I Speak Jeep Apr 1, 2026

Jeep Sorting House

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four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive means the car can send power to all four wheels. That helps it grip better when the ground is slippery or uneven, like off-road trails.

Brand

Jeep

Jeep is a car brand that’s famous for off-roading. This podcast is all about Jeeps—how to keep them running and how to set them up for trails.

Term

drill press

A drill press is a machine that holds a drill and lets you drill holes very straight. In this segment, they’re saying they’re using it in a creative way to do other metalworking tasks.

Concept

freight

“Freight” just means the cargo being shipped, like parts or equipment. The speaker’s main issue is that the shipment wasn’t where it was supposed to be and they couldn’t get updates.

Company

T-Force

T-Force is the shipping company moving the freight. The host is upset because they couldn’t get a clear update on where the shipment was.

Company

Dana Spicer Corporation

Dana Spicer is a company that makes parts for the drivetrain—especially axles and related components. When it’s mentioned, it usually means the Jeep has specific axle/differential hardware from Dana.

Term

6.4 liter Hemi

The “6.4 liter Hemi” is a V8 engine. It’s known for making strong power, which helps a Jeep move confidently on tough trails.

Part

72 inch wide

“72 inch wide” is how wide the axle/tire setup is. A wider stance can help the Jeep feel more stable and give more room for off-road tires.

Term

axles

Axles are what connect the drivetrain to the wheels. When you go bigger on tires and drive harder off-road, stronger axles help prevent failures.

Term

40 and 42 inch tall tire

They’re talking about very huge tires (40–42 inches tall). Bigger tires need more room and the Jeep has to be set up carefully so they can turn and flex without hitting anything.

Term

flex

“Flex” is how much the suspension can move so the wheels can follow bumps and dips. More flex usually means better grip on rough trails.

Term

wrap

A “wrap” is a vinyl (or similar) covering applied over the vehicle’s paint for color change, branding, or protection. Wraps can be swapped out as the owner’s style or sponsorships change.

Concept

angles of gussets

Gussets are little reinforcement pieces that help a metal frame stay strong where parts connect. The angle you weld them at can change how well the frame resists bending and twisting.

Concept

tube chassis

A tube chassis is a custom frame made from steel tubes, usually built by hand. Off-road builders like it because it can be made strong and shaped for the way they want the vehicle to work.

Company

CAD drawings

CAD drawings are digital blueprints made with computer software. When a shop shows them, it usually means they’re being precise about how parts will fit and work together.

Concept

rock crawling

Rock crawling is off-roading where you drive slowly over rocks and obstacles. The goal is to keep traction and get through tricky spots without spinning the tires.

Term

beat that dead horse

It’s an expression meaning “stop bringing it up”—you’re talking about the same thing over and over. Here, they’re joking about repeating the same Jeep problem story.

Concept

Moab

Moab is a well-known off-roading area in Utah. People go there to see how capable their Jeep really is on tough trails.

Concept

bone stock

“Bone stock” means the Jeep is basically exactly how it came from the factory. The point here is that the Rubicon can handle the trail without upgrades.

Concept

Forums are online communities where enthusiasts share knowledge, troubleshoot problems, and trade recommendations. In older Jeep and off-road circles, forums were a major way to learn about builds, parts compatibility, and common issues.

Concept

trail riding

Trail riding means driving off-road on dirt or rough paths. Instead of going fast, you focus on traction and getting through obstacles safely.

Concept

two track trails

Two-track trails are dirt paths with two worn lines/ruts. Your tires often stay in those ruts, which can make it harder to stay balanced and keep grip.

Concept

creek bed

A creek bed is the channel where water runs. Off-road, it can be rough and slippery, and getting out of it can be harder than it looks.

Concept

sand

Sand is a tricky off-road surface because tires can sink and lose grip. People often change how they drive (and sometimes tire pressure) to keep from getting stuck.

Concept

fording

Fording means driving through water on purpose, like a stream crossing. You have to be careful about how deep you go and how water might get into the engine or other sensitive parts.

Term

suspension order

A “suspension order” is when someone orders the parts that change how the Jeep rides and handles. If those parts don’t arrive on time, the Jeep can’t be finished.

Term

SD card

An SD card is like a small storage chip for devices. If the recorder doesn’t have one inserted, it can’t save what it’s trying to record.

Concept

engine swap

An engine swap means putting a different engine into a vehicle. It’s not just “bolt it in”—you usually have to deal with mounts, wiring, and other parts, so it can get expensive and complicated.

Concept

V8

A “V8” is an engine with eight cylinders. People mention it a lot because it usually means stronger acceleration and a different sound than smaller engines.

Term

scrap yard

A scrap yard is a place that takes old cars and breaks them down. You can sometimes find parts there for much less than buying new.

Term

extension cord

An extension cord is just a longer cable so you can plug in a tool farther away. It’s important to use one that’s meant for tools so it doesn’t overheat.

Part

welding

Welding is how you permanently join metal pieces together. It’s common in car repairs and custom fabrication, and it has to be done well so the car is strong and the surface can be finished.

Concept

daily driver

A “daily driver” is a vehicle intended to be used regularly for everyday commuting and errands. In a sale context, it often affects how the buyer evaluates condition, reliability, and whether the car can handle frequent use.

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Good morning, afternoon, evening, wherever, however

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If you are ready for me to fall out, crash out

And have a general tirade about the Shenanigans

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Today is gonna be the day

Despite the fact that we are supposed to be having

A lighthearted, fun start and conversation

Not quite a game, but sort of

But boy oh boy am I, my hair is on fire

And I'm just to give you a preview of the weekend updates

Glasses are half full everywhere

Half full or half empty

It could be worse

But it's not great

You're gonna hear about that today

And I'm especially fired up because

A freight delivery that we've been waiting on for

Weeks, weeks finally showed up

At least they show up during the podcast

So you know, literally that's exactly what is going on

In this world right now

It showed up just enough time

Two weeks late and right at the beginning of the podcast

Just enough to fire me up

But we're still able to do the podcast

Duck on water because we're reasonably going on air at time

We're gonna have a nice time with our listeners

Folks who are listening at home

And their ear holes at a later date

We appreciate you being part of this

This is the week before our Easter holiday

Likewise, we have a very big announcement

To be made coming out in the next couple days

So stay tuned to our social media pages

That will get released very soon

If you are a listener at home

You might want to find yourself

Following along on our Insta and Facebook page

Additionally, we're going to kind of

Wean off our availability

Obviously we know Jeff is

Enterprising in the bar restaurant industry now

I'm going to be going out of town for the holiday

The guys are madly working behind the scenes

To turn out Jeeps

So we've got a lot of stuff going on in that regard

So if you call and you don't get an answer

It's not us

You know, we're just a little busy

And trying to adapt

Totsma goats, man

Totsma goats

What I heard was he was going to say

It's not us, it's Jeff

But then you've got to

It is Jeff

It is Jeff Fault

Let's be honest

It is Jeff Fault

Per the use

And if you are aware

Jeff is in studio with us

So that's very exciting

Now

Joined in Grandma's couch studio

My name is Neil with SFJ 4x4

And you gentlemen are here

The maddest mad scientist

That really means a lot this week

Yeah

You've had a week

And it's only Monday

So it's going to be a good one

And then obviously myself, Jeff

The producer

The producer came in this morning

Appreciate you making the stop in

I rolled in to see you unloading Jeeps

So I'm like that's about part of the course

Yeah, I mean

And that's a quirky situation

And I suppose it would be

Could be part of the weekend update

But being that we have a strong hold

Specifically in the Pittsburgh

And Cleveland epicenters of sorts

One of the things that I

Am oftentimes asked about

Is opening up a second location

Or multiple locations

And I'm just kind of fervently

Against that

Because I believe that the people

Who are here within this business

Who have been involved for

Literally decades at this point

Are the lifeblood of the business

They are what uniquely makes us

While all the mantras that we've

Kind of made fun of that I share

And the processes that we've established

And all that kind of stuff

Makes a successful business

What makes us unique in what we do

As the people

So with that said

We do have the capacity to

Transport vehicles

And I thought

I've been toying with this idea of

Pickups and drop offs in Cleveland

Or Pittsburgh or Columbus or wherever

And most recently we did

What I like to refer to as a road day

And did a big urban jump

Around the Pittsburgh area

Ended up dropping off Jeeps

And bringing Jeeps back with me

Making a route from Western PA

Through Eastern Ohio back up to the shop

And was appropriately unloading

The last of them today

So that kind of brings us up to speed

Of what you found me there

And then the whole missing freight

Which was quite literally missing

I have been calling

I have been

I got so mad at the manufacturer

For choosing this freight company

It was T-Force, by the way

I got no problem throwing them under the bus

It was T-Force

Won't use them again

Totally trash them

Because I just wanted a customer service callback

Just tell me where my freight is

You checked it in to Erie, Pennsylvania

Over a week ago

Tell me where it's at

But they wouldn't even give us a callback

That drove me nuts

You could have called me

I drive to Erie every day

I just loaded on the back of the truck

That's what I'm saying

I would have absolutely

If it was sitting on a crosstalk somewhere

I would have gone and picked it up

But I'm sure they had no idea where it was

It was probably buried on a trailer

And this very nice driver told me

That they had a driver

Who called off sick for three days in a row

And they once were a city hub route

That had employed 13 drivers

And now they employ five

And one of them most recently was off

For three plus days at the end of the week

I get it

We understand

And I told him

I'm not mad at him

I get it

But corporately

They let us down by lacking communication

So in the comments this morning

We've got Daddy Jeep saying morning

Joe O'Brien morning

Mitch Hunt morning

Billy Joe

Good morning

Juggah Jeepers good morning

Joe saying Nate is late

That is true

John Miller

How's it going guys

Billy Joe

Hope everyone has a happy Easter weekend

And another good morning also

Good morning

Daddy Jeep was first this morning

But also just as a quick reminder

Next week is Easter Monday

And we will not be having an episode

That is correct

And good morning to everybody

I'm not sure where Nate's at

But somebody was able to snipe him

Because of his laxadaisical approach

Tardiness

And you know

Those of you who are listening at a later day

In your ear holes

Feel free to join us

Most Mondays at 10.19 a.m.

And you two can jump in the comments

And share and meet and greet

You know other people

And you know

Have a cool time hanging out

With other good Jeepers

Now I do have

Before we get into our

Harry Potter

Sorting conversation

Inspired so we're not sued

Inspired by

I am going to attempt

Hopefully we can hear this appropriately

I would know and I would hook Chip to the board

I know

Good morning

You are on air

You're on air

I'm holding my phone up to the microphone

At the moment

He's driving our producer

That's what you're saying

We're going old school

So for everybody who's listening

This is Zach Heisley of both

Can I put both companies out there

Is that okay?

Let's just call Dana Spicer Corporation

There we go

Dana Spicer Corporation

And Zach is live from Easter Jeep Safari

And I figured

We are here at the

Our first day of Easter Jeep Safari

And we are rolling to the trailhead

We're going to do Rose Garden Hill today

We're rolling three Jeeps deep

We got Ginger

Our 2014 JKU

That's on

Kingpin Dana 60 front

And a 40s blind Dana 80 in the rear

Some 40 inch tall midos

And powered by a 6.4 liter

Hemi

And we got the Hellcat Jeep

Which is a JLU

That's got 60s front and rear

With a high pinion 60 in the rear

A little prototype action there for you

That's on 40s also

With the Hellcat under the hood

And then we have Dozer

Which is our white JT

That's got our new 72 inch wide

Version of our Ultimate Axle

So it's got an Ultimate Dana 60 in the front

And a 40s blind Dana 80 in the rear

Both at 72 WMS

Instead of the traditional 69

So that's what we're rolling with today

And that's the one you and I were checking out

And then on Friday you were cruising around in the buggy

So you guys left the buggy home today?

Yep, yeah we left the buggy in the garage today

We'll pull that out and have some fun with that

Later on this evening and later on in the week

And you know, you and I have been chatting for years

You know, and I always like to tell people

I live vicariously through the Jeep community and what not

Can you tell us, you know, and for our listeners

And we've got a pretty good audience there

You know, why does Dana Spicer make it such a priority

To do research and development

And then participate in Easter Jeep Safari?

Well, I mean these are our people out here man

I mean this is who we are

And we're a dedicated group of actual enthusiasts

That just also happen to be engineers and photographers

And marketing folks and sales guys

We live free that eat this stuff

So we, any chance we get to come out to the beauty

That is, oh I bet you thought we're gonna do it

And you know, it's more, you know, showing people

How all of our stuff works

Because long before we ever put it in a vehicle

And bring it out here

We've already done a complete battery of testing

At our, you know, multi-million dollar test facility

There in Malmy, Ohio

So everything goes through a full original equipment level

Validation before we ever hit the road

Which is something that literally nobody else in the industry does

Besides us

So, you know, we know that it's gonna work

Now it's just a matter of getting out here

And showing people how well it works

Agreed, I mean that's why we almost exclusively use

You know, Ultimate Series axles and all of our builds

While there are other, you know, reputable axle builders

Out there

Like you said, your guy's ability to

Put your money where your mouth is per se

I think is, like you said, kind of unrivaled

And we've toured that facility

And it's stunning and the torture tests

That you guys do stuff

And then you actually go out there and show that stuff off

One of the things that I had asked you about

And, you know, while I'm conscientious

It's a pretty simple answer

But why the 72-inch width axles on Dozer?

Oh, yeah, oh yeah, I can hear you

So I was just talking about why, you know

How 72 inches, you're actually netting

Better turn radius and better articulation

To suck up those big tires

You know what I mean?

I was, can you hear me about the 72 inches

And explain why that might be beneficial?

Yeah, so when you start to get into the 40 and 42 inch tall

Tire and above

You really got to make some additional room

So you have a decent turning radius on those tires

So you're not hitting the frame

And those kinds of things when you're trying to turn

It just gives you a little more room

And the wider stance makes it a little more stable

And it's just a very, very helpful off-road

Yeah, I mean, I think it's a cool concept

People maybe don't always realize that

These ultimate axles are full width axles

Already 72 is yet even bigger

Dozer looks like a full-size one-ton truck

Going down the road by picture and video

But now you don't have contact issues

That we typically run into on that 40-plus inch crowd

Right?

Exactly right, exactly right

That's exactly why we did it

Because before, you know, if you turn the wheel all the way

To get to the steering stops

The tire is going to get into the frame

Especially when it's stuffed

And now you don't have that issue

The amount of additional turning radius you have

Just because you're not hitting anything

And the amount of flex that you have

We're still playing games with Swigar inlinks

To train control just how much flex we have

And might be time for some limit straps

I'm not going to lie

We've been there and I get that entirely

And when we're playing with low center gravity builds

Or extreme, you know, like extension

You know what I mean? Where you have limited up travel

But a ton of down travel

It gets that fine tuning game 100%

At last thing, before I know you're headed to the trail

Whatever happened to the OG Ultimate 60G?

Are you at liberty to share with us?

I guess I got to understand what you're talking about

Like the first couple of ones that ever have

Ultimate 60s was like Posh, the black one

And Ginger, the red and white one

And I'm literally sitting in Ginger right now

I know Ginger, where's the black one at?

Posh, we still have

We still have Posh

She's got a different wrap

She's got a white Victor Reins wrap

That's our 100 year old gasket brand Victor Reins

Aha, I did not realize

That's why you may not recognize her

But I actually had to leave her back this time

Because we had a customer

Which I'm not at liberty to name

Want to do a direct comparison

Between independent front suspension

And a solid front axle

So I brought the Dana Bronco out with us this year

And I had to Posh off the trailer unfortunately

We do have a question from a listener

What kind of flares do you use on 72 inch?

No flares

Where you're going you don't need flares

If they're in PA then that's why they're asking

I don't think you get to run this setup in Pennsylvania

Or any other tire stick out fender related

Let me put it this way about running it in Pennsylvania

I have run these geeks for years in Pennsylvania

And I'm from Pennsylvania

I understand the laws

And my goal is to not get pulled over for something else

Meaning not doing something stupid

And knock wood

I haven't gotten a ticket yet in Pennsylvania or Ohio or Utah

Because I don't have the tires completely covered

And I understand that some people have a harder time with that

Than others

But I really haven't had a problem with it

Because I don't cowboy around on the road

There's a time and a place for that

And it's never when it's on the road

And Zach you and I are cut from that exact same cloth

And I knock on wood

It's just the same because you and I have been around

Long enough in the industry to hear all the horror stories

Of people passing through areas

And I'm always like

I've passed through those same areas

And not had the same issues

And like you said

I feel like I'm Paul Harvey when it comes to that

I always want the rest of the story

Right

And you were born and bred in Pennsylvania

For our listeners who didn't catch that part

I was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

I grew up there and went to high school there

Until I joined the army

And I came back and went to Penn State

We are

And then I started my big boy life

And my big boy job

And that brings us to here

Perfect

And we will have you on air

We were actually talking behind the scenes previously

We look forward to having you on as a full guest

But in the meantime, enjoy Easter Jeep Safari

And thanks for being part of calling in

And boots on the ground out there

Hey, thanks for having me on

I really appreciate it

I hope the comms weren't too bad

But you guys stay safe

Follow Spicer Parts on every social media channel

You get to see some of the knucklehead stuff that we're doing

All right, sounds great

Wheels down out there

See you, Zach

Bye-bye

Excellent

I was really, really appreciate Zach

Sharing with us

That's good that you were able to get a hold of him

Like that, too

Well, Zach and I had pre-planned this

And I was going to wing it if you were not here

And it was way better that you were

So I need you to be publicly affirmed

Because I had to keep sliding the volume

Which I think was great for our listeners

I was about to just hand you my mic

For the dang phone

Oh, that would have made too much sense

Well, that would have just grabbed the mic away from you

Because I had to keep turning you down

Yeah, well, that was great

That's why you're the producer

That's why you're doing the production

Goodness, goodness

All right, well, that was fun

And I wish the best for everybody out at EGS

I felt like it was a very appropriate segue

For us to talk about the Harry Potter sorting hat

Of Jeep ownership

Not sponsored

And not infringing upon their copyright

Yeah, concerns

Did you come up with your own sorting houses then?

No, yes, of sorts

So obviously, you know, and objectively

I hope that our houses are different, right?

But, you know, we have the Harry Potter series

We've got Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw

And Slytherin, okay?

I'm actually impressed that you got all those

Okay, well, so first of all

So first of all, it's a real big deal in my household

While I'm not nerded out on it explicitly

Well, and something our listeners don't know is

Prior to me leaving, we actually sorted everybody here

Into the houses

No doubt, right?

We've done it internally in the business

Likewise, there's, you know, like social, you know

Kind of extensions with friends and family

We've talked about, I watch all the movies around Christmas

Because, like, Die Hard, they're Christmas movies

As far as I'm concerned

And so, anyhow, you know, like, I get it

But, but, but, but, I definitely had my wife

Way in on the conversation

So that I could process where I felt

People get sorted out into

And, and I'm hoping that you guys might be able to

You know, to elaborate or kind of think where you think

You think Jeepers fit, you know

You know, for me, I don't have

Obviously the storyline kind of represents

Gryffindor as kind of the ideal house to

To belong to and Slytherin kind of the less than

But I personally don't buy that

I don't personally buy that

I was going to say, I got sorted into Slytherin

So I don't know how I feel right now

Right, and there's

And realistically, a couple of the characters

Who are Slytherin while they are, you know

Have the propensity to be on the dark side

A couple of them are some of the biggest heroes

Right

Of the storyline

And so you actually have this great dichotomy

Of kind of the good on the surface and the good below

But kind of the dark on the surface and the good below

As well, you know

And so, but then you have Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff

Which are not elaborated upon as much

But equally have positive attributes

And so when a individual buys a Jeep

And they want to do a modification

One of the first things we do is ask them

How they're going to use it

Right

And I think that that's valuable

Because we as an institution

End up being a little bit of the sorting hat

Right

That's kind of what I was thinking about

Is because you can, you know

As the kids are, they go up to the front of the school

And they're like, I want to be this

I don't want to be this, blah, blah, blah

And as a Jeep owner, we are attracted to the idea

Of owning the Jeep and what it can do for us

Sometimes we don't exactly know where that Jeep will take us

And we, as a company, attempt to be the sorting hat

You don't know what you don't know until you know it

100%

Right

And that's where the sorting hat kind of

Ways in and looks within the wizard

A wizard, Jeffrey

And he's

And, you know, and kind of expands upon that attribute

So a person comes in and they say, hey, this is what I want to do with my Jeep

Or, hey, I'm thinking about getting a Jeep

What Jeep should I get?

Totes

Yeah

Totes

And I would like people in the comments to

Self-sort at the moment

Right

I kind of want, for people in the comments

To self-sort and tell us what house they think they're in

Because in the process of my wife and I expanding upon

Some of this

We actually sorted some of our customers, listeners, and followers in general

Yeah

Oh, this should be good

So I am curious, before I put that out there

I'd like to hear from folks who actively participate

Jump in the comments

Did you set criteria for the houses based on Jeeps?

Yes

But we actually related it specifically to the pre-existing houses

Right

So attributes that are assigned to, or characteristics assigned to those houses

I mean, in my head, if you really use your Jeep

Like you out and beat it within an inch of its life

Then you're in Slytherin myself, is what I'm thinking

So a certain YJ owner that, you know, likes to break hubs

He's absolutely Slytherin

I was going to say, there's no question

There's no question

That particular YJ owner is Slytherin

In my mind

And I just wondered if he would respond that or not

And also, if you scratch the side of your bedside before it's a year old

When you're wheeling on stock tires

I think you automatically are in Slytherin

That's also probably true

I wonder who did that

I would like to categorize potentially all YJ owners in Slytherin

Ouch

Probably most of them, yeah

I think there's the select few

I know a certain woody side one that would probably not be okay with that

That tracks

There's that red one that comes in once in a while

Not Slytherin

Yeah, not Slytherin

But, see, the thing is, maybe he actually is, right?

And so

That all aside, I think, was fun

And has the potentiality to be expanded upon

But I do think that when we get our Jeeps

There's people in our experience who, they come to us

Or at least how I see the Jeep world play out

We have people who come in

And they are attracted to the idea of their ability to travel across the country

To wheel at Easter Jeep Safari

Which is going on, you know, as we speak

To camp to not quite, I don't know where the overland community falls into this conversation

But the individual who's attracted to the adventure that the Jeep creates for them

Okay

Then we have individuals who are attracted to the build process

Okay

And they like to know components

They like to know the processes

They may even like to be the builder themselves

Obsessing over minutia

Regarding, you know, angles of gussets

Or, you know, I was watching a guy build a tube chassis

Or actually he took a hiatus from building his tube chassis pre-runner inspired vehicle

And I think that that's Ravenclaw, right?

So Ravenclaw is really attracted to the

The detail

The detail, the higher intellect

There's a conversation around kind of a traditional book smart

So you're saying that's the mad scientist house?

It is more of the mad scientist house, right?

But it's intended to be more of the proven path of things versus the hot rotting

Right?

And I think that that's what we have to focus on

But I think that potentially that type of personality set

Is who specifically Rockrawler, Metalcloak and Clayton appeal to

They want to show you the CAD drawings

They give you measurements

I'm just going to jump to the comments real quick

Because the McDeerhead guy says

I hope there's a scholarship for the poor YJ owner

Well I do think the poor's fit in the Slytherin somewhere

But are you if you have an escalate?

Or Yukon or whatever the hell it is

I think you absolutely are as his Topig

That's 100% how that house works, you know

And I obviously enjoy poking at Rob Morgan

If one of our listeners doesn't know Daddy Jeep

Great YouTube channel, great builder

Great member of the community who volunteers his time and energies

For Bandam Jeep Heritage Festival

Oh yeah

Both spring and summer and fall

And that's now part of the LS the world campaign

Now part of LS in the world through Amazon

Which that is totally blow back in his face

But you want to see him LS a grand Cherokee via Amazon

Head over there and follow him on his socials

Great entertainment

As far as and so I thought to myself

Ravenclaw are the people who really enjoy the CAD drawing

And get behind this level of marketing that metal cloak

And rock crawler, you think about metal cloak

An RTI ramp was insufficient for metal cloak

They literally made up their own form of

Measuring system with the CTI ramp

Which for our listeners sometimes we should do a podcast

An unpack RTI CTI and articulation in general

Absolutely

And say how none of it matters when you have to go off road

It's true

However there is a crossover from those individuals

To what Dana Spicer is currently doing

Where they are taking the vehicle out

And putting it in an applicable grippy rock terrain

Rock crawling on this kind of this heightened level

Or even the Baja scene or the KOH scene

Before they get to chocolate thunder, thunder alley

Whatever you know the chaos ensues that area

But like the technicality focus right falls somewhere in there

And then I think that Hufflepuff is about making people happy

Feeling good

This is where Scott lies without a question

Because he's also the type that as he's building

Oh that's not going to work

Alright well I'll just grab these parts over here and I'll make them work

Well and I think that there's accuracy in that

And I'm not sure where he actually got sorted in one of those Harry Potter quiz

I don't remember

But I really, Jennifer and my wife are talking

And feeling like Cookie Monster explicitly

Genie's Jeep falls within the Hufflepuff territory

And the minion right

This is, I'm not going to concern myself with conversations about CTI

And the technicalities of how much corner travel I have

I'm going to enjoy it

And I want to bring joy to other people who are from within the community

Or the automotive community in general

Going to a general car show and you have this vehicle that is thematically decorated

And built in such a way

I mean that's a full investment to say that I want to see people lifted up in the process

In a slightly different way than the other groups

Because I think that that's, you know, ultimately

Just like we're all in the same school

What the heck is the school called in Harry Potter?

I'm not even going to tell him

Nope, he's going to have to sit there

It's going to drive me nuts

You got the names of the houses

Nobody can do their homework

Please nobody say it in the comments

We're going to let him struggle with this

You dog

You know I was baking on it coming up in the comments too

Hogwarts, there it is

Thank God

You're in this great shot

That took too much

That T-Force pissed me off this morning

Still spiraling all around in the back of my brain

The shipment left Minnesota three plus weeks ago

Why was it lost for two weeks?

I had to eat some Minnesota salad

Before it came over

Do we just put all of Minnesota in Hufflepuff?

All of Minnesota?

And I mean absolutely no disrespect to Eindrack Off-Road

Because they really like XJs

And you always had XJs for a slither and so

Oh you're true, that's true

But that's, I think that's a challenge

With the wizarding magic Harry

As far as how, nobody's ever perfectly

In one house or the other I suppose

So Geaga Jeepers goes

I'm lost, never seen a Harry Potter movie

So just to give you a quick rundown

I didn't think we were going to have to do this

Just a quick rundown

It is a school for wizards and whatever they go to

And they get sorted into four different houses

Based on their personalities

By this magic sorting hat

So we are referencing Jeeps to those houses

Hopefully that kind of summarizes it

For anyone that doesn't know Harry Potter

Yeah we should have done that before apparently

But I'm glad we did it now

I'm back to our technical builders

Ravenclaws

Our show Jeeps that fall within the light sound

Make people happy seen

I feel like fall within the Hufflepuff space

Except for if you're like a So-Flo

Or a So-Cal type build

And I don't mean the company

I mean just like these guys who are the coastal

They kind of have an attitude

And they like their big dubs and lights and sounds

I don't know if they're as friendly as I think of Hufflepuff being

I'm not sure where they fall on the spectrum

I think that the average individual

Who is attracted to the rugged individualism

That Jeep provides

The excitement of belonging to a community

Who has the interest to do a local wheeling event

But then wants to jump on the road

And run to the Carolinas and do an event

Or to the Florida run out of the area a couple times a year

I think that that's where we fall into the Gryffindor community

I think that that's

And maybe I don't know why I see that being more of the average

Kind of the normalized experience

And why I'm associated with Gryffindor

But it becomes kind of the

I would say the heartbeat of Jeep ownership

I think Gryffindor likes an adventure

And that's where that falls

I mean Jeeping is an adventure

So that's why your core group is under that

That's fair

And then you kind of branch out from there

That's fair

And I thought what other attributes are there

Because obviously we ask our customers

When we have customers come in who love the mud

And I'm just like where

Now this has nothing to do with the Harry Potter stuff

But when it comes to off-road enthusiasts

We sort ourselves out as well

There are people who love rocks

There are people who love mud

That's absolutely a thing

The water-forting is another one

There is water-forting

It's less than the mud or the rocks

But there are people that absolutely just love driving over

Love water crossings

There is the Overland crew

The Hearst-Pers crew

There's the Hearst-Pers crew

And that kind of transitions into rocks

And really using your Jeep

And I'm going to say it

Maybe we have to bleep it later

But the shit-box crew

And that is...

Totes, right?

And that is a thing

We talk about that group

And that seems to me

That oftentimes that's almost like the folks who

Live for the weekend at their local

Wheeling watering hole

So they're not...

This is what I stink and love about

Rustington the TJ

Right?

This is what's really challenging about me

Is that I find myself not perfectly fitting

Into anyone category

You just need a garage that's 100x100

And you have one of each

That is the problem that I find myself

Hogwarts

And that's the problem that I find myself in

Is that I love...

You have a clapped up POS Jeep

You're just happy that the basic needs

Are met

Yeah

It starts up and you're like

Good Jeep

Went down the road

Good Jeep

My born so low when I'm in that Jeep

Made it outside my general comfort zone

Good Jeep

Yeah

I mean, I had a Command Chee that

I was just proud of it every day when it started

This is why he's Hufflepuff

And then Neil broke it

That's true

Why is that not surprising?

I took it to the limit

I beat that dead horse

Beyond its grave

Probably more than once

Oh yeah, absolutely

I started up

It was broken at the frame in the middle

At the end there

And it would flex as I moved it

Oh jeez

It was independent

Independent frame

Articulation

No doubt

So what other houses there besides

And that's what I was saying

Those folks, they wheel locally

They have no intention

I would not get in Rustington

I have no intention of owning Rustington

And believing that Rustington

Could be the Jeep that I go

And do Moab in

Thank goodness

It has

Now

You would absolutely try it

Now I would absolutely try it

If I was trailering now

I know

There's no doubt in my mind that you would try it

But we encounter folks

Who have these

Beat within an inch of their life vehicles

And they might live on a trailer

Or they might live close to a trail head

And they live for the weekend

And the shenanigan aspect of it

They're not

You know

God love a number of our customers

Who do JJUSAs

They look forward to JJUSA

Adventures

Once twice, three times a year

Joe Harper

I don't know, eleven times a year

All of them

But

You know

There's a expectation

He's a Slytherin of the JJUSA

He kind of is

You have like the

I want to go out

And just dip my tires in the thing

And I'm cool

Because I do a JJUSA kind of guy

You can take a bone stock Rubicon out there

And then you have a

I'm going to roll it over three times

And shock

And appall the

Terrify the person with the 20-25

Rubicon that's out there

Yeah, there's absolutely a house of people

That just like to roll their jeeps

And then there's actually

That's categorized too

Tom Sable told us

The categorizations of

A rollover versus a flop

Versus a whole

Yeah, he brought it up

He rolled your jeep and he's like

Oh, no, it was only

What, 45 degrees?

Or it was a flop

50 degrees

It was a flop

Yeah

It was not a full roll

It was not on the lid conversation

And that takes

The buggy scene is a whole other crowd

Yeah, there was a whole thing

If it landed on the lid, it was one thing

But if it actually made it all the way over to the wheels again

It was a whole other thing

That's a true roll

And I think what's fun or interesting

And I want to make sure that we bring up in this conversation

By extension is

20 years ago

As a community of off-roaders

We were able to separate ourselves

Better socially

Via forums

I think the challenges with the

Social pages of explicitly

Facebook

And then kind of the watering down of everything else

You ended up getting these more broad

And generalized categories where people felt

Like they fit into more

Because it's easy now to just go create your own group

So when I get upset

In this group, I'm going to do

A version of it over here

Right

And how many versions of the JK owners

JK lovers, official JK

2007 to 2018

There's only one blue Jeep crew

There

That's true

That's actually true

Which is actually a really well run group

Pirate 4x4 Slytherin

And that is exactly

Where I wanted to go with this conversation

I don't want to be associated with that one

As exactly where I wanted to go with this conversation

Is back in the day

We used to know that

Of the sorting hat of the off-road industry

If I wanted to get into

Hard core conversation

Be it technical, adventure oriented

Or even just like

Comparing angles

Which I guess is technical

You were going over to pirate

But you had to have a thick skin

That's for if you were in the flat fender

Specific thread under it

You still had the

You couldn't be like

I'm a restoration guy and go in there

But that's where I

Hung out all the time

When I was going to the pirate

I hung out in the axle categories

All the time

I wanted to know everything

About tons and

Day of 44s and the history

And the lineage of the productions

And you go in there and be like

I have a day of 35 and they light you on

Oh, I mean

You could have never broken that 35

A day in your life

And you were lower than dirt

At that point, you know

But then we had

There was a Jeeps Unlimited

Was a forum at that time

We had Comanche Club

We had the Naxja

Which actually Naxja still exists

It's still

It's still muddling along better

In my opinion than a number of other ones

Jeep Forum

Now, I need people to know

That I'm actually still signed up

On these forum updates

So I get periodic emails from them

And this is actually

Part of what inspired me

To have this conversation

Because 20 years ago

We sorted ourselves out

And of course, like you said

I need the garage where I can have them all

Because I hung out in Jeep Forum

I hung out in Pirate

Can't do Jeep Forum

And that was the thing

I got so excited

I just smacked the mic into my face

I saw that

I hung out in Jeep Forum

And you could ask me

And this is the difference

You could ask me

I had no problem being in the same page

Answering how much lift do I need

To put 35s on my JK

101 times

I kind of never got tired of it

Unless I was kind of like that moment

I started the Twitch

And I had no problem

And I could go in there

And I could dabble with the newbies

And not insult anybody

Or be offended

That they should ask the same question

Or not know how to use the search bar

Whereas if you did something like that

In, you know, in Pirate

They were going to make you pay for that

You know

As they should

And if you were into Hearst Purrs

Do you remember Yellow Bullet?

Yes

Yellow Bullet had Jeep stuff in there

Of course, it was only Horse Purr

It was only Horse Purr

Primarily Race Car stuff

Primarily Hot Rod Race Car stuff

Yep

But we used to sort ourselves

Via these forums

By how the culture of that forum was

And what our own interest was

Then you had the CJ2A Forum

Which is still around

Yep

Soldering along

That's because those guys

Barely know how to turn on their computer

So it was a monumental thing

20 years ago

And they joined the forum

Absolutely

And they know how to switch out of it now

I don't know

It's just stuck on their desktop browser

And they go into Geek Squad

And they only know

Is they just need this to show up

On their new desktop all day

Every single time

Did you get the email we sent you

For your service?

Alls I see is Jeep stuff

I don't see

Where would it be

In this list of Jeep stuff?

Right

Your email's a separate window

What's that mean?

Well, and actually

That brings me back to the Pirate

And the sorting hat

And this conversation

Because you used to have to have

Some really thick skin

But you could get

Some just amazing technical information

Where the social pages move so fast

And they're so superficial

At this point

Right, the Facebook pages

The Instagram filter life

It's all so superficial

We don't ever deep dive

Like we once did

In the forums in my opinion

I mean one of the coolest things

Was you would get on

And you would see a build

That would just next level

Fabrication and thoroughness

And that kind of stuff

And you got into it late enough

That you could go back 30 pages

Right

And watch it from the beginning

That is something we have lost

With social media

That's so hard now

To be able to follow that

That thread, that build sheet

The conversation regarding how

You can literally be looking at it

And accidentally bump something

And it's gone forever

You'll never find it again

And or the individuals

Involved within the thread

It just so can easily go off the rails

With just little blip

Short attention span

Lack of context commentary

And then people become so offended

Or enraged

And then the whole stream goes off

Whereas forums had mods

That you know

And the crazy part is

Is I think that for those dedicated builders

That I kind of was attracted to

Their builds

They had the patience to do a thread

That encompassed the whole build

But they kind of don't have the patience

For social media

Very rarely do I see a like really

Hardcore build showcased on social media

Anymore

Absolutely

They don't have the patience

For the quick in and out stuff

They want to have that dedicated long record

And there's such a pushback

In that commentary

When you are doing a finite build

There used to be more discussion

And arguably maybe a decorum

That existed within the forums

Because it felt a little more

Community oriented than the social pages

Absolutely

I was looking for a screenshot

But one of the things that occurred to me

Was Pirate sent me

Now it's important to note

That all the forums got bought out

15 years ago

10, 15 years ago

All the forums got bought out

By large media conglomerates

And then they started selling

The ability to moderate pages

Center posts

Spam users

And so on and so forth

And so a lot of this stuff was highly curated

They took a community based environment

In the forums

And then they started to highly curate it

From a kind of a profit standpoint

So I got an update

Email from Pirate

Within the last month

About and this was like

Hey, you might be interested in this thread

And it was on the value

Of a Honda CRV

And it was just like

Honda CRV market

Has increased

I saw that too

And I just thought to myself

How the mighty have fallen

Yes

Right

Someone is rolling over

Oh yeah, absolutely

There's people who were involved in Pirate

Back in the day

Who this is not a post

That ever belonged in this house

Of, you know

In this house of membership

And it's also crazy

Because we have transitioned through that

I have seen some forums

Try to go to social media

And crash and burn hard

Sure

It's just such a different

It's crazy because it doesn't seem like

It should be different

But it is so different

It is, it is

And that's part of the

That's part of that

This sorting hat conversation

Because there are individuals

Who had the patience

And the interest in being involved

In the forums

And there are people who

Realistically

I think back to Jeep Mafia days

That particular club

There was, oh gosh

There was another JK oriented one

I thought

Twisted

It spread like wildfire

But because of

The superficial connections

Through social media

And then those individuals

Were not particularly

Hard core off-roaders

Initially

Those like Twisted Jeepers

Or something like that

Maybe it was, yeah

Something like that

I remember that

And back then too

If you had a club

You had to have a forum

As part of your club

Correct

And that was at

Right at the cusp

Where social media

Started to take off

And some of those clubs

Were like, hey

We actually don't need

The forum anymore

But because

You had a club

You had to have a forum

Previously

And then social media

Created this segue

Where

Jeep Mafia

Twisted Jeepers

And then there was a JK owners

And they sorted themselves out

Because eventually

Jeep Mafia

Really was more of the

Hey, we want to do

The meet and greets

Well, and people can correct me

If I'm wrong

But this was my

My take on things

Was eventually

This group

Was like

Hey, we want to do

The meet and greets

We want to do the social things

If we do a trail ride

Or an adventure

It's going to be more of the

The easier badge of honor

Trail stuff

And then there was

Ended up being a JK owners

Group

And I'm drawing the blank

On that one

But I know that like

He just insulted

A bunch of people

When he called the

The trail of honor group

It's doing the Rubicon, folks

I mean, I can do it

In Rustington

It's not a hardcore trail

Slytherin

Slytherin Rob Morgan

Is not going to

Worry about

You know, doing the Rubicon

It's edit

We do it because

Because it's a Rubicon

We do the badge of honor trails

Because they're the badge

Of honor trails

We don't do them

Because I'm driving a rock buggy

And I'm trying to

Pick a hard line

Malik Motorsports

Out doing the

The rock racing

Right, stuff

He is doing

Technically proficient

You know

Crawling, dropping off ledges

He could do the Rubicon trail

And asleep

Correct

And that's not to

That is part of this conversation

He has found himself in a position

Where he wants to do the competitive

Rock maneuvering

We used to do that

Erie G people

Prior to

Tom Sables

At Tom's trails

Had comp courses set up

They did

They did more comp runs

But they also had an RTI ramp

They did

But like

Fred Motise

Fred Motise was not exactly doing

Trail riding

Which I love

Which the three of us in here

We love trail riding

East coast wheeling

We talk about our sorting hat

Is tight technical wooded trails

Mitch Hunt and I had

Mitch and Mickey love getting in the Jeep

Taking the two track trails

Through wooded

A little bit of slop

Come up out of the creek bed

Make a tight turn

You get a little bit of everything

But we were talking

Doesn't love sand

I love sand

Joe O'Brien and I

We could wheel

Scott Lindquist

And who owns Chuck Norris now

We could go down to the outer banks

Air down

Drive around on the sand

For days

And I'm going to be

Tickled as can be

You know

And it's interesting

Because there are people like that

Where then there are people like

Yeah, you know

All I know is Greg hates you right now

For that

The sand

100%

He talks about beaches

Out of jeeps all the time

Because of the sand that falls out of them

100%

You know

And

And I had said something

And Mitch was like

Ah, gotta be honest

You're not going to be thrilled about this

I don't love the dunes

I don't love the sand

You know what I mean

And I was like

That's part of it

Like how are you

And again

Come back full circle

To us being the sorting hat

How are you going to use your Jeep

Right

Because if you don't love sand

But you do love water crossings

As it goes back to our

Fording conversation

Maybe we need to be more

Conscious about how we seal your vehicle up

So that you can get in the water

Absolutely

A little more safely

Right

What

You love the adventure of running out

And you're going to do the Rubicon

Okay, I don't

We don't need to build you a rock buggy

But we do need to build you something

That will get you there safely

Robust enough to traverse it

And then come back

Another demographic is

The ones that like a curated

Like you should do this

Yes

And you do that

We're all going to be in a little group

JDUSA is curated

Where that makes my

You know

Oil Valley Jeeps

Running through 10 mile through 2 mile

Beautiful park

Beautiful establishment

Thank you for opening that

For us folks

But curated experience

I can't do that

Everybody goes in this now

You'd rather lead us into a mud hole

In the back corner of the water

Hey, accidents happen

I can't speak

I totally did this too

I'm just out for a good time

Right

I'm going to get lost

But that's sorry

If you're following behind me

And that's exactly those

Those guys living for the weekend

Not a weekend warrior

But the crap boxes

They don't want to curate it

They're not necessarily trying to go to

JDUSA

They're not trying to go

To a curated rock

You just want to go out the woods

And flog on it

Correct

And that's a cat

Just don't want to get told what to do

Welcome to America

I'm curious as to

If there's any other categories

That our customers

Have kind of thought up themselves

I find myself at a point in my life

In the last few years

Really at a little bit of a struggle

To figure out which direction

I want to go in

Obviously I scratched that last itch

With Chuck and tons and forties

And more fun with tons and forties

I'm a firm believer in it

But I find myself wanting to go fast

More than ever

I mean that is fun

And when you scratched that itch

When you were getting younger

Into cars

And now you're kind of out of it

Going fast is expensive

Okay

I mean

You look at some of our big over the top

Builds that have to drive across the country

And back, those are expensive

That's what I'll call the Gryffindor builds

The ones that have mass and broad appeal

I just

I'm not exactly sure where I find myself these days

Because as you mentioned

I have a propensity to like all of them

But I am curious to hear how people elsewhere

Find themselves sorted into it

We'd love to hear from you in the process

You can always reach out to us

Contact c-o-n-t-a-c-t

At sfj4by4.com

Or you can text us on our text only thread

We said we're going to talk about CTI, RTI

And articulation in the future

We've got a couple other topics

Last week obviously we talked about plastic

And engine bay and all that kind of good stuff

Some conversations to follow up with customers

Because they've reached out to us being like

I shouldn't have all aluminum

It's a little bit of the eye of the beholder

But again as far as our sorting house is concerned

I don't think that's to be a priority

There's a time and a place for it

Yeah and I certainly don't find that to be

A heightened priority at this time

Anything else?

We got Daddy Jeep saying he still uses his RTI ramp

A lot for its original intended purpose

And we'll break that down in that episode

Shots fired

John Miller says he still has muscle cars

Bradford said we were oil and gas

Exploitation mode this weekend

I think it was exploration

But he was saying exploitation

So I hope that he wasn't out there

Siphoning gas off like Petro off the wells

If he was, I'm not

None of us are privy to it

None of us are privy to how much oil you had

For the heat this summer

No doubt

I can say good morning

Good morning to everyone

We appreciate people joining us

We are going to transition out to our weekend updates

And if you want to stay through the credits

You can join us for that

We are off again next week

If you're out on the trails at Easter Jeep Safari

Or enjoying that life

Kudos to you

We have about a bajillion jeeps under our care

And we've only run into

Major, major logistics

Setbacks from

Shipping, manufacturing and distribution

Stuff that

Realistically is still the new normal

From six years ago at this point

And I don't understand it

You can tell everybody is ready for a break

But nationwide

Nationwide, but none of us seem to be getting it

I don't understand

How that's going to fly

And I am happy that we actually have the

We had four jeeps tied up in one

One suspension order

They were building parts for it

Which delayed it and blah blah blah

So hopefully we'll be able to start to move forward

Now in life

But we got a lot of jeeps to work on

So until next time

Jeep on

It didn't do it

Since we didn't have an SD card

In the sound board

Does that mean that it just didn't record in there?

Yes

That means that Davey has to do it off of the

Off the computer

It'll be fine

We're going to figure this out

But that's just totally Davey's fault for being on vacation

Right now

It was your fault before when you

Took the SD card with you

I'll take that blame

But he has other SD cards he could have used

Totes

And obviously he didn't put the SD card back

That's the other piece of this

He'll get it off the computer

That's part of his job

But he should be back here soon

And then I'm headed out of town

For a few days to disconnect myself

I heard you were going down to Charleston

I am going down to Charleston

Looking forward to

South Carolina

Such a fun place

Have you done the ghost tours there?

When I was

A wee lass

Lass?

I think I was a lad

You tried to do such a manly voice too

And then you were straight for a lass

It's a lad

Hindsight being 20-20

That isn't a sound bite

And there is a problem

And I will be upset about all the sound bites

That I get taken of

Oh god

That was a wee lad

My grandparents took me traveling

And we did

A historic tour

And in the daytime

They do history tours

And at the nighttime those same tours would do a haunted tour

And of course the daytime tour

Can't help but mention

Certain paranormal activity

But it is not focused at

The haunted rides

The haunted rides are really cool

And I

Have these lofty ambitions

And I'll probably just turn my phone off

Is probably more so what I'll do

But I have these lofty ambitions

Of like maybe I'll catch a minor league baseball game

And maybe we'll do one of those

Tour rides

I will probably

Do none of it

And just like sleep in a hammock

In the Carolina sunshine

I think you need to take your kids on one of the tours

You know

It might be

I've been wanting to do it for a couple of years

Don't give him pressure

He's going away from pressure

I'll put the pressure on

I think that the tours are super fun

I'm just going to text you randomly

Did you go on the tour yet?

Right?

I'm definitely shutting this phone off now

And of course

My wife's

Pisces

So we can't go near water without her being

Gravitationally pulled

In it

So we'll be at the ocean front

Even if it's like

Last time we were down there it was breezy and like

Everybody who was local had like

Sweaters and like sweatsuits on

And like my kids were in the water

My wife was swimming

We'll sort it out

Looking forward

To doing that myself

This past weekend

I got to be honest with you guys

So those of you who were following along

No, Jeffrey has made his

Departure in his full-time capacity

Away

And then we used to have a guy who could run truck for us

He's no longer with us

In that part-time capacity

I was out in the truck running around on Friday

I got back in

Saturday

This weekend I was able to get back into the homestead

Stuff

And I actually

Have found myself finding it to be

Rather therapeutic to do siding

I am

Really finding

Joy in siding

It made me think of you Jeffrey

And how I think that

I think that

Maybe we need to just

This is going to be the day or the time

This summer

And finish up that one peaked area

That is like impossible to get to on your house

I mean be fair it's not the siding

It's the height

And the pitch of the roof

On a metal roof

Getting to where you need to side

If you could just side down where you're comfortable

Wouldn't be a big deal

Well that's fine

But you have to figure out angles

You have to figure out the angles of the dangles

That's about a 30 degree angle

I already know that part

For the siding itself

But then you got to be able to cut it in the air

And all that kind of stuff

We just need to rip the bandaid off

Since he isn't

Leading up to liking these height things

I think he has to do

Your peak and then he has to come over

And finish painting my house

He's talking about doing the peak at my house

That's what he's saying

So after I precariously

Don't die in your house

And he can come and mine will be a

Katewalk because it's not as high

But I was so tapped I was like nope

Not going to any dollar

And if he's still able

With us and not broken

Then he can help do roofing

On the building

Cause I'm not looking forward to

Nobody's looking forward to roofing

On that building

I did some siding and I

Find myself obsessively thinking on it

And learning

And again I think that's part of what

Attracts us to our jeeps

Yeah

And we just happen to turn our

Hobbies and our passion

Hobbies into a business

We just don't know how to turn it off

And I love working on jeeps

My big problem is

I'm struggling to figure out what house

I fit into and then financially

Where I want to pursue that

Because Rustington is in my

Opinion not worth the

Investment

I did not get the limo out but I'd love

To do something with the limo

But I keep thinking like oh I'm going to get it out

And go cruising around and yet

I'm not

You know prepared to rip the engine out

Greg was like oh I need to figure out

Something to do with this LS and I thought

Ooh what to do with this LS

I will put

The RV Camd LS and the limo

Oh boy

That's probably not going to happen

But I'm inclined to do that

I really want to stuff a hemi in my jeep

But I'm like and I see this is a problem

I keep wanting to just

V8 things and of course

Then I'm watching Rob LS the world

Via Amazon and I'm like

I like his ideas you know

But then I'm like I don't

Actually have time to do any of this with

I don't know 11000 jeeps in the parking lot

And Homestead that's fully

Building and then

This 250th America

And our 4th of July parade for

Jeeps and all that kind of stuff coming up

Kind of a busy dude at the moment

Just a bit I did all that this weekend

So that's where I should

Kind of finalize that conversation before I just

Drone on about my woes

So for me

P4 still sucks

I worked on

Cleaning out the garage more

Filled the car trailer completely

To the brim with any

Scrap went around the property

And found all the little hidey spots

And

Want to just express

Hate to anyone that has stolen a vehicle

And sold off parts and scrap parts

And made it so hard for me to scrap parts

Because

You have parts of vehicles laying

About your yard right now that I need desperately

To get rid of and I nothing

Is sketchy on the least bit

But they're scared to even think

About getting stuff. You have

Vehicle parts and you've acquired them all legally

Correct. But it's challenging

To get them across the scales in a traditional fashion

I just want to clean up my yard

I don't even care so much about the amount

Of money out of them. What do you think

Is impeding you

I've literally asked questions and if it's

A door

Right but what

Modern door or

You had a cow sitting in your backyard

They said any door. They don't care

What age where I specifically

Have been going to scrap. They don't

Want anything

That looks like it. You've got a lot of saws

I do. That doesn't have

To look like a door anymore. Takes a lot of time

And I'm prepared

I'm but

I also might just show up here with a bunch of stuff

I was going to say we've

I figured that problem out years ago

I'm not going to elaborate upon it

On air but

Anywho

So also as part of that

I had to push the T

Out of the garage to use

Cutting equipment

Into the garage because my cord is too

Short now and I end up using

My extension cord to wire a machine

Oh my god

It's got brown problems

For people listening home

This is your 220 cord

This is not just like your random household

With extension cords. We're talking about

A 220 extension

But on the T I did

Finish out welding the

Driver's door. That is basically done

That's ready for

Light sand and I could think

About priming it

Also

Working on the driver's side header

I had bought a header

Well actually this is a second set

Of headers. The first one was like totally

Not going to work

The second set was closer

And this is one of the frustrating things

So I cut it

Into a million parts

Flanges off

All the tubes are separate at this point

That kind of thing and I'm putting it back together

Piece by piece and I found

Last night that

The pieces that were supposed to be

This piece originally attached to that piece

And then this piece attached to that

They all went back in order

But we're talking about like

Slight clocking things

Different. And to the point

Where like little wedges I cut out

I'm like

Where'd that go? I need that

I thought it was neat seeing the car

Outside. Yeah, it's amazing

Because I see all the stuff it still needs

But the fact that it looks like a car

Everybody's excited. I got

Some messages and everything like

You're really kicking butt on it

That kind of stuff. I'm excited

I'm

Glad it looks like a car

Makes me want to make it make some noise

Sooner than later. Oh dear

I know

So anyways. Scott has a truck

For sale folks selling his

68c10 which he needs to actually make it

Go away. So I actually am doing

That. I have him currently talking

With a guy in Texas

So that's a good thing

It's far away. He wants

To use it as a daily

Which I think is awesome. Yeah

It's far enough south that

He makes sense. That's got a chance

He's got a super clean

Like 10

Short bed, nice wheels on it

He's gonna let that go and he wants to do the vintage

Life. So other

Than that

There's a bunch of stuff that stresses me out

Like transport and how to get

You know

Sounds like the buyer's problem, right?

Transparency. I know it is

But I just I'm that way

Hufflepuff

So I'm also part of my weekend

Was running around with the

Taking videos of stuff and trying to show

Everything because I want him to be

Happy with his purchase when he gets it

I'm just that way

So overall

It was a busy weekend

I did have also a friend pass

Away over the weekend as well

She had cancer so it wasn't a big

Surprise but still

Sucks

Again

I'm glad she's not hurting anymore

But still sad that

She's not around anymore as well

So that is the theme

Of the weekend

Hufflepuff

Jeffrey our favorite bar owner

Well actually so

We are ramping things up a

Lot at the bar so I spent

Mostly weekend preparing for

Events that are coming up

Including rearranging tables

That were bolted to the floor

Grinding bolts out you know stuff like that

So we're going to be changing

Up the layout in the bar because we're

Making room for the stage

Starting Wednesday we have open mic nights

Every Wednesday starting Thursday

We have trivia night every Thursday

Which I saw trivia night coming

I thought that was exciting that's going to be really fun

You have to do a deep version

Well I can talk with the

DJ that's running it and we'll try to make something happen

But then also

Easter Sunday

We're going to be doing a

Breakfast buffet

Adults are 25 a ticket

Kids are 15

And then under you know 3 and under are free

But we're doing an Easter egg hunt

Within the building

So you come in buy a ticket for the buffet

Your kid gets to participate gets a free little tote bag

And everything gets to collect eggs

And we'll hide a couple golden eggs

That have adult prizes in them

That's fun

I think that

Your ability

And opportunity to be creative

Is excellent

Be community based with your business

Especially where it's located

Those of you who might not be aware

It's beautiful right on the main strip

In downtown Erie and this is really

Or not downtown

I always get corrected on where downtown is

But that is downtown Erie

Okay, Peach Street is not downtown Erie

On Upper Peach where everybody seems

To go shopping

But

This is really the time

Where Erie Pennsylvania shines

We're just getting into the warm season

Where Erie is

A tourist attraction in the summer

Fantastic attraction so if you're thinking about

Coming to visit us because so many of our customers

From out of state want to make it

You know time and energy

Make sense

Jeffrey's establishment

Voodoo Brewery

Is a destination that you can go to

Go have lunch there

Go down to the peninsula

For the Bayfront

You go from here down 20 to 5

And take that nice scenic weekend

All kinds of beaches along there

You can stop and find rocks

And all that stuff

Eligio right to downtown Erie

And you can enjoy the food

The beer, pool tables, dartboards

We got a little bit of everything going

Plus the beautiful patio on nice weather

Right?

Definitely has a great opportunity

For our out of state customers coming to visit

This time of year so

Looking forward to how you continue to grow that

And everybody for joining in

And jumping in the comments

And sharing with us

And hearing about

Things that you guys have done

And offering your condolences to Scott

And sharing with us

Where your sorting houses are

Had a lot of fun

We're going to take a week off in the process

Yep

And if you're unable to reach

Specifically me for that time frame

You know why and I'm going to continue to proliferate

That on my social pages

Just to disconnect for a little bit

Before we ramp back up for the spring push

And next big thing we'll be

Kind of addressing is Jeep Beach

And some other

Spring

And the show season

Begins

Until next time, Jeep on

Jeep on

About this episode

Jeep sorting house turns into a mix of logistics rage, Easter Jeep Safari tech, and a playful “which Jeep owner are you?” debate. The hosts vent about a freight shipment that arrived weeks late (and poor communication from T-Force), then call in Zach Heisley from Dana Spicer at EJS to discuss Ultimate axle R&D and why Dozer runs 72-inch wide axles. The core segment assigns Jeepers to Harry Potter-style houses based on how they use and build their rigs—plus a nostalgia trip about how forums used to sort the community more deeply than today’s social media.

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What if Jeep owners had Hogwarts houses?

In this episode, we took the original Harry Potter house traits—Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff—and matched them to different types of Jeep owners. From bold trail risk-takers to detail-obsessed builders and loyal daily drivers, the parallels got a little too accurate.

The question is… which one are you?

We break down each “house,” the personality behind it, and the kinds of builds and drivers that fit into each category. Some of these might hit a little too close to home.

Let us know where you land.

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