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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to r V Talk Radio with me.

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Rot Scribner is your host. How are you waiting to

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join us? When we talked about RV travel, RV living,

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RV lifestyles, and we'll cover RV products and services, our

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question to you is what are you waiting for?

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Speaker 2: So let's get started.

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Speaker 1: Well, hello once again to RV Talk Radio. I'm Abscriptor,

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your host, and welcome to episode five. And yep, we

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got all kinds of little things to talk about today.

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I think our primary subject today is going to be boondocking.

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But before I get started, I wanted to kind of

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remind you of a couple of things. If you're new

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to podcasting or talk radio, I want to remind you

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that if you're listening to it from the site, that's great,

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But did you know you can listen to us from

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you have to do is put an app on your

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phone like a podcast addict.

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Speaker 2: That works pretty good, and you just go.

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Speaker 1: Into the searches, make sure it's you hit the check

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mark versus search iTunes, and we are in iTunes and

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on your cell phone and do it at your own

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convenience while you're driving or at work, or while you're exercising.

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Speaker 2: It's really slick.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing I wanted to remind you about

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was RV travel Quest, and that's my wife and I.

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We have our own channel or our own website that

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kind of follows our trail or future to full time

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rving and how we're preparing. The big program we're doing

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on that is what we call the Mission Series. We

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use the concept of a two year mission which has

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gone been about a year and a half now, so

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we're getting towards the end.

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Speaker 2: So the Mission.

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Speaker 1: Series videos that we're making kind of explains how we

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got to where we are and it's very educational, so we.

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Speaker 2: Hope you visit that when you get a chance.

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Speaker 1: The last reminder of one and a half way is

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please take the time to go see Amazing RV dot tv. Yep,

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it's called Amazing RV dot tv and if you actually

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go to the side, it is actually a complete library

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of very interesting videos. It has very funny things, some

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very scary things, some great photography, and everything on there.

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Speaker 2: Is RV related.

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Speaker 1: We also do a few videos to feature some of

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the the unique videos that we see. So when you

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get a chance, go visit Amazing RV dot tv.

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Speaker 2: You'll love it. So today I kind of want.

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Speaker 1: To just shoot the breeze a little bit about boon docking,

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and not that you can boondock, but the concerns of

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boon docking. The first thing I want to remind you

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is if you want to contact us with any comments

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or ideas or stories, you can reach us at five

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leave a detailed message that and give us permission to

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put it on the air, and we'll share your questions

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or your statements on RV talk Radio. It would be

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a pleasure to have you. And once again, it's got

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to be tactful and to the point, so we do

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appreciate that. You can also email us at Rob at

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RV talk Radio. Once again, that email address is rob

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Rob at RV talk radio dot com. So getting onto

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the subject of boondocking, I just want to kind of

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bring it up as a subject and I don't have

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I seem to have stumbled across a couple of things

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that kind of have me concerned. I just recently saw

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an email video actually about the police department and the

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game department having a hard time with homeless people going

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into campgrounds and setting up camp and they're not paying

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a dime and they don't have the manpower to get

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those people out of there, so they go in. They

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they cite them, and they might leave for a day,

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ensue the authorities leave, they.

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Speaker 1: And the problem is happening is the fact that they're

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taking really nice places to go camping, but they're leaving

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garbage and waste all over those kind of campgrounds. And

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a particular report I saw was down in Sacramento, California,

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and it's really sad, and I'm kind of curious how

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often as a boon docker, if you have ever boon docked,

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come across some of this where somebody's definitely had their

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rig there for a long period of time, they're accumulating

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a lot of stuff around it. You may be seeing garbage,

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even human waste, or anything that indicates that someone's been

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living there, which we're not supposed to be living in

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some of these boon docking areas, and so it'd be

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really interesting to hear your stories about that. And my

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other concerns about boon docking is, well, it's actually a

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terminology I keep hearing, and it's not just with van dwellers.

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rigs sometimes. And stealth camping is the concept of parking

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overnight at places that are not normally for camp that

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are in a gray area or not even mark for

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saying it's no over night camping, and I.

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Speaker 1: And I know that the RV industry is growing and

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there's a lot more interest in van dwelling and small

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vans and RVs, which is pushing the envelope for stealth camping.

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it's going to get more and more notice, which means

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another possible freedom.

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Speaker 2: That we may lose. And I would be.

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Speaker 1: Concerned or interested in hearing how you feel about that

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and some of these stories and realities that you've seen

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while you've been out boondocking or stealth camping. And I'm

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there's always seems to be people that abuse it, and

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those people are the ones that ruin it for the

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majority of us. The other concerning area is people that

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use some of our privileges we have with like Walmarts

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and I believe some other companies a kind of lenient

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in that area where you can if you're driving all

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night and you're trying to get to a destiny and

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you just need a place to rest. I know, like

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I've seen people use rest areas. I've seen them use Walmarts.

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pro Bass shops. I believe some folks have also used

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like home depots and lows and places like that unless

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they're marked. And if they're marked, my understanding is isn't

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necessarily the store that's marking it saying overnight camping. It's

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the ordinances of the city that usually dictate that, because

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a lot of stores actually feel like they benefit by

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having our veers there. But of course, and I've seen

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on videos time after time, there seems to be people

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that abuse that and so once again, I'd love to

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your stories and we'll share them. If you call us

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once again, just make sure you give us permission to

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the air of some of the stories that you've heard

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about or seen or even witnessed about either boondocking or

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stealth camping. So I'm gonna on that subject. I kind

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of want to leave that up in the air because

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I want to get more feedback from you and if

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people listening to our show that make sure to send

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on a shoe string and doing wonderful things out there

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in the RV world by traveling, and so we're interested

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in getting in contact with you to possibly do some

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money campaigns or anything like that, or raising money or

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Speaker 1: This true great stories of couples or singles or our

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partners that are traveling. And I don't care what kind

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of RV. I've seen some great ones from people traveling.

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Speaker 1: Want to travel in campers and airstreams. I've seen them

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in RV's and motor homes and fifth wheels and of

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and we want interviews of that. So we actually have

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that you are not to be trying to sell your

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Speaker 1: However, we are tickled pink when we have the opportunity

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to support your programs and your videos and your channels

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whenever possible. So enough about that right now, you guys

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Speaker 2: Here is safety.

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Speaker 1: So here's my little safety tip of the day, Robs.

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Speaker 2: Safety Tip of the Day.

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Speaker 1: I know that was a little corny, but it gets

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the point across. So on each show, I think it's

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probably a good idea to kind of talk about some

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safety things. And once again, you guys can always share

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safety things with us too, So this is going to

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be my little safety moment.

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Speaker 2: So some of the things that.

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Speaker 1: I keep seeing over and over and over again are

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a few common sense things that are getting people hurt

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or even killed. And the first one is tires. I

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cannot express enough of making sure you take care of

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your tires. And one of the things I've really noticed

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is if you're going down south into the hotter weather,

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tires or rubber seems to break down faster, and so

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you really need to start watching your tires. I saw

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a video the other day of someone captured a guy in.

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Speaker 2: A beautiful, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Motor home and he was in the passing lane going

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by someone and they blew a front tire and that's

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bad news on a motor home. And he went off

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into the middle part of the highway and eventually couldn't

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sustain the speed and it rolled. And that was probably

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half a million dollar machine, and lord knows what happened

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to the people inside. And it's got that's tire safety.

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So anytime you have a chance, check your tires. And

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if you have the chance or have the money to

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put pressure gauge monitors on your tires, which is a

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little electronic devices you can put on your tires that

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we report to you at the command center or the

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way you drive, telling you the.

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Speaker 2: Status of all your tires.

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Speaker 1: And just the other day, I mean, my wife has

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one of something like that in her little mas De

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three and she was going to indicate her there was

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something wrong with her tire, and she pulled in a

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less Schwab, which is one of our tire places up

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here in Washington, and sure enough she had a nail

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and her tire, and so it was a nice She

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probably would have never known that until she eventually she

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would have gone out in the parking lot and found

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a flat tire. And the last thing I want is

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my wife stuck in a parking lot, especially after work

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Speaker 2: What a flat tire.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of us also have urvs with slides,

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lot is the rubber on the slides that protects basically

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you from the elements. So there's like silicone sprays things

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like that you can put on that rubber to protect it.

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And I can't emphasize enough to go up and you're

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gonna have to have to get on the roof and

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spray all that rubber with a protectant, especially if it's

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got sun beating down on it, slides and bugs. If

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you don't like bugs, then treat your slides. Get up

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there with a lubricant and take care of all those

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seals on your slides. And that's I'm talking about. I

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don't care if it's the motor home, a fifth wheel

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or trailer. And I believe you can also find slides

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on campers. And I think even some of the pop

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ups have got some sorts of slides in them and stuff.

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But check any steal you got or a slide that

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has the rubber and get them coated with something to

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protect the rubber. I also think for safety today, for

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my moment, a couple of moments here. Sorry, I just

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I worry about people out there. And one of the

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last stories I want to pass is your propane. So

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I heard another story of a gentleman who was cooking

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in his oven ran out of propane. So it's like okay,

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so he goes outside, he takes the tank off, he

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runs over and he puts propane in the tank, goes

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back to the rig, hooks it up, turns it on

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and good to go, and I guess he was outside

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talking to a friend and stuff, and suddenly the alarms

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are going off in his rig. Guess what he forgot

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to do. He didn't turn off the oven when he

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ran out of fuel. So as soon as he hooked

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up fuel again, guess what, he filled his whole RV

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up with propane vapor. Not good, and apparently they caught it,

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turned it off, aired it out, and he was so lucky.

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Could you imagine what would have happened if he was

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smoking or something he set that off. The other thing

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I've heard, and you want to be really careful is

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you have pets, especially if you've got medium size to

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larger sized dogs, and you got to watch your cats too.

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They're kind of creepy that way, but they're known to

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jump up on things and maybe accidentally turn a knob

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on an oven or on your stove. So constantly check

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your switches on your stoves, make sure that they're in

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an open, locked in position, that they didn't get knocked

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to the side, because they are kind of locking a

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little bit. But if they get turned a little bit

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and then an animal jumps up and some reason taps

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one of those could actually turn on the fuel and

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while you're sleeping or something like that, or while you're

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gone and they're in the rig, that could be a

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major danger. So anyway, that's my safety tip for today.

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So yeah, I know some of that stuff sounds a

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little boring, but it's not boring. It pertains to you.

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And you've got your rig and you want to keep

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it for a long time and you want to keep

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your family safe. Please listen to some of this stuff.

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But it's not just coming from me. It comes from

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several people. So one of the last things that is

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one of my pet peeves about r being, which is

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really a problem, and I've seen it more in the South,

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is bugs. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Bugs.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know all the different ones that have

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been a problem, but I can tell you two different

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types of bugs that I've seen as a real nightmare.

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The third one would be mosquitoes. But the main one

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I saw when I was down south, especially in Vegas,

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and is those darn sugar ants. Ye I know everybody's

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going sugar ants.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: So I would get in a habit right away if

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you know you're going down south to get something that

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some raid or something that works good. And when you park.

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Anything that touches the surface of the ground is an

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invitation to those sugar ants. So spray your tires, spray

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all around them, anything your jacks, anything that touches the ground,

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spray it and keep those buggers out of your rig.

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The other one I heard about, and it didn't happen

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to me, actually happened to a friend of mine, is

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they got I think they're in Alabama, and they got

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infested with ladybugs. And it sounds like it was just

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as bad as sugar ants. They had lady bugs everywhere.

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So here's something that's really interesting. You might want to

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consider two things. One is, always go throughout your RV,

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find anything that's an hole or opening for plumbing all that,

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and get some wool steel wool and get it around

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those pipes. And then use that liquid insulation that you

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just spray on and it expands. Looks kind of ugly,

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but believe me, it keeps the critters out. The other

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thing is in our rig, what we've done is every

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opening for our heater and also intake, we put behind

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it a screen. So when you look into our registers

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down on the floor, you'll actually see a screen just

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like a screen.

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Speaker 2: Door.

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Speaker 1: You'll actually see screens down there, so any way that

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critters get into our heating system, they will not get

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into our rig, especially mice. So I hope that's some

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good advice for you is take the time to do that.

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It's not hard. Go get a whole bunch of screen

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material and open up those red even the intake of

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where they air comes in for your heating system. Put

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some screen in there so you will not regret it.

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So I think I've shaked you, shaked your your pretty

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good on this particular episode. A lot of safety, I apologize,

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but I do get worried about folks out there, and

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so many of the things that happen to people out

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there can be prevented. So I think this turned out

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to be more of a safety episode than it was

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the boondocking, and I apologize for that, but I don't

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apologize for trying to save your life. So I want

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to thank you very much for listening to RV Talk Radio.

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So don't hesitate and don't be shy. It's a new

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be nice to get you on there because everybody likes

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to listen to an old, old episode. So I'm Rob Scribner.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, and have a great day. Fine

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out nice.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: Don't you want to take the weird stud Another man