Episode 1033 – A Jeep Watch?
Man Steals $1M in Jeeps
But were they proper Jeeps? I think they must have been since they were stolen to sell in Mexico to the drug cartel. However, I can see them like a Grand Cherokee here and there to impress the ladies!
A Houston man stole 25 Jeeps worth one million dollars. He did this by recruiting people via Instagram to RENT a Jeep and then had them drive it to Mexico to sell.
Kenneth Westbrook, a millionaire by the age of 29, was arrested by the FBI. If convicted he may receive 20 years in jail and $250,000 in fines.
I’m not great at math, but that’s free room and board for 20 years, and $750k in profit! Oh and all the sex you don’t want.
Jeep Watch, it’s about time!
Jeep has teamed up with Marathon Watch to create four watches. I have to admit, I’ve always loved watches, but unless it’s a Timex or a Casio I really don’t know much about them.
Isn’t Marathon a gasoline company?
I understand brand loyalty. I only buy Levi’s jeans and it’s always Coke and not Pepsi. I even like having Coke-branded stuff, not so much now but in the past.
I can’t say I’m excited about having a Jeep-branded watch, t-shirt, or hat.
I remember those stickers you could get, and probably still can, that say the model of your Jeep on the side (rocker area) or Jeep. I don’t see the point, of course, I do see the point of a huge Jeep Talk Show sticker on the side, front.
I’ll know we’ve made it when someone posts a picture of a JTS tattoo on social media!
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I wasn’t planning on talking about this now, but I’ll release a little bit of what we have planned with JeeTops. JeeTops and I want you, the Jeep Talk Show listener, to have a set of JeeTops!
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What time of day? Ice tea during the day, bourbon at night.
You ever mix them? Can you mix alcohol and tea? I mean, you can. There’s a long aisle on ice tea, right? I’ve had, well, those are killer. That’s got like four or five different shots of alcohol in it. You know, I drink them at the same time. I may have a glass of tea sitting there and a glass of bourbon, but I’ve never mixed the two. Why would you work? You don’t want to ruin a good bourbon. Well, that was, it’s good. You know, I’m a non-drinker, so I ask these questions genuinely. But when you have alcohol, especially the hard liquor, I guess is what you call it, there’s very little in the little jar or the little, what do you call it? Is it shots or something? Okay. So I know people are just rolling their eyes and going, Oh, what a dumbass. But it’s, it’s very little. It’s not something you, I mean, it’s a sipper type thing, right? Unless you’re trying to forget your wife or something. Well, so that’s the key, right? So what are you drinking? You’re going to have a Jack and Coke. I’m not probably going to drink Jack straight up. People do, but that’s pretty harsh. But you give me a good bourbon and put an ice cube in there. Oh yeah. Isn’t, isn’t that genuinely, generally the problem with alcohol is that it doesn’t taste very good. It’s more that you’re going more for the effect or maybe the social atmosphere by drinking.
You know, you could argue that, right? Is it an acquired taste? Do you like it after a while? It’s an acquired taste. So there’s, there’s a couple triggers. One is first time you sip it, you’re like, Oh my God, that’s terrible. And then after a while you’re like, that’s pretty good actually. And so it’s an acquired taste for sure.
And then you start like, let’s say I go out and I have a nice McAllen 18 year old, 18 year old scotch and I’ve got some good memories from sitting around with buddies drinking that. So when I drink it, it’s like one of your favorite song comes back on the radio. You’re skipping that and it’s just a memory start flowing back in. And so yeah, I mean, if you’re pounding alcohol to get drunk, that’s one thing. But if you’re, if you’re just doing it to sip and enjoy it, I mean, it’s kind of like some people like to smoke a good cigar. Other people don’t want to have anything to do with the smell, a taste of a good bourbon, the taste of a good scotch. You acquire a taste. You’ve talked me into it. I’m still not going to drink. All right. Oh, it’s a nice episode. A Jeep watch. Well, you’re sure. Why not? I mean, there’s all kinds of companies that put the, put the Jeep brand on the objects and, and some of them get cease and desist letters. What’d they do? I don’t think that’ll be the case for this one in our Jeep. Gladiator update. I can see clearly now. Do you have any clue what I’m talking about? No, instantcar, no, sure. Talk about maybe anytime. You know what it is. So wrap it in don’t forget theB food. Oh! This. Okay. Yeah.
We’re going to talk a little bit about why you should challenge yourself with your Jeep and maybe do a little things outside your comfort zone.
Like have a nice stiff drink. Is that what you’re saying?
Not at the same time. All right. Speaking of don’t do things while you’re drunk, man steals $1 million in jeeps. And I’m thinking that when you’re driving multiple jeeps, you should be easily caught because you know, you drive one Jeep up a little, about 20 feet and you run back to the other Jeep and drive it 40 feet and then run back, you know, and there’s just so many Jeeps that you can steal over a period of time. So I’m assuming he didn’t steal them this way. Well, you know, but you watch these guys with it. So you got a $80,000 tow vehicle, a $10,000 really nice trailer and your hundred thousand dollar built Jeep sitting on the back of it. And you park in a parking lot. If somebody jumps into that, there’s, there’s $200,000. Bam. That’s just opportunity there. Especially if it’s already on the trailer. Um, yeah. Need a, need a trailer hook or something. Uh, yeah. Well, so it wasn’t, you didn’t go to EGS this year, but last year you did. Uh, and, uh, you drove out there with, in your pickup and had your, your Jeep on the trailer, were you, and you’ve done this more than once. Were you at all concerned about the, your, your tow rig and your, your trailer? I mean, uh, I would assume that the trailer was locked on there in some way that where it wouldn’t be stolen.
It’s a made it. Well, it was my maiden voyage and it’s a 2003 GMC diesel pickup truck. That’s a friend of mine’s, but it’s got over 300,000 miles and I’d never pulled a trailer loaded like that through mountains before. So when I went through Denver and snow and ice on my way there, yeah, I about shipped myself a couple of times, but now you’re talking about security. Once I got parked in the parking lot, that trailer weighs so much. I suppose you could unhook it and hook a log chain onto it and drag it sideways and try to steal my trailer. Um, you know, there are locks that you can put on your trailer to secure it. I, I haven’t done that. I suppose if I was in a metropolitan area more, but when you’re out, I mean, most people are very respectful when we’re out at trail locations. That makes sense. But, but I, yeah, I mean, I, you lock the truck down, you know, your drop bar hitch, you can put a lock in there, right? If you’re worried about your receiver hitch, you can put a lock on the little tab that holds your, uh, the, the, the trailer on the ball. So there’s things you can do to lock it on if you are concerned about that. But so did I understand you correctly that that was not your pickup? You were borrowing that truck. No, a friend of mine was trading it in and they gave him, they weren’t going to give him anything on his trailer.
And so I got a great deal on it and he’s had good luck with it, but that was the longest trip I’ve just bought the truck. 300,000 miles. I mean, I know it’s a diesel, but that’s, that’s how far did you drive? How many miles, how many hours?
I don’t know. It was like 20 hours out and 20 hours back. So, and no problems, no problems with the truck at all, right? Or the trailer?
Not at all. Not at all. I was worried about tires. So I put new tires on the trailer before I went. I mean, it’s all those preventative things, right? I changed the oil, had to have the truck gone through before I left too, but, but it was still my maiden voyage and learning to drive in the mountains with the trailer. It’s always fun.
You made it and you weren’t a bundle of nerves when you got there or if you were, you hit it well.
So that’s why the bourbon, the bourbon. Exactly. So anyway, uh, the, the, this man steals, allegedly stole $1 million in jeeps, but I asked, were they the proper jeeps? I mean, I don’t know. Uh, I think they must have been since they were stolen to sell in Mexico to the drug cartel. Although I can see, uh, them liking a grand Cherokee here and there to impress the ladies.
Yeah. But you, so you, let’s say they targeted five, uh, three 90 twos. I mean, you’re bumping a hundred thousand dollars on each one of them. Right? Yeah. Very true. Uh, that would be five jeeps would get you halfway there. Five hundred thousand. Yeah. So this is, I don’t really understand this. And by the way, this was a Houston man. So local to be here at studio way. Uh, a Houston man stole 25 jeeps worth $1 million. He did this by recruiting people via Instagram to rent a Jeep in his name and then had them drive it to Mexico to sell.
I mean, how do you encourage number one? How do you get somebody on Instagram to say, Oh, that sounds a great idea. Let me, let me try that out. I mean, I know there’s money involved, but can you imagine, I mean, that, that sounds like a great sting operation for the Houston police department or FBI.
I don’t know. The, I mean, the only thing more suspicious would have been, if it would have been on only fans or something. Why would you do that on Instagram? I mean, geez. Well, he made a million dollars. So Kenneth Westbrook, a millionaire by the age of 29. Yeah. Was arrested by the FBI. And if convicted, he may receive 20 years in jail and $250 in fines.
I see, I see this as an overall win.
Cause you get free room, free room and board.
And then 20 years later, you come out with $750,000 and you’re clear in 750. And if you get somebody to invest it for you,
well, you have a couple of million by the time you come out. Better than a pension program at work. Oh, and don’t forget in prison, you get all the sex you don’t want.
This is, this is amazing. So my father-in-law recently, he and my mother-in-law made a trip over to Mexico to visit some family members, but they did so because he had to turn in this little, this little document, this little doo dad that they make you have to cross the border with a vehicle because they don’t, the Mexican officials don’t want, when I say don’t want, I think it’s an agreement with the U S they, they don’t want you bringing your, your vehicle into Mexico and selling it. So they make you fill out this thing. It’s like 500 bucks. And if you don’t leave the country with that same vehicle and turn in your little little piece of paper or whatever it is, it’s going to cost you 500 bucks. So they, they literally, and I think they just got back this weekend. They literally went over there for a trip simply to return that, that little piece of paper. It’s good for six months.
So, uh, I mean, and I think I’ve kind of answered this in my head anyway, that if you’re stealing a million dollars worth of Jeeps, uh, you’ve probably got some money so you can probably bribe some people and that’s, and that’s how you get these vehicles in the country. Um, but, uh, of course I don’t know where they’re taking them over. Hey, maybe it’s, they got Jeeps because they can, they don’t have to go through the standard places. Maybe they can make their own way into Mexico. Yeah. I mean, the walls are not completed yet. So who knows?
But so my dad used to, my dad, when he was in his late eighties would call me and tell me that, Hey, I’m going on a drug run to Mexico, uh, this weekend. And I’m like, dad, we don’t know. Is your dad Clint Eastwood? Cause I think I’ve seen this movie, the mule.
Well, that’s what I was picturing, right? Dad’s like, I’m doing a drug run. No, he’s going down there to buy, uh, the antacid medicine. That’s like $2 a pill here. Oh, I like 50 cents a pill. That’s funny. So he’d get his scripts filled down there and then, but then he got to his neighbors and his friends, or if you’re going to Mexico, buy this for me. So he literally was bringing back like four or five people’s prescriptions from, from Laredo, uh, Nueve Laredo. When he was going across, was this legal? Was it legal to do this?
For him, it would have been for, for the other people’s prescriptions. I kind of doubt it. That’s what I’m thinking. My father is deceased in the statute of limitations up. So I’m, I’m, I had awareness, but I had no involvement. There you go.
That’s funny.
Yeah. I haven’t seen that movie yet, but I’ve seen part of it where cleanest woods driving the driving the truck back and forth and getting pissed off. Good movie. Good movie.
Oh, it’s so funny. Yeah. So, uh, the, uh, in, you know, that’s a shame. Uh, I still think this is going to really wind people up. I still think that, uh, we ought to go and take over Mexico because they’re, they’re at the same damn latitudes we are. And there’s no reason for that country to be run the way it’s being run. Uh, we just need to make it another state. Uh, and then the same thing about us and some, that’s okay. We’re bigger.
We will ask the questions. So, uh, but, uh, but yeah, I mean, my God, this is, this is a hell of a deal. I can’t imagine. I would like to see what the conversations were between the mules, if you will, on Instagram, Hey, you know, you want to make a thousand dollars?
So, so yeah, I mean, he recruited people on Instagram to rent a Jeep and had them drive it into Mexico and then he sold it when it was in Mexico. It’s really rented in his name too, which I think is, is, is kind of funny. I mean, it’s good for, for the standpoint of you don’t want the people, uh, to expose their names on this, this scheme. So he probably had to do it under his name, but at some point, how are you going to, how are you not going to be arrested?
So he rented them like go to Hertz or go to national or Avis or someplace, rent a Jeep, and then he gave it to those people, which they’re supposed to be authorized drivers, according to the agreement on the Lee on the rental. And then he had them drive it into Mexico, leave it. And then I guess they got to ride back. But how does. Well, there, there, there are buses. You can get on a bus in Mexico and come back to the States. Um, so, uh, I, you know, I don’t know though, but I would be very curious about a lot of these things, but I think our problem is, is that we do things legally and we think about, well, how would you get through this thing? And how would you get around this? Well, it’s simple. You have a fake ID and the ID is in this, this guy’s name, the, uh, what was it Kenneth Westbrook and they use that to rent the vehicle and then they drive it to Mexico and then they, you know, give it to the cartel or I don’t think they, they park it on the side of the road and put a for sale sign. I think there’s already a deal that’s been made. So they go and deliver the vehicle and then they try to get out of Mexico alive. I guess.
That would be wouldn’t you be scared as hell? Like, Hey, drug cartel, huh? Mooi Bwin Bueno or whatever. Here’s your vehicle. Hope it’s all right. We got to pay me money. Oh, or shoot me, whichever. Yeah. I don’t think I’d want them paying me the money. I don’t think this way. Right. I, I would be, yes, I would be scared to death.
And you know, I just realized this, uh, Westbrook, uh, doesn’t sound like a Mexican name, so I wonder how he got the connection with the cartel.
And, uh, I mean, you don’t have to be Mexican to be here. Well, okay. It’s like, but speaking the language and maybe knowing some folks over in Mexico would help, I would think so. I don’t know. We need to work through this and, uh, get the Jeep talk show, making some, uh, some big money, but I want to use your name, chip.
Great. Yeah. Yeah. I love. Oh, just text me the mail, Tony. Don’t wait for it to come. How’s it go? Do me a solid chip. Let me use your name to do some illegal activity. And then don’t react and then don’t roll on me. The only other besides the Mexican drug cartel would be like getting involved with the Russian mafia. I don’t know. Thank you. I don’t know. There’s not, it’s not enough money.
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All right, chip. It’s now time to talk about watches, uh, specifically a Jeep watch. So does that tantalize your curiosity when you think of Jeep watch? I see what you did there. It’s time to talk about watches. Who?
I like watches. I mean, I’m chart might don’t have mine on right now, but I’ve got a Garmin, uh, GPS watch that I can use. I love it. It’s a smart one. How does that work? I mean, does it, uh, I’m sure there’s places that you can’t get a GPS signal.
I don’t know. It works like my phone. It’s linked to my phone and it’s linked to my car. Okay. So it’s not, it’s not a direct GPS receiver in the watch.
And I think it is. It’s because I could, I could just go for a walk or run or hike with the watch. And it’s going to record where I was and how far I went. Well, so I’m thinking that, uh, there’s a certain situation, some places, tunnels, office buildings, perhaps multi-level office buildings where you can’t get a GPS signal. Right. And I haven’t looked at how it can link into my end, my inreach. I, I do that through my phone and through my Garmin, but yeah, I don’t know. I, I’m not worried about it. It’s just, I like it because when I’m driving it, it’ll buzz and I can see what the text messages without having to go look at my phone. It’s hands-free stuff. It’s convenient. So, but this watch looks good. This watch looks pretty cool. Yeah. Have you ever heard of marathon? Uh, I don’t know what a marathon watch is. I mean, it’s, I mean, I know what a marathon is running and stuff. And certainly a watch could be part of that, but, but, but Jeep has teamed up with marathon watch to create four watches and I don’t see that they can make a profit if they’re just selling four watches, see what it did there. Oh, four models. See, that makes a lot more sense to me. Uh, and I have to admit, I have always loved watches, watches and flashlights or bright lights. Those are my two, my two go-tos for things that are just so, uh, I don’t know, there’s just something about it. Uh, but, uh, unless it’s a Timex or a Casio, I really don’t know much about them. I mean, I’ve heard of the Rolexes, but there’s, I have, I have no reason or desire to have a Rolex. Uh, and, uh, um, yeah, I don’t know. And marathon, isn’t that a gasoline company?
It was, there is. Yeah. They had Grog, right? They had the, uh, the BC comics as they’re back in the seventies. Really? When you said Grog earlier, I didn’t make the connection. When you see BC comics, it’s like the caveman, uh, person, right? That does that. Those are their mascots back in the seventies. I’ve got Christmas ornaments and all kinds of stuff from that. Oh, that’s neat. So I don’t think we have any marathon, uh, uh, oil gas stations or whatever, uh, here, are they still in business?
They are. It’s kind of like all the other ones where they change names and bounce around. Right. Yeah. I drive by marathon and I saw somebody putting up an old amico sign now just they switched it back over from whatever it was Chevron back to amico. So they flip around whatever they want to be called corporately or whatever the contract says, I was not familiar with marathon watch company either, but they make some higher end watches and then they make some more reasonable ones. So do you mind a high end watch? Is that something that you look for? I mean, I would imagine the garment is fairly pricey at like over 300.
This one. Oh, the Garmin watch. Yeah. Well, yeah. So the Garmin watch was right at three two 80, something like that. But, um, I had, I had asked for one to be donated to a, uh, fundraiser for a Jeep show locally and a friend of mine bought it and then he ordered a watch band from Amazon and they ended up sending them a new watch by accident. Amazon sent him this watch and he tried to figure out how to return it. And they’re like, well, we just throw it in a box in the van and it’s like used. They’re not, that’s happened to me several times, but not on any high end thing. Uh, but, uh, like I, here was the $280 watch and he goes, let’s get, he gave, I think on the oxilon auction at the fundraiser, he paid 120 bucks. So he got a deal on his original watch. He said, look, you give me 60 bucks. That’s then he ends up paying 60 for his watch and I get a watch for 60 bucks. So it was a deal I couldn’t pass up. Oh, that is nice. I think I ordered some led, um, uh, you know, those spotlights, but, but led. And, uh, I just ordered one, they were like 20, 25 bucks or something. This is several years ago. And, and they sent me a box of those damn things. I mean, I had like six or eight of them and I contacted them back and they said, Hey, keep it. So whoever picks this stuff. And then if you do return it, I guess it just goes in this big crate on a pallet. And then at the end of the year, they drag those out and sell the pallet for 50 bucks. I’d love to buy one of those pallets. I haven’t seen a YouTube about the pallet buys in a while. There’s a lot of junk in there as you’d well imagine. Oh yeah. But I mean, how many do you need? But yeah, so yeah, but that’d be a lot of fun. I’d like to do that, but I think it’s actually more pricey than I guess it decided depends on the size of the pallet. The one I’ve always seen on YouTube are really big boxes and, uh, there are a few hundred dollars, but I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s neat from the standpoint of, uh, what can you, if you know what you’ve, uh, if you got a good idea on the price of things, you, you can resell them on eBay. Uh, hell, I guess you could do Facebook marketplace. If you could stand people come into your house.
Yep.
All those options, but I think there’s watches intriguing.
Um, you’re doing the Larry, you’re going to say we were talking about watches here. I was looking at the prices of you asked, do I, what, what I wear a high end watch and the Garmin, Garmin is expensive. I have bought, I did buy a thousand dollar watch one time. Backway I hit a bonus. I had an extra money that I wasn’t counting on. It was before I got into Jeep. So I wasn’t saving for Jeep. That’s great.
And I thought, okay, so time is money. Every time I look at an expensive watch, I’m going to think time is money. Make sure you use it wisely. And I bought this really expensive watch. And then about two weeks later, I was repairing the head gasket on an old truck I had, and I was wearing the thousand dollar watch and I got the, the sealant for the head gasket all over the watch band. So the watch set up like a brick. Never was right after that. And I’m like, well, that was stupid. So I don’t know. I mean, but well, that’s a good reason for an inexpensive watch. If you’re going to wear it when you’re working on stuff, but you used to work. What? Yeah. You weren’t used to that. You were just used to you having the watch and working on stuff and uh, you did it with a thousand dollar watch. Did that bother you a lot with that, uh, ruining that thousand dollar watch?
Well, the watch itself wasn’t ruined, but then I set it off to get worked on. And then when you buy the expensive watches, it’s like buying a Porsche. You need to take it to the Porsche mechanic kind of thing. Yeah. So not every watch guy can work on it. So you had to send it into their authorized. And I was like, this is a bunch of crap. And so it’s in my dresser. I am. Well, you still got it. Uh, you do. Yeah. I do. You have to throw it up on the eBay. You know, you know what? This reminds me talking about watches. This is actually something related to watches. I bought a Casio digital watch. I think it was 1982.
Uh, and the battery has, I mean, I replaced the battery. Times, but I haven’t replaced it recently. Um, but it’s, as far as I know, it’s still operational. I was curious about, uh, the, uh, if these were available on eBay, they are. And they are going for around $1,500.
Vintage watches. There’s a lot of guys that collect watches, but it’s a Casio. It’s a vintage Casio watch. I mean, I know everything, everything goes up in price. Usually as it gets older, except us, Jeff, we don’t get, we don’t go up in price.
It’s like a fine wine. We improve with age.
But I was really surprised by that because it’s a neat little watch. I like it. And I mean, that watch is older than my, uh, my oldest, uh, child. Uh, cause he wasn’t born until 86 and it was really cool. I keep up with those watches. I like watches. I just up until recently, I haven’t, uh, I used to watch. I mean, when I was actually doing a programming, doing coding, uh, and it, I didn’t like wearing a watch because I had my hands on the keyboard all day long and the band would bother me on my wrist. So I would wind up taking the watch off. And nowadays, uh, with cell phones, I mean, that, I mean, it’s got a time piece that’s, that’s clued into the internet. It’s always a correct time. So, uh, having a watch nowadays is more of to monitor your steps, your blood pressure, your heartbeat, uh, all these other little things that it does. Oh, and also too, the most important thing is alert. You, when you have a, I do social media message.
So I can say, you know, I can understand brand loyalty and this is, it goes back to actually having the word Jeep on the watch, which you think you would have to have on a Jeep watch. So I understand brand loyalty, but, uh, and I only buy Levi’s jeans and I’ve always just bought Coke and not Pepsi. I’m insulted if they say, uh, we don’t have Coke. How about Pepsi? No, damn it. I don’t want Pepsi. If I had wanted Pepsi, I would have said Pepsi. I, they don’t care. And I quit wearing Levi’s when they went on their gun band thing. So I’m wearing Wranglers. That’s not a bad idea. I remember that happening. I’d forgotten about that. And, uh, that’s, that’s a silly, but, uh, yeah, that brand loyalty, that brand loyalty is, is important. Uh, and, uh, but, uh, and, and up until relatively recently, I’ve liked having Coke branded stuff, both my wife and I like getting those, uh, little plates that say Coke on them, or, uh, there’s even some, uh, some Coke bottles that they’ll melt. And then you can use them kind of as a, uh, I don’t know, paper weight or something on your desk. So, uh, I do understand brand loyalty and, uh, but you know, and obviously I really like Jeeps, but I’ve never considered wanting a Jeep branded watch, uh, a T-shirt that says Jeep or a hat that says Jeep. Now, keep it in mind. If, if it says Jeep talk show, I’ll plaster that over the hell out of anything.
Right. Right. So you’re very biased that way. Yeah. I love Jeep branded finding a good Jeep branded shirt though. I mean, Jeep has controlled their marketing so too much. I mean, I’ve always thought that Jeep missed the hell of a deal. You look at the Harley Davidson stuff and how popular people would go. People that didn’t even have a motorcycle would go buy a Harley Davidson shirt just to wear it. It’s free advertising. It’s better than free advertising because somebody’s paying to advertise your stuff. Correct. And it becomes a fashion statement. And so I’ve gone into Jeep dealers before just trying to buy a T-shirt or hat. And they’re like, Oh no, we’ve got a Ram truck hat or, Oh no, we’ve only got two, two to choose from and they’re stupid. And the Jeep had a, and, and you go to tractor supply or, or some of these hardware stores and they’ve got Ford hats, Chevy hats, they’ve got all these other hats, they don’t have Jeep hats because Jeep has controlled their marketing so much. I think they’re missing some, some additional revenue and promotion, but I do like wearing, I like wearing Jeeps Jeep stuff. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with, uh, with getting more money, but I think the advertising that you get on it when you just see somebody walking around has the, the, the Jeep logo on their shirt. Um, but, uh, what you saying that about as far as the Jeep stuff at the dealership, I haven’t been to, uh, Gilman, uh, Dodge Jeep Ram in a while, but, uh, that’s where I went to get my oil changed the last two times on the gladiator. Uh, and, uh, I was the last time I was in there, I always look out and check out their merchandise because you know, what else are you going to do while you’re waiting for somebody to do something? That’s really simple. It takes a long time that shouldn’t, but anyway, I digress. Uh, but anyway, I was the last time I was there, I was really surprised how much the, uh, the t-shirts and the other Jeep things had come down in price. Uh, the prices were very reasonable. And, uh, if they had, they actually had some really nice metal, uh, not tiny, but, uh, smallish, uh, Jeep Wranglers, but they were metal. I believe the little doors in the hood and everything, all that stuff would work on it was like 30 bucks. It wasn’t super expensive. And if they had had a gladiator, especially a red one, I would have bought it, uh, but, uh, they’ll gladiators just, uh, just Wranglers, but the t-shirts, the hats, all that stuff were, were very reasonable. And I don’t know if they were marked down because they weren’t selling or what.
I don’t know. I think, so that was a good dealer to have extra wearables. In my opinion, most like 80% of the dealerships I’ve gone in have minimal. They don’t even have key rings. I mean, you’re the things that you buy a new Jeep. I’m going to look at options, look at trinkets, look at stuff. I’d love to walk out of the Jeep dealer wearing a new Jeep hat. I would have spent 25 bucks on a hat or 30 bucks, whatever.
They don’t even have any hats. So I don’t know. It’s me that knew you’d be on one of my pet peeves, but I think Jeep missed a hell of an opportunity.
Yeah, I think so too. And I don’t know why they don’t do that, especially nowadays that their, their sales are down. I mean, it seems like to me, this would be a good idea to make sure that you, um, encourage that brand loyalty so that whenever you’re buying a vehicle, uh, you’re, you’re thinking of Jeep or whatever you make the, uh, when you make the deal. So when we had a Harley Davidson, they went to the Harley shop, all the chrome, most of the people were putting Harley Davidson parts on a Harley. They were buying all their aftermarket stuff from Harley Jeep has gone the other extreme. They didn’t offer even some of the aftermarket things and the whole market that’s created the whole industry that we’ve spent so much time talking about on the show is all the aftermarket companies that have spun up because of it. You know, there’s one thing that I would very much approve and I, you know, I bet you somebody has done this with Jeep, but I would very much approve even though I’m not a tattoo person. Uh, I think that if somebody showed up on social media sporting a Jeep talk show tattoo, I think we’d have to talk about that and share that post. What do you think? Yep.
Depends on the placement of where the tattoos at.
And I don’t know, maybe, maybe I shouldn’t, uh, shouldn’t like it this way, but I, I think it would mean so much more if a female, I got the tattoo.
Okay.
Yeah. That’s, that was my concern, but you know, you like what you like, right?
It’s like the tattoo of a hundred dollar bill strategically placed. Cause yeah, the rest of that joke. Yeah.
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Yeah.
He has all those like, what is it? Elephants. I always say it wrong. Himmi Jeeps and stuff. Oh, yeah. And you know he’s on the Audubon with those things. That would just be a hell of a thing to see. He’s got a nice little stable of Jeeps, but I like the fact the way he tests the tests, see all the things that he’s doing and designs. I’m sure, I mean, German technology, German engineering.
No, I didn’t go to their website yet. When you said I could have been over there, I thought you were going to ask if I went to their plant over in Germany or whatever. Oh, that’d be nice too. Yeah, that’d be nice too. I do a tour for the Jeep Talk Show. But yeah, I got the feeling that they’ve got at the plant, they’ve got winches with big steins of beer. So when you’re on a tour, they just hand you a beer and you can just stand there and talk to her while you’re having a beer. I don’t know. Maybe that’s a good promotional thing that can start. Could be distracting, but… Of course. Yes. In a good way. In a good way. I’ll spend more time there, right? So… Thank you, but I don’t need a lift kit now.
Yeah, I just got a lift.
Anyway, well, so I’m Chip and I guess one of the things I wanted to ask is, so where do you go with your Jeep?
I mean, a lot of what we talk about on the Jeep Talk Show is about modifications to do to your Jeep or maybe some off-road destinations.
But I know from talking to people, a lot of people are really hesitant to take their Jeep off pavement. Of course. People love their Jeep. They don’t want to hurt it. They don’t want to scratch it. They’ve invested 40, 50, 60 thousand dollars possibly in their new Jeep.
But, you know, they’ve personalized it. They may have lifted it. I mean, but you’re concerned about damaging. So what’s holding you back, though, from trying new things? Is it a concern about damage or are you worried that you won’t make it through the obstacle or you embarrass yourself? So I’d really challenge you. You know, why not try new things and see what you and your Jeep can do? Well, but, but, Chip, you’ve watched YouTube. What do they show on YouTube? They show a Jeep off-road. Yeah, but they show a Jeep off-road. They’re going up a mild, what looks like to be a mild little thing. And all of a sudden it’s on top of on its roof or it’s rolling down the hill for the next 25, 30 minutes. I mean, they’re picking, they’re picking those things because they’re interesting. And that’s why you see so much of it. But if you had a Jeep, yeah, yeah. But if you had a Jeep and you didn’t want it to damage, what are you going to go by? You’re going to go by what you actually see on the thing. Well, I don’t want to risk that. Even if there’s a one in a thousand a chance, I don’t want to risk that. But I do fully understand that. And I probably felt the same way when I first got into jeeping. But then gradually you start saying, well, but I kind of want to see what it’ll do. Maybe start on a gravel road, maybe go to a dune area where you’re in sand. How much trouble? You mean, yes, you could get yourself in trouble. You probably just get stuck in sand. But then you start gravitating. Well, OK, I’m going to go to this wooded trail. Maybe it’s a maybe it’s a forest road. So it’s fairly flat. It might have a little bit of ruts, but you’re you’re just going through the woods and enjoying nature and fording a creek. And I got to say, and I got to say, that’s a lot of fun. It is a lot of fun just being off the pavement. And it’s beautiful and it’s peaceful and it’s relaxing. And if you’ve got, you know, I love flipping my top back on the Jeep and and just being out in the woods. But, you know, I think you really should challenge yourself to see what you and your Jeep could do. And that that probably may mean that you need to go online and find a one on one class to basically, you know, teach you the basics. There’s a lot of local people that do that. Ask your dealership, ask the shop that you’re getting your Jeep worked on. You know, do they know of a group? You know, Facebook has been a great resource for me, whether you’re looking for for Facebook groups that go, you know, try off-roading. A lot of them have one on one beginner sessions. So I just really encourage people to have fun with your Jeep and use it. Use it to what you want. I mean, if if if all you want to do is go to Jeep shows and and be on pavement. Hey, that’s great. More power to you. Enjoy your Jeep. It’s doing what you want to do. I’ve got friends, though, that their big thing is they’ll go on gravel roads and go out in the country in Indiana. They’ll go through covered bridges, maybe go through a little creek. Oh, I think the cover bridge would be wonderful. I think that’d be fun. I’ve never seen one. It’s fun. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. I mean, there’s there’s like there’s like 10 or 12 of them in Indiana within a couple of hours of my house. You can drive through still. Some of them are closed, but some of them are open to drive through. But just experience it. Go out with some of the local groups, go on a road trip. I’m not big on poker runs like bar hopping in a Jeep. That’s not what I want to do because I just it’s waiting for an accident to happen. But but there’s a lot of runs where they’ll they’ll get together at a meeting place. They may drive to some destination. They’ll take a lot of curvy, just country roads. That’s a start. Right. So and then you can even look at going to a Jamboree or a Jeep adventure academy or again, find one of these local one on one go places where they they are showing you. They are helping you get through these things. That’s a great idea. Yeah, I think you should push your limits a little bit. So that’s all I’m saying is just encouraging people. Get out there and push it a little bit. And I think the more you push it, the more you’re going to enjoy your Jeep. I think that if you have a Jeep and this may not be something that you want to do all the time, but I think that if you have a Jeep and especially if you’ve listened to us here on the show and we’ve told you that your your factory Wrangler or Gladiator is more than capable of going off road in a stock configuration that that that a lot of people and I will say most want to do it at least once just to experience it once. Of course, that’s how that’s how it gets you. And you do it once and you go, you go, oh, I survived. And the Jeep looks the same. It didn’t get damaged. Oh, I should do this again. And then, you know, that’s I want to do this again. I wonder if I could do that over there. Oh, yeah, exactly.
A friend of mine, he took his totally stock and I was a Rubicon, but he had a totally stock JK JKU. So four door Rubicon took it out to Moab and he did 80 percent of all the trails. I mean, oh, yeah, there’s it’s it’s not like you have to have you have you don’t have to throw another 10 or 20 thousand dollars of modifications.
Now, if you want to make it bulletproof or you want to go over stronger obstacles. But man, Jeeps are so capable out of the right out of the box. Wouldn’t it be cool if they came like in this year’s catalog years ago where you could buy a Jeep in a box and they just send it to you and you put it together. So Tony, are you did you ever go through the J.C. Whitney catalog? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Oh, my God. I mean, those things are gone now, right? I have I have a bathroom and I’ve lived before there were cell phones. Of course I have. I mean, in the back of the J.C. Whitney catalog, I mean, it was like you could buy almost everything for a Jeep. And I think at one time they had the crate like army surplus. Oh, really? You could you could buy the entire Jeep in a box in the army. Wouldn’t that be an amazing thing? Early 70s, maybe. But wouldn’t it have been cool to have one of those? Yeah. I mean, I got the the skid system from Moto built. And that was in a huge pallet and everything else. But it would be really cool if the Jeep had arrived, you know, the little the golf cart size Jeep in a box. Yeah, that would have been a lot of fun.
Gladiator.
My name is Gladiator.
Gladiator’s. Are you not entertained? Yeah, I don’t know if you’re keeping up with all the episodes or not. So you may not be able to answer this question. I don’t think I’ve spoken about this yet. But the 2021 Jeep talk show, Gladiator is now topless all the time. Have you heard about this already?
No, it’s not literally topless. But you can see out of the freedom panels anytime you drive it because the freedom panel is that is not. But you see, I got you. I got you interested. Like, oh, what about the rain? What about the snow? What about the mud? It is like, no, any time I hear the word topless, it gets me excited. But now you’re talking about Jeeps. And now you’re not really even talking about being topless. You’re talking about Jeep Jeep. That’s right. Yeah. See, that’s how I get you. I get you interested. Like, how how the hell is this possible? Oh, son of a bitch. He did it again. So it’s not literally topless, but you can see out of the freedom panels and you can do so in any weather condition.
I’m not trying to sell these things to you. I’m just trying to get across to you that how neat this is. And I’ve I’ve I know I’ve mentioned this before. My wife has one of those best top and extract tops on her T.J. And she does she is able to fold the the little cover. That’s like the Sunrider on the other models. She’s able to fold that one back, but it’s still difficult for her. So but but on those beautiful days and she can do that. And also, too, if weather turns, which it often does on the summertime with the summer heating, she can flip it back and go on her way. So she has the ability to change those things herself. I don’t know that she would be able to. I don’t think she could do it. Definitely she could take the freedom tops off. But then you got to store them. It’s not just a flip back and flip forward. So the with the G tops on there, she gets to enjoy looking outside all the time. You know, you don’t get the open air, you don’t get the sun, but but you don’t have to do anything. It’s just they’re ready for you anytime you jump in. And I think most most guys don’t really care. I’ll take the top off. I’ll do all that stuff. But you know, you still like it being easy. And that’s what these G tops do. It makes it easy. So. The G tops now, these aren’t the G tops that they sent me to use at Moab. Then this is the part that I’ve known that I’ve talked about yet or not. And I think everybody knows this. Certainly, if you’ve talked to me offline, you know that I don’t normally accept goodies from businesses we interview or advertise with. But I am so impressed with the G tops with the the quality and just the cool factor of these. I couldn’t say no to when I was offered a set of G tops. So so I have my own G tops now. Cool. I didn’t make it up to Easter Jeep Safari. And that’s when you put them on just before going out there. So I haven’t seen it. So I go back to my childhood days, right, where they had T tops and transams and Camaro’s and Z28s and and and course, people put in moonroofs. And but how do these compare to the old T tops that were in the Firebirds and Camaro’s? I would say not at all because they don’t leak.
Well, but they’re not as there’s not there’s not as much area that you see through because you’re of course, you’re familiar with the Freedom Tops and you know that there’s that little area that’s that’s molded in that kind of goes up and it’s kind of flat, has those things in there. So it’s it’s just that area. But the majority of the outside of the Freedom Top is still there, which I think is important because you still have the the structure of the of the of the Freedom Panel, but the little raised area, if you will, if you’re looking up a little raised area, that’s all now a clear panel. And it’s not this that’s not a rectangle or anything. It’s it’s cut in there properly and with the same shape as that panel would be. I’ve seen the insulation kits that you can put up in there. So I’m envisioning that. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, they’re using they’re using your T-top, your your Freedom Panels. They’re just installing these. I flex the glasses the wrong term. It’s an equivalent. Yeah, it’s it’s it’s it actually there’s it’s the same type of stuff used in aircraft.
Right. And helicopter bubbles and all that. Exactly. And it probably goes, oh, it’s just so hot. It’s going to be so hot. 99 percent UVA and UVB protection. So and I and actually I asked my wife when we got back from Moab. I mean, it was chilly out at Moab, but it was sunny at times. And neither one of us, I just completely forgot about it other than looking through the through the the the G tops at the towering rocks above us that I didn’t feel any additional heat or anything. Really, it was just it was neat being able to see up. And look at the the things now, I’m not always driving down the road looking through the G tops, but I will pull up to a light and I’ll see a bird land.
Oh, what was that? So it’s just what people like driving, riding, driving and riding motorcycles. They have a great view. People like flying ultra lights, especially the ones that don’t have any kind of cockpit because you have this openness and and absolutely a Jeep with no top, no doors is actually just so freeing, especially if you put the the the windshield down, too. It’s just really neat. But the convenience of these things is just amazing. It’s just amazing. You just jump in and it’s there. I don’t have to worry if it’s raining or going to rain. I don’t have to worry about if it’s hailing. I don’t have to worry about snow. I mean, we actually use the ones in Moab for snow and it was fun to watch the snow come down. So you can well imagine how cool this is. And like I was saying earlier, men can generally just deal with it and take it off and store it and so on and so forth. But a lot of women don’t do that. They don’t want to mess with it. And sometimes they don’t want to mess with it because they don’t want the man to complain about doing it wrong.
Well, my wife has taken off her like when we’ll stop and she wants to take off her freedom panels, she takes off her side. I take off the driver’s side or whichever side we’re on. And so she can carry it around. They’re not that heavy. But from what I think you said in the interview earlier, these actually don’t weigh any more. They might weigh less than the actual freedom panels. So you’re also making it easier to remove if you did want to open air. Right. And you can still stick them in the bag that came with your Jeep. So that’s the other nice thing over some of these pieces of plastic that aren’t nearly as structurally sound as is what the G-tops are. Where are you going to put that big piece of plastic if you really want to go topless? I mean, you can still go topless with your freedom tops. You just stick it in the back, stick it in the back seat. And now you’ve got G-tops, but they’re in a bag and now you’re fully topless. So and also too, I’m sorry. Before you, when you interviewed him, I had already, I just recently, like for Christmas, I got my wife the sun top, sun downer top or whatever it’s called. Sunrider. Yeah. That the best top has. But it was like a thousand bucks. Yeah. And these, these things are right in that same price range. Exactly. Yeah. And I’m glad you mentioned that I was going to bring that up. I actually, and I think it is the, the clear lids, they’re about $1,200.
The, the sunrider from best top, I love best top. And the sunrider is a great thing. But yeah, it’s around a thousand dollars. And of course, there’s nothing to keep you from having both. I mean, people do spend a lot of money. But, but for me, having these things was, was really easy. Uh, because like I said, it doesn’t matter if I’m driving it or my wife’s driving it. We don’t have to do anything special. We just get in it and go. Uh, but we still have the ability to, to have the open air. So, uh, so there was something I was going to mention, uh, here real quick. Um, this is coming up. So this is kind of a sneak, sneak preview. Um, we’ll be announcing as soon as next week, how you can win a pair of these inserts for your freedom panels. Now, when I say insert, it’s not something that you insert. It was be, you take your freedom tops and you send it to G tops and then they will cut it and put the, the, the, the acrylic panels in that and then send it back to you. Uh, and this is going to be for J K J L and J T, uh, owners only. No, you know, no TJs, no, no, the other, uh, the other vehicles, but I mean, that’s a, that’s pretty wide range, uh, J K J L and J T. So, uh, we’re going to be doing a giveaway, uh, in conjunction with G tops. And, um, the, uh, so you will have to have freedom panels. Uh, they will be need to be in good enough condition and have two of them to be able to do this, but we’re going to do the giveaway a little differently than when you have in the past. And I know some of you guys don’t know, aren’t aware of any giveaways that we’ve done because it’s been a while since we’ve done it. We get new listeners all the time. Uh, but we’re going to do it a little differently and I think it’ll be a little more fun. Uh, and we’ll check out as mentioned, we’re going to ask you to, uh, answer some Jeep talk show, uh, questions, some trivia questions. Yeah. Like, for example, uh, and don’t, don’t guess, cause I don’t want to, I don’t want to ruin this question, but for an example, what is my second, what is my second favorite color for a Jeep? Oh, that’s hard. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, we’re going to get this thing set up and that it will culminate with, uh, a, uh, drawing out of a hat of names and we’re going to be picking three people, but wait, that doesn’t mean we’re doing three giveaways. There’s only one winner, but just in case the person doesn’t have, you know, the, the, the freedom panels or they changed their mind or they never contact us, uh, we’re going to have two alternates. So we really want to have somebody to get these things and enjoy, uh, the G tops just like my wife and I do on the, uh, 22 to one Jeep talk show gladiator. So stay tuned.
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From the mind of Nicky G.
Hey, this is Nicky G. And, uh, you had Jamie on the show and she said that she did not like wheeling in our red clay down here in the South when it gets wet, it’s a slicker than snot on glass. And we have a saying down here and, uh, in your worry where I go wheeling most of the time, uh, when it rains in your worry, you don’t pick your line. You worry picks the line for you. Yeah. And, uh, me personally, I prefer the red clay to be a little bit wet because when it’s, uh, dry, it’s very dusty and it makes her some really nasty boogers. Why I’m calling call to tell you that my mom always told me I can be anybody I want to be.
Yeah. But it turns out identity theft is a crime.
All right, boys and girls, I’ll chat you later and have a good one. Bye.
Only if you get caught, only if you get caught. 12% more funny. I am at least we’re getting these now. Those are easier to get. We don’t like thinking jokes.
Hey, speak of the thinking, think about this. We have interviews every Friday and this Friday, tomorrow, actually, we’re going to be talking with Chris from classic four by four, uh, class four by four.com. Chip, are you aware of classic four by four.com?
Nope. I’ll plead ignorance on this one. So you need to check this out basically. Uh, and this is in the interview, but I’m going to give you a little sneak here. Basically Chris likes the older trucks and four wheel drives, uh, the classics. And, uh, he was, uh, he was messing around with buying some and he would get a collection, he’d sell one here and there. And, uh, he just, uh, he just enjoyed them. He, they’re actually the, I think he said he has eight of them right now. Uh, and they’re in a climate controlled, uh, facility, uh, and he’ll go get one and drive it a bit and, uh, people started reaching out to him saying, Hey, can you, can you get me a this vehicle or can you sell my vehicle for me? And so he has, uh, he has formed this business where people all over the country will contact him and then somebody will go out, take pictures, uh, stills video. I think the, one of, uh, one of his, uh, his folks was actually going to be using a drone, uh, to get some shots of these classic vehicles. Uh, and then, uh, he gets them out there, get some advertised out there and sells them for the, for his customers. I mean, other than, other than not being able to actually physically touch the vehicle or see it in person, cause I would really like that aspect of it, but all over the country, that would be very expensive to fly or drive those places. I would think that would be the downside, especially when you have something that is just so damn pretty and so nice and is reminiscent of, uh, of when you were a young adult or even a kid, that would be the downside to me. But it sounds like a dream job and he’s doing very well. Classic four by four.com. Check it out and, uh, learn more about it in our interview tomorrow with Chris. I just jumped on their website. This is interesting. I mean, basically he’s doing like bring a trailer or, you know, what maybe Facebook marketplace or some of these other, wow, this is cool. Yeah, he’s very cool. I hadn’t had no idea that this was going on. I mean, it makes sense, but, but it’s trucks. It’s these trucks and four wheel drives and, uh, it’s a, it’s not classic cars.
I could live vicariously through this. I’ll just go in and watch the videos of some of these old, old Jeeps and old trucks. I can see, I can see you because you have a collection all on your own. I can see you actually talking to him or looking at some of these vehicles that they’re selling. Uh, I need to tell Chuck about this cause, uh, I think I saw a scrambler on there that was just in a, in just gorgeous shape. Well, there’s a, there’s a turquoise on their website. It’s this turquoise green CJ five. And it looks nice.
I’ll have to go and look at this. This is cool. Yeah. It’s very, very neat. Uh, look forward to for you guys to hear that interview. Uh, it was, uh, I found it very interesting.
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Don’t, don’t fast forward. Don’t stop listening. Don’t stick your fingers in your years ago. Nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, nang, there is a very easy way to listen to every episode of the Jeep talk show in your Jeep, Apple car play or Android auto, uh, and Spotify. You can use either one of those and Spotify as a Patreon subscriber. Now you’re really not listening. Uh, you can listen to the paid subscription episodes through Spotify. Chip, did you know that you could listen to the, the, the, the show through Spotify?
I’ve listened a couple of times through Spotify. I’m a Patreon member, but I find myself on my Apple phone driving down the road. And I still hit the, my Jeep talk show, uh, free app that I’ve got that I’m most familiar with and I still, I get to listen to the commercials and I, I’m like, damn it, I should be on Patreon. Then I wouldn’t listen to those, but it’s only a few seconds. It’s no big deal. Yeah. Yeah.
This is a way, and a lot of people don’t know that, yeah, you can listen to the, the full version, uh, ads and everything else on a Patreon, but you, I’m sorry, on Spotify, but you can also listen to the, the, the paid subscription on Patreon as well, which I thought was really cool. Uh, initially I had no idea about this. So you just go to Spotify, you put in the code that you got from Patreon as a paid subscriber. And now you get the, the special content, uh, from, uh, from, uh, our Patreon. Uh, so I’ll caution people on that. If they have friends that they’re encouraging to listen to the show, cause if you’re already listening, you’ve already found some platform you’re using. But I had a friend of mine that I had invited to listen to the show. And when he went to Spotify, somehow he got onto the paid channel and he didn’t want to be a Patreon member because he’d never even listened to the show before. And so then he didn’t listen. And so then a couple of weeks later I’m talking to him, I’m like, well, did you listen to the podcast? What do you think? And he’s like, Oh no, I’m not going to pay money just to listen to my first episode. No, no, no. It’s confusing.
There’s another choice. Choose the right option. So yeah, it’s confusing and that’s sad, but, uh, we do want people to be able to listen, uh, for, for free if, uh, if they don’t mind the ads. So, uh, yeah, there’s, there’s more than one out there. And I’ll just mention this just to confuse things, uh, more, more so there’s actually three choices on, on Spotify and I’ve gone in there and tried to remove the, the oldest one. So, uh, yeah, so, uh, it’s not, once you figure it out, you’re done. Uh, but, uh, it does take a little bit, uh, to start with, don’t try to figure this out while you’re on your way to work and just sit in the driveway. Uh, but yeah. Uh, but, uh, oh, and by the way, you can now subscribe annually and I hope I spelled that correctly. I don’t want to be anally, uh, so annually and save on your subscription. Just go to gtalkshow.com slash contact to see how to subscribe. So, uh, when I say annually, chip, you know what I’m talking about, right?
Yeah. So you can do it monthly. You can do it annually. You can do whatever. Right. So, uh, I think it, uh, I think it’s like $6, uh, well for the seven 50, uh, uh, paid subscription, it’s like $6 and 80 cents. So you save a little bit by paying for the full year. And I’ve wanted to do this from the beginning, but you have to be on Patreon for a certain length of time and be making X amount of dollars for a certain period of time. And, uh, I just turned that on. Uh, we were just, uh, that was just available to us. And the neat thing is, is that, you know, you pay it once you’re done for the year and you don’t have to worry about the monthly thing. Some people don’t like the, the, the monthly payments coming out or seeing it pop up or your spouse going, what the hell is this? It’s the same thing I told you about last month.
No, I thought having options is good. Before you had Patreon, I was this subscriber and I was doing the annual one that would renew. I think it renewed once on its own. And then it brought you. That was the PayPal thing that we were doing. Yeah. Yeah. And that worked out fine, but I’d rather just do the once one, one and done with that with Patreon. I mean, it’s no different than I’m doing with any of my other dish or other subscriptions that I’ve got. So yeah, save a little money. Don’t remind me every month I got a pay just to keep providing me the entertainment. Oh, and speaking of entertainment, Chip, I don’t remember. Have you ever been down to our Jeep talk show off road event, Texas before? No, I didn’t think so. I want to get down there, but it’s a long haul and I don’t have any relatives living in Texas anymore before I’d get down there once or twice a year, but not anymore. Well, our Jeep talk show off road event, Texas is coming up. It’s going to be at hidden falls adventure park again this year for the fourth time. It will be on Saturday, June the eighth, but new for this year and may be enticing to people like you, a chip that have a long drive to make because who wants to drive down for a one day event?
So we’re actually going to have two days for the event this year. And this was an idea from the Jeep talk show team. It wasn’t even something that I came up with, which I’m not going to ask them to do extra work. This is something that Bill and John Lee came up with on their own. So new for this year, the JTS team has put in together a Texas hill country drive outing outside of hidden falls adventure park the day prior to the JTS event on June the eighth. So this will be on June 7th, Friday for those coming in early for the event. The team has put together a 180 mile route, incorporating 90 miles of the Texas off-road Texas hill country overland route. On this route, you will experience several Creek and river crossings and views of the Highland lakes, including a lake. Buck can, buck in, buck in, buck in, buck in, buck in, buck in, buck in, buck in. It’s Texas. I should be able to pronounce it inks Lake and Lake LBJ as in the other, the former president, we will be stopping along the way. Bill and John, the leaders will be stopping along the way for lunch and Mason, Texas. I wonder if they have Mason jars there, but anyway, uh, in Mason, Texas, for authentic Texas barbecue beef, not pork, uh, vegetarian options, not available. You will be chastised if you ask. No vegan’s allowed.
No, they’re allowed. Th th there’s no bitching about it.
So it’s like Buchanan, like Buchanan. Thank you. That’s, that’s what I was saying in my head, but I just couldn’t get it out. Um, so, uh, they will be departing early Friday morning on June the seventh and they’ll probably be departing from, uh, from, uh, the hidden, uh, hidden valley ham ranch, uh, adventure park, the hidden hidden falls adventure park.
They need to get, they need to get about 30,000 gallons of, uh, hidden valley ranch and put it on the waterfalls one day. So, Kwame, I don’t know whether so. And after some of the roundtables and our late night talks, um, Jamie and a couple of us are talking about for 2025 doing a, um, an event down and around the same timeframe as the Smoky Mountain Jeep invasion, um, at another, so we’ll have an Eastern version and toyed with maybe doing one, maybe even in hot Springs or something down the road. So not for this year. I think everybody’s schedules are pretty much booked up already, but planning for 2025, we’re going to try to expand and have some more outings scattered around the country. Yeah. That’d be, it’d be wonderful. Uh, absolutely. I know, uh, Wendy has put one on in California in the past and we have, uh, we have listeners and team members all over the United States and absolutely. You guys go out there, have some fun, uh, press the flash, do whatever you can do that doesn’t get you in trouble and, uh, have a good time. Yep.
Well, it’s always a little sad when we hit the end of the trail, but there’s always another trail ride just down the road. Jeep talk show has four episodes a week and, and I’ll dare say five. Uh, there’s some things afoot with chick chat and we may be doing, and I’m gonna say this is a 99% certainty that every Monday there’s going to be a new chick chat episode that’s that’s a lot of chick chat. Uh, and, uh, but we, we’re going to have something for the women, uh, and, uh, a nice, uh, place for them to go to ask questions and feel comfortable. And I’ll, I’ll, I’ll mention this. Jamie, uh, is going to, is one of the people doing chick chat now. She has in the works a round table episode for chick chats. So if you don’t feel comfortable going to the very rowdy, but fun round table that we have, uh, or maybe you want to start off with, uh, just the women, uh, you’re going to want to know about this, uh, women’s only chick, uh, chick chat round table that Jamie’s planning. So if we’re a transitioning Jeep, or can we go to the check chat too? Or how does, uh, it’s good. The, the, I mentioned this to Jamie and the round table for the chick chat is going to be invite only. So you will have to have a special password, uh, genetically identified.
To get on, I mean, they love men, but they want to have women on the round table. So they can talk about, uh, what Jeep questions that maybe they don’t feel comfortable asking men about, cause you know how we can be.
Oh, we can all be smartasses, right? Oh, yeah. And even if we don’t know the answer, we may fake it like we do. Oh, well, that’s, that’s 99% of being a man and acting like you know what you’re talking about. So anyway, uh, we’re, I was going to read a Tuesday through Friday, but maybe Monday through Friday, can you imagine the Jeep talk show five days a week? Now subscribe and never miss an episode. And speaking of subscribing, consider keeping the Jeep talk show going by subscribing to the show via Patreon. The place to go for all the information on how to subscribe and contact us at Jeep is Jeep talk show.com slash contact. That also includes signing up for the newsletter and getting an invite to our discord server. If you’re saying what’s a discord server, join and find out. It’s not a bad thing to do. You’ll have a, you’ll have a good time there. Chip, thank you very much for being our guest host this week. And we’re going to see you again here very, very soon. Sure. Thank you, Tony.
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That was, that was a really suck ass wave. Mine. Yes. When you do the Jeep wave, is that the way you do the Jeep wave? Yeah. Yeah. It’s like this, because I rave at them and they don’t wave back and then I’m like, fuck you. Do you turn around and follow them? You get up alongside them and shoot them the bird. No, usually it’s out the window or just, I know that I’m doing it, but no, my typical Jeep wave hands on the wheel. I just do the, and that’s good enough. But yeah, but then I find myself, I’m like, I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it. Yeah. But then I find myself driving my F one 50 doing a Jeep wave and nobody waves back. See, that’s just, you’re not, you’re not thinking about it. That those Jeep waves have no meaning because it’s just a, you’re just doing it automatically. You’re not curious because I’m in there. It’s like, oh, Jeep, look, I’m going to wave. And then I’m like, oh, wait, I’m not in my Jeep. They go, look at that. You look at that. Want to be cheaper.
So I thought about putting stickers on my F one 50 saying Jeep support vehicle or, or something that, yeah. My company has a policy against stickers on cars. So I can’t good reason.
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