Join the Mud-Flying Fun at BG 4×4 Fest – October 4th, 2025
🚙💨 Buckle up for another exciting *Jeep Talk Show* interview episode! This time, we’re chatting with Rachel about the **2nd Annual BG 4×4 Fest** in Bowling Green, Ohio! 🎉 Join us as Rachel spills all the details about this epic event happening on **Saturday, October 4th, 2025**, from **10 AM to 5 PM** at the **Wood County Fairgrounds**. 🚗💥 Expect a massive convoy of over 100 4x4s cruising through downtown Bowling Green, a mud pit, a new burnout pit, sled pulls, a park & shine car show, and tons of family-friendly fun like tractor rides, bounce houses, kiddie pedal pulls, and an RC crawler course! 🌽🚜 This nonprofit event raises funds for **agriculture and trade school scholarships** for local Wood County residents, giving back to the Northwest Ohio community. 🌾🔧 Plus, it’s **free to attend** (with small fees for event participation), and there’s camping available for those who want to make a weekend of it! 🏕️ 🗣️ Rachel, from a multi-brand dealership just half a mile from the fairgrounds, shares how last year’s event drew 2,500–3,000 people, and this year’s fest is bigger and better with new additions like the burnout pit and more vendors (think Jeep gear, camping goodies, and even light-up trailer hitch ducks!). 🦆✨ 📍 **Where**: Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH (just 20 minutes south of Toledo!) 🌐 **More Info**: Check out [bg4x4fest.com](https://www.bg4x4fest.com) 📱 **Follow**: @BG4x4Fest on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube 📸 **Hashtags**: #BG4x4Fest #JeepTalkShow 💦 Mud flying, tires burning, and a hose to clean off your rig before you roll out—don’t miss this 4×4 extravaganza! Whether you’re driving a Jeep, Bronco, Silverado, or side-by-side, there’s something for everyone. Want to join the parade or park & shine? Sign up by **September 30th** to secure your spot, t-shirt, and goodie bag! 🎁 🎙️ Tune in to hear Rachel talk about the event’s growth, the family-friendly vibe, and why you should come run those (green) lights with us! 😎 A huge thanks to our sponsor, **Trails Off Road**—use code **JTS15** for 15% off your subscription at [trailsoffroad.com](https://www.trailsoffroad.com) to find your next off-road adventure! 🛤️ 👉 **Subscribe** to *Jeep Talk Show* for more off-road action, hit that bell 🔔, and we’ll see you in the mud at BG 4×4 Fest! #JeepLife #4x4Fest #BowlingGreen #OffRoad #FamilyFun Welcome to Jeep Talk Show, the ultimate podcast for Jeep enthusiasts! Join Tony, and, the crew as we dive into off-road adventures, Jeep Wrangler 392 updates, Jeep Gladiator camping, and the Jeep Cherokee relaunch. From $130K Jeep resale trends to Gladiator tent reviews, we cover Jeep modifications, off-road gear, and events like Easter Jeep Safari and Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion. Get expert Jeep 4xe towing tips, lightweight truck camper insights, and off-road trail guides for Jeeps. Subscribe for weekly Jeep news, join our community at jeeptalkshow.com/discord, and hit the trail with us! Head to https://jeeptalkshow.com to explore our world of Jeep madness, subscribe, and let us make your day a little more rugged and a lot more fun. Ready to roll with us? Let’s hit the trails together! #Jeep Talk Show, #Jeep podcast, #off-road podcast, #Jeep community, #Jeep off-roading, #Jeep Wrangler, #Jeep Gladiator, #Jeep news, #Jeep modifications, #Jeep accessories, #off-road adventures, #Jeep events, #Jeep 4xe, #Wrangler 392, #Jeep camping, #Jeep trails, #Jeep Wrangler 392, #$130K Jeep resale, #Jeep infotainment bricking, #TuneOutdoor Gladiator tent, #RealTruck trail access 2025, #Jeep Gladiator camping, #lightweight truck camper, #$13K Jeep camper, #Jeep Cherokee relaunch 2025, #Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion, #Easter Jeep Safari 2025, #Jeep Badge of Honor app, #women off-road Jeep podcast, #Chic Chat Jeep podcast, #Jeep off-road gear reviews, #best Jeep accessories 2025, #Jeep 4xe towing tips, #off-road trail guides for Jeeps
Adios, boys and girls. It’s time for another Jeep Talk Show interview episode. And we’ve got Rachel.
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She’s back here doing it again. And the cool thing is, we were just chatting before we started the interview, that this is their second annual BG 4×4 Fest. And the BG is for Bowling Green, right? Yep, it is. Do you guys have any bowling in the event? Because it sounds like that would be the same thing. No, but we have a bowling alley in town. You could do that the night before. Oh, there you go.
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You should set up a sign with a bowling pin and bowling ball and pins, you know, that bowling green fest, 4×4 Fest. All right, so last year was the first year. Was it around this time? Is it basically the same month? Weekend. Yep, same weekend, yep. First Saturday of October. So you can go back and listen to that interview and find out some information about last year. Were there any significant changes this year? I mean, what happened last year? Did you have a good turnout?
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Yeah, we had a great turnout. We had over 100 vehicles in our convoy or parade that went through town.
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We had them kind of stop at traffic lights last year. So this year we’re changing that so we can all go together through town. All the lights will be green. Oh, nice.
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One thing that we had to update and then we added a burnout pit. We added tractor rides for kids, kind of some more family friendly stuff. So we’re gonna have the mud pit again and the sled pole and the car show, so. You know, you didn’t say hay ride, but we had a hay ride for our, what was the Halloween thing? You know, do you have a Halloween thing like at your elementary? Every year it was a Halloween event. And that was one of the things was a hay ride.
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It’s amazing any of us lived.
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We were working on that, but it didn’t come to fruition this year. So maybe for the third annual. Well, it’s so safety conscious now. I mean, you used to be able to ride in the back of a pickup when you were a kid, because it was so much fun. I guess that was like an invitation to a Jeep, that open air feeling, you know, where you could actually be in the back of a pickup. And then somebody would actually put hay in an old low trailer and get in and drive real slow along the streets. And it was fun just being out there at night at the Halloween event. I really look forward to the Halloween event every year. So now that was at night. Yours is not at night, right? It’s during the day only? Yep, 10 to five during the day.
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What kind of temperatures are you guys seeing there now?
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Well, today it’s 80. That’s not so bad when you’re in Southeast Texas is 90. Yeah.
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But it’ll probably sixties that day, hopefully.
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That’s what we’re. Now, obviously you’re in Bowling Green, but tell the folks where that is. Cause I don’t know either. I didn’t look it up before we started. What area of the country is that in?(…) Northwest Ohio.
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Oh, see, I was thinking like Carolinas or Virginia or something, so I’m glad I asked. Ohio, I’ve been to Ohio before. Yep, we’re just about 20 minutes south of Toledo where the Jeep Fest is, which is kind of how it all started in last year or so.
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So what’s the,(…) you don’t have to have a point, but what’s the point of the BG four by four Fest? What are you trying to accomplish here? Is there a charity or is there, what’s going on? So it’s a nonprofit and we,
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I work for the dealership and my family owns it. So we came together with the visit BG,(…) the tractor pullers and the fairgrounds. And we all came together to come up with something to do similar to Jeep Fest. Originally it was kind of going to be a hype event for Jeep Fest and then decided to do a whole four by four Fest.(…) But the reason we did it was because we all wanted to give back to our community and in Northwest Ohio,
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you said you’ve been up this way, but it’s a lot of corn fields. As far as you can see corn fields, bean fields. So we’re very agriculture heavy in this area. And then also another need is trade schools and tooling and stuff like that for the kids. So we are raising money for scholarships for agriculture and trade schools for the local Wood County residents.
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Now the other day, cause this is our second attempt to doing interview. I tried giving you a call to let you know that I wasn’t going to be able to make the interview the other day, Tuesday, I believe. Maybe, maybe it wasn’t, but anyway, I called and I called the dealership, which I was surprised because I’d never tried calling you before. And I forget, is it a Toyota dealership that you’re at or?
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Yeah, we have Chevy, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, Honda, and Chrysler. Okay. So do you guys carry Jeeps or is that, okay. So that’d be under the Chrysler umbrella. Yeah. Yep.
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All right. Well, good. Now is there any cost to the BG four by four Fest?(…) Not to come out and watch, but if you participate in any of the events, there’s a small fee, which is helping raise that money for. Sure. And I’m sure there’s a way that people can donate out there or online, right? Oh, and I didn’t mention you guys do have a website, bg4by4fest.com or bg4x4fest.com. And you can go there now, see information. And I think you already said, but it’s Saturday, October the 4th is the day of the event. Yep. And then we start the parade in the morning that goes right through downtown Bowling Green. And then we end up at our fairgrounds, which is where the rest of the events are. Do you already have everybody set up for the parade? Who’s going to be the parade? Or is that something people still get involved in? Yep. They can still sign up for that. Is that- That’s a fee of, sorry, $45. And it includes an event t-shirt and a goodie bag from all the vendors and some other local businesses. Very cool. And you get to run red lights. If you go. It’ll be green.
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But mine sounds better.
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Come run red lights with us. Yeah.
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It doesn’t matter what the reality is. It’s sucking them in and getting them involved. I want to run red lights.
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So yeah, it’s a very good, very good. And is there a cutoff date on that as far as when you can get in for the event?(…) Yeah. In order to make sure we can get the t-shirts and all of that would probably about the week before September 30th, end of the month, we can make sure everything is set for that.(…) So did you get a head count or anything or an estimate about how many people you had last year? Yeah. We estimated between 2,500 and 3,000 people. Okay. So a pretty good one-on-one type event. So it’s not like going to Sleater Jeep Fest or something where there’s going to be tens of thousands of people out there wandering around. So you get a little easier on the senses, I think, when you have fewer people. Yeah. There’s enough room to spread out and do everything there. And we have all those different events that you can kind of go through the fairgrounds and participate in them. And there’s not long waiting lines. Like Mud Pit, you can go through as much as you want. And people had real fun with that and got all muddy. And that was great. So do you have something on standby to yank people out of the mud? Yes. Frank’s Towing is on standby. And I think they only needed them a couple of times last year. Oh, good. Good. And they’re there just in case, yeah. All right. I see here on the website, which is bgb4fest.com, that you guys are at, is it Wood County Fairgrounds? Yep.(…) And yeah, Bowling Green, Ohio, there’s the state. I know where to find out the state now.(…) Saturday, October 4th, 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Just going over the same stuff we’ve already said, because it’s funny when you say something and then people go, “Oh!” And it peaks their interest. Somebody may have heard mud and go, “Oh, where was that again?” So I’ll just repeat it. So tell me about the events. We know that there’s mud. What other events are you gonna have there? Yep. We have the mud pit. We have a sled pole. So I don’t know if you’re familiar with the National Tractor Pole Championships. Yeah, I remember you talking about that last year. Yep. That’s where they pull the tractors through and the dirt right there. So we have that opportunity for people to bring their trucks out or any kind of vehicle. Like we’re not trying to blow motors, but it’s a fun thing to see how far you can go and have some prizes for that.(…) We’re also doing a burnout pit to burn your tires. And then we have the park and shine to see all the different kinds of cars and the souped up cars and trucks and all that. Tell me about the burnout pit. Is it just like muddy and stuff? And you can get, because Jeeps don’t really good about doing burnouts at stop signs and stuff. Yeah, it’s not muddy. It’s just a concrete pit that you can burn your tires and they have prizes for that. We partnered with Northwest of how it’s showdown for that. And that’s something that they put on shows throughout the year for that. So we’ll see how it all works. But we’ve seen piles of the rubber that start piling.
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Is this something new for this year or did you do it last year as well? It is, yeah. Okay. No, it’s new.
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And of course I said Jeeps have a hard time getting started. I mean, people modified things that put larger engines and stuff and met people to do burnouts on pavement like that. But this isn’t limited to just Jeeps, is it? Correct, all four by fours. Yeah. What did you see a lot of? I mean, I’m sure you saw a lot of Jeeps last year, but what else did you see out there? Yeah, mostly Jeeps, but we had a bunch of trucks, Silverados, some people took side-by-sides or razors through the mud pit.
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But a lot of the car shows were the Jeeps and same with the convoys, Jeeps. There’s some forerunners, some Broncos and pickups. So we really added a little bit of everything. Well, it’s nice that you have it open for everything. I mean, it doesn’t say Jeep in the name of the event. So it’s neat to have that. What would you say the predominant amount of vehicles that you see out there are Jeeps or at least for the parade?
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Yeah, I would say at least half of them were probably Jeeps, yeah.
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Getting kind of old Jeeps, new Jeeps, yes. Or is it the newer Jeeps only?
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We had some old Jeeps also there. I don’t know what the oldest one was, but there was all different years, yeah. You can usually tell which ones are the military ones because they look so different, so small. I mean, they always look like a golf cart to me because they’re so tiny.
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Yeah. Well, they were small for a good reason. They had to ship those things overseas. (Laughing)
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You never can have a war in your backyard, thankfully.
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All right, so the park and shine. Tell me about the park and shine. This is something that I would assume that you need to sign up for prior to the event. What kind of timeframe? People love the park and shine. Sometimes it’s just because they have good parking that way. That’s true. It’s right up front and right inside the fairgrounds. So that’s a good idea. It’s $5 to participate in the park and shine. And then, like I said, it’s right up front when the community comes in to see the festival, they’ll go right through that.(…) And we have some prizes for that. Last year, we just did one prize and it was like Viewer’s Choice and we had the community pick a favorite.(…) But this year we’re gonna do a sponsor’s choice, a viewer’s choice, best car or best truck, best Jeep.
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And I think we have six of them that we’ve picked out and we’ve got some real cool trophies that have our logo and our acrylic with all the information on it. So we’re excited for that.(…) So is this something like, can you do both? Can you do the convoy and do the park and shine? Because sometimes the logistics of getting everything set up preclude one or the other.
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You can do any of it, all of it. The park and shine will be like in the morning. So if anybody wanted to like go to the mud pit afterwards, most people doing the park and shine don’t wanna get there for that money. But I mean, if they wanted to, they could
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That would be one twisted individual, wouldn’t it? Assuming that all the trouble cleaning everything up.
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You’d have to get way under there to get all that dirt off. Yeah, I think people enjoy mud. They just don’t do it because of the cleanup. And it is very extensive if you really clean it properly. Yeah, but we had tons of people back there watching and then some people bought Jeeps or four by fours to just come and do that and run through there a hundred times and some parts were flying off that we had to like get out of the mud and all that. But it was such a fun time. And by the end, everybody was out there watching it because it’s kind of separated from more of the main part of our fairgrounds. It’s more towards the back. So everybody kind of congregated back there around five o’clock and finished watching everybody go through the mud pit and Great spectator sport. Some of the little kids played in the mud. I mean, it’s a great spectator sport because you can watch somebody else throw parts and then worry about them cleaning up their own Jeep later. You don’t.
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So this is a family friendly event. Do you have any kid specific things going on? Or is it just, you get to play in the mud? Yeah, that’s at the end. We have bounce houses, we have a kiddie pedal pool. So there’s different age categories for that. And they get trophies for the winner of that. We have kiddie drag racing. We have some vendors that are for kids and activities like that. So the kids actually get to dress up like women for the drag races or something different than thinking.
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(Laughing) Yes. I’m thinking about the old Monty Python skit where they had Sunday was drag races and they would all dress up like women.(…) Not like that. Yeah, not like that. All right. Well, I mean, good for the photo shoots. All right. (Laughing) Oh, and that’s a good point. I guess this would be a good place to, if you like to take pictures, it would be a great place to go and take pictures of the event and post it up online.(…) Are you guys on Instagram?
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Yes, yep. Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. Do you do the hashtags? I still call it a pound me.
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(Laughing) Pound Jeep Talk Show.(…) Are you guys using the BG 4×4 Fest for the hashtag? Yep. Yep, so you gotta go out there and then when you take pictures at the event, use that hashtag and also too, add the hashtag Jeep Talk Show. So you get more eyeballs on those pictures. Yeah. All right, so Park and Shine, we went through that. Mud Pit, we went through that.(…) So who can be in the 4×4 sled pool,(…) the sled pools and who should be? I guess it’s really anybody, but you guys, do you guys tune the sled based on what’s pulling it or is it just?(…) They’re in classes based on the weight of the vehicle and then we’ll adjust the weight of the sled to that.(…) So it’s not necessarily a competition. It’s more of a try the sled pool, see how your car does, have fun with it. We did have a Jeep pull last year. As long as you have a receiver, trailer hitch, we can hook up and they can pull it. Is it a two inch receiver? Or I can’t remember the other size, but there’s a smaller one, but I think most Jeeps have the two inch receiver. Yeah, I think last year we had enough,(…) we had receivers for every size. Okay, good. So that’s nice.
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So this curious for the Broncos, if a Bronco wants to do a sled pull, do you actually have anti-grav for the sled so they can actually pull the sled down the way? Yep.(…) See what I did there? Yeah. It’s making zero, make the weight zero for the Bronco. Right, all right.
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Did you have Broncos out there last year? Yes, we did.
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You guys don’t sell Broncos or do you? Oh, you have a Ford, so I guess you do. How are the Broncos sales going?(…) Are you still seeing a lot of sales for the Broncos?
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Yeah, we sold quite a few during the summer. They’ll probably slow down a little bit here in the winter.
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So let me ask you about the bait and switch, and it’s not really something you guys are doing, but Ford did, where they came out with, what was the Broncos sport?(…) Oh yeah. That isn’t a Bronco? I mean, it is technically.
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Not like the big, yeah.(…) Oh, I want a Bronco, oh, this is a good price. Yeah, wait a minute. (Laughing) Yeah. Yeah, that was kind of rough. Oh, and I don’t know, this is a technical question about Broncos. You know, Broncos are known for their independent front wheel steering because things break usually when you’re off-road. So you can’t turn both tires at the same time. They usually both point in. Has there been any kind of engineering fixes for that? Any upgrades or do you still, is it still third party? Yeah, no, there’s no problem. I thought there may have been something since you were at the dealership. You might have already run across. I’m mostly at the Chevy store, so. Oh, good, good. I don’t know the answer yet. I loved Chevy pickups. My first pickup was a Chevy pickup. I think it was a 1980 long wheelbase Chevy pickup. And I think it was a Scottsdale.
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Of course that was back in there in the square bodies. Yeah. Don’t you wish you still had that? Oh my goodness.
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My first four wheel drive was an 83 short wheelbase Chevy.(…) It was a piece of shit. Yeah. But damn it looked good. All right.
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I put 37 inch tires and a four inch lift on that thing. Yeah, that leaf spring’s front and rear. So it was kind of set up like a YJ. And that one was a lot of fun. Beautiful, beautiful Jeep. I mean, a beautiful Jeep, beautiful, beautiful truck.(…) And it was always fun. I think that the bottom of the door jam hit me about mid thigh. I’m about six foot. And I would have to use the steering wheel to pull myself up in there. So great looking around, just riding up at the high of everybody else. Right. And we could use that in our convoy. That and it would be great for the mud bog too. Because go out there and get in the mud. Yeah, absolutely. So that’d be really cool. Do you get any old Chevys out there? Do you guys have any? That would be a great thing for you guys to have on the lawn. Not to sell. We don’t have any. But just to have one. Especially for this event. So you need to talk to somebody. Talk to somebody in the family and say, I wanna buy a…
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I know, I would. It’s cool. Get the dealership to buy it and then you drive it.
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You guys buy it, I’ll keep it at my house. That’s right.
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(Both Laughing) That’s a plan. Yeah, all right. So what else were you talking about here for the BG 4×4 Fest, BG4x4fest.com?
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That’s about it. Just a fun, family-friendly day with stuff for everybody to do and a free event for the community to come out to. And see what the 4x4s can do. Or they’re out having fun and food trucks, all that kind of stuff too. Oh, we do have camping available. So if anybody wants to camp over the weekend, that’s available too. And then we’re doing a hype event the night before at our dealership, which has some 4×4 obstacles and car crushing and packet pickup and stuff like that. Well, you got a really big thing going on. Has it significantly expanded from last year?
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Yeah, it’s steadily increasing now. And then in Northwest Ohio, everybody kind of waits till the end to start registering. And we don’t know how our weather is gonna be or what’s gonna go on. So yeah, we expect it to continue. We’ve seen a lot more interaction on our socials and stuff like that. Yeah, well, I mean, if you have in the second one, obviously the first one helped get the second one going. Is there anybody in the fam that said, “We don’t wanna do that. “This is crap.” And now they’re having to eat the words.
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Oh yeah, yeah, that’s true. No, I don’t think anybody realized how big it was going to be and how much fun and how well it went the first year. So we gave four scholarships away,(…) two for trades and two for agriculture. Oh, that’s great.(…) So if we can continue this, the sky’s the limit. Well, it’s great advertising too because for people that didn’t know about you or maybe had a cursory knowledge of the dealership now that you guys are involved in this, it helps you guys. So, and do you guys have vendors coming out? Is there gonna be vendors at the thing or are you guys the primary? Yes, yep, we have vendors. Last year we had 24, so we’re hoping to be at least probably around 30, 35, something like that. And see, and this is, I’m mentioning this because this is a great time for vendors to get their name out too. It’s a great way for people in the community to know about what you’re doing. What kind of vendors do you have coming out?
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We have a, it’s called Ducklet. So it’s the ducks that go in the back of your trailer hitch and they light up. So we’ve got that one there.(…) We have a camping vendor, Dana.
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We have a couple auto spa car wash places from town
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which has what, Rough Country and some local vendors(…) selling Jeep type stuff.
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Outdoor Adventures was one of them, so. So when’s the cutoff for being a vendor? How long can you go before you sign up for being a vendor? We can make room. There’s plenty of room out there. So we’re, you know, we’d take them up(…) and tell the event really.
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Is it, is there any power available if they wanted to set something up, they would have power? Yep, have power.(…) We have it inside of a big pavilion(…) so that weather is not a factor. Oh, that’s great. I’m glad you mentioned that. It’s very windy. We have everything.
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There’s big garage doors on it. So if it’s a nice day, last year we opened everything up. So it was still kind of part of the outdoors. But if it ends up being rainy or windy or anything like that we can shut it or have half open. We have a big RC crawler course in there and that’s for kids to do as well. And then they give away an RC crawler with that
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to anybody that paid the $5 to try it throughout the day. And so we had a lot of kids do that and enjoy that part. Oh yeah. Well, this is good because I mean, it gives everybody something to do. And 35 or so vendors means a lot of window shopping, even if you’re not, and that’s the way they get you is that I’m just gonna walk around and look and go, oh crap, I gotta have that. And often there’s something that has a real good price on it. And you go, well, damn it, they got me. (Laughing) And then they make a purchase. So it’s good that it’s inside. I’m glad you mentioned that because that’s a way to get away from the weather, whether it’s rainy or too hot or a place to just cool off a little bit.
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You mentioned the food trucks and stuff earlier and that was the direction I’m gonna go or I was gonna go. What kind of food trucks, what kind of cuisine do you have out there?
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We try to have a little bit of everything. We don’t wanna like double up. So we have lemonade, we have barbecue,(…) we have like hamburgers, kettle corn.
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I know what barbecue in Texas is, but I don’t know about you people up in Ohio. Is this beef barbecue or pork?
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I think they have both. Okay, that’s a good answer. Pork, I think is the majority of it. So people can buy some barbecue. There’s a lot of hand food, little snacky type food that you have there.
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I’m sure lots of drinks. Is there a place– From Ollie’s, Mexican. Oh yes.(…) Mr. Mellon is a, so.
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Surely there’s just standard water around there and bathrooms, are the bathrooms indoors, outdoors or yes?(…) Both.
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The fairgrounds has a few like indoor built-in bathrooms, but we also have porta potties throughout that don’t, so that’s close to get to, so you’re not walking so far to get to one, but so we’ll have everything covered. I mean, you haven’t been to an event till you’ve gone to a hot porta pottie. I mean, that’s just– Or any porta pottie. Oh, I know, I know. But I asked that because some women and some men, they definitely don’t wanna go to a porta pottie because of bugs or any kind of things that you may run across and the smell, but you gotta go, you gotta go. But indoors, that’s nice. That’s nice that there’s indoor stuff, lots of water for everybody, I would assume, that water fountains are something in the place. Because in my mind, because I haven’t seen pictures or if I had, it’s been a while, it could just be an open field, and I wanna make sure that people don’t have that in mind, same thing in mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. There’s a facility, there’s indoors, there’s all kinds of things. So not only is it family friendly, it sounds like it’s adult friendly as well.(…) Yeah, I think we’ve got it all covered.(…) Not much popped up last year that we didn’t have covered, so I think we’re gonna go again this year. Oh, that had to have been so, had you had any experience with setting this up, setting stuff up like this before? Or was last year the first time? Not at this size, no. Yeah, so I could well imagine you were really nervous about did I cover everything? Yeah, and like the fairgrounds and the tractor pullers, like they’re on our committee that helped set everything up. So they had us pretty, Oh, good. Don’t forget this, don’t forget that, we have this, we have that, you need to call this, you need to call that, and so we had it all, they’re used to that size, so we had everything covered, I think. Well, and also too, there’s a lot of things that people probably don’t think about. You need to have some sort of emergency personnel. Right, you can. I’m sure some fire or another, because especially with these vehicles doing things, even the burnouts, you could have an issue with something overheating and a line popping on it and causing a fire, so you have to have all that, you have to have some medical stuff available to at least get people out of there and stabilize. So yeah, I can well imagine this is– And trash cans and keeping the bathrooms clean, so we have a cleaning company that’s there all day, keeping that stuff clean and moving, you know. It’s a large undertaking.
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When did you guys start planning this? Was it the day after last year’s event? Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
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(Both Laughing) We took a little break, so probably November.(…) We started and then, yeah,(…) pretty much November.
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Are there very many events, maybe not for you guys, that you guys put on, but there are very many events during the year at this facility?
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Yeah, they’re working on getting more every year, but there, we have our fair out there, which is in the end of July, beginning August, and then we have national tractor pulls in the middle of August, and then we have this. And then they have lots of other shows out there that use the big pavilion, like gem shows or gun shows and bike swaps.
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But as far as using the whole facility like that, it’s kind of us, the tractor pulls, and the four by four fest, or at the fair.(…) Well, I’m sure as you guys do more of these, it’s going to make it attractive for other companies, other businesses to do these, because people get used to it. You could start a trend there, and it’s always fun to have things going on at there for the weekends. People are always looking for something to do. How close to the city is this? I mean, I’m thinking hotels and places to say that maybe isn’t camping.
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Yeah, it’s probably a mile and a half to downtown. Oh, not bad at all. And I’m sure there’s lots of places to stay and probably lots of restaurants that you could go to if you were staying overnight. Yep, both.(…) We have a beautiful downtown with lots of restaurants and shopping, plenty of hotels. We’re a college town, so we have lots of food and hotels,(…) good six hotels over there.(…) What kind of size town is Bowling Green?(…) About 15,000. Okay, nice, nice, smallish town. All right, so again, this is the BG, let me make sure I’m saying this right, BG 4×4 Fest, BG4x4fest.com,
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Wood County Fairgrounds, and you can actually get the actual address there at the website. It is on Saturday, October 4th, 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. And are you gonna be out there, Rachel? Can people come up and say, “Hey, I saw you on the G-Talk Challenge.”(…) Yep, perfect. That’s great. And we’re in relationship to the fairground. Is the dealership pretty close by?(…) Yep, it’s half a mile.(…) So if you didn’t have a Jeep, you could go over there on Friday, buy a Jeep.
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(Laughing) Yep, we got it. You guys would probably do a free entry for the drive and the mud pit, right? Buy a Jeep, yeah. Yep.
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All right, you know how the kids love the social media. Where can we find the event, maybe your dealership, or where can we find that information on the social media? Yep, we have Facebook page, BG 4×4 Fest, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. So it’s all out there on all of it. And are there any images from last year’s event? I mean, if they were going to the Instagram, they could scroll back and have a kind of idea that they’ll land. I mean, I know you have some pictures on the website, so that’s another place to go. Oh, I see a poor Jeep with mud just in the air. The nose is going in, oh, that’s horrible.
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(Laughing) That’s so fun. No, it is, it absolutely is. That out of control feeling, but boy, the cleanup.
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Oh, do you guys have like a hose or something? So if you wanted to hose the Jeep down a little bit, so that you got these mud trails leaving from the event. Yes, before you leave the event or go back into the fairgrounds for the other events, there’s a hose to wash off with. Oh yeah, I mean, that’s an event. When there’s a hose, you know you’re at a good event.
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Well, Rachel, thank you so much for being with us here this year. Thank you. And I’m so sorry we had such a hard time getting connected up for this interview, but dammit, we did it. We did it, thank you. All right, have a great day. You too,
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