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Leonarda Jonie has been making quite a name for herself in the comedy scene. Usually, female comedians don't really get me to laugh, but Leonarda is a rare exception, just like we're an exception to most black people. But being funny is actually getting her banned from all kinds of venues, even Joe Rogan's comedy club! Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX8lCshQmMN0dUc0JmQYDdg/joinGet your Twins merch and have a chance to win our Jeep Rubicon & 10K in cash - https://officialhodgetwins.com/Get Optimal Human, your all in one daily nutritional supplement - https://optimalhuman.com/Want to be a guest on the Twins Pod? Contact us at bookings@twinspod.comDownload Free Twins Pod Content - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_iNb2RYwHUisypEjkrbZ3nFoBK8k60COFollow Twins Pod Everywhere -X - https://twitter.com/TheTwinsPodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thetwinspod/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/twinspodTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@twinspodYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX8lCshQmMN0dUc0JmQYDdgRumble - https://rumble.com/c/TwinsPodSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/79BWPxHPWnijyl4lf8vWVu?si=03960b3a8b6b4f74Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twins-pod/id1731232810
G'Day and Welcome to Overdrive, a program that ponders the particulars of motoring and transport. I'm David Brown If you want to dive deeper into our thoughts, ideas, and occasional ramblings, you can find us on our website, podcast, or social media – just search for Cars, Transport, Culture. Once again, I am joined by the ever-enthusiastic Paul Murrell from seniordriverauz.com Subjects This week we Interview Genevieve who is a senior teacher in English and literature and who accompanied her revhead husband to a veteran vintage and classic motor show With two cars to test this week we have something old; something new; something borrowed; something blue We took the Hyundai Ioniq 5 to Bathurst to watch the motor racing. Our mechanical engineer and road tester Fred Brain reflects on this long trip in a (performance) electric vehicle. But we'll start with our trip to Melbourne for the Motor and Masterpieces Show Contacts Details Web Site: Driven Media: drivenmedia.com.au Podcasts iTunes: Cars Transport Culture Spotify: Cars Transport Culture Or our social pages Facebook Cars Transport Culture Instagram Cars Transport Culture Or YouTube site Cars Transport Culture Search for Cars transport culture Credits Thanks to Paul Murrell Genevieve Fred Brain Hyundai Australia Jeep Australia Bruce Potter Mark Wesley for their help with this program. Overdrive is syndicated across Australia on the Community Radio Network This program was first broadcast on 30 November 2024 I'm David Brown Thanks for listening
What if you could experience the best of both worlds—modern EV performance and classic car nostalgia? Join us as we uncover the striking design and futuristic features of the 2024 Nissan Ariya, particularly its Empower Plus front-wheel drive model. Discover how this small station wagon-SUV hybrid boasts an impressive 389 horsepower, 289-mile range, and a tech-loaded interior that sets it apart in the competitive EV arena. We dive into crucial considerations for potential EV owners, like the evolving charging infrastructure, and stack the Ariya against its rivals, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV9, and VW ID.4.Switching lanes, we recount the love-hate relationship with classic cars, from the charm of a '56 Chevy pickup to the luxury and power of the 2024 Jeep Rubicon 392 Final Edition 4x4. We'll navigate through the highs of owning a vintage gem and the lows of maintenance headaches and limited modern safety features. We also pit the Jeep Rubicon against daring competitors like the Ford Bronco and Toyota 4Runner, revealing insights into what makes the Jeep a standout in both rugged capability and refined comfort. Whether your heart beats faster for cutting-edge EVs or time-honored classics, there's a story here for every car enthusiast.Be sure to subscribe for more In Wheel Time Car Talk!The Lupe' Tortilla RestaurantsLupe Tortilla in Katy, Texas Gulf Coast Auto ShieldPaint protection, tint, and more!ProAm Auto AccessoriesProAm Auto Accessories: "THE" place to go to find exclusive and hard to find parts and accessories!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeartRadio! Just go to iheartradio.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 10a - 12noonCT simulcasting on Audacy, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk podcast can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox, SIRIUSXM Podcast, YouTube Podcast and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk
What if the classic VW bus got a modern, electric makeover? Join us as US News' automotive guru guides us through the ins and outs of the all-new Volkswagen ID Buzz, an intriguing blend of nostalgia and cutting-edge design. We delve into its features, from its powerful electric performance and vibrant aesthetics to its spacious, family-friendly interior. This electric minivan might tug at the heartstrings of nostalgic buyers while offering urban families a fresh alternative. Curious about how it stacks up against established models like the Chrysler Pacifica? We've got the lowdown, including its impressive horsepower and considerations for long journeys with its 231 to 234-mile range. But that's not all! Our episode takes a flavorful twist as we savor the Tex-Mex delights at Lupe' Tortilla before shifting gears to the Gulf Coast Auto Shield Car Social, a haven for car enthusiasts eager to explore top-notch paint detailing. We also spotlight upcoming car events like the Valley Ranch Cruise In and Kingwood Classic Cruisers Cars and Coffee, offering listeners a chance to rev up their social calendar. Plus, don't miss out on the buzz surrounding the off-road prowess of the 2024 Jeep Rubicon 392, and our intriguing automotive news, which includes a legal update on a Tesla trade secrets case. Tune in for a captivating blend of automotive insights, gastronomic adventures, and community events that promise to keep you entertained and informed!Be sure to subscribe for more In Wheel Time Car Talk!The Lupe' Tortilla RestaurantsLupe Tortilla in Katy, Texas Gulf Coast Auto ShieldPaint protection, tint, and more!ProAm Auto AccessoriesProAm Auto Accessories: "THE" place to go to find exclusive and hard to find parts and accessories!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeartRadio! Just go to iheartradio.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 10a - 12noonCT simulcasting on Audacy, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk podcast can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox, SIRIUSXM Podcast, YouTube Podcast and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk
Send us a textThis is our first guest from Quebec! Join us as we talk with Michel from offroadeverything on Instagram. We talked about why he went from a Ford Bronco to a Jeep Rubicon with a wild colour, the mods to the jeep and exploring and overlanding around Quebec. Off Road EverythingInstagram15% off Brightsource Lights with cod 4x4canada10% off TOC Supplies with code 4x4canada 10% off WildMedKits with code 4x4canada 10% off Afraid Knot Ropes with code 4x4canada23 10% off Miolle Gear with code 4x4 Make sure to check us out on Facebook and Instagram!
On April 30th, 2011 Gail Polmgren dropped off her kids with her husband Matthew and drove off in her red Jeep Rubicon, never to be seen alive again. Her marriage was failing and she had asked friends to hide documents and money because she was afraid of her husband. And as the facts of the case began to surface, the shock and outrage of the community grew to a fever pitch.
Today we talked with Subash from Gray Wold Overland. One thing we want to point out is our onversation about his Jeep Rubicon 4XE and the technogy it has. We discussed how you have to drive an electric vehicle different off road and what setitns to use on the Jeep 4XE. The discussion also inolved some technical 4xE and susension talk since Subash is an engineer. We started the convesation arond Subash growing up in India and falling in love with the vintage Jeep and Mahindra vehicles. Gray Wolf OverlandYoutubeInstagram15% off Brightsource Lights with cod 4x4canada10% off TOC Supplies with code 4x4canada 10% off WildMedKits with code 4x4canada 10% off Afraid Knot Ropes with code 4x4canada23 10% off Miolle Gear with code 4x4 Make sure to check us out on Facebook and Instagram!
Jeff Bell is the past CEO of LegalShield, North America's largest legal subscription service for households and small business. Jeff grew this business from a $650m valuation in 2014 to over $2.4b in 2022 when he retired. Presently, Jeff serves as an Operating Partner on the MidOcean Partners Private Equity Investment Team. Prior to LegalShield, Jeff served as the Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Xbox. He is known for launching Halo 3, Gears of War, Rock Band and Netflix on Xbox Live. He spent 5 years at DaimlerChrysler as the Vice President and General Manager of Chrysler and Jeep Divisions. He is credited with development and launch of the the Jeep Rubicon and 4-door Wrangler, as well as the Chrysler 200, among others. Jeff served Ford Motor Company for 12 years, including as Managing Director of Ford Spain. He serves on the Board of his alma mater, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and has served on the Kenyon College and National Multiple Sclerosis Board of Trustees. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbell801/
Matt Scott and Scott Brady discuss the new class of travel vehicles we call Ultra Overlanders. This includes the Ford F150 Raptor R, Bronco Raptor, Ram TRX, GMC AT4x AEV, Jeep Rubicon 392, G-Wagen 4x4 Squared, Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, and Ram Power Wagon. This conversation is not an endorsement of Ultra Overlanders for international travel, but a discussion around their growing popularity for domestic grand touring and backcountry travel.
Mike's Rubicon is back on the road, we have our doubts about Chevy's new "super cruise" function, and we put our minds together to pick our main adventures for the coming season.
Have you seen the White Jeep JLU Rubicon on tracks on Instagram and Youtube? Duanne from Just Jeeping Adventures returned to talk about his latest addition to his Jeep... tracks! Listen to find how they work in the snow and Duanne's othe thoughts on winter wheeling. Also, make sure to listen all the way to the end to hear what Trisha has nicknamed the Just Jeep Adventures Jeep. Trust me, it is not what you expect! Just Jeeping Adventures YoutubeInstagram 15% off Brightsource Lights with cod 4x4canada10% off TOC Supplies with code 4x4canada 10% off WildMedKits with code 4x4canada 10% off Afraid Knot Ropes with code 4x4canada23 10% off Miolle Gear with code 4x4 Make sure to check us out on Facebook and Instagram!
How Philanthropy Is Good for Business Karl Miller is the Principal Broker of Karl Miller Realty. With over 18 years of real estate sales experience, his passion is helping clients achieve their home ownership and financial dreams as he aids them in making informed decisions. Karl grew up on a Campbell County dairy farm and knows the value of old-fashioned service, integrity, and long-term relationships. When at home, Karl enjoys spending time with his wife Alys, their two teenage children, and Timmy the Cockapoo. Karl enjoys the outdoors, camping, exploring, and reading great books. You might see him running or mountain biking the local trails, kayaking the James, or cruising with the top down on his wife's Jeep Rubicon he frequently “borrows.” More at https://www.karlmillerrealty.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the first episode of Hot Pursuit!, Hannah and Matt discuss Hannah's trip to Austria to be the first journalist to drive the electric Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon. Can it even come close to comparing to the gas-powered G that has existed since 1979? Then, it's a look at BMW's polarizing XM hybrid, its most powerful SUV but not its best--we'll tell you why. Meanwhile, Matt is driving over New York City curbs in another expensive V8 SUV this week, the Jeep 392 Rubicon, and Hannah has a few thoughts about it from that time in Moab. Plus, Matt just bought a Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody - but how fast is it really? Follow Hannah and Matt on Instagram: @HannahElliottxo @mattmiller1973 Find more on Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Radio and YouTube. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Hi. I'm Hannah Elliott and I'm Matt Miller, and this is Hot Pursuit. All right, welcome to the first episode of our new podcast. Hannah Elliott from Bloomberg Pursuits and me Matt Miller from Bloomberg Television. We're going to walk you through everything that's hot in the world of autos and motorcycles. I point out, Hannah, because Ducati has released a brand new version of the Multi Strata. This is the V four version. It's called the RS. And the really cool thing about this bike, and then we'll get back to cars, is that it has the Desmo dramatic valve operation. Once again, they've gone away from that to reduce, you know, the amount of mechanical work that you had to do, the amount of upkeep you had to do, and now they've gone back just for this one version. So I'm pretty pumped about that. That's cool. It all sounds very complicated. I'm more scrambler girl myself or a dirt by I love a dirt bike. But of course we're focused mainly on cars, and you have been very much focused on the Mercedes g Wagon. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about a trip that you recently took to Austria to test out a new version of that. We're also going to talk about a couple of the vehicles that we're driving, which I think people might cross shop with a G Wagon, you know, wealthy people that are looking for some kind of big, gigantic suv that has a lot of power behind it. And then we're going to talk about the new car that I recently bought, which maybe is kind of the other end of the spectrum. It wasn't very expensive, it's not an suv and it's like a dinosaur. So we'll talk about my Dodge Challenger RT scatpack wide body. Unfortunate name notwithstanding, I have to say every time when we say that name, I pringe. I think of like Dean Martin and you know Frank Sinatra. Yeah, yeah, Shahinatra was out there in a mopar type car and I don't know the history, but I think that's why they called it that. Anyway, let's kick it off with the G Wagon. So this is I think one of the coolest vehicles in automotive history. And I would say you probably agree because you're a big fan. Tell us about what you did over the weekend, so I have to say I felt pretty lucky. I was the first non Mercedes Benz employee and first American to drive the electric G Wagon, which is really exciting because we've been hearing about this since twenty eighteen when Arnold Schwarzenegger said he wanted one and Mercedes said, okay, we'll make it. Basically, this was back at the G Wagon launch in Detroit, which Matt, I think you'll remember, well, yes, but yeah, all of that to say, I went to go drive it in Austria on the Shekel Mountain also pronounced she Shekel if you want to that tea in there. It's a proven ground in Austria where Mercedes has all of their G Wagons, and I went up there to do some driving in the electric g This was a pre production electric G Wagon, and I have to say it was pretty fun. That's so cool. So I bought back a couple of years ago when I was living in Berlin the new generation of the G Wagon and right inside the door you get a little badge on all of the new G's that says something like tested on the stuckle or proven on the stuckle Jeckel proof, Yes, exactly something like that. So for g Wagon owners, the place is magical and maybe mysterious because it's in Grots and like hardly anybody ever goes there. But basically this is where Magna Steyer makes the g Wagon right there. They're not made by Mercedes in house. Yes, this is a little known fact. So the company was formerly called Poop. Now it's called Magnet. It's a bigger corporation that bought it out, but same company, same location, and it's kind of a mecha for g Wagon owners to go there. There is a factory, there's an experience center which is right by the airport, and it's it is an iconic vehicle. I mean, how many car models can you say I've been made without interruption since the seventies. I mean, it's pretty cool. I have to say, no, it's awesome, and it's in super high demand, even though it's so dang expensive, right, I mean when I bought mine, they were like one twenty five to start and there was a two year waiting list. I don't think the waiting list has come down, it's gone the other direction, and I know the price has gone up. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really good point. And this will be a challenge. I hesitate to get everyone all excited about the electric G because right now Magna makes about forty thousand G wagons per year in that facility. I was in the facility last week. It's very cool, but the production volume is limited. And I've asked Mercedes, hey, how are you going to add in all of these extra electric GEW wagons on top of your maxed out production line? And you know, they say they have a plan. They say they have They're going to have flexible shifts. They're currently running two shifts five days a week at Magna. They don't want to tell me if they're going to add a third shift. Apparently overnight shifts are tricky. You tend to get more fabrication errors in the overnight shift, so they don't necessarily want to go to a third overnight shift. But bottom line, yeah, last year there were two year wait times for new G wagons and Mercedes actually stopped taking orders on the G. It got so bad. They are taking orders again now. But you know, if you order an electric GEW wagon, I think patients will be your highest virtuo because there's going to be high demand and production will be is a big question mark. We'll put it that way. What's going to be called? Is it the EQG because all of their others like the Big the ASS is the EQS now the electric version, and the obviously the E is the EQE the electric version. So is this the EQG. But that's a great question. We've been calling it colloquially the EQG. Mercedes has been using that loosely, but that is not the official name. And Mercedes has said they're going to announce the official name next year when they announced the pricing and they have this big world debut of it. So we don't know for sure that EQG is the actual name. If you call it that now, people will probably know what you're talking about. But the official name will be announced next year. And we should say the one that I drove it was covered in camouflage. There is going to be some slight, slight, slight difference in the roofline on this Electric G Class I, and they pointed it out to me. I can't even tell the difference. It looks basically this. I mean, I don't have that refined and I I guess they changed a few things to help with efficiency. But yeah, we'll know a lot more next year. It's gonna debut on twenty twenty four. I just have one question before we go on to competitors that you and I are driving this week. On the interior of my G five hundred, the European versions were called that the US version of the G five to fifty kind of the base model. They didn't use the new MBUX, they didn't use the new infotainment system. We still had the old one. Were you able to suss out what they're going to use in terms of the interior electronics package on the new one. I have to believe that they're going to use the new system. The one that I drove was draped in a black cloth. I knew it. Although they did lift up. We were lifting up the cloak, so to speak, to change certain off road modes, to do the rock mode, to do the G turn. I should talk to you about that in a second. And it looks like the news is in there. Don't quote me on that, but it would be ridiculous for them not to put it in. So I'm like ninety percent sure that it'll be in there, and I think that's what I saw the G turn. I have to talk about this briefly. So Mercedes is doing this G turn in the new Electric g which basically you push a button and it flips the whole thing around in a three hundred and sixty degree circle without going forward to backward. It just like what does a spin? Basically? Yes, yes, And I think this is becoming a thing like remember the crab walk from the Electric Hummer, and then the Cadillac Electric Escalade has ballet mode, which like self parks. I feel like all of these new electric SUVs think they have to have like one party trick y p and the G turn is the party track, all right, So the new g Wagon is going to have real, real steering, then, is my takeaway. Yeah, let's talk about the other big, expensive, at least partially electric suv that you're driving right now, which is really controversial, the BMW x M. I already already spent a week in it, so I have my own thoughts, uh, and I think everyone who comes even near this thing as thoughts. So what are your thoughts on the BMW XM. My thought is it's ugly. It's big, and it's ugly. I can't look past the wheels which are just like these big rome break things discs. It's just big and lumbering. I'm not necessarily bothered by our new beaver tooth BMW grill which this has. Doesn't bother those don't bother me. It's just the whole thing. It's Matt. I think I heard you say the other day you were kindly referred to it as brutalist, which maybe maybe, I mean, that would be a kind way of describing it. But and you know, the exterior is it just looks rather unsophisticated and then of course worse. The interior has some design notes that I raised my eyebrow at, especially the ceiling, which is kind of like a Eastern European nightclub in the nineties. Uh. Yes, it's like lined and swayed, and it's got mood lighting and there are like sort of uneven ridges all across the top. It looks a little bit like a mountain range. Baby. I'm not sure what they were going for, but that's just the looks. I've got a lot of other thoughts about how it drives to I mean, I think also say I think it's more expensive than the g Wagon. Yes, I do think it has a brutalist look, is very aggressive it's imposing and I like that it's very big and massive. The Germans would say vuchtik, which I think is a really fitting way to say it. I love the badges on the back. You know. They have two BMW in Signa insignias on the top sides each side of the winds, which is kind of like what the M one had on its flying buttresses, if that's what you call those things. And this is the only other dedicated M car that they've made. There won't be any other base version. It's only an MV vehicle. I don't understand why they d tuned the V eight, which is in the X five M. It's more powerful in the X five than it is in this, and this is supposed to be their pinnacle like halo vehicle. And I also don't understand why they left out air suspension. I guess the engineers thought it would be troublesome for some reason. But if I'm going to pay one hundred and sixty thousand dollars before I check any boxes, I definitely want air suspension. And I want like some kind of sun roof or panoramic moon roof for something other than the horribly ugly headliner that they've put in there just for design cred. Yeah, I have to I have to agree. I think it's it's wildly expensive and the engine does sound and feel really unsophisticated. To me, that was just the That was my overall take. It just felt very unsophisticated, but not in a cool like you know muscly Way. It just felt rough. And I also, I think we have to give them props. You know, this is a six hundred and forty four horse power vehicle. It's their most powerful vehicle, I think at the moment. Yeah, you can check that, but no, it is. It does zero to sixty faster than the G Wagon and you know I love the g really fast. Yeah, and I stop on that thing and I can pretty much, you know, dominate Beverly Hills if I want to, And yes I have been. I apologize to anyone who's been around me lately driving this because it does make you feel a little bit bossy. But it's it's just you know, it's long. It's it's over sixteen feet long. It's just a brick. It's a fast brick. The anti roll bars are so strong that it's really impressive in a vehicle. Of that size and weight. But otherwise you know, it's comfy, but obviously it's for such a big vehicle. It's going to be comfy and it's kind of luxurious, but that's what you expect when you pay one hundred and sixty grand. So, and I do like the screen. There's that curve screen in the dashboard. Nice. Nice. Yeah, No, they did some okay things with it, but they should have it should be firing on all cylinders, yes, agreed, plus electric power. Speaking of unsophisticated, I'm driving the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon three ninety two right now, yes, which is obviously a car that you reviewed in twenty twenty one, and I love that you pointed out back then that you thought it was too expensive at like seventy five grand, and now you know, less than two years later, I'm driving it and the base model costs ninety three grand before you check any boxes as well, So like the price has gone twenty three percent, and it is awesome. It's so much fun. It's so loud. I drive over for every curb that I can. Today. I just crossed over a median from interstate to a service road, and I think you have to where you get your license for votes. But but man, is it expensive? Why is it so much? Yeah, this is this is a case of an arms race in terms of pricing for these SUVs. And I think I thought it was expensive when I drove it two years ago. And Jeep is charging this much because they know people will pay this much. It's it's crazy the amount of brand loyalty people who buy Jeeps have. This is another icon. I mean, we were talking about the G class being an icon. The Jeep is older than the G. We have to give props there and it is so beloved. And you know, when I drove it, it was in Moab. I was out there with Jim Morrison, not the cool Jim Morrison, Morrison, not the dead Jim Morrison, the vice president of Jeep. And he told me that basically one hundred percent some of them leave the shop with heavy modifications on them. So people are already pricing them way higher than the starting price. So when we see an MSRP of close two hundred thousand, I think we can assume that most of them don't even leave the factory at that price. Yeah, you're definitely not getting off the dealership yet without without six figures. Yeah, and you know, I don't think the Jeep Rubicon is a luxury vehicle, but they're certainly putting their pricing up where it feels like they're aspiring to be considered amongst some of these other luxury subs that are expensive. And it's all margin. Like if I look at the Jeep yes Wrangler three ninety two at one hundred grand out the door, and I remind myself that you can buy a Dodge Challenger scatpack wide body for sixty and it's got the same engine, you know, and it's also got all the bells and whistles over the base Challenger. So and they're charging an extra forty thousand for the Jeep. It's just insane. By the way, I did just buy that Dodge Challenger. And I want to talk about here we go with you for a second, because I so I got it since this is the last call, right, this is the last year they're making these, and this is like the oldest must be one of the oldest cars in production, you know, from a G class standpoint, and they'll go back the seventies. They redesigned it once. Sure, this hasn't been redesigned since two thousand and seven, with the exception of putting it on that bigger fenders. And well, I think it's cool because it's it's still attractive, at least in my opinion, and obviously it's totally subjective. But this six point four liter V eight is so much power. But they put it in such a huge boat that half the time I'm just spinning my wheels, which is frankly a lot of fun. I do it a lot, and after two weeks I'm almost done with this set of tires. What color did you get? And how is it? Opening the doors in like a garage situation? So obviously, because it's a two door and the doors are so long, it's very difficult. I just don't park next to anybody, which curiates my wife. I'll go to the other side of the parking lot to be alone. In terms of the color, it's F eight green, like an army green, which is a very cool I think it's a throwback to the seventies, as are all of Dodge's colors, and that's why I bought it, you know. It reminded me of a car that like my great grandmother had, although her wasn't quite as sporty, and I just love the kind of big American V eight feel. It reminds me of driving a car and Grand Theft Auto four. I think it was where you know, you just you pull the trigger and it starts to make a lot of noise and slowly roll and pick up momentum because it's not super fast here the sixty and then when you let go of it, it it just keeps going because it's built up so much inertia. So I like that momentum car. Yes, No, have you gone around any corner as yet? I haven't. You know. I'm kicking out at the back end of this car around every like on ramp and off ramp. But that's part of the fun for me. We'll see how it handles in the winter. I probably will be keeping in the garage when it snows. But it's just are you driving that in the city. I have driven into the city a couple of times. Wow? Any any looks? Uh? You know it's kind of a you're kind of a badass when you're driving this car. I think people are afraid of the kind of dudes who drive this car. In fact, I was getting personalized placed yesterday and I thought of getting Girl Dad because I have a daughter and I have another daughter. But then I thought I shouldn't get that because if I get into a road rage fight with somebody and then they see my license late, says girl Dad. You know, no one will take me seriously. How are you on the horn? Are you? Are you someone who honks? Honker? Yes, a lot, I'm a big honker. I do think it's a safety device more than anything. I'm just talking, just talking to you. Yes, you know. When I'm on the horn, I'm just making a statement, and I hope people, yeah, outside of my car understand what I'm saying. You know, go at that right turn quickly, please, that's right. You know, that's right. I prefer the horn to a hand gesture. I'm not a real gestory person. I like a horn. All right. That's going to do it. For our first episode of Hot Pursuit, I'm Matt Miller. You can catch me on Bloomberg Radio weekdays from ten am to one pm. I'm on Bloomberg Television weekdays from one pm to two pm. My Instagram is Matt Miller nineteen seventy three, and you can always catch my weekly car segments. What Matt Miller driving this week on YouTube, and I'm Hannah Elliott. You can find my writing on Bloomberg Pursuits, which is on Bloomberg dot com. You can also find me on x poor really known as Twitter at Hannah Elliott. That's two l's and two t's. I like to have everything. And then of course on Instagram. I'm definitely not putting my birth year on my Instagram account like Matt. It's just Hannah Elliott XO, keep it very simple. Two l's, two teas, and you can find me yeah, on Bloomberg dot com Slash Pursuits. 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Pajak Tidak Boleh Menzalimi Rakyat Oleh. Maman El Hakiem (Kontributor NarasiPost.Com) Voice over talent: Giriyani SS NarasiPost.Com-Publik dikejutkan dengan cuitan-cuitan netizen yang menanggapi soal kasus pejabat Ditjen Pajak Rafael Alun Trisambodo. Diberitakan bahwa Rafael tidak melaporkan harta Jeep Rubicon dan Harley Davidson di LHKPN-nya, serta kasus anaknya Mario Dandy yang menganiaya anak petinggi salah satu ormas pemuda. Dalam kasus tersebut akhirnya terkuak banyaknya harta kekayaan para pejabat dinas pajak yang disinyalir ladang korupsi. Mengutip berita CNNIndonesia.Com (26/2/2023), Laporan Harta Kekayaan Penyelenggara Negara (LHKPN) Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), tercatat harta kekayaan Dirjen Pajak Suryo Utomo pada 2017 mencapai Rp6,13 miliar. Selang empat tahun pada 2021, harta dia tercatat menjadi Rp14,4 miliar. Sudah menjadi rahasia umum, bahwa Dinas Pajak atau Kementerian Keuangan menjadi salah satu lahan basah para pejabat untuk meraup kekayaan. Tidak mengherankan jika banyak di kalangan mereka yang memiliki hobi istimewa seperti berkendara motor mewah. Padahal, jika dicermati pajak yang mereka himpun berasal dari mayoritas rakyat jelata di negeri ini dengan berbagai jenisnya. Naskah selengkapnya: https://narasipost.com/2023/03/03/pajak-tidak-boleh-menzalimi-rakyat/opini/ Terimakasih buat kalian yang sudah mendengarkan podcast ini, Follow us on: instagram: http://instagram.com/narasipost Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/narasi.post.9 Fanpage: Https://www.facebook.com/pg/narasipostmedia/posts/ Twitter: Http://twitter.com/narasipost
Towing with an EV is an adventure all on its own. Samuel Hernandez of iam.rocklander sits down to talk about taking his Rivian R1T off the beaten path and towing his rock crawler jeep. If you're looking for inspiration to get your EV into nature, Samuel's adventurous spirit will have you ready to take the path less traveled. The Rivian is built for adventure, but are electric vehicles ready for prime time off road exploring? Samuel Hernandez has lots of experience in the off road community. His 2017 Jeep Rubicon is less Jeep and more rock crawler these days. He loves getting away from crowds and out into nature. After enjoying driving his Audi E-Tron he decided to take a chance on the Rivian R1T. Samuel talks about his recent trip to King of the Hammer, how the Rivian handles off road trials, charging in the middle of the dessert, and how the Rivian does towing his giant jeep. Sign up for our newsletter ---> https://www.allelectricfamily.com/subscribe Episode Chapters 0:00 | Introduction 0:44 | Who is Samuel Hernandez? 2:25 | Getting a Rivian R1T 6:20 | Towing a Rock Crawler with a R1T 14:22 | King of the Hammer 17:00 | Rivian Off Roading 28:13 | Tips for Off Road Newbies 35:45 | Overlanding Tent for Rivian 56:37 | Conclusion Mentioned in this Episode Tread Lightly Samuel's Instagram: iam.rocklander iKamper Mini Tent Follow Us YouTube | http://www.youtube.com/allelectricfamily Facebook | http://www.youtube.com/allelectricfamily Instagram | http://www.youtube.com/allelectricfamily TikTok | http://www.tiktok.com/@allelectricfamily Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/allelectricfam Know someone we should talk to? Shoot us an email at hi@allelectricfamily.com with their contact information or their social media handle. We love hearing people's stories of adventure in their EVs!
In this episode, we are back with Overlanding Adventures of America with Roy Mealer and Carol Gilbert to talk about their in the Grand Tetons. Roy and Carol turned their dream into a reality in 2021 when they sold their business, leased out our home, and moved into their 2015 Jeep Rubicon, named Radioactive, for the sole purpose of off-grid overlanding throughout North America. Carol is a retired former corporate executive. Roy is a retired over the road truck driver and Heavy Equipment Tow operator. They are passionate about traveling to the least traveled paths. They love documenting their journey with drones, pictures and words.Contact Overlanding Adventures of America: https://linktr.ee/OverlandingAdventuresofAmerica]This episode is brought to you by Trail Rate Coffee Company! What is a Trail Rated Coffee Company? They are a small family-owned coffee roasting company located in Colorado. When you buy coffee from Trail Rated Coffee Company, you are buying directly from the family that roasts, packages, and ships your coffee order to you with care. Their coffee is premium specialty grade, fairly traded, naturally grown, and sourced directly from small independent farmers. Trail Rated Coffee is committed to supporting volunteers and organizations who build and maintain trails for recreational use. For every Trail Rated Coffee product sold, they donate $1 to trail restoration programs. Get 15% of your order with code BUDGET15. Benji Ward is the founder of FB Budget Overland and co-host of the Budget Overland podcast. Benji is an off-road enthusiast, entrepreneur, and has been involved in the automotive industry for the past ten years. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife and son, exploring God's creations, and sharing tips and tricks along the way for overlanding.Jay Tiegs is co-host of the Budget Overland podcast, a 26 year veteran of the U.S. Army, outdoor enthusiast, and endurance athlete. He is passionate about outdoor adventure travel in his Toyota 4Runner and loves sharing his experiences to encourage others to get outside.If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/ITunes? Your feedback is important to me and it would also take less than 60 seconds and make a difference in getting those hard to get guests as we expand our reach.Visit the Budget Overland Store: https://budget-overland-swag.myshopify.com/Join the Budget Overland Newsletter: https://www.jaytiegs.com/pl/2147549465Join the Budget Overland Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/312054236893725Watch the Budget Overland Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcro_9fySgsgZiwO1E1lj1gContact/Follow Benji: Instagram: @slow.yotaEmail: Budgetoverlandofficial@gmail.com Contact/Follow Jay: Instagram: @freedomrunneroverlandLink Tree: https://linktr.ee/dohardthingsEmail: jay@jaytiegs.com
In this episode, we are back with Overlanding Adventures of America with Roy Mealer and Carol Mealer to talk about their in the Grand Tetons. Roy and Carol turned their dream into a reality in 2021 when they sold their business, leased out our home, and moved into their 2015 Jeep Rubicon, named Radioactive, for the sole purpose of off-grid overlanding throughout North America. Carol is a retired former corporate executive. Roy is a retired over the road truck driver and Heavy Equipment Tow operator. They are passionate about traveling to the least traveled paths. They love documenting their journey with drones, pictures and words.Contact Overlanding Adventures of America: https://linktr.ee/OverlandingAdventuresofAmerica//////////////////ATTENTION////////////UPDATE BELOW///////////////////Hello, and welcome to the Budget Overland Podcast. Created by Jay and Benji in November 2021. Fast forward to April 2023, Jay and Benji parted ways. Not to worry Benji did a re-boot and skipped to season 3. BOP now has two show a week, Monday & Thursday! Out of respect for our previous guests and great conversations. The old episodes will remain available. The old website "budgetoverlandofficial.com" is no longer in anyway affiliated with the Budget Overland Podcast or Benji in any capacity. It is mentioned quite a few times about merch. The NEW Budget Overland website is https://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/ You can go there and find links to everything BO related! If you enjoy the Budget Overland Podcast (aka BOP) leave a review on Apple Podcast. When you leave a review, you will automatically be entered in a chance to win a "Super Swag Pack Giveaway". Feel free to share the show with your friends too! Thanks for being here. -Benji////////////|||\\\Voicemail Hotline+01-314-266-9536LISTENER DISCOUNT CODES:MOORE Expo "BUDGETOVER10" 10% offDevos "BOGOODS" 10% offMORRFlate "BUDGET" 15% offOverland Spices "BOSPICE" 10% offWhiskey & Wilderness "BO10" 10% offBigfoot Blankets "BO10" 10% offLonesome Adv "BO10" 10% offLinks to BO YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Store go tohttps://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/ Become a BO Supporter! https://www.patreon.com/budgetoverland**Go to Apple Podcast and leave BOP a review! You will automatically be entered for our "Super Swag Pack Giveaway" We announce a winner every 50 Reviews! **Join the monthly "Insider Deals" email, where we partner with companies once a month with discounts on gear! https://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/***A special thanks to my BO PATRONS: Thank You!Joe GWandering PossumBrandon DillowChad LansingShane DeibertJay-Are SmithJimmy Jet -ST4x4ORP
Overlanding Adventures of America with Roy Mealer and Carol GilbertIn this episode of the Budget Overland Podcast, Jay and Benji have a great conversation with Roy Mealer and Carol Gilbert of Overlanding Adventures of America. They talk about how they transitioned from their career to full time overlanders. Roy and Carol turned their dream into a reality in 2021 when they sold their business, leased out our home, and moved into their 2015 Jeep Rubicon, named Radioactive, for the sole purpose of off-grid overlanding throughout North America. Carol is a retired former corporate executive. Roy is a retired over the road truck driver and Heavy Equipment Tow operator. They are passionate about traveling to the least traveled paths. They love documenting their journey with drones, pictures and words.Contact Overlanding Adventures of America: https://linktr.ee/OverlandingAdventuresofAmerica]This episode is brought to you by Trail Rate Coffee Company! What is a Trail Rated Coffee Company? They are a small family-owned coffee roasting company located in Colorado. When you buy coffee from Trail Rated Coffee Company, you are buying directly from the family that roasts, packages, and ships your coffee order to you with care. Their coffee is premium specialty grade, fairly traded, naturally grown, and sourced directly from small independent farmers. Trail Rated Coffee is committed to supporting volunteers and organizations who build and maintain trails for recreational use. For every Trail Rated Coffee product sold, they donate $1 to trail restoration programs. Get 15% of your order with code BUDGET15. Benji Ward is the founder of FB Budget Overland and co-host of the Budget Overland podcast. Benji is an off-road enthusiast, entrepreneur, and has been involved in the automotive industry for the past ten years. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife and son, exploring God's creations, and sharing tips and tricks along the way for overlanding.Jay Tiegs is co-host of the Budget Overland podcast, a 26 year veteran of the U.S. Army, outdoor enthusiast, and endurance athlete. He is passionate about outdoor adventure travel in his Toyota 4Runner and loves sharing his experiences to encourage others to get outside.If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/ITunes? Your feedback is important to me and it would also take less than 60 seconds and make a difference in getting those hard to get guests as we expand our reach.Visit the Budget Overland Store: https://budget-overland-swag.myshopify.com/Join the Budget Overland Newsletter: https://www.jaytiegs.com/pl/2147549465Join the Budget Overland Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/312054236893725Watch the Budget Overland Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcro_9fySgsgZiwO1E1lj1gContact/Follow Benji: Instagram: @slow.yotaEmail: Budgetoverlandofficial@gmail.com Contact/Follow Jay: Instagram: @freedomrunneroverlandLink Tree: https://linktr.ee/dohardthingsEmail: jay@jaytiegs.com
Overlanding Adventures of America with Roy Mealer and Carol GilbertIn this episode of the Budget Overland Podcast, Jay and Benji have a great conversation with Roy Mealer and Carol Gilbert of Overlanding Adventures of America. They talk about how they transitioned from their career to full time overlanders. Roy and Carol turned their dream into a reality in 2021 when they sold their business, leased out our home, and moved into their 2015 Jeep Rubicon, named Radioactive, for the sole purpose of off-grid overlanding throughout North America. Carol is a retired former corporate executive. Roy is a retired over the road truck driver and Heavy Equipment Tow operator. They are passionate about traveling to the least traveled paths. They love documenting their journey with drones, pictures and words.Contact Overlanding Adventures of America: https://linktr.ee/OverlandingAdventuresofAmerica]//////////////////ATTENTION////////////UPDATE BELOW///////////////////Hello, and welcome to the Budget Overland Podcast. Created by Jay and Benji in November 2021. Fast forward to April 2023, Jay and Benji parted ways. Not to worry Benji did a re-boot and skipped to season 3. BOP now has two show a week, Monday & Thursday! Out of respect for our previous guests and great conversations. The old episodes will remain available. The old website "budgetoverlandofficial.com" is no longer in anyway affiliated with the Budget Overland Podcast or Benji in any capacity. It is mentioned quite a few times about merch. The NEW Budget Overland website is https://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/ You can go there and find links to everything BO related! If you enjoy the Budget Overland Podcast (aka BOP) leave a review on Apple Podcast. When you leave a review, you will automatically be entered in a chance to win a "Super Swag Pack Giveaway". Feel free to share the show with your friends too! Thanks for being here. -Benji////////////|||\\\Voicemail Hotline+01-314-266-9536LISTENER DISCOUNT CODES:MOORE Expo "BUDGETOVER10" 10% offDevos "BOGOODS" 10% offMORRFlate "BUDGET" 15% offOverland Spices "BOSPICE" 10% offWhiskey & Wilderness "BO10" 10% offBigfoot Blankets "BO10" 10% offLonesome Adv "BO10" 10% offLinks to BO YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Store go tohttps://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/ Become a BO Supporter! https://www.patreon.com/budgetoverland**Go to Apple Podcast and leave BOP a review! You will automatically be entered for our "Super Swag Pack Giveaway" We announce a winner every 50 Reviews! **Join the monthly "Insider Deals" email, where we partner with companies once a month with discounts on gear! https://www.budgetoverlandportal.com/***A special thanks to my BO PATRONS: Thank You!Joe GWandering PossumBrandon DillowChad LansingShane DeibertJay-Are SmithJimmy Jet -ST4x4ORP
Monty & Jake are talking NBA Playoffs! Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals presents another opportunity for Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors to return to the NBA Finals, but they will have to sweep the Dallas Mavericks to get there. Can Luka Doncic and the Mavs hold off the Golden State Warriors and force a Game 5? The Boston Celtics shocked the Miami Heat, without Marcus Smart, the Celtics handled their business at home to even the Eastern Conference Finals at 2-2 ...but can the Boston Celtics go to Miami and beat the Miami Heat on their own floor? MLB announced a one game suspension for New York Yankees 3B Josh Donaldson and a fine related to Josh Donaldson calling Chicago White Sox SS Tim Anderson "Jackie" in reference to the legendary Jackie Robinson, was the suspension enough? Was there an assassination attempt on Russian Leader Vladimir Putin? Reports say there was, and more reports claim that Putin is in failing health, and that his advisors and diplomats are openly discussing dropping nuclear weapons on suburban Washington DC to "back down" the United States. Do you believe it? The Johnny Depp Vs Amber Heard trial took an odd twist yesterday as Amber Heard's lawyer called a psychologist to the stand to evaluate Johnny Depp and from there it went straight down hill! It was a rough day for Monty on Monday, with constant issue with the Jeep Rubicon, not being able to get a call back or a part ...and a total waste of time trying to go to the doctor! Monty says it was the perfect example of his number one pet peeve! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok: TheMontyShow & SLCSupercars Our Amazon Essentials List: The Best Protein Bars EVER!: https://amzn.to/3D9wQGv 10 Calorie 1G Sugar ...Rockstar Recovery: https://amzn.to/2WgUQa4 A $10 Must Have For The Back Yard! https://amzn.to/3w7e6ox Dots Pretzels Are Amazing! https://amzn.to/3r3mxiV Yes, You Should Wear A Mask: https://amzn.to/3kbTKor Your Car Is A Mess! https://amzn.to/3LfsvoY AirPod Pro's Are On Sale!! https://t.co/ooLOAN7Qr5 Core Water: https://amzn.to/3rVDMUc Cholestoff Heart Supplement: https://amzn.to/3uQFOXw CoQ10 Vitamin Supplement: https://amzn.to/3HZ4ErJ Ashwagandha! https://amzn.to/3u3rCdf
RANDOM WAYPOINTS PODCAST EP.03.13 | EASTER JEEP SAFARI 2022 | MOAB UTAH | OVERLAND EXPO WEST 2022 | 0:00 INTRO0:38 SPONSORS1:01 DISCLAIMER1:11 SHOW START1:54 OVERLAND NEWS2:20 BMW Motorrad presents “The Great Getaway"6:23 JEEP custom-built 4x4 and 4xe concept vehicles 7:48 Jeep Wrangler Magneto 2.0 Concept11:05 Jeep '41 Concept13:43 Jeep Rubicon 20th Anniversary Concept16:20 Jeep Bob Concept18:26 Jeep D-Coder Concept 20:28 Jeep Birdcage Concept24:33 2023 Nissan Pathfinder Rock Creek26:31 GMC Canyon AT4 truck29:37 BMW Motorrad Vision AMBY31:22 Adventure of a Lifetime Sweepstakes32:42 RANDOM LISTS33:12 Top Five Things You Must Do At Overland Expo West36:26 WAYPOINTS36:39 OVERLAND EXPO WEST 2022 FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA——————————— CONNECT ———————————
Podcasten er blevet til i samarbejde med GF Forsikring, og afsnit 43 er publiceret d. 21. februar, 2022.Støt os på bilklubbenpodcast.dk, hvor du kan købe alt vores officielle merchandise.I dette afsnit har vi en stribe spændende biler, vi skal igennem. For det første skal vi tale om en Jeep Rubicon, som Grau har kørt efter at være nedlagt af corona. Og det interessante ved den er, at det er en plug-in hybrid. Så skal vi tale om en Land Rover Defender med Tesla-motor og batteri, som i øjeblikket bliver produceret i USA og koster to mio. kr. Men noget af det vigtigste i dette afsnit er, at Bilklubben i samarbejde med den danske Porsche-importør faktisk bringer en efterlysning. Den danske import af Porsche fylder 70 år, og det vil de gerne fejre ved at finde de ældste danske Porsche'r i eksistens. Lyt til programmet og hør, hvad du skal lede efter.Sidst men ikke mindst skal vi også quizze, og denne gang sker der noget helt særligt i quizzen, da det ikke er Richter, der har lavet den. Men i stedet har Kenneth K. fra musikquizzen på DR P4 strikket en quiz sammen til Bilklubben. Og hvis du har læst så langt i beskrivelsen, så stik os da også lige en anmeldelse på iTunes og hvor ellers du kan give din podcast stjerner. På forhånd tak, og go' fornøjelse.
# 108 - Roy and Carol of North Texas Overlanding Adventures transitioned from dreams to a new exciting reality in 2020! In April of 2021 they sold their business, leased their home and moved into their 2015 Jeep Rubicon. They purchased and outfitted their Jeep named Radioactive, for the sole purpose of off-grid overlanding throughout North America. Carol is a retired former corporate executive with a wealth of knowledge and skills that have blessed numerous people. Her cooking is always a hit, and far superior than any restaurant alternative. Roy is a retired OTR and Heavy Equipment Tow operator with a hunger to navigate their travels on the least of traveled paths. He has a growing passion to document their journey, so be sure to follow their adventures on Facebook.What we learned in this episode, is for Roy and Carol, it's about living their best life, while adding value to other's lives. No doubt the most therapeutic experience of their lives, supported by Carols physicians recommendation to keep going!Of course we tackle all the normal questions with Roy and Carol, learning about the Zero Breeze, Joolca and their diesel powered Vevor Heater. All new gear to us, that we'll be looking into based on their proven experience and recommendations.
On this episode, Stu talks with Emily Miller, founder of the Rebelle Rally. EVs are more and more being welcomed into the multi-day off-road rally and they are proving to be winners. Miller talks about how the all-woman rally is as much a testing ground for vehicles as their drivers and navigators. No cellphones. No GPS. Extreme temperatures. 11-14 hour days. What does this life-changing activity in the desert offer their select bunch of adventurers? Learn more about the rally at: www.rebellerally.com Support us on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/StusEVU Learn more about Evolve KY at: www.evolveky.org Topics: Rivian, Jeep Rubicon, BEV, PHEV, Adventure, Off Road, Rally, EV, VW ID4, Audi e-tron, Mitsubishi, Kia, Hummer EV, Ford F150 Lightning, Volvo, BMW, Elon Musk, Cybertruck, Jimmy Lewis, Rod Hall, Tutus Canyon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
RANDOM WAYPOINTS EP.18 | CJ_ADVENTURES INTERVIEW | OVERLAND TRAILERS | Jeep Rubicon | TOYOTA 4RUNNER
Wheels and Charlie have a conversation as Charlie is in Rambo mode waiting on his Jeep Rubicon. Wheels bring up the website Cameo... celebrities charging there fans on for personal videos and shout outs. They also talk about comic-con and celebes charging for autographs.Wheels and Charlie talk about things that are changing in there lives and a possible DEATMB Youtube show in the works.
The SFUSD is facing calls for a resignation from one of its commissioners following racist tweets. A flight was diverted following a passenger attempting to open a door midflight. FPD has made an arrest in the murder of a local street vendor. A piece of the Wright brothers' first airplane is on Mars. How to ruin a brand-new Jeep Rubicon. Comic books are flying off the shelves! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
En el último podcast del año, Sergio y Beto discuten sobre los coches que les parecieron lo mejor del año. También, Sergio se hace un manicure.
Gears and Beers: The Unashamedly Unprofessional Automotive Podcast
We did it, we managed to record an episode during the chaos of Christmas week! This week, we talk a little bit of news and Mitch has a small surprise. Mitch kicks off the news with the limited-run McLaren Sabre being launched. Matt then talks about the Apple car coming in 2024. Joseph then talks about Hyundai Australia officially killing off the Veloster in Australia due to lacking sales. Matt then talks about Ferrari's losing their rear windscreens and Toyota making a swan-song final edition for the LandCruiser 200 Series. Joseph then talks about VicRoads overturning the decision to confiscate the rego plate ' WEPN' and have returned them to the owner, and a 2-Door version of the Jeep Rubicon coming to Australia. Matt then talks about his discovery that the rear brake pads on the 105 are non-existent. Then, the big news, Mitch has a surprise for Joseph... Again. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and at www.gearsandbeersmedia.com / www.unashamedlyunprofessional.com We have a merch shop! Gears and Beers Podcast is hosted by Mitchell Denham, Matthew Morwood, Joseph Riga, and Joel McD. Unashamedly Unprofessional
Congresswoman Angie Craig calls in while sitting in her car, looking at the Capitol in Washington. She talks about growing up in a single parent household, working her way through college and what led to her decision to run for Congress after a successful career in the private sector. She talks about what's right in Washington and also the challenges of working across the aisle. We are pleasantly surprised to learn that the Jeep Rubicon she drives in the commercial is hers and was purchased at our partner store in Bloomington. In addition, her son bought a Subaru from Walser as well. Obviously, a woman with great automotive taste.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Congresswoman Angie Craig calls in while sitting in her car, looking at the Capitol in Washington. She talks about growing up in a single parent household, working her way through college and what led to her decision to run for Congress after a successful career in the private sector. She talks about what's right in Washington and also the challenges of working across the aisle. We are pleasantly surprised to learn that the Jeep Rubicon she drives in the commercial is hers and was purchased at our partner store in Bloomington. In addition, her son bought a Subaru from Walser as well. Obviously, a woman with great automotive taste. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Couple of updates following the CCxRC livestream on YouTube last night. Had a few upgrades to get to. Hear about them here and why I did.
Today is an exciting day. Axial was set to have a 15 year anniversary Celebration, but it was cancelled due to COVID-19. They did, however, just unveil a new SCX10iii. And as I write this description, Axial now had more info and photos on their site...and Scale Build's Guild just dropped a super detailed video worth watching. He also added a 3D printed head that looks like him and it's pretty amazing. So that's a cool option vs. my request to remove the driver to put in other figures. Anyway, it looks awesome and for $369 for the kit, I know I'll be ordering one. Check it out here. http://bit.ly/SCX10iii
Autumn have been feeling quite overwhelmed and stressed out lately. Unfortunately, she is far from alone in dealing with these feelings, yet its a topic that each writer often deals with in isolation. It's our hope, that by putting it out in the open - with this episode 42 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast - that others will feel more empowered to talk about their feelings. Hopefully, Autumn also managed to be inspirational in sharing her personal story. Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need in literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self-published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Bert and Jesper Schmidt. Hello? I am, Jesper. Autumn (32s): And I'm autumn, Jesper (35s): this is episode 42 of the amwritingfantasy podcast and we are going to talk about feeling overwhelmed today. And, uh, in many ways, uh, today's topic is, it's a bit personal, so I, I guess he upfront, I want to thank you autumn for the fact that you agreed to share some about, uh, you know, those feelings for the benefit of our podcast listeners. So I hope we were going to create a episode here that will really help people. Autumn (1m 2s): Yes, we're going to definitely keep this one real folks. And I promise I will not be breaking down in tears though. Jesper (1m 11s): No, hopefully not. We'll see how and, and Hey, I also have to say, I apologize if my voice sounds a bit raw today. I'm still recovering from a cold and the actual had a bit of fever over the weekend, so that was really annoying. Uh, and I am feeling better now, but I, I'm not quite there yet. So, uh, sorry about the bit here in voice today. It's really not the how try not to cough in your ear as well. Autumn (1m 36s): Sounds good. But yeah, that's the funny thing doing the podcast. So I can't see you if, so for all I know, you know, you've got like your pajamas and your robot and a wash cloth over your forehead, so hopefully you're not that ill anymore. Jesper (1m 50s): No, no, no, it's not that bad. Uh, it wasn't, uh, in bed either, you know, a sleeping all weekend or anything. But, uh, I was still, I was still moving around but I really wasn't, especially Saturday. I was really feeling bad, but Autumn (2m 7s): it's getting better. That's good. That's an important thing, you know. And it's funny cause I, I just picked up Adam from a a leave no trace master educator canoe trip. So we had this wonderful training where you went to go canoeing in the Adirondacks and the fall weather. And while he was gone, I had the camper to myself for five days and I picked him up and he absolutely had a bat. Great time. It was fantastic. He met some fantastic people. Uh, he passed obviously. So now he's a master educator. Can train other people on how to leave no trace. But what was interesting is that of all the things, he has a lingering bad back. So he's am ever since. I think it runs in the family because his mom has the same issue, so, Oh my goodness, yes. Talking about things that are slowly recovering, he is limping around very much and it's always one of those, it's a perception. I should, we kind of talked about perceptions and stuff before, but I've always thought it was you. You look at someone and you feel people look at him and he's six foot, two broad shoulder and it's very, you know, he looks like he would be a police officer. His family, way back to his great, great grandmother was a warden at a women's prison. So I mean he's got that physique and they're like, Oh, you're so strong you can do anything. It's like, dude, his bag is so fragile. It's like I feel so bad for him. I haven't seen him in this much pain since am Oh geez. When we probably first met 19 years ago and, but it's recovering and I think it was just the way he was sitting in the canoe and paddling. I'm like, next time you wear a brace, next time you do this and, but he's on the meds and yeah, at least he got to go out. Some of the pictures he took during the chorus or just, I almost wish I had gone with them, but Hey, I got some time on my own and I got to explore some really cute towns including Lake Placid where the Olympics were held. Winter Olympics were held twice, so I had some fun on my own. Yeah. I went to a, uh, coppery that the chef had changed, trained with Julia child. So, you know, it was a really difficult five days. Yeah. I'm usually us introverts. W we really hate being alone. Oh. It's just absolutely horrible to not have to worry about what to cook for someone else or what time to eat, have to share my beer. It was really, Jesper (4m 31s): but didn't, I can't remember. But didn't you tell me at some point that Adam is also, your husband is also a bit of an introvert? Yeah, Autumn (4m 37s): he is. He um, he definitely needed some downtime. He's trying to do better with is extroverting stuff. Like we were just in town today and I was walking in and talking to people at shops, uh, filling out some stuff around town is like, I don't know how you can just walk in and start talking to people. Like, all right, let's give you some lessons on breaking the ice with someone you're meeting for the first time. So, but it has a, I could probably use some of those as well. Some of those lessons. I definitely, uh, I learned by doing, because I was a waitress for a year and I have also, um, I worked for the government. I was going to people's houses and farms and trying to give insulin to do conservation programs with the federal government in the United States. Let me tell you, that's not always the easiest thing. And so you learn to talk to people. Really. I can talk to any why that's not a worry, but at some point even I need to turn off and go curl up with a book. Jesper (5m 35s): Yeah, I would say that there's probably fair to say I could, I can, I can talk to anybody as well, but it, it doesn't come natural in the way that I have to actively think. The thought that, Oh, I guess I need to go and talk to that person, then I can easily do it. But, but it just not, it doesn't come natural to me. You know, my natural reaction is just to, you know, go my own way and do whatever for myself rather than going and talking to somebody. Right. So I need to, I need to be mindful about it and actively thinking about it all the time. Otherwise I just don't do it. Autumn (6m 7s): Yeah, I can understand that. I mean it's, I, I just was having this conversation with that. I'm actually, I remember in college I would be so used to being alone and doing my own thing and working on my own projects and I, it would probably be sunset and at that point it'd be like, I really haven't gotten anywhere today and I haven't talked to anyone and I'm kind of lonely. And so I would go for a walk, you know, it's like dinner time and I'm like, I think I, there's 15 minutes left in the cafeteria. I can go find someone to talk to and go have dinner. And yeah, I was always am it took until sunset. So I can go about, you know, until the end of the day and evening I think is one of my social time is so if I could live in a community where the rest of the day you can work and mornings especially, don't talk to me until I have my team and I watched the sun come up and maybe our ride for an hour, then you can talk to me. But evenings I want to pull out the wine and sit by the fire and talk to the next 20 people in the room would be fantastic. Jesper (7m 8s): Yeah. All right. I think evenings, uh, I quite like to just, uh, sit back and, you know, watch some Netflix, which, Oh, by the way, that reminds me. Did you ever watch the U S version of the office? Autumn (7m 21s): I have not watched. I've watched maybe two episodes of it, honestly. Jesper (7m 27s): Alright. Because I originally I watched the UK version, which was made years before the U S version. So it's, uh, it's Ricky Jarvis, who's a, who's a English comedian who created the office originally as a British TV series and it was absolutely awesome. And then, uh, later on the U S version that came out, he's also like, eh, I think executive producer or something. At least he has, he has his hands in it. Am Autumn (7m 55s): okay. Jesper (7m 55s): And then for many, many years, I resisted watching the U S version because I just felt like it can, it, it's just some sort of rip off and it cannot be as good as the original UK version. I just never watched it. And then maybe, I dunno, maybe four or five months ago, I can't remember, something like that, but some months ago, anyway, uh, I started watching it and I was like, Oh my God, this is excellent. And it's just so freaking funny. You have no idea. And it's, it's, and it has a lot of the same feel to it that the original UK version does. So a lot of the subtle humor and the characters are just absolutely awesome. So, and then I was started watching it. I got really hooked and then I told my wife about, and she was like, no, I don't wanna watch the U S version. It's, it's, it's probably not better than you. It's exactly the same accident I had. And now we are like a, I dunno if she started a month ago or something watching it and now we a month later and she's watched more than me, so she took me now. Autumn (8m 58s): But it's just, I don't know if you get the chance. What's it? It's amazing. I've heard that. She just never clicked with me, but maybe I'll give it another try. Honestly, we just picked up and started watching disenchantment, which is the same creator of the Simpsons, Matt groaning. So, um, he has a kind of fairy tales sort of animation cartoon. It's insane. Season two. And so we just watched the first episode of season two last night and okay. You know, this Simpsons meets, um, the princess beanie, uh, being is the main character and her am Lucifer. Lucy is her demon. And it's really kind of fun to watch that. So that maybe when we're finished with am our current season two of disenchantment. All right, that may be it. Writing fantasy podcast Jesper (9m 58s): so I was just inside the, uh, amwritingfantasy Facebook group here earlier today and uh, I sorta Kel posted, um, that's used currently writing her first battle scene in her book. And then she asked people how many battles scenes other people have in their novels. And I thought that was actually a quite an interesting question. Don't, don't you think autumn Autumn (10m 20s): I was, I was actually, I had saw that one too. What was going to mention it as well. So I thought the same thing because I hadn't, you know, everyone thinks about the climax, but you know, how many, what other battles scenes do you have? Do you throw them in as hurdle? So I've been looking at some of the comments to see, you know, what other people say, you know, it, it's kind of all over the place. Some people say quite a few because it's military fantasy. Uh, there's one, you know, a couple of like just one, so, yeah. Jesper (10m 49s): Yeah. But that's also why I picked it out to mention it here because I just wanted to pitch in here and basically say to Carol that at least from my perspective, you know, your novel needs as many battles scenes as is demanded by your story and no more, no less. I mean, I, I don't think you can say that a story has too many battles scenes or it has too few. It completely depends on what type of story it is that she's telling. At least that, that would be my point of view. But I don't know what you think. Autumn (11m 16s): No, I agree. I mean, it's, I don't want to see too many of them. Like if I'm a reader and I'm reading a book, you know, if, if there's swords and mercenaries in magic, even magic's a good battle scene. I expect, um, you know, some minors scenes, especially as characters are learning their powers or learning how to use a sword. There should be some scuffles and things that you're learning along the way before you get to the big climax. But you know, if, if your climax is something different, a totally different based type of story, then you know, maybe there really weren't. Maybe there'll be a lot more running. Maybe there's a lot more questing and searching, but again, usually something that attacks you in the woods. So I'd be surprised if there's only one. But I definitely, I actually, I hate to admit this, this is probably so horrible, but when I read Lord of the rings, I actually skipped skim through the battle scenes because they were just too detailed and too many character names. And I just, at one point I had two or three paragraphs into it, I realized I didn't care. So I just looked for the characters. I knew skim to the end of it and said, ah, this is who won. And kept going. Jesper (12m 28s): Yeah. But that's actually where I think the, the Lord of the rings movies did a good job because in the movies you assume into the characters and see what they are doing on the battlefield. And then it becomes interesting, whereas these like huge scenes where it's described that 1000 soldiers road runs into another thousand soldiers and they slay half of them and it's like, well that's not really that interested because I'm not invested in those soldiers. But if if you sort of assume into the character running in the midst of all these people and on all the chaos around and whatnot, then it becomes interesting all of a sudden. Autumn (13m 2s): Yeah, I know we've both talked about that before. I mean, I, when I wrote my first, especially the trilogy Epic fantasy climactic battle seed, so I mean, you know, three books building to this scene and you know, there were I think ended up being nine chapters for the entire battle because it's huge. But I kept it to each of the characters, basically what their experience was through the battle and that kind of made it so much easier to tear apart when I was approaching the first time ever. Writing something this big and massive and it does, it means more for the readers and it, it's really a great way to write it as just a focus on what's going on with this character. And then I always say like having big telltale events that basically are become the time clock of the battle that this happened, that happened. So that way, you know, the reader can sync everything up. It works, it works great. But yeah, I definitely think keeping it, you know, keeping it relatable to the characters in your plot and how you're building it to make sure it's, it's fitting what's going on in the, uh, in your story. You don't need to throw in, you know, 16 different battles. There's no magic recipe. But I, like I said, I think it would make sense if someone's going to be learning to use their powers, that you should see some displays of it, even if it's just practice before they get to the big, big scene where they have to be at least a good enough master to hopefully win. Jesper (14m 27s): Yeah, that makes sense. Uh, I also picked out from the Facebook group that, uh, uh, James had some trouble coming up with a title for his novel or maybe, Oh, I should rather say he had three different titles and then he wanted people's opinion on which one people thought the best. And he actually, he got a, a lot of votes on that pole there. Uh, and there was also a clear winner among his three different options. So I think that's great. And I really like how the authors in the amwritingfantasy Facebook group helping each other out with stuff like this. And, uh, I did not vote myself for one of the options, but instead I actually pointed him to watch our episode 37 of this podcast since we actually covered that topic at great length there on how to pick titles for you on novels, if any of our listeners, yeah, go ahead. I say that's just what I was going to say. It's like, did he not listen to our, our podcast I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe he was too busy or something, but, uh, but he did the, he did reply back and say he wants, he would go back and listen to it. So, uh, so that was good. I mean, not every people have, are subscribing like me, you know, the, the different podcasts I listened to, I listened to every single episode, but that's not everybody. So, and maybe it's going to tie into our topic of being overwhelmed as well, but, uh, but what I was gonna say before is that if any of our listeners are interesting in joining a group of fantasy authors, you can just head on over to Facebook and then search for M writing fantasy among the groups there and then you will find us. Yeah. Getting into today's topic, I think first of all, I must share in full transparency that I've never really felt overwhelmed myself. So, uh, please note that I'm not saying that to, to make those who do feel overwhelmed feel worse or to sort of raise myself above them. I, I'm only saying it so that our listeners are aware that my advice on this topic might not be as good as yours. Autumn that's not a problem. I think I am surprised. I can't imagine not feeling overwhelmed at some point with that. How did PAX writing but you are so organized. It doesn't surprise me, I think you. But then again, I also know being an organized person, usually myself, that when the cookie crumbles and you're an organized person, Oh my goodness, it's disaster. It's like going into a kid's play pen where they had a tantrum and everything falls down. So I hope you never feel overwhelmed because I think when are, if you're the point person and the foundation of a lot of things in your life and when you crumble, it's bad. So you stay where you're at and be a lot of crunch. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, there could be a lot of contract I've had, I've had employees, uh, who have suffered from both. I mean, some overwhelmed, but I, I've also had a few who actually went into full burnout. So I've seen what it looks like close by at close hand, you know, and it's, it's not good. Uh, so, but, but as far as understanding how it feels on one's own own body then, well, I can't really say much but, but I'll, I'll try and um, give some reflections here. But uh, but I think, well you've been through a bit of a journey here recently autumn so maybe you want to set us up for this content a bit about what, what, what sort of in Autumn (17m 50s): going on. Sure. Well, yes, if most people don't realize I've been a full time author, graphic artists and traveler around sort of the world, but mostly in North America because we have a small dog and we just don't want to abandon our furry child. We love her. Oh, you know, we ha we took him on because we love him, so we don't want to just drop them off and then go travel the rest of the world though. It's in us to do so. But we've been doing that for three years. Ever since I quit my job, a very good job. Um, on my 42nd birthday, literally it was my last day in the office was my birthday. And so I gave my two week notice so that I can have a big birthday bash that involved the staff. I say goodbye to all my employees and walked out the door to, uh, kind of scary big world. And it's been a blast. We have traveled over a hundred thousand miles in the last three years in a variety of vehicles from a Jeep Rubicon sleeping in a ground tent to a land cruiser 80. He was sleeping on a rooftop tent to now this four wheel camper that we have. And, but it's, it's coming I think to an end, but I'm not sure we're in a transition period. And when you're in a transition period, it's, I equate it to like, you're walking in this really Misty veil. If you don't even really know where you are, you're just, you're in this thick, dense mist and you're walking sometimes in circles, sometimes you're just kind of feeling your way and nothing has come clear yet where my next chapter is going to be a what we're going to do. I mean, I know there's things in me, the things I miss. I'm a huge foodie. I love cooking and I really miss, you know, having a kitchen and having, you know, making food and all those kitschy thing. You know, I wouldn't have a bookshelf with my own books. I don't even have a whole set of all my own books. I have to go to my mom's house to see my books. I kind of want that. So there's a lot of desire is am and Adam feels the same way. My husband, he's an outdoor person and outdoor guide and it's kind of, you know, we've enjoyed our travel, but it's kinda hard to, uh, be that to other people, to work maybe in a job where he's guiding like kayak tours or hiking tours. Unless you're in a place that didn't, you know you can do that. So there's a lot of this stuff that we kind of were excited to put on hold and toss it to the wind and go to Alaska and see some amazing, see the Northern lights outside of Yellowknife. It was a fantastic journey. And there's places I want to go back to so badly, but at the same time we've also seen just about everything. So we don't want to just keep going in circles were kind of ready for something new and it's created a bit of an impact. Jesper (20m 52s): Yeah, that, that was sort of what I was going to ask about here is it. So do you think it was all the, the feeling of we maybe want to do something differently? Was it, was that, do you think that was the trigger for starting to feeling overwhelmed or was it something else? Autumn (21m 11s): I think it was the realization that we thought everything was smooth sailing and it was going fine. And you know, we'd just gotten this camper. So we were excited to travel in something that's a little more comfortable than a rooftop tent in a land cruiser where I was doing most of my writing in the passenger seat or at a picnic tables. It's always fun to design a fantasy map. Um, Jim Reed, this is, you design a fantasy map for another author while sitting at a picnic table. So we were excited, but there's a lot of tasks that weren't getting done. Driving every day takes its own toll. Um, there was a lot of times where it's like, I wanted to go and do something, but I really needed to sit and write. I mean, I'm an author. This is a real business. And just, I felt a lot of internal pressure, pressure from the expectations I had for myself, the expectations of wanting to meet the needs of my clients when maybe I should have just said, you know what, it's going to be another week or so. Yeah, sorry. Speaking of the small furred devil, Hey. Yeah. But yeah, so you know, the expectations of people I work with and even wanting to, you know, I write with you and spend time with you that I w you know, we have our own things we're working on. We're working on courses and books and all these things going on, plus my own personal writing and uh, you know, just willing to draw. And I think it all just became too many expectations. Jesper (22m 48s): Yeah. So it sounds like it may be, it was more like, uh, uh, built up over time rather than something's suddenly happening or whatever. Autumn (22m 56s): Yeah. I think, um, I think that's usually, cause I am the rock in my relationship. I'm usually the one who can go through anything and get things done. And so when I get off the rails, it's kind of a huge hip cup in our lives that, Oh geez, you know, the bedrock just had an earthquake and now what do we do when your not feeling as motivated and excited and creative and just passionate about what you're doing when you show up and you're like, Oh, I gotta work on this today, don't I? Yay. Yeah. So I think it was, uh, for me it's always a slow summer when I have a little breakdown and I always joke that, you know, I have one or two funky days every year, but this is, this has been going on for a month or more and it's, you know, it's getting better now because I'm actively managing it, but it's still going on. I mean, I'm still stuck in my current work in progress. I like get chapped. I've been at chapters five, six, somewhere in there for a month and a half and I can usually pound out, you know, maybe not 5,000 words a day, but two, 3000. Like I said, writing is my job and I just, I write, I have a minimum minimum goal that I write, even if it's like I've got a ton of other things I'm working on, I try to at least write 500 words just to keep the story going. I have it all plotted out. I want to, I've, you know, my, my writer, author newsletters, I have my readers that they kind of know what's going on and they want to see what's coming up next in the story. I want to have a publication date that I've promised and I did. I pushed forward and I kept writing and the other day I finally just looked at it and said, I'm just not going to pretend like I'm happy with this. And I won't say a deleted it, but I took it and I moved it to an outtake folder and I'm back to where I was a month ago staring at the screen going, Oh, I just need to make this scene. If I can just get this scene to click together, I know I can move forward. But it just hasn't clicked yet. No. But how did you recognize the fact that you were feeling overwhelmed if it was sort of building up over time and almost sneaking up on you? How did you recognize that this is, this is what I'm feeling? I think it's just a matter of at some point being honest, like maybe sitting down, I don't know if I was sitting down with Adam, we, he, we, he and I talk a lot, obviously, uh, almost 20 years of marriage. Um, we've built houses together and fixed houses and lived in a camper together, um, for a hundred thousand miles. So we talk a lot. He's my best friend and I think just saying, Hey, this is, you know, nothing's working. I'm feeling stuck. And I think for me it was really like when I, my writing is stuck, my art was stuck. Um, getting anything done was stuck and I'm, and he started saying, well, you know, it sounds like you're overwhelmed. You sometimes you need that outside perspective. And then I know I wrote you an email saying, I just am not getting done the things I want to get done that I've said that, you know, these are the important tasks. We've got a head for us and I just don't know what to do. And you always, always, you're like the best writing partner and business partner ever. Yesware, you'll always come back and be like, no, you know, you need to take care of yourself. So I mean everyone, everyone I've talked to you that I said I'd need more time to work on something. It has been fantastic. No one's like, Oh really? I needed that yesterday. I think. Um, yeah I think a lot of the times is expectations. When we think well the what we're holding ourselves to, what we think should be going on in our lives and it's just not happening. And it's that association, that mistake that really messes things up and messes up. You know, what we're doing with our lives and how things are going. And that's what gets us off track. And it's sometimes just, you know, talking to the people in our lives so that they know that, you know, it's not that big of a deal. You know, it can give you breathing room. And that's one of my biggest advices as if you're feeling stuck and you're feeling overwhelmed, that you just need to go and talk to the people in your lives. Talk to at least one person. Cause you will immediately start feeling at least a little better cause it's not all bottled up inside of you. You need to at least say Hey either if you, even if you can't say I need help, you can just say, I just need to, you know, take a break. I need to go take a nap. I know that's one of my biggest signs is I usually like to get up in the morning and right. And the day that I was like, I had to rather stay in bed and screw what I'm working on and sleep for another hour, then go tackle this scene that I can't get through. Am I'd rather do anything than that. I when I start avoiding my laptop, which is my nephew am who's a computer engineer by the way, jokes that I'm more attached to my laptop then anything else in my life, he's, he'll come up and be like, what I see you don't have your laptop on right now. Um, you know, he would literally tease me that, Oh my God, I cannot believe I'm witnessing you without this other object that I thought was permanently attached to you. So, uh, when I'm like going, no, I done with that right now. I need to walk away from that right now that that is a sign that there's something big going on in life. Jesper (28m 45s): Yeah. And I, and I think, at least from what I have seen with, uh, with employees and stuff like that, you know, it's first of all, I think it is really important to, to spot the warning signs when they are there because some people just don't see the warning signs and, or they don't listen to their body and that don't feel, feel it before it's too late and that that's, that's how you end up in the complete burnout. And that's sort of the worst thing that can happen. So I fully agree with what you said there before about speaking to people about how you're feeling and, and realigned some of expectations with other people because often as you said, I, I believe that if you are honest with people around you and saying, I'm, I'm just feeling overwhelmed and I need a bit of breathing space, at least if most people would understand that. And, and S, you know, say don't worry about it. Notice and as soon as you get those confirmations, then at least you can sort of take that pressure off of your shoulders and say, okay, well other people understand and they're not expecting me to do something tomorrow and I have that breathing space. Then you can also start to allow yourself that breathing space. And I think that that's important. Um, but I also see from, uh, from past experiences with employees. I've also seen a few factors and you mentioned some of them already there, but a few factors that I've seen happening is if people, uh, struggling with setting boundaries, meaning that they know when to say no to some, some task or project or whatever. Because I still, I simply don't have enough time for this, for example. Uh, but then the day they ended up saying yes because they want to please everybody. Then usually those are the ones where you can easily hit down that route of starting to feel more overwhelmed. And if you then don't recognize the science, then you end up in a burnout because you S you have a to do list that are miles long and there's just no Intuit and you're maybe working yourself too hard as well. Because then that's the other part that you mentioned about sleeping. Because I think, well, exercise can help us well, but above all, you need to get your sleep. Um, and to get your sleep on a regular schedule if you can, meaning if as much as you can, going to bet the same time getting up in the morning at the same time every day. I, I'm, I'm pretty religious about that myself. Um, but, but it, it makes a huge difference if you get your sleep, if you don't get your sleep, especially when you have those really long to do list. And then you start saying, okay, I just need to work more hours, then I'll get it done right. And then you start working 16 hours a day or 18 hours a day or whatever. Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit there, but, but you get the point, you know that then you're on the, you're on the wrong path or start as soon as you start doing all that. Autumn (31m 25s): Absolutely. And that's, it's definitely so easy to do. I mean, I know what it's like to be someone who tackles all these, all the big projects. I mean, usually it's just, you know, my meat and gravy and what I want to be working on. But you can't always be the person bearing all the weight and getting it all done. Everyone deserves a break. Everyone deserves a vacation. And I think when you finally realize that, you know, you do need to set boundaries, even if it's like, okay, it's an hour or two a night and guess what, you like five o'clock or something, uh, you know, the computer's going off and I'm going to spend some time with my husband. Or especially since I do this full time. I mean, like I said, my nephew jokes that I'm on the laptop all the time, 12 to 18 hours a day. Well that's not doable. I mean we've been traveling around the United States and there's been times Adam's like, just just put it away or just come, we'll go do a walk. Don't, don't keep doing this. I don't, you don't want your memory of where we've been to be. You look at your laptop screen and I do think that's very important and so I know just overall of like what I could have done the last three years. I feel like some things have slipped because we were, we were traveling and I was enjoying it, but it was also a of suddenly going, I think some of our transition time right now is like, well, you know, we need more time to focus on our businesses and our what we're doing to make them grow because the bit of time they're getting right now is not enough. But it is. I would say my number one thing is it after talking to people is to be kind to yourself. Everyone's got to have bad days. It's fine. You just need to be gentler. Like even my niece was just saying this, Kayla to me as well, that it's, you just need to be kind to yourself. Yes. The writing's not going well. Well you know, I'm not meeting my word count goals. I'm behind on my schedule is that, you know, giving myself pressure like that is not going to make me feel better, is going to make me feel worse and I'm going to backslide into being in a dark place, which is not where I want to be. So I need to be kind to myself and just recognize it. And to me it's, it's basically embracing the fact that I know this time is difficult as it is as difficult. You know, I'm walking in a mist and I have no idea what next month we'll even bring much less where I will be in two or three months. I just know something has to change. We haven't found it yet, but this transition time is fleeting. It will end. This is not forever. And there's sort of an acceptance of that and an embracing and just saying, Hey, this is only right now. Yeah, I'm not writing well right now, but it will get better. I just need to keep, if not keep working like a for the scenes I just deleted or didn't lead. Like I said, I never delete anything. I move it to an outtake folder so that I can, if I changed my mind, I can go back and there are some good nug nuggets in there that I've already pulled out of it. But I know this one scene is just like, I feel like I am doing, doing novice author stuff like the throwing up minor obstacles. I have nothing to do with the plot just to make it, just to have something to write. And so instead of doing that, I got rid of all those little minor obstacles and I'm back to the main scene and I literally basically started journaling to myself in my chapter. Obviously it will be deleted later, but it's like why is this scene happening? What needs to happen here? How does this gonna relate to something later? How does it fit in the plot? I got out my diagrams of plot, the seven steps of story structure and how that integrates with character arcs and made sure everything was lining up. And you know, I'm starting to see the importance of where this scene is and why it has to happen. And so it does fit in. It just has felt so pointless and I want to get beyond it. I haven't gotten there yet, but I also know so I'm not writing the actual story, but I'm sitting there at least trying to figure out where the problem it is I'm having with it. And I know some of the problem is I realized I'm just not in love with this character. Honestly I feel like doing something I've told everyone not to do and switch to a different story that I'm more passionate about, even though I said is the next series I'm going to write and I don't think I'm the, I don't think I'm going to do that yet. Realizing that the character is not working for me, I can look at it a little bit more and say why? You know, what? What do I need to do to make this character more interesting to me? Because if it's not interesting to me and I'm writing a flat character, then it's not going to be interesting to my readers. So you know, you start pulling apart these little threads and when your whole life is bound up in a big ball of threads, it helps to am to pull it apart, pull apart your creativity because if you get something working on one front, it'll often, you know, start moving on other fronts and I've definitely seen that. I mean I know by seeing taking a back seat and trying to take a few days off and just look over everything I've got going on, I can see some disconnects where it's like I've done this and I've done this over here and I never put the funnel, the little connector together to tell the people that this is done and Hey, I also have this group that I should probably tell him they should get together and they should probably know about this. So it's definitely you start seeing those connections that you're not making because you've been so busy that you're just getting the minimum done just because you then can say it's done and you can move on to the next task. And also speaking to us, go ahead. Jesper (36m 57s): No, I just wanted to say when, when you said that that was the, that was the other thing I was also thinking about was that, uh, efficiency plays a big party and, and I'm, I'm, I'm all for if you shouldn't see it, you know, uh, it's a like a religion almost for me, but um, but what I meant by that is that when you are training yourself and you're working way too hard and you're trying to force things, that's also where you often end up in those situations whereby actually use half the time you're spending on something is, is nonproductive time. And what I mean by that is, is that you end up, for example, as you just said, you start writing stuff and then it's like, what is this? It doesn't make any sense are, and then you, maybe you put it in a different folder or delete it or whatever people do that doesn't really matter, but it's still wasted hours of work. Right. Whereas, and I, I do realize that this is way easier said than done, but, but if, if, if you were able or one we're able to cut themselves a bit of Slack and try to get their sleep and, and uh, and those things that we talked about before, then you would also find that your productive hours I actually producing stuff that you can use so you're not spending twice as much many man hours doing the same thing then then you have to, right. I mean you have to sleep thing is a really important thing. And also trying to cut yourself a bit of flack, as we said a few times now to sort of put that demand on yourself. Right? Yes. Sometimes working more hours and harder is actually not the solution. Autumn (38m 33s): No, I definitely eating and I did, I didn't realize it was, I believe a Japanese technique, but it's one I've sort of came upon on my own and obviously of course no one's ever, no one's ever the first inventor of the wheel. Someone else came up with it before you, but it's, you can only have three tasks on your to do list at a time. Cause I definitely, yeah, I've definitely, I'm one of those people who have a million projects and I have all these things I want to do, but you can't really do all of them well. And when you have that many weighing on you, you do feel the stress. So basically, yeah, you might have a list of all those tasks that need to be done, but then you have an active task lists and there's only three things on that. Those are the, these are the three things you're going to work on today or your three big projects, whatever they are. And nothing gets moved out of the other list until it's on the active. And how you talk about making boundaries and stuff. There's your boundary. You just kind of say, I'm sorry, these are my three tasks. Nothing else is going to be a move to the other list into one of those is done and you ain't it. So it's definitely taught me to be like, these are the three things I'm working on. These are my three priorities. I am working on those. When one of those is finished or one of those, one of those is at a stage where I can move it aside, I will choose what something else to go and that is all I'm doing right now. And if you don't like it, find someone else because that is just how I have to live my life right now. Jesper (40m 6s): Yeah. The, the, the variation. I've heard of that one that you did you just mention, this is basically almost on a more granular level in the way that, the way I've heard of this, that you put three things on your to do list, but they can only be things that you will get done today and nothing else. So basically it could be like, okay, I'm gonna write chapter number eight for example. Uh, that, that could be a thing. Right? But he cannot say finish novel number Autumn (40m 34s): unless you're like 500 words away from the ed. Jesper (40m 38s): Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because otherwise it's like a maybe a month or two or three or four or five months long to do listing however long people take to write a novel. Right. But eh, but so it has to be something that you will complete today and all three things has to be something that is achievable today. So, um, you have to be realistic in your own goal setting and then when you go to, to bet at or, or once you're done with your work day or whenever it suits you, then you can make your list of three new things for tomorrow. But then you're feeling good about it because you know that you're making progress. But you're also noting noting or knowing that you're taking off stuff on the to do list because I managed by three things today. So it is a way where if you are prone to feeling overwhelmed at that, that might be helpful. Autumn (41m 21s): Definitely. And that's why I think when I, that's why I use a word count goal, especially right now. I mean to used to be like write half a chapter, which is fantastic when you have the time. But when life's busy or you just, you know, there's going to be other things you need to focus on that just saying, you know, I'm going to write 500 words. And like with Scrivener, we both use Scrivener just watching that word count and say, okay, I hit my 500 you know, if I've had a little bit more time or you know, if I can put a little bit more in. Great. But that's it. And I've also definitely come to the realization that, you know, even time management, like saying, um, I working on this till 10:00 AM or till 11:00 AM and then no matter where I am in this project, I've got to move on to something else today. And so it's just literally starting to manage that a lot more actively. Where before it seems like things recently just kinda got away with any things were taking longer than they should have. So I'm just simply, you know, if it's going to take longer than it's going to have to get worked on tomorrow and making sure it happens that way. You know, taking a couple of days off every once in a while, taking the weekends off sometimes now or I decided weekends are more my time. So you know, I'll probably right, but I have some courses I signed up for and maybe just some fun stuff, the graphic design or Hey, getting away from my computer or maybe doing something else. It really, we're not designed to work seven days a week, even if we're passionate about it. I've, I've met and talked to so many people that, you know, I see that they've kind of burned out in their own business and they want to, you can just hear it in their voice. They need a break and I don't want to see that happening to me or to us. So I've definitely learned that, you know, if you don't start taking breaks now, if you don't mix it up a little bit, that it's going to be, you know, you're going to face that down the line because you do get burned out with things and you've got to find a way keeping it new and fresh and challenging. And usually that's by letting it go a little bit. Yeah, indeed. So, uh, I don't know, is that, it's that sort of a wrap around the topic of feeling overwhelmed, a autumn on or did you have some more stuff to share about your experience? I think that'll do it. I just going to say to people though, I mean, you're not alone and remember that whatever you're going through right now, it's temporary and that no one else knows what you're going through unless you tell them. I always joked that I wish that if you had a cold sort of like you have over the weekend, yes. For that you turned a different color. I mean, if someone looked at you and your purple or share truth, they would know you're sick. But you know, especially our internal, our mental landscape, no one knows what's going on unless you speak up. So, you know, that's what like our Facebook group for this is, uh, you know, topping. I've talked to a couple authors about not being able to figure out this chapter. I've talked to friends and nieces and other people and anyone who's willing to listen to me talk about writing and it's, it's important. It's important to be able to reach out to fellow writers who will. Everyone's going to know what you're going through, and if they have an experience themselves, they will relate and it's part of the human condition to, you want to kind of clam up when you're feeling vulnerable, but the best thing you can do is reach out to somebody and say, yeah, I just in a rough spot and you'll be surprised at how really wonderful most people are. Narrator (44m 57s): So next Monday I hope I have an excellent interview lined up for you, but I'll see how it goes. So I'll keep it as a surprise for now if you like what you just heard, there's a few things you can do to support the amwritingfantasy podcast. Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join Autumn and Jesper on patrion.com/amwritingfantasy for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get awesome rewards and keep the amwritingfantasy podcast going. Stay safe out there and see you next Monday.
04-17-2019 Auto Talk Live 2019 Jeep Rubicon Wrangler Review. Spoilers Rumors and Recalls No bull assessment of the new Jeep Rubicon. Final Thoughts wrap up
Its Car Day! Nicholas took his Jeep Rubicon to Autonation (for emergency brake service) and did not have top on and they left it outside, Michael had Rooter Town fix two toilets and they both leaked with major water damage, Paul was servicing appliance in a home and came upon a marijuana grow, Jana had mold mitigation done on her townhome because of leaking roof and put a tarp over it but HOA wants her to take it off, Susan wants to know what the law says about super bright headlights, David just bought a Hilton Time Share and wants out, this and much more.Monday (1-7) is Health Insurance Day!
Ron starts this episode talking about his week in the shop and things that went wrong, and the story of the Honda where nothing but the horn worked : talks about a Ford Fusion with a strange squeak when backing up : takes a call on a 16 Jeep Rubicon that was in an accident - - and now the tires have a funky wear pattern : takes a call on an 02 Buick Regal with very bad gas mileage. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Michelle Davis and her husband Kevin live in Belgrade, Montana and own and operate the Helper Brands of products. Their signature product, Detailer’s Helper is in the hands of thousands of detailers around the world. When she’s not helping Kevin she’s been a stay-at-home mom who is now ready for her own adventure. Michelle and her friend Andrea Shaffer are embarking on a journey where they will modify a 2004 Jeep Rubicon and undertake an off-road adventure this fall. They are Team Sugar High and will be competing in the Rebelle Rally in the deserts of Nevada and California. The Rebelle Rally is a 1,200 mile, 7 day adventure and it’s the first all woman’s off-road rally in the United States. Michelle’s husband Kevin has been a guest here on Cars Yeah in the past.
Michelle Davis and her husband Kevin live in Belgrade, Montana and own and operate the Helper Brands of products. Their signature product, Detailer’s Helper is in the hands of thousands of detailers around the world. When she’s not helping Kevin she’s been a stay-at-home mom who is now ready for her own adventure. Michelle and her friend Andrea Shaffer are embarking on a journey where they will modify a 2004 Jeep Rubicon and undertake an off-road adventure this fall. They are Team Sugar High and will be competing in the Rebelle Rally in the deserts of Nevada and California. The Rebelle Rally is a 1,200 mile, 7 day adventure and it’s the first all woman’s off-road rally in the United States. Michelle’s husband Kevin has been a guest here on Cars Yeah in the past.