12 Days Of Jeepmas 2025 Season Finale

SFJ 4x4 Studios presents, in my oversized four-wheel drive Jeep, a Jeep podcast starring industry

experts, curaminosity, with mad scientist Scott Brown, use my drill press as a sort of lathe,

our host, Neil Simpson, if one light goes out, they'll all go out, filled with shenanigans.

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Good morning, afternoon, evening, wherever, however, you are joining us.

This is the iSpeak Jeep podcast presented by SFJ4x4.com.

My name is Neil, and I am in Grandma's couch studio, joined, are you wearing gremlins again?

No.

Oh, Yoda, Yoda, Yoda, I'm rocking a YJ, you know, decorative Christmas Jeep, Jeff, the Italian

stallion, the producer.

With the ugly sweater of Yoda.

Yeah, lovely.

And then we have the Grinch.

Very forced to be with you.

And I say, isn't that actually the little baby Yoda?

Yeah, Groku.

Well, and then we've got the Grinch over here.

Yeah.

Bah-humbug.

Nothing, no color, it's just a dark palette.

Yeah.

I looked this morning for if I had any Christmas hoodies, including my wife's.

I did not.

So.

Wow.

That's where we're at.

That's why Jeffrey put the wreath next to you, so that.

Yeah, we'll just hang it on him so it looks like he's just put it right over

his neck.

Sure.

And that for our audience is Mad Scientist Scott Brown.

Yes.

Yep.

All the adrenaline.

What's it gonna say?

And this is our last podcast, live podcast for the 2025 year.

And you know, want to take a moment to thank everybody who has prioritized this program

as part of their infotainment.

It has been our goal to increase our audience, our market share, bringing awesome Jeep and

off-road content to you, both technical and event coverage and, you know, specific manufacturer

interview-wise.

We've covered a lot, a lot of ground this year.

And I think obviously come the first of 2026, we'll talk a little bit more about that.

SFJ is about, you know, kind of having fun and being in some Christmas spirit, regardless

of what Scott's trying to do over there.

And I'm just gonna jump right to the comments because they're already on fire this morning

with Nate jumping in first saying good morning and then asks if we were gonna kill the

stream and start over like we did last week.

That was Jeff's hustle, just a dethrone you, Nate, that's really what it comes

down to.

Jaya Jeeper says good morning SFJ and we got Jeanie saying good morning and Merry

Christmas everyone.

We got Nate saying if we weren't cancelling it, Merry Christmas.

We got Jaya Jeepers.

He's here early.

He says probably gonna kill this stream.

That's what he's saying.

Yep.

And then Merry Christmas as well from him.

Billy Joe saying good morning and Merry Christmas.

Robert Seaman was saying good morning, SJF, well that's gonna throw me off.

The man in black talking about Scott and no to this being the last episode of

the year and Bill McWilliam saying good morning.

Yeah, good morning, good morning, good morning to everybody and if you're listening to this

at a slightly later date which is the vast majority of our listening audience, understand

that nearly every Monday you can join us live at 10.19 a.m. on the Book of Faces

and the YouTubes.

You can jump into the comments section and sling comments with the folks who are regularly

here and as you posed it was a potential for us to read your comment on air as well.

It has been a bang up season so far.

We're doing our due diligence to turn as many Jeeps out as humanly possible.

A lot of people who have put their faith in us to remedy, repair and remediate, lots of

ours there, their Jeeps and so we've done a really, really good job this December of

getting a lot out the door and so we're staying busy through the next couple of days

still trying to stay that course.

With that said a lot of people have been appreciative and recognized that and so there's

been a number of gifts and we want to recognize those people and some of those gifts in the

process but that's not to say that people who have sent meat and cookies and keepsakes

throughout the rest of the year are any less appreciated.

We typically try to recognize those folks on air as well.

The holiday season brings cookies and cakes and donuts and ornaments and wreaths and all

types of goodies and then obviously we're going to be playing a game today and if you hang in

there through the game you will get the full complete rendition of the 12 days of Jeep

Miss.

And Neil remembered the yoke today.

For Randall so we have a particular listener and an individual friend of mine who's Jeep

is waiting patiently in line to get a degree of love he's been on site for probably since

May April of this year and hopefully we'll get to him first of the new year here.

But we were in his top three podcast that he listens to regularly and he said well you

know if you just had ukulele lessons you'd probably top out at number one and when Jeffrey

had suggested or Scott had suggested we were going to be playing guitar.

So I have my daughter's purple yoke and I'm going to not be, yeah that's what you're going

to get Jeff.

So you're going to sound amazing compared to me but I'm going to be doing yoke lessons

during the Jeep Miss song.

Just because I love that in the comments that people kind of pick on each other and

go back and forth with Banner we got Robert Seaman saying nice of you to show up

Joe O'Brien and then Nate saying Joe's late and Joe replying I had to let Nate out.

Just pure entertainment.

And for those that don't know Nate was in Trail Hero X and I don't know if we're actually

allowed to spoil that or if we should just.

I mean you know I think that if people are interested they should look it up on the

YouTubes and find the series or clips as are available.

There's a very fun surprise in that.

For sure so definitely something that is part of this Jeep family that is part of the Ice

Peak Jeep podcast and so we encourage you to go and support Nate in his endeavors and

Trail Hero X and their adventures.

Yeah absolutely.

Our jump in the comments and join back in up and Nate actually is revealing that he

is the champ from that so.

We are the champions, Nate is the champion.

Close to be strong here Yook.

Oh shoot.

There we go.

So the plus side is that was so far off we don't have to worry about copyright.

Other than them being sad about how bad it was.

Well that's possible too.

Ceaseless sex because they don't want us ever to do that again.

Fair.

And Billie Joseph she thinks all three of us need to sing today who agrees.

No.

And Jaya Jeepers saying many local celebrities.

Well and you know as Dave from Jaya Jeepers kind of you know jumps in the comments

I do want to recognize he took it upon himself obviously you may or may not know over

the couple of years of my socials that I had a complete like the Grinch my heart grew ten

sizes that season that I put Crocs on and while I was a official croc hater you know a year

or two ago and Jeff still is on team no croc that's right I you know I put him on and

never looked back my heart grew ten sizes that day Jaya Jeepers went ahead and purchased

some blazing headlight pieces for my crocs specifically because you're so known on YouTube

for always having a headlight on yes yep my head my headlamp and now my crocs can be illuminated

but not the pair that I have on currently because these are official closed toed work

approved crocs which actually do not have the side vents they are a real thing I actually

special ordered them on crocs website with with anti-slip grip and everything so who knew

that was a thing you know I do now so Jaya Jeepers said he had to make them cool for

you somehow yeah yeah for sure so I don't have them on today but I do appreciate

that that gesture and besides the croc lights we did get

donuts brought in this morning from Harold who we worked on a CJ blue Scott did a CJ five

kind of a clean up resto stuff seven CJ seven it was an 85 yeah yeah that's where the five

came from it was an 85 CJ seven we made it not stall at stop lights or stop signs

I was I know that was a big piece yeah so he showed up with the Santa hat on this

morning yeah with a couple a couple dozen Biazio donuts which Eastlake yeah

which if you don't know it's a big Lake County donut place which is you know kind

of famous for their donuts delicious thank you then there was we had Ginny

Onuska brought us food over the weekend I can't even pronounce the type of

roll or loaf that that was but is I mean very good cinnamon and raisin type loaf

I'm ready to tear into it with it yeah you're you're gonna like it a lot my kids destroyed

it awesome our loaf this weekend so then we had the we had Christmas cards coming in I know

most most recent one was from the fairies that they custom make it yeah handmade the

cards yep and then the Gregs with the Christmas wreath that we have on the

couch sitting next to Scott over there what should be around Scott's neck and neck

and try and give him a little bit of Christmas spirit in the process yeah

excellent yeah and you know and I'm certain there's plenty of people who

have extended and offered gestures and this is you know we really like I said

throughout the year whether it's you know meat sticks or maple syrup or you

know fun gifts I mean obviously the genie and Jeff Whitling have been great

supporters Robin Teresa Prasander their jeep was just delivered back to Jupiter

Florida they've sent us you know countless gifts over the over the past year so

folks we don't get high on jeeps and earth we go to Jupiter too where's your

where's your badoom on your crappy I don't even know anymore I don't know

it's probably there all right Jeff you just

okay oh my god he's a really qualified producer that's always what I come back

with when other things don't go right and then there's this why we have the

Taco Bell why not live moss all right let's let's kiss we're on we're getting

unhinged again Nate's up and then it's Nate's upset because Harold brought us

donuts and that's his thing that well I understand that so all right don't

need more don't worry we enjoy donuts from all over the world so it's fine

we do that's I just say I now we have not established what our our exchange is

going to be for for Bantam next year but I but it could be a donut exchange I'm

gonna go on record just to we have to be careful that it's not the little

Debbie's doughnuts a little sick packs right I'm with you Mrs. Freshly's

donuts any who none of the pre-packaged just like me my favorite is just a

plain glazed donut so if you're getting us donuts please give me at least one

plain glaze just just the most regular vanilla I mean I like vanilla too and

I'm just you get you want the most plain Jane you like a Krispy Kreme donut is

that like that kind of plain glaze that's okay but those are good when

they're warm yeah all donuts are better when they're warm can we talk

about vanilla for one second and and I you know I have to just loosely share

the story and then we should actually do something productive of sort it's really

not that kind of day did my family my my wife's family Christmas party this

weekend and we had a a funny travesty turn of event my wife and I are trying

to put together the peace and so maybe some people can weigh in my sister-in-law

comes you know kind of come running up to me right as I got there with the kids and

she had made homemade vanilla this really nice quality homemade vanilla which

was six months in the making okay I have not made vanilla myself but as she

explained the process and and I was like okay that's really cool and there's a

little date stamp on it it's a cute bottle cute label definitely it's kind

of like insta Instagram Etsy inspired kind of presentation all was well okay that

was awesome you know I was very thankful I love that kind of stuff you know the

home the homemade you know kind of kind of just the uniqueness of it then we

had an extra little gift bag that when we got home I thought it was directly

for my wife it had my wife was unable she was sick this weekend so she was

unable to go with us so I thought this gift bag baby was I didn't know where it

was from I'm gonna find out my other sister-in-law as we unpackages equally

has a bottle of homemade vanilla in there but it's got equally a cute little

label which does not look like the one my other sister-in-law did and and now

it's got her name and an equal date stamp and you know got a little bow

on everything like that so both of them made homemade vanilla that takes an

extended period of time to produce independently of each other so I want

to know I'm asking out to the world is this a thing like how did like and I

obviously like my wife and I we didn't like talk to our it's my wife sister and

then our sister-in-law via marriage and whatnot we I was I wasn't gonna bring

it up because I was like oh you guys get the same exact gift took you six

eight months to make this thing you know I mean I wasn't getting involved in that

family gobbledygook but is that a thing does anybody else making vanilla right

now is that just our family that's like having to make gourmet homemade vanilla

I mean I've heard of it but I don't know how do they both independently make

vanilla then gift it in similar capacities with the same you know kind

of vigorous like Etsy Instagram inspired I didn't know there was a vanilla

exchange my wife of you my wife came my wife is like is there something on like

TikTok right now is this like a thing is it trending to make your own vanilla

so I would have been trending six months ago right yes six months ago I could not

even fathom Christmas time let alone start a batch of vanilla so I okay so it

sounds like you guys are not in on the vanilla making other than we were getting

ice cream and there was like triple vanilla and I was like how do you vanilla

vanilla yeah like how does that work that's about the strength of the vanilla

extra vanilla vanilla yeah I yeah I actually French vanilla there's vanilla

bean there yeah there's a lot of vanilla sorry we're not as cultured as you

yeah he's got a pot of vanilla going on it's gonna come out for like for the

ban on it's gonna be the vanilla also I know the gift anymore I gotta go take

throw those away right now folks it is it is December you could start your

pot of vanilla and apparently we'll be prepared for for ban on for Jeff

geez all right we should that was my best that was actually that sounded like you

knew what you were doing so we've got Randall I'm playing the ukulele for

you just so you know our game today is jeep mistruth or BS or factor cap or

whatever terminology you want to use for that but I'm going to read so wait a

second you have try you have produced you have attempted to produce facts for us

again yes so that means a jet that Scott and I are screwed because Jeff just

makes things up yeah he uses some web that doesn't yeah it's the first search

population that fires up after you know for Google and it could be absolutely

erroneous what gets better about this is this this time I'm going to allow you

the option of explaining your answer if I say that you're wrong and if I like your

explanation anyways I don't like your explanation you lose a point and the

loser has to read a mad gab that the winner chooses the words for so all

right let's do it I'm going to give you guys the option if we either alternate

back and forth or if I just throw the answer the question out you both have

to answer let's let's let's shout it out okay jeep has released an official jeep

Christmas themed Wrangler from the factory false false it is false I feel like

Davey would argue otherwise because of the white cap addition that they just

released though what's the white cap addition you'll have to ask Davey he

produced it for me so that's why or that question came from Santa so wait do

we both get a point you get a point do we both get a point each get a point

okay yes okay so all right I you're both right Santa sleigh has been compared to a

jeep an automotive advertising yes true true both get a point

whoo there are jeep owners who leave Christmas lights on their rigs year round

true true yeah I feel like we should be ringing in on a button so these are the

easy ones I was I was gonna say I feel like he's setting this up for failure jeep

jeep owners are statistically more likely to decorate their vehicle for Christmas

than any other four by four owner true false go ahead four by four owner yes

so it was a Land Rover people directorating more than jeeps because I

got it I mean what Toyota guys are out there fighting with each other and

smacking hands over who's got the lower crawl ratio they're breaking all their

brimfield joints in the front axle right I mean and and there's so it's not the

Toyota guys now Bronco just just barely became relevant they've been

extinct for 40 years yeah yeah the biggest thing Bronco did before that was

beyond national television with somebody driving it right we were

murdering people I'm personally I'm with you guys and I'm giving you guys the

point for the explanation because it's bull crap that well I want to know what

what did you find what did you think you found I don't have that in front of

me but I did what it was statistically that was ranked second so this is Jim

Carey's Jim Carey drew Carey's who's line it is anyway the points don't

matter and it's made up I want to know what four by four is statistically

more decorated than jeeps what's left we're gonna get into the next square body

jeep square body are we talking about like they're still basically jeep so over in

India where they like paying as much stuff on that is technically jeep based

I don't think it's India but I know exactly what you're talking about which

is technically a jitney yeah which is jeep based or jeep me you can say

jitney or jeep me depending on what culture which is all jeep based it goes

back to World War II surplus parts yeah Cuba has a bunch of them man who yeah

who but you don't actually have anything to produce know who I'm who I'm

frustrated with right now correct I just have to shout into the clouds yeah

okay a Jeep Wrangler has appeared in more Christmas movies than the Ford

Bronco yes true Jeep Wrangler in Christmas movies Ford Bronco I will for

the sake of the game go false Scott gets the point hmm that is true what Christmas

movies were extinct for 40 years so I know I know but I was trying to think of

like a Bronco graveyard where they're all rusted out in the background I was

trying to figure out what what Christmas movies have a Jeep in it a lot they're

often in the background but there's a lot yeah I mean that's what I was trying

to think of there was one that actually played a significant role yeah

probably jeep once tested a concept vehicle designed for extreme cold weather

holiday travel yes it's actually true you were confident about that I was do you

know what it is or do you know about this I didn't know that one well so two fold

there are there have been in my opinion there have been a couple iterations where

Jeep specifically have played with regional accessorization so we had packages

specifically made for the Alaskan frontier as we as as the US pushed through

the Alaskan highway up into the Arctic Circle so I guess in my logical brain

when you said holiday season I thought no yes they've made things more for

winter time than that but isn't specifically the holiday season it's

just winter okay well Jeff did you have any further information on that

specific did I get my point back because I had a good argument no you're

gonna lose a point on that I think that's fair yeah you should lose all

the points you lost a point on that one jeep dealerships are required to

play Christmas music during December oh that would require me going to a

dealer didn't know anything I mean it seems to be everywhere so I'm gonna say

probably required to play Christmas music that's totally sounds like something

corporate would do so I'll say true I'm gonna say false Neil gets the point

yes there is an a are they playing Christmas music probably probably probably

but the requirement for their their their dealer quota or whatever there is an

official jeep Christmas ornament licensed by Stellanus oh I yes there is jeep

Christmas ornament no officially licensed by Stellanus if they have the

jeep grill it has to be licensed no there's permission and there's like like

they actually I think you're talking to do it did you say commission license read

it again because we're gonna be doing semantics now official jeep Christmas

ornament licensed by Stellanus so I have a lily's MB that hangs on the

Christmas tree and it is officially licensed by jeep because it is the

jeep image somewhere over the rainbow I'm just want to make sure that I'm

fulfilling my ukulele I believe it's true yes I believe it's false Scott gets

the point because Hallmark and Stellanus have actually partnered to do an

annual ornament and say that's fun and any time it says jeep or anything

I know but I think what he's trying to do is what Jeff is trying it's a

semantic issue right now I understand what you're doing it's a jeffree problem

yeah because he's talking about a annually commissioned ornament which is

actually a conversation we just had prior to going on air today that I would

like to commission an annual ornament ourselves right I think that would be

super fun the Greg's Christmas tree farm does it and they have gifted me us

the ornaments annually as well at this point I think it's super cool I am a

little disappointed that I have not made it a priority to pursue and collect

actual jeep official annually commissioned ornament and also I'm not

being marketed like jeep I am your target market why am I not getting

inundated with those ads because it's Hallmark selling I'm not cheap okay and

you probably don't shop at Hallmark that's fair those are so fair assumption so

anyways Nate said there's actually a Walmart exclusive one this year too and

if you had been looking at the comments while we were talking Nate did

confirm that they was true because they're available at Hallmark so but I'm

back with you to say that any company who sells a jeep branded is officially

licensed right you have to pay them their their rights you know so we're gonna go

to a little bit harder now points are tied up six and six there's gonna be more

Jeff in there I was gonna say that was a tie to this point I was the

introduction yeah that was a that was a Jeff is now going to interject is the

phrase stocking stuffer was once used in a jeep marketing pitch true also true okay

jeep owners are more likely to give jeep related gifts than to receive them oh man

I feel like somebody somebody knows me it's that there sees me at this point so

what's your answer more likely to give the jeep related gift than receive it true

it's true when you both get that's right my house because I don't give many jeep

oriented gifts but my mother-in-law gives me all the jeep oriented gifts you've

definitely given your wife jeep parts before for course yeah that's inside my

house counts still counts jeep owners are more likely to give oops I just

read that one this is a jeep club so professional folks there is a jeep club

that does an annual Christmas toy drive exclusively by trail ride oh that's

super fun I hope I you know I'm saying true just because I wanted to be true

that's true because that's like one of the biggest things clubs do a year is

toy are the toy drives and get together for their holiday Christmas parties I

love that do we know who I Jeff somewhere Jeff Jeff this all fit on a

page so you couldn't cheat and look at it so I left out the facts jeep once

considered naming a winter package after Santa oh I I want this to be true again

I'll say true true false no they made a winter edition so that's close enough and

the Arctic Edition North Pole I mean I feel like yeah I think they should have a

Santa they should have one but they don't be fire engine red I'm taking a

moment I'm taking a moment here it would be fight what would a Santa edition

package that inserts in the seats oh the red plaid inserts I freaking love it

leather leather with plaid insert black leather with plaid insert it's a fire

engine red I want to I want it to be monochromatic what do you think I was

thinking white hard top oh I kind of like the chief in the blue but you get a

white hard top yeah white wheels yeah with jeep with the ease of snowflakes

oh that's so cute yeah I think that we have to be it's got to be either a 410 or

a recon 456 package Santa can go anywhere yeah but Santa can go I say 410 just for

making it easier yeah cuz I don't get option the 456 no doubt no doubt and I

think it has to come equipped with a winch that's fair I think it has to

come it's like your it's like your reigns I don't know the reindeer quickly we went

off on a tangent here and I think that I think that it should be maybe it's a

well you can have a gladiator or Wrangler you know I was thinking gladiator it

should should be gladiator but I think you get it in both but like you need to

have that open open cargo space and I love the little I love the snowflake

idea for the and they should have some sort of a special thing that you get

with the jeep when you order it like a special gift okay like a like an

official gift wrapped in the back like officially commissioned ornament

wow we went full circle so I jeep I know you're listening you we know you're

listening despite not giving us any credit but we also appreciate the

lack of season to says so with that said feel free to use the Santa

Edition yeah so right now we got Neil taking the lead by one point and we're

going into the chaos round meaning I don't have an actual answer to these you

guys are gonna debate I'm gonna pick the answer have the answers before so there

was you're just saying they're wrong they're not necessary these are

opinions rather than facts they're all opinions if it has Christmas lights on

it it's automatically cooler that's not fair that's true because he's I think it's

screwed I'm gonna be screwed you know why you gotta debate this why well I've

seen people get pulled over for lights before I think that makes a cooler I

don't know I was gonna say unfortunately that just appeals to Jeff and my we

think that's cooler you've doubled down on a good cause I haven't a good

time unless you're on the side of the road with 10 cops that's just you Jeff and

I would be in our element we have a good time we start talking about being a

handcuffs in the backseat of the car we would not be fighting with our for our

for our law enforcement officers he would be following me to the shop and

ordering Jeep parts because that's literally what happened I just give

me the point move on but I'm giving you a point and taking a point from

Scott because exactly I'm three head a Jeep is the most believable modern

replacement for Santa sleigh true this is not for debate this is that's a fact we

just talked about the Santa edition I know remember when you said we're on a

tangent because I knew that was literally this question you said there

was facts been the first one which there was not they were completely

arbitrary and circumstantial statistically it's the second most

decorated okay says who Jeff all right if you have that this is the internet all

over again we might as well just be shouting each other in caps you're

gonna show more caps lock is on here comes I don't know if I'm ready for

your shouting if you've never wheeled in the snow you're missing half the

Jeep experience these are more factual now you're asking us irrelevant close

ended statements it literally says debate at the end of his there's no debate on

these I feel I feel sad for Jeeps that haven't been able to use their four

wheel drive like ones that are in Arizona right but at the same time then

they're not rusty so it's like this weird batter back and forth back and forth

sounds like Scott's trying to make an argument for they're not actually

missing I know that's what I was saying are you okay they're totally sad

they're just not rusty so they're prolonged it's they're sad or longer

Scott gets a bonus point for that yeah I'll give him one of my points all right

final round Santa wants you wait a second I'm gonna talk winter wheeling for

me and even just on-road is like modern-day JK to JLJT true tracks I

mean that is the ultimate snow slush adventure rig as far as I'm concerned

is so confidence inspiring front and rear I will take true tracks front and

rear in modern-day Jeep over actual selectable lockers all day long because

of how useful it is 365 it's not as ideal off-road but that winter

wheeling time is when you hang a tire so if you don't hang a tire then

you're good I know you can't drive in the slow slow snow slush sleet and

ice with your lockers on but when those true tracks are going and that free spin

you know true spin what the heck is they call I'm drawing a blank when all that

kicks in it's it's the cat meow all right move on Jeffrey all right so we're

gonna go with that you're gonna love this one Santa once used a World War two

will use mb Jeep as a backup sleigh during a reindeer strike

jeeps are statistically the second most decorated remember when you told me

this was whose line is anyways here we are ah yes I mean it's gotta be a World

War two ad somewhere with wow okay it's back in my day the reindeer were mad

about the feed and so they got cold and so they refused to leave on that snowy

night but don't worry even better they took Rudolph to AA because of his red

nose Scott wins that one

because he was in therapy from all the bullying he had when he was a kid that's

two wow all right so then we're gonna go to the people wouldn't let him play in

their reindeer games literally they made fun of called them names a Jeep Wrangler

can legally be registered as a sleigh in at least one u.s. state

sure my question is does it have to be broken down and drug by I'm some sort of

for I want to know who what state requires legal registration of sleighs

a legal registration of a sleigh would require that it the state has any

provision for that I would think it would have to be a state that expects you to

but then that same time knows you're just not gonna do slays have turned

signals and license plates are you are not allowed to operate a sleigh on public

roads I was gonna say if you think about it they got like the sleigh rides in

the big cities and stuff like that so there's got to be some kind of

registration or provision for that I would do Amish have to register their

buggies I've seen license plates on them I've seen turn signals on them yeah

exactly and flashing lights and flashing lights and stereo system yeah well that

too we do have a young man who has just a banging system around us that is

absolutely accurate so well Scott already said true I think it's true I

think that that some somewhere somebody did some kitschy fun I'm gonna do

something to I don't think it's Alaska because it was people just would not care

and not register I'm going for Maine that's fair I've decided it's Maine I'm gonna

be honest I really wanted this to be true and I researched the heck out of it

to try to prove it to be true it's not it's false hmm doesn't there's not a

thing for it well you know what I'm okay with that yeah it's whatever yeah you

know what it's true in my head and that's really all the internet cares

about it like I said I believe it then I'm okay with it being on the books but

then just ignoring the role and I think it's true in some obscure little town in

Maine well where they've got little sleigh skis on the front of the that's in the

carriage and in New York City has to be registered for sure it does well that's

what I was saying as there's got to be yeah I'm with you but I'm saying this

little this little Jeep in Maine has skis on the front and little tracks on the

back and and they've registered it as a sleigh you know it's now allowed on ATV

trails some early Jeeps came with a feature in the manual explaining how to

mount snow skis to the front bumper

false true it is actually true oh that's so cool yeah they actually but of

course you are gonna be able to back it up with absolutely zero knowledge of what

vehicle it was or what era yes no it is actually true I did I I had a list of

things like that specifically with all the details but I did not so there was

literally a kit for you to put skis and tracks on your Model T and on your Model

A so that was so you know what that and while I'm aware of that very similar

kit for the Jeep and you know what while I'm absolutely aware of that I

went to recreational skis not I need to stow my front tire skis while I go out

intro versus backcountry and if I get stuck then I put the skis on that's what

that was yep that was part of like the Arctic Edition and so we used to so in

the CJ in the CJ's there were these things called Arctic tops and and again

what I was talking about how Jeep has a history of provisioning regional packages

back in the day it was more so than now right now we have these packages and the

high tide might be available everywhere the Arctic top then was a far cry from

what the top yeah for sure but they absolutely would have had the potential

provisioning for skis for the front I was thinking like recreational skis like

fishing poles will get strapped to the front well I don't like your

explanation so you're losing a point

I was just talking about it that's all

getting it

I'm here for it

live by a sword die by a sword

right

the first Jeep commercial ever aired on TV included Christmas music

sure true

I can just imagine like a little red CJ to a false and they got like the old like

50s Santa you just you know it's actually kind of scary looking took three shots

of bourbon in the back it's got a red nose

out him him and childhood trauma Rudolph over here

over it was false yeah winner winner chicken dinner I hate here's the only

thing I was because I why don't you want to tell you now no I'm shut up

I'm not even going to share stop by your head yeah I fall upon my sword a Jeep

Wrangler can safely plow more snow than Santa's elves can shovel in an hour

clearly that's false because Santa's elves are magical and limitless in their

provisions and ability I'll say true because the elves have jeeps but I was on

them oh you suck he could have one of my points I was absolutely on your side

for that right through that out there he gets the point

yeah wow you didn't see that coming man there that's a paradigm breaker there

if you put a bow on your Jeep hood you gain plus five horsepower and holiday spirit

you remember when you said this was these were not facts this is facts Jeffrey I said

I started a new round I didn't catch that facts wreaths bows and reindeer

accessories plus five horse purse Scott I'd rather have the red nose on the front

and antlers in the bow but I'm sure it is true because you know you guys are not

grinchy enough so sure you've literally had this stuff on your Jeep for just

not the bow I've had a red nose and antlers I I'm almost certain that where

ones

the nose and the antlers aren't trailerated the same

where did you lose an antler I don't know if you knew it wouldn't be long exactly

I would have got it

Scott gets the point you just like showed up home and you're like up it's got one

antler just waving now was that still in the window like the plastic piece

no it was gone straight up gone I blame your kids I blame your kids probably Jeep

owners in Alaska have a holiday tradition of decorating their winches with tinsel

false I would say getting away too much because they're going to use it you

can't decorate it it's got to be in use actually true that's bull crap Jeff

I agree you've made this up once again Jeff that I lose two points we care

talking mushroom

right Jeffrey that's a really good fact I'm so glad that you found it

losing a point for sucking up

jeep owners in Alaska have a holiday tradition of decorating you just read

that to us jeep ducking traditions to

I don't want to play with them anymore Scott I don't want to play his reindeer

games I'm going to sing ukulele songs so the jeep ducking tradition

statistically spikes during December duh it's a gift and it's Christmas

okay but but like but like literally people are like throwing ducks in the

summer because the tops are off and their shows and they're also getting

tossed out of the side of the jeep in the end is like the actual placing it on

the vehicle I bet you happen more in the winter

the facts don't matter

Scott gets the point because he's right

sounds like I didn't win or lose any so I'm just going to stay neutral the

final question went

the J. L. Wrangler's infotainment system has a secret Christmas mode that

changes the startup animation to falling snow

I mean he has a jail

and he's gonna be like I've never played with that part

he's gonna say so the splash screen on the taser is totally modifiable

there's a whole there's a whole thing but he said comes with it

that's with having a taser

that's so serpent sancral

he's fighting with you

I think he should but they probably don't

I think there is

there is not

I feel like I'm like a puppy dog has been beaten now I'm afraid to do anything at this point

taser

creators come on now

that's a sell point right

or it should be on the Santa edition

correct absolutely

that should be the splash screen

comments a while ago somebody said with a white fuzzy dash as part of that

don't forget the white fuzzy dash for the Santa edition that was Rob Daddy Jeep

we got my wife had said Arizona jeeps just got to go up in the mountains

they do get to see snow too

Billy Joe saying Daddy Jeep is actually gonna set up a winter ride

so if you haven't got to do the winter ride yet there you go look for that

Mike is saying Arizona doesn't have snow but you can off-road almost anywhere

so there are parts of that

Harold said Merry Christmas and hope that you enjoy the donuts

we thoroughly enjoyed the donuts

and then they were very good

and then Geaga Jeepers is saying yes the Amish are supposed to register their buggies

that tracks

Billy Joe was guessing West Virginia I believe to where you could register Jeep as a slave

I'm so you know what West Virginia is a good option as far as I'm concerned too

yeah she gets a bonus point because I think that she does get a bonus point

Geaga Jeepers say it may make horsepower but kills the aerodynamics

talking about the bow on the hood

we drive bricks

I was gonna say what aerodynamics

I was gonna say for anything it probably helps

and then lots of antlers are falling off now because of the time of year so

you're not alone in losing an antler

alright so the winner was Scott

which means Neil gets to read the my gap story

I've been dethroned

what was the points I want to know what the points were

thought that they matter

it was 16 to 10

bull crap it was

oh wait you had 11 I'm sorry 16 to 11

still bull crap

so anyways

Scott you're gonna

pick the words based on the descriptors that I give you

and then Neil will have to read the story

I need a person's name

Jeff

okay

I need a noun

a noun

mm-hmm

Anne

what

that is

not a noun

I need a noun

maybe you should have understood the assignment better Jeffrey

when you were asking Scott to get involved in this

but you're gonna read the story more animated

so this will be entertaining too

I think maybe you need to not use like noun and verb

and adjective

person place your thing

tree

I need a Christmas song title

mm-hmm

12 pains of Christmas

okay

a g-part

g-part

a bolt

anyways

a bolt

he literally produced a book

of all of the cool things

that he could have said

I didn't know what a noun is

he's really good with nuts and bolts

a descriptor

then go further

give him more than that

yeah that's plenty

the scripture

the scripture is what was read on Sunday morning

the scripture

the pastor read the scripture

color red

yes

substance

your oil

of course

food

cheeseburger

of course he said that

another food

this is so incredible

so incredibly predictable

he's really really good with jeeps

time of day

evening

mythical creature

mothman

okay

object

amethyst

okay

Scott

this is just like an insight into Scott's brain

at this point

a jeep function

driving to the mall

so at this point this is more

actually a secret personality test

silly place name

yeah

like silly name for a place

a thing

that's a silly name for a place

okay

remember when you were talking about a personality test

yeah I need another adjective

descriptor

fuzzy

okay

I like Billy Joe's broken

plural noun

person place or thing but plural

trees

Scott's brain is working

jeeps

should we just fill these in for him

I was going to say

why is it so long Jeff

another object let's go

it's a train

what

what the heck is he even talking

about

alright Neil you're going to help with some of this

exclamation

oh my

abstract noun

or emotion

an abstract noun is a type of emotion

sure that works

oh my god

um

that actually fits for Scott you'll understand

um

the

a famous person

dick van dyke

oh good choice

see he just had his birthday

turned 100 years old yeah good for him

and he's healthier than us

happy birthday dick

uh Christmas song

maybe it's cold outside

I thought that got canceled

no it never actually got canceled

just uh just a whole bunch of people got

riled up on the internet

musical instrument yeah

ukulele ukulele

okay uh

there's two pages

no Jeff no noise

you should have started this at the beginning of the program

there's two pages

yelling

another emotion

anger

job title

technician

uh button or knob

button

I need a description of a button or knob like what

name a wiper knob there you go

oh it was like I thought it was a

you don't understand the assignment yeah I didn't

understand the assignment uh place

the lake

I was gonna make it like north pole

I want to do Connie Ohio

I don't want to do SFJ four by four I was

adjective cold

oh look all of a sudden now he's

on fire he's ready to go

plural noun

really cold

no no

first and place or thing more than one of

women okay

um

large creature

alligator

okay

uh oh you want crocodile

what do you want what holiday food

fruitcake

something's a fruitcake

uh another food

meatloaf

insult

sleep Jeff

DJ

uh plural noun

last couple here why so many plural

now buddy waters

waters

abstract noun

I would never gotten through this

happy

okay

tool

air hammer

adjective

broken yeah thank you there we go

we needed to use that

uh

SFJ four by four

and

drives

he's like at the end of the second page

at this point like

how do we have enough time

for this yeah

towards the night

before jeep miss and all

across the backwoods trail

not a creature was stirring

not even a mouse

then suddenly Jeff

comes riding a tree

sideways

through a snow drift

while humming 12 pains of

Christmas off key

I feel like that actually could happen

that's true

my jeeps bolts

rattled

like a red sleigh bell

every time I hit a patch of gear oil

I think that works perfect

that hurts

just that hurts

and the cabin smelled

strongly of cheeseburger

mixed with french fries

which was confusing because I hadn't

eaten since evening

sounds great

suddenly

a majestic mothman

first from the

tree line waving

an amethyst

screaming

engage your driving to mall

or you'll never make it up a thing

this might as well be that Scott wrote it

jeep function

driving to mall

that was not correct

just so we're all on the same page

I floored the gas

but my fuzzy tire spun

uselessly

kicking up a cloud of sparkling jeeps

that drifted

through the air like festive

disappointment

thinking fast I grabbed

my emergency

citrine

I don't know

yelled a dramatic oh my

and attempted to

summon the ancient jeep spirit

of sad

while the mothman

from earlier judged me silently

that's all seems fair to me

but just then

Christmas miracle number one

the radio crackled

with a soothing voice

of dick van dyke

singing a shocking remix

of baby it's cold outside

backed by

a yuk solo

ukulele solo

that absolutely nobody asked for

encouraged my jeeps suddenly lurched

forward powered entirely

by the sound of distant yelling

the lingering regret

of anger and the

half frozen technician

clinging to the roof yelling

hit the wiper knob

before we all ended up in the lake

that works pretty good

or before we all end up in the lake

we barreled up hill

until miracle number two struck

a glowing

cold light

appeared above the trail

revealing magical women

decorating the trees

like jeep approved ornaments

that's what neil

I brought to the table

but

but just as victory seemed near

the women are going to ward off

the moth man

this is actually not inappropriate for us

to be collaborating on

but just as victory seemed near

the trail was blocked

by an alligator

wearing a tiny santa hat

and holding a handwritten sign

that said

don't trust passing without offering fruit cake

so naturally

I reached into the glove box

pulled out

some stale meatloaf

tossed it toward the creature

and yelled take it you

dj

dj just so folks at home

can be in on the inside joke is

sometimes something that gets yelled at the top

of our lungs

in the shop when things don't exactly

go right and Jeff may or may not have had a hand

at it

and that dear listeners

was Christmas miracle number three

the creature accepted the snack

tipped its hat politely

and let us pass into the

snowy unknown

which is how I finally

discovered the true meaning of jeep mess

if your rig is

full of waters

your heart is full of happy

and your toolbox full

of air hammers

there's no trail too wild

no creature too weird

and no holiday adventure to chaotic

to conquer from all of us here

at SFJ four by four

we hope holidays

are broken

your SFJ

four by four never gets stuck

and you always remember

to drivers

Merry Christmas and happy

New Year

Jeff

that was a train wreck

you think that was

a train wreck

let's do it

let's do it to it

ukulele

instructional number one

that was sound like the exact same note

if this is one of your first

times joining us I

you know it shouldn't be

just so you know

you should have gone back

and listened to some other

podcast

this was not the episode

introduction to us

what uh

I wonder if people can actually

hear this

oh so loud

a little loud for you guys

a little loud

do I have

oh here we go

why is there so many pages

folks if you've been following along

this is going to be your

your whole shooting match

if

you care to hear about our personal lives

we will give you the most

abbreviated version possible following

the outro credits

and

that way we can get

to the final jeeps that our intention is

to turn out this year

and

that way you've already spent so much time with us

we don't want to keep you any longer

go ahead

Jeff when

I've got my uke

okay start it off

on the first day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

a dog perched

on a 40 year old jeep

on the second day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

two

toe straps

and a dog perched on my

new jeep

folks if you didn't know

we've already saying this too many times

and there are pictures

available for you to engage in

if you are listening to your ear holes

and you'd like to see Scott try and work

on the paper trail here

we have a

like an 08 JK

absolutely it's an 07 08 JK

with a giant duck

with a duck

almost the size of the jeep on top of it

and all these pictures were provided

compliments of Davey the Savage

yeah we're so lucky

and Jeff wrote the lyrics

again

so blessed

on the third

day of jeep miss my true love

gave to me

three skid plates

belly pans

two toe straps

and a dog perched on my

new jeep

the skid plates are

TJ belly pans

on the fourth

day of jeep miss my true love

gave to me

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

belly pans

two toe straps

and a dog perched on my

new jeep

on the fifth

day of jeep miss my true love

gave to me

five beadlock

rings

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched

on my new jeep

why did we buy the old jeep

on the sixth day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

six

lights are glowing

got a ticket for those

but they look so cool

five beadlock rings

from amazon

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched on my

new jeep

on the seventh

day of jeep miss my true love

gave to me

seven slots of fame

we got a cease and assist

six lights are glowing

five

beadlock rings

from amazon

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched

on my new jeep

it's broken

on the eighth day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

eight hours of

wheeling

seven slots of fame

six lights are glowing

five beadlock

rings

come on keep up now

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched on my

new jeep

sorry for you

this is all new

from here folks

on the ninth

day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

nine

model choices

eight hours of wheeling

seven slots of fame

six lights are glowing

five

beadlock rings

four rezy shocks

boxes

they're held up in customs at the moment

for three months thanks to the tariffs

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched

on my new jeep

it's now broken

on the tenth day of jeep

miss my come on scott

my true love gave to me

ten

jeepers winching

this is a great picture

jef's broken

he's so serious as a full picture

of jef in the most serious

face

nine model choices

eight hours of wheeling

seven slots of fame

six lights are glowing

five

beadlock rings

four rezy shocks

boxes

three tj belly pans

two toe straps

and a dog perched

on my new jeep

on the 11th

day of Christmas

no jeep miss

my true love gave to me

eleven

decal

it's the back of jef's jeep

baby added decals to it

to make sure there was eleven

it's the back of jef's jeep

there's a brown sticker

i know

an attire store

i can't believe you put the browns picture on it

you put the browns logo on the back of your jeep

i didn't see that

he snuck that in on me

that dirty dog

ten jeepers

winching

nine model choices

eight hours of wheeling

seven slots of fame

six lights are glowing

five

beadlock rings

four rezy shocks

boxes

three skid plates

two toe straps

and a dog perched

on my new jeep

this is it folks

if you've been counting along

scott are you ready

this is the most uninspired

this is the worst 12th day

just so everyone's on the same page

yep

on the 12th day of jeep

miss my true love gave to me

twelve rubber duckies

eleven

decal horse purse

ten jeepers winching

nine model choices

eight hours of wheeling

seven slots of fame

six lights of glowing

five beadlock rings

four rezy shocks

three skid plates

two toe straps

purple

and a dog perched

on my old rusty jeep

jeep

wow

well folks that was a year three or four

of that one and it was the most unhinged yet

next year should be the

twelve pains of jeepness

what was that

that would be

interesting until next time jeep family

very merry christmas

happy new year jeep on

jeep on jeep on

i should also say happy hanukah

kwanzaa

winter solstice called happy holidays

festive pole

festivist for the rest of us

whatever you celebrate

i authentically don't care

i hope you enjoy the time

over the next couple weeks

so there's that

i didn't

shut rj all off

and i ran all over the country this weekend

my beadlock wheels

are leaking down air like crazy

valve stems greg suggested that i just take the

shortcut i was like and

just changed the valve stems which would probably make too much

sense i haven't i just air them

up now basically twice a

day because when i run down the highway

at 70 miles per hour the air thins out

gets hot and leaks out faster

so i really need to change

to my winter tires take the beadlocks off

and maybe redo them

otherwise i had a lovely

family vacation

for a single day of like eight hours

where i just raced down to pittsburgh

did my christmas vacation and came back

from there i went

and battled the crowds at eerie because of course

life and i was not

done christmas shopping so i needed

to do some of that there was my weekend

in a nutshell

and i was here at the shop

mine was

basically finalizing that train wreck

of a game and

then also watching a lot

of football i watched a lot of football this weekend

and december football is always

crazy a lot of good games

super jelly i'm happy

for you that you got that time it was

it was good i'm not a brown

fan despite the the fake

decal on the back of my jeep i actually

i saw it on the internet and

folks i think we're going to make sure that that's

posted for all of you i feel like i need to go

out and make sure it's not actually on my jeep at this

point oh my god

that would be so epic

and um

i don't know that was pretty much it getting ready

for christmas obviously and make

christmas was designing gifts

for everybody with yeah and you know what we

didn't we didn't mention the gifts from her and

thank you so much for that i we should have said that

before and i didn't that's okay

so my weekend was

uh well more than

weekend but i got a frame for the model t i

put the body on that started mocking up all

the pieces because before this it was in

a million different pieces and all over my garage

so i made it look like a car

and uh light last

or yesterday i tried to fit the doors

and found the driver's door

overhung the body by two inches

versus the other side so

i had to figure that out but i did get the

wedge in there at night in the night but

uh definitely

understand why everybody's like maybe you should

make it look like a car before you start

changing stuff so

figure that out and um

you know folks if you want to fall along with our

personal socials we do welcome you

to our facebook page and it's the pages

um we can be friends and you can

see you know

post about our kids and

scott his metal work and and jeffrey his

non-profit when you know when he does

do that satisfactory

um satisfactorily

i don't think that's a word just because i suck at

social media um yeah but you're welcome

to and we we encourage that

uh process and scott

you know does authentically love

metal work and and practicing his craft

um

you know and i like to just build things so you'll

see stuff on our our homestead and

and and whatnot but you you know

what i asked you before we went on air

you know kind of what your

your uh

motivation for doing this particular

project you know many of us watched you

um work on

the 36 and kind of get

that out to the road it's always important

no scott doesn't care about paint kind of never has

um it's too expensive

and uh you know we

understand that a lot of people like

pretty paint jobs as a business we can

professionally understand that but

that's kind of where you oftentimes take your projects

up to that paint per

process and then you we have worked with

other subcontractors and whatnot but

you have now since started another metal

project which is the the model

t yep um

and and briefly before we truly sign

off uh can you share with

us what that

intention is because we all we've heard

the different you know Amy's

truck and the and and snowflake the Jeep

and your 68 and

we know you have this line of projects

uh much like myself that don't

get enough attention yeah

so it's gonna be a two-part

thing first thing i'll answer

that question so my dad uh

you know we used to been trace and

talk about cars we'd like to build

all the time and

uh the last project he did was a

41 Plymouth pickup truck that

was a congregation of his

ideas of mine of

neat things and sometime

while he was working on the Plymouth he

got this

say hey you know it would be really

cool to build this like little nasty

coupe like a hot motor

no fenders uh back

to the roots of hot rotting

and it was honestly not anything

i expected out of my

dad because he was more of a

get 23 miles a gallon be able to

drive it was a very practical individual

yeah not have breakdowns

that kind of stuff um

which the 36 is kind of the

really breaking the the bread

of that of going traditional and having

carburetors and all that kind of stuff

um improving you can drive it

and use it and be reliable with it

but that wasn't his track

so um i've always

liked the the

26 27 Model T coops

and i was able to get this one

at a bargain which if you look at my

install you'll see why does the doors

look like that ran over by a reindeer

a reindeer um

so i literally

uh have a hundred dollars in this body

at this moment um to give you an idea

so um

that's why um um

needs a lot of love needs a lot of

of metal work that's what started

that process but

i'm trying to push it into

looking like a car so that

it can be that

nasty little coop that my dad

didn't get to build um

and and my intentions of this

is right now just to make it a roller

that looks like a car

that i can set back and kind of look at

for a while after this winter

of working on the body so i wanted

the body to hold together i want the doors

to operate

and i want it to be on some sort of rolling stock

by the end of the season and then i'm

going to pull my wife's trucks cab

off and start metal work on that

the reason i did not do that this winter is because

we did not get the building done enough

where i could put her chassis inside of it

to protect it from the elements

and i do not want the motor out in

the elements without

the sheet metal protecting very cool

with that said um

um heartfelt sympathy

for holidays are not all

joyous for everyone um

people have lost loved ones close around

want to kind of do a

psa of that um my mom's

anniversary passing with sunday so i

understand those people that are

out there that maybe your holidays are a little

bit harder on you than

most uh just

see you hear you do the best

you can so very christmas

love it folks until

the new year jeep on jeep

on jeep on

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