Snail Trail 4x4 Offroad Podcast Apr 9, 2026

697: Group Buy, Jury Duty, and the Mule Finds a New Home

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Welcome, everyone! Welcome all to the SnellTrail 4x4 Podcast. If you like going off-roading in

Toyota's, wrenching on Toyota's, camping in Toyota's, maybe even poking a little bit of

fun at Toyota's, and of course, hearing about how fantastic plans for Toyota's are, then

this is the podcast for you. That's right, ladies and gents. My name is Tyler, and joining me for

another episode of the SnellTrail 4x4 Podcast, Juby Jutt! Over here. How you doing, man?

Good. Thank you. How are you? I'm doing pretty good, man. Nice. Yeah. I'm feeling a lot

better. One of my major stressors has been... I was like, were you sick again? No, I actually was.

We'll get into that a little bit, though, when we talk about the weekend. But one of my major

stressors is in a much better spot right now. Yeah, yeah. We'll talk about that a little later.

We'll dive into it a little bit later there. So I'm feeling better today. Good. Yeah. Glad to hear.

Yeah. Me too. Fun project in the background that you and me and CJ have all been working on.

I know. I figured there might be some... Maybe at the very end of the episode,

we can talk a little bit about it, because it doesn't have anything to do with off-roading,

but it's very nerdy. Kind of does. A little. I mean, it kind of does in the way I'm using it,

I guess. Yeah. It's work-related. Yes. Yeah. But it's very nerdy, very... To me and Tyler

and CJ with the CJ, very interesting. But when we were talking about it with Jason,

his eyes like glassed over. He glassed over and was checking his emails and text messages,

and every once in a while, he would kind of look up and be like,

you guys are still talking about this? Okay. I'm going back.

But we're super stoked with what it's doing. Yeah. Yeah. We'll might dive into that a little bit

later or it'll show up on the other podcast. One or the other. Yes. That could be.

I might do a full episode on it over there. Let's see. I don't know where we're beginning.

This is Thursday. Thursday. It is Thursday. It's Thursday, April. Let's see. Six, seven,

eight, ninth. There's two calendars up there. It's Thursday, April 9th. So nice to see

everybody out there on this lovely Thursday. We're going to go over kind of some things

that Jimmy and I have been up to. I didn't get a whole lot done with vehicle stuff

this weekend because I got sick and, but we'll get into that. But I do have some plans for

vehicles. Okay. So we can get everybody updated there on my end. Yeah. It was Easter weekend

too. That's true. There was some things going on that we were all up to family stuff that

was happening. So we did, we have some Easter updates to talk about. And I have a little

bit of Samantha to talk about. Yeah. And then some camping updates. And then, but before

we get to any of that, we have a giveaway. We have a giveaway for the Light Ranger 500.

This one here. Yep. Before we get to that though, this one, this one actually, this is

not the one you guys are getting. Yeah. We're going to get to hang this in the studio

and have a red light district episodes. So we'll do that in the future for you

guys. The red light district at this hour is not as nice. It is. At the later hours. Well,

this is the retired hour for, it's like when a safe way or Costco opens up an hour early

for the older people. Yeah. So these are the cheap seats. The Batonay red light district.

Yeah. Yeah. I can answer that question. I know. I've been to Amsterdam once or

twice. Twice. Yeah. Anyways, before we get to the giveaway and everything, let's talk

about the group buy. Okay. Yeah. I think that's a good way to get into that. So we

reached out to DeVos and talk to Colin, our good buddy over there that's a kind of

in charge of their marketing stuff. And he was all for the group buy. And so the

way that we're going to set it up is kind of an incentive basis. Obviously, they

want to make a lot of sales, right? And we want to make a nice purchase discount

for everybody. So the way it's structured so that everybody wins is the more sales

that we can get confirmed and set up the bigger the discount we get for

everybody. So the way it's going to work is if we get 10 people saying they

want a DeVos light ranger 500, we will get 15% off for everybody's orders. If we

get 20 people, we will get 20% off. If we get 30 people or more, it'll be 25% off.

So these guys, they retail at, what was it? 70 bucks? Like $70. So you're

looking at 10 bucks off. So $60. If we get 10 people, 20% would be $14. So

$56 for 500. If we get 20 people and 25% would be... Shall I do the math for you?

Yeah. I got a calculator. I'm guessing it's going to be $18, $19 off. So about

51, $50. 52. $52. So those are the kind of the price points that we'll be

getting these at depending on how many people sign up to do the group buy. And

so what we're going to do is we're going to give it till the end of the month. We

realize that people are a little bit behind on episodes and almost nobody stays

current up to that day of that episode. So we're going to give it to the end of

the month. That's the end of April here. April, so that's April, what? 30

second is when that ends. Sounds good. According to the calendar. So once April

ends, we'll take all the emails that we have for the group buy and submit an

order to DeVos. And then we'll figure out if DeVos will ship these all out to

everybody. I think they will. Yeah, I believe so. And then that'll make it

super streamlined, super easy, super simple. And then we'll create a payment

URL. Everybody pays us. What we'll figure out. I don't know if DeVos is

going to want to collect the money themselves, or if they want us to

collect the money and then pay them all in one chunk. We'll figure out

that detail. But what we need right now is we need the commitment on how

many people want in on this group buy. Pretty rad little light, especially for

only $52 if we get 30 or more people. And I bet it's 30 or more purchases,

right? Or 30 more items, 30 more items, because I want to, right?

Exactly. There's two right there already. What is that? A fifth of the

way to 10. So, and I don't know, Tyler said he wanted one like per rig as

well. I might be buying one for every employee at Morphly too. Right.

So, so we're probably going to hit 10 right there. Yeah. So if you guys

want in on this as well, all we need is your email address. You can email

us. Jimmy or Tyler at snail trail four by four. Tell us you want in. All

we need is your email address to commit. You can DM us on Instagram.

And I guess we can move into. We also started the Discord channel.

And we've now started a sign up thread on the Discord channel. We're going

to put something under announcements. And then we started a group buys tab as

well. So you can write there and we can DM you to find out your email

address or you can write it down if you want to just make it public out

there for the snail trail group at least. And then Tyler and I are

actually trying to use Discord a little bit more so that we've now

created some of the backend stuff. And we're going to keep track of

everything in Discord, which is going to be pretty cool. You guys

can't see the backend channels only Jimmy and I can only Jimmy and I

can see our back ends. So the red light area. Exactly. Red light

district. Yeah. So so yeah, we'll have we'll kind of everything is up

on Discord. We'll get into that a little bit more than a little bit

here. So yeah, we need your email and then how many units you

think you may want. Yeah. That way we can get an idea of how

quickly we can get into the different discount tiers and

confirm the discount price for everybody. So if we end up

getting like 60 or 70 units to sell for them, we might be able

to get an even bigger discount than 25% off. So let us know if

you're interested, how many units you want and your

email and then buy a once we get all that together that

will close April 30th. We'll take all that information to

Divos and see what the final discount is for everybody and how

payment will work. So we'll keep announcing that throughout the

month here. So yeah, get in touch with us however you can and

get over on Discord. So let's talk a little bit about Discord

now. Yeah, sounds good. Since we're here talking about it.

Yeah, I don't know. Like I'm familiar with Discord. I've

been you I've been on it for a few years, but I never

really ever use it. Okay. Yeah, I there was a few of us like

Clinton from dirt garage, RM, shoot, RM garage. And then

there's a few other like Toyota based YouTubers that we all

started a Discord. So we can just talk about YouTube and

podcast or YouTube and thumbnails and how to edit

videos and what's popping right now and stuff. And that

sort of it was really popular for a hot second and then it

died out. And then I didn't really use Discord since then.

Okay. So I really enjoy all of the features that I've been

learning about it. And I'm really I really like the chat

rooms and how easy it is and all the like and all the

features there is I spent a good chunk of time and

watched a few YouTube videos because I set the Discord up.

Yeah. So I learned a lot about like permissions and

what how to allow things and how to set things up so

that only admins or mods can view it and how to organize

like the layout and all that. I was thoroughly impressed

with the setup that they have. Yeah, they've done a really

good job at making a feature rich communication software

for groups that are looking to communicate with each

other about a specific topic or ideas or whatever it is.

So yeah, it's up and running. We did kind of a soft roll

out and told a few people what the invite code was and

should be down in the show notes for you guys. So it is now

everything seems to be running really well. We've been

getting some fun conversations already in a few different

chat room areas. So yeah, everybody more than welcome

please come over to the Discord, join it and have some

fun. So yeah, it's still semi soft roll out because

we're only telling people that listen to the podcast.

Correct. Yeah. Right. If you listen to the podcast, you're

hearing that we have a Discord channel and you know, the link

is in the show notes. We're not taught. We're not sharing

this on social media or Facebook or anything yet. It's

only podcast based. So it's only true listeners of the

podcast. And for the most part, only people that are

truly caught up because we've only announced it for the

last week or so. Yep. So when it's working out really

well so far. There's a chat there where we kind of

requested, you know, if anybody has ideas for different

other ways to segment. And one thing that came out of it

was people want to hear more about off road events

going on around the country, whether that's something

that Jimmy and I are hosting like a camping off roading

snow trip to Uncle Tom's or whether that's different

events going on in that area like cruise Moab major

events that listeners can do listener meetups at. So

cruise Moab has a little chat thread now. And yeah, it's so

it's very easy to evolve the Discord channel, the

structure and what you guys want to see and get out of it

and what we want to see and get out of it. So if you

have any ideas, ways to integrate different things,

let us know and we'll make it happen.

Absolutely. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Some good chats

already over there about grilled cheese and about yeah,

the events going on and yeah, the listeners rig so you

can show off your rig, which is going to which is pretty

neat. I guess I said, I think I said I need to get a photo

of the family now and put it up. Yep. So yeah, a lot a lot

of fun out over there. A pretty easy way to get in

contact with us directly. It seems like Tyler and I

watch that more than we're on Facebook. Yeah, but I would

say I'm on Instagram more than I'm on Discord. I'm not sure

about you, but about the same. Yeah. So it's probably

like it's number two or three way from to get in contact

with me. But it's probably up right up there at the top for

you. So it's it's just pretty it's just a neat

alternative way that we're trying to just build a

community. Facebook didn't really take off the way that

we thought it would. It didn't. We weren't also engaged in it

as much. And so it didn't didn't grow as what we thought.

Yeah. But I think they I think the discord is a great

alternative. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. So that's there. The tokens

and the URL to the public on X file where the treasure hunt

tokens are is listed there on the discord as well. So you

can go and get that. Did we are we putting the public URL in

the show notes? I don't know if it is. I can I can do that.

Let's keep it on discord for now. Okay. As a as a lure

incentive incentive to get you guys over to discord and get

on there if you're looking for the treasure hunt token. So

they're over on discord right now. Yep. One literally just

got hit in yesterday on Pritchett. Ah, okay. Nice. Yep.

Who's out in Pritchett? Chuck Holst. Okay. Okay. Nice. Pritchett's

a really fun trail. Yeah, it is. I want to now that I understand

what the trail is. I really want to go back and do it again and

play around with different tire pressures. I think my tire

pressures were too low. Yeah, Pritchett. That's possible.

Anyways, yeah, that's exciting to have one out of Pritchett

somewhere. Yeah. There were a few in Moab that have never

been found. Yeah. He ran top of the world the day before and he

was like, is one hitting on top of the world? And I said, there

are and there's two or three or three on top of the world. But

they've never been found and I'm okay with you hiding another

one if you want because I'm not even sure if they're still

there. Yeah, we do make the tokens out of wood intentionally

so that they do decompose over time. Yeah, if never found

or if never found that way, we're not leaving trash out if

they're not found, right? Like the one in King Creek, the

one in King Creek might have washed away. It could have been

washed away. I tried to hide it high enough. I hid it at

something that was about chest height. Okay. For me. Okay, it's

about knee height for me. Yeah. And the river might have gotten

up that high at some point might have washed it away. So I

just am, you know, it might be gone. And that's the reason

we make it out of wood just in case we don't want to be

littering. You know, it's just a piece of wood that

I'll buy out a great. Yep. And that token will be gone. Yep.

So, um, yeah, they're out there. They've never been found

according to our records, but they also may not be there. So

we'll see. See if you guys can find them. Let's see what

else do we got going on? Oh, I don't know. Well, we've got

reviews and giveaways to go over. FNGs. FNGs. Let's get

into those. So FNGs birthdays and a giveaway for a Divos 500

light ranger and a stand, right? Yes. And a Divos mini stand.

Sweet. All right. So we've got, let's do birthdays. Sounds good.

Birthdays and FNGs, I should say. So FNGs from March or zero

zero nada. Nobody likes us. Everybody's waiting till April.

They do. Yep. So with that being said, April birthdays, which

there's a lot of them. Yes, there are. All right. So one year

April birthdays. We have Colton Lloyd. Ah, Colton. Thank you.

Arian. Oh, this is just a regular area. It's not a

round. It's an A. A. A. Ron. Yeah. Not an A. R. O. N.

Uh-huh. Wow. So it's not A. A. Ron or A. R. R. O. N.

It's just A. Ron. A. Ron. A. Ron. Thrinan. Thrinan. Thrinan.

I'm gonna go with Thrinan. I think it was Thrinan. Thrinan. Thrinan.

Thrinan. Whatever. You have, you have two weird names, mister.

Next up is Kenneth Veltkamp. Kenneth. Thank you. And David Green.

Green. Color party. Yeah. My favorite color. Nope. Just regular

green. Regular green. All right. Cool. I wonder if he's

related to one of our two year birthday person. Carl Green.

Maybe. Father and son. Maybe. Right. Uh, and so two years is

Carl Green and Scott Solberg. Mr. Stolberg. Thank you. Three

year birthdays. Yeah. Uh, Weimar Electric. Yeah. Thank you.

Weimar Electric for supporting the podcast. Yeah. Three years

of, uh, shout outs to your business. Yeah. Exactly. Uh, James

Ginsberg. Oh, Mr. Ginsberg. Ginsberg fab. Yep. Uh, he just

got on the discord. Oh, nice. Yep. Cool. He's got some really

cool projects going on. So if you guys see him on discord, uh,

DM him or like hit him up in the chat and make sure that he's

posting his projects in the, the listener rigs area. So, uh,

Brian Moffitt. Oh, Brian. Thank you. And, uh, Jim Ray

Reep. Jim Ray. Yeah. That's three years. Thank you,

everybody. Three years. Four years. There's a, there's quite a

few here. Okay. Uh, all right. Casey Halonen. Casey. Thank

you. Dave McKinney. Mr. McKinney. Who butt dialed me the other

day. I got to talk to Dave's butt for a little bit. How

exciting. We got to get him on the podcast one day. We

are. I was trying to get him to come over today. Um, but

he ended up getting work last minute and he goes, I'm

literally right around the corner for me guys, but I

don't know what I'm going to be off of work. So we can't get

the schedules to a line. Uh, Corey Karnes. Corey. All this

Corey. Thank you. Uh, Wesley Vieira. Mr. Vieira. Thank

you. Andrew clamped. Andrew clamped. Thanks for the, thanks

for the wood. The wood. Andrew. You know what I mean? He is

the wood man. He's the wood man. Yeah. Uh, he's got a

lot of hardwood too. Just FYI. Ask him about his

hardwood sometime. He loves talking about it. Uh, let's

see. Trent Roberts, Trent, Mr. Rollover during qualifying.

Congratulations. And thank you for the four years. Yep. Uh,

Anthony Martinez, Anthony. Thank you. And a Aaron, the

original, the original Aaron, Ron. We still owe you a gift

box. I haven't forgot. We just haven't sent it. Yep. Uh,

all right. Five years. Surprisingly, no five years. Whoa.

That's not a typo. We really don't have any five years for

April. That's interesting. That is pretty crazy. Um, so yeah, no

five years for April, which means, but Oh, is there, but

there's one six year. Isn't there? There's six years. There

is our six year Mr. Robert Hawk, Robert Hogue, Hogue. There's

two G's there. Typically, if there's two G's, that makes it a

hard consonant. Hogue, Hogue, Hogue, Hogue, Hogue. Yeah. Robert

Hogue, Hogue, Hogue. Uh, Rob, thank you so much for the

support. Six years. It's been a lot of fun, man. Sure. And

seven years, seven years starts next month with our one

seven year. Yep. Our first. Our first. My first. Our first.

Okay. That is our first. All three some. Yeah. I'll be, I'll

be into that. Uh, so yeah, we'll get into that. Uh, fuck me,

dude. Fuck me. Fuck me. Um, yeah, man, seven years coming up

soon. So that's pretty cool. That's pretty exciting. And

episode 700 is coming up very soon. I know.

I don't think we have anything planned. No, perfect. Cool. I

just want to make sure that we're all the same page there with

that. And I wasn't missing anything. Um, what is this

episode is 6 97? Yeah. All right. Wow. We'll take a break.

We'll take a break. We just, we'll just skip it. Yes. Well,

then we'll, then we'll talk about how great episode 700 was

and drive you guys crazy. Um, I think we did that one

time and, uh, and we'll talk about it. I'm guessing a little

later in the episode when we talk, when we get into our project

that we've been working on, but, um, the project caught it.

Oh, really? Yeah. That's funny. He was like, there's a couple

episodes here where you guys skipped a number and it's just,

it's just not there. It's non-existent. So I'm guessing

that was intentional, but I'll flag it for you to know. I was

like, that's right. We did do that. There's only one that I

know of. I caught three of them. I think. Yeah. And there

was one where we did it intentionally. So the other ones

I'm like, uh-oh, where did we mess up those ones? Oh, well,

yeah. Maybe we'll record an episode 331 now and put it back

into the structure. Um,

that would be kind of funny. That would be kind of funny

because it would move it to the actual, it wouldn't, unless

you put the, you'd have to put the date of when it was

published on the website as the date where it should have

been played. And I could do that. Yeah. And then it would show

up in the RSS feed back then as a new episode. So people would

have to go and find the episode back. That could be a fun

game.

So speaking of games. Okay. And I want to talk more about

this off air with you, but I have a small game idea for

Trail Hero X. Okay. So I'll just plug that now. Okay. So the

listeners can kind of get an idea. But essentially, it's you

and I are going to create a drinking game. Okay. And then

when the users watch or the listeners and viewers watch Trail

Hero X, there's rules of how to watch Trail Hero X. Okay.

And what happens? Okay. And then when we then if we know

what the rules are prior, we can intentionally do things in the

show during the show. Yeah. To force people to drink. Okay.

That'd be kind of watching the show. And then it would also

depend on the production company as to yeah, if they put it

into the show when they put it in, we might have to like put it

as like something we're wearing that day or if somebody sees

us like touch our nose or I don't know whatever. Yeah, I

mean, it could be yeah, we'll we'll come up with some

rules or something. Yeah, you know, but it would be like

maybe we get lost, you know, it's like when we could

purposefully get lost. And you know, we can go, oh, I don't

know where we're going. What are we doing? You know, it says

go left right, you know, it's like the entire time while

we're lost, you have to be like sipping your drink or

something. I don't know. But so we're going to come up

with a set of rules for Trail Hero X. Yeah. And when and

if you have ideas for this, feel free to write in on the

discord and we can we can keep a tally of everything. But we

won't really announce what the rules are until the show

starts to get to released. Maybe we'll release something

along with it. And then and we'll tell you the drinking

game rules for Trail Hero X. And then you can watch the

show. And none of the other participants will know about

this. Yeah, except for us. Yeah. So it could be

interactions that we do with the participants. True. Okay.

That could be fun. This is going to be pretty fun. All right.

I'm interested. Let's do that. Yeah. Let's go on though to

giveaway winner. Yeah. Give away for the Light Ranger 500

and the mini stand. Alright. So we have looks like 92

people. Yes. For this month's giveaway. I'll go plug

that into random number generator. Hey, it's there.

Good job. You're welcome. Thank you, sir. Make my life easy.

Tell me when to stop, sir. Okay. How about now? 19 19 19. So

go back over to spreadsheet. Do that is 19. Roger Lutz Roger

Lutz. That's a good one. Congratulations, Roger. You got a

Divos 500 Light Ranger and stand coming to you. So we'll reach

out to you. Let you know that you won in case you're not current

and caught up on episodes here and then confirm your shipping

address and everything. And then we'll get a fun prize from

Divos out to you. Definitely. Super. I think you're going to

love this, Roger. I think it's going to be right up your

alley. Nope. Doesn't have any radio antennas it built in.

No, it doesn't. It'll I think it'll help you light your radio

system. Yep. We do have for this month's giveaway to gift boxes

that you can win. So all you got to do to get signed up is go

over to irate four by four.com and sign up under the snail trail

four by four forum there and all your options are there. So if

you're on a computer, they're on the side of the forum. If

they're on a mobile device, they're down at the bottom of

the forum. So go check out those sign up options. This is the

month here in April where the gift box tier is open. So if you

guys are thinking about moving around entering the box here

leaving the gift box tier, doing other things with your

subscriptions, then this month is a great month to do it

because everything's open and available. Just remember that if

you move around and add a tier because you move from one

tier to another tier, you have to go back and into your PayPal

account. So open up PayPal.com login. And then there's a

subscriptions tab. You need to go to yours and manage your

subscriptions and cancel the previous tier you were in. We

can't cancel it on our end. You need to cancel it on your

end. And that way you're not signed up for multiple tiers.

So what we'll do is in May here after April is closed and

the gift box tears closed, we'll kind of go through everything

and let you guys know if you are signed up in multiple tiers. That

way you have a heads up that you need to cancel the previous

one that you were in or whichever one you don't want to be

in anymore. And if you want to be in multiple tiers, congratulations

we will accept that. We have a few people that are we do. Yep.

They want pretty much what it comes down to is either you

are getting double entries for the giveaway. Yep. Or you're

giving us $5 for a coffee. Yeah, pretty much. So there's

that info and you have until the end of April just like the

group buy to get in and form us change things up to whatever you

guys want. So April's a kind of a big month here at the

podcast mainly because it's my birthday month. So let's see

what else anything else? No, I don't think so. In regards to

your birthday though. Uh huh. Your present is on the way. Oh,

okay. Yeah. I'm okay. Cool. Yes. It'll be here someday. In

regards to gift boxes though, the third and well second item in

the gift box third item I ordered has officially showed up at

my doorstep. Oh, cool. I have a little bit of work to do on

them before they're ready for the gift box. Okay. So we're

really just waiting for the t-shirt order to come in. I

approved the order and design and everything a week or plus

ago. It's been about a week and a half, two weeks. Yeah. It was a

matter of days after the order was placed and the expected

ship date is like April 25th or something like that. So it's

way late in the month. So if it's April 25th, we're not

gonna be able to get them out really by the end of the

month. So okay. We'll go over gift boxes then maybe Monday's

episode, maybe that'd be a good time for it actually. It

might. Yeah. So and we'll yeah, we'll talk about it. We'll

figure out a good, good plan of attack because like we talked

about in a previous episode, I don't want to give the

spoiler away of the other two items. You already know

you're getting a shirt, but you don't know what it looks

like. And so we'll figure out something. We'll talk about

gift boxes and length in the future. Yep. But yeah, like

Tyler said, if you want to get into the gift box tier now is

the time and you have to stay in that tier for six months. Yep.

Cool. Let's take a quick break. Okay. We'll grab a snack really

quick, a little snacky snack, and then we'll be right on

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Welcome back, ladies and germs. To Thursday's episode. This

is kind of like what we've been up to. Jimmy and I tend

to get ourselves into some shenanigans. We lead some

interesting lives according to you guys, I guess I don't

know. And you guys enjoy learning and listening to what

we've been up to and the mistakes that we make so that you

can do as we say, not as we do kind of thing. And yeah, I

don't know. Well, you guys keep listening. So I guess we'll

keep this format and we'll keep talking about what we get

ourselves into here. I had, I got knocked out for Saturday.

So I didn't really didn't do anything. My original plan

was to get some loose ends work maintenance stuff done on

Kermit. Yeah, because Kermit will be out at cruise Moab with MF

for Sean. Oh, okay. Yeah. Nice. So I didn't get any of that

done. Okay. So I did get a new battery for the vanquish RC

car. I have was the RTR 10 Yokohama Edition H 10 Yokohama

Edition. So what happened to be Reynolds will let us know. He

will. What happened was I killed the battery in the car. How did

you do that? Essentially those the lithium batteries that come

with RC cars do not have BMSs. It's just the lithium

cells. Got it. Right. So if you discharge the lithium battery

so far, just like any battery cell, you will you will kill the

cells. It'll die. The nice thing about having a BMS battery

management system in is that it self protects the cells. So you

can't over discharge them. I wasn't aware of that. Yeah.

Okay. And so with an RC car, if you're driving an RC car

and all of a sudden it just stops. And then you kind of

let off the power and then repull the trigger to get it to go

again. That means the battery is dying. It's losing the voltage

and it doesn't the motor doesn't have it is not receiving enough

voltage to continue anymore. And that's the battery telling

you, yo, I am I'm done. Don't keep using me. Yes, sure. I

didn't do that. No, you just kept driving and I killed the

battery cells. So I got a new battery and the battery I got did

not have the correct terminals for the vanquish car. Oh, even

though I got the exact same battery. Interesting. So I got I was

like lots annoying. So I cut the terminals off of my vanquish

car and put on power poles and some power poles and then cut

the terminal off of my battery and put into some power

poles. That's right. So now I have something that I use on

everything. Right. And so I did that got the battery charged and

played around with it. And the kid has started to now like

driving. Sure. But his hand isn't big enough to reach the

trigger fully while holding on to it. So he has to hold on

to the controller and then uses our other hand to operate

the trigger and the steering. Oh, interesting. So he can't do

both at the same time. Yeah. So what usually ends up happening

is I operate one or the other. Right. And he operates the other

one while I'm holding him. Okay. And he just kind of sat there

holding the trigger down and the car just zoomed off. And I

was like, I'm kind of curious the range of the car. Yeah. It

went up into the field and went all the way across the

field and I lost it. Oh man. I was like, Oh, from your

driveway straight out. Yep. Okay. I lost it. And I ended up

having to put him down and then go find the car and and bring it

back. So you couldn't walk with the controller and have it

I was doing that. Eventually that's how I found it. Yeah.

Okay. But yeah, it went up over there. And I was like, I'm

just gonna go let it go. And it went all the way across the

field and into some brush. And I was like, interesting.

Okay. And so I couldn't hear it anymore. Yeah. See it

anymore. And he was still holding the trigger. So finally, I

pulled it away from his little two year old hands. Right. And

we had to go find it. So yeah, I know that or I've heard I

didn't I've never had this experience. But I've seen people

teach their kid to hold the controller on the side when

they're learning to steer. Because then when they turn

the wheel, it's turning the wheel in the direction that you

want to go because it's a little a little harder for

them to conceptualize when the controller is up and down

and you're turning it forward to back and you're trying to

turn the wheels one way or another. True. So yeah, I think

teach them with the controller on the side. That's a really

smart thing. Yeah. Never thought of it. Thank you, sir.

But the nice thing is that he's not afraid of the car

anymore and he wants to go play with the car. So it'll

just adds another thing we can go do to pastime. Yeah. So I

did that sometime last week. It wasn't over the weekend.

But it was a fun thing. I was able to get done.

Saturday, dude, I don't know what happened, but like Friday,

we got in a huge 40 foot high cube container with, which is

here at the warehouse. Yeah. For more flight. And it was

something we've been waiting on that got delayed a month,

which what, which had parts to get host kits off back order

and air hubs in it. Okay. Got it. And so usually when I

have, when we are containers come in, they're palletized. Yeah.

And so by palletizing them, we don't make full use of the

container because it's on pallets. So pallets take up a

little bit of space. You're palletized. So you'd have a

little bit of dead space around the pallets. You need to lift

it up to pull the pallet out. So there's space above. Yeah.

So you're not making a full, complete, efficient use of the

container space. This one we did not palletize. Okay. So

there was 1900 boxes. Wow. In this container. And so we had to

all unload it all by hand. Yeah. And kind of palletize things as

we brought out of the container and everything. So it took

about two and a half hours. And everybody went home sore. And

so Friday afternoon evening, I was like, man, I am just, I

could tell I'm sore. I could tell I got a really good

workout today. But the big thing that started happening was I

started getting a migraine. I was like, I'm prone to migraines. I

kind of live on the edge of constantly being dehydrated for

some reason doesn't seem like how much water I drink, or

electrolytes I have. And so anyways, I was like, I'm just

dehydrated. I definitely sweated in the container. So I was

like, oh, whatever. And then the migraine started turning

into like my eyes feeling like they were going to pop out

of my skull, which usually is more sinus pressure things stuff.

Okay. But it knocked on like Friday night. I was kind of like,

this is just really uncomfortable. I'm just sore all over. And I

took a trying Tylenol ibuprofen and kind of a little bit helped

and alleviated stuff, but not really Saturday. I woke up

and I was on I was I couldn't go vertical. Wow. I was

horizontal all day Saturday. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I

had to keep the room super dark. Like it was it was one of the

worst I've ever felt a migraine wise and then added to my

whole body just eight from moving stuff around out of the

container. So by about four, four 30 p.m. I started feeling

a little bit better. But then the secretary started feeling

really, really bad. Oh, interesting. I was like, I think

this is more than just being sore from the container moving,

right? And so we couldn't tell what it really what it was. The

kid had just a really runny nose all day. So I don't know. I

eventually I took, I think it was 1200 milligrams of ibuprofen.

And all of a sudden everything just started

alleviating. And I was like, okay, something was going on with

my blood capillaries that everything was just really

constricted in my head for whatever reason. And now that

everything is open and I'm getting more blood flow to my

brain and my head and everything in my head. Everything

is alleviating very nicely. So I kind of took over with the

kid. The wife went and laid down in the dark room. And that

was pretty much my whole day Saturday. Yeah, summer. Sunday was

Easter Sunday. Yes. And I did a bunch of yard work. So I went

through and mowed the lawn, edged it, did a bunch of leaf

blowing, trimmed the trees, trim the bushes, blah, blah, blah. And

then we went and did an Easter egg hunt with the kid out in

the field across from my house. Okay. Yeah, where we lost

the car in. And this was the first time he's ever done an

Easter egg hunt. I don't want to say the first time he's ever

done an Easter egg hunt. He's done him at school before. Yeah.

And he went at my house last year, right? Yeah, I think

he was still too young to understand it. And yeah, it's

more of you carrying him around and picking up eggs for

him. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And the one at school was he

collected all the eggs, but they never opened the eggs to

show the prizes inside. Interesting. So this was, I think

the first time that he got to hunt eggs and then realize

there's actual things inside them for him. And it was

hilarious watching him put that together. Yeah. Because he went

out hunting and he's like, we've always done this thing

where he loves his pacifiers. He goes to bed with like

10 of them in his crib. And in the morning time, they're

kind of like out of the crib and all over the ground and

under the ground. And so we have a pacifier hunt almost

every morning. Sure. And so he's always been good at hunting

for things, hidden things, right? So once he started figuring

out that there were a bunch of eggs, colorful eggs hidden

around the area, he got really into it. It was like looking

in trees, looking under bushes, go at these dots. So it was

fun to watch him get excited over that. And when we got

back into the house from collecting all the eggs, we

started opening up the eggs and he was like, you could

just see the light bulb going on. Oh, there's stuff in these.

Yeah. And so he would get really excited to pull the egg out,

shake it, and then be like, he would do the try to open it

if he couldn't, he'd hand it to us to open it. And then he'd

be like, get all excited about the item or you could tell the

items he wasn't really excited at. Sure. And then not

candy. Not candy. And it's interesting. He's not a big

candy kid. Okay. He doesn't really have a big sweet

tooth. So what was he interested in? Stickers. He loves stickers

right now. Okay. So we loaded up a bunch of them, some of them

with and fruit snacks. Fruit snacks and stickers are his jam

right now. So we loaded, you know, one or two little fruit

snack gummies in each egg kind of thing, a couple eggs with

stickers. And then a couple eggs with he likes taking the

wife's hair ties and putting them on as bracelets and running

around. So we had a couple of those. And I was, I got through

them all, had lunch, he took his nap. And then when he got up,

he started asking if we can go back outside and hunt eggs.

Yeah. And I was like, that's getting hot outside, man. Yeah, I

don't want to go out there and hunt eggs. So we hid like 10

at a time in the front living room. Sure. And he would find

it and get all excited about finding it and then come running

back over to us and we'd go to open it up and he'd go, oh, as

we're opening it every single time. And did you just put the

same stuff back in it? Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. And then we're

like, we don't want to just keep giving him a bunch of fruit

snacks. So we started putting in like paper clips and just

random shit. Yeah. Right. And you could tell he was really

excited about finding the egg really excited that as we're

opening it to see what the surprise is. And he'd pull out the

paper clip and be like, throw it in the bag and then go find

another one and do it all over again. So it was, it was fun to

see that he was enjoying the process more than what the

surprises were inside. Right. So anyways, that was like the

whole day Sunday. It was just hiding and finding eggs. Nice.

Yeah. So and yard work. And then so I didn't really get

anything done on Kermit that I wanted to get done, which was

that 3D printed switch. Yep. A bezel for the center console that I

got a new bump strikes, a bump stop striker. Okay. From a

rad flow that I need to put on. I need one of those too. Yep.

Oh yeah, that's true. And I know where you can get them.

Yeah. I know which of the part numbers are nice. So that the I

need to drain the clutch system and flush the clutch system. So I

ordered up. I couldn't find my one way bleeders, my brake

bleeders, because I'm pretty sure they're both in the mule for

some reason. So I ordered up two more. It's eight dollars for

two of them. Oh, wow. On Amazon. So I was like, I'm just

going to order up another one. They're really handy to

have around when you need to bleed stuff. So I'll have that.

Let's see. So I have the bezel, the clutch, the bump strike

striker, and then just doing a big nut and bolt check over

everything is really all that Kermit needs. Everything's

running great on him right now. So I did make a very

impulsive purchase though. Oh, really? Instagram knows that I

like fun tools. Yes. And it's very good about showing me fun

tools. Okay. And I'm very good about randomly buying randomly

buying fun tools. Okay. So we have this thing about our trail

toolkits. Yes. We're trying to find ways to use fewer tools

that cover all the bases. Okay. Multi-use tools. Correct. Not

unit askers. Exactly. Not unit askers. And so one of the

things that we discovered was the the gear wrench pass through

wrenches. Yes. Or sockets. You're right. And the nice thing

about the gear wrench pass through sockets is they're a

square splines. So they fit metric and standard. Yes. And

they're pastors. So it's a great fits and six point and

12 point, right? Yeah. And deep and shallow and deep and

shallow. So it fits four different full socket sets all in one

set, which is really awesome. So I've been waiting to find like a

box and thing that's nice to kind of replace box and wrenches.

Okay. And without having to rely on Puerto Rican socket

sets. Sure. Right. Which is the adjustable wrench. Adjustable

wrenches are great, but they don't always hold true to where you

set them. And once you start really torquing on them, that

little jaw will bend, right? According to the tolerance of the

corkscrew in it for the adjustability. Sure. And so those

end up rounding out nuts. If you if you're not very

careful about making sure they're really tight on whatever

you're trying to turn. So I found, I don't say I found Instagram

showed me this really cool super flat. I want to say it's one

sixteenth, maybe one eighth. I think it's one eighth. Wow. One

eighth steel that is comes out into a head that I wanted to

bring them today and I totally forgot to and maybe I should

wait until I have them here to talk about them. But I'm

excited to try them out this weekend. So what I'm doing

my nut and bolt check. It's a fully enclosed. It's not a box

end, but it's designed to go over a nut and then you pull it

down and it will automatically the nut will slot into the

different sized sizes on it for different sized nuts and both

heads. Okay. And so one end encompasses I want to say 19

millimeter, three quarter all the way down to 10 mil. Wow. Or

10 mil or what is that? It's one step lower than three eighths

because three eighths is 11 mil. No, three eighths is 13 mil. I

don't remember. So whatever 10 mil is. So 19 down to 10 mil, it

will do everything in between those in one head of a wrench.

Yeah, that's interesting. And then they have a long and a

short. So you've got longer ones and shorter ones. So it

makes it because it's so thin, you can get it into really

tight spaces like think of in between transfer cases and transfer

case adapter plates. And so and it's it's not adjustable. It's

one solid piece of steel, but the way it's designed makes the

bolt or the nut head slot into the size that it is. So I'm

really interested in trying it out and see if it actually

works as well as Instagram told me it should work. Yeah,

so I'm picturing like a bunch of layers that when you

press the socket and down or the box and down over the nut, it

actually pushes up the layers that aren't being used. Nope. Here

I'll show you. Let me just pull it up on Amazon real quick

because I found it on Amazon. And it's only like it was only

like I want to say 40 bucks for the set of four of these

wrenches. Wow. Here we go. Yeah. So four per four of them

was $12 on discount. Oh, got it. Okay, so it's how do you say

that? Right? I don't know how to describe it. It's elongated. And

so when you it's not you put it so when you put the wrench box

and over the top and the nut, then you pull like towards

yourself, let's say, okay, yeah, and then that will lock

itself into the correct size. Yeah. And then you can turn

from there. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. So I'm curious if these

work out as well as they do, I'll be able to get rid of all the

box and wrenches, at least all the 19 mil through whatever the

size those are, yeah, and just carry two of those things. Right.

My only concern, which I think is this concern I have is

there's not a lot of engagement between of what of the size and

that they slot into that they slot into. Yep. And so like if you

crank your prop, I feel like you're going to strip the tool.

I that's my concern too. Yep. And each of the engagement

points are a very sharp point. Right. So like I don't I

don't know if that's made out of tool steel or what steel alloy it

is made out of. But it needs to be much harder than bolts and

nuts. Yeah. And yeah, in order to not strip them. It also looks

like they are angled, the teeth are angled to grab the corner.

Not the flat sides. Yes. That's what definitely is how their

portrait is being used. Yeah, well, keep us informed. That's

really interesting. An interesting idea, interesting

setup, not ratcheting. They're not ratcheting. They're one solid

chunk of steel. Yeah, but the benefit is it these four tools

cover, you know, I don't even, you know, a handful 20, 25

other tools, something like that. If you're including

standard metric shorts and longs. So yeah, that's a it's

quite an interesting idea. Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see how it

all turns out. I mean, on all these pictures, it looks like

it's grabbing a flat side of the nut and then a tooth grabs a

corner on the other side of the nut or the bolt head. But either

way, I'm really curious to go to see how they work out. Right.

Yeah. So nice. I'll be playing around with that this

weekend when I do the nut and bolt check on Kermit. So I'll

something to report next week. Yeah, sounds good. I am not

going to cruise Moab. Neither am I. Yeah, I ended up getting

selected for jury duty that week. So I have to report in this

Friday. Okay, tomorrow from when this airs. Yeah, to see if

I'm going in or not. And but if I do have to go in, then that's

next week while we're cruise Moab is going on. Right. So I'm

staying home kind of for that, but mainly to make sure

the mule gets up and ready and fixed and good for trial hero

X. Right. So so let's probably don't want to dive too deep into

some things. Some feelings are hurt on both sides, I think.

But for the most part, I'll take a little bit of the lead.

Dmitry ended up waving the white flag. I like how you

worded that and said that he can't get this done in time.

And so you and Ryan went over to Stellar built and picked up the

mule and a bunch of the parts that have been acquired and things

that were scattered around for that project. And you picked it

up, put it on the flatbed and you guys drove it over to

Jason's at O. C. I. O. C. D. I. O. C. D. Innovations. Yep.

Which is where is that? He's like way out in the boonies,

man. He's like, he's like past Yuba city because he lives in

Orville. Okay. So it's about, I would say it's halfway between

Yuba city and Orville. Dang. Okay. Yeah. So he's way out there

for us. It seems like way out there. It's not totally that

far, but so he's going to take the task on. He says he has

the time. He is very intimate with the mule. He's very

intimate. He's essentially the one that originally built it.

Right. Yep. So he knows how, how it was, what it is. He has a

good understanding of everything that's there and

underneath that rig. Yep. He's a great fabricator and he's

gonna, he's gonna do fine. So when you were at Jason's, you

guys kind of hashed out a plan. Yep. How long does Jason

think that this is going to take?

We're not 100% sure. We have all the parts, I think.

Okay. There's just, I think break lines to go from the hard

line to the caliper is all that we need to order. And then maybe

a couple little pieces of hardware here and there, which

that's every, every job, but all the big stuff is there. We

have the lower links. I got those from TMR. They made the

custom lengths for us. And we're awesome about it all. And

they, they're, they're really nice. Cool. I'm really

impressed with the way TMR does those. I checked in with

Brian at four wheel underground. And I was like, God, give me

some aluminum links for the mule man. Let's get this going. And

he goes, I got these two lengths. I was like, oh, yeah, those

are not the lengths I need. So I went to TMR and they were

really cool about everything. Cool guys over there. So let's

see. We've got the lower links. We've got the joints

from metal cloak. We've got the coilovers got rebuilt. So

we're just keeping for now because we're on such a tight

timeline. There was a lot of stuff I wanted to get done to the

mule with this process that we're just not going to be able to

get done. Okay. Like I wanted to raise the ride, the rear ride

height about an inch and a half, two inches. So that once it

was fully loaded down its level. Yes. Because the way it was

sitting was once I was fully trail loaded the rear sagged. So

I wanted to change that, but we already have like six to

seven inches of preload in the springs. Yeah, that's a lot, which

is a lot. So we just need to go to a different spring rate. Not

enough time to figure all that out. So we're just going to set

the mule back to the way it was with the current springs and

everything than the six, seven inches of preload on the

spring. So and bring it back down the like two inches and

bring it back down. We're not going to be doing a lot of big

time rock crawling on trail hero X. So I'm not concerned

about ground clearance. Like I am if we're going to go do the

Rubicon or Fortice. Yes. So we're gonna bring back down to it's

quote unquote normal ride height. Okay. And the other big thing

I found out Jason told me. Yeah, was when he originally built

it, the up the front three link, the upper link and the lower

links are the same length. Yeah, we talked a little bit

about that. So the links are the same length. Yeah. And you

said that if by doing that, when you articulate or the

suspension changes, it

a change of the caster on changes the caster on you

exactly.

And when pinion angle and caster changes on you while you're

driving, you get less stable driving, right? Yes. Not too big

of an issue off road, especially with a high pinion. But on

road, you get dartiness out of the steering, which is what

I've been experiencing and complaining about in the mule,

right? So I think that's what the main cause is. And we've had a

lot of listeners reach out to me saying, dude, your caster is

fucked. Right. There's something going on with the caster on

the mule. And that explains caster changing is with the

links are the same length there. So where I was wanting to

change that upper link length, we're not going to do that

now. Just time. We just need to get it back up and running

as quick as possible here. So we'll just put a essentially new

bracket on. He's going to take a quick look at it and see if

there's a way to easily make a bracket that takes three inches

out of the length. But essentially, I told them, I don't

worry about it. You know, we're on such a time crunch now

that if you need to put the same bracket that was on just

stronger and gusseted, gusseted, then just do it that

way. Yeah. Simplify it and just get this thing up and running.

So fill the cardie shock. Jesus owes me a shock tuning. Okay. So

after we get back from Trail Hero X, I have a whole list of

stuff that I want to need to do to the rig and doing a proper

tuning with the correct spring rates and everything will be

part of that. And I'll be going to see Phil for that. So and

then the upper link will shortening that upper link and

redoing the upper link bracket on the front axle will be

part of that as well. Yep. I do need to, I think, fix the

blinker circuit and get the blinkers working because in order

to bring the rig into California, you have to go through

CHP inspections, which means you need brake lights, headlights,

blinker turn indicators working. So I need to fix that, I

think, before Trail Hero X. Okay. Oh, really? Before we

come back into really come back. Yeah. It'll be on a trailer

though. I don't know the thing. I need to get it

registered. I still haven't swapped the title. Oh, yeah,

because I yeah. Okay. So the smog is done. And so you have 90

days, right? Yeah. From when smog gets submitted to

California to make that title transfer. So the time clock,

that's what's causing I need to get this done, I think

before Trail Hero X. I want to say the 90 days will be

coming very shortly after Trail Hero X. Sure. I need to

move the rear swing out away from the body an inch. Okay.

It's rubbing on the body and rubbing away the paint and rubbing

away the the wrap currently. So Dimitri and Stellar did a great

job making it all work. They just made the tolerance too tight.

And so as you drive around, as you go down trails, whatever it

actually rubs and vibrates on the body and that's rubbing a

hole in the paint and rubbing a hole in the wrap. Yeah. So

it didn't redo that, move it out an inch. Fairly easy to

do. It just takes time. We need to put a bunch of Baja designs

lights on the mule. So that'll be in there. I'm going to take the

Switch Pro out of the mule and put in I have a 12 gang switch

panel that I really want to use and utilize. So the Switch

Pros is great. There's a lot of really cool features. It

just runs on Canbus. And I don't know Canbus. I don't

know how to troubleshoot Canbus. And so and I don't

like how in order to hook everything up to the Switch

Pro, you have to hardwire everything together because the

wires go straight into the Switch Pro, which is solid state. And

so there's no terminals to hook wires onto. Interesting. So

every time you need to redo wiring, you have to cut a

little snippet of wire off of the Switch Pro wire. So if

you end up redoing the wire enough, you run out of wire

to be able to use or you have a bunch of soldered

connections in line to be able to connect into the Switch

Pro wiring. Sounds like the first thing you should do is just

add a foot of length to that wire. Yeah. So I'm going back to

regular one with relays, not Canbus, not solid state. It'll

be relays and fuses and terminals. So you can put

the whatever your wired accessories are directly

under the terminals rather than having to crimp them to

the Switch Pro wires or solder them to the Switch Pro

wires. Okay. And it'll be all wireless too. Nice. So it'll be

kind of cool. So I got to do that. New battery for the mule. I did a

bunch of research over the weekend and I'm leaning towards

doing the Dakota lithium again. Okay. Or going with anti

gravity. Oh, so anti gravity and the only difference that

I'm looking at is anti gravity is about $300 cheaper. But it's

35 amp hours less. It's 100 amp hour versus 135 amp hour. Okay.

And I like that Dakota lithium and I'm like, if I'm spending a

thousand dollars, I mean, 30% it's 30% more for 30% more amp

hours to out of the battery. And I have, I have experience

with the Dakota lithium from Kermits. I love the battery.

It's doing great. So I think I'm going to just bite the

bullet and go with the Dakota lithium, put another one in

the mule. Cool. Okay. So that has to happen before trail

hero X. Right. So but those are readily available. I can order

one up tomorrow and have it here within a couple days. Okay,

great. So yeah, there's a laundry list of stuff that has

to get done on the mule and some things on Kermit before we

hit trail hero X. And yeah, and since Dimitri said he

won't be able to get this done in time, you know, bringing

it to somebody that says they have the time and can hurry up

and do it. And we'll, and we'll make it a priority. It's a big

release of stress for both of us. Yeah, I was assuming I was

going to have to go down to Stellar Bill and start wiring

up lights because there wasn't going to be enough time to get

it done at one location to have it at the second to do

things. But now it sounds like Jason's going to be able to

get everything done in time. Get things back to your

house so that we can do all the extra work that needs to get

done with the switch panel and the lights and PRP seats. Those

are not getting done in time. So a few other things that are on

this list that need to get done for this adventure. Yep. How

about the fridge? The fridge. I'm talking with Isco right

now. They're trying to make some appear for me. Okay, they

were very, very low on stock. Okay, but they're trying to

make some appear. So we'll see if they make it in time.

Nice. The, let's see. Jason is currently going through the

rig disassembling things that need to get disassembled. So the

old links are all being taken off. The joints are being

inspected. Himes are being inspected on the steering. Right.

And he took off the oil pan and because it got crunched a

little bit when the axle rotated underneath the vehicle and

the vehicle came down on the oil pan on the axle. And it

turns out it bent to the pickup. Oh, so we, he's going to

straighten out the pickup and I ordered up a new oil pan. That's

arriving tomorrow. But essentially, he's kind of going

through the vehicle, making sure we have everything we need.

And then me and Ryan are going to go over next week on

Wednesday, Thursday and try and knock out everything and get

it up and running next week, Wednesday, Thursday. Okay, is

the goal. Nice. Yeah. He didn't get to take two days

and it's going to go. I think so. As long as we have

everything, it's, it's a lot of parts, but I mean, it's all

the only thing that needs to get fabbed is that upper link

bracket. And I think with three of us there and especially

with Jason's knowledge on suspensions, it should go very

quickly. Cool. Yeah. All right. Sounds good. So in the

meantime, he's going to build that up a bracket. So that time

you guys show up, it'll be ready for us to do everything

together and go test drive it. Sweet. Yeah. Sounds good.

Yeah, man. So that's, that's updates. Yeah. That's all I got

on my end. What have you been up to me?

Well, let's see. So I worked on Samantha a little bit. We lost

the mini assistant. You lost her? Lost her. Oh my God. To her

father for Easter weekend. And so the assistant and I went

camping. But so let's talk about Samantha. Okay. A little

bit. So I got a new clutch slave, one that had the breather

pointing out the front. And I went to install it. And the whole

location where you mount it to the block or the, I think it's

onto the block is ever so slightly different. But it's

different enough that I could probably drill and tap a hole and

make it work. Tap a new hole, a new hole, okay, into the

block. Okay. Into the block. Yeah. Okay. And into the place

where it mounts. Like there's extra metal there that I could have

I could make another hole and have it solve that problem. But

the biggest issue was that it actually the way that this one

was designed. And I don't know if it's just this was a like

70 to 85 FJ 40 clutch slave again. And I was just looking

for ones that popped out the front, right? Had the breather

pointing out the front of it. The biggest issue is that

actually was the base of it is larger. So it is actually

pushing the whole clutch slave further away from the block,

which I'm like, okay, but I could just sign down or grind

down the mounting point, pull it in. But it still did not line up

with the clutch arm. And so all the things that I was like, I

could drill this new hole, I could sand it to bring it

closer. Because it was still I think it actually was popping

out further the body of it was popping out further than the one

I have stock. So I was like, I could adjust this I can fix it,

but it just didn't line up very well with the arm. And so all

that was off. So we actually then husband and I started

looking at after that, we started looking at the one the

stock one and seeing if we could literally cut off the

breather and move it to like turn it to another position

and welded it back in place. And we think we had a we pretty

much came up with a good idea on how to do that. But then we're

like, okay, well, let's just leave the breath. Let's let's

take the extra inch about an inch and a half that I could

get up. Let's take the clutch slave off. Let's pretend that

it's, you know, we have that extra space. And then let's

start articulating it setting up the bump stops and

everything. So I was talking to Brian. Brian actually gave me

a call perfect timing like a day before we were meeting. And he

said what the way that he normally sets it up is that he

puts the vehicles, the axle at full compression on both

sides. Like if you were to hit a bump, going high speed, you

set that. So you set up full compression on both sides. And

then that's where he sets the bump stop. Okay, right? At

when the bump stops fully compressed, right? So full

compression, you're doing that. But then he leaves two ish

inches, two plus inch inches on the shock shaft. Okay, when it's

in that position, a big sense. So that when it will be bottomed

out on the bump, but it can still use the bump to articulate

around and articulate the one side, the high side will be

compressing up more and it will compress into that shock. Okay,

so we set the bump cans and everything we took some of the

nitrogen out, or the air out of two cans fully compressed

set it all up, tacked it, I tacked it to a frame brace plate,

and then I was able to clamp the frame, brace plate to the

frame, and that held everything into place. And then put the

can in, set it up at full bump, and then set the bump stop in

and everything and then tacked all that together. And then

we started articulating it. And I think where we're at, I

think, really, what needs to happen is I need to put the shocks

on now to see how far down I'm going to get or how far up because

I can now start playing with the position of the shock at the

top of the shock to see how where it's going to sit, you

know, if if I'm at full compression, and I have two

inches of shock shaft showing that more or less tells me

where the top of the shock is going to be. Yeah. So now

it's a question of how much droop am I going to get?

Yep. And I think I'm going to be slightly limited on droop. And

that's going to deter change where I'm going to mount how high I'm

going to mount those shocks. Okay. And that's going to change

how where the bump stops it. Yep. And that's going to limit

how much up travel I get, which is still now saying I

actually don't need a new clutch slave. So all these

things kind of are leading back to I don't need to change

that. Okay. So right now we're we're not doing anything with

the clutch slave. And I'm at the point where I need to start

mounting the shocks to actually articulate things to see how it

goes because I might not when I start having issues with things

getting really close. I might be out of my to too far

drift than what shocks I have available. Okay. So I'm I need to

mount the shock so I could actually start cycling and start

setting that up. So that's the project this week is to really

try to mount that upper shock or figure out a way to do that. I

need to go get tabs and try to do that. But both husband and I

have a short window that we can work on this Thursday. So I'm

not sure how far we're going to get. Okay. So but that's the

point we're at we put the bump stops on and really what I

need to do is start mounting the the front shocks. Also on the

flip side on the back, we're at the point where I can start

mounting the bump stops and the shocks as well. I also could put

the third member in and start measuring once I figure out the

shocks movements and everything there I can start measuring

for the drive shaft to be made. Yep. And then for the most

part I can start fully assembling the rear axle.

Okay. And but I don't want to do it too much before I do

the articulation because it's just going to get heavier. Yeah.

And so I want to I want to be able to man handle that thing. So I

don't want to put all the brakes and every all the axle shafts

and third member and everything in yet make sense. Yep. So yeah,

so that's that's where we're at. We also talked about building

sort of the rear bumper so that I can cut another cross

member out. So the rear bumper will allow me it'll act as

another cross member. Okay. And then because it'll be

fully welded in and everything. And then I can cut a cross

member out that's behind the rear axle. So then I can start

thinking about how to mount the gas tank. Okay. And everything

else. So there's, there's a whole bunch of stuff that needs

to get done. I'm always focused on the front three link

because it's sort of the most complicated. But you know, if

I could find more time to be in the shop, there's a whole

bunch of stuff that I need to get done with. So yeah, so

that's sort of the Samantha update. It's coming along probably

next week. I'll be putting shocks on it. I don't think I'll get

to it in this time. So okay. Yeah, let's see. So besides that, I

wanted to talk about Harvest host for a second. Okay. Harvest

host is an interesting website. I talked about it a while

ago and I think I forgot what the name is the camping

thing. It is a camping thing. So we went we were gonna go

camping this weekend. We're gonna since we didn't have the

mini assistant, we were gonna go out wine tasting because we

were running low in wine in our wine fridge. And we had

pickups that needed to happen. And one of the wineries that

were a member of Shadow Ranch was doing an Easter day event.

Okay. And so we're like, perfect. It's all sort of

aligning. Yeah. So we've been waiting to sign up for

Harvest host because you sign up. It's like $85 for a

year. Okay. And it starts when you sign up. Okay.

Right. And so we're like, well, no need to sign up if we're

not going camping. Yeah. So it's a really cool program. I don't

know all the rules and regulations or anything. But more

or less, there's like, I don't know, there's thousands of

places across the country that are wineries, KOAs, camp

grounds, or like random, like places of business that chart

that you can go camping at. So like the past few years, we've

gone up and we've just found, we used, oh man, what's the name

of the other company that we used? HIPCamp. HIPCamp. We've

used HIPCamp. And we went camping last November at another

winery and it cost $80 to camp at their winery. And this

costs $85 for the year. Yeah. And all your camping is free.

Oh, that's nice. Okay. One time fee. And then everywhere

you go, depending on the tier, you can pay more for more

accessibility of options. But everything that we're sort of

interested in is $85. And then all your camping that you do

for that year under this program is free. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. Super neat. So we were like two camping times and it's

paid for itself. So we're like, this is awesome. So the

assistant went to go register. And unfortunately, we do not meet

the qualifications. Interesting. Yeah, what are the

qualifications? The qualifications are you need a

gray water tank. Okay. And you need an enclosed kitchen. Yeah.

Okay. And so if you're tent camping, you can't do it. You

just, you, I guess you don't count. Yeah, I don't, this is

primarily, I think, for RVs and campers, camp trailers of

some sort. Interesting. Yeah. So we're kind of bummed about

that. What if you put up, we thought about putting up an

awning. Like an awning of be on sides with walls and walls

around it. But we still don't have a gray water tank. But it

wouldn't be hard for us to add a gray water tank if that

would all count. But the way our teardrop trailer works is

you open the back hatch and there's the kitchen and

you're standing outside. And so it would be a gray area,

right? Yeah, we pulled that off. And normally what we do is we

put a little like one or two gallon bucket underneath the

trailer to collect whatever water goes down the sink. And then

we go find a bush and dump that water into the bush or

whatever. We just don't let it go all throughout the ground.

So yeah, we're kind of bummed about that. But I still

wanted to share. Harvest host, thank you. Because it's a

interesting idea. And if you have a trailer, this is a great

way for you to get around or a lance or a lance, a lance would

totally count. Or something like that. An RV, a lance, you

know, a trailer of some sort. This is a great option for you.

And a lot of places are on there that you wouldn't

realize are there. Yeah, which is kind of neat. And

up where in the fair play or amateur area, they're all

over the place. Almost all the wineries allow you to go camping

at their location to check that out then. Because I mean, with

the lance, it makes perfect sense. Oh, yeah. And we could just

go and hang out on a winery and go camping and do wine tasting

everything too. Okay. Yeah, I'm in. I'm interested. Yeah, it's

really cool. And it's a I mean, it's a great alternative

cheaper route. And you get to camp at some cool spots.

Could you go if you were with us? I don't think so.

Really? I mean, I think, I don't know. I think yo, we'd

have to count for two spots, but okay. Yeah, I don't I don't

know. All right. I thought about inviting you guys up with

us this trip, but we were like, Oh, it's Easter. They're

doing probably things and stuff, but it would be cool to

do a little Easter egg hunt out at a winery though.

They did an Easter egg hunt at the wineries we spent the

night at. Yeah. Yeah. So the night before so the mini

assistant on midday or Friday went with her dad. Okay.

Friday night, we did a double date with my brother and his

wife and my are us. And we went out to Minescape, which is a

brewery slash kombucha spot. Okay. And they make hard

ciders and kombucha ciders and they make some fantastic

pickles because they're all into fermentation and stuff

like that. So we had a few snacks. We drank a little

bit. We had a I had a flight. And then I had a beer of

some, um, a bloody beer, which was pretty good. Okay. As tomato

juice and stuff in it. Gotcha. Yeah. And, um, instead of a

bloody Mary, it was a bloody beer. Okay. And then we went

back to our house and, um, we had some whiskey the next

morning. Um, we were had us, we were supposed to, you know,

wake up and go take a lazy morning and we were going

to head up to go up to the wineries and I was so hung

over. I don't know. I must not have ate very well

that day or dinner didn't get passed through me too quick

or whatever. Or I drank a ton of whiskey. I don't know what

it was, but I was down. I was not feeling good. Um, I was

getting those like cold sweats to the burning up sensation. I

stayed in bed until like noon. I don't know. Like I was, I

was in bad shape, but I had to rally because the

assistant was feeling good and she wanted to go wine

tasting and we needed to get the trailer prepped and do

all this stuff. And then she doesn't know how to drive

with the trailer yet, but that's going to be solved

because if I'm feeling sick again, she's going to have to

drive. Yep. So, um, and, uh, so I drove up there. We went

to a Polynesian girl. I had like half of a sip of

wine and just was like, I can't do this. I'm not

feeling great. Um, but the owner's husband of Polynesian

girl, I think he works for like Jopper Nick, the

car, like review company. Jalopnik. Jalopnik. Yeah. Okay. And

he's, so we were talking cars and fancy cars and he was

saying he got one out to the Sonoma Raceway the other

day and they did, we're doing a Porsche like GT3 race and

he was like jumping in with people and showing his

photos of cars he's reviewed. And I was like, dude, this

is rad. Um, and I was like, I like cars, but I

like trucks better. Um, and so we, uh, but we talked

about like you can still talk shop, you know, with

anybody that's a gearhead. So, uh, we had a good time

chatting with him a little bit, sort of woke me up,

sort of got me out of the funk. Maybe it was a little

bit of wine started getting me things going again. Um, and

then we went to Perry Creek. Okay. Perry Creek's one

stop below, um, Wind Walk, Wind Waker, Walker, whatever

it is. Yeah. Um, and we spent the night at Perry

Creek. They, theirs was a great deal. It was $50

camping. It includes firewood for the fire pit and a

free tasting of wine. Oh, sweet. Yeah. So I think we

found our spot. Okay. Like that was a pretty

fantastic little deal. Um, that we had there. Perry

Creek's interesting. They, uh, went under new

management and then the management like couldn't

pay the bills. And now the original owner's family

bought the winery back or something funny and

they're sort of have to change the name. They're

changing it to like Zen man. Okay. Um, because the guy

that bought the rights for everything, it was not

willing to release the rights for everything once

they bought it back or something funky like that.

So, uh, there, yeah, so they're having to change

the name, but it was a great spot. It was a

beautiful camping situation. Um, big grassy field,

fire pit, um, personal garbage, personal picnic

table. Uh, they would give you connections if you

need it, but we're like, we don't need any

connections. Um, it was rad. It was a, uh, there

was another couple that was camping there too. Um,

in the sort of like a super small RV, but bigger

than a Sprinter van. Okay. Um, and then they

signed up for this like, I don't know what you

would want to call it. I want to, I'm going

to call it the screaming tank, but it was

something else. Uh-huh. They had a very nice

name for it, but more or less, they have

these two humongous stainless steel drunt

like tanks that are too big for any wine

facility in that sort of area. And they use

them as like this meditation, um, like slash, I

don't know, like or a centering thing and you

go inside the tank and you do hums or screams

or noise of some sort. And supposedly, um,

stainless vibrates the exact frequency that

you release. Interesting. And so whatever

you put out there, it's bouncing right back

at you. And it's sort of supposedly

centering in your body of hearing your

own self talk or your own self make a

noise or whatever. I don't know all that

stuff, but it was very odd. I'm glad they

told us that somebody was doing this

because while we're at camp, we heard

somebody screaming. That's a good heads

up. We know what's going on because

this would be very weird to hear somebody

screaming. Um, and then after the fact, um,

that evening, what they, the couple came

down and we talked them for a little bit

and they're like, we signed up for the

hot tub and we're like, okay, cool. I

didn't, I didn't know that was an option.

So Perry Creek has a great camping

spot. Their wine is good. And they

have all these like add ons that you

can do where they pulled out like a

huge wine, a great bin and they fill

it with a bunch of hot water and then

they put like seats and stuff on the

inside of it. And then they said

they wrapped it with sheets. So it

was totally enclosed. You're in there

by yourself. Um, and then they had

like a bell or something that if you

needed some help or whatever they

would contact, you can contact them.

And then they just pulled at this

huge bin and filled it up with hot

water. And now you have this hot

tub. Okay. So they were, they said

that was a great experience and they

really enjoyed that. And they would

do that again if they came out in

this area. They were a cool couple

that apparently they had a trailer

sort of similar to ours, a little

bigger. And they said they, in the

last few years, they went out and in

took trips a hundred times in that

little trailer. Wow. Over the last

few years. They and they run

ultra marathons and so they go

places, crazy people, camp a bunch

and then go run a race and then

go back home and do their job. So

yeah, crazy, crazy life. But cool.

They were really nice. They were

like, we're not the type of people

that like are into your chi or

your contra contra contra, whatever

you're like, you know, body centering

stuff. But that was a very

interesting and fun experience.

And I was like, okay, cool. All

right. So that was neat.

Slept great that night. The weather

was perfect. Fire was great. Put

off some good heat. We were both

pretty tired from being slightly, I

was hungover. She was slightly hung

over. So we went to bed at like

nine. A little after dark, you

know, had a lazy morning after we

woke up. The family came back and

they did an Easter egg hunt for

their kids and everything on the

property. And we went and tried to

do a hike, but kind of got stopped

in every direction we went. We

had, there's like a the

Cosumnes River is right up in that

area. And so we're like, well, let's

go down to the Cosumnes River.

There's a big parking area there.

So we started to walk up river and

is almost as soon as we left the

car practically, there was a huge

no trespassing, private property

do not come up here. Cops will

be called blah, blah, blah. So we're

like, okay, let's go downstream. And

we walked downstream, maybe 100

yards in there was a, it didn't say

no trespassing, but it said no

mining. Like this is a private

mining, gold mining claim. You're

not allowed to do that. My any

mining down there. So we walked

down and got to the end of the

trail. And it ended like down at

the river and we're like, okay, I

guess that's it. Okay. So then we

hiked up and there was actually an

off-road road that shot out and we

saw it like, well, we're only at

like 0.8 miles. You know, let's

hike up this road. And so we hiked

up the road a few hundred yards

and then there was a no trespassing

sign again. And we're like, okay, we

got back to the car and it was like

a 1.2 mile hike, but it was

still something. So then we ended

up going to Shadow Ranch. We did

a wine tasting there. They had a

grilled cheese event, which was

fantastic. The assistant got some

like jalapeno, strawberry, jelly,

grilled cheese with basil and stuff

inside of it. And I got their

ham and cheese grilled cheese, which

was all of them. You could just

tell that they threw a lot of

butter on the bread before they

made the grilled cheese. Yeah, that

just is the sign of perfection.

That's like, yes, chef's kiss or

whatever. So good. Also, they had

some Cadbury eggs because it was

Easter, small, little milk

chocolate ones. And they were

pairing those with some of the

wines. So that was pretty fun. We

ended up going out to go to

Plain Air. Okay. But they were

closed. We're like, oh, which was

really big of a bummer. It would

have been nice if there was a

sign for their out, or maybe

there was and we didn't see it,

but I drove all the way into the

gate and then the gate was

closed. And I was like, oh, I

had to reverse the trailer all

the way back out to the road,

which isn't too hard. But at

first, I was like, here's a

driveway and I started to back

into the driveway. And I was

like, oh, I don't think that

driveway is deep enough for me to

get the truck and trailer for me

to turn around. So I had to pull

back forward to realign the

trailer again and back continue

all the way out. But we ended

up going down into, I don't

know if it's Murphy's Plymouth,

maybe it's Plymouth. Plymouth

would be more. Yeah. So I think

we went down to Plymouth and

there's a winery called like

and and this and this. Okay.

It has a brand new tasting room

really big. I've been there

before, but it's like sort of

posh, you know, and we're kind

of like, we've been there. We're

not into, we don't want to go

there necessarily again. But and

we were going to go to Amador

Sellers. They were closed. Then

we tried rainquests. They were

closed. But across, so we

passed this and this place.

And on the other side, there

was another winery call started

with a C. It was open. And

we're like, well, we've

already been there. We

haven't been there. Let's go

there. Okay. So we pulled in

there and we walked into the

tasting room and the ladies

were like looking at their

watch. And it was like 330.

Right? Okay. And we're like,

are you guys closing soon?

Because it's a holiday and

they're like, we're closing at

four. And I was like, can we

just stand at the bar and do

a quick taste? And they're

like, totally. We're like,

okay, cool. And it was an

Italian spot. They had a

bunch of San Giovese

different types of San

Gioveses from a white

San Giovese, which I've

never really even seen. So

they don't, I knew this, but

I was kind of like asking the

lady behind the counter. I'm

like, well, how do you do the

white version of this? And

they're like, well, we just

don't put it at the skins in.

I was like, yeah, okay, it is

that simple. And so it's

sort of a process where they

have to pull them the mushy

part of the grape out and

not and separate that from the

skin. And then they make

the wine with the mushy

parts skin separated and they

get a white version.

Was it called San Gio Blanco?

Yes, I believe so. Okay. So

that's the place that's in

Murphy's. They have a tasting

room in Murphy's. Okay. And

they're right above the spice

shop spice tin and spice tin.

Yeah. So that's one of my

favorite wines is San Gio Blanco

from that place. I forget the

name of the winery, but I've

only ever found one place that

does a white San Gio. Yeah,

it's called San Gio Blanco.

I want to say it's Contattis,

but it's not. That's not it.

But it's something like that.

They kept saying, oh, our

Qianti, our Qianti, Qianti, and

I kept looking at their list

and they didn't have a Qianti.

And so when we went to settle

at the end, I ended up

getting two San Gio Vasis.

One of them was like their

like really high end one,

which was fantastic.

There also is like, they

were talking about how it's

the process that they go through

to make that one. It can be

aged a really long time.

And so when it came home,

I put 20, 30 on the bottle

and we put it away.

So that's not a really long

time for wine, but it's one

that I want to age to see

what it will do.

But when I checked out, I was

like, I want a Qianti.

And they're like, oh, we only

give those to club members.

Like what? Like why are you

teasing me like this?

So we got onto their mailing

list because we really like

their wines.

And so we're going to end up

probably going back at one of

the events or something.

And we'll just see if we like

it again.

And maybe we'll sign up down

there for another winery.

So yeah, that was pretty

much my weekend

in a nutshell.

It was good. We got the

assistant back.

Whenever we get the assistant

back, she's always on like

way too much sugar or

whatever. So it takes a long

time to come back to

reality.

I think it's one of those

like when you were with

weekend dad.

Yeah, there's no rules.

And then when you come back

to reality

and having responsibilities,

it's always a hard thing to

change your mindset.

we always had to prepare ourselves

for that. But the assistant

and many assistant didn't have

school on Monday.

So she was with her dad

through Monday.

And we got her back.

And then.

Yeah, Monday was pretty low

key just because everybody

around me had the day off.

And I kind of took the day

off as well.

And I spent a lot of time

playing with AI.

OK, yeah.

Is that why you were just now?

I was like the name of that

tasting room. It's Boyle

MacDonald.

That does Sandra Blanco.

That wasn't where I was at.

OK. Yeah.

It was a different one.

So do we want to dive

a little into AI?

No, I don't think on this

episode that we can hold off.

Yeah. Sure.

I'll just we'll just say that

CJ has got us now on the

cloud code.

Yeah. And the cloud code is

a really interesting platform.

And we have been

really diving deep into this AI

stuff.

And it's

it can't like it's

amazing. It's eyeopening what

the world of AI

can actually do for a business.

Yeah.

And especially multiple businesses.

Yes.

So absolutely.

Because I'm in a way, I'm

running three businesses.

Right. Because I have Snail

Trail four by four, the podcast,

the YouTube channel, things that

primarily podcast now

and the blog and stuff like that.

I'm running Snail Armour, right?

The tailgate panels.

And I occasionally

have a graphic design gig,

which is technically I still have

another business or I still run

that business. I think that

business has been in.

I started in like twenty

twenty.

No, excuse me, like two thousand

two.

So I mean, it's like a twenty

something year old business.

Yeah.

But I only like, I think I made

six hundred dollars on the business

last year. Yeah.

But it's really interesting

to see what AI can start doing for

multiple businesses and how

you can sort of create entities

and ideas that work for

multiple businesses.

It's pretty wild.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I mean,

I've got more flight,

my offer to radio,

the podcast, the work on

the podcast.

I've got NorCal four by four

rescue.

I've got my rental unit.

Yeah.

And there was one or two other

things in there. I haven't even

dove into personal

side of personal stuff, too, is I

haven't put my personal stuff in

there yet either. But I would

love to get to the point where I

could literally. So my

we're diving in a little bit.

But yeah, my

head person, persona,

I named him Alfred.

OK, like the batman.

Yep.

I want to get to the point where I

can literally hit the mic button and

go, hey, Alfred.

Like, make a note of this or like

start looking into this or let's

let's do the X, Y or Z.

Yep.

And I think once I get to that

point, because I would love to dump

of just a bit, like go on a walk

around my neighborhood and just

verbal dump into him.

Yeah. And he had to sort

out my life in a way.

Yep. I think that'd be it could

be really interesting right now,

too. And that's kind of what I'm

getting to as well.

The nice thing about using Claude

is that there's native APIs.

Claude knows how to use APIs for

stuff.

And so you can you can hook Claude

into Microsoft Office.

You can hook it into one year one

drive, your teams, your email, your

outlook, your Google or anything

that has an API access.

Yep.

Claude can hook into and once it

can hook into it, then it can

then, according to the permissions,

you give it run,

do things as if it was a human

being.

Yep. So

think of it the way I'm

envisioning it right now in the

end, once everything is set up,

and it's taking time to set it

up. Oh yeah.

Because it's it has to be

custom made to what

you need it for.

Yep.

But I'm envisioning it a lot

Friday or

Tony Stark, Iron Man's

A.I. bought

a virtual assistant thing.

Yeah, I don't know.

The latest one is Friday because

the original one got turned into

one of the Avengers.

but yeah, that's kind of how I'm

envisioning it all

essentially eventually working.

Yeah. Because you can

you can hook it up to multiple

devices and have Claude all

run off a server back

at home, but access it via

your cell phone or whatever

other devices you're on.

So yeah, it's super neat.

We we literally could do a

whole episode on all the crazy

stuff we've been doing.

Multiple episodes and maybe we'll

do it on the other podcast.

But we'll have to rope CJ

and because he was the one that

really got us started.

He's the sort of the brainchild

of a lot of this and we're

semi following in his footsteps

maybe got like venturing

out on our own trails now.

But it's it's

this world is becoming

very interesting and I do see

how I could eventually take

over a 1000 percent.

It's scary for sure.

Yes.

With that said, if

you have any questions in regards

to code or AI,

don't ask us.

No, we are not professionals.

We know how to get our way

through it. We know how to get

ourselves into trouble.

But a good place to ask some

questions, if you're interested,

would be the discord.

The link to the discord is in

the show notes.

So you can just click that and

it'll take you on over to the

discord and you can sign up

there. You can always get a

hold of us on Instagram.

I'm over at snail trail four by

four. Tyler's over at four by

four. Toyota Tyler, you can

email us Jimmy or Tyler at

snail trail four by four dot com

or you can phone in and be a

part of our snail mail episodes,

which is one of our favorite

times of the week.

And that number is nine one six

three four five four seven

four four.

I like it a lot.

Yeah, that's about does it.

Maybe we'll

I don't know. I would love to

dive in further and get CJ

on a microphone and just

talk about

AI stuff and programming

and ways to help make

your life more efficient and

organized for people that have

kind of crazy lives.

Yeah.

I don't know if that's something

you guys are interested in us.

Now we could do a separate

episode and not have it be

like a snail trail numbered

episodes. You guys can skip it

if you want to. But I

don't know. I think it's it's

I'm definitely fascinated by it

all.

I don't know if anybody else

out there is so.

Jimmy, any final words for

everybody out there today?

The assistant and I ran

on this camping trip ran

around the trailer and wrote

down a laundry list

of to-do items

on it.

So that project,

especially now that summer

or spring and summer is coming

up, might be something

on my to-do list that's more

slightly more of a priority

than Samantha. Unfortunately,

just because the assistant is

into it.

And not so much into Samantha

because she doesn't get to

ride in Samantha yet.

Yeah.

But I'm going to do my best to

continue on Samantha

and then maybe tinker on the

trailer in the meantime.

Cool. Yeah.

I like it. And with that, my

friends, keep crawling.

I got one for you.

OK.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's let's see if

I can remember this.

So there's this.

There's a massive

debate and a question on

what is the best drink

out there?

OK.

So it is and

a water category

or are we looking like all the

above?

OK.

So which I always thought was

kind of funny because the

winner was coffee.

Simply lemonade.

Oh, yeah.

OK.

Simply lemonade.

The winner was coffee.

OK. And I was kind of like,

well, that's still a vague

term, right?

But it's a category,

I guess. Yeah.

And so.

But it's still up for a little

bit of debate because there's

still a lot of absentees

out there.

The ballots absentee ballots.

Yeah.

About coffee, the absentee.

Absentee.

Oh, like tea, the drink teas.

Yeah. All right.

What are those?

Yeah, I'm confused.

Well, people didn't vote.

There's a lot of absentee

that that didn't vote.

I get it. OK.

Yeah.

No, I'm not impressed.

No.

Well, that's because the dude from

Southern California took them all.

Yeah, right.

Sorry. Let's do an actual one that

I didn't try to remember.

What happens when it rains

cats and dogs?

I don't know.

Everything that's paused.

You need to watch your step

because you might step in a poodle.

Yeah.

That's very that's very that's

better than the absentee one.

I agree.

Yeah.

About this episode

Group buy details kick things off: a DeVos Light Ranger 500 discount tiered by signups (10/20/30+ buyers) running until April 30, plus a giveaway winner and how to enter gift box tiers. The hosts also hype their new Discord community and a treasure-hunt token update. Weekend stories range from a kid’s RC car battery mishap and a brutal container-unloading migraine, to Easter camping/wine tasting. Big wrenching news: the Mule is headed to a fabricator for Trail Hero X prep, while Samantha’s front suspension/shock setup continues. AI and tool talk round it out.

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Original notes

It was Easter weekend, and Tyler spent some time with the family, teaching Baby Reid how to do an egg hunt. Jimmy, even though he was hungover, went wine tasting and camping with the Assistant. But, maybe the biggest update is with the 4Runner, formerly called the Mule.

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