Legitimate Off-Road Trainer

This is the only show where you can hear Jeep owners talk about things like mud rocks and giant tires and not get weird looks. So strap in, grab your favorite beverage and get ready to laugh, learn and have a damn good time. On tonight's episode, we're going to be doing a news story about International House of Pancakes. Oh, that's not right. International Four Wheel Drive Training Association, Trainers Association. I can't get it right. Even if when I'm reading the off the documents here, the in our Jeep Gladiator update. A fix for the SAGs with these door pockets. Yeah, we're talking about Greg's door pockets again, and it's just too damn bad, Greg. You're gonna have to talk about them. It's what I want to do.

Must have for your Jeep trail, trailgate drop down table. You don't have to be an overlander to make use of this, but do put a pad down if you're going to use it for changing diapers. It's just sanitary.

Are you ready? It's time for the Jeep Talk Show. We're going to be doing a new episode of the International House of Pancakes. It's time for the Jeep Talk Show with hosts Tony, Josh, Wendy, and Chuck.

See, I didn't remind you about introducing yourself. I was going to see if you, you know, if you've done this once before, I was going to see if you introduced yourself after the intro. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm slow.

So yeah, I'm the surrogate Chuck or Wendy today.

And again, super honored to even be asked, but my name is Greg Henderson. I own a very small company called Unofficial Use Only, where for the past, I don't know. Oh no. Oh no. Yeah. So well, so I officially started unofficial use only in 2016. So we're on year eight of building, you know, kind of one of a kind unique vehicles. We do them for SEMA and we do them for private individuals or private companies who do them who don't, who want to showcase their own parts. So I'm the guy that cuts them up and makes them crazy looking. And but I strive on functional. So you might've seen some of my builds like the JTE or the YJL or path killer or Frankenbrute or you know, dozens of others, but or even like right behind me, I'm working on a TJ Brute, which is pretty cool. So I didn't think I was going to see another one of those being built. So that was really cool. And not only one, but I'm building two. So this, this is the first one. Uh, and this gentleman found a Brute kit, uh, you know, more than 10 years after they've quit being produced and asked me if I would build it. And I wholeheartedly jumped at the chance because the Brute is what got me. It's what got me into the industry. Um, you know, I was a union bricklayer and Jeeps were my hobby. And back in 2007, I got a fateful phone call from one of the guys at Chrysler and he said, Hey, do you want to help me build a Brute? And I jumped in head over fist. So it built a lot of brutes while I was at AEV, uh, loved every single one of them. I think that the design and the excellence of the quality of the parts from AEV is exceptional. So I jumped at the chance to build this one. And as soon as I made the first social media post that I was building another Brute, I got contacted from another gentleman who's in Alaska and he's like, Hey, you want to build my Brute?

So now I'm going to build two this summer and pretty excited about it. Um, the gentleman from Alaska, I did run into him in Moab, uh, this year during Easter Jeep Safari because he has another very famous Brute that was owned by a gentleman named Jerry and I don't know, another fateful part. But when Jerry left AEV, I was the guy who was called in to take his place. So, um, you know, that it's kind of cool that this gentleman in Alaska owns Jerry's old Brute and now I'll be building him a Brute and Tony from the Jeep Talk Show is actually going to help me edit some videos and throw some videos out during the course of that Brute build. So that'll be exciting and, uh, you can watch them on unofficial use only on YouTube, or you'll also be able to see a lot of that content right here on the Jeep Talk Show. Yeah. Looking forward to that. You know, and I know that you know this, I've mentioned it several times, the Brute, uh, just really, um, captured my imagination when I first saw it because other than the, like the seventies, uh, trucks, uh, Jeep trucks, there were no trucks. And then the Brute came along and I'm like, Oh, what is that? That is cool. Uh, how do you, how does that, how does that done? And you know, it wasn't until I did a recent interview with somebody at AEV, I had no idea that there was a, uh, and I don't know if it was called the same thing, but basically a Brute, uh, JK. Uh, yep. Yeah. So the, the TJ Brute, well, we'll go all over all the Jeep trucks so we can go way back to the very beginning and, uh, Jeep produced several trucks for the military and then for, um, consumers, so civilians. So they had, um, some pretty obscure ones like the FC, the FC is actually a truck. Oh, is it? That's interesting