Snail Trail 4x4 Offroad Podcast Jun 5, 2026

SnailMail: Bloody Bar

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smog

In California, some cars have to pass an emissions test (“smog”) before they can be sold or registered. If the car is listed as non-operational (“non-op”), you may not have to do that emissions test for the sale.

Term

non-op

“Non-op” means the car is registered as not being driven. In California, that can affect whether you have to do the emissions (“smog”) paperwork before selling it.

Car

power stroke

“Power Stroke” is a type of diesel engine used by Ford trucks. Here, the host is saying they sold a late-model Ford diesel truck as non-op so they wouldn’t have to pay for smog.

Term

street legal

“Street legal” means the vehicle meets the legal requirements to be driven on public roads, which typically includes emissions compliance and registration. A vehicle that’s not street legal may be cheaper to transfer, but it also changes what you can legally do with it and can affect liability in a sale.

Term

merge

A merge is when cars from one lane have to join into another lane because the road is changing. It’s tricky because everyone has to adjust speed and spacing at the same time.

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speed differentials

It means how much faster or slower one car is compared to other cars around it. When the speed gap gets too big, people have to change lanes or merge quickly, which makes things more dangerous.

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California law

They’re talking about a rule that says you can’t just drive the posted speed—you have to drive a speed that’s safe for the road and traffic right now. So if conditions are different, the safe speed can be lower.

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Welcome, everybody.

This is Friday's episode where we get to sit down and listen to voicemails from you

guys and then reply to them and let you know how dumb you are or how dumb we are or how

dumb we are.

That's what I meant to say.

And that's that's the morning.

Freudian slip.

Just now.

Yeah.

Because we're definitely not as smart as some of the collars, yes, but some of the collars

we are just as smart.

There you are.

You know who you are.

Me.

That's me.

I'm the caller.

All right.

So first up here, let's see.

We have 41 voicemails.

Okay.

So not bad.

Nope.

Not too shabby.

Let's see what we ended with just for fun Z's flipping back.

We ended at 35.

Okay.

So we got six.

Not too bad.

Let's see.

We have five text messages.

Okay.

So we'll get to those as we get to them.

Let's see.

First voicemail up here is from April 18th.

So that tells you where we're at right now on time frame.

Almost two months.

Almost.

So it's one first up here is Zach from Oklahoma.

Hey, Zach.

And it's a twofer.

He did.

Did you?

He got cut off at three minutes and called back.

Did you see Zach's fanny pack?

I did see Zach's fanny pack.

I liked it.

It made me laugh.

Very, very, very good.

Thank you, Zach.

That was awesome.

Yeah.

Carries his art supplies.

I think that's perfect.

Yeah.

There you go.

It made me think of the dude on social media that does chalk drawings and keeps getting

arrested and fined or not arrested.

He keeps getting fined for it and the what littering for permanent defacing of public

property with chalk with chalk.

Yeah.

And so he keeps going to court and the court keeps dismissing the fines, but all the local

law enforcement keeps giving him tickets.

And so he's been back to court at 789 times, something like that.

And every time the court keeps dismissing his ticket because it's not a permanent

defacement.

No.

But all the law enforcement keeps ticketing him every single time.

Well, they should ticket him as a temporary defacement.

That's not a that's not against the people code.

Yeah.

So.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

So I'm sure they can figure something out to ticket him by your thing.

I know how those peace officers work.

Yeah.

All right.

Here we go.

Yeah.

Zachary.

What's up, Jimmy and Tyler.

Zach from Oklahoma.

Jimmy, I'm going to have to disagree with you on Project Hail Mary.

It is absolutely a movie that you need to see in theaters.

I don't know if that's just me.

I enjoy it thoroughly because I love science.

And before watching the movie, I had watched a thing with Hank Green where he was like

dissecting the movie and then mainly talking about the bits that pulled people out of the

movie like hardcore science people that are like, I know how to, how a centrifuge works.

You're supposed to load it on opposite sides and stuff.

I don't know.

It is what it is.

I loved it.

I love the concept of the astrophages.

The reason why they're called astrophages is astro has to do with star, phage has to

do with eating.

So the idea is they're astrophages because they're literally eating the sun, so which

is why everything is dying in the universe except for that one star that they have to

go and visit and don't want to spoil too much.

But well, it's a book, so the information is out there.

So I was just watching Neil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk podcast on YouTube and they were

talking to the dude that wrote the book.

And one of the inspirations for writing the book was that particular star that they mentioned

in the book.

At one point, there was like some solar flares happening and scientists thought, hey, maybe

there's a planet right there and it's being affected or something like that.

Turns out there was no exoplanet in that area.

But just the idea and possibility of the planet inspired the fictional planet of which

the astrophages are going in between.

And one of the things that is why they go to planets like Venus is because of the high

carbon dioxide that's present in the atmosphere that they need for reproduction and stuff.

So just very interesting information too.

So, um, but yeah, no, I love the movie.

I like sci-fi right now.

I think it's the top movie for the year for me.

We'll see what else other movies come out because later this year, it's supposed to get

Street Fighter now, but that's not until like October.

Dune is coming this year or was it the next year?

I don't know.

Either way.

Bop, bop, bop.

All right, let's just continue because it sounds like he's continuing the topic.

Oh, what's up?

I will talk too long on that last one, but I was pretty much done.

I was just calling back to say catch all later, keep calling.

I'm about to go to work and then later today, I'm going to go help paint a mural.

So I got a fun day today and then I got a martial later today.

So cool.

You'll, all right, y'all keep calling and catch y'all later.

Bye.

Yep.

Have you seen it yet?

Nope.

Okay.

The only reason I say it's not necessary to see in theaters is primarily was because

it's not super visually impressive.

Okay.

Right.

It's a story about like two people, more or less two people, what person in an alien

and in essence on a spaceship inside, there is a, there's a point at which they kind of

go up out into space and Ryan Gosling's outside of the ship and there's a lot of pretty colors

and it's very, I don't know, visually attractive, visually attractive.

That's pretty like, yeah, that, that was good in theaters, but I, the, the, a good chunk

of the movie isn't that way.

Okay.

It's not like avatar, right?

Like avatar is just like gorgeous, the interstellar kind of.

Yeah.

Or an action movie, right?

Like with car chase scenes and explosions and whatever it's, it's not visually appealing.

It was a fantastic movie, but a great movie doesn't, to me, does not mean that you need

to see it in theater.

Okay.

That's fair.

Right.

Yeah.

I don't, to me, it was the level of visual stimulation moves it into a theater side or

maybe audio, but maybe it wasn't that much of an audio boost anyway, on either side.

I still think it was a great movie.

I think that, uh, I mean, I didn't read the book, the assistant read the book after the

fact and she's told me a bunch that went into a lot more, uh, about the movie.

But that's the only reason that I was, I, I lowered it to maybe a rental or get at home

because I mean, my TV is like 75 inches at home or something like that.

And I think it would be just as good of a movie there as a theater.

I guess you could argue that going to the theater and the experience at a theater

might make it a little bit more fun, but yeah, I don't know.

That's, that's sort of my ranking strategy.

But cool.

Looking forward to Dune.

I'm looking forward to Dune 2, Dune 3.

Sorry.

Dune 3, that should be coming out this year, I believe.

Part 3, right?

Correct.

Yeah.

Because there was like four or five books.

Gotcha.

And I still think they're technically on the first book.

Really?

I think so.

Geez.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's crazy.

I only read Dune the book.

So, uh, the assistant read all, all of them.

Okay.

Nice.

Yeah.

So anyways, part three is coming out, I believe it's this year.

Uh, the Mandalorian and Grogu is coming out this year.

That should have came out on May 4th.

Right.

They missed an opportunity.

They did.

I want to see that.

I do too.

That's, that's that top of my list for movies this year.

I think it's out right now.

Is it?

I thought it was a little later in the year.

I think it's, if not out now, it's soon.

It should be soon.

The, a street fighter, like you said, street fighters coming out.

I didn't even know that was going to be a thing.

Mortal Kombat is releasing a part two this year.

There's quite a few like really good looking movies coming out this year.

So I just need to be able to stay on top of them and go watch them or something.

Maybe we'll talk about them on the other podcast.

Exactly.

There we go.

Anything else?

That was it.

All right, Zach.

Thanks for calling in.

Good to hear from you.

This is Josh and SoCal.

Oh, good to hear from you again, Josh.

Here we go.

Hey Tyler, Jimmy, Josh and SoCal.

Call them back.

Want to know your guys' favorite off-road food items?

What do you cook?

What do you like to cook?

What is fun?

What's different?

What do people like?

Cocktails are included in this.

I know we just heard about the Shandy's, so that was kind of fun.

I'm a bloody guy myself, so I love bringing in a camp bloody.

But what do you guys use to cook?

Are you using fire?

Are you using propane?

Are you using, I don't know, give me some good ideas.

I'm curious what you guys like to do,

or maybe you have a secret trick to something.

Anyway, keep crawling.

You want to take this one?

Peanut butter and honey.

Yeah, Jimmy likes peanut butter, honey, and chips.

And salsa.

Yeah.

Not shrimp sauce.

So, it's so good.

That's funny.

I still can't believe you sat there for 10 minutes eating that.

All right.

I had chips in it.

Fair point.

All right.

So, my big thing, I'm really boring when it comes to camping and food.

Yes, you are.

I hate food cleanup while camping.

So, I will do anything I can to avoid making a messy meal while camping.

So, I'm pretty boring.

I cook everything with propane.

I don't really cook anything over the fire,

because there's certain times of the year where we're not allowed to have fires at all.

And so, propane stove is what I use, either a little camping stove or in the camper.

I got to say, I really enjoy grazing though while camping.

Yeah.

I like making something and then like snacking on it for a couple of hours.

Oh, that's not what I thought you were going to say.

Oh, okay.

So, I like kind of doing that.

And so, my favorite camp meal right now is taquitos.

Okay.

Just get frozen taquitos and cook them over on a stove and make like 15 of them in a pan.

And then, you can kind of graze on them and have two or three now,

have one and a half an hour, have another one and another half hour, whatever it is.

So, that's currently my favorite food camping item.

I really do enjoy on a trip.

I will try and do one night where I make steak and green beans and potatoes.

Okay.

Yeah.

Or steak and asparagus potatoes, something like that.

But I don't like the cleanup of that.

Yeah.

It's really annoying to me.

And one of the reasons why I make sure that my crocodile cloths that I get for camping

are all food prep safe, because that way the easiest cleanup is just,

you know, if there is a little bit of something left in the pan from cooking a steak or something,

after I take the steak out and put it on my plate, I'll pour a little bit of water in the pan.

So, it warms up and dilutes and works on breaking stuff loose.

And then, I'll come back later after I'm done eating and wipe it all down with a crocodile

wipe and then clean it out with a new crocodile wipe.

So, all my food prep stuff while camping is based around not cleaning up as much as possible.

And unfortunately, Tyler and I are very boring food people.

We're not the fancy, elaborate cooking.

We're not the type of people that get to camp to cook.

We are very one pot as simple as we can kind of get it.

I joke about peanut butter and honeys, but I love them.

I literally can eat them three times a day for a week straight, probably.

But if we're going to talk some food stuff, what the assistant and I do a lot is we just

go to Trader Joe's and we'll get like frozen bags or raviolis or frozen,

they have like these frozen pot or pan pasta dishes that are really easy like gnocchi and

raviolis or tortellinis and, you know, you can get different fillings on some of them.

And they have the sauce and the pasta all in one.

And then we usually get a bag of frozen green beans or a bag of mixed veggies or something.

And we just throw them in or they have frozen broccoli too, which is really good.

We just throw it all in the pot all at the same time and cook it up.

And that's it.

And it's super easy because it's frozen and you just throw it in the pot and you cook it till

it's warm and then you can eat it. It's all one pot, so there's not a lot of cleanup to do.

You just have your dishes in the pot and whatever utensil you're stirring the food with.

I really like your guys' yogurt parfait, your breakfast ideas that you deal.

I'm not a big breakfast person. Like if I'm camping, I could give a shit about breakfast.

I don't care about breakfast at home. I don't really care about breakfast while camping.

I need coffee in the morning.

Breakfast, I don't really give a shit about.

It's not a yogurt parfait so much. It's an overnight oats.

That's what it is. I really like that. I might enjoy breakfast more camping if I started doing

those. And what's great about those is you can pre-make them. And so we make them in jars.

I took them to King of the Hammers. And the thing is when you add the liquid to it,

it really only lasts with the liquid in there about two days before they just become mush.

But you don't have to add the liquid to it until the night before.

If you're gone, like I was down at King of the Hammers for like five days,

and I made one or two of them ahead of schedule with milk inside of it, and then

when I ate those two, I just needed to remember that next morning I just needed to make the one

for tomorrow. And then I ate that one and then make the one for tomorrow. And I'm actually going

to use those this weekend while I'm out camping. And so roughly what they are, they're super simple,

but it's oats. I don't remember the ratios, but we put oats in, and maybe I'll write the ratios

down in the show notes. But I add oats, chia seeds, and I think that's really about it.

I'm trying to remember offhand. But should you like blueberries or something?

And then we add frozen fruit into it, just like a mixed berry frozen fruit. And then I pour it,

I put in protein powder, like a vanilla protein powder. And sometimes we add matcha to it. And then

it's like, I think it's two parts dry stuff. So whatever oats and chia seeds you have in there,

you do one part, I do one part milk. And then I do the fair life, because that's what the assistant

likes to drink, but it has more protein in it. It does have more protein and fair life keeps

surprising very well compared to regular milk. Yes. Yeah. And so I do that. Sometimes I'll

do like an oat milk or almond milk or something, but most of the time it's fair life. And then

I put fresh bananas on top. Nice. And that's the breakfast. Pretty simple.

And it's pretty, like the morning of, if it's already had the milk on it, all I do is stir it

to make sure it's fully mixed. And then I cut some fresh banana on top. And if it's the assistant

and I, it's usually half a banana on each side. If it's me, I'll put half a banana on it and then

just eat the other half. And that's breakfast. And it's super good, super easy, no cooking

required. Cleanup is literally, I put a little bit of water inside of it, close the lid back on

top, shake it up, then throw the water out. And then it more or less is cleaned to that.

I put it in a mason jar. I don't know if I said that. Put it in a mason jar. And then

I put the mason jar back into wherever it came from, back into the fridge or whatever.

Super easy. Yeah, to do. So that might be my camp, one of my good camping hacks that we do.

Yeah, it's really nice. What about your favorite drink right now?

Yeah, so I'm, I know what yours is, but I'm, this weekend I'm going to try Bloody Mary's

and see how that goes. I'm not going to go too crazy. I'm not going to do like a hamburger

on a stick thing. Are you going to do like a, any kind of like dumb down Bloody Mary to simplify

it? Are you going to do actual Bloody Mary's? No, I'm doing, I bought some Bloody Mary mix

and I bought some vodka. And then I'm going to go, I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to get

some like mixed pickled vegetables, like maybe some green beans or something. I would

like to do bacon, but I might get murdered if I cook bacon in the house.

So I might cook it out there like the first day. Costco has pre-cooked bacon. Do they? Like in a,

yep, pre-cooked bacon. All you got to do is warm it up or you can eat it cold, whichever.

Well, I want it cold in the drink. Perfect. Then yeah, just go to Costco. They have pre-cooked

bacon in batch. Yeah. So I wonder, I might have to do that. So, yeah. So I might do that and then

yeah, some dill or pickled veggies and that's it. Like I'm just going to do fairly simple to start.

My thing is I want to start, I bought a Bloody mix and brought it home the other day because I was

like, I need to sample Bloody mixes because I need to know which one I want. But I got an old

favorite that I remember, which was an old zigzag. I think is what the name of the brand is.

It's just a staple. Like it's a normal thing. So I might just get another one of those and bring

it and just have that be it and then make a little Bloody bar out there. So if people in the

morning, they want to have a Bloody Mary, that might be my new, I'm playing with that to see if

that's something I want to do. But normally I'm an Irish coffee kind of guy. Make my coffee,

add a little bit of whiskey in it and just kick it. Yeah. That's an easy, simple one. I'm going

to make the coffee anyway. So I can just throw the extra whiskey in there because I always bring

some. How about you, drinks? My favorite drink right now is Pormosus. It's fantastic. They're

super surprisingly refreshing. So if you're out in summer camping in the evening time, afternoon

time, Pormosus are great because you get a nice little refreshment and you're using like half

of a Coors light per drink. So you can have like 10 of them before you ever start feeling anything.

Would you look at that way? Well, because I drink my first half of the Coors light and then I add

orange juice to it and then I have it. So I was like, how do you make yours? You just make

part in another cup. Oh, got it. So yeah, the Pormosus have been great. Other than that,

I do the Simply Lemonades and then they have a Simply Harder Lemonade. I forget exactly what

they call it, but it's eight and a half percent. So I'll have those. And my main goal with drinks

is to just be refreshed because at summer wheeling time, I just get hot. It doesn't seem to matter

what temperatures it's outside. If I'm in direct sunlight, my body starts overheating.

So I'm just looking for something to cool down and have refreshing.

And that's exactly. I think a lot of trips that Tyler and I go on, we're always sort of moving.

There's not a lot of downtime on the trips that we'd normally go to. There's not a lot of times

when we're camping in one spot for multiple days. And I think that's the trips that I'll be trying

to do the bloody bar on. Where if we're on a trip where it's like we're moving every day,

like, okay, no, that's not going to, like there's not going to be time for me to lay out a bar

for somebody to have a few drinks and relax before we have to pack up and move. So yeah,

I don't, I'll see how it goes this weekend to see if it's something I want to play with.

If you have any suggestions for me on things to do or add to my bloody bar or things that are

required at a bloody bar, let me know because I'm all ears. Cool. Yep. All right. Next up.

Yeah. Chris Ria. Oh, Ria. Wrong seat, Did you just make that up?

I did. I like it. That's good. All right. Here we go.

Hey, what's up, Stale Trail Boys? It's your favorite friendly ultra four escort.

Just giving a listen to the used card buying episode. Don't remember what number it is.

I'm way behind. And I don't even know how far behind on voicemails you guys are these days,

but I know. Yeah. Anyway, everybody does that. Anyway, just a bit of information about buying

and selling in the state of California only with smog. I can't say this is law. I can't say it's

gospel. But I can say that the last time that I had to sell a vehicle that required smog,

that I couldn't smog, I just put it on non-op and sold it. And you are not required to provide

smog for a non-op vehicle. At least everything that I could find on the state of California's

website and everything else. It was actually a late model power stroke that I got for free from

a previous company and got the title into my name and sold it with non-op because I didn't want to

have to pay to get a smog. And I made it super cheap because of that. But yeah. So if you put

your vehicle on non-op, you, the seller is not required to smog it. As far as I know,

everybody should, I'm not a lawyer. I didn't play one on TV and I didn't stay at a holiday and express

last night. So stick that with a grain of salt. But anyway, just some more information from your

escort. Hope you're having a good day. Bye! That's smart. Yeah. I will never thought about that.

I think that makes complete sense because you're selling a vehicle as non-operational,

therefore it does not have smog. Yeah. You can't prove that it's asked to get smogged or need smog

or anything because it's on a non-op registration. Yeah. I think that, to me, that makes complete

sense. Same. I think the downside to that is what he sort of ended with was you're selling it a little

cheaper because it's on non-op and it's not street legal. But it kind of protects you and covers your

ass. Yeah. If you're just trying to get rid of a vehicle and not sell at full price and everything.

Yeah. I think that makes a lot of sense. And that comes from, because in that episode, we talked

about how selling a vehicle that needs to be smogged but didn't get smogged can come back to

bite you because it is the seller's responsibility to have a vehicle smogged before sale. And the

purchaser can sue the person or come back to the person for the value it took to

take to get that vehicle smogged. Yep. But if you make it non-op, then it's a non-operational

vehicle and it's up to them. Yep. So that's a good little trick there, Chris. That is smart. Yeah.

Next up, Nick from Montana. Nicholas. Here we go.

That's what we're talking about. On mental health side, it's just go fucking do something. And

sometimes that's why you're in that hole. I used to call it a spiral, like one thing sets me off

and then I'm like, yeah, then I'm not taking care of myself and I'm not taking care of the house.

I'm not taking care of fucking work or paying bills, all that kind of stuff. And I'm like,

so there was a point in time where I decided to get up and open the curtains. And that was what

I did for the day. And that's okay. You're making forward progress. That hole big. And it's one

of the reasons some of my sign officers love you, proud of you. That's something I started doing

back in the day because I had a soul through that told me that he's never heard

love you or proud of you from either of his parents. And I said it jokingly and he's like,

oh, thanks, I'm like, I really appreciate you. Yeah, I've never heard it. And it's like, oh,

shit, like how often does that happen? How many haven't haven't heard those things from a strong

behavioral model? So I'm blessed that I get to be able to be in that position. Sometimes. And it

is something I don't take lightly. And the other big one mental health wise is go fucking exercise,

move your fat, loaded body around, and you will feel better. Be out in the sun, go for a hike,

go for a walk, go to the fucking park for your kid or whatever it is, like human beings are not

supposed to be inside all day. And I say that as a medical provider is my professional medical

opinion. You're not supposed to be inside all fucking day. Anyway, that's all love you and

proud of you. I am goner in good advice. What if you die in the sun, Nick? I feel attacked right now.

Well, you aren't inside all day. That's true. I'm not outside for like 10 minutes when we went

to lunch. That's true. Yeah, I'm working my baby steps. Yeah. That's what I was going to say,

baby steps is start somewhere small, work your way up to more. Nick said, some days it's just

opening the curtains and then going back to bed or whatever it is. And then some days you can get

yourself out for a walk and then sometimes you can turn that walk into a small jog or

then start running more or however it works out for you. Well, that's also kind of the

thought of the military, right? The military, when you get up in the morning, the first thing

you do is make your bed and it's your first victory. It's your first victory of the day.

Exactly. Your first thing you're like, fuck, yeah, I did something today. It starts you off

in the right mental attitude of having a successful and prosperous day, right? Have you seen that

speech? I haven't. Oh, I'm going to butcher the thing, but it was from some like military

three star general or whatever. And the whole speech was around making your bed. Really? And

the first thing you're doing, it sets yourself up. You're already winning for the day. So you

got to keep that rolling. Everything you just said, but it was like a military guy explaining

why it's so important to make your bed. Okay. Yeah. I'll see if I can find that.

That'd be cool. Throw that in here. So it's a great speech. Yeah.

Nice. Yeah. Mental health is super important. Stay on top of your guys' mental health out there. If

you feel like you're spiraling or shit's not going right, you know, reach out. We got a

discord. We love hearing from you guys. We're always here to chat. For sure. Nick called back.

Let's see where we're at. I got time for more. Here we go. Oh, here we go. We're going to touch

on some more. I think mental health, men's health stuff. Okay. Hey, I forgot to touch on

vulnerability, be fucking vulnerable. Maybe that's because I'm not a physically vulnerable person.

But I don't understand the hyper-masculine guy. Maybe it's like girl dad stuff. Maybe it's a

I used to break shit and hurt people for a living. I don't know. But if you're

having something happen, let your buddies know that something flipped up, something flipped

through. I'm feeling this way or that way. And having that one or two buddies that you can do that

with is pretty fucking awesome. And honestly, prevents more than one suicide. And in the other,

on the suicide note, to fucking ask, it's a whole campaign that's called just fucking

ask. But like, if you feel like your buddy's in that situation, fucking ask him,

why am I going to shoot yourself? It's uncomfortable, but fuck, does it work?

It, you know, it's resulted in more than a few times like I'm, you know, securing somebody's

firearms form. Because this is such a quick, such a quick way to make a very permanent decision.

And I don't have anything like particularly horrible or entertaining to say right now.

So I'll work on that and probably call back a third time in like a day or two.

Bye. I've never heard of that. Just fucking ask. I like it. I like it a lot. Yeah. And it makes sense.

I mean, a lot for the person that is looking in from the outside, just fucking ask. Yeah.

For sure. Cause, and especially if I agree, it could be a little awkward, but if it will save

your friend's life, it's worth it. It's awkwardness. Yep. I like it.

It's worth the vulnerability. awkwardness. So yeah, I like it.

Nick, is there anything you want to tell us? Yeah.

Is there anything you want to talk about, Nick? Do we need to, I need to text Nick later.

Do we need to message him? Yeah. Discord him. Maybe.

All right. Next up, where are we? We still got more time. Yeah, we'll do another one.

This one's Donnie. Hey, Donnie. I wonder if he's going to ask us.

Maybe. Are you guys going to shoot your fucking cells from talking about toilets all the time?

No, from Rovers. Oh, there you go. All right. Here we go. Donnie. Yeah.

Julianne Tyler, your boy Rover Don here on the road as always. And oh, God, this is the think the

April 24th episode I'm listening to a snail mail. So it's probably about July now that you're playing

this and you're talking about shit that pisses you off when you're driving. I have to be driving

around 30,000 miles a year. So I get plenty of that. But Tyler, Tyler, you're being that guy.

You're talking about I turned on my signal. So I'm coming over. No, not right. You still turning

on your signal does not magically mean everybody else has to jump out of your way. If I'm driving

and I'm in my lane and I'm good and someone wants to merge over into my lane. Okay. I'll,

you know, I may make room for him if I can. But just because they turned on their signal doesn't

mean that magically everybody else jumps out their way and they get to come on. The guy who started

this whole call was witnessing that someone was in a merge lane coming up on I five. They wanted to

get over and they were pissed off that the big rig didn't get out of their way by magic just

leap out of their way and let them in. Well, they had their turns to go on. Why didn't the big rig

just disappear? No, wrong answer. You still have to make sure there is room.

We turn on your signal and expect that that just gives you the right to push everybody out.

Then you're the problem. Don't be the problem. I think we could sum it up with just don't be a

dick, but you know, that's asking a little much for most people. Anyway, I'll leave you boys

with a hearty trial aside and away we go. I already think I know what you're going to say,

but go for it. Okay. Two points. Yeah. One, if somebody has their signal on and they don't see

you there and they start coming over a complete accident, not intentional. They're not being

a dick or anything. They just don't see you there and you saw that they were signaling

or they had their signal on and you're one of the drivers that is driving 90 miles an hour down

the freeway and there's somebody signaling and you're still a quarter mile back, but because

you're going so much faster than them, you end up having to slam on your brakes because they're

coming over into your lane, right? There's, there's two different things going on here where

one in the first situation, it is a complete accident. They're not being a dick. It's just

they're turning on their signal to let everybody else know this is my intention. I'm going to do

everything I can to make sure I'm not running somebody over, but I'm moving and hopefully

this signal lets everybody know I'm moving, gives you a heads up that I'm moving.

You don't necessarily need to be a big rig and magically disappear, but if somebody is giving

you the courtesy, courtesy of putting, turning on their signal to let you know what their plans

and intentions are, I think you owe a common courtesy to try and, if you can, let them make

that happen, let them make it happen. Yes. I think that's not being a dick. Correct. So I think

what Donnie was saying is if you turn your signal on, you don't just get a move over.

Well, for sure. I mean, it doesn't give you right to move over. You're right.

But at the same time, it's showing intent to move over and maybe they don't see you there.

Would you rather just stay there? Them hit you and now you have to deal with

an extra five hours out of your day and a broken car and you have to replace your car and deal with

insurance, all this other stuff. Or is it easier just to slow down, make a little bit of room and

let them over? Yeah. So a point I want to make is what Don was saying happened to be a merge

situation. Yes. And when a car and I think, and this is where it all started, I think Richard

from Atlanta said this and this is why this is where the conversation started. When a car is

merging on the freeway, it's the car that is merging on the freeway that does not have the

right away. Correct. So just because the car didn't notice a semi in the way, that is the

car's fault. They don't just get a come over. Yeah. So. And the difference there is that

they know their lane is ending. Yeah. So you should be planning way ahead of time. Yes. To make

your move. You know that this is coming up. You know this is an impending future for you.

You should be planning accordingly. Whereas like if I'm just in the middle of the road and driving

on a two lane road and I'm like, I need to plan on getting over at some point here in the next

half a mile because my turn is in a mile, that's a different scenario than the immediate impending

doom of the lane ending. Sure. You need to be aware of that. I think there's a slight difference

there in the situation. Sort of. But I think they're both, both situations you need to be aware.

Yes. Well, I guess you're driving. You need to be aware. And it bothers the hell out of me

because the assistant knows where she's going, but does not always know what lane she should be in.

Yeah. So it's like, you know, you need to exit in like a quarter mile. Why are we still in the

fast lane? Yeah. True. And then it's like, oh, here's the exit. I got to get over. Oh,

there's a car there. Now I have to cut this person off. I'm like, why aren't you thinking ahead?

And I think that's really what a lot of it comes down to. Yeah. Start thinking ahead. You have to

be like, I understand you're not always going to be able to do it, right? But you need to be able

to start thinking ahead and where you're going to be. Where do you need to be by the next

like obstacle, right? And that could be for off-roading and for on the road. Like I've got

to turn left coming up in a mile. So I should probably be getting over to the left lane or

whatever it is. But yeah, I think. So to continue, what if let's say a scenario where you are driving

a truck in a trailer and you've got blind spots and you need to get over, but people aren't letting

you over? Sure. I mean, do you just, what do you do in that situation? I'm coming over. I'm coming

over. I'm just going to start moving slowly and you guys got to deal with it.

Yep. That's, I mean, everybody just, I think what the main rule here is exactly what Don said,

don't be a dick. Yes. You have to have common courtesy while driving. And if somebody, in my

opinion, if somebody gives me the common courtesy of letting me know what their intentions are,

I'm going to do everything I can to let it happen without impacting other people around me, right?

Yes. So I also think the situation that you were saying is one of my red flags too,

where if somebody has their blinker on to come over into your lane and you're going faster than

them and that person is going to now make you have to slow down, the person that is turning

is not being courteous, right? It depends on the flow of traffic in my opinion at that point.

Sure. I mean, there's a lot of circumstances that could change that, but the person that is

merging lanes or changing lanes needs to be aware of the oncoming traffic, right? If they're in

oncoming traffic, it could be behind you. Yeah, for sure. And so by you, if say you're going

less than the speed limit and you want to get over into the fast lane and the person behind you

is going more than the speed limit, it's not your right to slow them down. What if you have to change

lanes? Why do you have to change lanes? Because the freeway is exiting and you're in the wrong

lane, haven't been able to get over because people keep moving too fast and you have to get over.

So now you're being a dick. Yeah, but I think that's a different, like if the lane ends and

you're moving into the lane that you have to be in because there's no more lane in front of you,

then it's the person's fault for not realizing that the lane is ending. It's both people's fault.

That fast person shouldn't be going fast because the people in front of them are going to have

to merge in front of them. I think there's a big thing about speed differentials,

right? I think that if the flow of traffic, the general flow of traffic is going

whatever x mile an hour, I think that traffic should not be going slower than x minus 10

and the faster than 10 plus x kind of thing, right? I think that everybody should be around the flow

of traffic, which is actually California law. There may be a speed limit on a freeway or something,

but the law states you need to be going safe speed for what's current for current conditions.

And so that means you have to stay with the flow of traffic and people that

inhibit that flow of traffic on either side of the spectrum is a big issue.

I agree. And you have to, I mean, you just have to be aware in my opinion. Like you have to,

if the right lane is merging into the left lane and both vehicles know that there's no reason

for the left lane person to speed up and try to get in front of the right lane person that has to

move it. So unless they're a truck and trailer. Sure. Yeah. All right. We don't need to beat a dead

horse. Let's beat dead horses and third dead cats cross yards. Yeah. All right. Where are we on time?

We're pretty far in here. We're pretty far in unless it's somebody not so fun.

No, I think that's good for now. Okay. Yep. Sounds good. All right. We'll call it there for today.

How's that? Sounds great. Thanks for calling everybody. Always enjoy your phone calls. If you

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And then leave a voicemail for us and we'll get to it in what, like a month and a week right now?

Yeah, right about there. Talk about that. Maybe we'll get closer here in a little bit. But

we got six episodes last, or voicemails last week and we went through seven voicemails today.

Hey, we're winning. We're inching forward. Perfect. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the show.

Give us a call. We love interacting with you and have a safe weekend. We'll see you Monday with a

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we'll see you guys then. Have a great safe weekend and we're out. Bye-bye.

About this episode

Voicemails kick things off with listener call-ins, including Toyota banter and a “bloody bar” theme that turns into camping food and drink talk. The hosts and callers swap ideas for off-road trip cooking—propane stoves, frozen taquitos, one-pot meals, and overnight oats—plus Bloody Mary variations and staying cool in summer wheeling. Later, the conversation pivots to practical driving etiquette (merging, turn signals, speed gaps) and a California non-op/smog selling workaround, then closes with mental health encouragement and a PSA tease.

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This Week’s Callers

Caller 1/2: Zac from OCK talks about Project Hail Mary and how it was awesome
Caller 3: Josh from SoCal wants to know your favorite food
- Overnight Oats – 1/2 cup Oats, 1 Tbsp Chia Seeds, 1 Scoop Protein Powder, 1 Pinch Salt, 1 Scoop Matcha, 1 Cup Milk (the day before you want to eat it), Frozen berries. Add fresh banana/berries when eating.
Caller 4: Wrong Seat Rea tells everyone about a trick for getting around, selling a vehicle, and smog
Caller 5: Nick from MT talks more about mental health
- Make Your Bed: https://youtu.be/pxBQLFLei70?si=XV-fjr2CoOzeUluV
Caller 6: Nick from MT says to be Vulnerable
Caller 7: Rover Don says Tyler is wrong about blinkers

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