Jeep Badges?
On tonight’s episode we’ll be asking you…
What do you like, or dislike about the show?
Jeep Honor Badge, yeh or nay?
Does your significant other wheel with you?
What is the point of a 6 wheel Jeep?
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I’m Tony and I’ll welcome all you new listeners and of course our regulars to the Jeep Talk Show roundtable. I’m your host and I’m excited to have you here for this special gathering of passionate Jeep enthusiasts. On tonight’s episode, we will be asking you, what do you like or dislike about the show? This show right here, the Jeep Talk Show. Also, Jeep Honor Badge, is it a yay or nay for you? Does your significant other wheel with you? What is the point of a six wheeled Jeep?
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And if you’d like to be a viewer, you can watch this episode on YouTube, just go to youtube.com and search for Jeep Talk Show. And if you subscribe, you will get notified whenever we have new episodes. Every episode we do is on a YouTube. Hello, zoom people. And now we join the zoom people already in progress, be a pain in the rear and not shut up. And, and other folks just have some really valuable information, but they aren’t willing to just, you know, just blast in and, and, and take over the conversation. So this is a great, uh, uh, median, I believe. So yeah, it’s really neat. And we’re all very lucky to be able to have high speed internet. Everybody put Chuck and, uh, where we can do this, what type Roger is type a home on the episodes. Um, I feel like a lot of Jeep things and not just the show, but a lot of stuff is just, um, buy, buy, buy all these parts that manufacturers make and everything. There’s no one talking about like junkyard swaps or anything. So if you can, yeah, like there’s a lot of people who don’t have a new jail and can go buy something off the shelf. Some people have Cherokees and some people have TJs and whatever. Not everyone has the new Jeeps. So maybe a segment for like newbies like, Hey, this axle fits in here, or you can do this break upgrade or whatever. Um, Larry’s here, isn’t he? Yep. Larry’s here. Larry, is that something up your alley? I know that you do, uh, the welding stuff and fabrication stuff for our, uh, for our flagship episode. Is that something that maybe you could take on as far as a little, I mean, I know you mess around a lot with older vehicles. Uh, they don’t necessarily, they’re not necessarily Jeeps, but, uh, I know you hit the junkyard and you do that sort of thing. Yeah. Unfortunately, that’s one of those things where Josh was really good with knowing, you know, like they call the other pastor packs, putting all the, you know, all this stuff together for the older Jeeps, um, something we can look into. Okay. No, it’s a great idea. I have a tendency, I have a tendency to stick with what, what I know. And, uh, I, I think that’s one of the reasons why there’s a lot of limitation. Again, I love having people involved in the show. The, the more we can get out to people, uh, information or entertainment. I absolutely love, uh, I just have a tendency to not, um, I don’t like pushing the volunteers to do a lot of stuff. Uh, so I have a tendency to try to do more of it. Uh, cause I can, uh, I feel, I feel better about, you know, me pushing myself to do more of it. So, but yeah, absolutely. I love great ideas. All right. So we’re just wrapping up the, what do you like or dislike about the show? I really appreciate your, your feedback and it’s, it’s great that you guys actually had something to say and didn’t, uh, just sit there and not want to be, um, um, you know, saying anything cause you’re gonna, you’re going to get treated like Travis or Roger. So really appreciate it. All right. So, uh, the, I’m sorry, go ahead. Uh, he’s from Wisconsin. Hey Tony, just a small criticism. You know, I love the show. I love all the episodes, but I listen, I listen to them. Here it comes. And it’s a small one. Maybe, you know, I’ve heard you say something about the team members and this and that. Maybe just look at, you know, a segment once in a while. It doesn’t have to be every week. Pick on one of us. Um, you know, just say, let’s talk about your bill. What are you doing? What, you know, cause you know, John’s talked about his build and what he’s been doing on the round tables, but it’d be nice to hear about everybody else’s still. You know, what, uh, Zabo is doing right now and heard a little bit about it, but not the full, what he’s going to do and what his plan is. Here’s his plan changes. Rick just found a problem in his DJ and he’s been talking about stretching it. It’d be nice to, I think it would be nice to hear about people’s build. Oh yeah. Just a thought. No, it’s a great thought. Uh, but I want to look at doing that. It’s a, I think it’s a scheduling thing too. As far as when do we get them on,
and how we go about, you know, getting that done without it being something we record and then have to edit into one of the other episodes. I love the, the interactive, uh, content. So, uh, yeah, it just might be a scheduling, uh, type, uh, situation, but no, it’s, it’s great idea. Uh, I know that the, uh, the team, uh, the Jeep talk show team has pushed a lot to do, uh, something with, uh, at least on social media, uh, for, um, uh, the monthly Jeep or, uh, show us your Jeep, uh, as kind of a way to promote the Jeep talk show on social media. And, um, I’m just curious, what do you guys think about that? It seems to me that’s been done a lot. I don’t know how successful it was for people, but, uh, uh, what do you guys think about that? I think it’s a great idea. I like that. Yeah. Just post in the discord and see who wants to do it. Yeah. You could, you can make that a quick segment on your show too. Five minutes, you know, Hey, Jeep, well, I know that one, one podcast has Jeep of the week, but you know, you could have Jeep of the month or whatever. I don’t know. I think that’s cool idea. And you can, you can take the shyest person out there and you asking about his Jeep or a 20 minute conversation on your hand real fast. I was just about to say, you can ask me any other question. When you start talking about my Jeep, I won’t shut up. Oh, very, very good. Okay. Well, anyway, let’s get on to our next question. Again, thank you for the feedback. Uh, Jeep honor badge, honor badge, yay or nay. Okay. I love the Jeep badge of honor program. I love it. I mean, first of all, I think it’s, it’s a great resource because, you know, I mean, a lot of us were in our own little area, but if you go to some area, you don’t know the trails, but I think they’ve done a pretty good job of picking good trails to at least get an introduction to an area. I mean, I think that’s a really good valuable tool with the Jeep badge of honor program. Um, but I also think it’s cool. I like the badges. I think it’s a great, I mean, it’s a free program. You send it, they send you, they send you the badges. It’s no cost to you. Um, I don’t know. I love the program. Honestly, I think it looked cool on the side of my Jeep too. So, Oh, and just, just in case that you guys don’t know, if, if you’re new to the whole concept of a Jeep honor badges, uh, you just download the app on your phone. Uh, it doesn’t matter if it’s Android or iPhone, uh, what is it? Is it Jeep honor badge or honor?
The app is badge of honor badge of honor. And then, uh, then with that app, uh, you just, when you’re on or near the trail, you can check in using that app if they’re cell service. And I think there’s a way to do it. Uh, uh, like, um, do it even though you’re offline. And then when you get back online, it takes care of it, but you could, if you’re, if you’re offline, it has a GPS, the program will boot up and it’ll say check in. And then once you get off the trail and you get back into cell phone coverage, it will, it will say, it will remind you to, to, uh, and then you request your badge. Yeah. So, and all you have to do is the inner near the, the badge, uh, I’m sorry, inner near the trail, uh, for the badge you want. And then, uh, and you can get it. I think you can actually check into three different trails there at the parking lot of hell’s revenge. So when we were at hidden falls, um, I was at Leslie, was that her name? The other, for her first time we left. I think so. Yes. Yeah. So when we were kind of at an impasse or waiting for some people to come by, um, I was asking her, how was it going? And you like, and she said, Oh, I love it. And then I pointed at my honor badges on the side. I was like, have you checked in? She was like, well, I don’t know about this. So I was explaining to her, she was super excited about it. So, um, I think it’s important for new wheelers to know about it. I think it’s just kind of like a rite of passage and whether you put them on your Jeep or you don’t, or you have them on your wall at home, I think it just feels good when you get them in the mail and you’re like, yeah, I did that. I did that. So she was pretty excited to do it. Yeah. And I would, I would add to those as well. I don’t know if it’s like, well, back when I was in the service or whatever, when we would be deployed, we go different areas, we’d always look for the patches and we had always kind of bring it back. So I had several patches from like a lot of the bases I was deployed to or operations I was a part of or whatever. It was, it’s kind of, I’m not saying it’s the same thing, but it’s kind of that same collector. Like this is something I went out and accomplished or whatever. So I like them. And I can tell you, I’ve been to a couple of Jeep shows and had the Jeep out a couple of times. I’ve got fairly decent builds. I’m not saying it’s Sabo’s level or whatever, but you know, it’s a decent build, but there’s more people that come up and point to those badges that are out there. Like that’s one of the biggest things everybody comes up and points to on that. Like, did you go to these? Did you go, this is Colorado, this is Arizona. It’s like, I’m like, yep, yep. That’s, that’s why they’re on there. So if nothing else, it’s a great conversational piece. Exactly. And it goes along with the whole, you know, getting out there and using a Jeep and, you know, once you get brand new wheels on there, like say you went out and swapped them out and they don’t have any rock rash or anything on them, you know, everybody’s trying to do the whole mall crawler thing. You still got the badges on the side, right? You’d be like, I just haven’t scuffed these up yet. Well, that’s what, that’s what I like about it is, you know, I’ll go fill up with gas or I’ll, I’ll be out even at a mall, but, but if you’re, I pulled up at a hotel and guys would walk up and start looking at the badges and they started a whole, it’s a whole conversation, whether they’re Jeepers and they’re interested or whether they’re non Jeepers and they’re just curious about what it’s about. I think it just, it, it reinforces our whole off-road community and brings up awareness. You know, you talked about having trails selected. I mean, that’s the way people nominate the trails is really cool trails for their area. And granted, there are some that are really, really super easy, like in Virginia or Florida that you’re like, wow, this is like a level two trail. Why is this on here? But it’s because it may be one of the better trails they have in that area, but then you get into other areas and you may have seven or eights or nines that you’re, that you’re asked to run. But I think it’s a great program. It’s free. You know, I guess, I don’t know whether anybody hates on it as much as they hate on things like ducks, but
I like to, I put them on the side of my Jeep just to, just to create conversations. Even when I’m hearing down at the beginning of an off-road and I don’t know everybody in the group, they start coming up and looking at, like you were saying, John is, oh, you’ve been to Colorado. Oh, you’ve been to Moab. You know, it’s cool. I’d agree. So, so as far as, you know, being areas, area specific and being the, you know, not necessarily best trails everywhere. So we’ve got, I think just over a third of them, we’ve got 23 or 25 badges. And so, you know, just an example, we did a 7,000 mile trek up through Montana and Colorado and stuff last year, got two more. And
you know, it’s, it’s, it’s a good thing to like, one, encourage you to go see a different place in the country you haven’t seen, but yeah, I think there are reliably decent trails that you can find and you can actually see some reviews on. And then it’s, it’s a good, good way to spark some trips and go wheel in a different area. I agree with that 100%. Yeah. I mean, you may go for one trail that’s a badge and then there’s like six others around it that you get to be exposed to because you went there for that one, one badge trail. Sorry, Rick. Go ahead. Hey, Rick from Arkansas. And one of the things that, that I use it for is like, when, when we have new jeepers going to, to a park, you know, we can always tell them, so, you know, there’s these three badge, badge of honor trails. For sure you can do this because, you know, generally you can do the badge of honor trail, you know, not always, but generally in a, a stock rig and it kind of gives them an idea, especially they got some people leading them through it that, that, hey, you know, this, this should be pretty safe, you know, but, and, and I, I enjoyed the program.
And I think maybe that’s why they made y’all’s jeep so big. So they, you got all that room to put on my jeep.
Oh, that’s funny. You started on the other side already. Yeah, I’m on the other side now, although I left one for Holy Cross for our next trip. So yeah, I tried to keep them state to state thing, but yeah, I did on the other side now. So yeah. So, so chip, you mentioned that not everybody that talks to you about the, the badges are Jeep people have, do any of you guys know chipped by anybody know of a similar type thing for other vehicles, Toyotas, uh, Subarus, uh, any kind of thing that shows the trail that they were on. Cause this is a, it’s a Jeep program. It’s through Jeep and, uh, the motorcycle has one for the, um, back country discovery routes. I don’t know if you guys are familiar with those. Uh, there’s some North and South routes all over the country. They kind of have, it’s a sticker program, but it’s sort of like the badge program for motorcycles. So anyways, the Subaru don’t have much room left for stickers after all the rainbow signs and equals. Oh no, I know that I know that when I thought you identified like that, chip that was last month. That’s when we’re in Colorado, um, there’s a bunch of, a bunch of shops in your, I just have the stickers. So like any people can pick up those stickers for those trails, specific ones. I know that you can get all those. So like anybody can pick those up just depending on the town, if they have them. And they have more than just the badge trail. That was when I was in Colorado. That’s one thing I, because most places you go to, you’re like, I was saying earlier, you’re going to go there, you have one or two badge trails in the area, but if it’s a long distance, you’re probably going to be doing several trails out there. Like, you know, you’re going to Colorado and you’re going to hit Holy Cross, but you’re probably going to hit five other. I don’t think there’s one for China with his Gulch, which that’s going to be one degree or two. Those stickers they normally have, have all of them. So I actually been picking up the stickers that Garrett was talking about and I’ve got them like on my inside of my back tailgate, whatever I can or slap them on the toolbox or whatever it is. So, you know, I keep those or my power tank or cooler or whatever, just kind of throw those on there. So, you know, the badges and stickers together, they’re pretty cool. Tell a story about what you’re going through. Yeah. I had a few, I had a few from the other trails that you did, like corkscrew and everything. Cause they don’t have a badge of honor. They just, you just get the sticker.
I know. Oh, I apologize.
They’re not necessarily single track. So we’ve done probably a third of the mid Atlantic BDR and the G and had no issues. So it’s definitely another, like if you want to do a long, you know, week long trip or weekend long trip, look at those BDRs, it’s not that way to do it. Yep. I agree. I agree. They’re a little, they’re a little tame a lot, you know, for Jeep, but, but they are nice. They’re nice. They’re beautiful usually. So you guys haven’t heard of Toyota’s having any kind of a badge program?
I think it depends on how many. No, it’s a program started in the, I don’t know, what was it 2012 or whatever, when they started doing that. And it was, it was just a publicity thing by Jeep and it took off. We order their badges or whatever. I think that the uniqueness about the G badge of honor system is that the manufacturer is sending them to you. Yeah. It’s not, you’re not buying them off of the website or buying them from a gas station, whatever. Like you’re going to checking in and then Jeep themselves send you the badge. I’ve seen a number of Toyotas with some sticker that’s like turd. I don’t know what that is, but that’s what it stands for. Okay.
And how many max tracks they carry? I’ve got a TRD on my driveway. Let’s, let’s wake up. There was a podcast that gave out badges for paid subscribers, but I don’t know what happened to that. I thought it was badges for those that weren’t paid subscribers. That was the whole rat bastard thing.
All of those things.
Yeah, I think I’ll leave it there. I think it looks good on that line.
People, I mean, people, a lot of people complain and kind of fuss about the duck thing. And I, I understand it’s kind of a cliche thing or whatever, but we are, our group that I belong in central Iowa, so we don’t have a lot of trails or any. So we’ll go and travel to and do 4th of July parades and different things like that. And, and, and I buy a bunch of ducks and I actually throw ducks out of my vehicle to the kids and all these different things. And then when we park later, oftentimes those folks are coming up and, and folks and adults with their children. And they’re talking about, Hey, we love your vehicle and thank you for this and all those things. And it’s just another way to spread that kind of Jeep fun component to a younger group. And we all know what we learn as children, what we start liking as kids carries through to our adulthood. And I think that if we would just embrace that and good heavens, when you consider the young lady who started this whole thing, we just lost her. And not that that should be the end all, and we should all do it because somebody, but it really has been something that I think bridges gaps and brings more people to the community. And so I think we should, I, I try to participate in that. And I, I think that it’s something that is good for the Jeep community. It’s like being an ambassador. It’s your, your entry, a friendly entry because Jeepers, especially the hardcore ones can be pretty surly looking and their, their rigs can be even scary looking, looking at you as Abbo. And it’s just, you know, it’s a friendly way to bring him in. I think we ought to incorporate beads though. So we’re throwing beads at people. You should hit Greg up. He’s got two large garbage bags full of them. Now, I have the criticisms I’ve heard with the program is that the trails that they put on the badge of honor are, are getting a lot of traffic and, you know, it’s kind of actual environment. So there is a negative to that, but, but I’m also like, okay, it’s just public land or it’s not public land. You know, I’m like, so I, so I got two cents for that. I don’t think it’s because they’re badge of honor trails. I think it’s because the explosion of new people getting into the industry and getting into off-roading because the vehicles keep getting better and better every year. So because there’s 3 million new JKs and a couple million new JLs that have really opened up this passion for so many new people, that’s why the trails are getting more populated. It has nothing to do with a badge of honor trail. I think that’s just people looking for an excuse. Oh, I like that. That’s, that’s very, uh, more jeepers, uh, as a, as a cheap talk show provider. I love that idea. I agree with you, but also you’re right that the sales have increased, but let’s be real. How many of those people actually really wheel their Jeep? Well, it’s a percentage. So the percentage of off-roaders, the people that actually off-road their vehicle on any form of regular basis and Jeep has done studies on it. Um, but it’s like less than 7%. So 7% of people that are buying them actually do all these off-roading in these trails, but 7% of 5 million is a fairly large number. When you think like the TJ production run was barely 2 million, right? So 2 million TJs. And, and we look at TJs as, you know, kind of one of the last real Jeeps, even though it’s not, um, even I look at it that way, I would rather have a TJ than a JL, but, but it’s, um, you know, there was only a couple million TJs built in a 10 year span in the last 15 years. We’re getting close to 10 million Jeeps. So, so that’s a big number. And it’s 7% of those people are getting into the hobby, the off-road hobby. If it was 7% 15 years ago, that’s a much smaller number. So, so that’s why it’s populating the trails.
It’s everything. Yeah. If hell’s revenge wasn’t a bad monitor trail to be so popular, I don’t know. So hell’s revenge has been one of the most popular trails way before the badge of honor ever became a thing. So when I started going to Moab and started jeeping, um, in Moab circa 2004, hell’s revenge was the most popular trail. Um, and it’s always been one of the most popular trails because it was right next to, um, lines back and it, you didn’t used to have to pay to get there. Um, and it was open 24 hours a day unlike now, but hell’s revenge has always been one of the most iconic. And the reason it was one of the most iconic is because all the magazines covered it, because that was one of the first trails they ever did. And because it was the first trail they did, all the magazines covered it. And until the internet came out, that’s where we got our knowledge. So if hell’s revenge was the go-to first trail for everyone to do, that’s what everybody did. Um, it being a badge of honor trail means nothing because every trail in Moab is a badge of honor trail, not just hell’s revenge. Um, in fact, I know people that drive to the entrance of each trail to get their badge of honor and they don’t even do the trail.
So not all trails, I mean, behind the rocks, not that’s, that’s a great trail. So I mean, I don’t know. Well, yeah, not every single trail, but the vast majority, you know, if there’s a hundred trails, 94 of them are badge of honor trails. So eight or nine, but okay. But my question, I thought it was way more. No, no, no, eight or nine. I used to do, I used to do slick rock on a mountain bike in the early eighties. No, but I remember seeing it’s not brag. But I just wanted to back with a bagpipe attached to your back. I was younger and more in shape back then. But yeah. And Jeep Safari has been going for over 50 years. Right. So it’s not like it’s a new thing. And hell’s revenge has been one of the staple trails since the beginning. I just wonder, I think it increases traffic to it though. Personally, I do. I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know. Cause I mean, even today you see more side by sides and mountain bikes on it than you ever did before. There’s a lot of people that don’t know the history of Jeeps when they buy a Jeep and they don’t know it’s the most iconic trail. They don’t read magazines, but they honor and they see hell’s revenge and they go, that’s pretty damn cool. And then they, they Google the YouTube videos on it. Truly YouTube videos on it. Yeah. New hell has to go to Moab. So.
Exactly. Yeah. And actually social media may play into this as well, because there’s a lot of people going and doing these things. And when you see people doing something in a beautiful environment, like Moab, it’s just like, well, man, if that joker can do it, I could do it. Well, it’s like Black Bear Pass, you know, every video starts with death, death trail. Most dangerous. I mean, seriously, your pass is not a hard trail. I mean, but you know, I guarantee the increase of traffic on Black Bear has a lot to do with, with the freaking YouTube and the badge of honor program. I think you need our opinions. All right.
Because with YouTube videos, like you’d say, with those clickbait thumbnails, you know, although I will say I’ve done Black Bear Pass once. I’m never doing it again.
It’s not a hard trail, but it’s sketchy. You know, sketchy AF is what it feels like going down. So it’s a one and done. Yeah. Rick from Arkansas. I came more from the biker community when I bought my Jeep. I didn’t know a whole lot about the whole Jeep and community and where they went and what you did and all that. And I didn’t, I didn’t know about King of the Hammers. That’s about all I knew about. I’d seen some stuff about King of the Hammers. And the only reason I knew about that is it came up because I was big into the all of man race. I don’t know if you’ll familiar with that motorcycles, but in, and that just kind of came up behind that for some reason. But I think the, I think the badge of honor trail when I discovered that that’s when it kind of all the trails kind of blew up for me and I started seeing all that, you know, everything that was, was out there, which was way more than I imagined. And I’ve only been in this sit in the Jeep thing for about two years now. And so for me personally, I mean, you know, coming from a biker background, you know, not a jeeper background, it did, it opened it all up for me. Rick, are you, are you thinking you’re going to get really excited about the whole Jeep thing and maybe get into it hardcore?
He’s coming to Colorado with us now. Do you know that Tony? There’s a rumor. Yeah.
He better, he better. Right now my motorcycles all over here covered up with the yeah. Boxes for the sake of that brought you Jeep. I got to say for me, the way that bad John are played in, I got my Jeep and I found out immediately about the badge of honor program. And, you know, I, I had always heard about Moab and I knew it was great for jeeping, but I didn’t know anything about it. And I saw, well, there’s several trails that are on the badge on or there on my trip, I was going through California too. And I knew I’d need to get back to Texas. So I’ve been used to bad John or to find a trail in Arizona. And this is when I didn’t know anything at all about jeeping, but it helped find me find a couple of trails just because of the bad John program. And they were on it. So it, it was appealing to me. And of course, you know, you get that little guy feeling of getting your badge in the mail and knowing that you accomplished something. So I’ll do a quick plug here. You know, talking about finding trails in various places of the country, a friend of the show, trails off road is a really good way of finding off road trails. And there’s several programs out there that do that, but trails off road is a good thing to check out. Just go over to the years, whatever your phone story is and download it trails off road. Or you can just go to the website. I mentioned Tony that the badge on our trails are integrated in the trails off road. Yep, it is. I found that out. And I think it was, Todd was telling us that EJS this year at the diner, how you can just go, go in there and check in. It’ll take you over to the, the, the honor badge program, the app. It’s a good idea. I love that. I love that program. I use it all the time. So do you guys know? Go ahead. It was that. Yeah, I was just saying there was like six. There’s 68 or 69 badge of honor trails.
69. Yeah, I’m gonna go with 69. That’s good. Good number round number anyway. But so, you know, I’ve, I’ve seen people before they’re like, Oh, I’ve got three badges left to go. They have traveled the entire country just to hit the badge trails, you know, and it’s, it’s pretty cool. Hey, that’s a good excuse for me. So the, now we’ve talked about the honor badge program. We’ve mentioned the ducks are Jeep. We’ve mentioned briefly the Jeep wave. Is, is there any other Jeep specific thing that you guys know that is not necessarily unique, but things that people that aren’t into Jeeps or they’re just getting into Jeeps that they should know about. Keep talking. Going broke.
The modifications never end. Sorry. No, that’s right. You never done. You’re never done with your Jeep. I’ll tell you what Jeepers can do like no other. And that is back there. Jeeps all up next to each other to polls for pictures.
So, so Tony, you bring that up. It’s interesting. I mean, going from, you know, I wrote Harley’s for 40 years and we’d have poker runs, right? So we’d get together and we’d do a fundraiser of some kind of do a poker run and we’d all be riding our bikes. Well, I’ve seen more and more or the local Jeep clubs, whether they’re off-road or not, they’re doing poker runs or they’re doing
you’ve got a caravan of Jeeps and that’s a lot of fun. You get, you get eight, 10, 12, 20 Jeeps lined up. It’s like a little Jeep parade going around the country.
I love that thing. I haven’t seen one of these things in a while. Maybe it’s because of the COVID thing made it stop happening. But when there was a sick child or there was a firefighter that had passed away or a police officer that had passed away, you see these, these clubs or, or multiple clubs, we’d get together and do those kind of like Jeep parades, absolutely nothing off-road, just being seen a respect for, for somebody that maybe needs a little special thing. I haven’t seen one of those in a while. We do, we do a toy run every year. So there’s a toy run and there’s, I don’t even know, 500 Jeeps. And it’s hectic because they don’t shut down the roads. You just follow the group in the direction you’re going.
Yeah. You shut down the road. Your group shuts down the road. Yeah. 500 is a lot, man. Yeah, that is. But, but there’s, you know, even in some of these instances where I’ve been driving in a group of say 15 Jeeps, there are people stopping to let the Jeeps go on. Like it’s a parade and they don’t want to get in the middle of it. Sometimes you get in there. But tomorrow our local Jeep club is going to do a parade through the local VA hospital. And so we’re going to probably have 25 Jeeps there that are going to do the just recognition for the veterans in the VA. Very nice.
This is Ed from Charlotte with, with Matt, of course, in the garage. I’m sorry.
Ed from Charlotte. No, no, I’m sorry that you’re there with Matt.
So Tony, you were talking about, you know, the Jeep community and doing some things. We actually have a local group here called Jeepers for Caws. And one of the things that they just did, there was a young child who, boy, who passed away. He loved Jeeps. He loved riding around in his grandfather’s like original 50 something in wheelies. And so Jeepers for calls, one of the things he asked, he passed away from cancer. One of the things he asked was for a funeral procession of nothing but Jeeps. And Jeepers for Caws did it. They had 60 some, I think 64 Jeeps total in that procession. So it was actually, it was sad that it was a very special thing to it. Yeah.
That’s wonderful. Oh, and I haven’t mentioned this in quite a while. And for any kind of event that you guys are having, or you’re having a parade or any of that stuff, and you want to get the word out, you can call our voicemail line. Just go to Jeep talk show.com slash contact and leave us a voicemail about your event. We’ll play it on the show and get you a little exposure for things. Just make sure that you do it at least a couple of weeks prior to the event so that people have a chance to download, listen to the episode.
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calling in the 13th. That’s right. You see that Tony, the 13th of July coming up, there’s a back to blue. We had four officers killed in the line of duty here in Charlotte. And there’s two clubs that have come together and they’re doing a big charity run from Moore’s old North Carolina down to Indian trail. And then at the VA center or the VFW, they’re going to have a large concert. I guess there’s four different country artists singing. It’s donation only, but then there’s a raffle, 50 50, 50 50 raffle as well. But a lot of different items at 100% of the proceeds are going back to the four families that lost their loved ones in the line of duty. So I’m looking forward to that next weekend, the 13th, but Charlotte still does a lot. You know, I started some events way back when and my town is just rolling with them. So I’m proud, but I’m looking forward to that event. And I will 100%, I guarantee there’s 500 plus chiefs that show up as big as they’ve grown it. And is the radio stations involved, just two different clubs. It’s going to be a huge one. But I’ll definitely have some footage that I’ll be sharing from that event. Good.
And Travis to that in October, the Charlotte Jeep club is going to sponsor another event around that same, same thing, but it’s actually for the officers who survived. Uh, it’s going to happen late, probably mid to late October. Uh, Charlotte Muggler speedways, don’t let us host it. And we’re going to try to get all 12 clubs from around Charlotte.
I’ve seen. Well, like I always say, uh, the, uh, the, the round table continues on even after we stop recording. So the best way for you to be able to enjoy the round table is to join us. And you just go to Jeep talk show.com slash contact to find out how it’s very, very simple. Uh, I think everybody since the especially since COVID is in a zoom meeting. And that’s exactly what we do, uh, to, uh, to get everybody together and have a conversation. So it’s a lot of fun, uh, a lot of voices and it’s getting bigger all the time. We’d love to have you join and you can get in there and fight and try to try to talk like everybody was talking about tonight. Uh, it’s, it’s a wonderful thing. I love having, uh, the, the ability to crank this thing up and have so many people join and sharing their, uh, their, their thoughts and ideas with everybody else. All right. So coming up next week, or actually not next week, uh, next, uh, the next Friday, this Friday, uh, on our JTS interview episode, uh, Randy with progressive suspension, and progressive suspension.com. I think you’re going to find this very interesting. They have, uh, some, some very nice shocks that they’ve designed that, uh, have a tendency to do the, what the, what a shock needs to do all by itself without any little twisty knobs. Now I won’t lie to you having that little twisty knob is kind of cool because you can get in there and monkey with things to switch it from a soft medium, large, or whatever, whatever the settings are. But, uh, it’s a, it’s a very interesting company and I think you’re going to enjoy, uh, the conversation.
And that brings us to the end of another exhilarating Jeep talk show round table episode. I want to express my deepest gratitude to our incredible panel of Jeep enthusiasts for sharing their valuable insights, experiences, and expertise expertise with us today. I can’t pronunciate that your passion for Jeeps is truly inspiring and we’re grateful for your contributions. So until next time, keep those Jeeps running strong, hit the trails with confidence. And remember, it’s not just a vehicle, it’s a way of life. This has been Tony hosting the Jeep talk show round table episode and we’ll catch you on the next ride. Broadcasting since 2010.
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