Outskirts Overland Podcast
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Outskirts Overland Podcast
Aired-Down Lawnmowers & Grand Canyon Dreams
Charlie shares excitement about his truck's upcoming gear installation and outlines preparation plans while balancing upcoming events and personal responsibilities.
• Discussing ARB air lockers and East Coast Gear Supply bushing installation scheduled for next week
• Planning potential trips to Kentucky Adventure Trail while seeking community advice on difficulty and camping options
• Sharing the unusual practice of airing down lawnmower tires for a smoother mowing experience
• Exploring future adventure destinations including ice camping, Grand Canyon, and the Upper Peninsula
• Behind-the-scenes look at podcast merchandise production and seeking help with sticker designs
• Balancing overlanding aspirations with family responsibilities and weekend commitments
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Welcome to the World of Warcraft, episode 1, the Warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft, warcraft. Hey guys, this is charlie. Welcome to outskirts overland. It's friday 4 11. It is not only is it my girlfriend's birthday um, she probably doesn't even know this, but April 11th is also National Pet Day. So like she loves dogs, so that's like National Pet Day. Like she's probably psyched on that. She probably doesn't know it, maybe she doesn't know it, I don't know. We didn't like discuss what day National Day it was. Anyway, so happy birthday to her and I hope she has a great day.
Speaker 1:I was driving in today and I think I passed. So I don't know if you guys follow Epic Family Road Trip on social media Instagram or YouTube or whatever but essentially they're a family that's been a family of five that has been traveling since the kids were all really little. They do a lot of. They do and have done a lot of overlanding for quite a while and homeschooled the kids et cetera, and they have since. The kids have all grown up. Their youngest son has a YouTube channel, their oldest daughter just got married and their middle son has a youtube channel. Their oldest daughter just got married and their middle son is a videographer for expedition overland and so they're empty nesters now.
Speaker 1:And I think I just passed them on the highway this morning and they, they have a thing called a ross monster baja, which is a essentially a big super duty ford truck with a full fiberglass like bed camper, um, but not like a slide in or anything like there is no bed, the camper is the bed. So I think I passed him this morning, I was going the other way and I kind of it kind of caught me so and I didn't even, but I messaged them. I hope it was them. I've never seen them. They're from Canada and I'm in Missouri, so I can't imagine, I don't know. I've never passed them before and I traveled you know it was on interstate 70 here in Missouri so and I traveled that a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, and I've never ran in, I've never seen them, seen. I I have seen and ran into and I think I'm even in some other creators youtube videos in my truck from you know different places. But yeah, I don't really know if it was them or not, but I'll go find out later. Anyhow, that's that, was that or not, but I'm going to find out later.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, that might not be exciting to anybody else, but it's pretty exciting to me, like last night I did the dreaded beginning of spring I mowed the grass for the first time. The reason I bring up mowing the grass guys is the funniest thing. This is so ridiculous, but I I was zero turn lawnmower, and those of you guys I have a lawnmower to like beat you all over the place. Ever since I've off-roaded, I air down my lawnmower and it's so much smoother, like it's. It's like so ridiculous. Everybody's always like telling me about how their lawnmowers beating them up and bottom, like they're that sucker down, like I hear my lawnmower down and it is a different world. Um, it's so funny, though, cause I'm out there like with my air. Chuck, you know getting her down. You know lawnmower tires carry all of you know six PSI. I'm here, I'm down to 3. Don't want to pop a bead. Mowing the grass. I think it's funny.
Speaker 1:So I mowed and it got rained on while I was mowing. But it's Missouri, so getting rained on isn't like an all-day thing. It rained for like 15 minutes and then stopped. It was like sunshine, rain, sunshine, rainbow, you know. Then the wind kicked out. Missouri's nuts Weather here is all over, and I mean all over, so that's just what it is.
Speaker 1:I did get an update yesterday. I think my truck will be done a week from now. Hopefully, you know it depends Again. Hopefully, you know it depends Again. Like I said yesterday, it depends. He's got. He is a very busy guy and he had. When I dropped my truck off, there was at least 800 Series Land Cruisers outside and there was an FJ60 outside too, a restored one, pretty cool. I have a Tacoma, but I am a huge Land Cruiser fanboy Huge, huge, huge and I would have that. If I mean, my truck was just too good of a deal. Anyways, I'd have a Land Cruiser, a G 460, 470 still essentially land cruiser, prado, whatever.
Speaker 1:Um, so the guy working on a product primarily works on land cruisers which, as some of you guys know, in the overland space. There's a lot of people that just primarily work on one type of car jeeps, land cruisers, x, y and z. He does that my tacoma. He's familiar with that. I'm very excited for him to do it. He's very, very reputable.
Speaker 1:I haven't plugged him yet because he's like so busy and I and he's kind of word of mouth, I mean people that know him know him. But or people that know about land cruisers in the Midwest know him. But it's all word of mouth and I haven't asked. I'll plug him when it's done, if it's okay with him. He's a one-man show and he may be as busy as he wants to be. I don't know. I just try to be respectful. So but yeah, he sent me an email yesterday.
Speaker 1:He thinks he should try and get it started on tuesday and it is front and rear gears. Uh, I'm doing the east coast gear supply bushing in the axle bushing. There it replaces a needle bearing with a bushing, a metal bushing, and oh excuse me ARB air lockers and then switches. Obviously front rear locker switches, an air compressor switch to the inside and the air compressor switch currently is under the hood where the ARB is. So he's got a little bit. I mean it's going to take a few days. If he had it done Friday, I mean that's even pretty quick. So we'll see. I don't really it's going to be a relatively big job and I mean he knows what he's doing so maybe it will be quicker for him. I don't know, but I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1:Then the push to get that sucker broke begins. So let's all say a prayer for me getting that done on time. That'll be a lot of stress. So whatever, because the break-in's not the stressful part. I got to get it broke in and change both diffs. And again, guys have kids and a job. That's not a big deal. If I didn't have children in the evenings. Doing front and rear diffs is not a hard job.
Speaker 1:But I do not aspire to have any type of gear oil on my children. For those of you that don't know, gear oil stinks terribly Like bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, real bad, and it's going to be conventional for the break-in. So hopefully it's not, I mean at 500 miles. Hopefully it doesn't smell that bad. But those of you that have done gear work you know gear oil smells freaking terrible. I don't want to be getting too into that with my kids around. I will do quite a bit of stuff with them around. Gear oil is not something I want them to be smelling like. So anyways, I'm pretty excited. I mean, I'm excited that's happening. It's going to be kind of a mad dash there for a little bit, though anyways, I'm pretty excited. I mean I'm excited that's happening. It's gonna be kind of a mad dash there for a little bit though, but I think the weather's gonna be real nice this weekend, I think. I think I mean it's this morning. I woke up, it's 49 right now, but the high is like 59 or 58 or something. Yesterday I got to like to like 70. Again, I even talked about it earlier Missouri's freaking wild dude. Missouri's off the charts, off the charts.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at doing a trip to the Kentucky Adventure Trail. Anybody listening? If you guys ever done that, let me know what you thought about it, not just from the wheeling aspect. How are the camp spots? Are there any cool? Is there anything cool I should go look at like while while doing that?
Speaker 1:Um, how long did it take you? Like? Is a week enough? Do I need two weeks? Have you done the whole thing? Or is it kind of like everything else, where you can do a section? You know a three day section or something, or is it? You know, I don don't know. I don't know a lot about it. Um, and I'm not going not knowing a lot about it. I mean, I'm aware of it. I will do a lot of research before I go and ask on forums and stuff. Oh, sorry, guys, I don't mean to be on ask on forums and stuff, but as of today I don't know a whole lot and something I'd like to maybe do this year. So I am.
Speaker 1:If you guys have done it, let me know what's it like, what's a good time to go? You know, like whenever you go to the Smoky Mountains at least again that's Tennessee from here, so you go to Gatlinburg, like there's times to go, like even the Ozarks, like middle of summer is the time to go. It's dusty but it's good for the river. You know you don't want to go to the right now. It's pretty much probably the worst time for the Ozarks because there's a lot of water which is good for the summer to float and whatnot, but there's a lot of water and it's raining a bunch. So it's a lot of stuff's impassable because you got to pass, you know, the Mulberry River or the Buffalo River to get. You know there's a lot of water crossings and when.
Speaker 1:I guess I'll talk about this briefly, but when people talk about water crossings in Arkansas, it's a river like you're oftentimes crossing a river, not just like a Creek. You do cross Creeks. I mean, that's not I'm not saying that's not something that exists, but it is. Oftentimes you're crossing a river, so it can be too powerful, too fast, too high. That stuff happens, um, and and you know, right along with it is runoff and mud and clay and it can just be a lot. It can just be a lot, it's just what it is.
Speaker 1:So I, if it's, if the summer's not a good time to be in kentucky, or is kentucky similar to arkansas, where it's like a pretty, you know, moist climate. I, if it's, if the summer's not a good time to be in kentucky, or is kentucky similar to arkansas, where it's like a pretty, you know, moist climate. And now it's time you don't want to go. I'm looking at going mid-year kind of. So another three months or so, four months maybe, you know, unless something else you know, quote unquote tickles my fancy somewhere else. But, guys, I'm yawning like crazy, but I don't think I'm tired, or I don't feel like I'm tired Anyhow. So, yeah, if you guys have done it, let me know. If you guys know of anything else that's like cool, that's around the Midwest, also let me know.
Speaker 1:I feel like I've done a lot of what's around. Yeah, man, I don't know. I know the Trans-American Trail is something that one of my friends is going to do on his ADV, on his bike. I don't know if that appeals to me or not, yet I do know a good bit about it at this point. But I don't know, I don't know if that's for me. I feel like sometimes with the adv like and maybe some of you guys are adventure bike individuals I feel like that's a lot more of just like enjoying the drive.
Speaker 1:I I don't think I think those bikes are capable, but I don't think the idea is to see how capable they are technically. Typically, I see them a lot. They look like a ton of fun and but you know, like a regular street bike you can't even do like, I mean, you can't really do extended gravel. So I think they're more of a. They're more of an ability. You know, hit some grass, hit some rocks, little ones, mud, gravel, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But he's real, he's real hot to trot on the transamerica trail and he has some type of uh like 900 cc, uh ktm adventure bike, some special edition bike, failing made in 2024. It's like super freaking cool and it's way super fancy. Yeah. So I mean, I don't know that much about that world. I know enough. I used to ride. I used to ride a lot, but it's crotch rockets. I used to ride street bikes. Um, I had never, I guess, I've had dirt bikes. That's the closest thing to that that I've ever had anything to do with. So I don't really know a lot. He would be a better person to talk about it, but he doesn't want to be on the podcast. So here we are. He's stumbling through it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's transamerica trail and that goes. I mean you, there's multiple different paths. If you guys are interested in like more of like a touring type thing, there is some some. It's. It's by no means all all off-road like and I don't mean off-road like trails, just like even gravel and stuff. There's some highway and whatnot, but I think it's mapped in a way that it's scenic. So I mean that's there. Jared just said the Black Hills. I don't even know where that's at, jared. I don't even know where that's at. I have to look it up, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's that time of year for me where I start to like plan trips and stuff. I'm trying to. It's so hard because I'm so, you know, a squirrel. You know I'm all over the freaking place and it's hard to like I don't know, lock down dates and places because sometimes when I do that and I've talked about this and anybody that goes a lot man, sometimes you want to go on a big trip, you're playing it with a bunch of people and then it's just very, very, very common that that ends up falling through. When you plan trips with a lot of people, unless it's an event, for whatever reason, you do not get the same buy-in. I have planned so many I don't want to say so many because I quit doing it as much but I've planned at least five trips that end up being me by myself in the end, or me and one other person for part of it, like I have had. I think I've had one trip where I planned it and everybody that we planned it with trip not event everybody came and that was at this point is three years ago. So it's.
Speaker 1:I know life happens and whatnot, but just it's hard for me to plan trips to you because I don't want like, for instance, I don't want to go do something that's potentially gnarly alone somewhere I don't know. Like going to Arkansas and doing gnarly stuff is not that big of a deal because I know like five people within you know an hour or two of where I'm going to be, so I'm not going to be stuck. You know like somebody can get me out. I'm part of a lot of off-road groups where I could even just be like hey, here's a coordinate, can somebody come help me out. I'm connected enough there. But going other places even when I was in Colorado, I did some gnarly stuff.
Speaker 1:But see, the thing about Colorado is you're never alone. You're, you're never alone. Like there's that's a, that's a, that's a tourist, you know um destination for off-roaders and overlanders, so you're never alone there too. But like, for instance, like I don't know what kentucky's, like uh, no clue in the world. Like I know there's some stuff in Virginia, new Mexico, I just don't know. I'm not connected there to feel this confident. Going alone, just having connections makes me feel a little. Does it mean it won't be traumatic or won't be terrible? No, not at all, but at least people are within driving distance of me. I'm not as connected everywhere else.
Speaker 1:Oh, jared said the Black Hills or Mount Rushmore. I'd like to go to Mount Rushmore. I want to go to Grand Canyon. I really want to camp on the Grand Canyon, but again, I've talked about this frigging 10 times in the podcasts. We're getting long in the tooth here a little bit with the podcast. I don't know, I think I've done've done 50, some episodes, so I'm going to repeat some stuff. But I've talked about this and I want to camp on the side of the Grand Canyon, but I don't know that. That's like doable in a tent of any type, rooftop ground, whatever. I've heard it is super crazy windy, like not okay windy, and being that it's on a canyon, like your stuff's not going to blow away to like another camp spot, so like go off into the abyss. I think that's what I thought. That's my thought anyways. So I'd like to go to grand canyon. I still again want to get to the upper peninsula.
Speaker 1:I got a friend west. We're gonna go ice camping like on a lake, ice fishing, camping in a tent, in a truck, in a ice fishing house, I don't know. We didn't get to it this year. It was a kind of a hard year. Year west had a Tacoma. So I was at an event with Wes in November and he had his Tacoma and within the next month he got rid of it and got a Gladiator and he's built his Gladiator out somewhat and now he's selling all that and going to do something different with the Gladiator. But he's got a diesel Gladiator. So I think west's just been busy.
Speaker 1:But I'm excited for him. He seems happier. You know, he's got a trailer. He had a go fast camper too on his tacoma. He had a rack on his um like a bed rack, not an enclosed one on his gladiator, but I don't know that he's doing that. He's selling that in his rooftop tent right now. So I don't know what he's doing, but anyways, he's my. He's essentially who's helping me get in, like not get into it, but do that because he's from, he's from north, like he knows what that's about. I don't, I know what it's about as far as youtube has told me, but but that's nothing, so he's gonna out there and do that. I'm pretty psyched on that. I've never been ice fishing. I've never camped on a lake, a frozen lake, so I am psyched on that.
Speaker 1:Just didn't work out this year. We had plans to make it work out this year. It just didn't Weird year too. But I really I'm looking, I'm already. You know it's freaking April 11th. I'm looking forward to. I'm already looking forward to that. Hopefully he listens to this. He knows I was going to do it, I'm real excited about it so, but he was actually down for Jasper Jeep Jam and I didn't even know he was coming down or I would have went and I missed him. So hopefully I see him, hopefully I see him. He's coming to more Expo. I knew that already. We already talked about it. I'll be excited to see him. I haven't seen him since November. I'll be excited to see him.
Speaker 1:Nothing really going on today. It's National Pet Day. It's my girlfriend's birthday, which is awesome. We will be doing something this weekend that she would like to do. I don't know that. It will be camping and that's. I'm back up one sec. She loves camping and just it is tough. It's tough with birthdays. She wants to go camping. But again, I said it to you guys soccer tomorrow morning. Her birthday's tonight. Kids you know kids want to do stuff with the parents. So we don't want to like, be like f all you kids. We're going camping. Um, so camping just might not happen. Going leaving midday tomorrow for one night just might not be it. I mean we could do it, but I don't know that it'd be as be relaxing, so, but we'll do something and, uh, I mean I just might not go camping till more, which will be extremely busy.
Speaker 1:Oh, touching on more, yesterday I said my shirts hadn't shipped yet and I didn't buy a lot of shirts, guys. So if you're a friend of mine, you might get a shirt. I and I might give a shirt or two to the giveaway that benji and I are doing. Um, because I haven't used this place before. So I think I ordered like 10 shirts. That includes one that includes for myself, my girlfriend and some of my friends, so I might have a couple left over. If they turn out to be worth a crap, I may may take them with me, I may sell them, I may give them away to some of you guys just randomly for putting reviews up and stuff. I did get my stickers. They are on the way. My stickers are on the way yesterday, my shirts are on the way yesterday.
Speaker 1:But I don't want to say what I think about. I know the stickers will be good. Same stick I reordered, same stuff I've gotten before. So if you have a sticker from me from before, it'll be the same I am. I will call you guys out like here, not call you out but ask for your help. I'm looking for so my stickers have my podcast logo on them.
Speaker 1:I'm looking for a slogan so I can make stickers that aren't just that don't have a Tacoma on them. You know, I realize myself like if, if I follow somebody that doesn't have a car I like, for instance, I'm less likely to get their sticker, cause I don't want to have, you know, a Jeep with a Tacoma sticker on it myself. So I need something else, whether it even just says outskirts overland or has some type of different graphic to it, like mountains or rivers or something. Maybe it's a state of Missouri that says outskirts overland in it, potentially, I always say I'm five hours from anywhere. So I thought about getting one that says five hours from anywhere. You know outskirts overland underneath, but, uh, I don't know, hit me up with that. Guys Like I'm. Your sticker might be the one that gets made. You know there's, there's an option there. Hey, you guys pick this, the slogan that I ended up making a sticker idea. I make a sticker, I'll give you a shirt. I'll order a shirt and get you a shirt, maybe even a one-off, so you'd be the only one with it, um, but I'm looking for other stickers.
Speaker 1:Everybody likes stickers and patches. Patches aren't worth the squeeze for me to give away and I don't want to. I do not want to charge you guys for patches just to make my own money back, like they're too expensive for me to buy a hundred of them myself and be okay Giving them away. Stickers are fine and a t-shirt here and there would be fine. If you guys were that motivated about a t-shirt, I would just probably. I mean, I'm only going to sell it for what I pay for it. I'm not in this to make any money, um, but this is something I can use to give away. I guess I can make a couple patches as giveaways. It's never going to be something I care to sell or probably ever have made even, but I'll do stickers.
Speaker 1:My stickers look nice.
Speaker 1:I'm happy with my supplier there.
Speaker 1:The quality of the stickers is good.
Speaker 1:They're not fading. I mean, I have a few of my own stickers on the outside of my truck for a year and they look the same as they did the day I got them, so I'm happy with that. I didn't want to have stuff that fades or peels or like you guys know how it goes, um, but yeah, anyways, if you guys come up with something I mean, and it's the and it's the second sticker that I get made with a slogan or an idea or a design, um, I'll get those made and maybe I'll get the shirt made with that graphic on it. You know, like one of them, I'll get one for you. I'll go ahead and say that now I'll get you a shirt an Outskirts Overland shirt as well made with that graphic and stuff on it. But just let me know Like that's out. That's.
Speaker 1:I mean, I got friends that helped me make the logo I have. Now that's you guys too. Like, if you're you know, chris, if you're the one that comes up with it, that offer still stands. I don't care how close of a friend you are. Like, if you're the one that helps do that, that offer stands. I will be more than happy to hook you guys up. So that's a little less stress. I know when my truck's going to be done. My sticker shipped, my shirt shipped. That's good stuff. That's real good stuff. That makes me very happy, to say the least. So that's what I got.
Speaker 1:It'll be an interesting weekend. When I get back from the weekend, I think we're going to an event that'll be interesting and I will most likely talk about it on Monday, but that'll be it for this week, don't forget. Guys like keep leaving reviews. That is that is amazing and in some ways that helps other people know what the podcast is about. But I've said it before, and you guys like not having commercials and again, that's not gonna be something like I'm not threatening commercials on you guys. I'm not going to have commercials but because I have no, nothing else but your guys' feedback. That helps keep me motivated. That helps keep me motivated to keep doing stuff. It helps keep me motivated to keep doing this on a daily basis. Even if the last two days have been, you know, not a lot of useful content, a lot of days are and I have a lot of. I have stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1:It's just a very it's. You know it's a very busy time where it's like the kickoff to the year, not only as an influencer but also as the hobby. Like this is when events start and this is when all the marketing and photography and editing and videos, and like this is when all the marketing and photography and editing and videos, and like this is when that stuff happens. Winter camping is over. We're in the ugliest part of the year, quite frankly, and this is not. I don't want to be taking pictures, you know what I mean. So it's just a little like stress and anxiety for what's to come, what is coming Like what's right there, you know, and that's like two weeks away. So I don't know if you guys like this little bit of behind the scenes. I keep giving you guys on, like what this all entails.
Speaker 1:But it's not like I get on and automatically have these amazing topics. It's not like I get ahold of a t-shirt company and it all is just perfect, like there's proofs, there's discussion, there's multiple emails, multiple emails you know you've got to get. You know sometimes they like I've got my files aren't jpgs or anything and like you guys might not even know about this, but my buddy chris got me a png file which means you can blow it up without a pixelating. But still, sometimes I don't know how these places still screw that up and then they're like well, I can't make it any bigger and I'm like you should be able to make this thing a billboard like. So it's a lot of back and forth really, like it's not as easy as you would think it would be in 2025. It should, it should be easier.
Speaker 1:And then you're trying to get quantities and you want this color shirt and they only got so many of those and you're like I need them by this date. And you're trying to get quantities and you want this color shirt and they only got so many of those and you're like I need them by this date. And you're six weeks out and they're like, oh, but I can't do that. Like it's like dude, gotta find somebody else. Then you go through the process over and over and it's just a pain. It's just a pain. So like, and again, I do this for free and I do take it serious, there's no doubt about about that but sometimes it's just like dude F, like didn't this be easier? So and again, without sponsors, and like anything to make it like I don't know, I don't want to say worth my time, but like it just makes it a little more trying.
Speaker 1:So when you guys leave reviews, what I'm getting at is when you guys leave reviews, it keeps me motivated that, like you guys are enjoying the content, you're listening to the content. It just it just motivating to me. I don't want to be like, hey, pat me on the back, but a little bit, that's what I'm saying, so that I keep, so that I can kind of keep myself going for you guys, because, for you guys, because there's rough parts, like right now, like this week and next week, I would presume my content is going to be like the mood's going to be a little down because I have so much other stuff going on, like just just logistically, you know. So it's tough, it's just tough. Um, doesn't make it not enjoyable, it's just a lot.
Speaker 1:So doing this 30 minutes here is like I could have been responding to emails from you know, the screen printers and sticker people and designers and graphic designers. I mean, I'm not going to lie to you guys, I have other people working like professional people, working on designs and stuff for other ideas for stickers and stuff, logos for my podcast. I just have not found that when you deal with like digital marketing companies and you do a podcast about overlanding, they just don't get it. So I get like very basic designs and it's like it's more abstract and I'm like somebody else understands this better than you guys and that's no knock on people that do marketing. It's just it's a podcast on social media and it's overlanding. It's not camping, it's not a business.
Speaker 1:Like it needs to kind of be eye-catching, unique and like I don't know, like I don't want it to be like two mountains in, like some type of acronym, like I don't know. They always make everything try to be like too clean and basic and modern looking and I'm like this isn't going to be on like a light up sign for a business. Like I need a design for a sticker that I'm going this isn't gonna be on like a light up sign for a business. Like I need a design for a sticker that I'm gonna make a hundred of and never make again. Like I don't need. Like I'm not looking to brand shit here. Like sorry guys if I cuss, but like I'm not looking to brand this thing. Like for the remainder of time, on this one abstract looking thing that nobody understands.
Speaker 1:It needs to say what it is. You know people put it on their rig. Like I don't want it to be like a logo that you're supposed to know what the hell it means. It needs to say outskirts, overland on it somewhere, or be a slogan, like something I can make a slogan that's associated with the podcast or many of them. But yeah, so it's. I'm emailing those people too, but I'm losing hope there. So if you can't tell, I'm losing hope with that.
Speaker 1:So if you're a graphic designer of any type and you kind of understand a little more about if, even if you're like I don't know, like, even if you just are good with AI I don't know, I don't want AI you can tell when something's from AI, but like hell, I don't know, I'm having a hard time even getting AI to produce something that looks good for me, just to give as an idea just to a graphic designer Be like I like this kind of, even if it has nothing to do with Outskirts, overland. Be like this looks cool. Can we do, you know, x kind of thing. So that's stuff. It's just a lot of crap. It's crap.
Speaker 1:So, but I just want to make sure I got stuff for you guys, that more that's that you want to put on your cooler or want to put on your truck or want to put on your I don't camp mug or whatever. You know, I want stuff that you guys want to put on, not stuff you guys just put on haphazardly, like I like charlie. So I'm gonna put a sticker on like I want stuff that you guys want to put on because it's cool, not because it's me so I want stuff that's like universally good looking. Um, anyways, I've rambled enough, guys. I'll catch you guys later. I'll talk to you guys monday Again, for real, actually, if you guys come. I'll talk to you guys Monday Again, for real. Actually, if you guys come up with a design that I like and it ends up being the second sticker, whatever I make, I will get a shirt made with that on it too, and I'll give you some stickers. I'll send them to you. I'll give them to you more if you'll be there, like whatever, if I have them by then. But if you come up with a design or a graphic or whatever slogan, I'll hook you up Like hand to God. I'll hook you up Because I'm almost out of ideas and the quote unquote professionals aren't giving me good ones, so maybe you guys are way better.
Speaker 1:That would be the irony of the day, and I would love to tell them, like I just got some person that listens that did a better job than you guys that I'm paying. It's just ridiculous. You know Like what's the? Whenever I used to race, they used to always talk about when people would just get like they caught gaps. You know, like they used to get walked. I think somebody's pulling like way far away from you. They used to always be like sell it. You know, like like sell the car, it sucks.
Speaker 1:I kind of want to do that to them. Be like you should look for a new career. I need this. You're missing the. You're missing it. You're missing the point of this. Guys, yeah, it's just something. Uh, it's. I don't know if you guys know, you know. Anyways, I'll catch you guys on Monday. I need to watch some content this weekend so I have something to talk about, kind of what current trends are and stuff going on. But maybe everybody else is. Kind of where I'm at, getting ready for Expos, been doing Expos, just chaos. So I'll catch you guys later. Have a good weekend. And remember it's National Pet Day and it's happy birthday to my girlfriend. You know, wish her a happy birthday. Great comment on the podcast, like happy birthday. Anyways, I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you later. Have a good weekend.