Ram Outsold Jeep This Quarter. First Time in Years
Stellantis is not going out of business. The clickbait title said Jeep and Ram were done, and the numbers underneath it are the part worth arguing about. Stellantis posted a full-year 2025 net loss of 22.3 billion, mostly from writing down electric vehicle plans after demand came in lower than expected. Jeep was down about 20 percent in the third quarter and about 8 percent for the year. Ram was up about 29 percent for the quarter, roughly 20 percent year to date, and outsold Jeep for the quarter for the first time in years. Jeep still leads the year, but only by roughly 45,000 units.
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Key Highlights
- Third-quarter 2026 Stellantis volume was essentially flat at 324,270 units, about 600 fewer than the same quarter last year.
- Josh’s read is that Ram takes the year-to-date lead by December. He calls it a feeling, not a fact, and says do not buy stock off this conversation.
- Tony’s case for full self-driving on a Jeep or Ram: a chauffeur for $99 a month, cameras instead of Waymo’s lidar pods, and no requirement that the truck be an EV. Off-road stays hands-on.
- Josh was out a couple of weeks with a lung infection and a jaw abscess that ruptured. Tony had a non-melanoma skin cancer cut off his wrist the day before this recording, about an inch long and half an inch wide. The line from the dermatologist: if a sore does not heal in 30 days, get it looked at.
- Unverified, and labeled that way on the show: Flock cameras may be reading plates plus Bluetooth, phones, and TPMS. Nicky G still closes it. The bread factory bit is intact.
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Episode Transcript
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electric plans after demand came in lower than expected.
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Jeep was down about 20% in the third quarter.
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Ram was up about 29.
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Speaker 1
Stay for the next minute. Josh thinks that gap closes by year end and he has no numbers to back that up.
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Speaker 1
All right, Josh, here we are again. We’re gonna talk about Stellantis going out of business. Could it be true?
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Speaker 1
So we’re gonna talk about where you’ve been, why you’ve been gone, and we’ll get a little health update on both of us. So anyway, I saw this,
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Speaker 1
how to say it, this clickbait YouTube title for Stellantis, Jeep, and Ram going out of business. And I know we’ve reported on it for years about Jeep having problems selling stuff or their sales being down. And I asked AI to give me some information about Stellantis going out of business, or specifically Jeep Ram going out of business. And AI says, “Clickbait,”
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(Laughs)
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which is good news.
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Speaker 1
But it gives us an opportunity to talk about where Stellantis is going. So I thought it was interesting. Stellantis posted a full year 2025 net loss of 22.3 billion. That’s billion, how you do it? Billion with an M?
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(Laughs)
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Mostly from writing down its electric vehicle plans after demand came in much lower than expected. Well, when the
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bastard communist government stops mandating EVs, it does have a tendency to knock EV sales down. Why in the hell would anybody want to force a technology that nobody wants? I mean, we beat this to death.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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We can think.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we can think. Why can’t anybody else think? I mean, you’re up there in the Pacific Northwest. How are you, I know the answer to this, but how are you about this green stuff? We’re all gonna die. The oceans are gonna rise.
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I have no problem with the environment, a good environment, a pristine environment, fresh air. I think that’s wonderful.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, and leave the environment for the other people to enjoy it later after we’re gone or too old to get out there. So it’s great, I like that. But the problem I have with it is, is that we shouldn’t have to live in a teepee with no air conditioning, eatin’ buffalo. Although it sounds like a fun weekend, you know?
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Speaker 1
Exactly. So I just, I understand.
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Speaker 1
So you’re not as old as I am. I am old enough to remember five or six things that we’ve gone through as at least American or worldwide population of these terrors. They’ve made movies about them. The China Syndrome was one of the terrors. You remember, the Soy and Green was one of the terrors because we were gonna overpopulate and run out of food. So it seems like we have these things that come up like once every 10 years where people, yeah, where people generate books, they create movies, it’s a money-making operation. And also too, I think the government uses it to control us if nothing else, get our money because they’re gonna save us. Number one, we have to elect them because they’re gonna save us. And number two, we gotta give them our money so that they can line their pockets. And I think that with what we’ve seen here in the last two or three years, it’s really clear that you get into politics so that you can become rich.
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Speaker 1
John laughs) Yeah, Ronald Reagan, yep, absolutely.
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Speaker 1
Who was part of the government, which is kinda scary? So anyway, back to Stellantis. I know we’re not supposed to go political here and I’m not, and I’m blame of both sides. It’s politics in general.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, so don’t think we’re picking on liberals or Democrats, we’re picking on the whole thing. And I think I’ve been clear about this in the past. Neither one of them are great. They’re all a pain in the ass. Some are just a little less pain in the ass than the others. And I think they’re all crooked.
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Speaker 1
That’s why I think it’s a good idea to have somebody in charge that’s a billionaire and they’re less likely to steal from us. But yeah. So, oh, let me ask you this. I may have mentioned this before. I do not trust politicians, any of them, especially when it comes to power and money.
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Speaker 1
I think, and I don’t mean that AI should be making the decisions, but I think we should have an AI watchdog over Congress where it monitors what they’re doing with bills and funding and how much money they have in the bank account. And explain to me how.
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(Laughs) (Silence)
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Speaker 1
Oh no, no, because Congress would have to approve it.
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(Laughs)
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Speaker 1
But I think we should have a watchdog group that we can trust, not Congress, because Congress is the watchdog group right now. And you can’t have people doing it because they’ll get paid off to make the right decisions that the people in power want. So I love the idea of an honest AI, and it doesn’t do anything other than, oh, you know what it does? It does what the fucking media should be doing and reporting on the information. You know, really the reason why they’re there, not to generate information to lead us one way or another. We saw so much of that and see it from day to day, but actually have an entity that reports things accurately. What is it that Fox News would say? We report, you decide, that’s what we need.
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Speaker 1
All right, anyway, and Stellantis mentioned, this is just click bait on these videos. Don’t trust YouTube videos, except for this one. And we are on YouTube, but of course we’re on the audio only as well.
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(Laughs)
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Speaker 1
I think Jeep has been doing that. I’ve heard about a lot of people that are being let go from Jeep.
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Speaker 1
I’m worried about the RAM thing. And I’ll just mention here, RAM was up about 29% for the quarter and roughly 20% year to date. So they’re definitely doing well.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So my assumption, I haven’t been shopping for a full-size pickup. I love them, but I haven’t been shopping for one. So, but my assumption is that Ford and Chevrolet are just too fucking expensive. Because I do remember the RAM trucks were capable in what I would consider other than a Ford. Because I think if I wanted a really good pickup, at least traditionally, I’d want a Ford pickup. And, but they’re so expensive, the Dodge Ram was, had a better pricing. So I’m wondering if that’s the reason why they’re doing so well.
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It really does.
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Speaker 1
Chevrolet used to be beautiful. Ford was not, never what I would consider beautiful.
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Speaker 1
Well, it’s not like the classic. You remember the square bodies? That was a good looking truck.
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Speaker 1
Would that be cool? Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, so, and I think the, I haven’t looked at the Dodge Ram recently, but they’re a little more, little curvy for me. I kind of like the whole Jeep boxy thing, but in the trucks, you know?
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Well, I mean, you remember Chuck, right? You know, that’s what all Chuck buys is the Dodge Rams.
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Do you know that he popped into a round table two weeks ago?
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By the way, so I think I’ve told you about this, and this is a good segue for me to mention this here. We’ll get back to the Stellanza stuff. So Chuck actually showed up, I don’t think he watched it, but he actually showed up on movie night. So on Tuesday night, 7.30 p.m. Central time, which we’re recording this on a Tuesday, so we’re gonna be doing it tonight. We have movie night, and movie night is a way for you to make comments on a shared movie. So we play the video of the movie, and we record the Zoom meeting, the round table, where we can make comments and questions and side comments about the video. And then you can go back, you can watch it live if you’re there on the round table on Tuesday nights, or you can go back and watch it and listen to all the comments. Whole idea is Mr. Science Theater 3000, but this is Jeep related or off-road related and not sci-fi. So anyway, I think it’s a cool idea. People are really enjoying it. And oh, do you know Marvin from Flex Rocks and Rollovers?
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Speaker 1
Have you ever seen that, where it’s like they do the 24 hour hail and back videos where they go out? No.
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Speaker 1
Oh, it’s very, very popular videos. So Marvin has been on the show before. I interviewed him out at EJS one year, and I made comment in a post about, wouldn’t it be cool to get Marvin in the round table? We play a Flex Rocks and Rollover video, and then you get the inside, the director’s cut, I think Chris is what called it.
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Where Marvin is talking about the behind the scenes type stuff that happened.
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Speaker 1
Well, I commented, one of her, I put a post up on social media and Marvin responded back, count me in. So this actually might be a new thing that we’re doing for the round table where we have
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individuals, I mean, maybe Matt, Matt’s off-road we can get on.
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(Mumbles)
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Speaker 1
Oh, and it’s so much better than begging. Like, hey, we really need your support because we need to get some, yeah. Well, I think that’s the whole point. And I think that’s what we try to do here at the Jeep Talk Show is we try to come up with ideas that makes the show interesting. A positive reason for you to watch. Not just a fuck you, you fucking fuck, which are enjoyable, but you know what I’m saying? It’s just like,
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Speaker 1
excellent.
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Speaker 1
Excellent, all right, anyway, we go down these rabbit trails. I hope people don’t mind these things so much. So Jeep, Stellantis was up, but Jeep was down about 20% in Q3 and about 8% for the year. 8% for the year. I think that’s better than what it was last year. I mean, it’s still down, but it’s only 8%.
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Speaker 1
Ram actually outsold Jeep for the quarter, which had not happened in years, which you pointed out. Jeep still leads year to date, but only by roughly 45,000 units. You know, it’s funny because it says here that the third quarter, 2026,
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Speaker 1
it was essentially flat, 324,270 units. It was about 687 vehicles, about 600 fewer than the same quarter last year. Now, let me ask you something. If you were selling vehicles at thousands of dollars a piece, would you be pretty happy with 300,000, selling 300,000 of them? I mean, I know it’s all relative.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1
Hey, this is all opinion. It’s all our opinion. It’s not anything that we’ve looked up. Don’t buy stock. It’s just advice. You know, don’t don’t take it as exactly what you should do.
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Speaker 1
I think the thing that surprises me is I hear a lot of shit about Jeeps. I think it’s a popular thing to do. And I think, yeah, I think I think a lot of the influencers are the people out there reporting on it. They don’t like it because it’s rough. They don’t like it because it’s a gas guzzler. It’s not green. It goes back to the thing, you know, it’s it’s people. And I want to say manly, but it’s not just men. It’s women as well. It’s. So it is something. So I think that there I think that Jeep is not a bad vehicle. I think they just dislike it.
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Speaker 1
And speaking of disliking, and I’ve been told in reviews that I shouldn’t talk to Tesla because I think people, even though it is definitely a green item,
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Speaker 1
I think people have got this idea about Tesla as not being.
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Speaker 1
They don’t like it because it doesn’t fit their worldview. So I think it’s Elon that doesn’t fit their worldview. So I maintain, I’ve talked about this before that I think that Jeep and Ram and really every manufacturer out there probably is going to have the same issue of not having a self driving vehicle.
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Speaker 1
What do you know about full self driving?
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Speaker 1
Do you remember DARPA having the trials where they’d go out someplace and the thing would have to drive a track?
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Speaker 1
audio cuts out) So how do you feel about driving in traffic? I like driving too, but how do you feel like stop and go traffic? How do you feel about that, driving it?
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Speaker 1
So, you know, listening to this, it reminds me, because I think everybody knows we’ve been doing this for close to 16 years. So I’ve heard a lot about your life and your daily drive. So didn’t you used to take alternate routes? It wasn’t always the same way. You tried to get around traffic.
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Speaker 1
Oh, and much worse than anything you could have ever survived, yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Well, so you’ve actually made the, yeah, you’ve actually made the point that I was getting to is that your view of full self-driving is I’m a car guy. I’m a vehicle guy. I like driving. I like being in control. I’m the same way. But when you drive and stop and go traffic, one of the reasons why I like a lifted vehicle is because I can see overall the civilian, so to speak, and I could make,
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Speaker 1
yeah, or any car, and I can kind of make decisions about stopping and not running into the person in front of me and so on and so forth. And then I got to thinking about it. If I was in a full self-driving vehicle, what do I care? I may be frustrated about how long it takes me to get to the office or wherever I’m going, but I don’t have that frustration of monitoring what’s going on, what’s holding this up. Why are you people rubbernecking at the wreck?
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Speaker 1
Do you know the person? What’s the odds that you’re gonna know the person? Just move your ass. So whenever you have full self-driving, you don’t have to worry about that. I think that all manufacturers are going to be sucking high-intit by not embracing full self-driving. And when I say embracing it, I know that GM and Ford, they have a type of full self-driving on specific roads that have high density GPS information for highways, so it can basically go straight. But it doesn’t make a lot of decisions on the back streets. So
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Speaker 1
yeah, so I think that, and Tesla has made this technology available to other manufacturers for a number of years now. And nobody, Elon said just the other day, nobody has taken him up on it. And I think that, and we’re talking about Jeeps and Rams and really all vehicles, their sales. So when you can have a chauffeur for $99 a month, and it can take you from your garage, your driveway, to work and park where you want it to park, and you have to do nothing except ride along,
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Speaker 1
I mean, come on. I think that Jeep needs to embrace the full self-driving. If nothing else, like you were saying, on long trips. I’ve mentioned it before, go into Moab, go into,
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Speaker 1
oh
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Speaker 1
no, no, no, no, no. But that’s a case for CyberCab. Yeah, that’s CyberCab. That’s not the daily driver type thing.
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it off road.
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Speaker 1
Nobody, nobody wants to be self driven off road. And if you are commit suicide now.
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Speaker 1
Audio cuts out) Let me ask you this. You mentioned the no steering wheel, no pedals and stuff, which really, I think any freaks anybody out getting into a vehicle that you can’t control. You can tell it where to go, but it’s not your
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Speaker 1
decision as far as turning right, left and right and you know, manually. So that’s kind of like getting a Barbie as a girlfriend that’s not anatomically correct because there’s nothing there other than the companionship.
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Speaker 1
See how the brain works?
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Speaker 1
Anyway, I just think that they’re missing out and I think that if they would embrace, even if they just made the announcement that they were buying in to the full self driving, they were going to start making modifications to their jeeps and rams where full self driving was going to occur. And keep in mind, you mentioned Waymo. Waymo has all those light arb, all those things hanging off of them and the whole vehicle is very expensive. The Tesla doesn’t work that way. They use, I think eight cameras, high density cameras and they make decisions. The AI makes decisions based on what it sees, just like we do, except it sees better. So the Jeep would need to add cameras. They would need to have the ability to drive by wire, brake by wire, which they actually have the brake by wire now. And I guess they do have the drive by wire a little bit for lane collision avoidance. And so I think some of the mechanisms are already there. They probably would need to beef them up. Anyway, I want to keep preaching this because I think that we all want Jeep to continue on and I think for them to be successful, they need to embrace
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Speaker 1
technology, not their technology, because I think everybody, including the Chinese, are at least 10 years behind Tesla
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Speaker 1
on the full self-driving market.
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Speaker 1
I think it’s going to have to be there. I think every manufacturer is going to have to do this. And I think it’s going to have to happen pretty soon because I follow the Tesla stuff and the cyber cab is building. I think we’ve got a 500 and something
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Speaker 1
self-driving cabs in Texas now, mostly in the Austin area. And I think that as people see this, especially as they start taking rides in the cyber cabs and also the robotaxes, the robotaxes are basically the standard Teslas that have the steering wheel and everything in it. Cyber cabs are the gold ones that don’t have the steering wheel or pedals.
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Speaker 1
So I think as more people use those, see them, understand how much safer they are, so on and so forth, there’s going to be a push like, well, why can’t the vehicle that I’m driving have this? Maybe not this specific one, but at least being a possibility that I’d like to buy it. And I do not have to have an EV. You don’t have to have an EV self-driving. It can be an internal combustion engine with full self-driving.
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Speaker 1
Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1
absolutely.
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Speaker 1
Billy, Billy Bob’s full self-driving.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Anyway, I’m very passionate about this. I don’t want to talk too long on it, but I do like reminding people about it because I think it’s going to be very important. And I think this is one of the ways that Jeep could make sure that they last long into the future. And I definitely want to make sure people understand, I don’t care if it’s EV or not. I have no problem with EVs. I think it’s a great idea. The torque, the horsepower, all that stuff. We just don’t, like I’ve always said, we just don’t have the power supply for it yet. When I can drive a thousand miles on a charge or it’s generating electricity all the time, give me a dilithium chamber for God’s sake. I love the idea of just getting into the vehicle and the Jetson sound and take it off.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I can’t remember. I have heard, we’ve made mentioned before about the locomotives where they have a diesel engine that does nothing except provide electricity. I mean, motion for the generator, it’s a fully electric vehicle because they need that torque and the ability to pull things. But the diesel engine runs at a constant or its best RPM to make the fuel last the longest. And there’s a vehicle coming out. It might be a Dodge Ram, I think it might be a pickup, that’s going to be doing that where it has a diesel engine, diesel motor, and it does nothing except run the generator.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a small, it has to be small because you need to see how big the locomotives are. So, and I think that’s a brilliant idea, at least until we get to the point where we can generate a lot of electricity very easily.
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Speaker 1
Right.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, well, it’s like cursive writing or reading an analog clock. It just ain’t going to happen again.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1
So you recently have been away from the show for the past couple of weeks, maybe three weeks, and that was due to a medical issue that you were having.
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Speaker 1
And that’s basically like a sore, something that’s swelling.
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Speaker 1
Is that what an abscess would be?
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Speaker 1
first time you’ve gone through this before.
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Speaker 1
That’s how they get you.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, all part of the plan. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
You would hope so. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
But it’s kind of a good thing, right? Whenever that starts happening because it reduces the pain and there’s a potential of healing.
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Speaker 1
Lung butter, that sounds like a good thing, because everybody loves butter.
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Speaker 1
Oh,
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Speaker 1
that’s nice.
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Speaker 1
So we all go through these things and I hate to make this like I’ve mentioned before, 75 meters on the ham radio where all the old men go to die where they get on there and they talk daily about their illnesses, their cancer diagnosis, their lung infections or whatever because they’re 70, 80 years old and that happens. It’s on their mind, I understand, but it’s just funny, especially when I was like 16 and I first got into the ham radio and I thought 75 meters was a lot of fun to go over there and listen to. And I thought to myself, my God, there’s a bunch of old men that are talking about their illnesses. So that’s kind of what we’re doing tonight. So about a year ago, it was actually on my birthday, I had to have emergency. Yeah, I had to have emergency surgery to have my gallbladder removed that had had blown up. And I actually went sepsis on it and I was in the hospital for a week. And, but I felt fine, I was a sleepy and a jello has never tasted so good. But anyway, I did not have a bad thing, a bad experience at the hospital, my first time being in the hospital. So anyway, it’s been a year since that happened. And this is kind of my point as far as the cancer stuff goes, I’ve had a bit of skin cancer on my wrist for quite a long time. And I should have taken care of it a lot sooner, but I recently took care of it. And I think it was yesterday, my band-aids coming off, I’m gonna for you guys that are watching on YouTube or Spotify, this is the
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Speaker 1
bandage that I have on the, where they cut the cancer out. So the cancer was about an inch long and about a half inch wide. Yes, so they, and it was just a weird area that would never heal and was very, had a very big scab that would grow on it. Occasionally it would get ripped off or I would just pull it off and it really didn’t bleed, it really wasn’t a problem. So they had to cut a lot of skin away. And if I had taken care of this sooner, it would not have been cut as much of it because obviously they got to get rid of enough of the tissue so that the cancer is gone.
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Speaker 1
Well, he mentioned that, I thought maybe that might happen because it was a large area, but he was able to sew it up and he doesn’t think it’ll be an issue. So once we were done, I mean, this is cancer, right? It wasn’t melanoma, but this is cancer, right? So he didn’t mention anything after they did the biopsy and it came back as cancer. He didn’t mention anything about we gotta get you in chemo or so on and so forth because I’ve had this for a number of years, two or three at least. And I know, stupid. And, but I asked him yesterday after he got done with the surgery, I said, so this was cancer, is there anything that I need to do after that? He goes, oh no, no chemo, no, no anything you need to do. He goes, if it had gone on longer, then it could have been a problem. And I’m thinking to myself, longer, longer than a few years?
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Speaker 1
Cause the way he said it, it didn’t come across that it was like, oh, you needed to take care of this in the next five minutes or whatever, no problem. Or the next few days or the next month. I don’t know, it could have been years. I think when I go to get the stitches out, I’ll ask him, so how much longer do you think I had before this was gonna be a life threatening issue?
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Speaker 1
It
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Speaker 1
was just yesterday. It was, they just cut it out yesterday. I mean, you see the blood on the bandaid. So yeah, it actually is bleeding quite a bit, but of course it was a large area that he cut. So it doesn’t hurt.
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Speaker 1
So
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Speaker 1
I’m just changing the bandaid and so on and so forth. I just wanna do kind of a PSA, take care of it people. I have had cancer before and it was melanoma, but it was tiny compared to this. So, but I had health insurance at the time. So, but if you’ve got a, oh, and I’ll mention this. I said, so how long, if I get another thing like this, something else that appears, how long do I, can I go before I need to have it looked at? He goes, if you have a
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Speaker 1
sore or something that doesn’t heal in a month, in 30 days, then you need to have it looked at.
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Speaker 1
So if you guys got something on your face and it’s usually sun related. So if you get it on your face, your nose, your arms, especially if you’re outside a lot, or you’re riding around with your top off on your Jeep and you get a sore, then if it doesn’t heal on its own, in 30 days, you get a dermatologist to look at it.
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Speaker 1
And don’t think it’s been so long that I shouldn’t, I’m just gonna die, I’m not gonna worry about it. I don’t wanna be concerned about that. Get it checked out anyway, because I went years with this. My GP kept telling me, you need to have somebody look at that, because she could see it when I went into the office. So get it taken care of, don’t figure that they’re gonna find something seriously wrong with you. Just get it looked at and then know for sure. Don’t assume and then wind up dead because you had five years to take care of it and you went six.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, but the thing, I guess what I’m trying to say is,
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Speaker 1
at least find out the information, because you may find out that you had a lot of years ahead of you if you had just taken care of it now. Anyway, that’s the end of my preaching on it. That’s what I’ve been going through personally. So this is our 75 meter discussion about old men talking about their health issues.
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Speaker 1
All right, and
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Speaker 1
one more quick thing, because we’re running up to an hour. One more quick thing, I heard recently, and I heard, so this isn’t something that I have verified, but I heard recently that the very enjoyable, often fondly thought of flock cameras, not only are taking pictures of license plates, but they’re also scanning your Bluetooth, your cell phone, and your TPMS sensors, so they can track you by your air pressure.
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Speaker 3
Right.
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Speaker 1
Do you remember the movie minority report where they were scanning eyes when you’d work and walk into a store so they could keep track of what you were shopping for and.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but in in the minority report, Tom cruise had to have his eyes replaced, which wasn’t a big deal in the future and there was a sandwich.
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Speaker 1
There was a sandwich of the refrigerator. Of course, there was one that was all moldy and horrible and a nice fresh one and he had his eyes covered. So he went and bit into the old model. The movie was just fun.
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Speaker 1
So this is basically the same thing, except that the technology doesn’t doesn’t. It’s not scanning your eyes, your retina scans. It’s actually finding information out about you from your phone because your phone swawks information all the time. From your vehicle, the TPS TPMS. There’s people out there with TJ’s and CJ’s and stuff going, fuck you. I got, I got no TPMS.
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Speaker 1
So anyway, I just thought I know how people love the flock cameras. So there’s been never, never a better use for a sawzall than taking out a flock camera. Don’t do it. I’m just joking.
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Speaker 1
All right, Josh. So, you know how we, we like having a special thing that people can can watch, listen to on the Patreon and on YouTube membership.
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Speaker 1
So I know the, the fuck you you fucking fuck is very popular. Should we force people to be members to hear this week’s fuck you you fucking fuck or you got more than one or two.
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Speaker 3
Uh huh.
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Speaker 3
All right.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And remember you can listen to it on Patreon. You can watch it right here on YouTube. Oh, and you speak, you mentioned palette cleanser. What a better palette cleanser than a Nikki G.
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Speaker 1
Are you ready for a little Nikki G?
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Speaker 3
Hey, this is Nicky G and our local bread factory just burnt down yesterday. Yeah, everything’s toast.
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Speaker 3
That’s not why I’m calling.
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Speaker 3
Why am I calling? Dang it.
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Speaker 3
It’s on the tip of my tongue. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 3
Somebody stole my dictionary. I’m out. I have no words.
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Speaker 3
Alright, boys and girls, I’ll chat to you later and you have a good one. Bye.
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Speaker 1
Nikki G on for years, you’re never quite sure what’s coming. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Well, wrap it up for us, Josh, because that’s it for her for this episode.
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Speaker 1
I’m going to go ahead and do a little bit of a quick watch. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1
and I need to change the name, it’s watch along.
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Speaker 1
So it’s just close enough to confuse the hell out of you. Yeah. Watch along.
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Speaker 1
I’m not sure. I need to go and look at that and see what I’m going to, what movie we’re going to show, but it’ll be something Jeep related. Oh, last week, which you can, which you can go back and watch. It was a guy that had a, an abandoned Jeep that was in the woods. He towed it out of the woods, brought it back to his loosely called shop, which was outside. He, one of the cylinders was a little rusty, popped the head off of the four cylinder. Uh, and this is like a 1958, uh, Jeep. So that’s an older, an older Jeep CJ. And he popped the head off. One of the cylinders kind of had some water and it was rusty. So he honed the cylinder. He didn’t take the piston out.
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Speaker 1
He just turn it, you know, enough where you, you can get to the rusty part. And we were all wondering, he had plans on starting and driving this thing. And that was the big cliffhanger. Is he going to be able to do it? So you can go back and get that question answered. It was a lot of fun. I remember it was, it was around 8 PM central time. And I said, do you guys want me to stop the movie night? So we can just have a regular round table. And I think it was Steve O that says, no, no, I’m invested now.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
All right, Josh. Well, thanks a lot. I’m sorry you’re having the medical issues, but I mean, that’s just part of life.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 4
You’re my friend, you’re my new friend. Hehe.
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Speaker 1
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