake up as far as appearance goes. The stock one, not so much. Somebody has gone up and decided, and I don’t know how they did it, whether it was fat, and I wasn’t about to go chase them down and have a discussion with them because that probably would have ended up leading to fists. But it was one of these things where maybe it was custom fabricated. I can’t believe there’s any aftermarket out there that’s supporting this idea. But somebody had a lowered gladiator. It was on like 22s with the rubber band tires on it. No, you know, no, no, no terrain.

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There was no MT anywhere in this vocabulary at all. The vernacular of off-roading was nowhere in existence in this person’s world. So, and it wasn’t like, you know, frame rails on the ground. It didn’t have that mini truck kind of look to it. It was like, bro dozer, like sub bro dozer. It was just weird. It had an odd look to it. It did not look right. It did not look normal. And I can only imagine how it handled. But for somebody to take the idea that, hey, let’s take this four-wheel drive truck from a brand who is known for its off-road prowess and lower it to the ground and slap some

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street tires on it. What the

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are you thinking? Come on, Jeep gladiators and absolutely no world whatsoever should be lowered. Let alone be having rubber band tires on them and stuff like that. It’s not for me, okay? There are other vehicles out there. There are other trucks. There are other rigs that yes, you could go ahead and lower it. Take a Silverado 3500, I’d give a

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Big old fat dually. Yeah, slam it on the ground. Really trick it out. There’s a time, place and manner for that sort of stuff. And it works with some rigs. But the Jeep gladiator is not that rig. We do not lower Jeeps people. Okay, maybe way back in the day, seeing something like an old J10 or something that was tubbed out or something. Somebody did a little street truck action to it. Little rat rod action. I can get down with something like that. Sure. A little bit of hot rod action, some meats in the back. Sure, why not? But to have a brand new gladiator and have it chopped up in such a way that you have it lowered to the ground. No, man, no. It didn’t look right. It didn’t look proper. And whoever’s done it, you should be ashamed of yourself. So for you out there, if you’re within the sound of my voice, or you know who this person is, tell them,

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you, you

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For me. (Laughing)