In this Jeep Talk Show Flagship II episode, Natalie and Tony discuss Stellantis’ search for a new CEO, with changes expected by 2026. While no cats make an appearance, there’s plenty of fun conversation, including Natalie’s realization that size does matter—at least when it comes to Jeeps! Tune in for an entertaining and informative episode.
There’s a jeeper for everyone. I think that’s something that is so special about this community. I really learned that this week too, doing an event. There literally is a jeeper for everyone. Yep. Ducking. I mean, that’s another big thing. Yeah. That is uniquely Jeep. I mean, it’s been co-opted on several other platforms now.
But so, you know, I wonder if, I don’t know who it was that wasn’t friendly to Jim while he was at Jeep,
but I’m wondering if it’s this guy.
I wonder. Maybe not directly, but you know, like indirectly. Yeah. And I think it would be, I don’t think there’s any way in hell Jim would even take the job, but it’d be really cool if they said, you know, we screwed up. Numbers are really bad. We’d like to have you come back. They need an American running this thing, at least for the Jeeps and the Dodge Ram, because I don’t think the Europeans get it. I don’t think it is such an American icon. So I do believe you might be on to something there. I did meet, I got to meet Jim last year at Forefest and he was lovely. We chatted for about 60 seconds, which probably felt more like 60 years to him because he had to talk to me, but it was amazing. He was just such a great guy and you never know. You never know. So there’s a lot of time in between right now. And I think it’s kind of interesting. You know, contract expires in 2026. So you already know you’re gonna have your job. I think that’s kind of an interesting twist. And I don’t know. I guess they could let him out of the contract. You know, if he started looking around and he could find another company, he could make them lose 20% year over year. As our resident fake lawyer, yes, they can break the contract early. They don’t have to pay a little bit. I am not a real lawyer, but I play one on the Jeep Talk Show. I like that. I do. So, I mean, I don’t like to see bad things happen to anybody. Yeah. You know, absolutely not. And I don’t know that anybody would be able to do any better
with Jeep right now. With all the stuff that’s going on. You did see where they dropped the interest rate a half a percent, right? Right, half a percent. You know, a friend of mine just bought a Jeep, but fully loaded gladiator is used. It has about 45,000 miles on it, but it looks brand new. Oh my gosh, 12% interest right now. And I was just like, oh, Eric, like I’m so excited for you. It’s his first Jeep, but oh boy. It just, it shocked me. It shocked me. And he’s gonna wheel it actually next weekend for his stock. I didn’t think it was up to 8%. I didn’t think it was 12%. His is 12% right now. And so he’s hoping maybe in the year he can refi, which I hope so too for him, but he’s, you know what? The joy is there right now and he’s blinded by love. (Laughs) Right. Well, as long as he can afford it. And like you say, refi in a year and then it won’t be so bad.
So the automaker however, added there is still a possibility Tavares is staying on longer.
Maybe he just needed some on the job training. Maybe he just need his ass kicked. Yeah, there’s that too.
(Laughs) Oh man.
Nothing, I don’t mean to be hateful to you, Carlos. I’m sure you’re doing a fine job and it’s probably just not, it’s a,
well, I think it was when the dealerships, the owners of the dealership started complaining about the amount of inventory they had and kind of getting jerked around from Stellantis that this is what happened.
I don’t know what the answer is, other than make the Jeeps cheaper and stop pushing the EV stuff. Yes. Stop doing the hybrid stuff. I mean, you can have them, that’s fine. But just make a damn good Jeep. Oh, and the Ram pickups, Ram pickups are generally really good trucks. They are. Just make a good damn pickup. Yup, I agree with you 100%. I wonder if that EV’s in our top 10 list. No, I bet you it’s not.
(Laughs) I bet you it’s not. So I don’t know. I mean, we’re gonna have to see what happens here. I don’t like anybody being out of a job. I’m sure he’ll be just fine though.
And I would like to, I don’t know. I guess this is what you see whenever the inventory’s up and sales are down. People have to be sent along their way to bring somebody else in. And I think a lot of times it’s just a knee jerk reaction. It’s not necessarily doing anything. There’s nobody out there that has the magic bullet. There isn’t, not right now. Trying to make people feel like the shareholders and stuff feel like something’s going on. I agree with you. And I can’t help but think that having a company that’s publicly traded is not good for longterm. It’s not. Because you can’t make longterm plans because you may not be there.
No, exactly. And it’s almost like sports teams too. I mean, if you’re not doing well, like right now, NFL is kind of, I know for us, the Bengals, we’re struggling and everyone’s calling for who’s head, the head coach. So it does start at the top. And right now we’re all, it’s struggling. Jeep is just struggling. Yeah, I mean, everybody loves a winner and they don’t like a loser. No, definitely not. God, it’s just, it’s tough. I mean, I wanna see Jeep do good. I don’t wanna see Jeep go out of business.
And I’m not saying that’s what’s gonna happen here, but you can’t keep going forever losing money. Correct, you can’t. Because that forever really will end. So, and we need our Jeeps guys. Absolutely. The Lanas, get it together. And you know, and speaking of Jeeps and we need our Jeeps, whenever we did this story, I think it was on the last flagship episode, we did a story about the 2025 Jeep Wrangler, not having an automatic available,
if it was a 3.6 V6.
It made absolutely no sense to me unless they’re trying to keep people from buying Wranglers.
Not a lot of people out there know how to drive a standard. And of course we know that the Jeeps had a lot of problems with standards since they came out with the JL, with the flywheels blowing up. Oh. Yeah, it’s just, they have an issue with those things and they’re gonna, you know, the question is, are they fixing the clutch and the transmission on the 2025?
Otherwise, that’s gonna be a really short, short trip. Jose, what a waste.
What a waste, again.
But I mean, we don’t know, but I will say this, Jeep Talk Show team member Bill told us on Discord server today, Stellantis may be manipulating the early 2025 model year supply to a less popular configuration and colors, I was not aware of the colors, to drive new buyers into older inventory. And this makes sense based on what we were just talking about. Yeah. The older inventory has piled up on dealer lights and this will help clear out older inventory and help dealers with not having to discount as heavily on those older model years by pushing buyers in that direction. So it is a bit ingenious. It is. I mean, it’s not like companies don’t manipulate their customers, they do.
You know, sales,
you know, G, that dress doesn’t make your butt look big. Any of you do or say anything to make the customer happy. Exactly. And make the sale, so that’s part of sales. We only have one left, you know? Yes.
And so I can understand it, but it makes me kind of feel bad. If it makes me feel like Stellantis is screwing us.
It does. Yeah.
I mean, it’s not illegal, I’m sure. Yeah, definitely not. I mean, so anyway. We gotta get rid of it somehow. That older inventory’s gotta go at some point. Well, I like deep discounts.
I do too. I like the idea of deep discounts. I do, I have short pockets, deep discount, you know? So I’m sure we will see, and the information from Bill continues. It says that he’s sure you will see the return of V6 automatic option later in 2025 model year. So if you were planning on buying a Wrangler in 2025, you might wanna wait until the end of the year. If you don’t have to have a 2025, you may be able to get a really good buy on an older Jeep,
because they wanna get it off the lot.
Yeah, and I suspect that if they are coming out with a 2025 Wrangler with an automatic,
right at the time they do that, or right before they do that, that would be the best time to get the old inventory off the lot. Gosh, so here’s a girl question. I can’t wait to said that, but do you think an automaker would ever skip a year if they’re sitting on so much inventory? Oh my God. Like could you ever just skip a year instead of just trying to reinvent it? Like I think right now they’re trying to reinvent. So why not? What would that do to the UAW workers though? I know, that’s the other problem. Yeah, so you really can’t. You have to always keep going. What would they do? They could put a pause on all the plants. They do do that. Yeah.
Man, that would just be, it makes sense. I mean, sometimes it’s, I mean, I just feel like, what if, what do you do when you’re sitting on all this stuff? You have to think that that would really hurt stock prices though. Oh, it’d be horrible. It’s not a good idea. I’m just saying, what if? Yeah, no, no, no, but I mean, it’s one of those things where then they may even have thought about this and just said, now we can’t do that. That would be too much backlash from many, many things.
God, could you imagine all those workers just not having anything to do? That’d be awful. Yeah.
Don’t do it. Yeah, no, we’re not suggesting that. And if they do do that, I didn’t suggest it. Natalie did.
All right, so I got broad shoulders. I can throw you under the bus. Thanks.
Sorry, so no– It depends on how wide those bus tires are. So we’ll see.
Nice segue. All right, so I thought this was interesting. I did a little research today for some Jeep news and I saw right away, I saw 10 best Jeep models ever built. I went, son of a bitch. That is perfect for the flagship episode. Isn’t it?
I knew I was just thinking about that today, huh?
So this is according to CarBuzz. And so I don’t know that this is accurate, how they came up with these numbers, but you can go over there and read their article and maybe they tell you that. We’re just gonna go through the list of models here. So not surprisingly to me, because I am a Jeep Cherokee owner, I have it in the garage. One of these days I’m gonna back it out and drive it again. But the Jeep, number one– One of these days. Jeep Cherokee XJ. XJ. They built 2.7 million of them. Everybody says 3 million, but it was 2.7 million, at least according to the old internet, the old Google.
And that was number one. So number two, I was a little surprised about. Are you surprised at this one, Natalie?
I mean, yes, because of the price point, honestly. But– And it’s so new. It’s so new. And just so everybody’s wondering, what do you all think it is? Oh, it’s that beautiful Rubicon 392 Wrangler,
which I dream about every day. But I cannot believe that that’s number two in reality. Yeah, I mean, it’s a nice build. I’m fortunate enough to know, we talked about Jeep Talk Show, a team member built earlier. I’m fortunate enough to know somebody that has one. And he actually started it up for me one day. Oh.
(Engine Revving)
It’s the best.
Your EV will never sound like that unless it has a soundtrack.
There you go.
(Laughing) I was so glad you got the buttons right.
(Laughing) All right, so number three is the, and let’s switch these, going back and forth, Natalie. I didn’t think about that before. So I’ll do the odd ones, which makes sense. And then you’ll do the eager ones. All right, so the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. If I was gonna buy a Grand Cherokee, and the Grand Cherokees are absolutely beautiful. They are? I just don’t look at it as an off-road vehicle. And if I’m buying a Jeep, I’m buying an off-road Jeep. Yeah. But these things are screamers.
And it would be fun to kick ass on everything except Tesla. Exactly. With the Trackhawk. Oh my gosh.
(Laughing) And then next on the list, guys, we have the Jeep CJ2A. I mean, I can see it. Definitely in the top five. Yep, absolutely. And then the Jeep Wagoneer. Now, not the new one, but the one from like the late 60s, the early 70s, I believe, the SJ. It may have gone into the 80s, I don’t recall. It’s like Abercrombie loved using them in their ads. Oh, the cool looking vehicles. Absolutely. The cool kids. Yeah.
And what we got for number six? The Jeep Grand Wagoneer L. So that’s the new one? That is the new one. I’m not really a fan. Have you seen those things? Yeah, we rented one on one of our trips as like our get-around vehicle. And it was just okay. I hate to say it. My brother’s gonna Tahoe at that point. But I mean, they’re huge and they carry a lot of people. And Jeep has not had that. I mean, if you wanted to do something like that, you got a mini van, a full-size van, or a Suburban. I mean, I always thought, I was driving through Texas, Central Texas, small towns, and we drove by a Suburban on 44-inch tires. And this would have been back in the 80s.
It was the baddest ass Suburban you’ve ever seen. Come on, Grandma, we’re going my hops.
Lots of size jokes right now. You know what I mean? That’s right.
(Laughing) Well, some of us don’t laugh at those jokes. I’ll just let you know. It’s a bit of PTSD.
(Laughing)
Next on the list, Tony. Yes, the Jeep Gladiator. Now this is the original, I don’t think there was one before this, the Jeep Gladiator, the SJ. So also in that timeframe, 60, 70, 80s, I don’t know exactly what.
So those are really cool. And I think that Jeep should have put a Gladiator nose on the new generation gladiators. That would have been cool. Just so it would look different from the Wrangler. As I always say, you’re driving a Gladiator and you get a Jeep wave. You do. And then when they get alongside you, they go, oh, that’s a damn Gladiator. That’s not a Wrangler. That’s not a real Jeep. And you can’t retract that wave. You cannot bring it back.
Next on the list, we have the Jeep Gladiator Mojave X. Now what’s the X? Which one’s that?
Was this one of the original Mojave’s? I don’t know because on the TJs, the Wrangler TJX models was the low end model. And I can’t imagine that this one is the low end model. So I don’t know. I don’t know what that is. I wonder if that’s expert extreme. Maybe if someone could write in on the discord, let me know. Teach me something guys. And girls. Discord, go over to jeeptalkshow.com slash contact and find out a bunch of ways to contact us. All of them actually. Oh, there it is. There it is. Oh my, oh, it made the list, didn’t it? Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Oh boy. So it’s actually done very, very well. We have a Jeep Talk Show listener that’s routinely on the Discord server and on the Zoom meetings on our round table. He loves it. He loves his 4xe. Okay. Yeah.
And what gym is it?
That’s my local 4xe guy. It’s Matt. You remember the guy that came up and spoke with you that recognized your voice? Yes. Oh my God. Oh, yes. That’s Matt. That’s Matt’s, Matt’s Jeep. His wife’s Matt gets to drive it and work on it. Hi Mrs. Matt.
I would like the 4xe a lot better if the motor was a V6. Was the 3.6 liter, not that two liter thing.
And I understand they’re trying to do what they’re trying to do, but I’d like the idea where I have the battery option, but I can still drive it with the full power of the 3.6. Absolutely. But that’s not the way it worked. No, or a 392 power. Let’s just go there. You can run that generator and sound good at the same time. Right. And then last but not least in the top 10 is, drum roll please. Can you find a button? Maybe.
Sure. The Jeep Willys MV. Not to be confused with Michael Bailey.
Oh, that’s close to it. That’s close to it. There it is.
Yeah. So I believe this is the original Jeep. The one that won the war or helped win the war. I mean, the soldiers driving it were probably the more, more, more, doing more of the winning than the Jeep was, but I needed to get to the fight and get from point A to point B. So of course it’s got to make the list. I don’t know that it should be number 10 though.
You think it should have been more on the short list? I think yeah. I think it should have been up towards the top. It could have been number one. I mean, really like. Because of all it did. I mean, we’d be, I mean, I don’t know about you, but I can’t speak German. So I would not like being speaking German right now. No.
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From the mind of Nikki G.
Hey, this is Nikki G and I just caught the episode, “The Cowboy in a Kill,”
which I still think sounds like a 70s cop show. And if the network picks it up, I would like to play the role of Huggy Bear, please.
Chuck, you talked about how you change your springs and the ride of your Jeep is not what it used to be.
I invite you to borrow this clap out XJ for a week. You drive it for a week,
then you’ll appreciate how smooth your Jeep really drives. Heck, you’ll appreciate how smooth your lawnmower handles at highway speeds after driving this thing for a week. That’s not why I’m calling.
Call him a test. That’s not why I’m calling. Damn it, I almost did it one take.
That’s not why I’m calling. I’m calling to ask, is butt cheeks spelled one word or do you have to spread it out?
Can’t go wrong with a potty joke. All right, boys and girls, I’m Chad Shulay. You have a good one, bye. (Upbeat Music) That’s the one you wanna tell when you’re in the public restroom and there’s people on either side of the stall, but between you. I wasn’t expecting that. Like it caught me off guard. Cause I was like, where’s he headed with this? Oh. Yeah, that’s the best joke. Where you can’t see it coming. Yeah.
You know it’s gonna go, it’s gonna be, oh, but you just don’t know how or why. It’s just gonna be one of those. It’s one of those. All right, so coming up on our next interview episode, Mark Berman with thetopbrilla.com. You gotta check this thing out. Go over there, the top brilla and have a look. And the idea here is, I didn’t get it at first until I did the interview.
I was, I didn’t understand how you can install this thing in three minutes and this covers the back of the Jeep. Well, the JL, the JLU, you can ride around with the windows, the back window, I mean the side windows and the back window off and then you still have the top. But it’s almost a guarantee you’re gonna run into a rainstorm. Yeah.
I just checked it out. This is really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he says it only takes about three minutes to grab it and get that thing on there. And it’s gonna save you so much time cleaning afterwards from the water that’s gonna build up in your Jeep. So it’s not a complete cover for the Jeep. It’s just like for the back part where the windows and the back glass is. And it also means you don’t have to take that stuff with you and don’t have to worry about it getting stolen or blown out of the Jeep, so on and so forth. Yeah, oh, I’ve had that happen. Lost a window on the highway, didn’t know it.
They don’t recommend that everybody. Make sure your windows are on. Okay, so we threatened a nice talking point that you had that you wanted to share with our listeners.
And it’s like size matters. Size does matter. It doesn’t matter. I’m from Texas, so everything’s bigger in Texas. It is bigger in Texas. And it doesn’t matter how much you say.
It’s important. No, it’s not important. Okay, okay, that’s fine. Exactly, yeah, it’s fine, it’s fine. Oh my goodness. Yeah, so I almost feel like this is like, what does Natalie learn this week type of segment? I know we have newbie nuggets with Wendy. It says, what does Natalie learn this week? And this week I learned about the importance of the width that you get for either your all-terrain or your off-road tire. So in my case, I just did a new build, a rebuild on mine. And so I went up to 37s with what I thought was a 13.5 or a 13.50. So I get it, I’m all excited, we’re at Smokey, I’m having a great time and go to another event. I’m teaching a class and talking about tire size and start really looking and I was like, huh, that says 12.50 on that tire. But I thought nothing of it at first. Well, it really does make a difference. So I brought up to Mike and he was like, oh no, only time I’ve ever messed up right now. So we did actually– Only time somebody can prove it is what he’s saying.
Right away, we did another order and those big Maxis 37 Razors came in. I’m so excited, so they came in and the guy sent me some photos, well, with the Jeep on the rack and they were putting the new ones on. And I could not believe the difference when you put them side by side of really that inch really does matter.
Insert every joke, if you all are listening here, I get it. I see what you did there when you said insert the joke. I walked into that, oh my gosh. Well, it really is big then. So it’s like a speed bump. Oh, here we go. So you were teaching a class. Now, I don’t know, I mean, I think that the wider tires look better. They certainly are gonna be better in mud or sand because it’s wider, but how does a wider tire help you in general? Because I would think 12 and a half is just fine. Might look a little funny. Yeah, I mean, I ran a 12 and a half on my all-terrain, my 35 all-terrains for years and I felt fine. I was doing mostly everything that my big brothers were doing, but it’s gonna cover more surface area. The tread is wider as well.
So I am looking forward to feeling the difference. God, it’s getting worse.
But I mean, so just seeing them side by side really did show me the difference. We’re doing a shake down next week. We’re heading to Slade. So Slade Kentucky and Red River Gorge. So there’s gonna be lots of mud. We are getting the tropical storm remnants coming up here, see how it does in the mud. But we will have, I’m gonna send a picture of Tony, guys. You guys will see a picture of him side by side. I saw this interesting little deal that the width really does make a difference. And yes, it does look better. I think that wider, I got to take it last night for the first time. I can see that you’re gonna get more traction. I mean, I already mentioned, like if you’re in mud, it gives you more flotation, so you’re not getting down into the mud as far. Of course, it depends on how much skinny pedal you’re using. And the sand, I can imagine that would make a big difference, especially if you air down because then that 13 and a half just gives you that much more surface area. It does. And we all know that you have to air down when you’re going off road, especially in sand. Oh yeah. And I think that’s true. I think that’s right. That’s what you want to say. Yeah, you do. I’ll go down to about eight PSI. When we were in San Hollow, everybody was running around eight PSI because it was such a mix of the rock and the really deep sand. And there were always times like we’d be going up into these dunes and people would bury because they wouldn’t either keep momentum or they just weren’t aired down enough. So, airing down really is important. It’s so important to find that sweet spot. And I’ll just mention, I’ll remind people, the 22 inch wheels with the rubber band tires may look nice to you or you think they look cool and modern and everything, but you can’t air one of those things down enough to make a difference in your traction. So if you have a Jeep and you’re not running a tire and a wheel that has a lot of sidewall to it, people that go off road know that it’s not going to be a good vehicle for off road. It’s not meant to go off road. So no matter how much crap you hang off of it. You might get through one or two times. Yeah.
Or how many lights you put on it. Right, no, well you just gone too far there. Lights are cool.
So– I want more lights on mine. I just told Mike that today. I was like, we need more lights on it. So have you, you’ve driven it with the new tires, right? I have last night and today. Did you notice any difference in driving it on the street?
I don’t know if it was in my head. Like I felt bigger to be honest. I don’t know why. Maybe I think also it’s just, it has the 500 miles on it now. I’m almost at 600.
So it’s just getting more broken in too. So it is feeling good. So did you do the diff, the diff fluid change at 500? They did, yeah, it was great. So the guys did it and Tom, thank you, Tom, for doing that and did the tires yesterday. No wine from the gears, the new gears and the axles? Not really.
The only thing I know, the only thing I’ve noticed is shifting is a little bit different now because the new 513s, I’m not used to that.
I bet you it’s very snappy.
It can be, yeah, but then there’s times I feel like I’m just like stuck in third because I do a lot of highway, community from Kentucky up to Ohio. And so I’m on the highway a lot. So I’m going around 65, 70, and this thing is just not, she doesn’t want to. So Mike gave me a good tidbit today. He told me to start doing manual shifting and that really likes it. The JKs like that on the highway. Oh, I’m thinking about the eight speed automatic and the JL and the JT. So I was really surprised by that because I wouldn’t think you would have any kind of issues on the highway with 37s and 513s is what you said? I feel heavy, yeah, I feel heavy. But maybe, and that’s just me getting used to it. And I do have the MBRP exhaust and she’s loud. Oh my gosh, I’m sorry to my neighbors, especially early in the morning, I’m leaving for work, but everyone knows I’m coming.
It’s fun, but yeah, the tire width guys, it’s a great thing to really educate yourself and learn about and there really is a difference. There is a difference. And a customer called me out on it too. Actually John Sabo from There Goes Action Sports, we’ve talked about them before with their Bobbed Gladiator, Hilah Field, of course. And he was like, no, it’s just so weird. You did the 12 and a half and not a 13 and a half. And I was like, oh yeah, I mean, yeah, that’s what I wanted. Now these are Maxis tires, right? The 12 and a half are Maxis tires. Where the hell was Rosie? Checking to make sure you get the right tires. We were at Forefest freezing together. We didn’t even notice.
She’s Baja’ed right now. Very, very cool. Well, I mean, you got the right size tires on there. Oh, what are you gonna do with the set that was on there? I’m sure somebody would like to have those. I mean, they’ve got less than 500 miles on them, right? Oh yeah, they only had 425 and it was all highway. Like it’s like they were clean actually. And it was your grandmother that was driving the Jeep. It was.
They are available at Hilah Fafaro guys. Check it out.
Scratch and Dentsail. Oh, they even signed them for ya. How about that? Is it a scratch and dent, a potential scratch and dent sale there at the Hilah? Maybe. You never know. Mike’s always, Mike’s easy to talk to you guys. Wheeling and dealing. Wheeling and dealing.
Or if you’re enslaved on the fifth, we’ll be down there. You’ll see red down there. So come pay us a visit. So Natalie, are you a coffee drinker or a tea or? Duh. If you’re on YouTube, you can see it.
So I must have stuff for your Jeep. Yes, you need the ability to make coffee from your Jeep. Yes, absolutely. How many times have you been, you’re driving down the highway, you go, I need me some coffee and you look up and you see that Bucky sign, 795 miles to the next Bucky’s. Oh gosh.
They really do have some out there. I think the one I’ve seen far enough, the farthest one I’ve ever seen is like 80 miles or something. And I’m like, holy shit.
I think they do that because you go, well, I’m not gonna stop at that McDonald’s because I only have another 50 miles to go for Bucky’s. Yes, and I’ve done it. We have one here. It’s an hour and 45 minutes away from my house. And honestly, people still just go from here to go get the jerky, go get a coffee. Why not?
Pickled garlic, the actual garlic cloves, pickled. Oh boy. Try that sometimes. Okay, is that Bucky’s? Yes, absolutely. You guys are the birthplace of Bucky’s. So you would know. Oh yeah, we have one that’s about, well, I live in Cady. This is where Studio A is in Southeast Texas. And Cady got a Bucky’s about maybe three, four years ago. So there’s a very large Bucky’s about, I guess it’s about five miles from here. And sometimes I’ll go over there just to get a barbecue sandwich. It’s not the best barbecue, but it is good barbecue. Certainly good barbecue for a gas station. At the end of the day, it’s still a gas station. Yes, I mean, let’s be real. I don’t like that. How many pumps? Oh God. How many pumps does that one have? Oh God, I don’t know. The Gullenberg one was 126, I think. It might be that many. Oh my God. It’s very wide. And also too, you go in there and I’m like, what the hell? It’s not any kind of special day. It’s so busy. Why? Why is it so busy? It’s like Black Friday every day. So somebody sold their soul to the devil. I mean, buckies is neat. I like it. But it doesn’t seem to be that impressive. Anyway, so let’s say you don’t want to wait that 127 miles before getting to buckies. You have to have some coffee now. Well, Makita has a coffee maker that’s battery powered. No, it’s not 27 D size batteries. You actually take one of your Makita tool batteries, like a five amp hour battery. You slap it on this Makita coffee maker. And this is kind of the depressing thing. You can make three five ounce cups of coffee. It takes about five minutes for each cup off of a single five amp hour battery, LXT battery. And this does not come with the battery or the charger. But if you already have Makita tools, this is, you’d want to buy this. But you already have it. Yeah, yeah. You already got the batteries. So I just thought this would be so cool to have. Now there are other 12 volt coffee makers, but this one is kind of rugged. It is rugged. You know, set up and it’s not, some of the other ones kind of look like they ought to be on the kitchen counter, but they’re still 12 volt.
So there’s alternatives to this, but this has a cool aspect to it. Yeah, you weren’t aware of this before the seeing it in the show notes, right? I wasn’t. It looks like a ammo can, you know, like the metal. It looks like that. It’s cool. I don’t know what this motion really means, but that’s okay. It’s a tactical coffee maker. Tactical, yes. Thank you, there it is.
So it is a bit pricey. It’s $144 and that does not come with a battery. Batteries are not included. Let’s stress that, not included, no.
But hopefully you already have the Makita tools. And now I did look to see if there were any DeWalt coffee makers because that’s the tools that I go with. I mean, there’s no sense in buying a cornucopia of different manufacturers, all having their own separate batteries. So, but I did not see anything from DeWalt. And in fact, when I was looking at a YouTube. I’m surprised. Yeah, I was looking at a YouTube video for this Makita and they were like, you know, it’s a coffee maker for Makita. Why?
(Laughing) And I kind of agree. Like why? Yeah, but it is really cool. I can see somebody out on the job site going up. That’s what I was thinking, yeah. Going up and fixing a cup of coffee. Hey, when would you get that cup of coffee? Oh, I’m glad you asked that. Here you go, look at this.
And by the end of the day, it’s stolen. Do you think it comes with the mug that’s in the photo? I feel like it has to come with the mug, right? Well, let’s see. Brews five ounce cup of coffee in five minutes. It’s powered by an 18 volt LXT battery. Battery sold separately. Brews up to three five ounce cups of coffee on a single five amp battery. No paper filters needed. Permanent drip filter allows grounds to pour directly into the coffee maker. That’s nice. You say single serve packs or ground coffee. I like that too. So it does not say, but it’s certainly in the picture. I don’t think it does. Yeah, that would be horrible. I know, but I bet it doesn’t. Let’s be honest. That would be horrible. Now you could probably go to Bucky’s and get a cup that would fit this. They do have all sizes. It was all about the size this episode, wasn’t it? It always is. I know.
So we have the link to Amazon so you can buy one of these things. If you do buy one, we want to hear from you because I think this would be a cool item. If I had infinite funds, I’d definitely buy one. Yeah. And 27 batteries just so I could keep making coffee. Right, thank you. Appreciate it. Cheers everyone.
All right, well, it’s always a little sad when we hit the end of the trail. And real quick, I had a couple of people not initially complain, but make comment. Oh, the episode was a little shorter than usual. And I said, yeah, I told, it was an episode I recorded with Wendy. I think it was last Tuesday’s episode or this, yeah, last Tuesday’s episode. And I said, yeah, I told Wendy it might be a little short. We only had about, I think we only had the one news story. And I told her, don’t worry about it. We’ll just have fun. We’ll see how long it goes. And I think we did about 35 minutes or something. So this one’s a little short too, but it’s not 30 minutes. We’re looking at about 42 minutes right now. And that’s what you get here. Sometimes it goes over an hour. Sometimes it’s right at an hour. Sometimes it’s less than an hour. But there’s a lot of episodes that you gotta listen to. There is. Thank you guys, sir. Make sure you check out Chick Chat on Mondays,
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You were mentioning where you’re gonna be. Is there a place people can go and see you? Do you still have the Jeep Talk Show stickers? I think you only had two. I do. I do and I’ll be at Hollerwood Park on October the 5th, doing my shakedown run of Big Red. So come out and see us guys. We’ll be there starting around 9 a.m. hitting the trails. Is there a place they can go to get more information about that? Is it just your distilling? No, honestly guys, this is just us going. It’s myself and Matt Moss, our lead and my– Okay, so it’s not like an event. It is not. You guys welcome to show up. Let’s get Natalie back on the trail. It’s been almost a year, not in my own Jeep. So here we are. So it’s gonna be fun. It’s gonna be a show. So come on out. It makes a big difference when it’s your Jeep, doesn’t it? I mean, it’s fun driving any Jeep, when it’s your Jeep, it makes a big difference. Absolutely, but I will say October the 12th, the following weekend we are back at Hollerwood for the Ohio River Four Wheelers Jeep Club and Kentucky Crawlers Jeep Club, cleanup ride and meet and greet preparation. The meet and greet’s coming up at the end of October, first of November, so here we are. We’ll talk about that coming up, but that is open to everyone. That one’s on a secret ride.
So– Not a secret anymore, is it? I just told everybody everything. So here we are. So– Where’s those NDAs? Is there anything going on with a high lift off road that you wanted to mention real quick? I mean, if not, that’s fine.
We’re just doing just those couple rides and then we have the meet and greet and then Mike and I are off to SEMA. So if you’re at SEMA, I’ll be seeing Julie Ann, really excited. That’s right, in November, in SEMA. Yeah. That’s right, I forgot about that. It’s coming. That’s soon, very soon. It is. And then Black Friday will be here before we know it and High Lift always has the best deals on Black Friday. So stay tuned for more information on that. highliftoffroad.com and you don’t have to have a Black Friday to check it out. Check it out now. You don’t.
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