 What is happening YouTube? So, I know it's been a minute since I've done one of these things, it's like one of these YouTube videos, whatever you wanna call it, it's been a minute. So I've gotten a whole lot of questions lately on buddy, where have you been? And yep, I've been busy, I've been quite busy. So I figured I'd do a little live stream here, see if anybody was gonna come on, and ask away just to be able to see how everybody else is doing here in the community. You know, I might get one or two people on here. How's everybody doing tonight? Oh, let's see, chat in here. See, there's the right one. Oh my God, for real, where have you been? So I've been here the whole time, here in the shop right now. So the funny thing is I quit the dealership as everybody kinda saw there for the one of the recent videos that I did, which is funny enough was like, shit, that was like four and a half months ago, something like that. Yeah, like four and a half months ago, I left the dealership and went off to work for a new company, Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer, that's right. Not working on big old fancy diesel trucks and mopars anymore. I'm working on R1Ts, R1Ss, and some of the new Amazon EDVs. So yeah, it's been kind of a crazy four months. Been doing a lot of training, a lot of traveling, trying to fit in, you know, what stuff I can with the company off the first couple of months, making a good little living here doing that. Yeah, giving it the hell in Florida. I wish I was in Florida, because tonight it's finally started to get a little bit chilly here in Ohio. The weather finally turned, which was actually kinda nice for a little bit of a change, because I had to do a little bit of work around the property. I had to do some log splitting, so I had the splitter out tonight. As you can see, I still got a whole bunch of ash wood over there to be able to cut up and everything still. We ended up cutting down a whole bunch of trees. That's gonna be another video that I plan on doing here in the next week or so is all the upgrades and stuff that I'm doing on the barn here. So funny enough, starting to do stuff all the way there in the back, trying to do a whole studio for recording to get back into some of this stuff here in the fall and winter, started doing some work back there and then all of a sudden, oh, the roof's leaking. So I tried to see about fixing that, couldn't be fixed. So we had to end up getting a whole new roof, so the entire, you can get a little, see if we can see it up here. The shop got a whole brand new roof, steel roof and everything put onto it. That was a, we'll say a pretty penny to be able to have that one done. So you got the roof done in the barn and then also ended up having a ceiling put inside the shop as well. Before it was just open, open rafters and last winter, I tried to heat it a couple of times and tried to do a couple of videos, which was to no avail, because it was cold and I'm a big baby, I don't like it cold. So it was hard to do that, it costs a lot. So we ended up getting a ceiling put in the shop. Didn't opt to have all the walls done or anything right now just because the cost of steel is outrageous. It is absolutely crazy with what the ceiling costs on in this and the roof in the barn also. It was kind of nuts. So yeah, opted for just that. And then I will be doing all the walls and stuff myself mostly because a lot of the electrical stuff in here was kind of hacked up and half ass done. As you can see, some of the wiring up here is still going in the wrong places. So I need to adjust and pick some of that stuff still too. So yeah, what have you guys been up to? Want to see what everybody else got to say around here. I don't want to hear myself talk the whole time. When working on junk, I'm glad I haven't been working on opars and Cummins and stuff as of recently. Working on electric vehicles, I'd have to say, is way easier. I know I don't always say take the easy way out of things, but after working on these R1Ps, R1Ss, it is way easier work working on electric vehicles than it is bagel diesels. It's a pretty cool thing to get into. What's everybody doing? Yep, September has definitely kicked in. Wow, 23 people in here. Agtech, what's up, buddy? Captain Ron's doing all right. He's still back at the dealership, still getting his ass kicked. Trying to fit in and work everything without me being there to be able to assist. Hopefully he's watching. You missed me, don't you, buddy? No, he's doing good, though. No, I'm not working independent. I work for Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer. They make the R1T and the R1S. And kind of the reason I haven't really done much videos with that. Yes, yes, Captain Ron and his family, since we moved into this, the big property with the big house, him and his family live here too. It's much needed because of the property here. It takes so much work to be able to upkeep. And that's another one of the reasons I really haven't done a whole lot of videos through the summer is because it takes so much work here. To be able to just keep up on the mower, that was one of the videos I did, adding the sprayer to it. That thing runs and runs. It probably takes about five and a half, six hours of mowing every week here on the property to do the 11 acres that we have. And then on top of that, when we did the barn roof and everything here, we had to take out about eight trees. I think there was six big black walnut trees and two giant 100 foot ash trees, which is what I was showing out there that I was splitting out there tonight. And then I had also picked up this sweet new John Deere 3039R diesel tractor, Yanmar 39 horse diesel tractor in there. It's much, much needed. I got that and I got a grapple for it, very much needed also. Rivian truck tests out really good. A lot of the internet videos show it doing very, very well. Now, one of the reasons I really haven't done, one of the reasons I haven't done a whole lot of videos that has to do with Rivian is because, so when I signed on, we'll just say the EV companies are very hush-hush about all of their inner workings and how they do things and they make you sign a lot of NDAs and everything. So I haven't been able to get through with a lot of the marketing team to be able to get through any amount of videos specifically to do with Rivian and working for Rivian. Yeah, I really wanna do one of those videos because like I said, I really enjoy working for this company. I have to say it is one of the most rewarding automotive jobs that I've had so far. It's working for the company that probably is the most employee-centric that I've ever worked for. They take care of their employees, they give them plenty of time off, sick days, which I really had never known before. Yeah, these tractors, awesome. I don't get to use it nearly enough because I'm not home enough to be able to use it, but I love it. Yeah, I definitely have because that's where I'm at right now. That's where I live, little town of Piqua. Yeah, the Chrysler dealership, that's where I used to work. Yep, that is Rachia, funny enough. But anyways, so working for Rivian, there's not a whole lot that I have been forwarded to be allowed to say or anything about the inner workings other than, hey, I kind of work for the company and I enjoy working for it, which is really awesome. But what I do is I'm primarily a mobile service technician. So the cool thing about Rivian is they are looking to do roughly 80% of their service visits, mobile. So doing them at the customer's houses, at their work. And to be honest, with the kind of work that these vehicles need, it is super simple. A lot of it can be done right there and they give me the service man that can handle just about everything. I work on a lot of my own gas engine stuff here. I don't own any EV, electric vehicles or anything yet. So I still got to work on all my own stuff and all my family stuff. So I get my fix that way, somewhat here and there. Yeah, I'm trying to at least. I think the biggest funny thing is when I roll up at a customer's house for Rivian and the big question is they ask what? They don't have you driving one of their electric trucks? And no, my vehicle that I drive for Rivian is this sweet Ford Transit Van, this big 350 Transit Van. This thing is gigantic, is massive, but it's filled with all the tools of everything that I would possibly need to be able to work on these vehicles. And I do just about everything that there is to do on them, minus major work like the electric motor swaps or any kind of battery work or anything. I try to do a lot of the electrical diagnostics before a vehicle would need to get towed to a service depot. The service depots for Rivian are kind of spread out. The closest one to me is a Cleveland, which is like three, three and a half hours away. So it is a ways away, but I'm kind of, we'll say the lone ranger for pretty much the state of Ohio for working on all of these electric vehicles. So my area, I cover quite a big way. I go all the way from Toledo, all the way down to like Louisville, Kentucky, and I cover from Indiana, Indianapolis, all the way over to like Morgantown, West Virginia. So it is quite a lot to cover. But like I said, this van is pretty awesome. The absolutely supply every tool. I had to buy a single thing for working for this company, which is another amazing thing. And do this service hand, it is decked out. And I think I can show this one, hopefully I won't get in trouble, but because every time I go to a customer's house, they can see exactly what I'm doing and they can look inside the van and see what's going on and everything. Shaka, it's good to see you, man. It really is. And I'm glad you still remind me about the Railway Tools, but thankfully I don't have to work with a lot of Railway Tools. This awesome van that I've got here, it's got a sweet tire changing system so I can change out tires. And then there's a balancer that folds down. I can actually balance tires as I go to. Very, very nice. And they don't outfit us with like shitty, crappy tools. They get us the tools that we really need to be able to fix these things. Let me open this up here. Not gonna go in depth because I don't want to get in trouble with that one, but we can see kind of what I'm working with here. All the tools are organized with this Boxo system or L-Box system, it should be those. The Pro Eagle, Off-Road Jack, all the other little tools and fittings I need. And then on this side, all of our power tools are all Milwaukee and specialty little tools and fittings and everything. These little storage, things can go out here and I can ratchet strap stuff to them. So they don't have to all flop around. And then this big old winch here so I can lift up AC machine to be able to get into here because I do all the AC work mobily and or just recently, I've been loading up, we'll see where is it right there, that generator because some of the vehicles that I go out to have to service, they're in like, we'll say very rural locations and the customer has let their electric vehicle die or it has died at like a state park or something to where they don't have access to any high voltage charging. So we've got that generator that I kind of got to be able to take care of them in rural locations and get some kind of a charge. I have to change up the 12 little batteries or something. So yeah, that is my sweet van that I take around everywhere. This is my day job. I put probably 200 plus miles on that van every day. I've had it for I think right about three months now. Like, yeah, right around three months and I've put almost 9,500, almost 10,000 miles on that van now. So yeah, racking up the miles. Ah, it's been a day. Yeah, it's been quite a day. I want to show you guys some of the progress that we got going on here as well because this is what started it all. We started doing drywall, put in a couple of rooms. It's going to be a spare storage and bedroom for when visitors coming and then another storage and craft room for my wife and things that she does. And then this whole big area is going to be my big old filming studio. So I'm going to be doing, putting up some nice backdrops and putting up some cool stuff here to be able to do all kinds of fun things, videos in here, hopefully this winter. And we got to get this place inflated still. Hope you guys don't mind. I'm going to take a seat here for a few minutes. Getting old, like 36 now, this gray, my beard. You look back at all my old videos, which is funny, because I don't know, a bit of nostalgia or something. Look back on a bunch of old videos, I'm like, wow. Did I look ridiculously young? It was kind of funny to see some of the early videos. Being able to see where you came from, where you started and wow. Some of those early things was just funny. So yeah, that has pretty much been what I've been up to lately since I haven't posted much of any videos. One of the other cool things that I did want to bring up, I did do that video before I left the dealership. I want to say it was back in like April, April-ish. When I went on the rock and roll cab express truck for the Snap-on toolboxes and I ordered a toolbox, well, I didn't delete my order for that one, even though I left the dealership and I don't use any of those tools for my day-to-day stuff, but I do use them here in the shop and I really want a nicer newer toolbox because as much as that SP box is cool for what it is, which I don't know if we ever really looked at that thing up close, let's do that, you know? Let's really get into that one. While I'm at it, while I'm doing stupid stuff here in the shop, let's flip this around and look at it and show why I really wanted to keep my order for that Snap-on box. And we get myself a drink of water here too. So yeah, I did get the SP box moved here into my shop, drink of agua. So yeah, I got it moved here into the shop and starting to collect a little bit of dust here, mostly because it's a lot more dusty here in the shop, but you can see from this toolbox why I'm ordering a new one. The amount of drawers that are tiny little drawers in this box, I despise. I really hate it and it was one of these things where the box was here and the opportunity that I needed when I went back to work at the dealership and I just really needed it to work because I sold my first Epic one, which I kind of still kicked my butt, softened the butt for that one, but at the same time, it afforded me the allowance to be able to get this awesome property because of being able to get the down payment that I needed for the house. So that was a cool thing, but now I really, really don't like this toolbox. Now don't get me wrong, yes, I did work for SP Tools and I did get a discount on being able to get this box. So that was one of the cool things of it. Now this box is pretty decent for what it is. It is an $8,000 toolbox. Try this seller didn't pay for it. I don't know what to wanna get on that one, but whatever, ride that gravy train. But this toolbox is just not fitting for really what I wanna be able to do here in the shop. There are way too many tiny drawers. There's just, it doesn't, I have to have like three drawers of wrenches because not all my wrenches can fit into a single drawer, which is really, really frustrating. So I still do have that Snap-on toolbox on order. Well, Andrew, it is going to be for sale. It's getting traded in on my Snap-on guy's truck. So very lightly used Snap-on or SP Tools and you see the awesome addition that Mr. McBake added off of a Jeep for me. Yeah, that was nice of him. But yeah, it's gonna get traded in on the Snap-on box, which was cool enough. I talked to my Snap-on rep here just this last week and he said that it should be on its way, which, man, it really sucks. I ordered that box all the way back in, I think it was the first week of April. Now the first week of April, I ordered it and it is now almost the first of October and it is still not arrived. What is up with that Snap-on? I mean, come on. If somebody's spending a ridiculous amount of money on getting a massive Epic Toolbox set up, you think there would be a little bit of effort to kind of push those orders through, but I don't know, evidently, this whole world that we're living in now, material shortages, lack of people wanting to work and all, it's all stuffed in there and they wanna blame that on whatever else is coming through and down the pipeline. I mean, shoot, even Rivian that I work for now, they've got supply chain issues all the time, no parts and I'm sure you guys are going through the same exact thing in where you guys work. Lack of parts, lack of people wanting to come in to be able to work at the jobs, it all sucks, but that's the way the automotive feel right now. So yeah. Did get this from Milwaukee. I know I did a couple little videos and did some live things with a couple of other guys. When we went to the Milwaukee, new product unveiling, so we got this awesome case from them at the new product and those new Milwaukee impacts are absolutely awesome. There's their Gen 4 stuff, the drill and the hex bit impact, as well as the 18 volt versions of the drill and the impact also. Those are some really, really awesome tools. Those M12 ones, they are as strong as the third gen M18s. I shit you not, they're badass and amazing. Funny enough, the Amish guys who came in here to put the ceilings back in here, yeah, six months to wait on a muffler. Isn't that awesome? I had a, the Amish guys came in here and put the ceiling in the shop and I said, you know what? You know, I've got all these tools and everything that I need to like use and give some reviews and everything on. So I just handed all these impacts from Snap-on in Milwaukee. I'm like, here, go at it, have fun using these. Tell them what you think afterwards. And they put them to work. Yeah, they did a really good job. Now I just realized how much extra work that I need to do. The Rivian have actual dealerships, so they're just online. So Rivian does not have standard dealerships. It's the same principle as Tesla. They only have, I guess, showrooms where they are also located at the service facilities. So the closest one here in Ohio is going to be in Cleveland. At those places, that's where they are servicing the vehicles as well as they have a whole bunch of delivery people to be able to do showings, let's you go on test rides, take the vehicles for a half day, whatever you need to do around the area to be able to get kind of a fuel form. And then from that point, they help you and assist you ordering whatever kind of an R1S or an R1T right there from the service center. Now, of course, right now with the massive demand of EV vehicles, right now Rivian is on like a 90,000 unit backwater, which I'm thinking is going to be another year and a half for them to even get through the backwaters that they currently have because this year, their current goal for the year is like 20 or 25,000 units. And from what I remember lately, just on the R1Ts, they are through roughly the 13,000 VinRain, which is doing really good for the year because they've already pumped out a couple thousand R1Ss as well as some of the EDV bands. So they are well on their way to be able to make that goal for the year, but there's still a long way to go. Like I said, like 90,000 people have put in orders for these things. So you would put in an order there and then if you get lucky and get one of the ones that like the Vin number hasn't been allocated to a customer, well, there are one like backed out last minute when they already produced that Vin number. Then it goes into an allocation system where it might get matched to somebody who has a like Vin or a like order there for it. So you might get lucky and get one of those unallocated VINs and in which case they would give you the option. Hey, do you want to come to the plant in normal Illinois where all the trucks are made? You've got a plant little tour thing there and they deliver your truck right there from the plant. It's kind of a cool little experience. Or you can go to one of the service centers so you can go to like Cleveland or something and pick up your truck there or they will deliver your truck pretty much anywhere in the U.S. wherever you're located they'll put it on a rollback and deliver it to your house. So that's kind of the buying experience of one of those. Nothing like any of the extra salesmen and the pushy stuff to be able to bypass. Doing only the one showroom to repair the shop recent hour and a half south of Cleveland and we go anywhere east of Mississippi. Yeah, that's a lot of moving. I know you move those things and the thing that I've come into know also is when it comes to tow companies for a lot of these EVs for the Teslas or the Rivians not everybody is well-bursted in knowing how to move them. So I usually have to give a whole lot of advice to the tow companies on how to be able to get them to move. So it's a pain in the butt especially if these vehicles have lost power lost their 12 volt power as well as the high voltage because the vehicle automatically engages e-brakes so you have to find a way to disengage them. You have to have a special tool to disengage electronic brakes. So it's a whole shenanigan thing. It's kind of a pain in the butt to be able to move these vehicles when they're dead especially. So yeah, that in a nutshell is what I've been up to lately. Busy with that, family stuff. We went on vacation with all the family. Kids really enjoying their time. What is the voltage on one? On the R1, I believe they are 400 volts, believe it they 400 volt system. I really haven't had to touch any of the high voltage stuff yet. Being the mobile technician, I'll do some of the diagnostics but I literally haven't had to touch a single battery on one of these yet. The Florida or Alabama or Tennessee, I gotcha. Yep, so dealing with all the stuff with the shop here and then everything that the property needs in the summer. That's a lot of what I've been handling and doing lately. Trying to take as much time for myself as I can but lately we haven't been able to really break free a lot lately. Yeah, moving in ops is a lot harder issue. I usually have to be there when the tow company is moving vehicles that are dead. They gotta be able to put them on skids or they have to have one of a mobile techs come to be able to assist to get them out of e-park. Oh, I forgot one of the other things I wanted to ask you guys. Yeah, three issues with the Rivian already. So very few little things. Obviously every manufacturer is gonna have its little hiccups here and there and Rivian being a brand new manufacturer. They're not gonna be a absolute perfect vehicle. However, in my experience, Rivians have way, way less issues than Mopars do. I mean one because there's way fewer systems within these things to worry about. You have no engine, you have no transmission, you have no pretty much gear train to have to worry about. No transfer cases, you have no exhaust systems, no fuel systems, no emission systems. It's just so much less stuff to go wrong. So that's one of the cool things why we're able to do a lot more in the middle. We have mobile visits, lots less heavy line things. But a lot of the EV market is dealing with a lot of the little picky customer nitpick stuff like wind noise because these EVs are so quiet. A lot of the customers who are buying them are very, very picky and very touchy when it comes to wind noise complaints. Anything that is not perfectly aligned on there kind of gets a different sound like, oh, if I sit in the passenger side, I don't hear as much wind as when I sit in the driver's side. If the doors aren't aligned exactly like on both sides, you might be getting a slight different cross across one of the seals. It's a whole lot of body panel adjustment, very slight window adjustment. They make everything adjustable on these also. So they're very simple to be able to fix those things. So that's cool. I've seen a couple of little coolant leaks here and there. Creek in the front end, just little suspension stuff. Nothing major though. A lot of actually what I'm doing is delivering parts for customers that are owed. They wanna order spare tires. They wanna order add-on kits or they wanna order a whole different set of wheels and tires for their R1T. Some mobile technicians will take them out and deliver them to the customer, install a new set of wheels and tires and have to do all the reprograms and everything for doing that also. So that's actually, I would say 70% of what I do is delivering what customers end up purchasing, adding on to their vehicles. I'm really surprised, 26 people. I think I saw 30 at one point, 26 people. And I haven't been on here in like three and a half months. That's pretty awesome. I really appreciate everybody coming in, stopping in and hanging out tonight. So I wanna hear what kind of projects are you guys doing? You guys doing some really cool stuff getting into the fall and winter? Did you pick up some cool race car stuff or are you gonna be tearing your stuff apart? One of the cool things I really wanted to do this winter is I really wanna, that magnum that I ended up giving. I didn't do a dedicated video to it. I think I did it in one of the recent updates. Just kind of showed it in the background, but I got a 06 magnum RT with some coilover custom suspension, Hellcat wheels, it's a very nice car. Had it at the body shop, fixed a lot of the body panels, little paint things. I haven't had a car in which I've had a nice paint job in a long time. It's been very weird having a nice paint job car because before I had the truck. It had that raptor bed line paint job that I just couldn't kill. I couldn't scratch, I couldn't mess up. I just ran it through the woods and did whatever the hell I wanted to it. So that was a pretty cool thing. But now, yeah, I'm gonna work on that one and possibly do a supercharger kit for that thing this winter. I got my hands on a Hellcat supercharger and from doing a lot of my research and everything, MMX performance has supercharger adapter kits to be able to adapt the newer Hellcat supercharger to the earlier Hemmys, just adapter plates that sit on top of the heads and the intake runners. So that looks like a really cool option to be able to do with it. The car's got like 150K on it. The motor, the last owner said he had the heads taken off, all new valve seats and everything put into it because that's what Hemmys are kind of known for is dropping valve seats. So they had that done, he said, 30,000 miles ago. So I don't know. I trust the guy, the car's been off and it hasn't done a single thing wrong other than having a shitty alignment and chopped tires since I've gotten it. Nothing's gone wrong with it. So I have no reason to not trust doing that one. But when you decide to add seven or eight pounds of boost to anything, a little stuff starts to break here and there. So I really don't want that to happen. So I'm probably gonna end up taking out the entire engine and transmission and doing little upgrades and stuff there. Put your baby away for the winter, back home to go to school. 40K for a mower, ooh, a Thomas mower. I'm gonna have to look that one up because I have no clue what an Thomas mower is. No clue at all. If it's anything like owning a tractor, like my John Deere 3039, yeah, I believe that it is ridiculously expensive. I paid way too much for that tractor. It's a nice tractor and it has nothing wrong with it. It's a 2016 or 17. It only has like 350 hours on it, some lower amount like that. Some older guy owned it prior to me and ended up getting out of whatever he was doing. So it's not beat up. It's not messed up. It's got low hours. So it's a nice tractor. And again, trying to find any kind of a used, vehicle or used equipment tractors in this market is absolutely ridiculous still. So I was given a chance to purchase that one and three other guys were waiting on it. So I decided to just jump all over it and sure, I'll go ahead and buy it. So I bought it. I paid too much money for it, whatever. It is what it is and it's here to work on now. Do I tend to repair my truck and keep it? I don't have my truck anymore. I sold it. It's gone. Now, if you know about it needing repaired, so the guy I sold it to had it and drove it for, I think like three months and it chucked a piston right out the side of the block. He says that he was not doing any kind of thing crazy for it and I believe him. He seemed like a standup guy and all, but again, when you buy any of those vehicles, I was fully expecting that thing to blow up on me when I put it on the dyno in Van Wert and I ran that thing. I'd never dogged that thing like ever. I didn't hardly ever touch on that thing and never put it into tune five until I was on the dyno there to be able to see what it could do. So I babied it as much as I could because that's, I didn't want it to do that. I didn't want it to blow up. Yeah, I never put it through any truck pulls or anything as much as truck master begged me and told me, like, hey, do some truck pulls and crazy stuff with it. I never did that with my truck. I didn't want it to blow up. So the guy bought it, chucked a piston out the side of the block. Unfortunately, it was on that one. I said, worries, take care of it. Don't have time to do it being gone all week. Self-driving and GPS link mower. Sorry, I'm just reading back through these comments. That's awesome. No wonder it costs so much. That's good. I actually, I haven't even looked to see if the same guy still owns my truck that bought it. I have to look that up on Instagram. Do you guys know does he still own my truck or he end up selling it? Because after he blew the engine, he said that he ended up running into something with his family and needed the cash to be able to purchase some home or something like that. So he was looking and trying to sell it, but at that point I got the job with Rivian and to be totally honest, I haven't been much of anything on social media for the last three months. So I actually have no clue if he ended up selling my truck or who picked it up or if he decided to fix it or it's a big old paperweight in his driveway still. Do you guys know? So you, I'm looking around here and I realize how much more crap I still need to do. All this crap that's on the walls, that all means taken down, torn off, the walls need clean. My wife, she's an artist, tattoo artist to be specific, but she does nice fancy mural work and everything like that too. So she is going to be doing kind of a big mural on this door that goes between the big shop and the little shop area. So that'll be something cool. All these cabinets and everything and they all need taken down. These crappy windows, company is coming out. They were supposed to be out here this week earlier and they're not here. All these windows, they're all rotted out and crap in the bottom. So those are getting done. Window in there, there, there, there and there's one in that room too. All those windows are getting replaced. I want to be able to heat up this place in the winter time so I can actually use it. Yes, I actually, I'm going to do, probably do a video this week just showing the progress. Just doing a video like, hey, this is the shop and this is how it's going and then just doing little steps as I go. I bought a house with a big shop here. So the barn, after I'm done with this stream, I'll leave it up so you guys can go back through and I walked around the front side because I had a new roof and a new ceiling put in the big part of the shop before. So now this next week or a week and a half, I'm going to be doing some blown-in insulation. I'm going to try that myself. I've never done that before. It can't be that bad. They allow you to rent those machines from Home Depot so they can't be that hard to use. Use YouTube, I can figure anything out, right? So I'm going to try to do all the insulation stuff myself and then the outer walls out here, I'm going to see about contract and somebody to do some spray foam insulation on the exterior facing walls. Get everything sealed up, trying to get it all done before winter. Of course now winter, fall time is creeping in faster and I'm getting into fall season here and the property which is going to be leaves, which is a massive taking here. The property we've got like 11 acres and last year when we did leaf pickup, which you have to do because the entire property is like 80% trees. You have to do or else it's going to kill everything. It took the two people with leaf blowers blowing everything into piles, two people with big zero-turn lawn mowers and big leaf catcher, tow units behind them and then two of us running a burn pile trying to burn most of the leaves as they gathered them up and it took all of us like a full eight or nine hour day and then the pile of leaves that we had, that thing burnt for like two and a half weeks. It smoldered and kind of burnt down for that entire time. So leaves is a huge up taking here at the property. So that's something else I got to kind of wrangle on but I want to be able to get this place nice and insulated before winter time and this area that I'm in now, this is going to be a studio where I'm going to do a nice backdrop. We're going to get a nice table and everything, a big backdrop that we're going to put over here in the corner and I really want to do, to get kicking back in on doing podcast work. That's just been one of the things I really enjoyed doing before being catch and run and being on the road a whole lot, doing mobile appointments for Rivian has really got me re-sparked into wanting to do, wanting to get back into doing podcast because I love listening to them, I love hearing about them. Huge stand on blower. Yeah, the only other problem is here on the property, like a lot of it's on this big hill, like the house sits probably 40 feet higher than the barn, the shop where I'm at, the house sits way up there and all the trees on that whole massive hill, they all need to take care of so any kind of stand on equipment, it's we'll say sketchy at best to use. But I want to be able to do my podcast and do interviews and stuff in here. Another cool thing that has gotten my mind in the good place throughout the summer was getting back into golf. I used to play golf, you guys said no, I used to play golf in high school and I was actually pretty good at it. I had at one time gotten down to about a three or four handicap and obviously after graduating way back in 2004 and getting a little older and a little fatter and everything, not quite as good as I was before. So now I think I'm back up to this summer, I'm at like a 11 and a half handicap. So I'm shooting right around an 82, 83 pretty consistently when I go out to shoot 18 holes around here. Me and Captain Ron and McBake, we all go out and shoot nine or 18 holes when we're able to. It's been a little bit hard the last couple of weeks. It'll hold a hill, big hill, be cool to see. So that's another cool thing that I'm wanting to do here in the, this is gonna be like the recording area and the man cave area. Another cool thing I wanna do is the floor in here. It is very nice, concrete and everything and I'm wanting to do a nice epoxy floor on this whole area and that's another video because I'm gonna try to do that one myself. I don't know if you guys have seen epoxy floors, nice finished ones, they look amazing. They look so good, but to try to get some of the professionals to do it, it is multiple thousands of dollars to do it and I am willing to sacrifice a little bit of the quality on there to be able to get it for a price that I actually can pay for and not have to finance. So I'm gonna be trying to do an epoxy floor on my own. So that'll be a cool video that I'm sure I don't know if you guys have seen or not. I'm gonna do that one and then over in that area, it's about between that door and that door, it's about 12 feet across. So I'm probably gonna get a 10 foot wide. I'm gonna do a track vision indoor golf range in here. Yeah, we're gonna do an indoor kind of little digital driving range, have a bet and things to be able to do some fun and have some moving around fun here in the wintertime. Because wintertime here, it's just depressing. It sucks, it's cold, it's wet, it's snowing. I don't like snow. You guys didn't know already, I hate snow. With a passion, if it was up for me, I would love to live in Southern Alabama or Texas or Mississippi, it's gorgeous down there. I love the Gulf States, I like being down there. Humidity doesn't bother me, the heat doesn't bother me. I just really, really hate cold with a passion. If it wasn't for getting this amazing property and everything, being able to have a dream come true I think we would have ended up looking someplace in a warmer climate to be able to end up living. And other than that, the white girl doesn't wanna move right away from family. I'll blame her, you know. I'm just not one who's tied to one area specifically too much. Yeah, yeah, there's bad storms and tornadoes here. But you know how many tornadoes we had here locally? We live like 20 miles from Xenia, which is known for having like seven major tornadoes a year. As the city, I don't know if it's in some kind of valley or something, but they've had that city get blown down and massive tornadoes go through there every couple of years and destroys a whole bunch of stuff. We had a mire distribution center, not 10 miles from here, we get ripped a whole exterior wall of this massive distribution center just ripped all out this summer. So it was kind of a crazy, crazy year for storms and tornadoes around here too. Thankfully here, I don't know what it is about this specific little town that I live in, but everything goes around this place, Tuscaloosa. Yeah, here for some reason, I don't know if it's the geography or anything like that. What would your channel be called in Texas? Not really Russ Belty in Texas. The post oak mechanic, the golf course mechanic, that's a good one. That is a really good one, the golf course mechanic. Somebody needs to take that one up. Somebody down there, you could make a living off that. Yeah, Van Wert's EF4, funny thing is that EF4 went through one of my cousins' fields. My cousin was just outside of Van Wert on the south side. It went through one of the back cornfields was not a quarter mile from his house. So that was kind of a cool, crazy thing. It tore up Van Wert, tore up line up there. It was pretty good. I'll make shirts, I'll buy that first shirt. You make those shirts, I'll buy that first shirt if that's what you really want to do with your time. So yeah, I've been into golfing. Also this year, I don't know how many other you guys are into golfing, but I get excited about it. I like it, it's a way for me to get out, enjoy things that aren't cars, aren't hurting my hands and busting my knuckles and everything on, but it's still getting out in nature and doing things. And it's not yard work, so that's what I like about it. This year, I was the first time ever that I got custom clubs made since I am like six, four, six, five standard club links that you get from any store. They don't fit so well. So I ended up going to a golf galaxy, Baker McBake, he told me, hey, you need to go see about getting it fit. So I did and it helped my game this year. I started this year at like a 14, 15 handicap and I worked my way down to about an 11. So it did help there, starting to get things rolling off and I'm hoping having the simulator here and maybe even taking some golf lessons this winter. I don't know, never done that before. Play golf in high school, we once used to be golfing. Yeah, that's it. You've only been out once on like a par three course. Par three courses are fun. They are really fun. That we don't have any close to around here. I think there might be one on like the South side of Dayton. We might be looking in to see about if you can go to that one before the season kind of closes everything up. I love top golf, but again, living here in the sticks, there's none of those close. You got to drive down the Cincinnati, which is like an hour and 10 minutes to get down there. Like going to that one. So yeah, I've been enjoying that one as well as another one of my hobbies that I really enjoy doing. Just telling you guys all my fun little hobbies and stuff that I wanted to do. Legos, so I don't know if you guys have any cool little hobbies or collections that you do that's not busting your knuckles and getting your hands all drenched in oil and grease and everything, but I like and enjoy building Legos and collecting them as well. I've been getting into that one quite a bit here lately. Buying, selling, not as much selling, mostly just buying and building. It's a fine line trying to figure out because Legos, their value is, it increases exponentially and has been increasing as much to be a better bet to purchase Legos than it is stock, especially right now. Or my buddy used to go, he took me, he said no, he's not the blue hair and that's it, it's not the size of course. Deer season, there you go, hunting and deer season. That's another one of those things that I was always into shooting sports. I was in the Boy Scouts when I was younger and did a lot of training and did a lot of shooting. So I did that one, but I never did get into hunting. Nobody in my family was a big hunter and I haven't been a game person, so I never did get into hunting. I love fishing and we've got a big pond and a creek here on the property. Captain Ron is a big fisherman, he loves fishing. Yeah, I've just, I never have been hunting. Yeah, Legos are my jam. I love building Legos. Been doing a couple of ones lately. I did the larger version, the Aston Martin DB5. That was a really cool build, lots of active technique parts moving in that one, so that's fun. Another thing I love it for is the fact of being able to do something with my son. Also, if you guys didn't know, I do have one son. He is 11, my wife will make fun of me for having to count that out. He's 11 years old right now. He's autistic, so he needs a little bit of extra attention here and there. And Legos is one of the things that he really, really loves and really enjoys doing. It helps him calm down and it helps him to focus. He'll sit there and he'll say all his little sayings and he'll fidget around the whole time, but he puts together Legos faster than I can. And he's amazing at it. Yeah, I know, he's 11. And the funny thing is, so my wife, she's not very tall. She's a short little thing. She's like five, four, five, three and a half, something like that. And he's like three inches taller than she is now. He's 11, so that's a lot of fun. A little fishing, especially in Texas Gulf Coast. Yeah, that's awesome. All of us love Legos, he claims it. Yeah, yeah, every single time. So whenever I buy Legos that I know are for collecting or for investment purchases, which if you guys haven't got into, if you guys are looking to get into stocks and everything like that, get into Legos. It's way more of a safe option. Gets you almost just as much return on what, you know, you're putting your money into. I'm not gonna pretend to be some kind of an investment or anything like that, but I've done pretty well with Legos or Lego. Legos is not a correct term. I've had quite a few people correct me on that one. Can't say Legos, it's all just Lego. It's a plural form of Lego. But whenever I purchase new Lego sets and they get delivered, I have to have them put away before my son gets here off the school bus because he'll come in through the garage and he'll see where the delivery guy delivered the Lego and he will say, oh, let me grab it. I would like to see more mechanics gets done in this new shop. I would love to do that one. And me and McBake actually talked about that one a couple of weeks ago while we were out and golfing is we really wanna do a sequel to the stereotypical mechanic and the stereotypical shop guys where we did the skits with having shop diagnostician and the shop goof, Earl's gonna come visit. I gotta finish the shop in here so there's some place for Earl to stay because he's not staying in the house. No, that dude, he's crazy. He can live out in the shed for all I want. Maybe the other barn or something like that. Got another barn here on the property. One of these days, I might do a video of that one. There's a whole other barn here on the property but I don't use that one. I rent it out. A guy stores a couple of cars, a couple of motorcycles, some jet skis and stuff up there. I have security on the building. He just pays to rent it because I don't even use it. So might as well. But it's there. We might do a video on that one someday. We'll see. There's so many irons in the fire and so much shit that I need to do and get done and want to do and want to do videos on. It's almost overwhelming just thinking about it. Earl's shed. I'm gonna give him the shed. That's a cool thing. I might point that out in another video but you probably see it if you really look earlier in the video when I panned around the there's a fishing cabin over on the other side of the pond and then on the far side of the pond is this little shed and it's just a little like six by eight foot shed. And the prior owners used it for lawn chemicals and storing bells of hay for when they did grass patches and things. So they stored all that there. I don't use any of that stuff. I just keep the little stuff that I have right here. But that is where the animals live. There's little holes and stuff in that shed and because this property is probably 80% black walnut trees walking through this property in the fall time is a massive hazard to say the least. I probably have upwards of 150 or more squirrels that live on this 11 acre property just to be able to take care of the walnuts. I tell people if you see any kind of groundhogs, moles, bowls, I hate those things. Those things are such a pain in the ass. You shoot those all day long. I don't care, shoot them. But the squirrels don't shoot the squirrels because I need them to clean up my nuts. Yes, you heard that. I need them to clean up my nuts. So I need some place for them to stay because if they don't have any place to stay I don't have a whole lot of dead trees or anything. I cut a bunch of them down. If they don't have any place to stay, then what are they gonna do? They're gonna fuck around in my barn. They're gonna somehow squeeze their skinny little asses up into the rafters and any kinds of dumb stuff around here. And I don't wanna mess with my stuff. So I leave that janky old shed across the pond so they can live in and congregate and tear the shit out of that thing that I don't care about for all I care. Need to do the John Dailey tee shot off of beer can without hitting the beer can. Yep, John Dailey is the fucking man. He is my golf hero. He is the biggest badass there is on tour right now. Still fucking kicking it at like 60 years old. Yeah, they'll nest wherever they can in here. So that's another thing. When I shoot the insulation here in the shop, I'm gonna be using the stuff that's lace. They have it, I wanna say it's lace with formaldehyde. It says it's anti-pest. It's pest repellent insulation for when we shoot that one. Do the loose fill up in the ceiling. So I wanna shoot that kind up there so I can try to worry about the squirrels as least little as possible try to. Yeah, that's gonna be one of the updates coming up here. You know what, I have been rambling on for going on an hour now with nobody else in here to talk to other than some people on this tiny little screen right here. But it's been cool. I appreciate you guys stopping in. I just wanted to give you guys all the updates tell you that I'm not dead in some river, you know, not down by the river in a van. Nope, I'm still alive and kicking working for Rivian doing some cool things in the background. Hopefully to be able to get you guys some cool new upcoming content. I've tossed up the idea on whether to do channels on all the other cool stuff that I do, the Lego stuff, the golfing. I don't know if I'm talented enough to be able to get some entertaining style of content for that one. It would be if I could throw McBacon there because he kind of sucks at golf. If he's watching this, I'm sorry, buddy. He's not too bad. He's not too bad at all. Yes, I'm not a King's Island victim. I'm still good. But yeah, if you guys have any other ideas of kind of stuff that you want to see coming up, I'm taking some options. Just joining my wrenching again. I've been wrenching the whole time. I don't wrench for Mopar anymore. After this video, I'm sure you guys can go back. And in the beginning, I kind of went into detail. I work for Rivian, the electric car manufacturer now. I've worked for them for going on four months now. And that's why I haven't been doing videos a whole lot because I've signed a whole lot of NDAs. I can't say a whole lot about the day-to-day stuff that I do, but I'm still working on EVs and little stuff in the shop here as I've been trying to update and do stuff in the shop. So hopefully some cool things coming up. Leave some comments down below or hit me up on Instagram or email me at the RussMeltMechanic at gmail.com. If you guys want to see anything specific coming up, I am definitely gonna be doing a shop tour showing all of the little updates and everything that's going on around here. Like I said, the windows in here are getting done this week and I might shoot a little bit of video when they come to do that one. Maybe me trying to not make a fool of myself, trying to do blown-in insulation myself in here. And from that point, we'll see where things go. I've got a couple other little ideas here and there. But if you guys have any, you wanna see something, let me know, I'm open. I've been doing a whole lot lately in this way as well. Can you do a tool video for the EV stuff? If I get the okay from Rivian, I want to do a detailed kind of little tool run of the van that I work out of every day. I'm a mobile diagnostic technician for Rivian. I, again, I showed it earlier in the video because I just did general like, hey look inside the doors because every time I go to a customer's house I've got the doors open and they can see them inside my van anyways. So that's not any kind of private material but you're looking at there, looking inside the van that I use but we've got some pretty cool stuff in that van. Excuse me. But hopefully I'll be able to do some kind of cool videos as well as a, I wanna do a dedicated video on what it is and what it's like to work for Rivian, the company. I'm still waiting on hearing back from HR and marketing for being able to do a dedicated video like that. So hopefully they'll get to it on that one and hopefully we hear back from them sometime here soon to be able to get some really cool content out for you guys. I've got a whole lot of tools I'll build up too so I might do some giveaways too coming up here in the fall. I'm starting to feel rejuvenated into this stuff. Trying to get my ass, fire lit under my ass, trying to get back into the gig, trying to get going on this stuff. So you guys and your good words, they have definitely helped along the way and I do appreciate you checking in all the people who have sent me messages asking where I've been, how I'm doing, am I still alive? I really do appreciate that because it shows that the people really still do care. So yeah, that's about all I got for you guys tonight. I'm gonna go get some food, drink a beer, sit down, watch a movie, maybe put together some Legos, kick back, you know? I've got one appointment tomorrow, it won't be too bad. All right guys, glad to see you guys stopping in and you guys stay awesome.