Rubi Kunsch Built & Raced Her Own KOH Jeep
Rubi Kunsch is an Ultra4 racer competing in the 4600 class with her self-built 1997 Jeep TJ, race number 808. She finished 19th at King of the Hammers in 2026 after completing one lap before breaking on the second. An AWS certified welder, fabricator, and instructor based in St. George, Utah, she runs Send It Nation while sharing builds, races, and shop work. The conversation covers her path from fashion blogger and contractor to full-time Ultra4 competitor, the real costs of racing, and why she builds her own car.
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Key Highlights
- Built her own 1997 TJ (T-Rex) for the 4600 stock class with a 4.0L, AX15, and JK Rubicon transfer case
- Finished 19th at King of the Hammers 2026 but broke on the second lap
- Race number 808 comes from the Hawaii area code; she fought to keep it
- AWS certified welder who teaches free classes and fabricates her own race car
- Low-budget program racing against half-million-dollar factory cars while still placing ninth nationally
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1
All righty, oh, boys and girls, it’s time for another Jeep Talk Show interview. We’re going to be talking with Ruby Cooch. I got to ask you about that first name. Ruby Cooch is a, did I say it right? We went over that. Is Cooch the correct thing?
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Speaker 2
It is. Yes.
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Speaker 1
Amazing. I can’t pronounce the K to anything. Ruby Cooch is an ultra four racer 808 and 4600 class. I think I know the 4600 class. What’s the hashtag or the pound sign 808? What is that? What does that mean?
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Speaker 2
Uh, it’s my race number.
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Speaker 1
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I thought it was like a class or something. So your number 808, whenever you race, do you pick that or do they assign it to you?
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Speaker 2
Yeah, you pick it and actually, um, because they’re tightening things up this year, I actually had a message like a month or so ago, there was more than one 808. Um, well, that’s why we didn’t ask you.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Cause anybody could come with it or they could copy you like they do on Instagram.
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Speaker 2
Right. So typically your, your race number starts with, if you’re a 4,600 car now it’s, it’ll be 46 and then two numbers afterwards.
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Speaker 1
That makes sense.
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Speaker 2
I went to KOH in 2021 and watch Shannon Campbell sending it up chocolate thunder. And I was like, I’m going to do this. And so while I was on the lake bed, I registered a race profile and picked the number 808 cause I wanted it. So there was just a whole thing. It’s like, okay, only one person can have it. And I said, well, whoever has it the longest should have it. And I had it the longest. So I get to keep it.
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Speaker 1
Is, uh, does 808, maybe you just explained this. Does 808 mean something?
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Speaker 2
It does. It’s the area code for Hawaii.
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Speaker 1
Ah, there we go. So she was talking about living in Hawaii before we started recording. So yeah, you, you must really miss that place. I’ve never been, uh, I hear it’s not.
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Speaker 2
It’s amazing. It’s amazing. I, it’s great for two wheels. So like I, I’ve done some, I love hardened duro and I’ve recent dirt bike. So if you do that out there, it’s great, but full size, like you have to be on the mainland. So yeah.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So ultra four racer, uh, number 808 4,600 class who builds and races her own Jeep. This is racing a Jeep on the, uh, king of the hammers people. That’s that’s really cool. Um, she finished 19th at king of the hammers in 2026. Uh, but the, I think the big deal there is finished because so I, I did not everybody finishes.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Well, and I have, cause KOH is so difficult. If you do one lap, that’s considered a finish, but a true finish overall is both laps and I did not do both laps this year.
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Speaker 1
Oh, okay. Okay.
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Speaker 2
I ended up breaking second lap. So,
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Speaker 1
uh, all right. So, uh, is a AWS certified welder fabricator and instructor. She runs send it nation from St. George, Utah, sharing, uh, builds races and shop work as send it Ruby on Instagram. A mom of four, she wheels and races with her husband, Joe, I combat army veteran builder and racer, uh, Ruby. Thanks a lot for being here. Um, all right. So we have to, the first thing I have to ask is Ruby. I asked the computer, is that a nickname? Is it, uh, is it short for something? I mean, it’s a great name for a Jeep, a Jeep person.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Um, it is what I go by. Um, I have a government name, uh, as I say, uh, but the only time my husband, he’s called it me that twice. And it was when I got baptized and when we got married. So, um, even my mom calls me Ruby. Like it’s just, it’s just what I go by.
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Speaker 1
It’s a longterm thing. It’s not something that you did here recently for racing and everything else.
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Speaker 2
So it came about when I first started an off road in 2020, um, because I, so I was a contractor, but a fashion blogger and people on the internet are crazy. So when I started the Jeep page, I, everything was by design and I only put out what I wanted out there. So people didn’t know my name. My initial handle online was Ruby and red. And I had a Rubicon and I am red. So I thought people would have gotten that, but I started filming and other YouTubers just thought my name was Ruby and everybody started calling me Ruby. And it just kind of fit like, so that’s just, you know, it’s my second half identity, if you will.
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Speaker 1
Oh, no, it’s perfectly fine. I was just curious if it was, uh, uh, if it was a nickname or what, but, uh, and you’ve done good because I asked rock where did the name come from? It had, it couldn’t find it. Couldn’t find any information on it.
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Speaker 2
Um, you did. The only thing grok didn’t cover was that I am a machinist as well. Oh, cool.
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Speaker 1
So, um, my dad did that for a dresser industries for many, many, many years. And, uh, it was, it was interesting seeing some of the stuff he’d bring home. Um, uh, you remember the, the screwdrivers that had the little cap that you could unscrew and take the bits out of it and put it, yeah.
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Speaker 1
So they were building those. So we had a bunch of them at the house and we’re talking the seventies. So I think they just first come out, but he brought, brought them home ones that he had built and I thought that was really cool. I think the machinist thing is a real neat thing. He would actually, he probably wouldn’t supposed to be, but he would actually, uh,
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Speaker 1
get replacement parts. I’m trying to think, I think we had a microwave that he did a handle that had broke the plastic handle. So we had, yeah, that was really cool. So, uh, I find all that stuff interesting. I’ve never done it, but I find it interesting. I like the whole CNC, the plasma cutters, all that stuff. I’d love to have it. And I would have nothing to do with it. I mean, I would use it for something and then it would go.
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Speaker 2
You’ll find things.
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Speaker 1
Oh yeah. Just having tools. I mean, I like the 3d printing too, but, um, it’s not the same thing as metal. All right. Anyway. So, um, uh, you mentioned the red, so people are long time viewers and listeners are going, Oh, he hasn’t said anything about red. All right. So my Cherokee, my 98 Cherokee is red. That’s my first cheap. The second Jeep that we got was a TJ 2003, uh, same exact paint coat. And we got it used. So it was just, it was just meant to be. Whatever. Yeah. And then one of our, uh, we ordered the, uh, the gladiator had to get it in red. So it’s not the same paint coat because it’s a different red, but it’s still bright. Red. Uh, it’s not that, it’s not that maroon. I cracker. Yes. Exactly.
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Speaker 2
No one. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So I have a, a thing where I say all Jeeps are red or wannabe. So if you got a Jeep, like we have my, my co-host Josh has a black Jeep and I just tell him that’s a so depressing, a black Jeep. I’m the thing. Only thing worse than a black Jeep, unless you’re going to wrap it is a white, uh, white Jeep. I hate white vehicles. It’s so unimaginative.
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Speaker 2
They’re everywhere here, but I think it, it saves the paint being in the Southern Utah desert. Like, like I’m looking at my window right now and there’s four cars and they’re all white and they’re not all mine. It’s just like what’s on the road.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. You look at a parking lot and you see all those white vehicles. I just shake my head and of course my wife likes, uh, likes white, uh, even though she’s a big fan of red, she does like white, she says it looks elegant. Says no, it looks like a cheap and unimaginative. Uh, but you’re married, you know how it goes. Uh, all right. Uh,
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Speaker 1
you are, uh, you told me before we were recording, you’re from Boston. You’ve lived in Hawaii. Uh, how long were you in Hawaii?
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Speaker 2
Uh, about seven years.
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Speaker 1
Wow. That’s that’s long enough to get broke, uh, buying, uh, all the expensive stuff there.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I don’t know. I call it. It’s like paradise tax. I mean, living on the West coast, isn’t cheap either. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but I think like living in Hawaii, like I needed less, you know, um, it was G or, uh, the beach and hiking and all of that. And you, you have such a small footprint for your property. Like you just have less stuff, you know,
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Speaker 2
um, compared to, you know, he or I have a 5,000 square foot house. Um, we would put 10 families on this on the, on the rock. So yeah, it’s simpler. It was good.
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Speaker 1
Um, so, uh, where else have you, uh, have you lived, you mentioned, uh, California. Uh, where else in the country have you lived?
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Speaker 2
Um, I lived in Nebraska for a year. Uh, that’s actually where I started off-roading. Um, I lived there during COVID for a year and started going off-road in a place called Tuttle Creek, Kansas. Um, I’ve lived in Florida, uh, all over New England. I was a competitive skier. So we moved to Maine when I was in like middle school. Um, did that for a while. Um, when I left Hawaii the first time I moved back to, um, I lived in New Hampshire on the beach. Uh, and then, yeah, just kinda, kinda all over and I chose St. George cause it’s awesome. And you know, as an adult, you get to choose where you want to be from. So we picked this.
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Speaker 1
So, uh, how far is it for you to go off-road?
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Speaker 2
Uh, two seconds. Um, I have, well, I’m not
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Speaker 1
talking about the driveway. I mean, you know, where there’s big rocks and things that are, is somewhat challenging at least.
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Speaker 2
So I’ve filmed a few different commercials. Um, like there’s rocks like right above my neighborhood. Um, it’s called the airport Hill. Um, gnarly rocks, like crazier than you’ll have most of the country. Um, San Hollow is about 15 minutes though.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. That’s just amazing. Um, I’m, uh, I’m three hours from a place where I can go off-road in central Texas. Uh, and, and, uh, there’s, there’s arguments about whether or not it’s a right place to go off-road. I like it a lot. Um, but, uh, uh, my former co-host, uh, Wendy, uh, lives, uh, five minutes from a gold mountain and it’s, it’s literally a five minute drive from her house to get on, uh, uh, not John Glenn. Um,
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Speaker 1
I can’t remember what it’s called now. Uh, John bull. Yeah. Actually flew up there. Uh, next in tires, uh, had me come out on up for a very small thing. And, uh, I was, uh, they rented jeeps. I got to drive a TJ, uh, on the next and tires and go off road at John bull. Oh my God. That is gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. Uh, I still like, I think I still like, uh, Moab better, uh, but it is. It’s different. It’s very different. They’re in California, but still
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Speaker 2
even here is so different. They’re all in Utah, you know, um, the rock, I don’t know. I love rocks. I find them super fascinating and rocks all over the country or, I mean, everything was formed differently at different times. So yeah, it’s, it’s always fun to
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Speaker 2
like feel the difference in the rocks. And it’s a different type of wheeling and the traction is different. I mean, I say the traction out here is like cheating similar to Moab. Sandpaper. Yeah. Um, but like the rocks in, um, at king of hammers, for instance, are very sharp, very smooth, like not as much traction. Um, you know, willing Kansas, it was a lot of shale. So, you know, you put any sort of skinny pedal to that and just kind of like crumbles, you know? So yeah, it’s all, it’s all different. It’s pretty cool.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. It’s kind of an adventure. I don’t know how you feel about it, but I often say, uh, having an off-road vehicle for me, specifically a Jeep, I don’t want anything else. Um, but having a, uh, uh, uh, off-road capable Jeep, which is, they’re off-road capable from the factory. Uh, it’s like having a superpower because you can go places that I just call them civilians can’t. And, and it’s, it’s amazing. It’s an amazing feeling and especially so whenever you’re driving over stuff and, uh, you make the mistake of getting out and trying to walk up a hill and you go, God,
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Speaker 1
especially when you bust your ass, it’s like, my God, this, this Jeep is really amazing. So yeah, I think it’s wonderful. Um, okay. So the, uh, let’s get to the ultra four. People are getting pissed off. Talk about ultra four. Um, so, um,
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Speaker 1
you mentioned COVID. Um, were you looking for something to do during COVID? Is that how this got started? Were you like, Oh, I hate being in the house. Now, I was so busy during COVID.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So, um, I was a disaster restoration contractor for many years and during COVID I was one. Um, I have had, I’d had four Jeeps, five Jeeps at that point. I ordered a diesel Rubicon. Um, and they said, Oh, it’s not going to show up. And it actually showed up on April 1st, which was hilarious. I hate to get that call. Yeah. No, I literally have the test. You better not be screwing with me. Um, so that Jeep came in and I, I did want something to do. Cause so I started the Instagram with the Jeep cause I saw girls monetizing it. And I’m a business person. Um, I was a fashion blogger at one point, so I do know how to monetize things on the internet, but I saw girls with their cars and I was like, I could do that. So I started the page and then I didn’t want to just be a girl with a car. So I was like, I need to go find some rocks, some dirt, what have you. And, uh, join the local Jeep page and figured out where I could go and went off road and got the bug and, you know, six years later, here we are.
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Speaker 1
Uh, how successful has it been for you? Because I think a lot of people see, um, I’ll just say it, uh, uh, people that don’t know what the hell they’re doing. And you, like you said, I can do that. And then, then you try it and you go, holy crap. What’s the, what’s the magic? Uh, I told you we’ve been doing this for 16 years and we’re only four years away from being an overnight success. You know, you have to put it put in 20 years. Um, you may not have had to, but it seems like a lot of people out there and you find out there’s a lot of people. That, uh, other people find interesting. You may not, but
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Speaker 1
it’s like, I always, I, I, I tell myself this, so I don’t get down on sometimes the show, not doing as good as what I’d like it to do is there’s a lot of talented people out there for radio, TV, so on and so forth, and you don’t see them. Yeah. It’s a crap shoot. I mean, you have to try absolutely. You have to try, but it’s really just a crap shoot.
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Speaker 2
I think visibility is a huge part of it. And one of the reasons that I’ve been as effective as I have been, um, I, you know, that first year started going off road. I connected with rock star energy and rock star garage. They had the great American crawl. So I was traveling all over the country during COVID. Like I traveled more during COVID than I ever had before COVID. Um, and still, you know, I’ve, I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel and events and, um, racing. Obviously, uh, I love racing, but one of the reasons I stepped into it was, I mean, I love competing, like I just need something to compete in. But if it wasn’t for the racing, my, my cashflow was very different before racing, um, when I first started. Yeah. Well, when I, when I first started on the internet, Instagram was paying for reals. So I was making, you know, over $10,000 a month, just on views. So all of 2021, I was on the road traveling and I, everything was paid for just for views. And then Instagram took that away and now they pay a little bit, but it’s not much. I would say Facebook pays more. Um, but that was like how I monetized that. And then obviously working with companies and now, you know, I do brand deals and I have yearly sponsorships, um, multi-year sponsorships. Like it just depends on how we structure the deal. But the, you know, everybody thinks, Oh, I, you have the best life. I just want to travel and wheel and send it. And it’s all that, but you know, being broke is a thing. Um, you can go in all in on this and do this, but you know, I had months where I’m like,
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Speaker 2
am I going to be able to make this payment? Am I, you know, how
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Speaker 2
I’ve had to say no to things. There’s just, you know, a couple, like two years ago, I was talking about this with my sister the other day, you know, I had jeans and they had holes in them. You know, and this year everything is paid for, you know, it was $10,000 just to go to hammers, not the race fee, just to bring my small team that I have to spend the time there and do the race was $10,000. Um, this year we’ve done that. We’ve done Jeep beach. We’ve done smoking mountain Jeep invasion. Um, I’ve been to the Indianapolis 500. I’ve been, uh,
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Speaker 2
top fuel. We’re going back to Vegas for a week. I just did fab tech. I’m driving a NASCAR car on Halloween. Um, just all these cool opportunities that are paid or paid for. I now have, but the money and the sweat and the stress that I had to put into building this over six, you know, we’re over six years now, but you know, it, it didn’t just happen overnight. And if I didn’t have the capital and the flexibility initially, I wouldn’t have been able to build it the way I have.
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Speaker 1
Uh, are you going to SEMA? Of course. Well, I really appreciate you making time for this, uh, interview. Cause SEMA is this right around the corner.
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Speaker 2
I’m literally driving a NASCAR pro car in two days.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. You mentioned Vegas, but I wasn’t sure if it was a,
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Speaker 2
I’m NASCAR invited me out. So I’m doing that in Vegas. And then the next day I have top fuel nationals and I’ll sit down with Fox and all of those people then, and then we go right into SEMA. So it’s, it’s crazy. And we had fab tech last week. So,
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Speaker 1
so after, after driving the NASCAR, get out and tell them it, it pulls a little bit to the left. I will just for you.
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Speaker 2
And I’ll, I’ll make sure my media guy gets that.
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Speaker 1
So in any of the stuff that I ask you, that’s a too much information or you don’t want to share with anybody, feel free to skip. Um, so, uh, now I gotta remember what I was going to ask you about. Um, I was making too busy thinking of an NASCAR joke. Um, the, um, whenever you were, oh, do people just reach out to you for these, these deals, or do you have you or your team actually reach out to individual companies and stuff? And I mean, sometimes you have to be mentioned. I mean, they had, you have to be on their radar. I mean, if you’re doing a good job, media wise, they probably know you, but sometimes it’s just the, uh, like, oh, they’re interested in working with us. Type thing. And then you start getting into consideration.
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Speaker 2
It’s both, um, up until I would say the past two years, it’s been me just grinding. I mean, companies reach out to do collaborations all the time, but it’s a lot of times it’s stuff that I’m not necessarily interested in. Um, my, my sponsorship with Lincoln electric, that. Came about because I went to PRI, which is kind of like a CMA, but for racing and it’s pretty small, but it’s, if you’re in racing, you go to PRI. Um, it’s in India in December. So I walked up to the Lincoln booth and the motorsports marketing guys were like, here’s Senate Ruby. I see your stuff everywhere. You just popped up like two weeks ago. Like what the heck? What are you doing? Um, so that, that happened. You know, I’m, I’m going to be doing a lot of work with three M and American welding society this next year. Um, and those are all like bigger contracts that all came out because of visibility, um, but I still, you know, I’m still always reaching out to different brands and not, you know, especially with racing, cause it is so expensive and I’m trying to do more than one type of discipline.
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Speaker 1
You really have to reach out if you want to be able to afford to race.
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Speaker 2
Oh yeah. Like I have one of the lowest budget programs, even just in my ultra four class, you know, I’m competing a large part of the people. That at the top, you know, I placed ninth nationally this year. Um, five of those people are Ford factory racers, you know, um, and those cars are all half a million dollar cars. I think the cheapest one’s like three 50 and my retail on my race car is like 40 grand, you know, um, so we are a lot less money, but it’s still, you know, an entry fee for King of Hammers is like over $3,000 and every other race is about three to $4,000. So it’s a lot of money. So yeah, we’re this between now and January is just fundraising, getting out there, high visibility, getting your metrics as beefy as you can. So you can show a positive conversion rate that’s appealing that will make them want to give you, you know, $20,000 or whatever it is that you’re asking for.
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Speaker 1
It amazes me that there’s, I mean, I know it exists, but it amazes me. There’s companies out there that would, would just write you a check. Uh, yeah, that’s pretty crazy for a large amount of money. Of course, then you have to apply that and sometimes more. Yeah. So, uh, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s got to be a very big confidence builder too. If, uh, when a company you’re probably used to it now, but it’s like, wow. I mean, uh, a wolf box, uh, sent me a mirror and I’m like, oh, this is cool.
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Speaker 2
Yeah,
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Speaker 2
it is cool. And you need to treat every, every step along the way. Like to me, I think being humble is like the biggest thing. And, um, you know, getting money thrown at you is really cool, but to me, it’s also very stressful because. Well, you have to perform. Yes. That is, that is always my biggest thing is, is like, am I doing enough? Um, and I think the fact that I always think that I’m not is one of the things that I do do such a great job. And I do a lot of like above and beyond, and I put a lot of thought and attention into these relationships and I try to hit things at a different angle than most people and brands really like that. Uh, and, and I won’t do a deal with somebody with a company. If I don’t like the people, like the product, there’s tons of great products out there, but the people have to be like, I’m going to be spending time with you. You’re the ones that the people I’m sending to you are going to interact with, like how you, how you treat me and how you treat them.
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Speaker 1
Well, there’s going to be the association from the people that are being treated by them. And you don’t want to just, it’s just like doing reviews. You do not want to review something that’s a piece of shit and then people buy it. And they’re going to remember that you told them it was great.
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Speaker 2
And there’s a lot of that out there and that’s something that I’ve never done nor will I, um, and I think to me, it’s all sustainable if you do things right. Um, and so that’s something that I really strive to consistently do.
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Speaker 1
So, uh, let me ask you about this. Um, I learned a couple of years ago, I guess that companies were starting to, uh, check with the influencers or the people that they were partnering with to make sure the women, uh, I guess it can be men too, but generally it’s not, uh, for obvious reasons, um, uh, about them having an OnlyFans account. Yeah. So I have an opinion on the, the OnlyFans thing. I mean, I don’t try, I try not to judge. People should do whatever they want to do, but it, but it turns me off.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So it’s funny when I first started the OF girls, like a lot of companies were working with them and there’s been a shift the past couple of years away from that, which I think is cool. Um, I think a lot of it has to do with a lot of people in this industry. Yes, there’s older people like you and I, but there’s a lot of people that, you know, we’re fresh out of college and they were doing what was cool, but now these people are married and they’re having daughters and they’re having, so I, I love that. You know, I have multiple deals because of how I conduct myself. Um, I appeal to the masses, the moms, the daughters, the teens, like it’s, everybody can see what I’m doing and it’s still good. Uh, I, I’ve had a bunch of OnlyFans accounts created pretending to be me. Um, that used to happen a ton during COVID. Um, if you look up, send it Ruby, there’s a few send it Ruby backup, send it Ruby XXO Instagram won’t take down still. I don’t know what they post on these things, but, um, my fan base is pretty loyal, so if something is popping up, they’re like, Hey, I’m pretty sure this isn’t you in the beginning, they’re like, is it you? I mean, if it is, it’s okay. I’m like, no, dude, we’re not, we’re, we don’t do that. Um, I had an interview with, I, well, I auditioned Netflix had reached out to me a couple months ago for a show. Um, and one of the things they asked me was, have you ever, or do you have an OnlyFans? And if I did, it would have disqualified me from it. So I was like, right there. I mean, I chose for personal reasons because you know, the internet’s forever. And, um, you know, we do have kids. Um, my, I’m a step mom, but my, um, we were full-time parents. So, um, but I have three girls, you know, and a son, like the son is the big thing. It’s like, he’s almost 21.
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Speaker 2
I don’t want his friend saying, Hey, look at your stepmom. You know, um, the internet’s forever is what I tell people. So don’t ever put something out there. Cause even if you take it down 20 bucks, somebody already screen recorded or screenshotted it and it’s not gone.
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Speaker 1
No, internet’s forever. Um, I like the one where, uh, there’s, uh, uh, is it diesel XJ? There’s a really pretty girl. She has a bunch of Jeeps. Uh, she’s pretty funny. Uh, I like it. Uh, she, she’s a big XJ fan. Uh, and, um, she, uh, she comes on every so often and says, uh, if you know, a fake account, uh, if you bought something from me, I don’t interact. The, I don’t DM people. I don’t sell anything. And my comment was, Oh, whose feet is in these pictures that I bought. Right.
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Speaker 1
So I always try to make people laugh on the, on the social medias, but, uh, yeah. And there was another one. Somebody was complaining about all the, all the fake accounts. And I think my comment was, I look forward to being popular enough, the Jeep talk show being popular enough that they make a copy accounts because they want to be part of the, the, the fun of the Jeep talk show. But anyway, it’s, it’s like you say, being humble. Uh, and we always, we always try to maintain being humble here, uh, getting back to what you were saying as far as performing for, uh, the, the, the companies and the individuals that are supporting you, um, we don’t do this for, for stuff, but occasionally stuff comes up. I mentioned the wolf box camera. Uh, there’s a, a very nice company, uh, G tops, uh, that makes takes the freedom panels and they cut a hole and they replace it with see-through panels. And, uh, it was so neat. I had to have those, uh, and, uh, he, he offered and I took him up on it. And in fact, uh, the, uh, when we went to, uh, uh, Moab in 2023, my wife and I, it was wonderful being able to see at the top and also too, I liked it because I didn’t have to worry about hot cold or anything else. It was all sealed up. So we’ve always tried to do stuff to help support that company because great product and because like what you say, you want to go the extra mile for them, you know, thinking of you the way they think of you. So I think that’s wonderful. And I think that’s the way you have to be or should be anyway.
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Speaker 2
I think it’s the only way for it to be sustainable, honestly.
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Speaker 1
All right. So, um, you’re king of the hammers, your 4,600 class vehicle. Uh, what, what is that again? What, uh, who built that originally?
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Speaker 2
So, uh, I built it.
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Speaker 1
I don’t know. I mean, it’s a Jeep. That’s the point I want to make was you’re using a g.
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Speaker 2
Seven, 97 Jeep
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Speaker 2
Tj.
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Speaker 2
Um, its name is T Rex cause it was that, uh, like emerald greenish color, like that metallic, I don’t know what the paint coat is on it, but originally he was green. So we named him T Rex. Um, he now has a four O in his original birth. He had a two five and a manual. We put the four O in it because it was available the year that it was built. And part of the rules of the 4,600 class, which is the stock class in the every man challenge, um, engine wise, you can only put whatever power train was available. So if there was two options, obviously we chose the four O cause it’s the better motor. Uh, it has an AX 15 it’s a manual and a, we, you have to keep the same transmission that was available. Transfer case, however, you can put whatever you want. So I have a J K Rubicon transfer case in it currently.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I was, uh, I was just going to ask you if you put an AW four in it, I know the, a lot of TJ owners will do that. And especially for traveling on rocks and stuff, because
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Speaker 1
I, a lot of people don’t understand trans manual transmissions because they just never used one. My first vehicle was a manual transmission. And if you’re ever on an incline at a stop sign or a light, you know, you learn some fancy footwork and it has to be triple quadruple that, uh, doing a race, uh, going to the rocks and stuff.
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Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I have a, I have a hand throttle as well though. So if it’s like, if I’m like this, I will use that just to hair to get it started. And then, you know, just cut it off and just drive from there, but you can ride it more, but the way I have mine set up, it’s not, um, it doesn’t go high enough necessarily. But the hand throttle is very helpful. The super steep gnarly stuff for sure.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So, uh, you know, I, um, I do all the work on all, all our Jeeps myself. I hate it, but I like knowing how it was done. Um, and I’ve replaced the, um, uh, the clutch and my wife’s 2003 TJ. And I think I had an interview with center force. I was just going to say that about a month after that. And I did not know anything about heavy duty flywheel, the extra weight. So obviously you, you had to have done that in your TJ. Who, who did you go with?
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Speaker 2
I have a center for, I have a center for, yeah. Anytime if center force makes a clutch for it, I will utilize it for sure.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. It seems to be a great company. We’ve had them on the show a couple of times. Um, and, and those bastards, um, they’ll put up the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the pressure plate, you know, a picture of them changing or putting a, a clutch in there and their pressure plate is this bright, beautiful red. That nobody will ever see again. If you’re lucky. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I mean, I, it’s funny, one of my co-drivers, so I would, a guy that he always races hammers for me. And if I do anything in California, he’ll race with me. And then I have another guy that I use for everything else. Um, and the hammers guy is like very, like he worked, uh, with UFO. So like they build all like the Gomez brothers cars and a lot of like the top King of hammers cars. So he’s super like diligent and OCD and all the things that I’m not. And he’s like, we need to change this clutch. And he was so pissed that we didn’t change it last year. And I’m like, we pulled it up, like pulled everything apart, took pictures. I’m like, it’s perfect. Like I didn’t have any issues with it. So I’ve raced, you know, two seasons on it already and it’s still great.
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Speaker 1
Well, and, and I don’t, a lot of people don’t know this. You can cook a clutch if you don’t use it properly. And that’s one of the reasons for a heavy-duty flywheel, at least in my mind is that you don’t have to feather it as much. Uh, and, uh, so yeah, you can, I think it was my, I mentioned my first vehicle, uh, when I was 16 was a, uh, uh, uh, three-speed manual transmission. It was, uh, the Nova 73 Nova. And because of the way I drive, uh, because let’s just put it this way. I was never going to die because I’m immortal, but somebody else was going to die with the way I would drive my vehicles. I went through 12 clutch changes.
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Speaker 1
When I was 16, there was no internet. There was Chilton manuals, which I hated because I never showed it correctly.
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Speaker 2
Really? I think they’re so good compared to what you find now.
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Speaker 1
Well, maybe I just can’t read.
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Speaker 2
I think that, that laring, you should go to. Go to one of those leering centers. They have.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I love the Lirian center. Oh my God, that is horrible. But anyway, I, uh, I changed the clutch 12 different times the first time. And a neighbor friend of mine, I think is about four years older than me, um, at the time, and we’ll, he passed away, uh, relatively recently, but anyway, he helped me with it. It took 12 hours to change the clutch. Wow. And I’m sure I didn’t have all the nice tools. Oh, and you won’t believe how happy I got whenever I saw something at the auto parts place that was a wooden dowel that was shaped funny like the end of my transmission, the thing that I was stabbing because it took so long because I was moving the pressure plate around picking up that transmission, stabbing it. But anyway, so I finally found out you’ll like this. You’ll finally found out that you can’t just change, uh, the clutch disc. You need to, uh, resurface the pressure plate and the flywheel. Oh, and you might want to change the throwout bearing. I literally had to drive home from school, uh, by starting it in gear and shifting without a clutch because the, the throwout bearing went through the fingers of the pressure plate.
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Speaker 1
Anyway.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. So, uh, it’s fascinating. Yeah. Uh, but anyway, it’s really cool. And I think that’s one of the reasons why doing these things, and I’m sure you’ve had excitement too, even though that you have a team and stuff like that, you’ve had things that you’ve learned that were like, Oh, I mean, this is like the heavy duty flywheel. It makes sense once you find out about it, but I had no clue and I’ve done a lot of standard transmission stuff.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. No. And I think that’s the great thing. I mean, that’s one of the big reasons I started doing my own work because I had the money. I was paying people and stuff was going wrong. And, you know, before I met my husband, I traveled by myself and I don’t want to have to rely on people. And sometimes there’s not somebody there. Like, even though you have a body, you’re out wheeling, not everybody’s mechanically inclined. So, um, I, I have self taught some things, but I also am one of those people. And I tell everybody this surround yourself with people that know all the things that are doing what you want to do and be humble and, you know, add value where you can so they can share the knowledge and help you out. Most people, I feel like in the automotive world, they’re pretty helpful if they’re good people. And if they’re not, then find somebody else. Um, because, you know, we can’t take the knowledge with us. So share it. Um, but I would say, yes, YouTube is great manuals are great, but there’s also a lot of bad information out there. Oh, absolutely. Finding people that have, you know, have been successful and you can see they are doing things the right way. Seek those people out and just ask questions, you know, uh, or, you know, even with my welding, no, I’m a certified welder. I teach whatever, um, Igor from Triton engineering, he builds, uh, like all of Vaughn getting juniors and the fun havers cars, and he builds top trophy trucks. I go over there when they’re building cars and just watch because, Oh yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1
Did you, can you ask questions?
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Speaker 2
Oh yeah, absolutely. Ask questions. Um, even say like, Hey, like I’ll text you or sometime if I’m struggling, so I’m like, Hey, this is the results I’m getting. Do you have any suggestions? Cause he, in my eyes is one of the top fabricators ever. And he’ll say, yeah, try this. Um, and so having people like that in your network, I think are priceless. And I have people all the time, like I teach people, but I also have, you know, people that I’m just friends with and they’ll text me, they’re like, Hey, I’m struggling with this. I’m like, send me a picture of your weld. Okay. Try this. If they’re still struggling, I said, set up a camera so I can see what you’re doing and then tell them, because I can look at and hear things and say, okay. You know, if somebody films a video on YouTube or Instagram and they’re showing their welding and they’re doing their things, I need to watch a lot of this stuff to be able to say their metal’s not clean. They need higher amperage. They don’t have good gas coverage. Like their angle is wrong just because I’ve done it enough. So find people like that for whatever it is that you’re looking to do to have as a resource, I think is pretty awesome.
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Speaker 1
I have never, never welded. If I ever weld, it’ll be self taught. Uh, it’s going to happen eventually because I see it. Yeah. Yeah. I, I think that knowing how to stick two pieces of metal together gives you the to do pretty much anything given the time and money. Uh, I mean, battleships are welded together. Tanks are welded together. So to
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Speaker 2
me, Railing or bridge or, you know, a big buildings, like everything is welded together and then once you start, once you start welding, sorry to cut you off. Once you start welding and you go out to say like the grand canyon or like an amusement park or anything, you’re just going to be like, that’s, that guy was 15 bucks an hour. What is this? Who
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Speaker 2
paid the inspector off? Because like the better you get, I tell people this, the better you get at say welding or driving or whatever, all of these things and these people that you looked up to and you thought were the bomb.com, the more you know, the less you love, uh, I, I am more often disappointed than I am loud, but when you’re loud now, it’s like, okay, that works really good. But
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Speaker 1
well, I think that I think, I think knowing stuff ruins movies and books. Yeah. Because the people that are doing it, they don’t know they’re doing, I saw a video. I saw a video the other day where they were shooting a gun and the whole, the whole cartridge was being, was going through the air. I think my comment was you should check your bore on that, uh, on that rifle. Cause I, I think it’s a time to change the barrel, but it’s, it’s really funny, people just put stuff out there and they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. All right. So I’m really having fun talking to you about this. I have so many questions and we have so little time. Um, so, uh, 4,600 or king of the hammers. I, uh, I spoke with a Tony Pellegrino, uh, did a, done several interviews with Tony and Jen, right. And, uh, we were talking about, I got on this, this thing where I was finding out what he had to do to race at king of the hammers. And I think the most off-putting thing for me was the catheter.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Was like, Oh, holy crap. I figured it’d be a nice, a nice set of depends, you know, maybe a role.
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Speaker 2
You can do that. And there’s guys have it easy. Okay. Guys have options
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Speaker 2
for catheters. Um, I actually had this conversation with Amber, um, Slossen, Randy Slossen’s wife the other day, cause she is going to have a suit made by my suit maker and she’s like, question for you. I’m like, what’s up? She’s like, do you use a catheter? And I’ve had catheter talks with like, you know, Sarah price and Kristen and just like all these top girls. Cause before I started racing, I’m like, what do you do? What do you do? Of course you want to know. Yeah. So for KOH it’s hard cause it’s a long race. Um, catheters fail. Uh, so you could even torture yourself and wear one and you still peed your pants. Um, poor Amber has gone through that a bunch of times. I have catheters. I have not been using them because I’m not, I haven’t been fast enough yet. Like first year, we were just happy to get out there. Last year we made a lot of changes. We felt good. We just wanted to do it and to not time out. Um, this year I’m probably going to wear a catheter cause I’m, I’m hungry and I want to finish and I’m going to, I’m going to not time out. I’m going to finish. And I showed last year that I could be pretty competitive. Um, before it was just like, we’re just happy to be here. We want to finish and do, do okay. And now I’m like, all right, I need to do better. So yes, the catheter is a thing, but guys, they, they have options. Things can go over. They don’t have to just go inside. Yeah. So girls, they have some new designs that are a little bit nicer, but it’s questionable if it stays and like going something to your body and being bounced around in a race car for 10 hours.
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Speaker 2
It’s not great. So I don’t know. I just don’t trust it either. Like I just, my luck, like I just know it probably is going to fail.
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Speaker 1
So I actually need to try them. You need to start trying them. Just walk around the house with the catheter on and see how it works out.
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Speaker 2
My suit design is something that I take into consideration and I tell people this, I’m like choose, like I have a lot of design and artwork and stuff on my suit, so I try to pick colors and styles that like, if there is an accident, Oh, that’s a good idea. kind of hides it. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, the current suit doesn’t hide it as well, I would say, but if, if I have a, I’m just going to pour water all over myself before I get out. So if you see it covered in water, you can, you can reclip this in. I give you permission to make a reel out of it. Uh, Ruby Peter self, uh, is what, is what you can put out there.
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Speaker 1
Hey, when you’re racing, I don’t, PN is the last thing you’re, you carry anything about seriously. I mean, you know, winning is the, is the whole thing. All right. So, so again, I told you you called a timeout on any of these things. So when you’re doing the catheter, is that a medical professional yourself or maybe a close friend?
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Speaker 2
I think it depends on the person. Um, I’m talking about for you. So my husband, uh, was airborne and he
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Speaker 1
was a medic, wasn’t he? Yeah.
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Speaker 2
If you look up, look up Joe Koonch, you’ll find pictures and videos of my husband treating Afghan children. Um, so if I, if I need a professional medical professional, I’m married to one, um, I would be so nervous.
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Speaker 1
I, even if I was, even if I did it all the time, I would be so nervous with my wife.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, probably. But I mean, if you’re a medical professional, like you’re not, so he, uh, I don’t know, things don’t bother him. Like I, um, I’m a diabetic and I give myself, um, obviously injections and I’m anemic as well. So like I’ve lupus. So basically like my blood’s all messed up. So I stabbed myself a lot, but initially when I first had to stab myself, I was like, I can’t do it. And so I would make Joe do it. And then eventually I was like, screw this. Like I’m just going to do it. Cause he wasn’t that, he was not gentle. Um, so people are dying.
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Speaker 1
And I don’t have time to be gentle.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, exactly. Or he’s like, I’m like, I still, I’m like, I’m not your soldier dude. Like nice to me. Um,
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Speaker 1
so type one or type two,
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Speaker 1
uh, type one, you know, they got a cure. I’m sure you, I’m sure you’ve seen that. I mean, no telling how long it’ll be available or how much it’ll cost.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
They literally have a cure. It’s wonderful.
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Speaker 2
There’s a lot of cures out there too, though. I dunno. I kind of like gen one of like a drive train. I don’t want to be the test dummy. Um, you know, there’s a, there’s a lot of things out there that should be good, but down the road, we learn. Well, it’s the island that are not great.
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Speaker 1
It’s the islet cell thing that I’m talking about where they actually, uh, it’s like an organ transplant that they put in there.
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Speaker 2
So, but I think with that too, though, you need rejection drugs. And so I, um, I had a tumor in my throat, uh, living in Hawaii during Fukushima, a lot of radiation. So my thyroid, um, I had to have that removed and I lost my parathyroid. So they transplanted them. And I am one of like less than 10 cases ever documented that I had spontaneous parathyroid function 10 years later, but the previous 10 years I had seizures, um, all the time. So I, they were doing parathyroid transplants and I was looking at that, but I would have to be on rejection drugs. Uh, and rejection drugs are really hard on your body. So, uh, I think just keeping my body healthy and stabbing it when I have to is, it’s
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Speaker 1
very, I’m very hopeful for you. I hope that, cause I think the type one, I have type two and type two is, is, is the way you live your life, but type one is, uh, isn’t, and I love the idea that especially children with type one, uh, potentially I’m not having to go through that. All right. So, uh, anyway, uh, off, off the medical stuff onto the thing that gets me. Oh, I know. The thing that gets me is, is that you got the 97 TJ that is your ultra four racer. Is that also the king of the hammers? Uh, vehicle.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So ultra four and K of hammers are the same series.
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Speaker 1
Okay. I’m sorry. I’m not into any kind of racing. Um, so
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Speaker 1
that, I mean, you have more than one Jeep, but I love my Jeeps and I don’t want to tear my Jeep up.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So I have, uh, you want to, you want to finish the race and you don’t want to tear something up. How was it for you, especially putting time and effort and building that Jeep to take it out there and potentially trash the thing?
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Speaker 2
That’s fine. That’s why I built the TJ for the race. Cause initially, so I have a 2020 eco diesel that I thought I was going to turn that into a race car. And then Kevin Stearns, he’s reraced the unlimited class and he’s won a bunch of other classes. He’s like, people are going to see your Jeep and they’re going to hit you just cause it’s so nice. Don’t do that. Right. So, and it’s funny because I’m actually going to be selling the diesel soon. And it’s super built. Like I’ve got custom axles, suspension. It’s fricking money and the thing just walks, but I, it’s so much money to roll into Jack up and now I have the ability to build these cars. Um, why would I roll that? You know, I just, she’s just sitting in the driveway. So, um, yeah. I like my co-drivers are great too. Like if we’re in something very technical and slow, Bryce will be like, I don’t want to get into the body. And if we’re trying to just get through it and I’m especially if I’m like, let’s go, I’m like, I don’t care about the body, whatever, like let’s just go. Um, I have like my fenders nemesis made my fenders and I have been, I’ve used those as skid plates rolling, like all the things, um, they are still great. They’re aluminum. They’re super strong. So I don’t know. I’ve tried, I’ve not been kind to it and it still looks good. So, yeah.
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Speaker 1
Well, I think you have to have that mindset. You can’t go out there, uh, second guessing yourself simply because you don’t want to bend or break something. You want to continue the race, but at some point you just have to be a racer and do what you’re doing now. Like I said, I don’t know a lot about racing. Yeah. I don’t know a lot about racing, uh, only from my street days with my Nova and my three 27, all the other crap I did to it. I guess it’s a good thing. I couldn’t afford a, uh, hers quick change rear end and 14 or four 11s for the Nova. I guess it’s good that that happened because I’d probably be dead. Uh, but it’s actually the reason why I got into Jeeps because people, if you’re in a Jeep, they still do, but mostly they don’t try to race you. Uh, I’ve just gone from, uh, uh, from not racing or ignoring them to just kind of drifting over into their lane and, uh, it scares the hell out of the little Honda’s.
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Speaker 1
I, good Lord. This is such been such a fun conversation. Uh, we’re, we’re gonna, and people think I’m just, I’m just saying this. Gonna have to have you back. There’s a really fun,
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Speaker 2
literally, I feel like hardly touched on anything, but I know, I know you’ve been awesome to talk to you and very easy to talk to.
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Speaker 1
So thank you. But my wife is still surprised by that. She says, I don’t like anybody.
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Speaker 1
Well, it’s like we were talking before we got started. There’s so much stuff out there that I don’t give a shit about what you’re doing, your hobbies, uh, whatever. Uh, but if you’re doing something that I’m a part of it, I’m knowledgeable about. Oh, absolutely. I’ll talk to your off. Uh, anyway, anyway, I’m sorry. So, uh, you know how the kids love the social media. Uh, where can people find you online? And, and, uh, if it’s just a look for a send it Ruby or, uh, uh, send it media.
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Speaker 2
So, so send it Ruby, R UBI, uh, is on all the socials and then YouTube, which I’m, I’m always editing, but getting it out there, I’m not the best. Uh, is you can either find it on send it Ruby or send it nation. Uh, send it nation is the race program that we have. And it’s also kind of like a community effort. Um, so we, you know, not just to squirrel on you, but, um, the whole reason that I’m still racing and building this is I want to give kids and adults, um, seats, spots on pit crews, teaching them to well, teaching them the business side of things, all the things, um, and also send it nation is a community. So if you are new to off-roading and you have no friends, guess what? I can help you find some. Um, as you know, the off-road community is super friendly and it’s definitely a family, but sometimes finding that family is kind of hard. So, um, I want everybody to have a home, have a seat at the table if you will. So, you know, people reach out to me, if you have questions about off-roading, what are the things you need for your vehicle that are a must how to go about things and you just, you want to have safe places and environments to wheel and to grow. Um, we help connect people. If you’re not local or somewhere we’re going to be, that’s one of the things that we do too. So, um, send it Ruby, R UBI. And then we have a website. If you have any questions and you don’t like social media, send it nation.com. There is a contact box goes right to my email. We can chat. Um, it also has event schedule, March. I teach welding for free at certain expos throughout the year. So it’s an opportunity to connect with us on that. Or if you have an event you want us to come do it at messages on there as well.
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Speaker 1
I’m glad you mentioned that stuff. We don’t have, um, the, uh, the level of guests that actually goes places that can be seen or be watched at some event. So I’m glad you mentioned that cause I need to ask the question. Where can people, what’s next for you? You’re going to be at SEMA. Uh, you’re going to be at a booth where people can come by and say hello or.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So, um, I have a big autograph signing with Lincoln electric, um, on Wednesday at two o’clock.
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Speaker 1
Um, do you weld it like on metal with the stick with a stick?
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Speaker 2
I do stick weld. Yeah. Um, I don’t
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Speaker 1
need to autograph to have.
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Speaker 2
Right. No, I think we’re, we’re going to autograph some special license plates for the first few people or I don’t know how many they have. It’s going to be me and a few other girls. So we have Cynthia gothier. She, uh, drives the Lucas oil monster truck. Monique and Rosie. She’s a drag racer, Chloe Hudson. She’s an AWS CWI, which welding inspector. Uh, we have Maddie Gordon from, um,
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Speaker 2
uh, Ron caps motorsports with us this year. And so it’s going to be me and a few girls and usually we give stuff away. So that’s at two o’clock on Wednesday at SEMA. Um, I’ll be at PRI, which is that, um, racing expo that’s in Indy in December. I’ll have an autograph signing there. Um, and then I’m just traveling the rest of the year, just doing some different promotional stuff. Uh, going to different races, et cetera. But next year we’re always at trail hero. It’s where we live. I’ll be at Jeep beach, King of hammers, smoky mountain Jeep invasion. Um, and then I’m probably going to go to bike week and race, which Jeep people like bikes to sometimes. So yeah, we’re just, we have the calendar this year and it’s funny. I came back from Tennessee in August and was like, we’re home finally. Cause I’ve been gone all year and then we’re just gone. So I don’t know what next year looks like. Uh, that’s, that’s what it’s at at the moment, but I’m sure we’re going to add things. So,
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Speaker 1
so you’re doing a lot of hotel stuff. What’s your favorite food to have at the hotel? Please don’t say pizza.
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Speaker 2
Um, it depends on what I’m doing. So if I’m on camera,
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Speaker 1
did you go, Oh, I, I’m especially, would have the same place that you’ve been before it. That Salisbury steak was so. I got to order that.
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Speaker 2
Okay. If you go to smoky mountain Jeep invasion, which is pigeon forage, Tennessee, Windrock is close by killer wheeling. So if you go to that area, um, the best case idea I’ve ever had out of my life at the carne asada case idea. And, oh my gosh, why am I forgetting the name? I literally, when I went to, um, smoky mountain this year, I ate it every day.
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Speaker 1
I love that.
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Speaker 2
Best case idea and pigeon forage tent.
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Speaker 2
Uh, hold on. I know. No, it’s fine. The pigeon forage.
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Speaker 2
Tennessee.
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Speaker 2
It is, I know as soon as I see, I’m like, yes, that’s what it is. Oh yeah. Uh, shoot gorilla taco,
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Speaker 2
gorilla taco. I wish it was a chain. It is, is the best case idea ever. Um, I dunno, I live on like this body is built on burgers and steak. I’m allergic to chicken. Fun fact. So I eat, oh, do you know Greg Henderson?
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Speaker 1
He’s a builder. He’s a SEMA builder. He does a lot of, uh, a lot of stuff. I’m sure if I saw him, I’d never, uh, you killed, he always wears a kilt, uh, especially when he’s out, uh, like at SEMA and stuff. Anyway, I couldn’t believe that he is allergic to chicken. I’ve never heard of such a thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
It’s, it’s the, a lot of the, so there’s two different ways you can be alerted to it. I’m allergic to the way they process it. Um, I’ve learned. So if it’s air chilled, I can eat it and not have a reaction, but I haven’t eaten chicken, I ate chicken the first time in like years last week and it just felt weird, so I don’t think I’m going to eat it again. I’ll just stick to steak.
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Speaker 1
So you know Baja designs, right?
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Speaker 2
Uh, the lights, they’re one of my sponsors. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Are they? So I forget the gentleman’s name had him on probably a year or two years ago. And we got to talk to him. West. I’m not sure. Uh, he, uh, he, um, was it, uh, who, I think it’s him as some other guys were, uh, owners of, uh, was it rug Ridge rugged Ridge? And then they sold the company and then he, they started the Baja designs. Anyway, I thought it was really, really cool that he’s a big nachos fan. And he was, he was talking about the nachos. Like you’re talking about the case that he is that that’s fine. I’m just, I’m just too interested in food, but not.
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Speaker 2
I love food. That’s, that’s my favorite part of traveling. And that’s like the biggest benefit to going to Vegas. Cause like Vegas is whatever.
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Speaker 1
It’s like a road trip. A road trip is licensed to eat bad and
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Speaker 1
get all the stuff that you would normally eat.
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Speaker 2
Well, I think if you don’t drink, especially like you need horsepower, good food, and yeah, brocks. That’s, that’s my happiness.
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Speaker 1
Obviously we could sit here and have a Joe Rogan three hour episode. So I’m going to wrap this up. Thank you so much for being here. It sounds like you’re having a great life and a continued success. And, uh, yeah, so hopefully you can join us again here really, really soon. You know, do we, we have the interviews weekly, so don’t be shy. Yeah. We always do that interview.
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Speaker 2
Well, maybe, uh, we could have send a Joe next time and maybe we could do a little hammers recap cause at that point we’ll know where we’re going to be most of the year. So
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Speaker 1
maybe we can, maybe we can get Joe to, you know, uh, uh, give us a hand signal if you feel, if you’re feeling threatened about talking freely.
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Speaker 2
Blink blink twice. I actually said that yesterday. No, I said it. I had a meeting with milestone yesterday and the guy wasn’t talking. And I was like, Hey, blink twice if you’re safe. And he was just like, like you can talk, dude.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. We’ll let you run and, uh,
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Speaker 1
yeah. Continued success.
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Speaker 2
Thank you. And we’re going to weld.
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Speaker 3
You’re my friend, you’re my new friend. Hehe.
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Speaker 1
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