Overland Of America – Robbie Bryant
Tony of the Jeep Talk Show interviews Robbie Bryant of KEG Media about his upcoming event in Oklahoma, Overland of America, at overlandofamerica.com. Whether you’re an overlander or not, this exciting event is one you won’t want to miss! Robbie shares a compelling story that goes beyond the event itself. Don’t miss this insightful interview, and remember, you can WATCH it on YouTube!
All righty, old boys and girls, it’s time for the Jeep talk show interview. And we’re going to be talking with Robbie Bryant of overland of America.com. I’m going to say that several times while we’re going there, but you can head over there right now at the beginning of this so you can get more information about them. Robbie is the co-founder, co-founder, a Rocky start of Overland America, taking place September 13th through the 15th in Jay, Oklahoma at mid America outdoors. Overland of America is a new twist on overlanding events, creating not only an expo, but an experience. Their venue boasts a unique feature such as two swimming pools. Oh, you can take a, you can get bathed that way. A lazy river, a splash pad playground, multiple bars, restaurant, beautiful education pavilion, 1600 acres of private trails, free facilities, cabins, over 400 RV spots. That’s that’s wonderful. 400 of them. Uh, with full huck up and plenty of camping. How’s the internet out there? Uh, Robbie is that, is there the RV that’s there, is there internet available for the RV people?
Yeah, it actually works really good out there. It’s, it’s not too far out of town in Jay and a signal is pretty good. So yeah, it’s, it’s not bad at all out there.
Well, you know, the social media influencers, they got to have their internet. You know, they can’t go to an event without uploading videos and getting the selfies and stuff.
Yeah. Well, you know, a lot of those guys anymore. They use that a star link. So, uh, we see a lot of the influencer guys out there traveling around the country and hooking the star link up. They’ll be on top of mountain somewhere and they’ll be on the internet doing a live.
Yeah. I’ve told the team, uh, cause we’ve actually had some of the, some events like, uh, the, uh, I want to say grand period. What’s the one coming up, um, uh, coming up in a couple of weeks. Um, smoking out in, smoking mountain Jeep invasion. Yeah. Smoking mountain Jeep invasion. Uh, they’ve talked to us before about coming out there and doing live event and stuff, and I’m like, man, when you get 50, 70,000 screaming assholes on, on the internet, there is no internet available, especially for live broadcast. And we’ve talked about, we’ve been talking about that, getting the, the, the, the star link and especially the one now that they have is a little portable unit. I mean, you could literally fix that thing to the top of your Jeep. Uh, speaking of Jeeps, are you a jeeper? I mean, this is overlanding. This is, doesn’t initially have to be a Jeep related thing, right?
I am. So, so I own a pretty well-equipped Jeep gladiator of 2023 model. Um, it’s the, uh, you know, they call it the overland edition.
Did you have to buy it? Did you have to buy it for that? Cause you know, you can just put a sticker on there that says overland.
I know. Right. Like I didn’t know what I was buying, but as a matter of fact, when I did buy it, um, I just wanted a steam gray gladiator and I called my buddy that owns the dealership and I’m like, Hey, I need a stream, steam, gray gladiator. Do you have, uh, I didn’t want a Rubicon, which was dumb. I should have got a Rubicon, but he’s like, Oh, I’ve got these, uh, overland additions and they have the, uh, the same axles as the Rubicon. So I thought, Oh hell I’m going to get that. It’s got, it’s called overland and I’m trying to build an overland gladiator and it’s got the same axles. So it’s got the lockers. And then I realized really quick that it doesn’t have lockers after I bought it.
But
yeah, that’s how they get you. Now I like it. I mean, when I got my gladiator, I have a 2021 gladiator. And anytime I say, say gladiator, I have to say the 2021 Jeep talk show gladiator, cause we’ve got it outfitted with, you know, a wrap and stuff on there. Um, I purposely didn’t get a Rubicon. It’s not because I wanted to build it the way I want it built is because I couldn’t afford the fucking thing.
Rubicons are expensive. Uh, so, uh, but I got a sport S and I got the max tow package, which comes with the same axles as the Rubicon, uh, but minus the lockers and nothing against the electric lockers. I think it’s perfectly fine, but I really like ARB. I really liked this, the quality and the build of ARBs. And I don’t have them in there yet. That’s going to be, it’s going to be something for the future, but I’m planning on putting ARBs in there. So this gives you the ability to build your gladiator the way you want to build it, not the way Jeep built it.
Yeah. See, I put, uh, I’m on 37. I’ve got the AccuDware suspension on it, which works out really good for me and overlanding because like when I go out with a group, they can pick the most level areas and I can, I could park on a creek bank like, like this, and then just air it out and level it out.
Right.
Um, so it works out really good. It’s a, it’s a great suspension too on the trail. Um, I live right by the Ozarks and the Washataws. And so we’re out like all the time. If I’m not at another event promoting our event, then normally, um, I’m out in the Ozarks or Washataws with my partner, Chris, but yeah, we, we do a lot of that. Um, I was, I was thinking about doing the ARBs. Um, but I just bought a NEO screen of deer. And so I’m going to be building that for the SEMA show this year, but I’m taking my gladiator back to the SEMA show too, cause that’s where I debuted it last year. But, uh, yeah, I’ve had a lot of Jeeps. The, uh, uh, probably my most well-known one is what’s called the Arctic frog. It was a JK back in 2016. We built it for the Chris Cowell Frog Foundation and it was on, uh, it was like Kevlar snow camo. Um, it was on Matt Matt tracks. Uh, we took it up into the park.
You’ve done a lot of stuff to Jeeps. Okay. Wow.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you know, they, you know, they have drones now. Drones are a lot cheaper than helicopters.
I know. Right. Well, we wanted the helicopter for that, for what we were planning on making the v we made the video look like, um, or somebody flew in and the helicopter dropped them off and they got in the Jeep and then they took off.
Wow. This is big budget stuff. Do you get any, anybody from the MCU and these things, you know, is the, is captain America in this as well?
So I used to be on a show on the velocity channel called the lifted life. And I’m, I’m a custom truck designer. And I own a company called KEG media, like K E G stands for cutting edge graphics. But, uh, I’ve done a lot of SEMA builds, about 200 different SEMA builds over the years. Um, I’ve had about 37 magazine cover trucks. I’ve done everything from Jeeps to big bro trucks to, uh, uh, I did a 60 Brookwood wagon one time. Um, I’ve done out ease, like just all kinds of different builds for the SEMA show, but my, my focus is on off-road, you know, building vehicles like that. Right. Uh, yeah. So we actually used our production crew to film that when we went up into purgatory.
Well, of course you do. I would too.
But it’s on our YouTube. Um, I think at KEG adventures is our YouTube. Uh, and then there’s a video of it and some of our other truck builds that we’ve done.
Why am I have to see that? That’s a, that sounds like it’s a hell of a deal. Now there’s nothing, uh, if you have the helicopter in the shot, not just, uh, you know, it was a shot from the helicopter, but the helicopter shot. Now that’s definitely worth it. Cause it’s like that’s big budget.
Helicopter was in a shot and you never seen a person. So it showed the helicopter hovering. And then all of a sudden it showed the Jeep door closed.
And then you just kind of put it together. That somebody got out of that helicopter jumped down, you know, and got in and then took off and, and, uh, we had plans to do so much more with the video, but. The crazy thing was when we went, uh, all of us were wearing white, black or gray. And the helicopter could not find us. And they’ve only got so much fuel to be hovering around. So he’s flying all around and we’re like waving at him here. We, you know, like we can’t get in touch with him. We’re trying to get him. And then finally, when he seen us, he came, hovered down. He’s like, I’ve got maybe 15 minutes before I got to get back as a fuel. And, but, uh, it worked out good. We got a pretty good video out of it. It’s not what we wanted where we were going to splash through snow drips and all that, but there wasn’t a lot of snow up there either.
Right. So tell me the, and you’ll tell the audience at the same time, tell me the, the, the YouTube channel again.
It’s a app. Uh, so it’s youtube.com at keg adventures.
Like a beer keg, right?
Yeah. Like a beer keg. Yeah.
I found it.
And then, yeah. And then, and even if you Google Arctic frog Jeep, um, it should come up that way too, like if you just look at videos and stuff that,
well, there you are. I see you. You’re a beard with shorter in this picture.
Yeah.
I’ve been keeping letting it grow. This is the overland thing. Like I realized that in the overlanding, I got to have a long beard.
Okay. Well, it sounds like you’re a no shit kind of jeep or tell me what the, uh, what’s the overland thing I always, cause it, I mean, I kind of pick on people about the overlanding because it’s like, what is the definition of overlanding and I’ll tell you what my definition is. You go someplace jeep or something. You go someplace when you go on off road, you just go someplace and go off road. When you go overlanding, you go someplace, you may go off road and you take a sandwich with you. That’s overlanding
pretty close. Like for us, I mean, it’s, it’s pretty simple. Like it’s, it, I mean, getting in your vehicle and going over land, you know, but I mean, that’s what some people think.
I mean, it confuses some people because overlanding is a big subject right now. There’s it’s a big deal.
Yeah. For us, we, we more look at it as, uh, extended time out on the trail or out in the national forest or, you know, the desert or wherever you’re going, um, is, you know, like we, we have refrigerators, we have camp stoves, you know, it’s, it’s pretty much trail riding, exploring and staying out there. You know, maybe it’s just a night, maybe it’s two, maybe it’s a weekend, maybe you’re going for a week, but, um, it’s, it’s being prepared. So having everything when you go trail riding and having your recovery gear and your, your medical gear and all that type of stuff, but then also being able to sustain being out there. So maybe if you’re staying out for longer periods of time, some of us have solar and extra batteries, you know, to be able to, you know, give us power, um, you know, rooftop tents, uh, ground tents, hammock camping, you know, people camping in hammocks, uh, a lot of people, uh, vehicle camp. Um, I know a lot of females, uh, you know, camp inside their jeeps or their forerunners or whatever they have, but, uh, bringing food, refrigerator, you know, like a cooler refrigerator type deal, but yeah, just being able to go out and sustain being out there for a longer period of time.
Right. Um, taking care of yourself, being self-sufficient, uh, in your vehicle. Now, uh, I know this will get you in trouble with a whole host of people, but is there a, uh, a brand or maybe a specific vehicle that you think is best again, it’s your opinion that you think is best for overlanding. I’m thinking that jeeps aren’t the best because they are lacking a lot of space. Uh, the gladiator helps that out of course, but
the gladiator is great. Um, I love my gladiator. Um,
I have a camper shell on mine, like an ARE camper shell, but then I have a rooftop tent above that. So I have tons of storage area. I got a deck system in there.
So, so that deck system is nice. Yeah.
Yeah. And then I have a rear seat to lead to from goose gear. So like I have all my storage back there. I’ve got my batteries. I’ve got my refrigerator right behind me. Um, tons of storage in there. So gladiators are great. Uh, defenders like Land Rover defenders. Those, those are like the ultimate probably, um, these new Nio’s, Grenadiers, I think they’re going to be great. Um, they’re a triple lock vehicle. Um,
yeah, man.
Explain, you need to explain triple lock to me. What does triple lock mean?
Yeah. So triple lock is where like, like, like I’m in cheap, you know, you have your front and rear lockers. Well, triple lock is a center differential where you can lock it as well. So all four tires, if you lock all three, all four tires are spinning at the exact same time.
And isn’t that standard for Jeep? I mean, once you put it in a four wheel drive high or four low, um, you’ve locked the transfer case locks, both the front and rear axle together. I don’t know what’s different about the triple lock and that.
I don’t, I don’t know. Like, I like to look it up. Yeah. I have to look it up and see, but yeah, I’m not really sure if, uh, if jeeps triple lock or not.
Well, I remember cause I
never had a Rubicon.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I learned this with my ex J. Uh, my ex J came with an NP two 42 transfer case, which allowed me to lock it. I could do a four wheel drive, uh, all time four wheel drive, which meant the transfer case didn’t lock the front and rear axles together so they could turn independently of one another, but they were still getting power to the, to the wheels. Uh, and if I put it in a four high, now I locked the front and rear axle. So, but the, but like the NP two 42, not two 42, two 31, uh, you don’t have that feature. So that’s the reason why. So I guess the XJ was kind of like a triple lock selectable triple lock, but the two 31 is that’s all you got. So, and that’s what, that’s what I’ve got in the gladiator is so you can, you can lock it to front and rear. And of course, that’s the reason why you don’t drive around on pavement, uh, with, uh, in four wheel drive, because the front and rear axles are locked. And when you go to make a turn, something’s got to give. Hopefully it’s just going to skip and not break.
Yeah, for sure. Anyway, I won’t look that up because that’s interesting. I, there apparently something’s going on there and maybe it’s just, um, doing the same thing that two 42 was doing, allowing you to be a four wheel drive with, uh, uh, driving the, the, the, the tires in front and rear, but not, not having it all locked together so you can do it.
I would say the most popular and overlanding though is, is Jeeps, whether it be a gladiator or a Wrangler and then Toyota’s Toyota’s are super popular and overlanding the, the forerunners and the Tacoma’s, you know, um, a lot of people buy, uh, well right now is really popular is off-road campers, you know, so a lot of people are pulling off-road campers behind them. A lot of people are buying the, uh, the truck bed campers, um, that kind of like lift up, so it looks like there’s a tent as well on top, but, and there’s, there’s so many toys, you know, that you can get in the overland community.
Well, this is good news for folks like you that are putting on overlanding, uh, events or, uh, draws where people can learn more about overlanding. Uh, and, uh, what sandwich to take with them when they go off-road. Right.
Yeah. How to cook it. So, uh, yeah. And as I said earlier, the overlanding, uh, that the whole subject of overlanding is, is very popular. Uh, and it’s a great time to do this. How is this your first year doing the, the overland of America?
Yeah. So overland of America is a new event for this year. Um, I’ve been putting on events for 13 years. So I own multiple other events. I own one called lifted truck nationals. It’s been going on for 10 years. Uh, orange beach invasion, which is a custom car truck and bike show in Alabama. It’s the largest event, uh, on the Alabama Gulf coast. It’s, uh, we only allow 650 vehicles there and we’ve had quite a few jeeps over the years come to it. You know, some of the, I call them. More of the beach cruiser type jeep. You know, not so much the hardcore off-road jeeps, but you know, the ones that want to show off what they’ve got in their life.
Great selling system is what you’re saying. They’ve got a great sound system.
The DSA, the DSA team jeeps. Yeah. So, uh, so we’ve had a lot of those
22 inch wheels and stuff like that.
Yeah. Yeah. So this year we drew 82,000 spectators to that event. So it was, it was really big.
You really have to love that when you go to do something. I mean, we’ve been doing this, this little show for a, for a number of years. It still amazes me that people listen to it. It’s so gratifying that when you do something like that, that people, you know, give a damn and actually in your case, they actually have to travel to it and that’s amazing. Oh yeah.
Yeah. We have people come from like, we have people with that one. We have people flying from Australia, Japan, drive down from Canada. Like it’s, we got people all over come to that one. It’s almost like a destination show just because of the location. And it’s right near the beach. It’s at the wharf down there. So that one’s really popular. Um, but overland of America. Yeah, that that’s new for me. And I wasn’t even planning on doing an overland event. I bought two jeeps last year. I bought my gladiator and I bought a four XE and a Wrangler. And one was my, one was my wife’s we were going to build them for SEMA. Mine was going to be more usable, functional off-road and hers was more of the beach cruiser type, right?
28 inch wheels. That’s a great idea because that’s your audience.
Yeah. Yeah. So I was going to start a Jeep event because I see how big all these Jeep events are and so me and my wife had talked cause like I’m, I’m event promoter. I own multiple events. And so I was like, I need to do a Jeep event. And so I was like, let’s build these two Jeeps. We’ll create an event and we’ll take them to all these events. And, and then we’re, we have both styles, you know, so, so it’s not like if I show up in a beach cruiser, DSA team style Jeep that people aren’t going to take me serious because I have this one as well. You know, so I wanted to build, you know, Rocky get in touch with both audiences of the cause the Jeep market, you know, there’s, there’s different audiences in it.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. There’s nothing wrong with that. You can do your Jeep however you want to do it. Uh, I just, I just always say that if you’re, cause there’s stuff that happens anywhere in the world, I mean, Oklahoma, uh, you know, the more, uh, tornado that went through Oklahoma and having a off-road capable vehicle, you never, you could be on road, but the debris and everything else are earthquakes in California, uh, I’m down here in Southeast Texas. So the tropical stuff, you never know whenever, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, off-road capable Jeep will save your life or let you go to let you get to the store when nobody else can. So I think it’s important to have a, uh, if you’re going to have a Jeep and you’re going to build it up, build it up so they can help save your life is the way I look at it.
Oh yeah. For sure.
So one other thing I would recommend if anybody gives you shit about the, the beach type Jeep to say, Oh, that’s my wife’s that she wanted it done that way. Cause everybody understands the wife wants it done that way.
What’s crazy is we built that and we took it to orange beach invasion, our show. And it didn’t leave. Somebody bought it for $95,000.
Oh, that was a hard thing to take. Wasn’t it? No, no, no. Okay. Sure.
Did you ask your wife? Was your wife there? And did she agree to that?
Yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, she wanted to keep it, but we don’t, we, we build because of our, uh, experience over the years with building SEMA vehicles, we’ve, we’ve agreed not to get married to these vehicles, like build them, flip them. Do something new the next year.
And, uh, well, that does help out, doesn’t it? Because people like seeing new things. And if you can, if you can flip it and not take a loss on it, then it that’s helps the, the overall business.
Yeah. So I work with a lot of companies. So, so my company keg media, we have a booth at the SEMA show in the West hall. And so I, I have project managed multiple builds. That’s why we’ve had over 200 at the SEMA show or the past, you know, 10, 12 years. But, uh, I help facilitate booth builds for different manufacturers and stuff. Rigid industries, addictive desert designs, DV eight, um, you know, a lot of different brands, you know, that works with us to provide vehicles for their booth. And so we always, we had to do something different. So even if I build something that I just loved at death, I can’t keep it, you know, like, I got a debut.
That’s a horrible, that’s a horrible situation to be in. I mean, you know, yeah.
So, so I, uh, so I would get rid of them. You know, I would, I would debut at SEMA, do our photo shoots, our video shoots, take it to three or four events afterwards, do a lot of promotion or marketing with it, then we would flip it and then buy something different and start over the next year, but I’m starting to kind of slow, slowly get away from doing that. Like I’ll do my own builds and maybe a few others for people, but the project management stuff, I’m starting to get away from as much cause it just takes up so much time and I’ve been doing it for so long. But, uh, my focus is kind of turning to, uh, our events. Um, I’m an RVer as well. And so we travel all around the country in our motor home and we love going to national parks. I got four kids that live at home, two English Bulldogs and an American bowling
dog, I love the Bulldogs. Those things are so cool.
Yeah. So, so they travel around with us. My wife’s a big Disney freak. So we go out to Florida a lot. They got a really cool RV park there. It’s on property. And, um, I told my Jeep behind, uh, my RV. So if we’re staying at an RV park and it’s at a national park and there’s national forest there, I can leave the wife and some of the kids at the RV park and I can go explore.
That’s very nice. That’s really cool. So how do you get the Jeeps there? If you’re in an RV, do you tow a Jeep or do you have a separate trailer and a tow rig or?
Yeah. So, so, so I flat tow my, uh, gladiator behind my motor home. So it’s, it’s all rigged up to tow like that. So yeah, but Jeeps are probably the best thing to tow behind a motor home.
Well, having that transfer case makes a big difference, doesn’t it?
Oh yeah. Yeah. It’s the easiest one to like get everything into neutral and everything. And like, like we have a suburban that if we’re, the whole family’s going to be there and we’re going to be driving it around a lot, then we’ll plateau the suburban and it’s, there’s just way more to it, you know, to, to get the suburban ready and to, you know, shut the power off and, and, you know, kill switch and all this different stuff. And with a Jeep, you don’t have to do that.
Right. So do you ever get pulled over and say, son, this is way too long. You’re two feet over the maximum length.
No, I’m a, I think my RV is 40 feet and then our suburban’s like, what are they? Like 1920 feet long.
It’s a damn train.
So it’s not bad. Like, like I’ve, I’ve called a lot of vehicles, a CMON, like a 50 foot trailer behind a sport chassis. And that was pretty long.
So, uh, I dropped this name a lot in the, you’ve mentioned SEMA and SEMA builder a lot, or do you, are you, uh, do you know who Greg Henderson is on official use only?
Greg, man, the name sounds from it. Greg Henderson.
Yeah. He’s done, uh, most notably, uh, he’s done a couple of SEMA builds for quadratec, he did the, the YJL couple of years ago and I thought, well, I’m going to do the YJL couple of years ago. And I think it was last year, year before last he did the JTE, the two door, uh, hyper electric gladiator.
Okay. Yeah. I know you’re talking about.
So Greg’s a friend of the show and, uh, he’s recently become a host on the show. And, uh, we get to, we’ve, uh, we get to watch him build his, uh, his stuff. And I mentioned the round table to you. He’ll join our round table and we’ll see him when he’s talking and stuff and see what the things he’s working on in his shop.
And, uh, his name sounds so familiar. I feel like I may have done a rendering for him sometime over the past 13 years. Cause that’s what keg media started as is digital rendering. So we create digital renderings for, like, if you want to build your vehicle and you want to see what it’s going to look like before you spend any dollars on buying parts, then you describe it to us. And we show you a digital version of what your vehicle is going to look like. But we started doing that. 22, 23 years ago when people were still hand drawing everything. And, uh, that’s what really blew our company up was, was doing digital rendering.
Oh, I can, I can well imagine because, uh, if you don’t have something to show or just, you want to get an idea of what something’s going to look like, it makes a big, uh, especially if you’re trying to get funds from people to put money into something
you’re trying to get sponsorship and funds and stuff like that. Uh, a rendering is a hundred percent required. And because of that, that’s one of the reasons why keg media has a booth. It’s CMAs because nobody else that can beats against me as a booth. And I dealt so much with like rigid industries and ADD and like all these brands that have boosted SEMA. I thought, Oh, I should get a booth so they know that I’m on the same playground as them.
Yeah,
absolutely. I mean, uh, we, we always try to come across my, uh, my buddy Chris, who’s a, another volunteer for the show. Uh, we often, uh, comment, uh, you know,
we, we may be full of shit as long as we act like we’re, do we know what we’re doing?
That’s 90% of it. Right.
Yeah. It’s so funny. Cause last year at SEMA, I stayed in my booth, maybe three, three and a half hours over the four days, the rest of the time I’m out there bootstrapping, you know, this event and I didn’t even know the date yet. I just knew it was going to be in September. I knew it was going to be a J Oklahoma at mid-merry outdoors. I just didn’t have the exact date yet. And I knew the name of it. We had created a name already. I remember going over to my buddy, Damon flip boat, rigid industries and setting down with him and talking to him. And I was like, Hey, I think about doing overland event. This is my partner, Chris, that got me to wanting to do it. Uh, what do you guys think about that? And he was like, Oh, we’re going to be your official lighting partner. A hundred percent.
Oh, that’s so nice.
And so a lot of the companies like deviate off-road. And so a lot of the guys that have. I’ve worked with for years, like Skyjacker and you know, it’s just a bunch of brands on the big, lifted truck stuff. You know, they support us a hundred percent right from the jump. So it worked out really good.
You know, uh, real truck is a repeat. Uh, I always say repeat offender. They’re a repeat, uh, sponsor for our show and just so grateful. And of course, uh, we had a six or seven people from the Jeep talk show at SEMA this last year. I didn’t go, but they were there. And, uh, we were, I was looking at the map because I was telling them, telling the team, Hey, make sure you touch base with, uh, Ken at Tyree lighting. And, uh, Greg, Greg was out there, uh, last year as well. So go by and bother Greg, uh, Greg Henderson, unofficial use only. And, um, I was looking at a solve real trucks, uh, area. Holy crap. Believe it was like it was all real truck.
Yeah. My, my booth is like, when you walk into SEMA, my booth is right past real truck. They’re in the front.
Yeah.
Like I think two aisles in and I have a booth right there by them, but, uh, you know, funny story about, so I know Lee Reiser really well at real truck and a lot of the crew at real truck, but my, my career with SEMA was actually started. By it wasn’t real truck at the time. It was undercover bed covers, but my very first SEMA build was with undercover bed covers and they liked it so much they seen it.
got rid of it.
Yeah. Well, that’s nice. It’s a good position to be in. And how long have you been doing this stuff? 12, 13 years?
Is that what you said? So I’ve been, I’ve been an automotive designer, uh, for 23 years. Um, I have been building vehicles for the theme of shows since 2010. And I’ve been a event promoter for 13 years.
Where do you have the time?
I mean,
it sounds like, it sounds wonderful. It sounds like a great life. I don’t even say career. It just sounds like a lot of fun, uh, especially with accolades that you get. And even if somebody doesn’t say, this looks great when they start throwing big sweaty wads of money at you, that’s an appreciation of, of your work.
Well, you know, I used to have employees. Um, so I built a business by myself, uh, created the digital rendering, all that, brought that to the masses, got really well known and decided to start doing logos and printing and all that for clients. And then I had designed SEMA builds for years and I kept having people invite me out. This one guy, Rick bottom, motorsports, and then how from God’s rather customs, they would invite me out every year and I’m like, nah, man, I don’t want to go, you know, I don’t want to go to, I’d never been to Vegas, you know? So all I thought was sin city. I don’t need to be there, you know? And, and, and really I couldn’t really afford to go out. You know, I wasn’t really charging people that much money at the time. And I was afraid of how much money it would take to gamble and have fun and all that. And I mean, you can, you can go through a lot of money in Vegas, but you can also go out to Vegas and not spend a bunch of money and still have a good time. So, uh, I finally went and I decided, okay, if I’m going to do this, uh, actually that was my accident too. We, I had a Dodge Ram half ton and I put an eight inch lift and the shop said that I could clear a 38 inch tire and it rubbed like crazy. And I was like, I either got to buy new tires or do a bigger lift. And it was, it was a half ton two wheel drive. So nobody made a bigger lift except third coast customs. And it was like a 16 inch big lift. So I was like, yeah, I’m going to do that. Do a body lift. I’m going to do custom paint job. So there’s, there’s a Dodge Ram truck called the head Hunter. And that was my very first SEMA build. It’s all custom painted by Ed Williamson. And, and that was the one when we debuted out there, it got the cover of trucking magazine. And then like the next eight or nine builds that I done were cover trucks. And so I was almost like the golden child there for a while. Like all these companies were just throwing stuff at me wanting to work with me and stuff. And I was like, so I was buying two, three vehicles at a time, building them for SEMA. And then I was like, I can’t sustain this financially. Cause I’m using my credit cards to like pay for ship. I mean, most of the product was sponsored, but still you got to pay for shipping. You got to pay for transport and you know, all this different stuff, pay for labor and stuff, you know? And, and so, uh, I started project managing, you know, talking to my friends, Hey, you want to do a SEMA build? Let’s go get a Jeep or go get this or go get that. You know, we’ll do that.
You basically split up the cost that way. And yeah, cause you were having cashflow issues is what it sounded like.
Right. Yeah. So, so there for a while we were bringing 20 to 22 builds a year to SEMA. And uh, you know, that was ones that we managed and then ones that I did. And, and uh, it was, it was good while it lasted and it, and it’s not that I like built it up and fell off. I just, just the time it takes, you know, like when you’re, when you’re project managing for 20 different people, I mean, you’re getting text messages and phone calls like at 11 o’clock at night or you know, if a part hasn’t shown up, you know, like, you know, I might be at family dinner and I’m getting texts and, and I noticed it started affecting my relationship with my, with my children and my wife. And, and I was like, you know, like that money, isn’t that important to me. My family time is more important. Watching my daughter cheer, watching my young boy play football. I’m a huge cheese fan. So taking him to football games and, and, uh, which is a great time to be a cheese fan right now. But, uh, so, so my traveling, you know, wanting to be an RV and stuff. And so I just, man, I just kind of like gave up the money and took a step back in life. And luckily for me, my events have done really, really well for me. And so, uh, I have the luxury of being able to travel with our RV and with the family. And if we go to an event that we host and the next one’s a month and a half, if we want to come home, come home. If we want to go explore and check out national parks, then we do that. And if the next one’s a month after that, if we want to stay out, stay out. If you want to come home, come home. But, uh, my children are our homeschools. So it works out really well.
That is really cool. What a great life. I mean, uh, and, and it’s always cool. I mean, people can go out and do stuff that they love, but to be successful at it, I think is not as common. So it’s, it’s a big deal that you’ve been successful at it.
It makes it easier when, when a passion becomes your job, it doesn’t really seem like a job, you know, it’s, it’s fun. And I really enjoy it. Like I go to a lot of the Overland expos and meet vendors and meet campers and you know, promoting this event. Like we’ve been everywhere and, um, and it’s just fun, you know? And one of the cool things is like in Overlanding, hardly anybody knows who I am. Like they don’t know about all these cover trucks.
So this TV show or, yeah, I was just going to ask you about that. I actually was going to ask you a serious question about, uh, is having groupies as exciting as it sounds?
It’s, you know, like really the only thing I had because I’m a real friendly guy. And so I try to make friends everywhere I go. And I’m super nice. Like if you’ve got a daily driver truck that’s worth five grand, or you got a $300 bro dozer, like I’m going to treat you the same, you know, like everybody starts, you know, somewhere. And so I treat everybody the same. Um, I’ve always been on that philosophy. Uh, uh, um, I’m a faith based guy. I’m a Christian guy. And I believe in, you know, doing to others as you would have them do to you. And I want respect from people. And so I give respect, you know, to people.
And so, absolutely everybody is due respect until they do something that’s not respectful. That’s the way I look at it.
Yeah.
Yeah. But I’ve had a lot of people, like when I had a bunch of magazine covers come up to me or my wife and cause me, my wife was the first couple to have back to back trucking magazine covers. Like I was one month and she was the next month. And, and, uh, but having our events, it helps because we’ve met a lot of people along the way, but I’ve had people, you know, want me to like sign a magazine. And that always makes me feel weird cause I don’t look at myself as that type of person, you know, a celebrity or anything like that. And as a matter of fact, when I was on the TV show, one of the reasons I quit after the third season was me getting in my own head about, okay, now it’s, it used to be two to three weeks to get a rendering done. Now it’s three to four months sometimes. And, and it’s because of all this filming I have to travel and do, are my clients thinking that, Oh, he’s more into that TV, you know, like, you know, he’s wanting to be a celebrity and all that kind of stuff. That’s more important than, you know, his clients. And so I got in my own head and I, and I quit, you know, after three seasons, it wasn’t that important to me.
Right. You, you figured out what was the important thing to your life and, uh, what you needed to do and support those clients. I mean, those, those clients were there before all the other accolades and stuff. So yeah, I think that’s great. And that’s actually the way absolutely. Yeah.
I mean, my clients are who built me to have a successful brand, you know, and, and man, I’ve got, I mean, heck, I had a guy hit me up the other day. He was like, Hey, do you still have a copy of my logo? We had our computer go down. And I was like, yeah, do you remember when we make it? Yeah.
He’s like, I think it was like five or six years ago. And I was like, so I started looking it up. I’m like, bro, this was like 15 years ago. I was like, yeah, I still got your logo. Let me send over your files. And so, but yeah, I have a lot of clients, hell man that keep in touch with me and still use me and, and you know, year after year after year.
So we’ve talked about these digital renderings. Is there a place people can go and see these things? Cause I mean, I would like to see what some of the stuff that you’ve done. Is it available online someplace? I mean, I’m sure, I’m sure the customers have put them out there, but maybe an area that you have that people could look and see.
Yeah. So I have my website is keg dash media.com. So keg hyphen and then media.com. Um, our Instagram is at keg media. Uh, although I posted renderings, but I also post a lot of our event stuff on there. I do a music festival too, uh, in Bloomington, Illinois, uh, each year called tailgate and tall boys. I’m partners in that. And so we’ll have like jelly roll, Nickelback, Shane Brown, Lenny Wilson, like a bunch of big acts and stuff. So it’s a big country music festival. So I post a lot of that stuff on there as well, but, um, and also you can just go to Google images and type in keg media rendering and you’ll see a bunch of stuff.
So I want to make sure, cause I know Bob, uh, Bob and the, the, the crayon guy, he just recently got on our discord server. Uh, I know they were the ones setting this up. So they didn’t tell me, uh, are we supposed to be paying you for this interview because you’re kind of a big deal.
I should be paying you guys
cause I need to, I need to cut this thing back, you know, depending on how much I’m being charged per minute for this thing. I mean, you’ve been involved in a lot of things. I had a lot of stuff.
And you know, that’s one of the things I like about overlanding and nobody knowing who I am because like I can come, I can relax, I can hang out. Uh, you know, when I’m talking to vendors and they’re like, well, isn’t this the first year show? Well it is, but let me tell you about everything else I’ve done and that smooths it over a lot.
It really helps out because any, any joker can come up and do something and you know, put a spin on it. But, uh, yeah, but, but, but you’ve done this before. So, um, I’m sorry, we’ve had a lot of fun talking about everything else other than the overland of american.com thing. Uh, and you’re absolutely a person that will have to have back, uh, because I know we haven’t scratched the surface on this. So, uh, let’s talk about the overland of america.com. That’s where you guys can go right now and look at what’s going on here. It sounds like a big dang deal, especially for the first year event, which now makes sense because this isn’t your first rodeo. You’ve had many of them in the past. So you knew what to put on and what to do to make this thing of an interesting thing. So, uh, tell me again, where is this located?
So this is at mid America outdoors. It is a, uh, beautiful off road park. Uh, it’s in J Oklahoma and it’s September 13th through the 15th. And it’s, it’s not just overlanding. Like if somebody’s got a Jeep and they want to come and experience the event, take in the trails, we’ve got 1600 acres of private trails. We just had a Dan from crayon brotherhood, uh, map out five trails that we are going to have links for. So people can download them to their a Gaia or they can download them to onyx. And so they’ll be able to go on those trails. Uh, we’ve got the two swimming pools. We’ve got lazy river splash pad, uh, playground. We’ve got a restaurant, multiple food trucks, about 400 RV spots, 75 cabins on property, three laundry facilities. I’ve got an arcade with unlimited free gameplay.
Oh my God.
Our education pavilion will be where we’ll be doing a lot of classes and courses. So we’ll be doing a winch recovery. We’ll be doing a cooking classes. We even have a cooking contest called the ultimate camp cook where we’ll have cash prizes and it’s free to enter that. If you’re already inside the event, we have the lady overland lounge, which is just for the ladies and they have private classes to talk about women’s safety and hygiene and things like that. Why they’re out on the trail or camping. Uh, there’s just so, so much going on is it’s going to be an awesome time. Uh, one of our really cool things is we have a pool party on Friday night from seven to 10 and that is what we call our mixer. So all the sponsors, the vendors, the campers, anybody staying on property is going to be able to come to that pool party. It starts at seven, but at eight o’clock and it’s going to have a DJ and we got a big led screen that’ll have some stuff on it with our sponsors and stuff. But, uh, at eight o’clock we’re going to start our giveaway and everybody that enters the pool party gets a ticket, a raffle ticket, and then they have the option to purchase more if they want, like over in the corner after they walk in. But, uh, we’re going to be giving away about $35,000 worth of product, everything from ground tents, rooftop tents, suspensions, wheels, tires, uh, camping gear. Um, you, you name it, we’ve probably got it that we’re going to be given away.
That’s amazing. This is a big dang deal. I’m glad we got you in here, uh, in time. Cause I, I don’t know if you know, about podcasts, it usually takes a good 30 days, uh, for the episode to get, listen to. So, uh, fortunately, that’s
why when you guys gave me the option of like different times, I was like, I’m taking the first one I can get on there. So that way we can get it out there.
Yeah. Cause I want people to know about this. This is a big deal. And again, the first year of doing it, uh, is, yeah, we have, sounds amazing.
Yeah. We have about a hundred companies involved. Um, we’ll have, so sponsors and vendors, some, some companies, it’s so awesome because some companies are coming on board as product sponsors for our giveaway. Even though they can’t be there, they want to support the event the first year because they feel it’s going to blow up as well. And they want to be known as, Hey, we were there for the first year.
You get the product there. You’re still getting your name in front of people.
Exactly. Yeah. And so we do a really good job on our social media. Uh, like I got a big giveaway right now. If you follow us on our social media and you tag your three friends, follow the sponsors that are involved and join our email list, we’re getting away a, um, shift pod, shift pod is our title sponsor and they make those really cool space age looking ground tents. And so ship pod, we’re giving away shift pod, many we’re giving away a Hest, uh, camping mattress, camping pillow and comforter. We’re giving away a Devos light ranger, which is the best camp light you can ever use, uh, extends to like nine or 12 feet in the air. And then, uh, we’re giving away a black beard fire starter kit as well. And all that’s grouped up and, and I got to be as one of our followers on our, our Instagram.
That’s really nice, man. What a big deal this, I love interviews like this because it is so, um, meaningful to our listeners, whether you’re an off-roader or you’re an overlander, it’s just a big event. And it sounds like it’s very much a family event, uh, that you, yeah.
So our whole thing was we didn’t want to create an expo. We wanted to create an experience. And, um, if I could tell you the quick story about how this all rolled in was my, my partner, Chris Carroll, he goes by at fast rack overland. He’s a YouTube guy, kind of an influencer, kind of on a small scale, but shoots the most beautiful cinematic overland videos you’ve seen. And, uh, so he asked me if I would be interested in doing an overland event. And I was like, maybe I was going to do a Jeep event. I was like, uh, let me think on it. And so I got to thinking, man, I’ve known this guy 25 years and he’s never asked me to partner with him on something like this. Why now? There had to be a reason. So I went back to him. I said, Hey, tell me why you want to do an event. And his, his thing is he wanted to gain a little bit more financial freedom. So where he can full time more, but him and our other partner Patrick have a thing called the mighty 30 and kind of like they got the name from David’s mighty 30 men from the Bible. And they want to create a camping retreats, overlanding retreats for men, uh, 30 men at a time to where they can minister and, and just enjoy the great outdoors and what God’s given us. And, and, uh, that, you know, do ministry with those men’s and just have retreats and stuff. And, and when I heard that I was like, yeah, man, I would love to do an event with you, you know? And, and so, uh, I was like, but you know what, take me to an overland event because I don’t know what they’re about. And so he took me to one and I had a great time, the camaraderie and everything. And it was a little bit smaller scale event, but, uh, you know, sitting around the campfire and just watching everybody hang out and talk and and be inviting and invite you to eat with them and cook for you and all that. That was really cool. But then I was like, I told Chris, I said, man, this is awesome dude, but I’m kind of a little bit bored. What if we created something like this, but put a twist on it to where it’s more about community involvement, not just so much you go and you shop at the vendors and then you disappear in your little groups. What if we had more community stuff? Like we’re doing a bar. Yeah. We’re doing a Barbie Jeep downhill at our event and it is freaking awesome.
I know what you’re talking about last year.
We’ve got a video out there floating around on our Instagram of our Barbie Jeep downhill, but it’s like a slip and slide slalom meets Barbie Jeep downhill. And you end up in a big puddle of muddy water at the bottom and it got cash payouts and stuff, but it is the funniest thing. And we did it for lifted truck nationals last year posted that video and it got a million views the first week. And then we reposted it like three months later, like a throwback Thursday. And it got like 1.6 million views. And I was like, I’ve never posted any video that got that kind of views, you know? And, uh, so we can definitely tell people like watching stuff like that. So we’re doing that. We’re doing that pool party. We’re doing a, uh, at our pavilion at a nighttime on Saturday, we’re turning it into a short film festival. So some of our featured storytellers, they’re going to debut some videos that they haven’t put on their YouTube yet. So we’ll have that going on as well. But all the classes and courses people can take are, well,
the classes are wonderful too, because you know a lot of people don’t want to ask dumb questions. So if you have a class, you can go in there and, uh, and learn, and you don’t have to ask the dumb question. I highly recommend asking the dumb question because I guarantee you, there’s 10 other people that want to ask the same thing.
Right. Yeah. Yep. I’m going, I’m, looks like I’m looking to the side, but I’m going to pull it up.
Actually, I’m glad we got a break here because I’ve gone over to Instagram and started following KEG media. And I found the, the RV and the suburban, I believe that’s all hooked up. And I see the Bucky’s sign in the background.
Why will I, like, I don’t care where we go. If, uh, if there’s a Bucky’s we have to stop. I don’t care if we just stopped and exit down and got gas. If there’s a Bucky’s we have to stop.
I don’t know what magic Bucky’s has. Maybe it’s the beaver. I mean, everybody’s chasing the beaver, right?
So maybe it’s the, I don’t even go in usually. I use, it’s so busy. And you know, the craziest thing is, is I have crowd anxiety and I’ve always had it. And it’s so weird because I’m an event promoter and I do SEMA and all that stuff, but I have the worst crowd anxiety. And so when I’m in a restaurant, like I got to sit in the back or if I’m setting up towards the middle, like I have to be facing the door and I’m always looking at the exit points and like, I don’t know what it is about me. I just, you know, and when, when I’m in a crowd, so like you would ask before about, you know, being well known or people coming up to you. And it always made me feel uncomfortable just because you know, like people want to put their arm around you and take a picture with you or something like that. And it wasn’t that I didn’t want them to do that. It’s just my anxiety takes over, you know, and I start like, I feel like I’m sweating and like I’m not listening and paying attention. Cause my mind is telling me, get out of that situation.
You have chosen an interesting, uh, career. I mean, anxieties are, you know, they don’t have to make sense. If they did, then they wouldn’t be anxieties. So, you know, it’s cool, but it’s interesting that you’ve taken to pick this, this, uh, uh, track to go in your life and you have anxiety thing. That’s, that’s really interesting.
Remember I said they always invited me to see them and I would never go.
Right. Oh, that’s a crowd.
He started like, like, yeah. And so I never went cause I didn’t want to be around all that. And then, uh, you know, now like, I’ve kind of used to it now, but like, I don’t stay in my booth for very long. Like I’m, I’m usually not in the booth. I’m walking around and you know, I’m in and out of different booths and visiting with people. I don’t even know why I get a SEMA booth. It’s kind of pointless, but, but I still
get people can find you that way. Uh, so, I mean, you got other
people to say, Hey, meet me at the booth. I’m out walking around, but meet me at the booth in 30 minutes or something.
But you have other people, you have other people in the booth though. Right? I mean, the booth isn’t empty.
You just leave it empty. Yeah. I mean, you’re not, you’re not supposed to do that. It’s a bathroom. I don’t, I don’t leave my booth.
It’s a pro-line bathroom break. You know, everybody’s going to go.
I’m eating right now. Or so.
Yeah. There you go. I’m sorry. We’ll cut that out.
When I, when I had employees before I narrowed it back down to just me running the business again, um, my employees would be there and, and you know, I’d be in there a little bit more and they would kind of play,
I don’t know, like front, front line, you know, to where, you know, I would sit at the table and you know, they would, they were the blockers.
Yeah, they were the blockers.
Yeah. So, so it had to be a pretty important for to have a set down, but, but then I’ve made me feel weird. You know what I’m saying? Like, like I’m just not that guy. I’m a friendly guy. I want to talk to, I want to talk to people. I’m a friendly person, but then I’m great. One-on-one, one-on-two, one-on-three, but you put like 10, 20 people.
I could see that if you, yeah, I could see that if you were upfront, you could draw a crowd, uh, you know, and that would probably make you feel a little awkward.
As long as there’s people not standing behind me, I’m usually pretty good.
I’ve kind of gotten over, over the hump of crowds as long as people aren’t behind me. Like that’s, I think that’s where it starts like getting my anxiety going again. But, but yeah, I wanted to touch base on some of these classes and courses we’re offering. Um, we have how we film our adventures. So that’s a storyteller YouTuber that’s going to teach how they film and how they set up and what cameras and all that stuff. Yeah. We’ve got a womb cleaning. We’ve got a traveling with pets. We’ve got overlanding 101, which is a very important class to me because I was new to this. And I learned what I learned of overlanding by watching YouTube and watching different storytellers and stuff. Um, then we’ve got splinting unstable injuries. We’ve got smart safe protected camping, high lift training, um, hydration, food, and hygiene, uh, which is the boring side of first aid. We’ve got another overlanding 101, the basics for women travelers. Uh, we’ve got recovery fundamentals, tourniquet, wound packing, chest seals, trauma care, basic trail rules of the road, Gaia classes, um, just so much different classes. Like every day is filled like from nine o’clock in the morning to like six o’clock at night of different classes and courses that you can choose to do. And then we have guided trail rides as well. We’ve got a heavy metal off-road is our guided trail ride partner. And so they’re going to be doing a guided trail ride on nine a nine a.m. on Saturday, but you don’t have to do that. You can go out on our trails anytime you’re at the event, like night riding too. You can night trail ride. So it’s once the park opens, it’s, it’s open 24 seven for our event.
Now on the guided trail ride, is that an additional cost? Is it, uh, is it,
it’s everything inside my event is free. Once you pay to get in, that’s it. Uh, and, uh, and it’s not too bad either. So like for a spectator to not bring your vehicle in, it’s $20 a day or it’s 35 for all three days. So it’s makes way more sense if you’re going to spend two days there to get the weekend pass, cause you at least say five and you say 15, if you’re going to be there all three days. So that’s spectators. So that would be parking in the spectator lot, but walking in, and you can still take advantage of, uh, our classes and courses. Cause they’re free. Um, if you can hop in with somebody, you know, go on the guided trail ride, but then there’s a, there’s camping. So we don’t really have a vehicle pass. So to say we do, it’s called an extra vehicle pass. It’s a hundred, and it includes your weekend wristband for you and for you to bring your vehicle in. So that’s if somebody wanted to come in and just trail ride and stuff like that, but not stay on property. But I suggest staying on property, like get you a ground tent or, you know, if you got a rooftop stand or sleep in your vehicle or something, but we have what’s called a trail, uh, trail, uh, trail and prairie camping, right? So if you’re on a trail and you see a cool spot right off the trail that you want to camp set up, that’s your spot. Um, but it’s 135, it includes all three nights. It’s a pass for yourself and your rig and you’d be able to camp and, um, uh, anybody that comes with you and guests, if they’re 13 years or older, uh, it’s 35 for the weekend. And, uh, man, just come and have a good time. We’ve got premium camping, which is 185. The difference in it is it’s a, it’s a sign spot. So they’re 25 wide by 80 deep. So say if you’ve got two or three guys that want to camp together. So one guy buys the premium spot and then the next guy is just by the extra vehicle pass and they can all camp on the same spot. And then our RV spots are 30 by 80. So they’re even bigger and they’ve got full power hookup, water hookup. Uh, they don’t have dump, uh, you know, sewer services on the actual site, but we have at the venue, we have two sewer dumps, uh, that people are able to use.
And that’s where you park all the Toyotas, right? Right. By the, uh, the sewer dump.
Sorry.
That’s what my partner drives. It’s so funny cause we’ve got this ongoing thing and, and I didn’t ever know about it until he said, Oh yeah, it’s a big battle. So now I mess with him all the time about it. And he’s like, why are you always messing with me about that? I’m like, cause you brought it up. I thought it was a thing.
I’m putting a sign over there. Put a sign over there.
I thought I was supposed to needle you about driving a Toyota.
Oh, that’s just, that’s just being a friend. You have to needle people. Um, so the, you think this is a, uh, uh, do you, would you get the, the, the, uh, would it be useful enough to go one day or do you recommend, uh, two or three days?
I would recommend coming the whole event because there’s so much going on. Um, Friday is going to be great because that’s when we have our giveaways and stuff, but keep in mind, it’s like a, um, a hotel. You can’t go to the pool if you’re not staying at the hotel and our facility is the same way, the same rules. You have to be staying on property to go into the pool facilities and into the bar. That’s where the pool is. And to be part of the giveaways because the giveaways at night are really for the campers, you know, that’s who we’re actually doing it for. Um, so my suggestion is don’t just be a spectator, be a participant, be a camper. You know, you can learn so much. You’ll meet so many cool people. Um, that doesn’t cost that much to grab a ground tent from Walmart or Academy or something like that. It should be beautiful weather, you know, like,
that was, that was the next thing I was going to add. There we go. That’s exactly what I wanted to ask cause a fat boys in a tent, sweaty tent isn’t a good thing. So, uh, the weather you’re expecting to be in the sixties at night, which is, is,
yeah, at night it should be in the sixties day. It should be probably upper seventies, low eighties.
I was like, I can sleep. I just need it cool enough so I can sleep in a tent. You know that, that’s right.
Yeah. Yeah. So that, yeah, it’s going to be awesome.
Yeah. It really does sound like it’s going to be awesome. So, um,
are you the one that’s going to be coming?
No, I bet you that’s Bob.
Okay.
Yeah. F you Bob is, is what we call him. Uh,
and there may be others coming. I’m not a, not aware of yet, but it’s probably if you Bob, he’s the one that contacted me about this. Um, so, uh, and, uh, it’s, uh, it’s on Oklahoma. You can go to overland of America.com to get more information. Uh, you can click to get tickets. Oh, and I was going to ask you this. I know it’s the first time, but you’ve done events before. Do you get the feeling this is something people need to, uh, go over there and take care of, get the tickets and start making plans immediately.
We will sell. So we’re selling out a lot of stuff. Uh, a lot of our cabins are sold out. Um, a lot of our RV spots are sold out. I just added more RV spots the, uh, yesterday or day before of ones that are really close to the vendor areas, like easy walkable distance, like 900 feet starting. Um, so I just added some more of those because we started selling out, um, very intro camping. I can probably fit three, 4,000 people like in this first camping. That’s amazing. So we will never run out of room for that. Uh, premium campsites, uh, they’re starting to sell out in the closer to where the vendors are, you know, but, um, we will have a shuttle service too. So you don’t have to break down camp. This is huge.
This is something you people, you got to go to this thing. This is the sounds amazing.
We’ll have shuttles going around picking people up, dropping them off, you know, uh, by the vendors and stuff. And, uh, you know, we’ve got these, this shower house, like, uh, I guess it’s a community shower house. It’s not really, you know, it’s, they’re all private, but then we also have, you know, like when you go to the airport or somewhere and there’s a, there’s a men’s and a women’s restroom and then there’s a family restroom, like, so we have those as well, but they’re bathrooms, like literally bathrooms. It’s a, it’s a door you open and you open it up and it’s like, you just walked in your bathroom at your house and there’s like 12 or 14 of those that’s over by the restaurant area. Um, so they’re like private bath houses and stuff that people can use. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s, so it’s super nice. Um, but I would suggest purchasing tickets early because you do have to sign a waiver and you can sign your waiver when you do that.
When you said the Barbie, the Barbie vehicle challenge, I was going to say, well, there’s going to be a waiver involved in your simplest.
Oh yeah. That’s a separate waiver. Yeah. You have to sign a waiver to come like even me and my staff have to sign a waiver before the event to be on property. But, so you have to sign a property waiver and then to enter the Barbra Jeep downhill. That’s a whole different way.
I could have well imagine. Uh, we need to, we need to enter
too. So if somebody wants to enter that, they can enter that. If they want to enter the camp cook, as long as they’re there camping, you know,
Oh, and you mentioned there’s a place to do your laundry. So once you hit that mud pit, you can, you can still get your clothes clean.
Oh, you know what else we have? Like if you go out on the trails and you get your vehicle dirty, we’ve got free wash base too.
You know, it’s just a Washington. Sorry. You can’t, you can’t wash the Jeep. All right. Uh, Robbie, I really appreciate it. It’s a lot of fun. Like I said earlier, it is a just scratching the surface here. We’ll have to have you back. Uh,
probably after your event is over when you have some, for some more free time to hear more about all the things that you’ve done in your career. What a, what a wonderful, interesting life you’re, you’re living. You know how the kids love the social media. How can people find you online? We’ve, we’ve mentioned it already. Of course we’ve mentioned overland of america.com where you can go to sign up for this wonderful event. I’m really impressed with this thing. I mean, it’s a hell of a first year. Uh, but where can they find you online to see some pictures and stuff? You know how the kids like pictures. They don’t like those pesky words.
So we make it really easy. Our Instagram, we’re most active on Instagram. We, I don’t do tick doc. I should, but I don’t, but, uh, uh, we, we are at overland of america on instagram and facebook. So real easy to find, um, keep everything the same name.
So, and the other one is a keg media. If they want to see some of the other, the, yeah, yeah.
If you want to, if you want to check me out, my, my company online is at keg media. So like a beer keg. So just keg media is, uh, is my main company. I think we’ve got, I don’t know, like a hundred and some thousand followers on instagram. Um, but, uh, yeah, it’s a, I don’t even, uh, post as much on there as, as, as much as I should, because I’m so focused on the separate events that we do and posted on those. But our, uh, our instagram for overland of america is awesome. It’s very active. We do giveaways. We’ve got, uh, we’ve got some giveaways for some free entries and camping. We’ve got some giveaways for some different products going on. Um, always doing something on there.
And it was a keg adventures on the, on the youtube, right?
Yeah. Yeah. At keg adventures on youtube for some reason, it has to use a little app symbol on there.
Yip yip yip. Okay. Well, the Jeep talk show is following all three of those things and you as listeners or viewers should do the same thing. And as I mentioned, viewers, don’t forget, if you’re listening to this, uh, this episode, you can actually watch it. Uh, I’ll just warn you ahead of time. I got a face for radio. So, uh, but you can certainly find us on youtube to search for Jeep talk show. Robbie, thank you so much for being with us and good luck on the event, but I don’t think luck’s going to have much to do with it.
Thank you very much. No, it’s all up to the man upstairs.
Yeah, absolutely. Have a great day. Thank you.
Thank you. Thanks for having me on.
You’re my friend, you’re my new friend.