S&YE211 - Sage the Crosstrek Returns

What's up, Subi fan?

This is Jonathan, aka Stage The Cross Trek, and you're listening to episode 211 on the Subian

U Podcast.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of the Subian U Podcast.

I have Jonathan on, as you just heard, and he's coming back as a returning guest 100 episodes

later.

So yeah, his first episode was 111.

He's back on episode 211.

So we've been doing this thing for a while, and it was great to have him on again, and

it was great to record with him and catch up because he used to live up in New England,

and now he lives in Austin, Texas, here in my home state.

So it was great to catch up with him and see what's changed since he has moved locations

and just what's going on in his life and his Subi life now because it's much different

than it was up there.

Also thank you so much, Jonathan, for taking the time to record with me and come back

on to share your experience.

We will get into this conversation here in just a bit, but first, a word from one of our

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I cannot do that and will not do that.

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For those of you that went to Boxerfest this past weekend, I hope you had a really

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I went out there in 2021, but I've had people ask me if I'm going to come out

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Subifest Midwest, and it's just not easy to make it out to all of the events.

So hopefully I'll make it out again at some point, but I will be at Overland

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And so I'm really looking forward to that.

It's going to be a great time.

I'm going to get to see some people again and meet.

It sounds like a lot of new people, so I'm really, really excited

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And now that we have all that out of the way,

we can get into this conversation with Jonathan,

aka Sage the Crosstrek and catch up with him and

see what's been going on in his life.

So let's get into that conversation now.

What's up, Jonathan?

What's up, what's up, Brad? How you doing?

I'm doing good.

Long time no see and long time no talk, huh?

I know, I know, it's been a while.

Man, welcome back to the podcast.

It's been, what, a hundred episodes?

A hundred episodes, man.

I know it's been a while.

Man, welcome back to the podcast.

It's been, what, a hundred episodes?

A hundred episodes now.

Yeah, it's been, God, it's been almost...

We recorded the first one.

What was it, in 22 or 23?

Yeah, it was a while back.

Probably 23.

23, yeah.

Yeah, so when we recorded your episode in 2023, it was March 6th.

Well, that's when I released it.

That's not necessarily when we recorded,

but we probably recorded it at the end of February, maybe.

But yeah, your episode released Monday, March 6th, 2023,

a hundred episodes ago.

Yeah.

It's pretty crazy.

That's crazy.

It's crazy to say that a hundred episodes have gone by

because I mean, now I'm at 211.

Yeah.

And over four and a half years later, it's...

It's crazy.

Yeah.

A lot of things have changed.

Yeah, it's been great.

And I'm thankful to still be doing it.

Thankful people are still listening,

and thankful that I still have guests.

And I know one of the things that I wanted to do for this year

was get some previous guests back on,

and I've been doing that.

So that's been good.

Yeah.

So when we recorded the last time,

you were living in the Northeast,

and now you're living in Texas.

So what's changed?

I was living in the tiny state of Rhode Island

that nobody even knows.

So whenever someone asked me where I'm from here in Texas,

I always say I'm from Rhode Island,

and they look at me like I have 10 heads,

and I'm like 45 minutes south of Boston.

They're like, oh, okay.

So let me ask you a question.

Here we go.

Does it take about the same amount of time

to drive all the way across Austin

that it does to drive all the way across Rhode Island?

Yup.

Yeah, that's crazy.

It's such a tiny state.

You can literally, like in the middle of the night,

you can literally go from the top of Rhode Island

to the bottom of Rhode Island in 30, 45 minutes.

That says nobody on the highway,

and you don't care about how fast you're going,

and cops, you can just folks.

45 minutes, you're from one end to the other.

That's crazy because in Houston,

in the middle of the night,

there's nobody on the freeway.

It takes probably an hour or more

to get from one side of Houston to the other,

like proper Houston city limits

from one end to the other.

Yeah, that's funny.

Yes, that's nuts.

It's crazy.

What has the transition been like for you

moving from all the way up there to Austin?

Because that's a pretty big change.

First of all, it's not like you're just moving

from somewhere else in New England.

You're moving to like the central part of the U.S.

in the second biggest state in the U.S.

And a pretty cool city.

Yeah, Austin's not bad.

I've only been here for just over a year,

and I haven't really explored much of the city.

Only because it just takes so long

that from one place to the other,

because traffic's crazy.

Not to say that traffic in Boston and New York isn't crazy,

because the traffic that's on 35 going through Austin

is nothing compared to what happens on 95 in New York

and in Boston.

But it's...

By the time you figure out,

oh, you have a reservation at a restaurant for 7 p.m.,

at like 4.30, 5 o'clock.

Yeah.

Because there's gonna be traffic.

Are you talking about up there?

No, here.

Oh, wow.

I don't know.

I don't live in Austin, so I don't know how bad it is, but...

No, it just gets...

I'm exaggerating.

Yeah.

But it's just...

I know what you mean.

It's just crazy how sometimes you just don't move.

And it's just like, why?

And it's just because two people,

it just squeezes from a four lane down to a two lane,

because of construction.

And two people decided that they wanted to do 20 miles an hour.

Yeah.

It can be annoying.

Yeah.

But the transition, it's been nice.

It's the heat.

It's the normal New England August heat,

that heat wave temperature that you get

in like high 90s to low 100s.

But that's all here.

It's from...

Yeah, it's longer.

It's longer.

Instead of just having like a one or two weeks,

like it happens in New England,

it's like months of that.

So I'm still trying to get used to that.

Welcome to Texas.

It's not, but other than that,

I'm loving it.

I bought my first pair of cowboy boots.

Nice.

You know what's funny is,

I've lived in Texas my entire life,

never owned a pair of cowboy boots.

They're just not my thing.

I never have and I never will.

Yeah.

I only wear them once a week maybe.

I wear them to work and that's about it.

Yeah.

I've heard people say that they're comfortable,

but I just...

That's great.

They're just not me.

Surprisingly, they are comfortable.

Yeah.

And I'll stand and I'll work on my feet all day

in the cowboy boots.

Oh, my God, pretty comfortable.

That's good.

But going back to the transition,

yeah, no, it's been fun.

Definitely the car scene here

is completely different than New England.

Yeah, we've talked some before

about how you're driving around

in the only built-up cross-track

and probably in all of Austin.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's probably lifted ones

with alterings and method wheels

and stuff like that,

but not lifted to where I am

and lights and body armor

and all that stuff on it.

So I do get the looks

and it's sometimes...

To me, it's funny because I get the looks

from the lifted Jeep guys

and Tacoma guys

and all the lifted construction Tup guys

and they look at me just going down the highway

and doing an 85 on the toll roads

in the lifted cross-track

and I'm like, bye.

Yeah, exactly.

So other than the transition moving here,

what has it been like as far as...

Because were you doing a decent amount of off-roading

and meeting up with people up there

and then now that not having that here,

what is that like?

Yeah, like up back home it was...

We were going sometimes twice a month.

Sometimes twice a month.

It all depended on like, hey,

you guys want to hit the trails.

Yeah, let's go.

And it's randomly...

Sometimes we wouldn't even hold an event.

We would just send the text messages

to a couple guys, hey, you want to go hit the trails?

And they're like, yep, let's go.

Here it's...

There are no trails, first of all.

Yeah, here are no trails.

Yes, it does suck.

You feel my pain now.

Yes, exactly.

I unfortunately, like you said,

in the Scooby Scoob,

Bastrop pretty much got closed down.

So we can't go there anymore.

We can, but at risk and it's not worth it.

It's not worth anything, but it's not worth the risk.

But yeah, I was only able to take my car twice onto Bastrop.

Yeah.

The one time that we went and then back in March,

which is the last time I went.

And Bastrop is a decent spot.

I mean, it's got some technical stuff in there.

And it's not very far away from us,

like a little over an hour and a half, but it's just...

Yeah, I'm 45-ish minutes away from it.

Okay, are you Northern Austin?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

I'm a great major manor.

So if I take 290, I go into Houston.

Okay, yeah, so, yeah, I mean,

Bastrop was, it was nice.

I think I've been out there maybe like 5 or 6 times

and I kept wanting to go more.

It was just one of those things where I had other stuff going on

or I just wouldn't think about it.

And then, so there's up and near,

it's kind of like more on the,

it's in between Dallas and Fort Worth,

but more on the Fort Worth side,

there's a place called Bridgeport

and there's an off-road trail

or an off-road park there,

which you have to pay for

even that much.

I think it's like 25 bucks for the day or something.

Yeah.

But it's, you know, it's fun.

It's worth it, but it's just, it's far.

But yeah, but you guys,

you would have to drive all the way out to

like the Fort Worth area.

Yeah, I mean, for me,

that's like a four and a half hour drive

to go off-roading in a spot

that I'm actually allowed to go off-roading in.

And just meet off-road for that day

and then go back home kind of thing.

Yep.

Yeah.

So right, so right now like,

right now,

so

it's been, yeah, so it's been hard

trying to find places to go to off-roading.

We just had Bastrop that unfortunately

it's not worth the risk anymore.

And then there's, there's Hidden Falls,

which I believe you spoke about before.

Yeah.

There's a new place called

Domo Motorsports

that I'm actually trying

to work with

to set up events there.

And then there's a couple other places.

There's like rally ready,

but it's more like rally kind of stuff.

Yeah.

You can drive your own car there,

but it's like a hundred bucks to go rally on there.

Because it's not like,

it's not designed for like,

hey, let's just go off-roading for the day.

Yeah.

And then there's,

there is a place in like southern,

in like the southern part of San Antonio

that I just found out about

that

and see if they're interested in hosting

like small off-roading events

because you can go there for like the day

and it's only like

25 bucks, 30 bucks kind of thing.

Yeah.

It's only an hour and a half away from me, south.

That's not bad.

Yeah.

Like Hidden Falls and Domo Motorsports,

they're both

about between an hour to hour,

hour and a half from me.

And that's going north from me.

Just trying to figure out

where to go

when it comes to like off-roading now.

Yeah.

Hidden Falls, I've never been out there,

but even years ago,

when I first started hearing about it from people,

they were saying that

the easier courses,

like the ones are like

even kind of getting rotted out and stuff.

Yeah.

That's not hard.

They're getting really washed up.

Yeah.

It's not as

Subaru friendly as it used to be.

Yeah.

There's a park,

and I forgot the name of it,

but it's north of Houston,

up 59

and it's about an hour and a half from me.

And it's the very first place

that I took Pearl off-road.

I remember,

I think that was the first episode I listened

when you were talking about that.

Yeah.

So they were like,

they were like,

are you sure you might get stuck?

Yep.

I pulled up to the gate

and the guy was kind of looking at my car

and I think I asked him like,

is it okay if I go in there

with, you know,

my car the way it is?

He said,

I've been told not to turn anybody away.

He said some Mercedes had gone in there

and he said a Mercedes SUV

had gone in there

that was all-wheel drive

and tore it up

and did totally fine

and had a good time.

So that was before anything.

I had nothing.

It was 100% stock.

I think I had my car

for like three weeks.

I didn't even have any decals on it.

And she did great.

You know,

no airing down the tires

and I went through sand

and I was getting a little nervous

about that because

I think it was,

well, it was some time before that.

I watched where 4x4

Subi had gone out to some sand dunes

and aired down his tire,

had all-terrain tires

and got stuck in sand.

And I'm like,

I was thinking about that the entire time.

I'm like, man,

I really hope I don't get stuck

because I don't really have a way to get out.

Yeah.

No.

Yeah.

I had Luke with me

and just went out there driving

and just,

I didn't go too far into the park.

I think there was,

like now I would be more,

you know,

brave enough,

smart enough

and know enough about my car

and capabilities and everything

that I could go further out

into the park

and do some exploring.

But I didn't go too far in there

but I had fun.

And that's something

that I've been wanting to do too

is get some people together

and look at that park again

and say,

hey, let's all go meet up there

and air down our tires

and go have some fun.

And I think it was only,

like, 30 bucks for the day.

So it wasn't bad.

Oh, it's not bad.

No.

Yeah, that's not bad.

Yeah, the Doma Motor Sports one,

that's actually,

it's only,

I want to say it's like

30 or 45 bucks

and then you can camp there.

Oh, that's good.

Yeah.

Yeah, so you can go there

like Saturday morning,

set up camp off-road all day.

Go back to camp.

You can off-road at night.

You can do the trails at night.

Have certain trails

that you can do at night

and then

pack up

and you can still do trails the next day

and then just leave.

Nice.

Yeah, man.

See if you can secure that.

That'd be great.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So from the time that you

have been here,

what else have you done with Sage?

What have you changed?

What have you added?

What's going on with Sage now?

With Sage,

she hasn't really gotten much.

All that I've really done was

I got rid of the

the Falcon Wild Peaks.

That's what I thought.

Yeah, you've got different tires.

Yeah, now I have

some

no-name brand

tire company from like Taiwan.

They're called the Celera.

And the brand is called the

Celera A-C-C-E-L-R-A.

And then the model of the tire are

they're Ami...

Ami...

Amicrons?

O-M-I-K-R-O-N.

And they're cross-train tires.

They're 8-ply,

super, super grippy,

knobby tires,

like the Texas Mud Clay

stuff that's here.

Yeah.

Does not get stuck in those

tire threads at all.

Wow.

It spits it out.

Yeah.

It's crazy how

how nice the tire threads are.

And the only reason why I got those tires

is because I went to

a cars and coffee

event here

at

the

four-wheel parts store here in Austin.

And a couple of Jeep guys were there

and I was talking to them

and they asked me

what car it had,

so we walked over to Sage

and they were talking

and

I was talking about

wanting to upgrade tires

and get better tires.

And then they told me they're like,

oh, check out these tires.

We run them.

We love them.

They're super grippy.

They're perfect for the

frame here in Texas with the

Clay Mud.

And they're like

for your car, they're gonna be perfect

because they'll help you get up

like deeper inclines

than what you could before with these.

I was like, alright, I'll give them a try

and they

they only make

the smallest size they make is a 16.

So I got

I got the

Cross-Tex Sport Wheels.

So I got 17s.

And I think they cost

they were under a hundred bucks each.

Wow.

Yeah, that was what I was wondering because

I know that

when I bought my first set

of Toyos they were

like 125 and then

when I bought my second set

they were 165 and I was like

this is crazy because I only

I had a full-size spare that

because I had a flat and I got a

new spare and I because I had the new spare

I didn't wasn't rotating

it through my tires anymore.

So I'm like I'm just gonna keep it up here

until I get a new set and then when I get

a new set I'll start rotating it through

and never ended up doing that but

so I only had to buy four tires and it was

still like 950 bucks for the four

tires and that's what I paid the last

time for five. I was like, man, this is

crazy. Yeah,

and like I said they make

smallest one I made is a 16

I make a 17, 18, I think

they go up to a 20.

For like the bigger trucks and stuff like that.

Yeah. They're 8-by.

I'm gonna, I'm not

sponsored or anything like that. I love the tires.

I'm gonna leave a link to where I got the

tires from in my vial to whoever wants

like if you're running

like

the new cross-track, the new cross-track

wilderness that you can't go

to a 7, you can't get a

16, 15 you can go I think

16 probably without

changing the brakes around.

But if you want to stick with the 17s

you can get this tire and

they fit perfectly. They fit in

they

will also fit in the

wheel well for

lifted

VA and the VVWRX

they will also fit in there.

Oh, nice. Yeah, so

they're perfect and you might have to

cut a little bit of the

bottoms of the bumpers

to make them fit. Okay.

But other than that they'll fit perfect

in the WRXs.

That's if you don't

if you don't want to go down to a

15. Yeah.

And then

the only other thing I got

was a transmission cooler.

I put that in

last year.

Okay. I installed a

transmission cooler, made a

world of a difference here in Texas with the heat.

Yeah.

So what you

mentioned cars and coffees, how many of those

have you been going to? Because I know you post some

and I'm like, oh, I would love

to go out there, but it's like at 8 a.m.

I'm like, yeah.

I'm not going to get up and

to be there. Every single

cars and coffees event, I always start at 8 a.m.

in the morning, like 8 in the morning

and I'm like, just make them start

a little bit later. But I

guess it's smart to start

in here in Texas early

because you don't want to be in the

heat in the meantime

because they usually die out, like between

like 10 and 11, they'll die out

the cars and coffees events.

Yeah. And that's, the temperature's not

as unbearable then.

Yeah. It's a little more manageable.

The last couple of days

I've been in the 60s in the morning.

It's been so nice. Yeah.

I'm like, yes. And then I get out of work

and it's 100 degrees. Yeah.

I know that that's the thing that sucks is like

the day will start off beautiful

and cool and a nice breeze

and low humidity and

this feels so good.

And like you said, the end of the day

after work, you get outside and it's

like upper 90s, the humidity

has gone up and you're like

what happened to that beautiful weather

this morning? Like right now it's

8.30 and

it's still said it's 85 degrees

outside here in Austin. Yeah.

I have no doubt it's

about the same here too.

Yeah.

It's wack.

I get the funny looks in the winter

time because I'll go outside

with shorts on.

Yeah. I know that's

because like I get cold really easily.

I guess maybe I got that from my mom

shorts on.

Yeah. It looks like

it'll get down to like 70

and I'm putting a hoodie on not

necessarily because I'm cold, but like

usually it'll be

the slight bit of chill

and a little bit of wind and

I just I love hoodies and so

I'm like any excuse to wear a hoodie

I'm going to do it. Same. Same.

My wife keeps the temperature

at like 69.

Yeah, that's insane.

Like at like 8 o'clock I'll do a hoodie on.

Yeah. That's just crazy

right there.

I mean I keep mine at 72 so

it's not too far off

but I remember going to my step brother's

house because they wanted me to house it

and I walk in and I'm like

man what is this a refrigerator or something

and I go over to this

thermostat and it's at 69 and I'm like

this is just crazy. I didn't turn it up

but maybe I turned it up while

I was there because I'm like I'm not doing

this. Yeah.

No way.

Well, since we have

we have three dogs.

Oh, okay. And we have four cats.

So. Geez.

Wow. Yeah.

Our third dog

was

a Walmart dog.

We literally got her

walking out of Walmart here in Texas.

Really? Just kind of wandered over to you?

No, out of our local Walmart.

We were walking out of our local Walmart.

It was

alright, so let me backtrack.

Okay. So December of last

year I

got my hip replaced, my left hip replaced.

So I was out of work

until

like

beginning of February.

In January, my wife and I

were at our local Walmart and we were leaving

and I was waiting for her at the doors

for her to bring her car up to the door

for me to get in. Yeah. As I'm getting

in, a red pickle truck

cuts her off

the front and just stops

and two people get out of the car and we're like

oh crap. And they walk to the

back of the pickle truck to the back

doors and they take out a crate

full of puppies.

Oh, interesting.

They were like, okay, the puppies are

free. We're like, what? And I'm in

the car already. My wife's going around

the truck and the lady's like, free

puppies? My wife goes, are they really for free?

And the lady goes, yes.

And before my wife could even say

John, can we look at them?

I was already out the car

walking without a walker

because I was less than

a month out of surgery.

Geez. Boy, that puppy love, man.

Yep.

And now she's

a Chihuahua mix, but she's

mostly

Australian cattle dog. So she has

that ferocious

like

like hurting

kind of attitude

to her. Oh yeah. Like a hurting dog.

So when we take her out,

she's constantly biting the ankles

of the other two pit bulls.

She's biting their ankles

starting fights with them outside.

And I'm like, you are the little dog

trying to fight two big dogs.

Yeah. So do you

all three of your dogs and all four

of your cats, do they all intermingle

and are chill with each other?

Yeah. They all get along with each other.

That's great. Yeah.

Yeah. We got all four cats

were COVID cats.

We got them during COVID.

Okay.

Our oldest pit bull Ace

he

we got him

the August before COVID hit.

Okay. We got him.

So he was there

for when we got all four cats

as kittens.

So he pretty much raised the kittens

the whole time. That's cool.

Yeah. And then our other pit bull

my wife named her

after my car.

Nice.

Ace also

raised her also.

So they all have

part of

Ace in them because of the way he raised them.

Are you going to be going to CBFest this year?

Yes.

I'm going to CBFest this year.

Hopefully they pick me for the show.

I unfortunately

bought tickets last year

got proof of the show

paid for the ticket for the show

and then life happened

so I had to cancel going

to CBFest last year.

Yeah. I didn't think you had made it.

Yeah. So this year

I told life

no take a rain check

for that weekend.

Yeah.

You're not messing this one up for me.

So hopefully in a couple weeks

I got an email saying that I was approved

for CBFest to be in the show.

Yeah. Hopefully so. Because it's coming up.

Yeah. It's coming up in

October 11th.

So right at a month.

Yeah. In about

four weeks.

Yeah. I just booked my Airbnb

last night.

Nice.

Last time we stayed at an Airbnb

and so I figured we'll do that again this year.

Yeah. The place

that we got.

And by we I mean

I mean

some of the people, some of my

friends

from the super community that live

in San Antonio area

we got us, we're getting

an Airbnb there too.

I want to say it's like

15, 30 to 15 minutes

away from Lone Star Park.

Yeah. I think it's not

that far. Yeah. I think the one that I got

is maybe 20 minutes or less.

So that'll be nice.

Yeah. Are you going up there Friday?

That Friday right? Yeah.

I'm going to leave after work that Friday

head up there.

Get in a little bit late I guess

and then head over in the morning.

Wicked Big Meat was coming up. You told me

that you're going to be going up there.

It was literally

other than you

only two other people

in the whole

Subaru community

knew that

I was going up there

for Wicked Big Meat.

Everybody like the people

that I know here in the Subaru community

down here in Texas, they

knew I was going up there but they didn't know

the whole reason why

I was going up there. They knew

because my brother lives in Connecticut

and we have friends and family

that live in Rhode Island and stuff like that.

So I was like, oh yeah this

weekend I can't wait.

I'm going up next weekend to

visit some family and friends

and stuff like that. We haven't seen them in over a year.

So then

literally only people

that knew

that I was going from

back home

for Wicked Big Meat was

Brentman, BPM

Extract and then

Nick

from South Coast Trek.

Those are the only two guys

that knew I was going

and

I surprised

at the Suvi Fest, the pre-meat

at Suvi Mons

I showed up there

on that Saturday and it was

raining. It was like

pouring rain that whole morning

like the night before to that morning it was

raining and it was like

overcast and it was like crappy weather

like show weather.

It sucked for like a car meet

the weather.

But it was packed. That whole parking lot

was packed with cars. Everybody showed up

for that.

Bucky was there. Bucky was walking around

saying hi to everybody.

Giving away

they were raffled off

goody bags

and skateboard deck and a bunch of other stuff.

Very nice.

But yeah, so I

showed up. I let

Brennan know I was in constant communication

with Brennan trying to figure out where they were

so when I got there

I parked my rental

which sucked. It was a Ford F-150

which

I'll

get to why it sucked

before I

get to the part where I ended up at

Wicked Big Meet.

So when I get there

because it's not a Subaru first of all

but go on.

That's the biggest thing that sucked

about it.

It was the wrong blue oval.

The wrong blue oval.

No, so

when I got there

he

Brennan was there with

Scott

Trek Us Two Shits.

He was there with

Sam the Wandering Claws

and he was there with

yeah, he was there with Hunter

who goes by

Asher's

for OBW.

So he was there

and I ran into Scott

Brennan and Hunter

first

and then we were walking around talking and then we were

trying to find Sam

and they're like alright

I think I saw Sam so he's walking back to his car

so I

was there with like a rain

jacket and like a hat

so I just put the hood on

with the rain jacket and I just looked like the killer

like the serial killer from like I know what you did

the last summer just walking around

yeah

and then I come up behind Sam and I scare him

and he's like oh my

what are you doing here and I'm like

we gave a big hug and everything

and just hung out talk the whole time

and then

left there

stopped at Walmart

grabbed some hot dogs and burgers and stuff like that

for everybody at the campsite

and then went to the campsite

that everybody was staying at that

adventure one was staying at

and

I drove they had two campsites

taken so I drove

past the first one

and I kept going up the hill to the second campsite

and

the first

thing that made me upset

with the F-150

I had it in four

in four low

and it still got stuck in the mud

it's not a Subaru

it got stuck in the mud

going into the campsite

so I'm driving

into the campsite

so what I'm going to read now

is a quote from

one of the guys that was there

at the campsite

which is Adam who goes by

Transformer traffic

so I asked him

I was like

how surprised are you guys when you saw me

he goes

seeing some random white Ford truck

pull up to the campsite and immediately get stuck

in the mud was the best possible entrance

for you

oh man that's awesome

because we both know

we've literally gone right through that

without any effort at all

and I was like yep

oh yeah

I mean any time I go

through mud

a lot of times

there will be a big spot

of mud

where it's just all around me

and I'll just go and stop in the middle of it

and then I'll start driving

it just goes right through it

it just goes

all the time even though it's like I know it's going to do it

I'd still do that

I'll stop in the middle of the mud

and then I'll start driving and it just goes

it's crazy but it's awesome

and then he goes on to saying that

they were all standing there wondering

who this random person

that is spitting up mud from the tires

and a few seconds later

out pops my friend John

the goat

saves the cross trick without the cross trick

yep it goes

back to some backwards campsite

in Connecticut to surprise all of us

he immediately

he goes I am immediately

shocked and he starts

shouting no way

what are you doing here

that's awesome

those are some of the best surprises

oh yeah

we stayed up until

I want to say it was like midnight

that night around the campfire

and then everybody was

most of the guys were either

part of adventure ones booth

so they had to be there super early

oh yeah

or were in the car and show themselves

and had to be there super early

yeah that's tough

yeah so it was tough

but yeah the next morning

it was

super stressful for me because

I get ready

I go to start the car to go

jump in the truck

to start it

to go down to the bathrooms

to shower and everything like that

before I go to the show

truck won't start

oh my gosh

oh my god what the hell

put a jump box on it

it starts up

cool I get in the car

note the dashes off

the dash isn't working because it's a digital dash

so it's not working

I have no AC

any HVAC

functions

no radio

yep forward

no nothing

the windows

the only the rear windows went down

what did you do to this truck man

nothing I just tried starting it

you were

the truck was so upset

and distraught that it couldn't

go through the mud that it just decided

not to have anything

anything else work

that's what it was the truck was just really upset

and embarrassed

embarrassed that knowing

knowing that

all the other cars there could easily

make it through and then

he had to

be there and show up in shame

and get stuck that's what it was

so he's like screw you buddy

I'm not gonna work for you

like I wanted to show up with a pickup truck

because I didn't want an SUV or anything like that

most likely it would have been like

a little Chevy Blazer

or Equinox or whatever

so I was like no I want a pickup truck

and they're like we're all out of Tacoma

so I was like no

yeah that would have done much better

yeah

I uh

when I went to the last Overland Expo

in Colorado

I use National

and with National they have

the uh I forget what it's called

but they

oh what am I thinking

because I know they have like they have executive

they have executive so basically

so the way National works is whatever level

of car you get because there's like executive

and then there's like premium or something like that

like the higher end

and then there's another one

that's like just the normal and I can't remember

the name of it but you go and you just pick

whichever car you want

and I walked all up and down

looking to see if there were any Subaru's

because there has been one time

I rented a car

in Pennsylvania

and they had a Forester

so I'm like maybe by chance

there'll be like one random Subaru in here

and there wasn't

so I ended up getting into

a Hyundai Kona

and for some reason

like I couldn't get the

entertainment system to work

like it wouldn't read my phone it said that it was like

offline or something weird like that

what is going on this is stupid

so I got out got in

another Kona that was bright green

or like a bright like yellowish

kind of color

because I wanted to be able to see it easily

but I got in there got everything to work

and then

I showed up at Camp Subaru

and they're like what are you doing in this thing

and so like

so for the last one

I was like hey Joe is it alright

if I get a

Subaru through Turro and he was like

yeah please don't show up in another

Hyundai at the next event

like okay I'll do that

so I'm getting a cross-track

over the next boat east is nice

the place where they have it is nice I went

well you've been nice

yeah yeah I went in

oh god when did that go

I don't know man this is your story

because stage is now three

we got her three years ago

wait sage the car or the dog

the dog

sage the dog she's three now

and I took her the week after we got her

to Ola and Expo

okay

so

no 22 that's what it was in 2022

is that the only time you've ever been

yeah yeah that was the only time it was ever been

yeah it's pretty crazy isn't it

with all the vendors there

it's it's crazy yeah

when I went it was when

like the ton the new body

tundra was coming out

so Toyota have like a big huge

like it took up like a whole

end of like

one of the aisles

for the vendor boots

yeah yeah

yeah it's it's it's such a great

event for Subaru to be

participating in because they belong there

and I think it's

it's it's

I think it's a little too long

hey yeah I mean

but it's good that they're there now

and I'm glad I'm glad that I've

been able to be a part of it and

it's it's been a lot of fun

yeah

no that's nice

I'm kind of jealous that everybody's going

this year and

I'm not going to go because it's like

it's literally the week after

subefest right

no it's the week before the weekend

oh yeah it's the week before yeah

I know I've got two back to back events

yeah

but that'll be worth it it'll be fun

because I'll get to see people at

subefest texas that I haven't seen in a while

I'll get to see get to see bucky

which will be cool that's always nice I'll get to see

I think Rhiannon's supposed to be there

let's see

scott speed may be there

and then people

maybe project midnight I heard

I heard from

I'm not going to say who

but

they drive one of the big tractors

for Subaru

one of the drivers

and met him at one of the

events that they had at the local

Subaru dealer here

and he said that

project midnight will be

at what should

be at certain subefest

developments but he wasn't sure which ones

it was going to go to

when it wasn't going to

well it was it was a subefest texas

last year so it was cool to see

it in person because that car is

insane looking and of course

you watch it drive

and first of all the car

itself and then the driver is

a really really good driver

yeah yeah there's a kid

here in Austin area

he's either here in Austin or in San

Antonio like here in the central texas area

who has

a

WRX that he's

kind of almost mimicking

project midnight

but it's not blacked out

and it's not like

it has more of a

I think he went more with like the cob

kind of look like the cob on the side

with like the Subaru sign

but he's like you know how the project

has a Subaru

sign on the side of it but it's like

he did that with like the cob

on it also if you can't see it

how do you know it's there

that's cool yeah

there's some pretty nice builds out there

yeah yeah

yeah there's just not

like the car like I was saying earlier

the car scene here is completely different

like here it's it's all

Mustangs, Camaro's

Challengers, Chargers

yeah like

the high post power stuff

yeah same here in the Houston area

every once in a while I will see

a lifted cross track

or out back

or something and

you know but all of these people too

are very lame

because I will pull up next to them

I'll look over

trying to like see if I can get a

Subi wave or give a Subi wave

there's been times I'll even like pull

up in front of somebody

that has some kind of mods

on their Subaru

and then you know

just so they can see the back of mine

so they can see the Subi and you podcast

so they can see that I've got decals

and roof rack and tire and like

I've done some stuff to my Subaru

and then like pull up next to them

at a light later on

or something and I'll look over at them

and they won't look over I'm like

do you not see my car

let's like have some recognition

of like hey nice car

cool something

and like they don't look over I'm like

what's wrong with you

same, same

come on I've gotten more Subi waves

from like STIs

and WRX's than I've had

from other lifted off-road

Subarus here

which that's nice

I've gotten Jeep waves

that's good too

there was a

my I didn't see him

do it but

there was a guy that was driving this older

lifted

Toyota truck

that was really nice

and my son said that

we were going somewhere

and he like turned the corner

and he waved at us

and I didn't see it but I'm like oh that's cool

you know it's like

like respect you know like

I like your build

and I just

I like it when that happens

when people can come together with all different builds

and

and respect and admire

people's

you know work that they've put into their car

and

cause that's the way it should be with everybody

and unfortunately it's not

not definitely

yeah

so there was something

that

did I ask you last time

when you was I doing the waffles and pancakes

last time

yeah on your episode

yeah okay

I could remember cause I know you're

still a pancakes guy

and that's great I love that

yeah

stay wet stay a pancake guy

still a pancake guy

is there anything else you

want to share about

your car or about

your journey or any future plans

or anything before we get into the last segment

cause I don't think I was doing the last segment

before

when I had your episode

let me see

well

a couple things have changed since

the last time I was on the podcast

so the last time

I remember you asked me about

um

my lift kit and everything like that at the time I was running

the rica

oh yeah

space for kit

I

as of last year

in

I will say February

I am now

running the rally tech

um

three inch lift on the cross track

oh yeah

any of those lift kits

they sold

um

but I know it's not technically

offered anymore on their website

how's it doing

once in a while I go on just to check the city

I love it

I have

between 15 and 16

inches of ground clearance

and no word of a lie

there's people

that have

approached for it here in Texas

they have seen it

no word of a lie

that's a lot

yeah

so

I definitely have to do

low control arms soon

especially my

front passenger I gotta do it

but other than that lift

it's awesome

no problem with it whatsoever

it

it just makes

the whole look of the car look

mean

like I can

I can lay under the car sideways

it still fit under it

you know

yeah that's high

because it's yeah it's

man that's nice

that's a lot of space under there

mm-hmm yeah so

um

like right now

like I

when I was living back home

I was

proud to say that I was probably the

tallest cross track in New England

oh nice

probably

and I might have

it here in Texas I know I definitely

have it here in Austin

yeah I yeah I wouldn't doubt

that but but like

this is like I know I

I had

the tallest first gen cross track

in New England

as for

tallest first gen here in Texas

don't know probably

um tallest cross track

don't know probably I have no idea

but it's not like something like I'm like

oh I'm gonna be the tallest one

it's just yeah I'm the tallest one

whatever

just turned out that way

yeah

that was the big the biggest thing

that the tires the

transmission cooler

I was about it

any plans

for any other mods

um

I for next

year I want to

handle um

like the cooling I want to

do like a

a radiator

and an oil cooler

definitely want to do that

um

and then

I want to

probably

maybe

upgrade the roof rack to an actual platform

this time next year

because you just have like a basket

yeah I just have the basket yeah

still have the stock roof rails

the crossbars and stuff yeah

what about

you think you'll ever end up

upgrading or switching out your wheels

I don't know like I have

looked at wheels but I just don't want to

do the normal

iron wheel path

as everybody has it's a 15 inch

method

everybody and their mom has a 15 inch

method and then just then don't get methods

there's plenty of other wheels out there

alright yeah let me do

um

an LP adventure wheels

there's still everybody has them

if you don't have methods you have

LP adventure

rica makes wheels not everybody has those

and there's some really good looking wheels

you can get 10% off

they do

I really like the rica wheels

but then I'm like but I know

um

uh enki

has a set of

wheels that

they only come out

only in 17s and 18s

um

and they make them in the 50100

and the 50114

for the ascents so that way

the ascents can run because the ascents

it's hard to go smaller than

like 17 I believe

yeah um

yeah that's where you can

run a 17 with them and they're

really nice I forgot what they called that

offlander or some outlander

or something like that that's what they called

it's like with your cross track you would want

a bigger wheel and a bigger tire

yeah I just I just want

I don't want

I don't want to be a cookie cutter

every cross track that's out there I want to be different

that's that's that's the big thing for me I just

I don't want to be

that's why I went with the crazy lift

yeah

yeah that's good

it's good to be different

yeah

you'll get there

soon

I don't think we were doing this last

segment when I had you on the podcast

the first time but

you get to know you a little bit more

I mean I know we kind of know you but

who is Jonathan

as in describe yourself

um

so I am

uh

41 year old

um

am a lover I love

dogs I love my cats

um a loving

husband and I love my wife

she is

my rock she has brought me up from

the depths of hell

to

to the person who I am now

um without her I wouldn't be who I am

um

and

um

is she in the same room hearing you say all this stuff

no no no she's in the living room

and now watching her youtube shows

or

whatever show she's watching

probably watching Acapulco

or

the show with um

with his name where he's the

producer for

um

for Hollywood I don't remember

Seth Rogen TV show

oh okay gotcha

um

but

an uncle to

three amazing boys

um

and

I don't know what else um

I don't know this is you

I am

I know a lot but then I don't know a lot

like I know I know the random stuff

yeah like I will bore you to death

with random stuff

that's funny

um yeah so

I believe in my ADHD

I have really bad ADHD

to where like I'm all over the place

so I'll I like

my brain has been literally an absorbing

sponge that just absorbs random

information yeah

and I could be talking about oh yeah

do you remember this

yeah with

coming up I want to let everybody

who's like in the

central Texas area to know like

like San Antonio

Austin area um

Temple Kyle

all that stuff like where

the meetups are for the day before

to be fast to go up there

um

so I am part of

the Lone Star subbies group

in central Texas

um I'm one of the admins

um along

with uh a couple

few others um

and

the

plan that we have is

to meet up at the

Bucky's in new brunt holes

um

between 9 and 10 in the morning

on Friday October 10th

and then from there

um they're going to be

leaving there around like

10

15 10 30

to the Bucky's in Temple

to meet up with everybody else

in like the Austin area

the Temple area um

and then driving up to

um

uh

like in the Waco area

to grab lunch

and then

may get the rest of the way up to Dallas

so if anybody in

the Austin area is listening

uh

October 10th

9 a.m. Bucky's in new brunt holes

we're meeting up there

um and then

around noon time

like 12 30 12 12 30

at the Bucky's in Temple

um everybody else

is meeting there I will be at the Bucky's in Temple

waiting for everybody that's coming up from San Antonio

area um so

just look out for

the tallest first gen cross track

the tallest first gen cross track correct

yeah

do you know how many people are supposed

to be rolling out together

up to Subifest

from that whole group

I think

we have

about 25

between 25 and 50

rolling up to Subifest

and you know all these people just from

being part of the group

yeah so I've been

part of the group since

October

November okay just started

in October um

and

we've been

we hit the ground running

with holding events

and um

different things had like

when the flood happened we

we came together as a whole community

we helped out

to collect donations

for the people who got hit with the flood

with the horrific

flooding that happened here in central Texas

in the hill country

so we

collected

clothes dog food

cat food water

food everything

we brought it over out to

the donation centers that

like the drop off donation centers

that were in the Kerrville area

in the hill country

we dropped all that stuff off

I

I took some stuff

and dropped it off

at the animal shelter

here in Austin only because

a lot of the animals that were in the

shelters there in the hill country

were getting transferred to San Antonio

and to Austin

just to open up spaces

for the animals that were

in the flooding

so I brought

paper towels, water, dog food, cat food

litter

and I had everything

in the back of my cross track

and everybody was waiting for the back

of the cross track to squat down

but because I have

the overload springs

from rally tech in the rear

it stayed perfectly

it stayed perfectly level

it didn't even move

yeah

and we're

working closely with

local super dealers

to set up events and everything like that

so with the community

that's great

we want to get involved

the community doesn't

see our clubs

as something bad

they see it as something good

yeah, of course

when tragedies happen

they're there to help out

we want to

when we set up

car meets and we invite the community

to come out, there's people there that show up with their little kids

we don't want

people doing donuts

or burnouts and stuff like that

so we don't let that happen

when we have the car meets

and stuff like that

yeah, that's great

maybe one of these times, depending on when it is

I can make it out

we have monthly

car meets at

one of the

black racial coffees

stores in San Antonio

oh, nice

yeah, so we have them all

we have them once a month

we have a car meet there

they like it because

we bring in

customers

we like it because they have really good coffee

yeah

it'd be awesome to have you show up

like, secretly show up, it'd be awesome

yeah, I'll have to see if I can make that happen sometime

but

yeah, so

what is a favorite memory from your childhood?

favorite memory from my childhood

was

me getting the news of my brother being born

oh, nice

that's cool

I remember my parents brought me off

a couple days before

my mom was supposed to be

scheduled for a C-section

they brought me off at my grandparents' house

a couple days before

so I was staying there for

the whole week

we get the phone call like, hey

your brother's born, I'll say, oh my god

yeah, and then I show up

and then

my brother's a red-ass

how old were you?

I was in first grade

I was probably like 7

yeah, that's cool

I was like 7 years old

and I was like

that's not my brother, he has red hair

so are you and your brother close?

yeah, yeah, me and my brother are close

we're 6-7 years apart

yeah, when I went to Wicked Big Me

I stayed

I spent the night at my brother's house

hung out with him

my sister-in-law, my nephews

I miss them a lot

I tell them all the time

whenever I talk to them

I'm like, damn, you guys gotta come down here

yeah, yeah

yeah, it's tough when you

get separated like that

either from friends or family

yeah, like before

they were an hour and a half away

from here to San Antonio

it was just going from Rhode Island to Connecticut

but yeah, before it was easy

I'd be like, hey, I call my brother red

obviously

and we're like, hey, Red

are you doing anything this weekend?

nope, alright, do you mind if I come up

Saturday, I'll be there Saturday morning

will help come out

hang out and everything, yeah

so I'd show up, we'd hang out

by like midnight kind of thing, you know

yeah, that's cool

that's awesome

now I'm like, yeah, are you doing anything

in three months?

yeah

what is it that you do for a living?

so right now

my job title is

mechanical

examiner

so I pretty much work

I work for an extended

warranty company that

you purchase at the dealership

when you buy your car

so that's the one where

your

manufacturer warranty runs out

we pick up after

the manufacturer ends up and

you take your car to the shop

you need a wheel bearing

service provider calls us up

hey, we have this customer so-and-so

there's the number

do you have a contract for them? yep, we have a contract

all right

we get this covered

what's wrong with it?

it has DTC codes

we ask for all that stuff

but yeah, I'm like

examiner, judicator kind of thing

almost like what it is

okay

the position, but it's fun

I work, it's a hybrid

so I work 3D because

it's in office two days at home

so it's nice

yeah, it's nice

I went from

working completely

remote for the last 3 years

to working

hybrid

I love the hybrid thing because

I like seeing other people's faces

for 3 years

I literally just saw

my dogs

because my wife

for the last 3 years

she traveled a lot to work

she was always gone while I was home

yeah

so

so now that

she still works in the same company

but now she works for a different department

and now she's working completely from home

working hybrid

yeah, that's good

I mean it's good that y'all can both be home some days

yeah, no, yeah

do you have a dream job?

and what would that be?

dream job would

if I had the

attention span

it would have been

a marine biologist

only because

my favorite

favorite favorite animal in the world is the Great One Shark

and

I

would literally sell one of my kidneys

for the opportunity to go

either cave diving or

scuba diving with one of them

oh nice

that's so bad I want to see

like in person

kind of like a Great White Shark

yeah, yeah, that would be cool

that'd be nice

what is something that really scares you?

Jesus

see

you're asking really good questions

hey man, this is the get to know you

section man

I think

it's

like dying alone

yeah

I get that

okay, let's go the opposite

what is something that really excites you?

it's couple things

it's seeing

the dog's face

when I wake up

or when I come home from work

they're like hey, dad's awake

dad's home work

or just coming home

and seeing my wife

every day

you know, waking up and still being like

I still have my wife

my rock next to me

that's good

what is something that makes you want to get out of bed every day?

the dogs

because if I don't get up

they will literally

destroy the apartment

and get up and feed them and take them out

yeah

they will jump on me

and they'll literally

dog pile me constantly until I get up

yeah

what is something that makes you want to stay in bed?

the cold

like if I'm cold cold

man just like

you mean like when your AC is on 69?

no

if it's like storming out

and it's cold

in the morning I'm like

nah, I'm just gonna sleep

yeah, I've gotten that answer a lot

that's a pretty common answer

that's a good reason to stay in bed

what would be your best bit of advice

to give to someone about anything?

couple things

but with your gut

every single time

don't

don't second guess yourself

like if you think like

like can I do that?

no, I can't do it if I'm not gonna do it

no, try it, give it a try

and if you fail, you know that you failed

and you figure out what you did

and try it again

until you succeed

and then

another thing is

is

just because

someone is

just because you're blood related to someone

doesn't mean they have the best intentions for you

so always

again, go with your gut

when it comes to things

yeah, so it's like go with your gut kind of thing

it's like my best advice

that's good advice

it's important to do that too

because if you

just try something, if you fail

then you're always gonna learn something

but if you don't

try it

you never know what it could end up becoming

because it could be something

amazing that you would have never known

if you didn't just give it a try

like me, when I bought the cross track

I was like

I knew that I wanted to like lift it

and put like

bigger tires on it and what not

and everything, but then like

I was afraid of

going out and doing it

and then I met up with people

who were back home who were doing it

and I was like alright, I'm gonna do it

and like

alright, come on, do it

different obstacles and I was like no

I won't be able to do it

sometimes I would try it and I wouldn't be able to do it

and I'd go back at it from a different angle to get it

and I'd conquer that angle

so the next time I was on that same trail

I knew exactly what to do to go through it

and if it was somebody's first time doing it

I'd be like alright, hey, on this part

of this obstacle, go left

now you know, so then you learn

then you can help somebody else

exactly, and especially

in like the off road community

a lot of people gate keep

don't be a gate keeper

don't, like someone ask for advice

or like, hey

what

lift do you recommend

what tires, whatever

don't be like oh

find out yourself or whatever, you know

don't gate keep stuff like that

like if you

like different

just be nice

to the people

because you never know when you're going to need the help also

yeah, kindness is always good

yeah

hey man, well thanks for hopping on

again for

round two for your return

it's

sorry we didn't get a chance to do this in person

there's a whole story behind that that we'll keep to ourselves

but

but it's still fun

still good to see you

I know you're not too far away

and it's just it's tough

to get away sometimes

even to meet up with people

yeah, my wife and I were talking about

going out to Houston

because I have a cousin out there too that I haven't seen

in years

so we were talking about like going out

there to visit and kind of making like a weekend

kind of trip

I know

cool

but I'm going to see you guys in a couple weeks anyways

yeah, we'll see you at

Subifest, Texas

and then the week before

you're going to meet everybody

the whole Adventure One crew

I'm excited about that

everybody's pumped

I've been talking to everybody up there

and everybody's super excited to meet you

and go down to Overland Expo

yeah, that'll be fun

I'm super excited to meet Sam too

because

we've connected so long ago

and

I had him on really early on

yeah, super early on

yeah

so he's one of the OG's

but yeah

it'll be fun

excited

cool man, have a good night

I'll talk to you later

there you have it

episode complete

thank you so much, Jonathan, for taking the time

to record with me and share your story

and your continued Subaru journey

if you're not doing so

go give him a follow, it's Sage the Crosstrek

he's also part of Lone Star Subis

and

if you're going to be going to

Subifest, Texas

he gave some information about where some meetups are going to happen

where they're going to be rolling out from

so be sure to check all of that out

I hope you all have a wonderful week

be sure to tune in to the Subi Scoop

next Monday to hear about

what's going on with Pearl and why I changed out

the shift knob

and maybe some other things

but either way, hope you all have a wonderful week

we'll see you in

two weeks for another regular guest episode

that one's going to be a really good one

so be sure and

stay tuned

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