Episode 1056 – Jim Has Left the Building!

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I’m Tony and welcome to the Jeep Talk Show. We’re going to do a little something different this time for this flagship episode. We’re going to bring in the folks that join us when we’re recording the roundtable episode. We’re going to bring these people in and have a discussion with them. We’re going to do a little talk about the, at the time anyway, the upcoming fourth annual Jeep off-road event, which we have since completed. But I think it’s still fun to hear. And it’s always fun to hear from the Zoom people, the Zoom guys that show up week after week. And it’s not just for the show. They enjoy interacting with each other. You seriously ought to consider joining us on our Zoom meetings because I think you’d find it a lot of fun. It’s great Jeep people talking about Jeep stuff, but you know, you know how it is. Not exclusively about Jeeps. It goes down many rabbit trails.

Are you ready? It’s time for the Jeep Talk Show with hosts Tony, Josh, Wendy, and Chuck.

All right. Well, let’s not waste any time. Let’s get over to our Zoom people talking about Jeeps and all kinds of fun stuff right now. And then Delive again. That’s what it is. You’re a robot, Roger.

I’m a robot? R2-D2.

Fuck! Yes. Yeah, that is fucking… Or I’m at the service. It’s kind of wishy-wash. What do you got?

Oh, you got it. You’re coming out to more… Or distribution center.

Which Walmart?

Beaver Dam one? Beaver Dam?

Yeah.

Oh, you shipped it to them before.

I thought you didn’t want us to walk to Walmart. Thank God. I got here at like 2 o’clock this afternoon. And of course, they’re sticklers for their appointments. And my appointment is at 6 o’clock in the morning. Well, it’s Pride Month. That’s why he’s working for Walmart right now.

Damn.

So this is a good time to mention… Who’s working for Walmart? … on YouTube Live.

You know, Walmart likes to get you when you come in with one of them loads because they don’t let you come in an hour before your appointment. And then everyone comes in at the same time. And if you don’t check in at the window within that hour, you’re late. Well, it’s not your fault you can’t check in because they’re not checking in fast enough. Oh, I had one time at this Walmart, they sent me in, gave me a door, and there was something else in the door. So they told me to sit there and just wait. And like an hour later, they finally… I finally got into the door and I walked inside and the lady was like, “Well, you’re late.” I’m like, “The hell I am.” I sat outside the outside… Sat in a yard waiting for the fucking door to empty out for the last hour. And they tried to… They tried to write me down as late and that didn’t work out for them.

Yeah, I drive for Walmart, so I know all their tricks. Sorry for your luck. Oh, I love my job, man. I can’t complain. I’m like, you know, I only work five days a week, get plenty of time off, benefits, good pay. I mean, you got to deal with a little political crap, you know, but other than that, Yeah. It’s like working… I’m not going to say it’s like working for anyone, but it’s… I don’t really answer to anyone until time…

In cab cameras, cameras facing out, speed limiters, fuck that. Now we have cameras facing out and we have… Cameras facing in too, don’t you? No, those aren’t turned on.

Yeah, so they say.

Well, everything… One of them’s got a piece of tape over it, so even if they did turn them on, they put the tape over them at the… When the trucks come in. Hey, Robert, John, Bill and I think Aquaman or Mindsarlet, they’re doing a fire if you want to go join them over there. Or if you want to sit in the AC, I don’t fucking blame you. So it’s 99 degrees out and you guys are doing a fire? I’m not. I’m in my fucking house in a… It was 99 this afternoon.

It’s probably just 93 now. And you’re sitting at a fire. That makes sense. Oh, you got to have a fire, the campfire. You know, that’s the stuff, part of the magic. You got to dry the sweat off of your thumb, huh?

Actually, kind of nice out here. It actually feels great where we are. There’s a nice little live oak that we’re under. We got a nice little shade. And it started the fire, it’s not dark enough. Then again, we’re texting. That is true.

Says the man wearing his car hurt freezing his nuts off at the top of mineral point. Yeah, right.

Heat is not cold.

Oh, freaking, what about the real wild man over there with Rick, right?

He drove a Jeep with no roof or anything on it all the way from Arkansas and then he’s wielded all day. That’s because he drove it to Arizona breathing gas fumes the whole time. He doesn’t feel anything anymore. Did he get wet? Did it rain on him?

Who bit?

Who bit? But it wasn’t bad. I survived. That’s why they call it. That’s right.

Yeah, I was trying to catch a jackrabbit. He ran out of the hole.

So you’re saying he failed.

Yeah, it’s all about the top off. But man, as soon as I walked outside and felt the heat, I’m like, fuck that. Not on the four and a half hour drive.

How many people do you have there, John?

Well, right now, just a couple of us, Rick, Bill, Garrett, my. Well, I think Robert’s down hell at the 10 site.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we’re. We’re. Yeah, I’m not sure. You just keep coming down the road towards Area B at the general store and look for the Starlight Hotel room that has all the jeeps out front. OK. And the upside down pineapple.

None of that.

Wrong weekend. Wrong weekend. You got to come back. Chips out there. Back later.

Andrew, are you going?

Yeah, I had some shit come up at work, so I was going to drive over there tonight, but unfortunately, I’m not going to be driving until tomorrow afternoon. Go out there. So the LJ you’re taking the LJ, right? Yeah, I’m waiting for the sun to go down before I go load it up on the trailer. Yeah. Oh, OK. I thought you were going to drive. Don’t fall on your ass this time. Thank you. Thanks, Dino.

Wouldn’t that be weird if we. If I went again, we thought we all forgot that, right? I was hoping you fuckers dead. No.

We never forget someone else’s misery. That’s true. It was a champion. He was a champ about it. Got a broke tail. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And we’re going to fucking video about it, which is glorious.

Oh, yeah. That’s the real world was awesome.

You got to mute.

I’m going to mute. You’re not. Am I not muted? No. Gosh.

I used to be in on my phone, so it’s not muted.

I was talking to Chuck today about his gladiator. Holy crap. That guy’s bought a lot of stuff to go in and on that gladiator. Already? Yes. What a hypocrite. He’s having a good time though.

Makes it, making fun of everybody else. Cause there is no aftermarket for your CJ. I mean, he’s already talking about putting an Atlas in it. Jesus. Did you figure out how that, what are the tasers? How did you use it yet or no? Yeah. I walked him through it yesterday.

Was he sober?

Actually it was yesterday. No, today.

No. Are you sober? I don’t know what day. I don’t know what the fuck day was. I think it was yesterday.

Yeah, it was yesterday.

Are we going to go do the sunset? Let’s think about that. Next time’s the sunset. But where is, is Robert still on here?

I think he was headed up y’all’s way. Oh, there we go. Well, I want to think it’s here. We can run up there and do the sunset thing. We don’t have night wheeling on Thursday night. Are y’all getting good? You broke back mountain up there at the sunset.

That’s what I was wondering. They’re at their Bud Light.

You know, jealousy is not a good color. I mean, you got like a shot comes down. Senior donkey show. Yeah, we’re missing our key players.

I think we’ll play, I’ll be there tomorrow night. Senior doctor shall be there tomorrow night. That’s, that’s, that’s an art.

What? It’s, it’s, I’ll be there tomorrow night all the way from Tijuana. The Ethan, you’re with us to kill.

That is the racist sound of Mexican accent. I thought it was pretty good. You thought it was pretty good. Yeah. Well, the expert just gave you a pass.

833. That was right. Yeah.

Sunset. Yeah.

Oh, the Rob needs to chop chop. I mean, fuck you and fucking bill will get there in about five seconds. I’ll drive with the deals. I tune machines. I got a three point. That’s everyone else you got to wait for. What’s my tune about my little tiny V6?

The fucking shocks. Don’t. Dude, I’ll tell you this. There was a old TJ and a glad you had absolutely no problem keeping up with us today. Yeah. We didn’t midnight run. We did a lot of trails. That’s a new trail. Yeah. We didn’t reduce trail that we had done. We’re going midnight run.

Yeah. Garret’s had damage to prove it. We’ve got a new, he needs a new bumper. Don’t. That’s a still rear bumper. It’s still. Yeah.

Fuck the real buffer. What the hell he hit. It’s Chinese. And that’s my bro. It was a little bit of a, it’s a gladiator. A little bit of a drop off. Yeah. We’ll drop off. Fucking huge drop off. No, you know, I don’t like climb up 45. Like you come up at a 45 degree angle up off of the right or take off the big ass drop. It was like a big dip where you go down and you come back up. And so, yeah, this wouldn’t have been a trail. You probably done Andrew. Cause we hadn’t done it. This was, I remember there was one trip. It was the guy from. So I’ll mention really quick, what they’re talking about is being out at a hidden balls adventure park for the fourth annual Texas Jeep talk show off road event, Texas. And, uh, Bill, John, a few other people are there on Thursday. Uh, and of course you’re listening to this on Tuesday, but this is a prior to the big event on Saturday, the eighth. And, uh, yeah, so they’re out there having a bit of fun and you get to be a part of it through our episode here. Yeah, I did it on my 31st. It was not a fun time. That bit of Well, there was a lot of stuff on that trail.

It doesn’t look like a lot of people go down that trail.

It’s like overgrown.

Is there anybody else in the park? Are you guys seeing other people in the park?

One or two here, there it’s basically up in a stuff side by side. And yeah, big side by side. So they say anything to you, uh, at the, uh, at the gate.

Uh, is it happy D day? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, nothing about, uh, warning them about the, uh, uh, Jeep talk show invasion.

Now, no, why do people always have this weekend?

I don’t even know. We never know from year to year. We don’t know.

Well, I mean, I know you have a sign up, but that’s kind of a mere suggestion of numbers signed up. Yeah. How many words on how many stacks to fill out the form?

I will, I will count quicker here and let you know. John, Bill and myself probably. Yeah. That’s what I’m saying. Throw us to me. That’s okay. That’s four. They probably did, but he’s not making it. Bob’s not making it. It was like an empty, uh, starlight right next to me that Bob was supposed to be in. So why is Bob not making it now?

You didn’t say something about schedule change or work or something like that. Oh, that sucks. So we had 14, uh, entries.

Oh, well, I’ll be interested in to see when we have 40 people show up. Well, we had 30, we had 30 some odd Jeeps. Uh, what was it? 31 30 31 32 last year. Oh, my God. I was leading the group.

Mark, which is that Bo, uh, Brandon Leslie, uh, uh, yeah, Leslie, that was one we were talking about on the round table last Tuesday where she was, uh, she’s got a Jeep and ever been off road, which I’m very honored that she’s going to come out there with us.

First time.

Let’s just go warm up with TRO real quick. Randy, uh, Janet, Robert, another Robert Garrett. I think I just, I think there’s Garrett on the, the screen. Uh, Mark, uh, Kevin, uh, some somebody named John Lee sounds like a Southern thing. Yeah, I guess Bob’s not going to the one that’s told it out. Andrew. And of course, bill.

Now Zabo said he’s got four Jeeps coming.

Yep.

Yeah. We’ll probably have a couple of people go with him to a harder trail.

They don’t go to midnight run.

Midnight run them telling the cut up. Actually you can take midnight run and the Bronco buster for that big loop.

Although Bronco buster and a big Jeep and forties will be a little tight. That’s the problem with it. It’s not that the ledges are crazy. All right. Really tired. You get the back bang. That’s right.

Oh, gravy. Well, I got some sad news. I’d like to get you guys a y’all’s response on this. Maybe some of you guys have already heard it. So, uh, Jim Morrison, uh, former, um, executive VP of a Jeep, uh, that got put over to Jeep performance parts division, a new position. Uh, he has left Stellantis. Oh, good friend.

I just don’t know that it’s good for, for us Jeepers.

I mean, one, one person doesn’t make company, but yeah, I mean, but this, I think we all agree Jim’s definitely a jeeper.

There’s quite a few jeepers over there, but you think about the, uh, of course, the funny thing was is Jeep was doing that D-Day post today. They’re now a French and Italian company.

It’s just awkward.

I mean, we did go see it and save their ass. So I mean, it kind of counts. We kind of went and bought the Italians. The semantics. And here, what is it?

There’s a few.

Right. Nice to meet you, Rick. John. John, nice to meet you. Bill, nice to meet you. Garrett. All right. I’ll forget all y’all’s names. Bye.

He’s the other gladiator.

Well, you want to, want to try to run out there? Yeah. That’s good. You’re thinking about running up to a wildcat real quick for sunset.

Just put it up there.

Nothing crazy. Yeah. I’m not, I’m pretty new to off roading. I mean, is it something I can do? Oh, for sure. Yeah. The super.

That’s a total. It was a lie, man. I’ve only, I’ve only had my jeans for two years. You can do 80% of the parking on 31s and no lockers, 80% of the parking can do.

Yeah. It all depends on how much body damage you’re willing to.

I mean, I had no body damage. I will to piss out of my, my Jeep on 31s.

All right. We all want to go. Yep. We will catch all we actually might try to do one more on top of wildcat. Right. That’s my cell booster. See if I can. Oh, there you go. All right. You have service up there.

All right. Well, getting back to the Jim Morrison thing, we’re actually doing this on YouTube live right now and recording it for an episode guys.

So, uh, anyway, the little store here says, uh, Morrison oversaw Jeep’s Jeep’s North America business from June, 2019 to December of 2023. And was put in charge of the newly formed Jeep Performance Parts Unit. He was replaced by William, uh, is it Piffer, uh, Maserati’s North American CEO. See, that’s what always made me nervous about, um, them. I mean, I know it’s not a, uh, a us owned company, but who, where does Maserati fit into the whole Jeep plan? It just doesn’t seem, one doesn’t seem the same as, uh, these two things are, are, are not the same to me.

How about is it concerning, isn’t it? Well, we’ve talked about it before on the show, but, uh, it just bothers me that, uh, Jim’s leaving. Um, now it’d be pretty cool if it, uh, we could start a rumor that, uh, his, uh, Jim’s, uh, um, being on the show is ultimately what caused him to retire.

The nice thing is, is it’ll give Jim a lot more time to go off roading.

Well, do you think he really retired or maybe he’s, uh, taking a little break and he’s got something else signed up. Well, everybody’s mine. Yeah, could be. Uh, I was talking to somebody a while back, um, was thinking that it would be a, uh, a great opportunity to go work for Ford and specifically having to do with a Bronco.

Yeah, it’s, it is, I mean, I’m making light of it, but it’s, uh, it’s really kind of sad because, uh, Jim Morrison had been at Chrysler, uh, actually with, you know, uh, the company, uh, I guess, uh, uh, Chrysler than Stellantis, but he started in 1995, um, and, uh, this has been there for a really long time. And, uh, as we found out when we interviewed him back September, 2022, that, uh, very much a jeeper and good friends with, uh, Tom Zielinski, uh, four Fest events and, uh, Tom’s always, uh, spoke very highly of Jim.

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see what happens with, uh, with Jeep, how they’re gonna, how they’re going to progress. It’s not an article today that they’re talking about reducing the trims on the, uh, Wranglers.

Reducing the what? The trim options. Oh yeah. I can see that.

There’s just too many. I think the whole industry right now is just stuck in this dirt. Do we go, Evie, do we not go, Evie?

They just don’t know which way to go.

Well, and I think part of that has to do with the upcoming election, doesn’t it? Um, I mean, there’s no guarantee. Uh, but if, uh, the, uh, the competing, uh, individual wins the presidency, the whole Evie thing will probably change the whole green, uh, early on, uh, earth movement thing will probably change like it did last time. Yeah.

For four years. And then we go back. That’s the problem, right?

Is they can’t keep depending on who’s in, they go one direction, then they go to the other, the back to the, where they were four years prior. Yeah. And it’s a, it’s a double edged sword. Do you want to make it longer than four years or is sometimes that’s, you want it shorter than four years. Yeah.

Most of the time it’s, and that’s one of the things I hate about politics is that politics sucks. No matter when, uh, I mean, some people can get into it and get it really excited but individuals, but, uh, my politics are, I want to be very clear are, uh, they all suck, they all lie. They never, none of them do exactly what you want them to do. No. Cause they’re more interested in longevity because there is no cap on how long they can serve for Congress anyway.

New York city has a term limits, which I like not that I live there, but there needs to be, there needs to be incentive to do the job for the people. Yes.

Absolutely.

It’s unfortunate. And unfortunately we’ve lost those senators.

There was some that knew how to, to, to play nice together. I loved her. Um, you know, Reagan, he knew how to get done by being cooperative, right? It wasn’t this hard line, go F yourself and all that. Right. If there was a spite involved, you know what I mean?

Um, love them hate them. What was the, uh, Kennedy, the one from Chappaquiddick? Um,

not Robert, um, no, passed away not too long ago. Ted, Ted, Kenny. Yeah. He was in there for a long time. Right. But at the same time, he also knew how to work with the others. Well, that was, that was the

couldn’t tell much difference between the two parties. They were, they are all more middle of the road. Yeah.

McCain had the respect of the Democrats.

Well, he was a Democrat.

I knew you were going to say that, but you know what I mean? Right. They, they’re so bell-bent now on just being, I don’t know what they’re trying to make a name for themselves being, by being completely like, well, I don’t know. There’s just, you’re right. You can’t trust anybody. No, no, no, no, no. Politics is, uh, if you, uh, I remember several times saying this, that I’ll type in the word, uh, politician and in the, it’ll spell it, spell correct. Cause I’m not spelling it right. It’ll spell, correct it to pollution. And I’ve never seen a more accurate, uh, spelling correction. Cause, uh, politics is you just, uh, you can’t be honest. And, uh, do the right thing and, and get most of the people to devote for you. So it’s just, it’s just amazing how polarized opposite as we are. Look at California, right? Versus Idaho.

It’s just complete total opposite. It’s not that it got help us if we ever go the direction of California for the rest of the country. Right. Dude, isn’t it Idaho that’s a taking over like half of Oregon or something? They want to, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen. Do you hear that all over the place? You hear Texas wants to become their own, you know, succeeds, secede you hear Southern Illinois wants to be split, which is the dumbest thing in the world because all their money comes from up north. Yeah. I hate to see all this stuff. It’s the, and that’s, that’s really what’s going on as a, a bunch of division. Um, but anyway, we’ll get off the politics thing here, but, uh, yeah. So, uh, um, pretty cool that we’ve got people already showing up at, uh, hidden falls for the, uh, the event, uh, this weekend. And of course, uh, you guys are listening to this, uh, this episode after the event, but you’re really looking forward to that. I wish you weren’t so far away. Oh, yeah, me too. Um, although I was tied up this weekend anyway, so I picked up a summer job worker for the local, uh, semi-pro baseball team, just to get out of the house. Because now that my kid’s gone to college, my daughter is a senior in high school. I was coming home either sitting on the couch or sitting in front of the computer, which is what I do all damn day. So I get like 5,000 steps a game. I’m just doing it for exercise. I’ve lost 10 pounds. I’m enjoying it. What are you doing? The ground screw. Oh, okay. I get to sit on the field, right?

Watch the game. And we go out, tear down the batting practice, prep the field. Then at the end of the game, we, you know, clean up the field and then we’re done.

It’s pretty neat actually. It’s just, like I said, it’s just exercise.

I was hoping you were going to say umpire. Oh God, no.

Hey Tony. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for hooking me up with Greg’s number and all that. Oh, sure.

Pulling the trigger on it. Oh, are you? Man, I’ll be honest with you. I didn’t think we had a snowball’s chance of hell, uh, of, uh, any of the Jeep talk show people, uh, having 20 K to spend on a Jeep.

You got to put that here in it. Hell no.

Actually right now, I haven’t seen it. Greg told me a lot about it. Um, I’m going to get it and then I’m going to see what I’m going to do. But right now my first thoughts are pull my hard top, turn that into my daily and take it from there. I don’t know if I’m going to move tires or rims or, you know, fell off mine with that one or what I’m going to do.

Nice.

So, uh, I think it’d be pretty cool to have a Greg Henderson build. Um, I mean, that’s a, uh, that would be pretty sweet. Yeah. Greg decided he didn’t build it. He just did the murder.

The, the important part.

Yeah. The important parts. Um, I’m going to talk to him some more. Uh, certainly scouting that they’ve worked paperwork on it and all that stuff. I think that’s getting me about it is it’s a having number one and it’s got low miles on it. It’s set for a few years. His wife’s daily driving it now. So it’s getting some runtime.

I mean, low mileage. I’m almost at a, I’m at 198 right now. I’m at three eight. I’d like some power. So, Oh yeah. Well, you certainly should have it with us. I think, I think Greg said it had an Atlas on it. No, it has a Rubicon transfer case on it. Yeah. It’s all Rubicon. That’s right. That’s what I remember him saying that it’s not a Rubicon, but all the parts are now Rubicon and, uh, yeah, he spoke very highly of it. Um, so, uh, yeah, I think you’re going to have fun with that. 8,000 miles. I think is what he said that the, uh, the Jeep has on it after, uh, uh, Greg doing his, his magic to it. Yeah. He had mentioned 60, 6,500 to me, but that’s what I remember. Yeah. 6,500 on the motor on the motor and trans and like over, I think he said around 200 and some thousand on the rest on the body. Yeah. I got the miles on the body right now. Um, Jacob, I think it’s Jacob is selling it. He sent me some information so I could give it to my bank and all that crap. But, uh, yeah, I don’t, I want to see if Greg noted the mileage on the body and on the engine at the same time. So you can track mileage.

So did, uh, did Greg tell you about what, uh, the, the owner’s plans were if he wasn’t going to sell it? Yep.

We did paint it and put it up for $50,000. So, uh, I think at 20 you’re getting, uh, several thousand dollars worth of stuff, uh, for free.

Well, yeah. I mean, the way I’m looking at it, if I turn around and sell mine, either whole iron parts, I’ll make up a good chunk of that.

So, uh, you know, I’m okay with it.

My wife hasn’t bitched about it. Um, got a plan to go pick it up, uh, towards the end of the month. I guess he wants to have it detailed and replace a windshield. Oh, nice. What, uh, yeah. How many miles is that? How far away are you from there? Cause I don’t really know the distances up north.

Driving it’s eight hours. I’m going to fly out there, go to the Flint, um, and then pick it up on a Sunday. Driving by. Get you some water while you’re there in Flint. Ah, you know, you can make, you can make a trip out of it and get yourself, uh, a ticket on the Badger and then just come back on the Badger with it. Or, or you can, I, I dropped over to put it on the back of the truck.

It costs more than it’s worth for him. Yeah, I didn’t fight it. I thought Roger was fucking it in this truck. Yeah, I’d love to, but unfortunately just a few old loan for my semi would be, it’d probably cost you, it’d probably be cheaper for you just to get it, get it yourself. Yeah. I don’t want to, I don’t necessarily want to sit on the ferry. I want to drive it. Oh yeah.

What’s that? You know, I know we’re automatic.

It’s got an auto trends in it. Okay.

Well, if you go, if you go up or on the top side, you could make a weekend out of it and do some camping because, uh, that’d be too long to drive. Well, it’s probably for you. It’s probably going to be about the same going around the top line or on the bottom, it’s going around the top. So Keith remind me, I know it’s a J K it’s a J K U, right?

Uh, okay. You X and, uh, what year is it?

2007.

X is the cheaper one. It’s X. Yeah. Then Rubicon. But it’s got all the Rubicon goodies on it. Yeah.

It’s got every, for the most part, it’s got everything that makes a Rubicon, a Rubicon. I’m it’s so just because the body has a X on it doesn’t really mean anything. Is it, uh, lockers already? It’s a Rubicon axles, right?

I think he said there were e-lockers in that. I think so. He says that Rubicon X.

Mommy’s back.

That’s a good deal. Yeah.

Believe me. I was, uh, when he told me about it the other day, I was pondering on it.

I just didn’t want, I just didn’t want to, I don’t know. I don’t need another, another vehicle that doesn’t move.

Yeah. I get it. I just picked up a new car for my daughter. So I’m taking the Ford Fusion back as my daily driver now. The Jeep’s going to get less miles on it. Mine, mine is the 17. I think I got maybe 25,000 miles on it. You know, I just don’t drive it enough. All I ever see is on the weekend and then a lot of times on the weekend, we take the, we take the wife’s Jeep. But mine still doesn’t drive. I just pulled the doors and top off mine. I’m sitting in the garage.

Yeah. I’ll probably be doing that this weekend. I’m sure the wife’s gonna, it’s been getting nice, nice, more than nice enough. So they’ll probably want me to make her some room in the garage so their doors and top can come up and stay up. Hey, has anybody used the certificates from discount tire at all? Made a claim on them.

No.

I’ve got a chunk missing out on my side walls.

I was going to try less. No, it goes. Yeah. I got to go in there and say, Hey, I just found the receipt. I got this hurts when I bought it. I bought the tires.

The bear is not going to have that big check in words. So what to say? There they are. That looks like Rick. There’s Rick.

Oh, it’s being split. We go around.

I think it was a cloud ad. That ad was in front of Illinois.

I said, I don’t need to go back there.

Yeah, that’s a gladiator in front of Bill.

So we got a few Jeep talk show team members and listeners up at Hidden Balls Adventure Park. It’s a, we’re recording this on Thursday. And of course the event is a Friday and Saturday, tomorrow and the next day. So I’ll be up there on Saturday.

Are you?

I missed somebody asked me a question. You just go for the day. Yeah.

I actually got on the thing. Oh, that’s Bill. I actually got on the thing and on the website to see about booking a star light and they were all gone. So why did you take Larry’s? He mentioned that, but after I reminded my wife about, you know, our yearly event, she was a little disappointed because she was concerned that the good fully functional Jeep in her mind was going to be gone.

So it was easy to make the decision just to go up for the day because it’s less concerned for her, although her TJ is fine. This is, you know, it’s all how you feel about it. Yeah.

Bill told pull that to three and I need to. But Steve, which tires got the chunk missing?

Oh, it’s been rotated a couple of times. Oh, okay. I thought it was like from tiger 10. No, no, no, no. It’s uh, it’s been like that for awhile, but I’ve just, we, so I was listening to the round table episode today where we talked about the build book, right? I was like, you know, I got to look at this up because I have all my receipts. I’m not going to be able to get it. I’m not going to be able to get it. I have all my receipts on a folder on one drive and I was curious. And so I just happened to look at the one for the tires. I’m like, Oh, I did get the certificate. So for some reason I thought I did it.

So, Oh, you know what? No, I did it. It was them, but then I got a mountain zero.

Damn. I must’ve refused them.

The drive.

Oh, well, nevermind.

So now we’ve got to go pull all my voices from Northridge and put them in the same folder because that way I have everything in one spot.

Actually, I kept that wrong. If you want to go driver here, that’s the dollar.

I think they’re going to wildcat.

That is so bumpy up there. It’s deceiving. It’s rocking a little.

So easy to do. Nice.

Oh, I’m a little disappointed that Chuck’s not going with us.

Especially since he got that gladiator. I was looking forward to seeing that. I mean, the most comfortable driving he’s had.

Well, at least one that can go off road.

Well, that sucks.

So on Northridge site, you can’t reprint your invoices.

Can’t you just come back and emails in this search form? Yeah, I think that’s the next step. Just type in Northridge and I’m sure that all pop up. Really? I don’t want to put quadratic on.

No. Uh huh. So do you guys ever order from from quadratic? I think maybe I’ve ordered one small thing from them a long time ago. I did too. I bought the flashlight clamps that go on the side of the driver’s seat between the door. I think I ordered body bolts for my son’s TJ from them once. I think it’s Morris four by four. If it’s four by four, more is something or another I’ve ordered from stuff I’ve seen. It seems like I can always find stuff cheaper someplace else.

Same with extreme train.

Either one of them extreme train or quadratic. You can almost find it someplace cheaper. Right.

I’ve never bought from extreme. I’ve never found anything that was cheap enough there for them. I’m I’m bought in a couple, maybe a small thing or two, but that was a long time ago. 99% of the stuff I bought was Northridge either Northridge or direct from.

You know, from whoever it is. You know, I didn’t find out about, uh, I didn’t find out about Northridge until I interviewed Dan for the show. And, uh, man, I was just amazed. Uh, I mean, especially with the, uh, the $70 and free shipping thing. I love free shipping.

I think that’s what’s flipped them for me a lot. Um, what was I going to say?

I just, I’ve had nothing but incredible luck with Northridge. Yeah. We’re good.

They are. They, they’re just, yeah.

Oh, we gotta take a picture.

Yeah. They’ve kind of, they’ve kind of a lot monopolized a lot of the aftermarket as far as distribution goes.

Hey, it saves me. Well, you know, having such a large variety is what allows them to get the prices down a little bit for us.

Well, kind of like, kind of like the, the, the winch that I bought for the wife’s Jeep, I mean, like I couldn’t buy that bench with the synthetic rope and fairly and everything from, uh, from war and cheaper, there’s no way, no how. And I think when we were at EJS, I was talking to the guy in the Warren booth about, you know, okay, the, I was going to buy one there if they could give me this same deal and they’re like, yeah, no, Northridge, they buy such a quantity that they can, they can do those deals. No, and they do the Chinese. Yeah. Yeah.

Right.

You know, they’re, you know, they’re doing just fine, right?

It wasn’t, uh, it wasn’t grilled cheese sandwiches. Well, I would’ve been okay with grilled cheese sandwiches and tomatoes, tomato soup. If you know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, it’s really good.

But you got to have tomato soup.

Never had, never had that combination. I’ve heard about it, but I’ve never had that. Really? Yeah. Oh man. How much are there? I’d rather, I’d much rather have two grilled cheese sandwiches and skip the soup. So my wife was probably like, oh, I’m going to get a sandwich. I’m going to get a sandwich. I’m going to get a sandwich. My wife was pregnant with my son.

She had tomato soup and then drove and got sick in the car. Ever since then I can’t, I can’t, like, you know, the smell is just dope.

That’s like my, that’s like probably my all time favorite meal. Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Only I do not like it with milk.

Everybody makes it with milk. I like it with water.

Oh, you mean the soup. Okay. So the, like the creamy soup.

Well, I don’t like it. If you add the milk, I think it makes it work. So I always add water instead.

You know, just regular condensed Campbell’s tomato soup, right? I concentrated or whatever.

My sunset.

Wow.

That sun’s up there a bit. Always.

So again, this is the Thursday group for the fourth annual Jeep talk show, Texas off road event and got a couple of gladiators out there. Oh, that’s right. One of them is Garrett’s. That’s right. I forgot about that. That same color. Check out that blue right there. I believe so.

Roger.

What? Now, what was that? What was that foreign that’s in your wife’s Jeep? I’m brain farting it right now. I’m really, I’m really, yeah.

Yeah. I think I’m going to pull the trigger on that too. Oh, that’s some good stuff. Now, hey, don’t forget about the Patreon, the Patreon discount code for that. Well, yeah, that’s why. Yeah, definitely.

But yeah, after seeing it in your wife’s Jeep, I was like, damn, that’s that is some nice. So clean. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to get it from my JK to I just haven’t haven’t, haven’t pulled the trigger on it yet.

Yeah.

I want it because, you know, it never fails if it’s raining or if I washed the Jeep, I always have water on the, on the, on the floor pan on the floor by the driver and passenger door. It always leaks in somewhere.

Yeah. I figured, well, Greg told me there’s a little problem with the floor pan. But there’s the cabins we’re staying in. Or what do you say? Keith? Way down there, Rick. I said, Greg said something about the, um, driver’s side floor pan being a little bad. So I figured I’d fix that. Put the armor light in.

I had to take a long to do this, but hold a little extra out.

 

So I can do the armor light right away. And pay that, pay that interest on the armor light, huh?

 

One way or another.

Yeah. I know.

It’s worth it. This stuff is nice. I still, I haven’t finished installing all hers. I installed the front front seat and the back seats, but I haven’t installed the cargo area yet.

Oh, you did the cargo too. Oh, you got the full package. Yeah. I did the full. She did. Well, I didn’t do it. She did. That was her, that was her number one purchase. She wanted to make it EJS this year with his armor. She got the full kit from front to back.

Did you get it from Mr. Lad, the guy that we’ve had on the show a couple of times? Um, whoever was in the armor light booth there, the older gentleman. Yeah. I think, uh, I think he was there. I went by the booth to say hello to him. I saw him last year at EJS, but, uh, he wasn’t in the booth when I, uh, when I came by, but, uh, yeah. So, uh, good interview. Great product.

Yeah. Yeah. Tony, your interview kind of hooked me on it.

You know, when you did that interview, I listened to it kind of hooked me on it. I was like, damn, I want that. And then I thought Roger’s wife, she does his G. Now, like, oh man, that just looks so nice. Well, you know, Bill has it in both his jeeps is 24 and 22, 23. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I think Bill, the first one that he bought it, he bought it last year.

She had that thing spotless anyways. So it looked great. Well, just being, just the thing about not having that smell, that moldy smell, if it gets wet inside and you know, at some point it’s going to get wet inside your Jeep. You’re just kind of like. You do know, Keith, that I did most detailing on her Jeep. She didn’t do much.

Especially after pulling the fucking seats out, I figured I might as well go through in detail the thing.

Yeah. It looked real good.

So did your dash. That was kind of interesting.

Yeah. It didn’t do whatever.

It’s different.

Yeah. It’s a toy.

Yeah. My daughter says, hello. I can’t hear. Hi.

So Keith, did you say that the, the head is going to be your daily driver? Yeah.

That’s cool. Can you take it out? Before I forget you and you in the ocean, start a Google photos or folder and you guys should drop in.

Tiger.

I’ll put a Google graph. I took many. I wish I started Google draft for, for, uh, Tigerton just to preview. You guys can all drop any photos that you guys have a weekend. Share the photos. Here’s our trail damage for today.

Okay.

My, uh, those have been liberty. Okay. Yeah. Am I still muted? I can’t tell. I don’t know if I’m muted or not. Okay.

It was like the same the day after Larry had his, he had his knee. I don’t know if you want to see my picture though. That’s a Garrett’s first trail dam or is that your first trail damage Garrett? Oh, that’s just an opportunity to see. Yeah. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not. That’s an opportunity to upgrade. He got some pinstripping somewhere. I don’t remember where. Oh, here. I hear. Turkey finger, Rick. We see it in the shot.

Oh,

it happened.

That’s why I was never very good at porn.

Anyway, he’s got some too much information.

Yeah. Really glad I had that.

I can just, well, the top of the side. You’re falling sideways, right?

 

Oh, there we go. All right. Who’s got the sticker? I got the only Chuck. That’s pretty.

 

I got to have it right this second. Oh man, I’m going to be around all week. You got your own.

 

They’re doing their own show out there. That’s smart.

 

Where’s the, um, mobile then?

 

I got all my stickers. I got one of them. I got, I got one for my way up, but I forgot to get one for Sedona. He’s there.

 

What would you call it? Snobby meal trail.

 

How hot is that there, Rick?

 

So here we go.

 

We got John rocking the JTS flag.

 

You got Bill, Bill rocking.

 

Look, even on the OTJ.

 

Oh, it’s good that we got a TJ out there.

 

One bed, 10 hour drive in that open top really. One bed.

 

Don’t have to worry about the AC.

 

Nope.

 

Actually, I can turn the AC on and my feet get. Bro.

 

I got my flip flops on.

 

I wonder when Zappa is going to get there. Maybe he’s going to be there tomorrow.

 

I think he’s there tonight. I think you stay in a, I’mSC in the air of the agreed. Okay. Marble Falls. They’ll, they’ll, they’ll help drain plugs on your transfer case to load a Jeep.

 

I got some.

 

They stick. We do stick out a little bit more more than more. I did that at small room in well, which is the, so these things cracked me up on the gladiators.

 

I mean, I know that just, there’s a spar out there.

 

I think they did that because of the collision avoidance system, which they don’t need to do, but that’s, I think that’s the reason why they started out there. It doesn’t work.

 

You don’t have it on your, the attorney. No, no, I didn’t get that on mine.

 

I guess you know you’re close to a collision when your tail light gets ripped off. So this is pretty cool. The, uh, the, the second replacement Oracle tail light came in today. So I, I will actually have two functional tail lights going up and back from, uh, the event.

 

Don’s Jeep is so wide now. All he can do is just drive straight down the trail. Cause it’s, that’s all the room he’s got. There’s no wiggling to the left or right. Hey, if it’s a tank, you can go wherever you want to go straight sideways. Doesn’t matter.

 

Well, he’s got his wheels turned. So, well, it’s, it’s going.

 

So I know this is a little boring for you. Uh, uh, uh, audio only, uh, listeners, but you need to check out the YouTube channel so you can see all the pictures of these fabulous Jeeps at sunset at a hidden balls adventure park and near marble falls, Texas.

 

Didn’t that didn’t, I think John said earlier, there’s no night wheeling on Thursday.

 

No, no night. Cause we, yeah, we were going to go do Tim, him or F O whatever that thing is.

 

Well, he’s going to go do that. But, uh, yeah, that, uh, that neutral we did this afternoon that, uh, the midnight run, that thing was, uh, I mean, it was pretty challenging, but it wasn’t like, like, so over to the top, you thought he was going to ruin your Jeep or anything. You know, and Rick, you’ve been to hidden falls before, right? You were with us last year. Yeah. It was out here last year.

 

Yeah. It’s a lot cooler up on top of this mountain right now than it was at day.

 

Oh God. Yeah. I think I told Chuck that you just have to keep your hands in your Jeep. Otherwise you’ll burn yourself on the sun.

 

It’s a cool sound. Nice though. Yeah. It feels good. That’s good. A breeze up here on all this. Oh, I just figured it out. Did you find it Steve? Well, I was trying to figure out where I bought my lift from and I thought I bought it from Northridge, but then I remembered I bought it from a friend who wants a body shop and he ordered it from Mopar directly.

 

It’s because I’m trying to do that build that get all the costs, like we talked about on the round table.

 

And I finally realized why I couldn’t find any receipts in my email for the lift. But I found everything else.

 

So I’ve heard that. I don’t want to know what I’m thinking.

 

Well, it’s one of those things, right? From an insurance standpoint, it got me thinking, you know, especially as I was listening to the round table today, I took a walk at once every day and I was listening. I’m like, Oh yeah, I should probably start looking for all this stuff.

 

Yeah, that’s a good point too. I agree with you there.

 

You know what I’m planning on doing is something happened. Well, I keep, you know, I keep a lot of stuff on the one drive, like all the torque specs I have on one drive, right? So wherever I’m at, I can pull up specs if I’m doing a repair somewhere. But then I started thinking next, you probably put all the receipts in one spot.

 

I don’t know if I could find all the receipts for all the crap. Well, that’s a nice thing. Like you said, I don’t know if I want to. Well, yeah, that’s the more I’m going to try to get rid of all the evidence.

 

But yeah, yeah, I do. And I don’t, I do for insurance purposes, but I don’t want to know what I spent. I do for insurance purposes, but I don’t want to know what I spent.

 

Oh, it is the less we’ll be spending a hell of a lot more. Yeah. How much that was the most expensive thing that I don’t know. Yeah, the nice, the nice thing is I’m going to be able to move parts without having to re-spend. And like if I had bought a new Jeep, I probably have a JL and I have to buy different metal coat to ship it or something like that. This happens.

 

Mine’s a seven.

 

Oh, so it’s the same year. Yeah. And seven through 13 are pretty much the same. So the parts swap. Hey, Rich, have a drink. It’s if he was having a problem with it. Yeah.

 

Yeah. That’s the biggest reason I’m also pulling the trigger on it is most of my parts swap. So I don’t just send the question. Who has the most light lumens once that sun goes down? I don’t think that group is big into lights.

 

Yeah. He’s got a couple of them on there. Right now my, my rock lights aren’t even, uh, I had to disconnect them to run some other part.

 

No, I hadn’t reconnected them yet. So, but there’s a Greg or yet. Oh, he’s definitely okay.

 

Thank you for all the info, Greg. Um, today. Oh, yeah.

 

Yeah. The one behind.

 

Yeah.

 

He was, I called me tonight. Um, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. He really think I should sell it that cheap. That was really easy. I was like, no, it wasn’t. I said, I had to have Tony put it on the discord thing. So hundreds of people could see it. I said, that was, it wasn’t easy.

 

I still think it was lucky. I’m really surprised we hit anybody with $20,000 on the discord server.

 

Yeah.

 

Yeah. He sent me a text saying he was going to have it detailed or place a windshield before I pick it up.

 

Oh, really?

 

That’s what he said. Oh, that’s extra nice of them. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the detailing and cool. I get that. It was placing the windshield. I didn’t think it was bad. I can’t tell him any pictures. Well, I think it just has a little crack in it because he sent me the text saying that it had a little crack in it. But if he’s willing to replace it at his cost, that’s just good for you.

 

50,000.

 

That’s a really cheap. It’s just a.

 

No, so three sec. You know, you know, Greg, I was going to, I was back and forth yesterday. I was going to call you and say that we should, we should buy it. We should have bought that together and turned it into a lunch wagon. So he put, um, he sent me a whole bunch more pictures that I didn’t put on that Google drive.

 

Yes. I was to me if you would.

 

But it’s apparently he took like, and I don’t remember seven or eight pictures yesterday and it looks better than I thought it was gonna, you know, he sent the one picture yesterday and I was like, I thought it looks pretty good, but yeah, it looks pretty damn good. So yeah, I’ll add all those to the Google drive. I just can’t do it while I’m on the show.

 

Cause I don’t know how to multiply tasks.

 

Or if you could send a few my way for him to send me the picture of the title. I get that. I can put it in the pan.

 

Oh yeah. I might be able to find me, but it’s not here.

 

So two birds with one stone.

 

Thank you. I just talked to him. So we will file. Okay. So I know. No, no, no, wait.

 

Right there.

 

Or yeah, we got it set up for me down there. The 20 are my fly out there on the 29th.

 

And pick it up. Oh, cool.

 

I’m glad we were able to get us to get that picked up, uh, uh, get that, uh, sale set up so quickly. I’m really surprised.

 

Well, I was afraid that if he, if he listed it anywhere else, it would like, even if he put it on Facebook, it would, it would go way too fast at the price. He’s asking. You know, he’s not, I don’t think he’s asking enough for it, but that’s good. Well, he’s realizing that when YouTube live right now, it’s probably trying to figure out how they can get ahold of the guy so they can offer more. Oh, is it, does anybody post the pictures on YouTube life? No, Tony’s on YouTube live right now. Isn’t it? Yeah.

 

Yeah. Tony’s on the show’s on YouTube live right now. Okay. Well, nobody’s watching. Okay. Mine.

 

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