Jeepocalypse Now: Doomsday Builds

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Say that again.

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Our host, Neil Simpson, if one light goes out, they'll all go out.

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Good morning, afternoon, evening, wherever, however you are joining us in this most spooktacular

episode of I Speak Jeep.

I'm just sad he didn't put the goat at the end.

It would have been better if it was not for you.

There it is.

My name is Neil with SFJ 4x4 in the Grandma's couch studio, joined with, as you, Jeff Cermany,

in his favorite pumpkin orange signature spooky season hoodie from last year, the producer

The producer.

And the madest bad scientist, Scott Brown.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir, for that.

As a comment about Jeffery's spooky season hoodie, you know that right now the merch

is open for the creepin' it real seasonal shirt, which I really dig.

I thought that was super fun.

It's been really popular.

Incredibly popular.

Order's been going out like crazy.

We actually had to do a reorder of materials and kudos to Savage for just hammer down on

that with all the other things we have going on.

I honestly think that one's been more popular than this hoodie.

I agree.

I think it's been one of the most popular merch drops recently.

We will have a signature Christmas drop following Halloween.

Now I'm just, I'm being absolutely transparent.

We're skipping Thanksgiving this year, folks.

So Scott is very sad over there.

If you bought your turjipen turducken, no, the hoodie that you designed last year

that failed epically for all, but like, I don't know, ten of you.

And actually we might actually have one or two of those graphics left.

Did we ever announce which of those two hoodies actually won?

I don't think, I think we did.

There was no question.

Yeah.

Jeff, why do you look like a 12 year old?

I mean, you got a little, you got a 12 year old with a five o'clock shadow

at this point.

Halloween costume on Friday for a party, so.

We'll talk about that in the update for sure.

Well, and, you know, as, as usual, we do have a number of updates.

So if you're interested in what's happening in our personal lives, two-fold one, hang on

through the outro credits to kind of get updated on our weekend affairs.

There were some major highs and some major lows as I shared with the guys.

If my life could become more chaotic, that is the path that I chose this weekend.

Additionally, we will be talking today just briefly about the upcoming SEMA adventure.

Yes.

Before we play a game or an activity amongst each other with and for our listeners.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

For Halloween edition.

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Well, we'll be sending out an email on that soon too.

Yes, sir.

In the comments, we got Nathan saying good morning.

He was first again.

We got Robert Seaman saying morning SFJ.

We got Roy Hill saying good morning.

Jalga Jeeper saying good morning.

Mudhorn Gladiator saying morning.

And then we got Daddy Jeep saying good morning.

Robert Seaman said down here at Myrtle Beach Jeep Jam.

That sounds fun.

A lot warmer weather too, I'm sure.

And then you got Jeanie saying good morning.

What do I want for Christmas, a new motor?

Just putting that out there if anyone wants to get me one.

She's looking for a hemi, folks.

And then we got Billy Joe saying good morning and Bill McWilliam saying good morning.

Good morning, good morning, good morning to everyone.

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Charles is asking, how do I rate you all when I listen live on Facebook?

Simple answer to that is that you just have to go to one of the streaming platforms,

pull it up and put in a rating on there.

Yep, that would be advantageous, but we do appreciate you following along on Facebook,

Charles.

Thank you for that.

I think that covers a good bit of our business.

It is worth mentioning that next week, and so with the whole conversation about listening

and whatnot, we are up in the air whether or not there will be a live podcast or any

type of supplemental for you.

We had attempted to do some pre-recorded interviews.

Unfortunately, it does not look like that will be kind of all done and said for next Monday.

I personally, depending on all things go well, will be in Las Vegas.

If you're not in Las Vegas, you're lost somewhere in the US.

Yes.

There will be a much bigger deal than we could imagine.

I was like, well, maybe we can force something into existence.

The mad scientist in his per usual, his wisdom was like, hey, we're already making so many

other things happen that shouldn't happen.

Let's try and not put this additional pressure on them, like, yeah, but how cool would

that be?

I've certainly lived in from Charleston, South Carolina.

Then he did the math.

Then I mathed.

What time it actually would be.

I still don't actually know.

It's either three or four hours prior to East Coast time.

I'm pretty certain it's a three-hour time.

Jiggle, would you like to help us?

Yeah, I was going to say, but so if that's 10-19, then I'm somewhere around, you know,

7-19 or 8-19, and the problem, well, definitely not 8-19, it's either 6 or 7-19.

The problem will be that I have no idea where I'm going to be.

It would be 7-19.

Okay.

That's what I thought.

Las Vegas is three hours, despite the fact that I have to say I think it's four hours.

It feels like it when you fly there.

It does.

And so ultimately, I was like, yeah, we could do that, but then I am going to be personally

transporting those of you who have followed long enough understand that we actually are

a pretty close-knit group of enterprising individuals within SFJ 4x4.

And when you need something done, you kind of have to do it yourself sometimes.

And when it comes to transporting a vehicle or now vehicles, thanks to Crown Automotive,

RT Off-Road, we have to transport two vehicles which are amazing builds representing

the Mad Scientist and the early performance mechanic, both kind of the performance division

and our vintage resto, we got to get them across the country.

And one of the last vehicles that came in on a subcontracted transporter was less than

stellar.

Was less than stellar.

And we've had just not that we've had any personal issues with transporters, but

as a frustrated truck driver myself, I recognize how that industry, especially when you are

kind of succumbing to the lowest common bidder, you're not always getting the most qualified

individual to take these very high-dollar vehicles from coast to coast.

So Tony jumped in the comments said, when you get lost, you got to do a find me,

Jose Monkey.

But I think better than that is, even if you don't get lost, pick a difficult

spot with a picture and see if Jose Monkey can find you.

So I mean, so the reality is, is kind of quickly settling in that I will be running the international

with our, you know, 45, 50-foot wedge trailer across the country starting this week.

And what day you hit the road?

I am at this time hitting the road on Thursday.

And objectively, we mapped it out and I will be taking the Southern route.

So as this podcast is airing, if there's anybody who is along that, I'll be hitting the archway,

the gateway.

Through St. Louis.

Through St. Louis, headed down through Oklahoma into Texas, New Mexico, Arizona.

Cross through Amarillo there and then Flagstaff, you'll be in Flagstaff.

I'll be going through briefly through the Sedona Mountains.

I think it was the, well, Sedona is a little south of Flagstaff.

You're going.

Okay.

Yep.

Okay.

Well, I just wondered what that mountain range is that that's what I thought was called

the Sedona Mountains.

Maybe somebody can correct us.

I thought I saw a little thing.

You'll know this time next week.

I will.

Charles, he'll be in Amarillo just just through that upper corner there and then

that's it.

And so we'll be, we'll be trucking through.

I am, I've elected to take my 12 year old on this trip with me, which has created another

layer.

Another layer of logistics.

Fortunately for us, our public school system is awesome is working with us.

They're actually providing him Wi-Fi and a full universal router so that he actually

will be attending school in the truck as we drive across the country.

You'll actually, your mountain range is the San Francisco Peaks.

Despite the fact that I'm in Flagstaff.

That's what the Google says.

I don't know.

Whatever.

Somebody from that area can chime in.

There you go.

And so the goal, and I've certainly done some really dumb drives, but I'm trying not

to make this one so dumb, but that puts me juggling a lot of balls at this moment.

So.

And, you know, Geogateepers is give me the keys.

I can only keep offering my services.

He really wants to do this drive.

We got Bob Mike.

I would love to.

Man, I would love to if it was not in a big rig with Bob Mike and, say, in sunny in

70, county in Ohio.

No.

Not even close.

Kind of a maybe a little sunny, but Daddy Jeep saying my kid just took that southern

route in my Denali.

It only caught on fire twice with Neil's history of vehicles that's not re-assuring

right now.

Bad talk and it is not on my bingo card.

So.

Charles says that you'll be five hours north of him.

Sorry, Charles.

No detours for me on the way through.

Yeah.

I'm purposely avoiding the Rockies as you come out of the west side of Denver.

Yeah.

I'm purposely avoiding that.

The the international, if you are unfamiliar is which is a truck we've had

since 21 and I love it dearly, but it does have its limitations.

It is a 25 year old truck running a electronic 466 international engine.

It's got a couple little goodies and doodads on it.

But with the five speed transmission, it does not like the mountains.

Not one bit.

And Western Pennsylvania and as you crest over to the east coast, it struggles

through, you know, just the appellations.

I want nothing to do with the Rockies in the international, at least on the way

out there.

I kind of want to tackle them on the way back there.

I'll be honest with you.

Of course you do.

I want you to go back through Arizona and pick me up some rust free tea parts.

I am factually running one spot open on the trailer.

I thought about taking the Mini Cooper.

I thought about taking the Mini Cooper up on the deck of the trailer.

That way you have something to drive around.

That way we had a run about when we got into Las Vegas.

I think I've since changed my mind.

And if there is, you know, the right vehicle on the way back through as whether

it's a listeners got it, whether I find it on the side of the road, I will have a spot

on the trailer that we could bring something back with us.

That'd be fun.

And God willing, we're trying to sell these jeeps at SEMA.

These customers are itching to build more with us.

So, you know, if somebody wants, you know, to make an offer to make an offer,

we've got some numbers in mind and those customers are ready to buy and build something else.

So kind of a cool kind of a cool opportunity.

But he said going through Amarillo, you'll be smelling cowboy money.

I'll take it.

I will.

And I've got family in Amarillo, so we're going to try to locate you a spot for rest.

That would be that would be excellent.

So we're we're trying to hit some some stop points and make it not such a hard,

you know, 14, 16 hour drive days, which, you know, should be easier on myself and the truck,

especially with the long week of SEMA, a lot of people think we're out there to kind of

like, you know, party and do this on third and unfortunately, anything that we've ever

done out there over the last decade or so has been straight business.

Yeah.

You know, you're you're covering a lot of territory.

The show is so massive.

Straight business and then we like once once throughout the trip, we try to find something

fun for eating it.

And that's about it.

That's about it.

And other than that, you're pretty tuckered out from trying to cover all the ground and

meet with the people and do the things and see the stuff that makes us, I think, kind

of uniquely us within the industry kind of being a small, but mighty and knowledgeable

business where we're actually bringing that information back home to to you all.

So really use the event for what it's it was originally intended for.

And Billy Joe said she'd love to see some live footage from SEMA again, unfortunately

for the podcast, you'll be way too early in the morning there, but maybe you could do

a Tuesday live.

Yeah.

And we we used to I used to do more lives there and some content, you know, coverage

and whatnot.

So hopefully we'll be able to to bring that to Tuesday is the first official day

of SEMA.

So it is you'll if you do a Tuesday update, that'd be really fun.

That would be very fun.

So excellent stuff there.

I think that that reasonably kind of outlines for everyone what the expectations are again,

huge shout out to Crown Automotive and RT Offroad for sponsoring both hashtag not a

restoration the swamp donkey and Johnny five, you know, big, big thanks to them for making

this opportunity possible and for getting behind and supplying parts for some really

cool builds.

Also for working really closely with the mad scientist and some research and development

of product and ensuring that some of the the best replacement and replica parts are sold

under those lines and they pass them sometimes through the mad scientist hands to verify

vet and, you know, kind of tweak or modify in the process.

So I've been doing and expanding upon that partnership more and more recently.

So thanks to them, Jeffrey has an activity for us prior to us doing our weekend update.

And again, you're going to stay tuned for our personal lives.

So this is a Halloween edition of a build.

We've done a Christmas version before this time.

We're going to ask the listeners to at the end weigh in with who's Jeep build and

which driver do they want to stick with.

So you're going to pick your favorite one of us to navigate you through the Jeep

Bocalypse Jeep Bocalypse.

Now what's fun about this is that this is actually something prior to business when

Scott and I were just friends, something that we actually benchtop built benchtop

built frequently together.

And I almost don't want us to go first.

You benchtop build doomsday jeeps.

We absolutely unquestionably we did.

That's awesome.

I had no idea picking this topic.

You actually, you started to kind of say it the other day.

You teased it to me and I thought, oh, this is, and I think I was, I was enthusiastic.

I was like, yeah, Jeff, this is really cool, expand upon it, blah, blah, blah.

And I thought to myself, Scott and I have literally done this for fun talking to each

other before.

But, but here's the caveat is not only is the build.

I understand.

Driver too.

And they, our listeners have to make that decision based on what they know about us.

I'm with you.

So the rules for this one, there's no budget.

There's no limits.

Yep.

Jeep era doesn't matter.

Pretend it's a new Jeep.

You find a surplus of new condition jeeps, whatever you want to.

Doesn't matter.

Sure.

The Jeep's new.

You're starting fresh.

Sure.

All mods must exist on the market.

No custom fabric cobbled defensive spikes off the front.

You can assume that all your mods will work together because you can make them all work

together.

Sure.

We understand.

I like that.

We understand the assignment.

I know Scott would be like, well, I can build this in my garage and I can build this.

That's fair.

But no, that's fair.

That's not an option.

That's fair.

All right.

I can appreciate that.

So we found the warehouse full of all the Jeep mods and all the jeeps.

What Jeep are you starting with and why?

You're actually going first.

Gladiator.

I'm starting with the Gladiator.

That's fine.

Go ahead.

Tell us why.

Because I have more storage ability and I can add a lot more preparation survival type

gear to it.

Okay.

You've already lost just so you know.

No.

Go ahead.

At least in cool points.

Scott, me or you?

Go ahead.

Doose and a half.

Multi-fuel, six by six, doose and a half.

You're Gladiator.

When there's no gasoline on the market and your electronics, the EMP takes it all out.

You are S-O-L.

Scott and I played this game already, homie.

All right.

What do you got, Scott?

So who's going to bust his bubble and say that's not a Jeep and then we have to argue

it is a Jeep?

It's a Jeep.

Don't tell me that a doose and a half isn't a Jeep.

Don't tell me.

Well, Scott gets the final say on that one whether it is a Jeep or not.

But what's Scott going with?

So just because I got to be a little bit weird, I don't remember the exact military destination

of it because I just got too much stuff in my brain from this weekend.

But the Crew Cab diesel FC would be my vehicle choice.

Yeah, I'm trying to remember what that, I want to say it's like a 1-M175.

M175, something like that.

Yeah, absolutely.

That's a sweet one.

Same way.

Except for...

I know it is from the factory, it's a Perkins.

Correct.

Which, you know, that's not staying.

That's not staying, he says.

That's not staying.

But we're going to go with the same kind of theme that Neil is going for of fuel is

not going to be as much of an issue, electronics are not going to be an issue.

So I want to stop you there.

Why do you think fuel won't be as much of an issue for a diesel?

Well, because these things will run on anything.

Will run on anything.

Okay.

So again, these engines, so the refinement process of diesel at that time and certainly a multifuel

is arbitrary to today's standards.

Anything as far as modern day engine platforms are, you know, the refinement of the fuel

has to be so, so, so good.

So, but for your specific purpose, where are you getting your fuel from?

Where ever I find it.

So again, so Jeff, we actually had a friend.

So it's a part of this is fun story.

We actually had a friend acquaintance.

If it was a friend of Scott's, he's a friend of mine.

He actually built a doomsday vehicle.

Okay.

And we actually did build a couple, right?

And he was very intentional in his, in his modifications.

And this is what spurred our interest in it at the time and are probably the one

that stands out to us the most.

And I'm speaking for Scott in this situation, but I, again, we expanded upon this a lot

back in the day was a Cummins Ram charger where he used a 6BT and he could shove

peanut oil, used motor oil.

Transmission.

Transmission fluid.

That's pretty sweet.

He, and honestly with little to no refinement process.

And so the reality we know certainly on the multifuel that the doos and a half

is it doesn't fly.

It doesn't give a flying fig.

The Perkins might care a little bit more, but Scott's contention.

He put a 4BT in there.

Yep.

For the exact same reason that our acquaintance had the 6BT in this

Ram charger.

There's only part of it that's not so much fun.

Zero knows what I'm going to do.

Right.

But so fuel, fuel and then rubber is, in my opinion, one of the biggest

issues you run into with apocalyptic, you know, post-apocalyptic vehicles.

I would agree.

And I think when it comes to fuel, the reason I was okay going with the

Gladiator is because I know how to siphon fuel.

I know how fuel pumps and tanks work.

I don't care if the service center works.

Sure.

I can get fuel.

I get that.

Jerry Cahans all of that.

100%.

That makes sense to us.

Gas just has a shelf life.

Gas has a shelf life.

Whereas it does.

Modern gas.

Absolutely.

Modern gas, ethanol, rich, modern gas in my opinion does.

But then you can rate any of the stores with the octane boosters,

whatever you need.

Literally did you guys, I sent you that reel over the weekend.

That's what I'm saying.

Yeah, but I sent you, yeah, but the whole point was that was

2025 versus in the 90s or whatever, the early 2000s.

But.

And it was like, for the folks listening at home, it was a

reel.

It was this guy and he was like putting fuel in your mower in

the 90s.

In the 80s or 90s.

Yeah.

And it was like, I found this pickup truck from the 60s and

I siphoned the fuel out of it and you're going to take this

fuel.

And he was telling his tractor and you're going to take this

fuel and you're going to like it and you're going to run.

And then it was like same tractor 2025.

And it was like, well, I got you the special snowflake

sprinkle fuel with the chocolate spice additive.

Yes.

Please don't clog up on me.

Please don't clog up on me or corrode inside the

carbon potato.

And it's just today's fuel is not made like yesterday.

But.

But while you say that, I have absolutely just used fuel from

three years ago in a tractor and in a modern tractor and

made it run.

No problem.

Same time though.

First EMP strike.

You're still sitting on the side.

You're done.

You're smoked.

And that's a mechanical diesel in our opinion is going

to be far superior to.

Mine isn't even going to have a shutdown solenoid on it.

See, and that's where and I honestly don't know enough

about the actual multi fuel deuces.

I think it's all.

It's a total mechanical.

I'm pretty sure it is.

And so like my L 7000 Cummins.

This doesn't have a lot of hers first.

I have no hers parts.

I have a question on the EMP.

You guys keep referencing that.

Yes.

But this is a Halloween edition zombie apocalypse.

We have a smart EMPs.

A smart scientist zombie.

Oh, that was a snack on some Jeff.

Okay.

Curveball.

It's a zombie apocalypse in his opinion.

Interesting.

The scientist zombies took you out.

The scientist zombie.

Whatever.

Simple.

Get you home, man.

Yes.

That is, has always been the contentious multi-purpose

platform of apocalypse.

Aren't you guys glad I gave you the option for an old Jeep?

Uh-huh.

Oh, yeah.

Well, because the other one is.

I knew you would go with the deuce.

No, you did not.

Absolutely.

You talked about that.

I was surprised it didn't go like the five-toner.

You know what?

Because the five-toner is less of a Jeep.

Less, you can make less argument of it being Jeep

than, because I'll be honest, there's a five-toner

for sale right now north of Pittsburgh.

And I was like, how sick would that be?

Man.

Talking about no creature comfort, so.

No creature comfort.

Good.

Well, it showed up on a search.

When I was searching dump truck and I thought,

it is technically a dump truck.

It just happens to be a five-ton success.

I've seen more five-toners be semi-rigs.

With a fifth wheel plate on the back.

Yes.

There was also an Oshkosh that showed up in similar capacity.

But that's getting off the rails.

All right.

So now we're going to start.

We've got our base platforms.

Start building the Jeep.

What mods are you putting on?

We'll start with Scott this time and work back across.

So we're going to do a 4BT with the,

I can't remember if it's supercharger or turbocharger.

It was a special addition.

It was turbocharged intercooled

since I can have anything.

That's a very rare 4BT.

But what the heck?

Yes.

It's as much a Hearst-Pers as I can.

We're going to put it for NV4500 behind it

because all that stuff exists.

And they share the same stuff as a 12-valve.

We're going to lane it over five degrees

so it doesn't shake my teeth.

That's a secret.

You referenced that.

It's a secret.

You referenced it.

There it is, folks.

Tools in your toolbox, whether you heard it or not.

We're at a wheelbase for days.

So we're going to do a 205-203 doubler.

A doubler?

You're going to rock crawl in your FC

while you're escaping the zombies.

You don't know what you're going to need.

So the more gears, the better.

He's not wrong.

Okay.

And I think they make a gear kit for the 203

but we'll leave the 205 alone.

So that way I have a broader spread of gears.

So I need low-low.

I got it.

If I don't, then I got it.

I think we'll go with a simple 60 in the rear

and a 60 in the front.

Just kind of keep it simple, stupid.

Dana crate axles because, you know, why not?

Simple, easy.

Probably go with a 456, 488 gear

and conservative tires.

I'm thinking 35s.

It fits under the FC well, right?

Not too much.

Not a wacky center of gravity.

And I got bed for days.

So pretty much whatever prepping stuff

I want to put in the bed I can.

Are we saying what we would have fit it for

for that kind of stuff as well

or are we just doing the build of the vehicle?

Well, it's all defense, no weaponry,

for survivability and defense mods.

So for me, I would need some equipment

that I can go into a cave

or go into some sort of underground

fortification is what I'd be looking for.

So some sort of digging equipment,

some sort of cloaking stuff.

A cloaking device?

No, not cloaking.

Not cloaking device.

He said cloaking device, folks.

He said cloaking device.

Don't take me so literal.

Some sort of way that I can kind of disappear.

Okay, okay.

We're going to come back.

He's going to do like a camel cover over it.

Right, like a gilly net for it.

I can dig that.

So I feel like I should expand for people

if they are unaware of what a doosin' a half is.

It's a two and a half ton truck from the 60s,

maybe even as early as the early 70s

or into the 70s.

I mean, they've had doosin' a half from World War II.

The one flavor you're talking about

is like a 68 to 72-ish.

Correct, correct, correct, correct.

And it is a six by six.

It actually has, there was an option

to lock both rear deferentials.

Pretty gnarly.

As far as a vehicle was concerned,

if you are unfamiliar with this particular,

it was made exclusively for the military.

You saw it used just incredibly limited

in what I might call civil service occupations.

You could see them in the fire departments.

There was a smattering of them offered

to first responders, forestry.

I've seen tankers, there's been troop carriers.

Correct.

There's been a bunch of different options

as far as bed is concerned.

It was meant to be a highly utilitarian,

kind of indestructible vehicle.

And I think it was called the Hercules multi-fuel.

It was a straight six engine.

And it was able to theoretically be run

in standard petroleum gasoline or diesel.

So that's joking aside.

That's what I was, or I am sherry.

It's got a big truck transmission, if I remember right.

Right, yep.

It's got a piece of cloth with a little bit of cushion in it

on a flat, very uncomfortable seat.

Yep, yep, yep.

Basic flat dash.

Yep, yeah, super rudimentary,

super and limited to no electronic whatsoever.

So with that said, they have lots of cable actuated stuff.

And I remember, I'm sure you remember this,

the JP magazine where the one guy bought one

and he took it wheeling.

And he showed the rear suspension and showed it,

flexing it out and stuff.

And they have these really cool leaf spring,

but not rear suspension.

Absolutely, and it does not have a ton of articulation.

Jeff's will articulate in a far superior fashion.

He'll be able to, you know, just kind of bounce

over top of the zombie bodies in his process.

Since I will not be able to do that,

I'm going with the standard V-blade,

cow catcher type of apparatus on the front

so that I can just run in them over.

I'm just running them over and I'm plowing the field

while I'm in the process, right?

Not hiding that thing.

No, I'm not hiding with anything.

They came with, many of these trucks came with

like a gajillion ton hydraulically ran winch.

I want to ensure that that is on this truck.

And I'm not looking for any fancy

drive line modifications.

It's slow and functional is my kind of contention.

And so that's why-

And you have to have off the shelf stuff

and I'm not really sure what they have.

Well, there's not much of anything off the shelf

for that particular vehicle.

I do want to maybe throw some minor plating

by the tires.

I don't want them to hack my tires.

That would be the big downside.

There's a lot of rubber exposed on that truck.

Now the good news is while it's not particularly attractive

like in the cool factor,

if you see a deuce and a half now,

the original ones actually had all of the drive tires

and the steer tires were all identical.

So you had eight drive tires and two steer

in certain applications.

And so you had 10 tires total.

So I mean, as you lose tires,

you could interchange them.

And aren't they a weird size?

They are super weird size.

Military, NDT.

What's going to take Neil out is he has a weird lug pattern.

Yes.

He has a weird tire size.

So he can't even find like an old semi-depot

and steel tires.

That is the downside.

He is stuck.

I'm stuck to a military surplus.

If he was smart, he'd be doing like the airless tires

so there wouldn't be a problem.

I like the thought of those.

But they probably don't make them in his size.

Not exactly off the shelf.

But if I had a modification,

I want the augers from the new Twister movie.

So that you could just be stuck while the zombies attack you.

So I'm plating.

Don't forget, I'm plating.

So you could be stuck while the zombies attack you.

And I want an enclosure.

So the bed is massive.

Jager Jeepers said, off the shelf, cow catcher?

I said a V-blade.

I mean, I could do a big snow plow.

But there's no fabric wobbling.

If you're putting an NV-4500 in an FC,

no, no, no.

Because quite frankly, an NV-4500 on a 4BT,

you'd be shifting from the back seat.

It has to be a crew cab because the folks in the back

would have to be shifting it for you.

And his defense, I did say,

if it's a mod that exists,

we can assume that you can get it attached to the vehicle.

Okay, that's fine.

And I understand the capacity for the augers

does not help me with the zombies specifically.

It doesn't even help you with the tornado.

Come on, that movie was so fake with that regard.

So I'm looking for kind of a camper-style provision.

So the bed on those is oftentimes like 10 or 12 feet.

You can actually put a full-size Jeep in the bed of one of those.

Is that where he's cheating?

He's got a runaway Jeep on the bed?

Ah!

So I've got a kind of a camper

so I can have all my cook gear inside.

When I go to sleep,

the zombies aren't going to get me

because you guys are bug out vehicles.

You're going to be uncomfortable sleeping.

I want an actual provision steel box

because they did sometimes have those,

certainly some bigger applications.

And that way you can't get in and get me

while I am recharging my own batteries.

And I can fit my family

and I can do some minor cooking and whatnot.

And then I've got a big open spot on the bed still.

And then because they can tow anything,

they actually used to have these big 10-foot trailers as well.

And I'm pulling one of those with...

With more tires you can't get.

With...

I'm looking for a road train

to be heading down through the zombie apocalypse.

When the roads are blocked with vehicles that have been abandoned.

Why do I have a V-blade?

While you're hauling a trailer full of more stuff?

With no hearsepers.

I don't need hearsepers!

Have we not seen Killdozer?

This is not a great reference

but an appropriate title is ever.

You literally said, do some half version of Killdozer?

Yes!

It's a proven process!

No.

Proven that he got taken down.

So anyway, we don't need to get into Killdozer.

But yes, there's...

Now, the other thing that Scott and I did talk about years and years ago

was a nice nimble run about

like an MB or something civilian.

Again, clean running four-cylinder points

because again, points don't care about electronics

in the same capacity that electronic ignition does.

But we did say cheap build.

I'm just...

I didn't say that was on my road train.

I'm just saying it could be on my road train.

Alright, Jeffrey, what modifications?

What's your gladiator?

Obviously, you're going to tons on the axles,

doing the long arms so you have the extra slinkiness

as we talked about.

Steel bumpers front and back.

Nice ride quality while you're running away from the zombies.

Steel bumpers front and back,

doing winch on the front, 12k synthetic

so you can tie it back together quickly if you need to.

I'm with Scott on the 35

so that if I do need to change a tire,

I can do it more efficiently than a 37 or bigger.

I'm just getting the underside

so that as I run over the zombies

they're not getting latched into too much.

They're going to get stuck between the diff cover

and both of our rigs.

But...

You've got all the Fab Force grumper grill

and armor around the windshield.

Oh yeah, you've got the branch deflectors.

That's 100% a grumper build at that point.

I am doing the zombie hunter light setup

all around but I'm adding motion sensors.

So they can find you easier?

Nope.

So that when I'm in my rooftop tent...

A McDonald's!

Just put a McDonald's!

Jeff would be McDonald's

because folks who are listening at home,

Jeff is a for a grown,

freaking man.

He looks like a child has been let loose

with a $20 bill in a convenience store

when he unpacks his lunch.

All I know is that I'll be able to survive

on whatever foods I find.

You'll have to have a special diet!

I will have to have a special diet!

Scott will be dead within the first day

because he'll be off the side road,

go in the bathroom,

and then be biting his butt!

So anyways,

I would have the bed rack

with the rooftop tent

and that's why the motion lights would be there

so that while camping if the lights activated

it would alert me and I can get out of there quick.

In the cloth tent!

I can't! But it's set up higher

so at least they have to start climbing to it.

Are you going to climb out of the cloth tent?

They're already like,

ripping through the tent

and you're like, let me climb down my ladder!

Who said I have to climb down a ladder?

I can jump.

He's got a

a fire pole

because of his...

He's got a soft top jeep on top of it.

He's got a soft top jeep

because he likes to feel the wind in his hair

so he outruns the zombies.

Hey, you know what?

If I can be faster and more nimble

than both of your jeeps

I'm not my cave, I'm fine.

He's gone to a cave

in North America!

He finds the root source

of the zombies in this cave.

He drives into the cave

and there's this glowing orb

of goo or something.

Oh, dear.

It's zombified.

Nate said a larger RTT overhangs the cab

and then you can enter and exit into the cab

without going outside.

So there you go.

That's exactly how I feel

my

camper bunkhouse would be.

Right.

I'm struggling to think of what that's called.

A sleeper?

I guess it would be a sleeper.

An attic.

It's called an attic.

Grandma's attic is what we used to call it

on the movie trucks.

That's exactly what that would be.

It's that forward design

where you can come and go

out of the cab of the vehicle

pretty efficiently.

I'll give you that on the...

I've seen some sick gladiator builds

with a little bit of an attic on them.

Speaking of the character

who did the road less traveled

is selling his.

It can be yours for a cool

$150,000.

Additionally for that though, I would also put

the 392 in so I have that extra power

and speed.

It's definitely screwed on fuel.

Absolutely.

That's what all the Jerry cans

and all the extra fuel amenities are for.

We've gone three blocks.

We need to refuel.

I just spit all my water.

I almost

spitted on him.

But I went three blocks

while you guys are still trying to

look at the zombies going.

What do we do?

I'm just in first gear.

I'll fix my tires.

They're all going after him with all the noises

that that thing's making.

I'm re-feeling

and still going again before he's

made it a block.

All right.

I'm going to make a case

for why people want to be

as I'm the driver

because I actually

little known secret

I actually

pretty heavily

played into the doomsday prepper

movement and Scott knows that

in

specifically 2012.

I was ready for the Maya calendar.

I was just

conscientious.

You didn't have a bunker.

You didn't have an armory.

I did

have

I'm going to stop you there.

I think that's all I want to divulge.

I'm going to point out we're all millennials.

We've all done that.

That's fine, Jeff.

You can have that.

I will subtly avail

that I was

certainly not I did not deserve

to be on doomsday preppers

the TV show.

My subtle expectation

for

2012 was that I was

going to be unscathed

regardless of

some type of divine

interaction. And my plan

is not much different.

In that era I was like I just need to get out

in the woods and get away from everybody and leave me alone.

I just went to a cave this time.

My case for myself

is A, I was

I've driven all over the country

so I know a lot of the routes really well

and

as in your own words

like a cockroach

I just won't die.

You're using my words against me.

I thought you were going to go with like

I was a first responder.

You were a first responder.

I was a first responder. I know how to adapt and overcome.

No, no, no, no.

I was a Lyft maneuver driver

in Pittsburgh even with the bridges.

Like there's no stopping me.

No, he uses the fact

and this is

folks, if there's ever a person

who was like a cockroach in the fact that

after the apocalypse

it'll be Twinkies cockroaches and Jeff.

That is

probably accurate.

It's a tough one.

Now the problem is

if any of our listeners

they would have to put up with you the whole time.

That is true.

That's fair.

But it says which one would you survive with?

Not which one would you want to put up with?

All of those apocalyptic

so the debate is who survives the longest

first of all

and obviously we both can agree that

Scott's out.

Scott's gone.

There's nothing you can do to tell me

that you're not going to get eaten at a gas station

while you're huffing and siphoning

gas for that 392.

There's just nothing you can tell me

that you're not going to get eaten.

I'm just, I'm stuck on that.

That 392 is thirsty

and it's sensitive to the gas.

I'm stuck on it.

Worst case is I have a Lyft or failure

You have to take the head off.

After failure

you're going to be servicing the Lyfters

in the camshaft

on the side of the road.

It's way worse on a Hemi than it is on a

362.

He's going to have to get 11

team spark plugs.

Oh yeah, don't forget the 16 spark plugs.

I still think I

outlast you on that one.

The Congress will be running from

because I would find ways to make it happen.

My team is gone but I

self survive.

So hear me out.

So if I'm in a cave, I don't have to worry about a heat source

because it stays a concept after.

What cave did you drive to?

Whatever I find.

He's going to find one with a grizzly bear.

He'll survive the zombies

because he dies by a bear attack.

He's trying to think of any cave.

But just think about it.

It doesn't get too hot, doesn't get too cold.

There's no cave that he finds.

He finds one and he ends up trying to

split up or whatever it's called.

He's trying to

He's finding magic spark plugs for gas.

He's just falling down a hole.

We're off the friggin rails folks.

It happened.

We knew it was going to happen. Anytime Jeff suggests

these

gameplay.

Oftentimes people reach out to me and they're like

man, I really learned this thing.

Or this was impactful that you shared with us.

It's not these.

That's not these episodes.

This is not impactful at all.

But I am curious.

We've got a bunch of listeners. I wonder what they think.

Who they think they would survive the longest with.

What's Jeff likes?

Oh, AI.

And Davey could have made some good

AI pictures.

I was going to say I like AI, but Davey uses AI

way more.

I think it's going to be safe.

Everything's better in Texas.

I believe that.

Absolutely.

And then Nate was saying just build the dead

reckoning from land of the dead.

Yeah.

All of these

kind of apocalyptic and we are

as a society fascinated by that

dystopian

concept.

So much so sometimes it feels like we're

wishing it upon ourselves.

Speaking of that,

there is some form of

this conversation

and figuring out whether you want to

follow

Woody Harrelson

or

who's the actor from

Ghostbusters who made his appearance

in

Zombieland.

Oh, I know what you mean.

I don't remember his name.

SNL character.

I don't know what his name is.

Super, super famous

because he was in Zombieland and he was

held up in his mansion.

You have to kind of figure out what

Bill Murray.

Bill Murray, thank you so much.

You have to kind of figure out what

course of action you're going to take.

Obviously, being

prepared to bug out is

advantageous because

unless you are Bill Murray held up in

your mansion.

So you get shot because you're pretending to be a zombie.

Right, right.

Spoiler, sorry.

Or

the Twisted Metal series

that's out right now.

I love the Twisted Metal series.

Yes.

Super, super fun.

Whether you run around an ice cream truck

or a Twinkie truck.

Surviving the zombie apocalypse.

That was fun.

Honestly, the fact that you brought that up

is 100% why

I would survive the longest out of this group.

Without question.

Because Jeff is going to survive on Twinkies.

I will survive on anything I find

in a store or a warehouse

or homes, whatever.

He's going for the Hostess Factory.

It doesn't matter, I'll survive on it.

It's part of your cockroach nature.

You would start to eat some of that stuff

and then you would be joining Scott in the bathroom

when the zombies are attacking you guys together.

Good, as long as my clean diet

was satisfactory

and then I would be done from there.

Scott's wife chimed in

that she's had

Scranton PA apparently

has some cool minds.

And then you got everybody yelling at us

it's Bill Murray.

Bill, Bleep and Murray.

That's funny.

And then you got the storage caves

in Missouri outside of KC.

There is actually Du Bois, Pennsylvania

a mountain that you can go in.

At least you do. There's salt mines.

Let's see, here's the thing.

I would absolutely be able to make it

all around the U.S. without GPS

or without a map. Scott I don't think

I think he would struggle with my wife.

He has his wife that he's banking on.

Alright folks, well this is your

opportunity and we're going to shut this down

and transition over

a little bit here.

Your opportunity, was that correct Jeff?

Reason was speaking?

So weigh in.

I am satisfied enough

and

just kind of

ensuring that

our rigs are satisfactory

our cases have been made

now it's time for people to weigh in

if you want to weigh in

in the live audience here

you're welcome to tell us which rig

and which driver and you can mix and match

as you see fit. If you're so motivated

to be listening at a later date

send us a cryptic message to email

or our text only number

440-855-2100

and you can just kind of be like

Scott in Jeff's Jeep

I don't know, something like that

I was going to say

I was going to say Scott

but I ain't dying for a Twinkie

Scott cannot tolerate

anything digestibly

he can eat rice folks

and

maybe that's sometimes a little too spicy

Charles said you'll have a great week

this was a fun episode

and just as we were ensuring

that our rigs would be prepared

in the

zombie jeepocalypse

Halloween style

it is your opportunity to make sure that

if there is a snow

apocalypse like we had just a few

a year ago

a few weeks from now

this time last year a few weeks from now

there was a authentic snow

apocalypse and this is when

good rubber to the ground

and good 4B4

and making sure that you don't have the shakes and shimmies

as the roads are slick and

hard to traverse this is a great time

to get your crawl over

scheduled if you're unfamiliar

about our crawl over services

it is a general health diagnostic

roughly a 45

minute to an hour long

inspection it is a multi

page inspection with a

half an hour or so

consultation with you

where we'll actually point out

converse share

and bring you over to the jeep

and kind of show you what we know

and what we're seeing

with that said

we then can

kind of do two things one we can give you an

estimate or repair or

kind of give you our expectation

that you can take and do the repair

yourself

we understand that you know the DIY

market is valuable to the jeep

community so that's what the crawl over exists

you're kind of paying for us

to look at it in our

critical eye and for

either us to repair or for you to take that

information take it back to your general

service mechanic take it to

your jeep club you can do whatever

with it and kind of pick away

at it additionally

sometimes we'll mix and match we'll give you some free

bees that you can do and say hey this is something

simple that you can do yourself at home

and you don't have

to you know pay us unless you want to

and then we'll do the

heavier lifting on the job so this is your

time to get those scheduled

before the winter and they want to know about home calls

for the crawl over service we don't do

home calls per se but we do

absolutely do the virtual remote

in we do and

we actually do FaceTime

remote consultation for

a number of reasons and so whether

it's buying a vehicle or

kind of helping you know troubleshoot

or do some some general

looksie-loo diag

there's actually quite a bit of that

that we can do

when scheduled appropriately and

kind of working

through our process so if that is

something that you are interested in or you're

you're going to go buy a jeep but another

jeep or you're trying to fix something you can't

kind of can't quite figure out

we do have pay for services

where we try to meet jeepers

where they're at alright

and we made

sure somebody said mood-gorming

and wanted to recognize

that little

fun play fun play because

that that's definitely gets

set on on on air I don't

even know I can't read the namesake beans

and roots nine two nine four

fantastic and somebody said good morning as well

Cleveland jeep guy

excellent good morning good morning to everybody

I think we got all the comments though

if we miss you we're sorry

oh what about demudding services

because it's everywhere

heck no

I will not

pull any punches we actually

we actually charge an environmental fee when it is

extra dirty and

we have to demud it ourselves

to do any of the work

great off-road parts comes great responsibility

that means cleaning there you go

well I had a lot of fun we are

with this topic Jeffrey thank you so much

for kind of prepping that

and laying it out there nobody really

wants to exactly weigh in other than

the fact that they don't because they all know

that none of them are surviving with

us

and on that note jeep on jeep on

jeep on

that was good I had been a while since

we kind of played a game or

I wanted to note that

your socks are actually like orange as well

they're like a harvest color

I have no idea what I'm looking at

how do you not know what Scooby-Doo is

they're

they're Scooby's color

and the fur color

that is what they are

look at you that was cute

that's a good lead and I guess he has to go first now

so

well you already called me out for

being shaven 12

yeah so

I'm surprised how fast it kind of

is filling back in

it was particularly horrible

on Friday or Saturday

you did a 2 minute jaw drop of staring off

it was

that was not ready

I asked Neil why

we suddenly didn't

adhere to labor laws for

children

what's better is

it was Friday morning

before the day really got started

Greg Scott and I are talking

you walk in, right into the group

grab some parts, walk away

rush off

and then I purposely kept my back to you

until he called you out

for the labor laws

and I mean all it was

was you turned and looked

and that's all it took

I didn't exactly

know what

to say

so I mean

I've got absolutely no room

to speak

I don't even know if I have a chin

I know my family has a pronounced

like a little chin

and I have not seen

since my college football days

I have not seen a clean shaven face

but all of that

was because

we were going to a Halloween party Friday night

and you were full commit

I went full commit because

I was going as Fred Jones

from the Scooby Gang

he had a last name

who knew that

he went full in

he juggled

he had his research down

he knows his birthday, knows he's a Pisces

I mean

when you're a good leader

so anyways

he's still banking on trying to get somebody

to ride along with him in the apocalypse

this is what that is

that was exactly what that plug was

yes it was plugged

so anyways

Kristen went to Staphne

and then we went to this Halloween

party right and we're there

just hanging out having a good time

and all of a sudden

two other people who we don't know

show up as

where they dressed as Jeff

was the rest of the Scooby Gang

so we had Velma and we had Shaggy

and then because we needed a Scooby

they happen to have the skeleton dogs

in the party area

so we moved one of the skeleton dogs over

and we all took a group photo with the skeleton dog

that was super fun

that was a good time and then

I just can't believe that

the glitch of the matrix

was another couple came as

the rest of the gang

it was really fun

ridiculous

and then Kristen and

Velma became best friends

exchange of information and everything

it was a good time

and then honestly

that was Friday night

and by the time we got home we had kids

at two different places so we picked them up

on the way home got home late

Saturday morning we work

and then I just rested

most of the rest of the day Saturday

I was like alright I need to rest

it was great and then Sunday

I'll save for when Scott goes on

because I was at Scott's all day Sunday

I suppose I will

jump in here and round it out

since you're going to bookend Jeffrey

in that conversation

again as I've

shared with everybody

my further six weeks

but also

just my authentic self

you know a lot of people

look in certainly when it was

you know even just a few years ago

at the business

and they were like you know how does a guy this age

have this thing and blah blah blah

and I always tell people like

I basically got interested in

you know a couple things

when I was 12 to

15 and I just never stopped

right so like jeeps

I just never stopped

being interested lots of other people have lots of different

interests and they sell or divest

everything and they start something else and blah blah blah

so it was football and jeeps

and family and

you know motor sports in general so

my six weeks

but also kind of my returned authenticity

is obviously football

and

my kid kind of picked up on it on

his own free will and accord

and so he's been the ball boy so we ended up

at a game that I have no association

with just because my kids being the ball boy at it

Friday night late real nice night fireworks

go figure small town America

at a fireworks show

that's fun it was fun

it was super fun

and good for this high school

for for doing that

Saturday

of course that's late night

then then come Saturday

which is my daughter

in dance and a whole bunch of

activities that she and my son that are

involved in

and because I am going to be doing this

kind of large scale

trip will be gone from my family for an extended

period of time

I want to make sure I prioritize some of this

Halloween activities with my my daughter

specifically and we did some trunker

tree and some other stuff the specific

reasons because your son's going with

because my son is going with me right

and I'm going to miss Halloween with my

daughter which is actually as we've talked

about before kind of a big deal to me

I really love seeing the

community come together and this

you think about kind of this

one night where we're all kind of like

united in some capacity like nobody

cares or knows anything about each other

other than the behind the mask nobody knows

who's actually under the mask and you're

out there for a fun like

to make kids happy and to make your community

happy and so we're

you know like that's just so cool to me

and I really

enjoy trick or treating with my kids like it's just this

kind of a higher level thing for me

and I'm not going to get to do that with my daughter

my son's kind of aged out

his

interest in it has waned

is the best way to put it

and I'll be with him

and then we had

my daughter had a cheer activity to attend

in the evening as well so very full

day right

you know most people

from this

the morning I started

5-6 a.m. and the running about

and the project stuff and I did manage to work on

my house build this weekend

and kind of facilitate some of that

property stuff along

that wasn't Saturday that was Sunday

but most people would have called that a good day

right

you know

I can't even begin to tell you how many trip jeep trips I took

and how many times I stopped

in and out of the shop to get things

and move jeeps and do all that

that would have been good for the average people

but the Simpsons

decided to come home

after about 10 o'clock

we get home from said football game

and

if I was to do

something to make my life

far more complicated

and chaotic

than it was just a few days ago

I did it

and I did it by obviously

just flat out being married to my wife

and the sense that

we went

and we got

a dog

well Jeff, well Scott

I know that doesn't happen with you

you know that doesn't happen with Simpsons

so in the middle of the night

siblings

we decided to get

two chocolate labs

energy ones, energy

animals

eight weeks

so they want you on it

yep, so with me

about to take a cross country trip with

perfect sense

I really couldn't see how you could make

your weekends more chaotic

but you absolutely

100%

didn't just make it slightly more chaotic

no, you quadrupled that

100% you blew it out of the water

blew it out of the water, boy and girl again

girl girl

I like things in multiples

what can I say, so yep we

did that, we did a thing

so what's her names

Bonnie and Grace

so I

I'll be honest with you

there is no

supplementing diesel and camshaft

Bon Bon

and Gracie

are

that's a whole chapter from my wife

and the kids

I love all things

furry and animals

and not

I wasn't exactly 100% ready

so how many animals are you up to

five

I'm trying to compete with you

that's why I was asking

nope, so much no-pige

so that

on top of

you're not that far behind

so then my wife and I

were big on desensitization

I was going to say Greg might be ahead of you

at this point

cause they have three cats

and two dogs

something like that

they're five

and all of our dog does at this point is sleep

that's true, you don't actually have a dog

Greg's kid over the weekend

was like, your dog's broken

that's fair

that's cause he's got

I mean what they have a dalmatian

and that talk about energy

so yeah I mean

I just you know diesel and

Amy, Jennifer and I had such a great experience

and your sister says

you've all lost your minds cause you have so much

free time

so my wife is convinced

that these you know their labs

dad was

120 plus pounds

easily

and mom's

no joke

so my wife's convinced

she's got a purse dog at this point

I can tell

not even close

for a little while

our black labs

we threw them in the vehicle

we took them everywhere with us

we took them out over the weekend

we had them out at the house while we worked

and then this morning

they took my kids to school

and we're

riding the vehicle

to the school today

it's whatever

it's blind for punishment

it hasn't stopped me yet so whatever

I have no room to talk

no no we're all

dumb alright Scott

speaking of dumb what dumb thing did you do

Scott

Friday we had to go to

the football game

which I normally do not go

within 80 miles of that

you actually called it the right thing

my daughter got chosen

he was actually talking about

football and the way the plays

went and penalties and

he was we Greg and I were talking

with him about this and I'm just sitting

away is this Scott right I'm so confused

so the

it was a get in the game by the

Browns they had worked with

our district and they chose

three kids per school

which were 12 kids total

to get this award

and it was about attendance

and about just generally being

a good kid

to get along with everyone

she has no behavior

situations at all every time we go

and talk to anyone there she like

she's just a good soul

just so friendly and so good

if anyone needs something

a hug or

a confident

confidant or reassurance

or something like that

Evie is there for that so she got

to be recognized by

and that was pretty cool

you guys will laugh but there was two

times you could win tickets

for two different games

and we were me and my wife are both like

please don't let us

did you win both games

we win anything we're like

yes

you have friends who would be okay with going

that was pretty much Friday

Saturday we worked here and then

we went home

and tried to stuff food

in my mouth and get stuff

prepared

for our building

activities on Sunday

but it stopped

I literally just shut the tractor off

where it was ran to the Jeep

came back to the shop we did

trick or treat here

the business candy crawl

and thank you for representing us

but also let's to Evie's horn

realistically it's just Evie being

adorable handing out candy

and some other kids

she was going out and trying to lure

people in

she's a little domestic diva

when it comes to she gets her stool

and she's got her bucket

and she took her position

everything had to be organized

all the media used cups

with candy and everything was

pretty much set up so the person walked up

they got handed a cup and they moved on

it had to be all so many running

we had a few ducks

as well and then we had if the kid

was entrusted in a duck we would give them a duck

so she had to have a theme

we had career ducks

we had a navy duck

nice

I saw Evie come

bounding across the parking lot

from where you parked and everything

is it an oscillator

or is it a stitch

I don't know what oscillator is

axolotl

go ahead tell me more Jeff

go ahead Jeff

it's a type of lizard but anyways

Evie really loves those as well

it was a stitch costume

so I thought it was a stitch costume

and then I saw somebody else throughout the day

and I thought it was a stitch costume as well

and I was corrected that it's an axolotl

and I have no flipping idea

what that is but maybe Jeff wants to

share with us obviously you know

I do know

oh fair

my daughter went and saw the new Leo

and stitch movie in theaters

and never since then that's all she's talked about

well I saw her bounding across the parking lot

I was like we're in good hands

she's got this covered

so all we had to do was mildly support her

and that was all good

we did have

we didn't get a lot of jeepers for it

we did get a pretty cool radiator on 38's

so

we were so astounded by that

mixed opportunity

I apologize

but he was in love with Johnny 5

and just the shop in general

so that was pretty cool

went home

used more

all the lighting on the tractor

and hauled more boards

and protected the end of the posts

and all that stuff again trying to get prepared

for Sunday morning

Sunday

Greg shows up first thing

we ran

war and peace tool kit

we had a saw

with a stand

I don't even know so many tools

so we threw those all on the back

of my side by side named Clover

threw those out to the back

started looking at stuff

obviously made to side by side

I did

the tractor Sage

so everything has to have a name

so anyway

I didn't realize that you didn't know this

I didn't

I've got decals that have their names

I love it

so

things weren't quite prepared

to Greg level

so I ran around

that was a spit take

for those listening at home

there is water everywhere

cause Neil just spit water

so I ran around trying to make things ready

and

Jeffrey had the plans

for the building

you could get ready for the next 10 years

still wouldn't be Greg ready

that's true

I love that Scott

rummaging around in the middle of the night

with his tractor

in the cold

so they said

they told me

between 8 and 9

I tried to get them to set a time

and neither one of them wanted to be

I was trying to drink water

so anyways

Jeff had the plans

and he had everything kind of set up

and that was immediate the first grievance

but where's Jeff

he's got the plans

I don't know what we're doing

I gotta see what time you text me

so I sent Jeff the appropriate

Marco

between 8 and 9 is what I was told

that's what you were told

at 8.42 Marco

and I sent back a picture

in Kingsville

a couple blocks from his house

maybe

and I did say polo

he knows what he said

so then we

had to make

I have water in my nose

we had to make one run to the Home Depot

and get stakes so we could put up

it wouldn't be a family fun activity

if we didn't

so we could set up batter boards

measuring

the important part is we did get all

corner posts set

including the two on the outside

edge of the doors

for the overhead doors

and it took everything

because right about lunch's time

is when Greg departed

it took everything

me, Amy and Jeff had

to set the back corner post

and the back center

to post so one wall is done

so we

8 out of 24 posts

are set where they need to be permanently

but talk about just drugging through

the grime

grimace

I'm going to clarify and elaborate

your lunch time was 2 o'clock

so

Jeff was angry

from 2-5

with time to eat

so we ate lunch

which your wife made

a fantastic beef stew

it was awesome

we sat and ate lunch

we were only out there for a couple hours

to do those last posts

we actually moved really quick

but it felt like you were just

slogging through

it was 5 o'clock and I'm like

I'm done, we'll see you guys

the best part though

is we were using this really awesome

it goes on the edge of the post

multi level

my post level

it disappeared with Greg

so we go to set the last post

we're like oh where'd that go

we're wandering around

do what I do

where did Scott sit it down at

I was like

I bet you that they accidentally packed it up

when Greg was packing up

so we're like we'll make do with other levels

he's like I don't have a level

I said I got you

grabbed I haven't used it a whole lot

as always the theme of building

at Scott's is oh I have that at home

right you

me yes or Greg

in this case both of us

throughout the day I have that at home

yes and then you have to use

something of Scott's but it has to be

60 years old

at least half the size

that you would expect it to be

half the size of normal today's standards

or in this case the level was 6 foot long

versus just a little

two-inch level would have done the job

well I had the choice I go get

the level I got with my

craftsman's club toolbox

as a teenager

or this is why I'm not drinking anything

more

or

my dad

had a really nice quality

level it was in a

case yeah because it was my dad

he has his name his phone

number and his address

I want to

thank you

elaborate a little bit he's actually got a

10 pound sledge

literally as I'm using it

to drive steaks in for the batterboards

he goes I think

you have used that sledge

more than it's been used in its entire lifetime

it just always stood up

behind the door at the garage

our sledgehammer is supposed to do anything else

I thought they just stood in the corner

yeah I thought that's all you did

with sledgehammers but anyway we used

my dad's level for the last

three posts made me feel good that

he was able to he was contributing to you

and we

finally got those set

what a death march though my goodness

my ribs hurt I was so tired

by the end of the night and picking everything

that was a lot of physical and then my wife

had to go re-home a plant

with Jenny

oh my god

literally it was when she brought that up

I'm like alright guys I'm out of here

I'll see you later

and nothing against that it was just

I'm already beat good luck

and here's your loose lips sink ships

I knew you had a dog before

you'd said it

you can't keep a secret

when you said it

when you were like just one

that son of a gun knows

he knows

that's how it is

the rumor mills

they got a new pup as well

something in the air

alright folks I hope you had as fun

as much fun with this episode as we did

and if you didn't

don't tell us because we had a lot of fun

don't ruin our buzz

we do want to have you ruin our buzz with

who you would ride with for the apocalypse

Jeff is just

I need to know

I need to be number one

he is very competitive

another reason you should ride with me

he will run them down

I will

I don't care

oh my god

look for coverage from SEMA

and we may or may not

have something for you next Monday

it'll be a surprise probably not

I'm sorry

we just got so much going on

see you next time

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