The Avants Podcast Feb 9, 2026

Listener Follow Ups and the Ford Seat Debacle

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Car

Ford Raptor

The Ford F-150 is a big truck that many people in the U.S. use for work and fun. The Raptor is a special model made to drive really well off-road and is popular with people who like trucks.

Car

Ford Ranger

The Ford Ranger Raptor is a special version of the Ford Ranger truck made for driving on rough roads and trails. It has stronger parts and a more powerful engine to help it go off-road better.

Car

Ford Bronco

The Ford Bronco is a type of SUV that is good for driving on rough roads and trails. It looks boxy and cool, and many people like it for outdoor adventures.

Car

Ford Bronco Raptor

The Ford Bronco Raptor is a tough, fast version of the Bronco SUV made to drive on rough ground and dirt trails.

Car

Toyota 4Runner

The Toyota 4Runner is a type of SUV that is good for driving on rough roads and trails. It's known for lasting a long time.

Car

Chevrolet Blazer

The Chevrolet Blazer is a medium-sized SUV that looks modern and has many features. People liked it at first, but some think it might not stay popular for long.

Car

Chevrolet S10

The Chevrolet S10 is a smaller pickup truck made by Chevrolet. It's like a smaller version of big trucks you see on the road.

Car

The Toyota Tacoma is a small truck that lots of people like because it lasts a long time and can handle rough roads. It's good for work or outdoor fun. People talk about it because it’s dependable and holds its value well.

Term

tariffs

Tariffs are extra taxes on cars made in other countries, which can make those cars more expensive.

Concept

EPA emissions rollback

EPA emissions rollback means the government is making rules about car pollution less strict, which can change what kinds of cars companies make.

Car

Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish sports car made in America. It's known for being exciting to drive and not as expensive as some other fancy sports cars. People often talk about it because it offers great speed and looks.

Car

Acura Nsx

The Acura NSX is a special sports car from Japan that is fast and fun to drive. The older 1992 model is light and easy to handle, and some people change its engine to make it even more powerful.

Term

grounding

Grounding means connecting parts of the car's electrical system to the same spot so they work well together and don't cause problems.

Term

single point of failure

A single point of failure is one thing that, if it breaks, makes the whole system stop working. For example, if a wire that everything depends on breaks, nothing will work.

Term

bus bar

A bus bar is like a power hub in a vehicle where electricity is shared out to different parts, making wiring simpler and neater.

Car

Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron is a super-fast and very expensive car that is famous for being one of the quickest in the world. It’s made with the best parts and is very special.

Brand

Porsche

Porsche is a company that makes fast and fancy cars. They are known for sports cars that many people love.

Brand

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a big car company from Germany. They make many types of cars, from simple ones to very fancy ones.

Brand

Lamborghini

Lamborghini is a company that makes very fast and fancy sports cars that look cool.

Car

Bugatti Chiron

The Bugatti Chiron is a very fast and advanced car that came after the Veyron. It's known for being reliable and super powerful, making it one of the best cars in the world.

Concept

rally

A rally is like a car race that happens on different roads, sometimes off-road, where drivers try to complete sections in the best time. It's different from regular races because it involves following a route and sometimes tricky terrain.

Part

supercharger

A supercharger is like a pump that pushes extra air into a car's engine so it can make more power and go faster.

Part

recluse clutch

A recluse clutch is a special clutch that helps the bike run smoothly without stalling, so you don't have to worry about using the clutch perfectly all the time.

Term

ABS

ABS is a system in vehicles that stops the wheels from freezing when you brake hard, so you can still steer and avoid accidents.

Brand

Michelin

Michelin makes tires, which are the rubber parts that touch the road and help your car drive safely and smoothly.

Car

Lexus RC F

The Lexus RC F is a fancy sports car made by Lexus. It has a strong engine and looks cool, designed for people who want a fast and comfortable car.

Term

manual transmission

A manual transmission means the driver has to change gears by hand using a stick and a pedal. It makes driving more fun and gives you more control over the car.

Term

V8

A V8 is a type of car engine with eight power parts called cylinders arranged like a V. It makes the car powerful and sound cool.

Term

rear-wheel drive

Rear-wheel drive means the car's engine makes the back wheels move. This helps the car drive better and feel more fun to drive.

Car

Lexus LFA

The Lexus LFA is a very rare and fast car made by Lexus. It has a special engine that sounds amazing and is built with fancy materials to make it light and strong. People love it because it’s special and fun to drive.

Car

BMW M2

The BMW M2 is a small, sporty car that’s fun to drive and easy to handle. It has a strong engine and is good for people who want a car that’s exciting but also practical for daily use.

Car

Toyota MR2

The Toyota MR2 is a small sports car that’s easy to drive and handles well because its engine is in the middle of the car. The GR MR2 is a new version that tries to bring back the fun of the old one with new technology.

Part

muffler

The muffler is a part at the back of your car that makes the engine noise quieter so it doesn't sound too loud.

Part

intakes

Intakes are openings in the engine where air comes in to help the car run better.

LIVE

Welcome to the Avant's podcast. I'm Dan.

I'm Nick.

And there's Brian.

Hi.

The light just came on.

He's a lot.

Oh, yeah, we have a motion light.

The light just came on.

Yeah.

We need we can't be dark in here with you.

I'm an emotional support animal.

Yeah.

Truck looks great, Brian.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

I see you're calling in every favor you can to go over 1,000 likes on Instagram

or something like that.

I'm trying to break that pain point 1,000 Instagram.

Is that the real pain point?

Apparently, it's a thing.

I don't know.

I mean, I hear from other people that 1,000, once you get 1,000 likes,

then it's fine.

But getting that first 1,000 is painful.

As random as it is, and I don't know if it's just my affiliation with you

or with Kenny, all of a sudden people are starting to follow my raptor page.

I've gotten like 15 new follows.

And I haven't posted because I've been so busy on other things.

So, diodynamics followed me this week.

And me as well.

I don't even have their lights on my truck.

Neither do I.

You're just jealous of your lights.

Oh, I mean, great.

By the way, love the company.

It's just so, yeah.

They're catching up from the Subaru.

Yeah, right?

Somebody didn't lock the door behind them.

That would probably be me.

I can add two more signs.

Oh, okay.

Do you want me to sit down?

I'll get it.

Okay.

Has Nick steps away.

Let's talk about Nick.

Yeah, that's my bad.

Keep the riffraff out.

Yeah.

Now that Brian is captive.

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere now.

Yeah.

More bikini pics, by the way.

Lights are on Instagram.

I think that's it for you.

For anybody else.

Yeah, just me and a bikini.

That's what I need.

Yeah.

Your wife will love it.

I'm sure she will, yeah.

Your kids do it more so.

You might not get the truck involved,

but you'll get other votes.

My kids will unfollow me so fast.

I don't want to even make your heads up.

Now, I think it's, you know,

recently the Ford Raptor Nation group

that's kind of started up our last couple of months

has really gained a lot of traction.

Like, they've really been helping

with the Ranger Raptor Nation Facebook group or whatever.

Yeah.

And they've built that from,

I think in December,

it probably had like around 500, 700 followers.

Now it's, it just crested 20,000.

Oh, wow.

So it's fast growing.

And I think that you got cut up in that wave.

That's why you're starting to see that stuff.

I mean, it's great.

I, it makes me want to post more like,

and it was obviously makes me want to go out

and use my truck.

I was telling you guys,

I've been sitting in my driveway the last week.

I've been so busy,

which is a good price problem to have.

Cause then, you know,

that'll make the Raptor payment.

Right. Exactly.

Yeah.

I mean, the last time I think you drove it,

you saw my wife driving mine.

So it was like,

that was really funny because like,

I'm used to seeing you and you and I like,

we'll pass each other.

We don't really necessarily wave,

but then we,

one of us will text.

Yeah.

Always.

And I texted you right off the bat.

And I was like,

I was like,

Hey, sexy Raptor,

and you didn't have your truck.

And you were like,

Hey,

I think I was in Tuala for something.

I'm like,

what is happening right now?

I see Shauna more than I see you guys.

I think it's funny.

Like I see her all the two.

Yeah.

I see her all the time over near my,

by my house,

like all the time.

Her Bronco is hard to miss.

She's got the only cool Bronco,

the only cool white Bronco out there.

Yeah.

There's a really pretty dark red Bronco Raptor

that lives by me that I see all the time.

I like red.

Yeah.

Red.

Yeah.

So how are you?

Good man.

Good.

Another busy week.

Life.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

A bunch of stuff inside.

I've been working on.

Yeah.

Nothing exciting.

It's all home on her stuff.

Well, we're all sitting here now.

It's like the new year and I'm starting,

and I'm starting to gather all my tax information

and realizing how much money I can't spend at the store anymore

because I'm like,

how much is this is going to the government?

So.

Yeah.

More than we want.

Well,

I'm having like the same conversation I had last year,

legal conversation as far as,

you know,

with the podcast and things we do with the trucks.

Yeah.

What can you write off?

What can I mean?

Legally.

I'm not,

I'm not.

Yeah.

It's not like shooting your taxes.

Right.

She hasn't looked at me yet and said,

I don't think so.

Yeah.

No, I took my truck to a spa.

That's not,

that's not for me.

Yeah.

I think for speaking,

you know,

I'm glad the Ranger,

I think he's picking up more of the Raptor,

the Ranger Raptor.

Yeah.

Seeing more of them,

seeing more of them online and they're popping up more

in my feed and I'm just seeing them up there more

in the public.

And I was thinking about something with this the other day.

I think Ford's missing an opportunity here

because they don't have a SUV.

They have the Bronco.

Don't get me wrong,

but it's a removable top and it does.

You're talking about the Everest

and it's in Thailand and we need it here.

We need it here.

They're testing them here,

but we're not getting them here.

Yeah.

Which makes no sense to me

because they should have a Ranger based SUV

to compete with the forerunner

because they should have a Raptor Ranger.

Oh, both.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm saying like,

because you have,

if you go look at the new forerunner,

I looked at the new forerunner,

not for myself,

but with friends and it's super nice.

Is it?

Yeah.

I don't think it's any nicer than a Ranger Raptor though

if you out third one into an SUV.

I bet the back seat's nicer.

Bet you can put people in the back seat.

Well, in an SUV,

you probably could move it farther back.

Very true.

Okay.

And so,

yeah,

it seems like a really,

really big missed opportunity.

Chevy as well,

you know,

with that new Blazer that everybody loved.

I think it's dead already.

Bring back the 80s.

Only we could have seen that coming.

The 80s Blazer,

like the two-door K,

what is it?

K5 Blazer?

Oh, that's the big one.

That's the big one.

And then there was the small,

there was a little small S10.

Sorry.

Yeah, that's, yeah.

Yeah.

So the,

I mean,

Toyota's doing it and killing it.

And they have been just as long as everybody else.

And I don't know why everybody else lost their way so much

when it seems like there's a gaping hole in the market

that Toyota just owns.

I think it'll come back because everybody thought Toyota

owned the truck market,

you know,

that with the Tacoma and now with,

with our truck and then with Brian's,

you know,

the A.V. Colorado,

the A.V. Colorado.

Well,

even not even the A.V.,

just the 84X is still a really nice truck.

I think it's really good competition for them.

So hopefully they will,

you know,

with the new things that are going on in the automotive industry,

Ford and Chevy could step up.

And go,

we can make up.

Not to mention tariffs and rollback EPA emissions.

So if we can get that hole in the market,

that opens up a whole new segment of American automobiles

that would be a great selling point.

So Ford and Chevy,

I think,

I mean,

Chevy's not really doing much right besides that truck

in the Corvette these days.

So it's a good opportunity for them.

Yeah.

Um,

but

hopefully death goes away.

That could change things too.

Well,

yeah,

that's right there.

We talked about that a little bit.

I saw another article talking about the fact that they,

I heard we,

I had heard one that death was going away.

And then if it doesn't go away,

they're going to take away the limp mode so that you didn't,

if you ran out of it,

which death go away.

I was going to say it's just a chain effect.

Well,

they're not prosecuting people for desmogging their vehicles

anymore.

You can still get one for rolling coal.

Don't be wrong.

But there are shops across the country now that are

backlogged months and months and months out because

there's no longer any.

Does that make that huge lawsuit against the diesel

brothers go away?

No,

no,

they're still after them.

Yeah.

Well, what's his name?

Who just got arrested again for tax fraud?

Oh,

he's whistling diesel,

which is just hilarious because it's such a small amount.

It's a 25,000 notes of what is it was a $25,000 on the

Ferrari and then this other one.

And after he got arrested after the first one,

he asked them if there was any problems with other cars

and they lied to him and said no.

Yeah.

It's the biggest witch hunt ever and it's that same

stupid legal group that's out of Wyoming of all

places.

I thought this was Tennessee.

This was the state.

No,

it's like it's a lawyer group.

So they're an EPA.

We've talked about this before.

There's an EPA lawyer group that gets together and then

sues people to for crazy numbers,

takes all that money for themselves and none of it

goes back into the system to actually do anything

with the environment.

And this is a proven thing.

This is just completely a scam and it's Wyoming.

So keep Wyoming lawless.

I hope they do something about it like Wyoming would

because most people need to go away.

So this is the same law group that that went after

Dave Sparks.

Yes.

Same same people.

Yeah.

So I remember to clarify.

Whistlin Diesel is a tax issue.

The state of Tennessee is going after him for tax.

That's different.

Allegedly.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's triggered by the same law group.

I understand.

Yeah.

But I'm the same thing.

They instead of instead of going after him,

they got the they got Tennessee to go after him

and then they're continuing to go after him.

And this last time apparently there was some

misuse of him and the fact that he was very

sick when they arrested him and they refused

to give him some things.

So and they also sent they sent like 10 guys to

get him as he got off the plane.

Yeah.

Don't worry folks.

We leave it to the government.

You'll be fine.

Yeah.

That's a lesson we've learned from history.

Isn't it?

Oh, no, wait.

No, it's not.

Nobody has learned that at all.

Nobody said I'm here from the government

and I'm here to help you.

Yeah.

Never of those words been ever.

No.

Yeah.

So now what do you do?

Pay your taxes people.

Pay over your taxes.

Well, I'll tell you what we did do,

but we're probably not going to do it again.

Oh boy.

Wow.

And that's a wrap of the show.

My, uh, just get air come out of here.

It's warm in here.

Yeah.

It's working good again.

Yeah.

So, uh, let's jump right into our Carter Carter automotive tip

of the week.

Um, I came across this kind of an interesting thing.

You know, uh, a gentleman in Spokane,

who's a large YouTuber is rebuilding.

He's taken a down to the shell,

like a 92 Acura NSX and he put a four cylinder

and twin custom twin turbo kit,

but he was talking about this.

He was, he's running all the electrical right now

and he came up with the term of a star point ground,

which is kind of interesting because when you're building

a car or doing this, having a short or trying to find the

loose ground is really tough.

And the point of this is where you're grounding your engine,

your battery, your ECU, all the coils are grounded

to the same point so that you know that you, you know,

if you have a bad ground,

if that's a bad ground, it's going to affect everything,

which is kind of an interesting perspective.

Yeah.

It, two sizes.

I was thinking about, I've only read up on this briefly

when we were talking about it.

One, it's a single point of failure.

Mm hmm.

So that means if your ground is bad,

if you have an accident, a simple one,

if your ground is damaged, nothing is going to work.

You could reground it.

I mean, you could move that ground to someplace else.

Just a ground is a ground.

It's just got a ground,

but it seems like you would want some things,

not all everything, some things separate.

I think maybe in a custom build,

I can see the advantage of that.

He was, we're talking the major things in the car.

Yeah.

And I do understand what you were saying,

but I liked the idea and the fact of like,

okay, something's not grounded,

but then you go to one point

and you have the major things in there

that you know are grounded to there.

And God forbid you see if something is torn

or if, you know, like you said,

in an accident, that would be a bad thing.

I was just thinking from a redundancy point of view,

but it might, you know, for something like that,

it seems pretty simple.

I like the idea of the simplicity.

I like, I mean, there's just,

it's sort of the same thing we go to on our trucks

with a bus bar or any overland build.

You have a bus bar.

Everything goes to that same point

with all your power distribution in one block.

Mm hmm.

Makes it really easy.

I mean, that's what I did on the Bronco.

Well, and they do a lot of those in the off-road vans too

because the batteries are under the seats.

Yeah.

So they put them in the engine compartment.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

I wanted to talk a little bit about that new Bugatti Veyron.

Well, it's a Bugatti.

It looks like a Veyron.

It's the underpinnings of a Chiron.

It's a homage to Ferdinand Karl Persia.

I always forget his last name.

He's the grandson of Porsche.

He ran Volkswagen and things like that.

You have heard of FPK versions before

because when Lamborghini came out with the Scion,

that luxury was an event to door with three body panels.

Oh, yeah, I remember that.

That was named after him, too.

I think this is by far the most beautiful Bugatti

they've ever released.

They modernized the Veyron.

Underpinnings are the Chiron.

Everybody knows the Chiron is the most reliable car.

The Veyron was the most pretty car.

They're only making one of them.

Somebody commissioned this for a measly 10 million euro.

But I really think it's pretty.

I forget that there is so much there.

We spend in the car world.

We have the opportunity to see these cars.

But I forget that there are people that go out in the car world

and go, I see nothing I like, make me something.

And they can write that check, especially with places like Bugatti.

And I like what Bugatti is doing lately.

I like with Remac running it and things like that and their new cars.

Obviously, never going to be in my price bracket.

But that car has unilaterally made everybody fall in love with it.

It looks like the Veyron, but it's absolutely beautiful.

It looks like an updated Veyron in all the good ways.

Yeah.

I'm kind of excited.

I would hope whoever owns it, if you've watched the commercial,

they own the original Veyron in the red and black, the classic red and black.

And there's some saying that the video that's come out,

maybe the car doesn't exist yet, but it will because it looks very AI.

Well, who knows?

Yeah.

Shocker.

I cannot believe there's an AI commercial out there.

How many times a day in your household do you and your spouses go,

look at this.

Is this real?

Like Photoshop used to be able to tell.

Like people were good at it.

But now it's like, wait a minute.

Is that puppy really driving that rally car?

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes, it is.

If all the Subaru commercials that we watch with Golden Retrievers

haven't convinced us.

Yeah.

Come on.

There are water markings that you can't see on those videos that can be

detected by the file, but by looking at it.

Yeah.

I almost fell for it.

I really badly want a new Seahawks jersey, but I want the classic

and I want the Superbowl logo and the 50 year old.

And I saw it and I started to watch the video and then I realized

that the word Seahawks was spelled like in Russian.

It's hilarious.

Yeah.

If you look at posts that are, I mean, there's AI automation

for making posts now, which is hilarious.

And they're, what's the dead internet?

Call it.

Okay.

The dead internet theory, which is not a theory at all is that

about 85% of the internet is just bots and AI running everything

now.

Like everything you see is not even like posted by people.

It's just created.

Somebody told me AI is now out on its own Reddit chats and

they're talking about humans.

They have their own social media platform.

That's what it is.

And they're talking shit about us.

Yeah, basically.

Great.

Again, this is how Terminator starts.

Hi, StarNet.

Just give me SkyNet.

Give me SkyNet.

Yeah.

There's a lot more to it than that.

It's more of like an AI experiment to see how they will

interact.

Okay.

It's not really like they set it up on their own and did

it all.

It's not like that.

But point being.

Did they already schedule a rally?

That's what happens on Facebook I hear.

No matter what you believe in, there's a rally for that.

Yeah.

I'm sure they'll have their own month.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

AI month.

Yeah.

My extension is aware of it.

August will be AI month.

AI month.

Wow.

Yeah.

Okay.

Did you say we have a voicemail?

We do.

Somebody left us a voicemail.

They didn't leave their name.

Insert name here.

Yeah.

It's about K-Trucks though.

And we love getting voicemails.

And if you leave your name and tell me not to

play it, I won't play it.

But if you don't leave your name, I'm just going to

play it because I'm going to know who you are anyway.

So, here we go.

Let's take a listen.

Long time listening here, you mentioned something about

K-Trucks on the most recent podcast.

You're standing here for like $90,000 to $10,000.

I would highly recommend importing your own.

There's a lot of people you can work with.

I've gotten a few over a year for about $4,500 bucks.

Highly would recommend that.

Nick had mentioned he wanted a high boost at swap one.

I did that myself.

Not with a high boost engine, but with a ZX-11

force cylinder for a motorcycle.

That was great.

Made it a lot more fun.

Harder to find reverse though.

But that makes it an absolutely durable vehicle.

Lost my train of thought there.

That happens when you call them.

Yeah.

Pacific Coast Auto in Japan is a good place to go through.

It's on brokerage in Tacoma.

It makes all the paperwork easy.

Yeah.

What's going to have lost my train of thought?

Never called in anything.

Please don't play this on there.

Too bad.

Well, we don't know who you are.

So, we appreciate your voicemail.

That was actually really helpful.

So, Pacific Coast Auto in Japan is the conduct in

Japan that he's gone through.

Sound brokerage in Tacoma.

So, hey, you got two drops.

You got somebody who's done a motorcycle swap.

Well, here's what I'm thinking the whole thing.

And obviously, ADHD took over.

He goes, because I'm like, I can get one for 9,000.

He's like, I can get one for 4500.

I'm thinking, well, I can get two.

This is a bidding.

This turns into a bidding war.

Now it sounds like two.

I'm like, I love it.

Yeah.

And I totally did not think of that.

And it seems totally obvious.

Reverse.

Yeah.

There's no reverse.

Wow.

That means you need a GL-1800 swap out of a

and then you can supercharge it.

Whoa.

Which has reverse.

I mean, isn't it going bigger than a K truck?

They weigh about the same.

They weigh about the same, yeah.

Yeah.

But that flat six would probably,

would probably mount in there even easier.

Yeah.

Because it's a flat engine.

You don't have the,

you don't have the horizontal vertical problem.

You just have a very compact, low to the ground engine.

This has been a very expensive week in our group chat

because at the beginning of the week,

you know, Brian brought,

bought all those cars from search and rescue.

Yeah.

Which made all of us start thinking, well, God,

I need an off-road beater.

But now I'm like, okay, I want a new bike.

I want a new big bike.

And I know exactly what you were going to tell me last time too.

I want a K truck.

Yeah.

I actually wasn't what I was going to tell you.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

I thought there was one other one.

So I want an off-road beater now because I mean,

I want something that I can drive past a tree on,

you know, Natchez and I don't have to worry about it.

Like this.

You don't have to buff the paint off of your butt.

Your bed, you mean?

K truck.

And then I want a bike.

So yeah.

So Kelly's selling that it's an 09 WR 450,

which is still carbureted, which is fine.

If you've ever had a carbureted bike, no big deal.

But electric start.

So plus a kick back up, 60 miles.

Has 60 miles on it.

Has he owned it since new?

No, no, no.

A guy, a guy he knows was selling it.

And Kelly's like, I'll take it and ride it

and do something with it.

But I think it's perfect.

It's plated, ready to go.

So that's a great option.

And he's, I don't know what he's selling it for,

but it's an 09.

So it's not going to be that expensive.

The other option is the guy I sold my 02.

Came back and he's thinking,

he's like, I just don't ride it enough.

And I'm like, let me know,

because I'll probably buy it back from you

for a lot less than I sold it to you for.

Because it's been a few years now and it's a 2020,

but he's like barely ridden it.

And that bike is perfect.

It is.

And it has the recluse clutch on it.

It has a recluse clutch.

Recluse, sorry.

Yeah, it's revolved.

It's lowered about two inches.

But for what I do, what we do, it doesn't matter.

Like I'm not sure.

Well, even if you are a, it's,

I'm not doing as much tight enduro race type

single track anymore.

And I don't really have a desire to,

because it just hurts a lot more when I crash.

I want to do more of the exploring stuff.

So I'll stick to the groomed trails and things that are

BDRs and that kind of stuff.

Well, not BDRs per se.

BDSM.

Yeah, that too.

Sorry.

Different outfit, but yeah.

Same outcome.

Same bruises.

Same nicks.

Leather and chains.

Anyway.

Yeah.

No, I wanted to just, I like just the exploring stuff.

Mark trails.

I'll do the, you know, fives and sixes,

but I'm not going to do the hill climb enduro stuff

like I used to anymore.

But that was the conversation I'm having in my head.

I'm like, I want it again.

But then again, the reason I got rid of it was

because I wasn't riding it.

Yeah.

And I'm looking at it now going, okay,

but if I get it again, is it going to just sit in the,

you know.

So here's the thing.

I barely ride the monkey and the grommets.

Oh, they're never leaving.

They're never leaving.

Exactly.

And I'm like, if I'm at the same price point for a fully built bike.

Yeah.

Like this isn't.

Or a K truck now.

Yeah.

In addition to.

Yeah.

So eventually what's going to happen is motorcycles.

If you follow the trends, this isn't me like just speculating.

If you just follow the trends of the market,

bicycles get the really cool trick shit first.

Yeah.

They had the light aluminum frames first,

then the motorcycles did.

Now they have carbon frames and titanium bikes are going

to go the same way because the price for to build carbon

is coming way, way down.

Until they start making carbon fiber frame motorcycles,

or fully carbon fiber.

A lot of bikes have carbon fiber and fiber awesome fuse.

Yeah.

Swing arms, tails, rear subframes, but they're going to go that

way.

And eventually bikes will lose another 40 pounds because of

that.

But until that comes along, there really hasn't been a

lot of innovations since haunted the aluminum frame.

Like other than that, and then they switched to fuel

injection.

Like, okay.

God bless them.

Yeah.

Big freaking deal though.

Like as far as riding goes, I mean.

For our riding.

I'm not saying for you race guys are screaming at me.

You guys are a different animal.

You guys need all the technology, trash control,

ABS, all that.

For those of us who are old and slow, it's totally fine

to have those older bikes.

They work great.

Very old.

They're easy to work on.

And if you ride with somebody like Brandon Elan,

you can throw him on a 30 year old bike and he

will smoke me any day of the week, no matter

what bike I'm on.

You'll also smoke your engine cover.

True.

But I'm just saying I'm very well aware that we

have all come to the point where skill is our

biggest blocker, not the bike.

And so I don't need to go buy a $20,000 new

bike.

I can be completely happy if I can get my old

bike back for 6,500 bucks and never sell it

until a carbon frame comes out where I would

see a huge advantage or electric bikes get so

light that I would want one of those instead,

which are great by the way.

It would be great.

I take a stark, a stark far.

Oh hell yeah.

I think another issue I was thinking about

and obviously I have to run this by other

people.

They'll agree with it.

But when I had the CRF, it was a bitch to ride

on the road.

It sucked.

Going places there sucked.

Once I got there and got on the dirt, it was

great.

I didn't have the truck at the time.

Yeah.

Now that I have the truck, I can take it

wherever the hell I want to take it and

then drop it off.

I rode that bike one time notoriously from

here all the way down.

I went through green water and I went over

a stampede and came back.

And the most monotonous thing I've ever

done was get on I-90 and come down the

pass on that bike.

Really?

I got to the point where every exit I

would get off and I'd take along as

much as I could.

Because that bike doesn't, even with my

weight, barely would do 65, 70.

And it was not fun to sit on because

that bike is meant to be ridden standing

up and be aware.

Built for a ton of mid-range, low

speed torque.

And it just was not a...

I got home and I was like,

okay, let me put this back.

I got to the mountainside tavern and

I was like, I'm sitting here for a

couple of hours because I'm...

I was three miles from the house.

That's how bad it was.

Yeah.

So I guess the general consensus is

eventually we're all going to get big

bikes again.

Yeah, probably.

Okay, fair enough.

You need to get a monkey first too.

I know.

Yeah.

It doesn't really need to though.

We keep telling our friends this.

That's a good point.

You can just start playing a monkey.

Okay, I'm going to come and grab

your bike.

Cool.

I don't...

I'm thinking about...

And I'm putting this idea out there

to those of us that have these.

I'm thinking about doing a big

ride with the monkeys this year.

We'd be on the road, but I'm

going to do a big time ride.

I still want to do the ferry thing

where we go get in the ferry

and go out and ride one of the

islands.

I think that'd be kind of fun.

Like Dubay and Bridge or something?

Yeah.

Basically, yeah.

You can do a big ride up to

Victoria.

Oh yeah.

It would be fun too.

Because then you've got a lot

lower speed to deal with.

Yeah.

And a lot...

A ton of road.

Well, you could take Highway 9

all the way up.

Yeah, that'd be kind of fun.

I want to do a big ride this

year on the road.

I think that'd be kind of fun.

Okay.

I like that.

I just want my tires.

Yeah.

So get on that.

I'm going to go with the...

I'm on that.

I'm not putting the old tires

back on.

No way.

Well, yeah.

The Michelins.

I guess mine would be out of

date.

You're probably right.

It's not even that.

They're just awful.

Maybe you ride like a Michelin

city tire.

Yeah.

They're so much better.

Or if you're just fair

weather, just go almost to a

full race tire.

I still need to...

Maybe when you and I have our

Valentine's Day date week, I

still got to figure out my

shifting.

Yeah.

It's not...

I've taken it apart yet again.

I rebuilt the whole clutch

again.

I soaked it for...

I soaked the plates for a week.

I've done everything and I've

still got a real hard shift.

Okay.

And I, 90, want $200 an hour

to look at it.

Yeah.

I trust them, but I'm just...

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They'll do the work.

In fact, I called them and

this is not a plug for them

and I asked them because I

was like, maybe it would just

be easier to drop it off

than I don't have to deal

with it.

And he's like, don't get me

wrong.

He's like, it's a grom.

He's like, we will find it

within an hour.

Because most likely it's

unless you screwed up the

transmission, it'll be a

pretty easy fix.

Yeah.

No, they did good work.

I wasn't saying they were too

much.

He goes, also, we're a snow

mobile shop right now and

there's no snow.

So I've got openings.

Sorry, guys.

I do feel for you because

it's good times, fun, but

man, what a terrible, lousy

winner for everybody.

Unless you're in Tennessee.

Well, there's that.

Yeah.

Some of those people

haven't had power in two

weeks.

So we have another follow-up

as well.

We got another text message

actually.

One message.

One message actually.

One message.

Always good to hear from you,

one.

We asked, we posed a question

to the audience.

Was it the last episode?

Maybe the one before that.

I can't remember.

But what's a vehicle out

there that really just needs

one change and you're like,

it's perfect.

Yeah, it was the last

episode.

Thank you.

At least one of us.

Yeah.

Well, let's do it three

times.

Yeah.

I think I'd remember.

Yeah.

And he had an excellent

suggestion.

I think this is the

perfect answer.

The Lexus RCF.

I would also add the

what would you do to it?

A manual transmission.

Oh, yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

A rev matching manual

transmission because it's a

V8.

It's a rear wheel drive.

Like no, if you put a manual

transmission in an LC of the

RCF, obviously being the more

sportier model, slightly lighter

weight, but what a great,

like legendary car that would

be.

Yeah.

And I bet I hope somebody

does it.

It shouldn't be that

difficult.

I would think modifying

inside dash would be harder

than anything else.

Yeah.

Like just finding a place to

put the stick through.

Yeah.

I mean, it's still, if you look

at the interior of that car,

I don't know.

It does have a dial, doesn't

it?

Yeah.

Ew.

That's my point.

Like I think that would be

the hardest thing is

re-engineering the dash

and then cutting the,

obviously has a tunnel.

I actually don't think it

would be that hard with 3D

printing.

Maybe not.

I mean, you would 3D print

the center console to

make it look nice.

And then you'd have somebody

like any interior shop,

but what's our friends

of North?

Who did your monkey seat?

North was crafted.

Yeah.

Have somebody like them

do like a full, perfect

interior match on the leather

because they could.

And you'd have a shift boot

that matched perfectly

and the rest would just be

printing from the right

material and paint.

Yeah.

Mounting that third pedal

but other than that.

Simple.

Third pedal.

Hard, yes.

Yes.

Impossible, no.

No, okay.

You're true.

And I think as time goes on

but I agree.

That's a perfect answer.

Be good.

It's basically any front engine

and rear-wheel-drive car

without a manual transmission.

But that one in particular

because then you have that

legendary Toyota V8

which is bullet-proof

and great car.

Yeah.

What about you, Brian?

Yeah, what do you want

to be when you grow up?

Yeah.

I want to be a fireman.

What kind of car do you want

a molest when you grow up?

Cool.

Wow.

That's an open-ended

question.

LFA is still right there.

Gosh, I don't know.

I honestly don't know.

It's kind of...

Yeah.

I mean,

my exposure in the auto world

was working for many

for a few years in BMW.

Yeah.

And seeing that side of it

and it's...

I mean, I was remembering

your chats about the M2 last week

and just how great of a car that is

and many invited us,

a select few of us

geniuses to go over to Germany

to drive over there

and we drove M2s

for a day at their track.

At the, you know,

a former airport,

you know, from World War II.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

Wherever that is, I can't remember

what part of that is.

But that car,

that is an amazing car.

I mean, that is a sleeper car

that's just still manual,

still fun, still like...

Great car.

Really great car, you know.

Yeah.

But if I had to molest

something, it would be that...

I don't know,

that what we're talking about,

the AV Super Duty thing there.

Oh, yeah.

That would be...

I think I would just

like put a kitchen in there

and live in there.

Yeah.

It's funny you bring that up.

I was watching a snippet

that came up on Instagram

and it was a shop down in Arizona

or something like that

and they had made a pre-runner

out of your GMC truck.

That would be that hard.

Carly's suspension is that.

No, that's not the truck

to make a pre-runner out of.

Like, my point...

9,000 pounds is too heavy for a pre-runner.

The customer came in

and he wanted us to turn us into a pre-runner

and I'm thinking,

if you're at that price bracket

and want to make a pre-runner,

like, obviously, you know,

this show preaches Raptor,

we always have.

But I mean,

Tacoma, Ranger,

F-150, but not a GMC

AEV.

I mean, they left the AEV shit on it.

Yeah.

I mean,

the suspension...

The suspension required to do that

is $36,000.

I looked into it.

Which is why I never did a super-duty

with like a...

When I was...

When I bought the GMC,

it was a...

I was not going to modify it.

The suspension.

It was just like,

it's just way too expensive.

It wasn't that I didn't want to.

Yeah.

But it was like,

to get this thing to ride like I want?

No, not even an option.

Well, I just...

I instantly flashed back

to Brian losing a filling

on the back roads,

trying to pre-run that truck.

Brian did not jump as well

as it should have.

Just saying.

It really didn't climb waterfalls,

either.

No.

That was me.

In the middle of Moab, somewhere.

What, his filling?

Well,

I think you heard that, sir.

When we first down there,

he was like,

he's like,

we're going to go the back way

on the dirt roads.

We're going to go all the way

to Colorado.

Oh, yeah.

I mean,

I think we started at kind

of Onion Creek

and then we worked our way

out.

That was the point where like,

we were like, everybody's done.

And Dan,

as we started to head back,

which was a long ways back,

was going faster and faster

and faster.

And that truck in the back

is not real comfortable.

The seats don't, you know,

and we get back to Colorado.

Seats are wrapped

are way back.

Brian goes,

I lost a filling.

Like,

it had rattled so bad,

he lost a filling.

Unbelievable.

Like the truck is great.

It will pull.

I mean,

and when we were going slow,

we were getting thrown

as things agitated.

And we were ready to be back

on pavement.

And I was going faster

and faster.

Yeah.

It just was not the truck.

And then somebody's like,

oh, I made a pre-run around.

I was like, I don't care what's

suspension was in that truck.

That would still be miserable.

Yeah.

I wrapped her at my GMC

and it did not wrap her.

No.

Unless you rip out the back seat

and then put in like,

you know,

two, you know,

massive seats with buckets.

Yeah.

Then you're fine.

That float.

Yeah.

We'll see if the

seats.

Yeah.

Did you see that truck?

Yeah.

That is just.

Yeah.

And it keeps popping up too.

And my buddy Adam from Trail Racks

keeps sending it to me.

Mm-hmm.

Because he's got a heart,

you know,

he has a,

mm-hmm,

four or two,

right?

And so it's such a beautifully built

truck.

Like it's one of those

aha moment trucks

where you just look at

and you go,

why didn't I think of

doing that?

And it's so much smarter

for Ford not to be involved

in that build,

that it's all a post build

because Ford notoriously

just cuts corners

and everywhere they can

with all kinds of cool stuff, right?

Like they're interiors.

Yeah.

And there were car seats.

Yeah.

All those kinds of things.

Yeah.

Don't get me started with

the whole seat thing.

We're back at it, yeah.

The seat gate is too far.

It's 2026.

2026 now.

Yeah.

People who don't know.

Yeah.

The Riccaro went downhill

after they went bankrupt.

And they became

kind of like the,

the seats you buy

for,

like a race car.

I mean,

you go buy a Riccaro seat

off the showroom floor

and you put in your car

what we're talking about.

We're talking about Riccaro seats

that are in production cars.

And airplanes.

And airplanes, yeah.

Well, I'm talking about the ones

in cars though because

they just, they don't have

the same quality control.

It's like when you allow

AEV parts to be put

on your GMC

instead of taking your GMC

to AEV.

Same thing happens.

You get a bunch of cut corners

and people who don't know

how to install seats

at the same level

that Riccaro would

from the factory.

And so you're just

living off your name.

I got a lot of shit

for this before.

I'm still right.

Screw you guys.

Riccaro sucked

the Dan isn't.

I got shit before.

I'm still right.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can not like

hearing all you want.

But Riccaro is the,

they're not talking about

their seats that you buy

if there's one floor

for your race car.

Those are great stuff.

But the stuff

in our trucks

and other production vehicles

is much,

much lower quality.

And it shows

and this is now

really showing

because it's in a

mass, mass production vehicle

compared to what,

you know,

Riccaro sells

probably what?

Literally probably

20, 30,000 seats

a year off their showroom

floor that you would bolt

in a vehicle at most.

Well, they probably

make that many Ranger

Raptors in a year.

Yeah.

So you've got just

so the quality has

just gone downhill

and it shows

and it's a notorious

problem in Fords

because they're Fords.

Right.

You know,

we are aware of the

vehicles we own.

Yeah.

Anyway,

I was going to say

did you hear the

good news from Toyota though?

Good news, everyone.

That rumor

that they

screwed with everybody

and gave us that

two-seater K truck

production vehicle.

Well, they have

registered officially

the GR MR2.

Oh,

oh,

really?

Which means there

is an engine.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's what it's

yeah.

That's what MR stands

for.

Yeah.

It's not

MR.

Yeah,

stands for mid

something.

Yeah.

You two people

had had a green one

like back when

they first

first first release

and then they

had a midship

runabout two-seater.

Oh,

midship runabout.

Okay.

I did not know that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So yeah.

So there's

supposedly there's

a bunch of

Toyota

patented a bunch of

GR name plates

for the MR2.

Which would seem

odd to do

if they're not

producing an MR2.

So here's to hoping

that the MR2

comes back

because that would be

that would be cool.

Somebody at the

table.

Yeah.

That's right.

Okay,

Porsche.

Yeah.

Calm down.

Thank you.

It's a

turbo.

It's an electric car.

Yeah.

MR2

Turbo.

That's

hybrid.

MR2

Turbo.

Yeah.

So you're

you're back on the

show scene now,

right?

Yeah.

Things are starting

with all those

snowmobilers.

No.

These are

and Overland shows

are all starting now

this quarter.

So,

yeah,

gearing up.

I've already done

a couple already this

so far.

And then I've got more

coming this month

and also a few

in March.

I'm

I'm doing my best.

I've put it on the

calendar.

I want to be at the

Northwest Overland

rally.

Me too.

I think you really

should.

It's not a far

drive.

I at least want to

just go for the day

if I

can.

It's all well

drive.

Shawn,

I'm borrowing the car.

What?

Nothing.

Yeah.

I've done it a

couple of times.

It's

it's really

it's it's so different

than any other event

that goes along

for Overland

because it's

you're kind of

you know everybody

camps there

or even the sponsors

and the vendors

all camp in the same

area.

It's much smaller

than an Overland

Expo

and every night

they do a big

family oriented

kind of

an event.

And

super chill like

playing is nothing.

Yeah.

It's playing

like literally

there's one store

a little west of

Leavenworth right

like a little

Northwest of Leavenworth

yeah and hopefully

Highway 2 will

be open by then.

Yeah.

I think I know

it's open.

Did they fix it already?

I don't know if

it's fixed but

it's back open.

Oh good.

Yeah.

That section of

you know that

the section you're

like normally

what I do is stay

somewhere on

blue it you know

there's lots of areas

there's lots of

dispersed camping stuff

off of blue it

you just I just stay

there going to Leavenworth

and then go up to

playing the next morning

Oh that's a fun idea

we should do that

we really should

like I think it'd be

kind of I've missed it

they canceled it

last year right

they did cancel it

last year because

they had some insurance

issues

and all surrounding

this bonfire

that was why

they canceled it

last year

because they

had specific areas

all in BLM landed

they were freaking out

the insurance company

was freaking out

about the fire

and generally because

there that's ridiculous

yeah it's overlanders

they all have

the little fold out

fireplaces it's fine

yeah exactly

so it

it kind of freaked

out the insurance

company to cancel it

and they decided

to just regroup

for this year

and they've

already started

promoting it

way early

you know

and then they do

another event

up in BC

too so

and rode it

you know

ride the roads down

I have an idea

what we can take

okay

oh here we go

you don't know about that

yet I'll tell you after

alright

oh yeah

yeah

we have announcements coming

yeah that's

probably two to three

two months out

but yeah we have announcements

yeah

we like announcements

there's always

things happening

but yeah

okay well I want to do

that

but so

spot obviously

yeah

I'm gonna go with that

I don't remember

spot

yeah I had a lead in

but I don't remember

yeah that's okay

what's the latest

and greatest spot

it's coming

not to

super tease it

but there is something

coming

yeah

our competitors

have already

released their

you know

new thing

new new thing

we've been

working on

just for a few years

spot is a portable

satellite messaging

device

thank you

yeah

exactly

satellite

satellite network

that the iphones use

the global star network

and

yeah we just

been

we just been having

our heads down

good for you

that means the product

will be good when it comes out

yeah

nice

that's good

and everything else is good

family's good

yeah

trucks good

you know

spending too much time

I'll be spending a lot of time

in it in the next couple of months

so I'm

are you gonna take it with you

yeah

you remember when you bought it

and we were sitting

in the mod parking lot

and you're like

let me to drive this places

and then you modified it

and you made it

like the most ultimate

like rig on the road

and it's like

it's going everywhere

yeah and I have to

yeah and I just rolled

20,000

or just crested

20,000 just recently

I know you gotta catch up

you're a few thousand

behind

I think the Broncos got on it

I mean

compared to what

Ford keeps telling me

I should have on them

I should have close to

22,000

and I think I have 16

yeah do you have it

on your Ford app

yeah I was just gonna say

we've got

quite a few on both

where's it at on the app

I can't remember

you go into the

little wrenches in the bottom

oh yeah

that's right

16,825 on the F-150

okay

16,400

yeah you're just a few hundred

miles behind

yeah

and Brian's got

on the Raptor

is that over 20,000

20,317

that's awesome

oh let's see what I have

I think I'm at

20,000

she blames the fact

that she loves to

drive it

so she drives

all the time everywhere

20,984

so we're right there

right there together

awesome

yeah

I think the R8's got

13 on it now

really

what year is the R8?

2021

and she bought it with

800 on it

okay

wow

yeah

that only had

800 miles

yeah

wow

I think we put

20,500 on it

just while we were in

Utah

okay

as we drove it

oh this last trip

yeah

and I think we drove it

around the state

four times basically

we went through Zion

like seven times

and then

yeah

every back road

you can think of

but Monument Valley

everywhere but I mean

most of our trips

we went on a road trip

almost every weekend

and we took the R8

I think all but once

yeah

I'm glad that you

took the picture

on the iconic

forest gump

road

was it a video?

no I haven't seen

the video

oh yeah

I got a good video

of launch mode right

perfect

yeah that's just perfect

yeah

what time of day was that

did you end up doing that

seven in the morning

okay

yeah

that place it was

you know the holidays

and it was glad we did

because I think around

nine o'clock

when we left the area

it was packed

like sides of the road

like you wouldn't believe

how busy that place is

and the weird thing is

is in the middle of

nowhere

there's no

there's nothing close

to Monument Valley

you're in the middle

of Navajo land

and like there's

one city there

and the next one north

of Monument Valley

after Moab

that day

like when I left

and was headed to Flagstaff

but man you

if you remember

how windy it was blowing

in Moab that day

I was like

I'm not going to spend

the night out in this

wind it was

blowing so damn hard

that day

yeah

so I had to abort

yep

Moab garage

code just opened

back up for the season

they you know

they close with the

winter down there

so but yeah

you've got

birdie

breadboards

again

I was about this close

to going down for raptors

on the rocks

I just don't think

I can make that happen

but

we're really glad you had

all that armor if you did

yeah

I've seen those guys run

they do not run easy

down there

yeah

well you can choose

what you want

and now Kenny lives down

there so it's like

he's in Arizona now

isn't he

well he's not very far

he's closer than here

he was driving from Texas

yeah

he's slightly south

of Flagstaff

oh that's not far

at all then

you know that

like I bought a raptor

because of Kenny

yeah

I mean

I bought a Ranger raptor

because of Kenny

Kenny has done

offended

yeah

Kenny has

definitely influenced

a lot of people to do

a lot of things

especially some crazy stuff

if you don't know

he's freedom chariot

on Instagram

and he's

yeah

Mr. Raptor

yeah

anybody uses his raptor

it's Kenny

that's actually

one of my favorite photos

we ever had

was before we did

it was you, me, and Brandon

and Powell were up on that thing

and Kenny parked his

F-150 with

like the American flag

on the front

like right behind this

great photo

Kenny was one of the first

to send it

hardcore in that puddle

out at the off-road course

similar to how Garth did it

in his

you know almost hyperlocked

or hydrolocked his motor

but Kenny bent the frame

on his gen 2

that day

oh jeez

doing that jump

yeah and that was

actually the photo shoot

that was the advanced photo

shoot out there

where we had a couple

you remember that?

yeah we had Andy from Raptor

yeah

and so he jumped

I mean he sent it hard

in that puddle

yeah

and he bent the frame that day

jeez

yeah

yeah but again

he bent the frame on a raptor

which is

it's bragging right

no matter what

a lot of people do

it's like a scar

like here you go

look I got this one here

from when I got

whatever

so every time we do

a dirt fish off-road day

like that should be

an advertisement for STEC

because

oh yeah

the cars that have

don't

nothing is more obvious

than after a dirt fish off-road

day

and the cars that have

that don't

I don't think I've ever said

there with my job

to the ground more than

when we did that photo shoot

with the F-150s out

there

and David was out there

with his

and they were jumping them

in the middle of that

that bark in the middle

yeah

that was a great shoot

you know what

it's not

what you see on the outside

it's what happens

afterwards

it's all the bark

and where it goes

because

you smell like a campfire

when you get home

and the stuff is sitting

on your muffler

it's sitting on your intakes

it's sitting everywhere

that you want

and Garf learned

that one the hard way

yeah

he's like

oh he had to drop

those skid plates

he had to drop everything

because

I had

I learned the hard way too

with my Gen 1

where I went out there

and sent it a few times

through that puddle

and then I was like

what is that smell

and fortunately for me

while working a dirt fish

I had a lift

an outdoor lift

with

you know

pressure washer

one

it's not as hard

to drop your skid plates

as you think

two

always check

the bolts underneath things

I got under the raptor

this week

and redid the bolts

on the side steps

they were rather loose

yeah

are you painting those

they're powder coated

the black

no no no

are you painting the nuts

or the bolts

so that you know

if they move

oh paint pen

no I haven't

but that's a good idea

some of them

were like

literally sandwiching

the frame

and you can use it

I didn't think about that

well

part of it was

when you were gone

he loaned me his under

under

what is it

the under wash

under wash thing

and I literally

jacked the damn thing

up in the driveway

and like

cleaned everything

I mean

there was so much

bo-abs still in there

it's not funny

it still dribbles out

the door frame

when I watch it

every time

yeah

and I was only there

for a day

makes me grin though

yeah

it does

yeah

I was going to say

you should drop

not just in your off-road vehicle

when they did

the front bumper on this

and put in the light bar

yeah

the amount of bugs

they said

they pulled out a bucket

of bugs

because

a bucket of bugs

yeah a bucket of bugs

we drive so remote

and almost all those

back roads

we've driven that thing

through locus fields

literally

you are a

bug mass murderer

oh yeah

I mean

the front of that

corvette on the drive down

to was red

it was funny

yeah

Starship troopers

ever comes around

they're coming for me

it's going to be my fault

the locus are going to start

here

at Dan's house

it's like fallout

when those giant cockroaches

just see Dan fly away

I did

and I have a lot of questions

because

I've never played the game

I haven't either

oh yeah

I have a lot of

the new California Republic Ranger

at the end

yeah

everything

that's straight out of fallout

like that scene

is a perfect fallout

it's fantastic

I am so in love with that series

me too

I know this is not car related

but like

me too

as somebody who's not a big

video gamer to be

that into it

was just

oh it's fantastic

it's one of the few times

they have gone

I think it's

okay

it is the only time

in my entire life

they have created a new

storyline

and not just screwed it up

entirely

yeah

like halo

I wanted halo

double dragon

I wanted halo

mario brothers

they all just suck

can I just say

it's fantastic

it's just

yeah

when he was

unjustified

and everything else

he's done

it's just been

yeah

they've done

a perfect job with all the

fan service

if you're a gamer

the fan service

in fallout is just

incredible

the set design

should have

every award

under the sun

literally

that is the best

set design

I've seen

side by side

to the game

and things like that

but I just

yeah

I guess the one thing is

the

what we're watching

doesn't follow the game

it's its own storyline

but there's like

every remnant of the game

and they've

apparently it's all the little stuff

yeah

it's not canon

which is fine

it doesn't need to be

when you do it that well

because if they did

it would be

it would actually be

kind of

boring

it would just be

they would never finish it

fallout 4

has like

6, 7 different endings

picking which one

for post show

kind of recaps

it's new rock stars

if you've ever watched

those guys before

and they

specifically are good

about

pulling out stuff from

like the last of us

or fallout

or even

you know some of the

HBO stuff like

you know the remakes of

the

you know Game of Thrones

the latest Game of Thrones

thing that's

come out too

I'll look it up

yeah

slightly off topic

but important

all the same

you just talked about fallout

yeah I know

we're gonna stay off topic

people not following

but if you are

just

right tool for the job

spec nerd like me

who believes there's

certain things are worth it

Linus Tech Tips just came out

with his own USB-C cables

they sold out immediately

but they are

his stuff is amazing

yeah his

I have his screwdriver

which

worth

every penny

the single best screwdriver

I've ever had in my life

if you want to see it

put your hands on it

it lives up to all the hype

Project Farm tested it as well

best screwdriver ever made

like there's just no question

you got the details

nothing are crazy

finally a USB-C cable

that is

means all the data

transfer speeds

flexibility

warranty

the problem with

USB-C cables

USB cables into cables

not just USB-C cables

any kind of

stupid cable out there

is if you test one

then you test another one

you get different results

and

especially for those of us

using carplay

which is what I'm bringing this up for

if you're using a wired

carplay system

your cables wear out

the sockets wear out

they

they work for a while

then they like

apples ones and

torus they break by the plug

like they thought of everything

so if you're looking for a

high quality cable

that you buy once

cry once

I think it's like

the short ones are about 20 bucks

and if you're looking at

Amazon they're like 7

there's a huge difference

though in cables

this is the one

that's the way to go

but you'll buy 4 of the

Amazon ones for

for one of these

yeah and so it's like

if you want

and it's got

really fast data

transfer speeds

so if you have

a camera

if you're using

large data for like

camera work like that

or you just want

a really good USB-C cable

either way

I'm going to put one in every car

I need one because

I'm because

of that Starlink issue

with my truck

so yeah

what's your issue with that

you can't

if you if you have

wireless carplay

you can't

you can't switch to the

Starlink

so the phone has to be

plugged in

so you have to be

physically plugged in

to use the carplay

and then you can use

the Wi-Fi from Starlink

because the

it works on the

one

if you're looking for one cable

that's why I was looking

for the phone holder

yeah so

what your issue

with the phone holder

was it was too high

it's too high up there

so the only

remedy I could think of

to do that is to

raise your seat

or get a booster seat

for you

there's a little pad

over there

you can have it

it's the fact

it's purple

it's really nice

I love

Tacform

I love everything about it

it's just

when I sat it in there

and I moved it all around

and even when

I have

when I'm off-road

that is too high for you

because it's

it blocks

a part of

the windshield

that I didn't think

I needed to see

and it kind of

there's a little bit

of me that freaks me out

about that

so I just don't like that

is that an iPad mini

that you got

so why can't you

arm it off

so that it covers

more of that

right hand

first vent

but my point is

I just really wanted

to try it

before I bought it

I'm going to

I'm going to experiment

with a few things

but moving the

two different arms

you can try too

yeah it's just

like I said

he loaned me

and I took the arm

off of the

my mag

mount for the mic

and I moved it

all around

I did all kinds of stuff

also the problem

was I didn't have

an extra ball

so I was kind of

I know

I have a whole bag

a whole bag of balls

it's good for you

yeah

never know when

you spare

flashlight

yeah

pretty much

safe word

yeah I have

a whole bunch of that stuff

you can try

you know literally

do I need to come

and bring you that

Ziploc

so you can just try it

I just got

I got to think about it

and it was one of those

things where

like I had 10 minutes

and I tried it

and I was like

that annoys me

and I need to walk away

from this for a minute

and then I'll figure it out

we do it for Valentine's

Day

absolutely

so I hear you guys

are having a Valentine's

Day

apparently

his girlfriend

and my wife

they're going to

different places

yeah

he goes

you're going to take Lola

everywhere

and I was like

oh I was like

no the hotel that Dan and I booked

doesn't take dogs

and she goes

what

nothing

yeah I know

we'll figure something out

you guys are welcome to come

to Portland

hang out with me

oh gee

yeah

let me think

I drive into

Portland

with a giant

jacked up truck

I'm an ice agent

yeah

no thanks

put on a mask and wave

yeah

no thanks

I got enough dents in my truck

yeah

okay

alright

we want insight violence

we'll have dinner

yeah

I'm so sad you guys

I'm going to miss your date

that's okay

we don't know what it is yet

we'll figure it out

we'll fix something

there's so much hype behind it

there's so much

oh god

there's so much hype behind it

now so

safe word

Google can turn on it

Google can turn on anything

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I'm trying to think

already you can

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well this is always

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About this episode

The hosts dive into the growing popularity of the Ford Ranger Raptor and discuss the missed opportunity Ford has in not offering a Ranger-based SUV to compete with models like the Toyota 4Runner. They touch on the evolving truck market, legal issues surrounding diesel modifications, and the challenges of EPA regulations. The conversation also covers community growth on social media, personal anecdotes about their vehicles, and a technical tip about star point grounding in custom car builds, highlighting the balance between electrical reliability and potential single points of failure.

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Original notes

On this episode we respond to a helpful listener voicemail, a great suggestion from Juan on the one car that just needs one change, and Brian Dallas swings by to talk about the Ford seat issues that plague their vehicles equipped with Recaros.

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