Ep 11 Nick Schmidt of Sunshine State RV

Alright, guys. Welcome back to the Vanasaur podcast here on Strange Palooza. Basically, what we talk about here is Van Life class B camper vans, Overlanding, and Van Life culture We're all about it here. And here we go. Joining me live today low low low low low low low low's out there. She said sounds good. Looks good. There you go. Joining me live is Nick Schmidt of Sunshine State RVs SS RV. I like, did you guys trademark that yet?

We have not, Hank. I'm gonna let you Strange market, and then you can just advertise it everywhere. Yeah. Hairbuy and henceforth Fort Worth. Trademarked to, oh, you don't you don't want the trademark. So trademarked to hang straight to media. Trademark to you. You know, like, remember how you used to, like, trademark your rap lyrics back in the day? You you you'd write them and you mail them yourself and never open it. Yeah. I've done that. Yeah. I've done that.

I have done that particular thing. Did you have rap did you write Rapalaericks or something No. But I know you Hank, so I was just kinda late. I was I was late to you, Hank. Okay. So there you go. For folks who have not who they don't know, Nick, have never met him before or whatever it is. Why don't you tell the people out there who you are and what you do? Yeah. So Sunshine State RVs.

We're the number one class b dealer in the state of Florida, and we're number 3 in the whole United States of America. All we do with class VRV. So we are we are in Gainesville, Florida, which is like the most oddest place ever Great. Or, a national, distribution hub of class VRVs, but this is where we are. And Funny enough. Mhmm. This is where Hank. And so, fate kinda brought us together about 3 years ago. He walked in and bought a coach and beyond. He told me he was a YouTube sensation. Right.

And you were like, whatever. Yeah. I was like, whatever it is. I think you actually said to me, I got a YouTube channel. What's what's that mean? Yes. And so so ever ever since that day, me and me and Hank have had on on YouTube and in real life, not just not just in front of the camera, but behind the camera. We travel together. We hang out. We, we talk all the time. And, great, great friendship, great business relationship, unusually beneficial.

And, yeah, and we and we sell class b. So that's what we do. We sell them. We fix them. We service them. We ship them for free anywhere in the country. We guarantee to work on them, within 5 days after you buy from us. Lots of cool customer service things that we do, that nobody else does. Kind of unique. And I like to say, you know, we cause trouble, you know, disturbing disturbing disrupting. Disrupting. Is that isn't that like a cool thing to say? Disrupting. Yeah. Yeah. The disc practice.

Right. Now this is this is the Vanasaur podcast, as I said, it's episode 11. As I said already with Nick Schmidt of Sunshine State RV, Welcome to everyone who's out there. Ask us questions if you want to. If you've got comments and things like that, I'll throw them up here for you. Let's get some stuff. Shout out to guests from episode number 10, Camping Coasty. He's out. He says good morning Hank and Loma. We're kinda into afternoon territory, but who knows where Camping Coast Tea is?

Probably morning. He is all over the place. All over the place. It's probably morning, wherever him and Deb and, And spike. And spike Where it was like always had. Yes. I always wanna call him rocket because that dog does not stop. He's always he's all over the place. Yes. And Ursula Moose said this of the thumbnail, which I just showed, Do you have this vehicle here in Florida? I don't know if Ursula even knows what that was that I showed in the thumbnail. Yeah. I don't think anybody does.

I mean, they just released it a week or so ago. So yeah. I'll let you ensure our Well, should we start there with, like, news from Sunshine State RV? Let's do that. You know, what's new with you? Because I I've the we recently were together at Open House, in Indiana. And then I recently was at the, Overland East Expo in Virginia, which you weren't there. But Tim was there from SSRV, and so was Corey. Correct. Tim and Corey were both there. Yeah. It was my wife's birthday, Hank.

Oh, happy birthday. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It was Mary's birthday, and she she decided that, she did not wanna go to Overland Expo for her birthday. So, yeah, I mean, what twenty three year old would want to do that? Right. Is she 23 or 24 now? I don't know. She's somewhere in the 20 I have a 9 I have a nineteen year old daughter. So so So somewhere like that. Somewhere like that. Something like that. Yes. I know. I don't wanna get in trouble with Mary, so I'll just put that.

And she could pass any she could pass for 23. At any point. She can't. 100%. Sucking Lola. Pavel out there says, s o 27 I think I mean, shout out? Yes. Shout out 27 North. There you go. Shout out to 27 North is our on our agenda. I I sent Hank a cool picture that Pablo sent me today. So, he'll be he'll be showing that picture in a little bit. Yeah. Excuse me. Do you wanna start with that? Do you wanna start? Well, so so let's let's start with our trip. So Okay. 2 weeks ago, me and Hank in Lola.

We embarked on, Elkhart, Indiana.

Yeah. And, and we were there for 4 or 5 days. Yeah. It was a long time. It was interesting, wasn't it? A lot of stuff. I've never been to Open House. Of course, you're a veteran. That was kinda crazy. It it was cool, but wow. Elkhart Elkhart is the capital of making RVs. So It is. It is. So Describe what that show is to people out there who don't that's the best thing that we could do right there. Did you hear that? No. Say that again. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Describe the describe the open house to folks out there who don't know. It's not open to the public, even though it's called open It is not open to the public. It is it is strictly for manufacturers to show off their new products to dealers like myself. And so I brought and hang along to to show him. So all of the manufacturers that that we represent they showed off all of their new product for 2024. What's what's coming out? It's it's, there's a lot of cool stuff coming out.

All of our manufacturers are are releasing new new, new and improved features, new new things, floor plans, colors, some even new models. I know American Coach is is releasing a new model on the Patriot. And, when a bagel is releasing some new stuff, roadtrek had a huge announcement 27 North showed off some of their new, stuff. And then storyteller, is made a big announcement as well. So, you know, lots of lots of cool things.

So we were there for the week and and we and then we did a video on each one of these things and we kinda showed all the new 2024, you know, it should Hank some new stuff. Yeah. There. You know, everybody had what was new and exciting that that's coming down the pipeline. Yeah. And some of that new stuff is out and some of it isn't yet. Right. Yeah. Let's just put it that way. Let me see here if I could I'll show can I show a picture from Winnipeg? So for example, there's all these companies.

I won't say every company that makes an RV, but a lot of companies that make them. And they all have their different sites around Elkhart where you can go and they've got their you know, there are these there, not just vans that that we deal with, but they've got all kinds of RV trailers, class a's, all that kind of stuff. And dealers like yourself get to go in there, take a look at what's coming up and and buy things. So Winnebago, a big one. Right?

Yeah. Winnebago had had a, really big announcement. They they released, a an all new rebel. So, they redid the the whole new rebel. They they announced a new Solace, 36b, I'm showing a picture of you next to one right now. Yeah. That's that's the new solace pocket. That has a full bathroom, full lithium, air conditioner, bed, bathroom, everything in a seventeen foot chassis, which is which is pretty crazy. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. So that was a that was a big release for them.

I think Winnebago's big, big announcement for for the week was the the echo model. They are starting to make it on a Strange. Instead of just the four transit, oh, look at that. So that is Yeah. That is the coveted echo. Now they're making it on the all wheel drives sprinter chassis. Look at that where your finger's pointing right there. Mercedes Sprinter. Now behind you is the, the Ford, obviously, the transit. Yep. Change it back up. Yeah. And so now yeah. Sprinter Echos coming out.

Oh. Yeah. What do you think about that? What's your We might be blacklisted from Winnebago for For showing the picture? So a few things. I I don't know. A few things that I really like. So I like that Mercedes chassis are more readily available. So we're the big thing about echoes in the past was that you could never get a transit. You couldn't get a Ford. There's nothing out there. And so Winnebago can't get them and so they can't build on. And so it ends up being something that nobody can get.

So so the Mercedes is more readily available. I like it. It gives you a little extra clearance So when you are off road or you're boondocking, it it does lift you up a little. It gives you more clearance. It is one foot longer. Mhmm. And so not a huge deal, but but one foot when you're talking about a 22 or 20 foot van, 24 foot van, one foot makes a difference. So so being that as a foot longer, it is a a little higher up off the ground. You know, makes it a little more usable.

More storage in the back and it's on Mercedes. Some people blow in John Mercedes, you know, so it's, it's still the same, unique, very cool echo. But but but but being an echo on a sprinter chassis is like that was the big news show in a bagel. That Absolutely. And it gives them another, van to put it on, right, because before it was just on the Strange, and we know that sometimes there's availability issues here. There there's those kind of issues with the Strange as well.

But now you have these two things. And if people are fans of the Ford Transit, they can get that. If they're fans of the Mercedes Sprinter, they can get that as well. And, I'm assuming that SSRV is gonna be carrying these. We are. We're we are scheduled to have our first couple come in January. So pretty excited about that. The Sprinter echoes will come in January. It's funny because we won't get a transit echo until March. And the Strange has been out for 3 years.

So, yeah, we've got a little ability for 2 years. Yeah. We won't get one of those till March, but we'll get a springer echo in January. So, yeah, it's funny. Yes. And and we Hank, like, a video we did there, but we're just trying to make sure we could turn that video there are some videos that are either up or going up and all this stuff. So, Yes. Yeah. Everything we talk everything we're talking about today think we did a video on why we're at OpenHouse.

Yeah. Yeah. So they're either I'm working on them, or my son Raven is, or it's already done. We're just waiting, you know, all that kind of stuff. But we wanna get it. Raven's great, by the way. Raven's been doing some videos for us. Raven, I mean, he is He is very talented, cares about what he does. You've done a good job, Hank. Thank you. I appreciate that. You know, he's a good kid. We went walking the other day. We went to a trail here where I live, and we did, like, four miles together.

And I had I had to get him to slow down for the old man. That's funny. Yeah. I probably have a picture up there somewhere that up here that I could show you guys if I, you know, if, no one minds me cutting in at something a little bit personal. He's doing a lot of stuff with you as well. He is. And he's great. I've thoroughly enjoyed working with him getting to know him all of it. I mean, he's he's, yeah, he's he's phenomenal. Good kid.

Most of that is you know, if you wanna if you wanna know how good looking I was, then you could you could look at Raven to see how good looking I was when I was younger. But all the awesome this comes from Lola. Yes. I would say you go. There's a picture of Hey. Yes. On the trail. So, yeah, he had to, deal with the old man and slow down for him. So, alright. So listen, before we go into other stuff, there's a question from, there's a couple comments and stuff coming in.

So I'll hit you with these.

Daniel Todd Brown's, question, with all the class b's, you guys have seen which manufacturer and model would accommodate a wheelchair lift. I am familiar with the Winnebago Rome, but any others? So no others that we know of that come from the factory with the wheelchair lift in it already. The good thing about the Rome is that Winnebago builds it with the wheelchair lift in it.

You know, some of the other ones we have seen road trucks that have been outfitted with a wheelchair lift, we've seen American coaches that have been outfitted with a wheelchair lift. But but none of them come from the factory. It's all like you gotta take a seat out, do a little finagling, and then put the wheelchair lift in Yeah. I think so did you mention American Coach is one of the possibilities in there?

Yeah. So the MD 4, we've seen people take that one of the 4th one of the 4 chairs out and and put the lift right there, right, when you walk into the sliding door. You can put a lift right there. I mean, the coachman Galleria queue for that matter, the 24 q has the four seats. You can take one of those out and you can put the wheelchair lift in there as well. Yeah. So and I think, that, you know, this is just from my perspective.

It's possible in anything, but do the companies offer it, that's the question. Right? So you could probably buy anything, any van out there, and then have it somehow converted. But whether the companies offer it or not, that's the question. So, you you definitely have to do your research out there. And some of them may have that option, and it's just not very public. You know, and it would definitely take some extra work at the factory for them to do that for you. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. None of them have that I've seen, have that have that option, of the factory doing it. Mhmm. Okay. Okay. So there you go. We I'll try Winnebago is the only one Winnebago is the only one I've seen. Yeah. They're the only ones I've seen that's that's, outwardly advertising it. So maybe that's something for the for the companies to get up on and at least put those options out there like Winnebago is done. By the way, everyone can smash the thumbs ups. I see we got one thumbs down.

That's cool. If you hate us, smash the thumbs downs. I know it's it's all good with me. Somebody gave us the thumbs down. Yeah. That's all good. Man, it hurts my feelings. Really? Oh, you know, I found as a YouTuber that to have a successful video, you have to have as many thumbs downs as you have thumbs ups. So some of the big videos, like, I have videos that have a 1000 thumbs ups. But, you know, if you have a 1000 thumbs ups and a 1000 thumbs downs, that's probably a viral video right there.

So I don't know if we'll we'll get there with this one. Camping coasty says I like the new Chinook. And he says, did you see much about RVs using Ecoflow products in built? Yeah. So the Winnebago, the adventure wagon is using the eco flow. The eco flow batteries and some other the, I think, an air conditioner from Ecoflow. There, I did see it once your wagon was using them. That was the only The only manufacturer that I saw was using it.

Yeah. I'm trying to think if I've seen anyone else using those bills. Out of the main manufacturers, I think there's a so for example, at the Overland Show, there were some manufacturers out there that, you know, do use that. But if we're talking your your main builders, I think once again, that's that's gonna wind up going to Winnebago. Yes. Yeah. Winne Winnebago's been the only one with the Rome that I've seen. They have a class a they make as well.

But some other, I mean, some other people might do something custom, but I haven't I haven't experienced it. Yeah. I think the smaller builders, some of them do have that. Some of them have other things out there. So, you know, I I have seen that kind of stuff, and I've also seen other people have things as backups or however you wanna look at that stuff. I'm a fair, companies out there. I think if you're talking about air conditioning versus, like, batteries and all that kind of stuff.

I think there's eco flow and cool breeze, if I'm not mistaken, that are, doing the AC stuff. And then batteries there's just so many different options. There's a lot of people doing suffer batteries right now. Yeah. And in a school, so an open house they have they have all of their service as well. So all the companies you have internet. I'm not sure. Yeah. I don't know what happened there, but YouTube kicked us. Maybe because of that thumbs down. I don't know what we we did.

Or maybe because we were talking about the Winnebago Sprinter echo, Oh. And they have not released it yet. It is it is top secret. Somehow I doubt that, but, hey, anything is possible, we could start some conspiracy theories on that one. We can. We can. So you know what? Where where do we leave off? You know what? I'll tell you where we off, we were actually doing a Sunshine State RV break. You wanna start let's start there and then go from there.

Okay? Let's do that. So as you guys might have already heard, Lola and myself are brand ambassadors for Sunshine State RV. And as Vanosaurus, I wanna take this moment to encourage anyone who is in the market for a class b van to start their journey with SSRV. Sunshine State RVs specializes in selling class B vans and B plus RVs. That is the reason why they are the number one dealer in all of the state of Florida. Number 3 in the whole United States.

SSRV will fly you right to their location in Gainesville, Florida. They'll give you a very detailed and thorough walk through of your van, and they'll give you a 2 night stay at a local campground so you can get used to your van. If you don't like that, you can actually have hands free delivery anywhere in the United States of your RV. We bought our coachman biar from Sunshine State RV 2 years ago. And over the past 2 years, we've seen how they treat customers when it comes to warranty side.

Their service team is great. Whether you bought it from them, or not, every person that comes in there gets the same service and care when it comes to warranty repairs. The same service, attention, and care. And their team does a great job getting you back on the road safely. So if you guys are in the market for a B or B plus van, consider Sunshine State RV. We've got a link in the description that you guys can use to see their current inventory and have someone get in touch with you. Alright.

There you go. So as far as I know, your internet is good because you went into your office. My internet looks fine. So I don't Yeah. You know, I don't know what's going on there because obviously I'm still here using the same internet. It's either the weather or something happened with servers or YouTube kicked us for some reason. Who knows? Oh, they do. Yeah. My apologies for everyone on that. We're talking about Open House.

We just went over, some stuff from Winnebago that you were talking about. Did you wanna get into some other stuff?

Lola says, there you go. There you are, what the incident that's from LoRa, who's at work. So Yes. And I bet she has great internet at, Shan's and, we do not. So, yeah, we we have a bunch of other things from open house that we wanna talk about. Hey? Yeah. So, what other what what other stuff is new? So the the the picture that you put as the thumbnail on here is is pretty cool. Yeah. Let me see if I could go back to that and show everyone. And then maybe you could tell us the story behind this.

Right there. What is that thing? It's it's obviously, expedition. So that is I'm sorry. It is an expedition truck. Here here in the last 6 months, we we have we have really gotten in gotten into and fallen in love with the expedition, markets, the customers, the the lifestyle, the adventure, the products, all of it. And and so we signed up with 27 North, and we started representing them and selling some really cool Rex rovers and venture vans and all that out of senders.

And and so now we are also representing Storyteller. So we will be selling Storyteller Overland vans as well. Mhmm. And that is a story storytellergxvhilt Alright. So very cool. There's a lot of good stuff going on in there. There's a lot of, news in that. Right? You guys There is. Yes. Gonna be carrying storyteller. We are. So, yeah, so we're excited about Storyteller. We're excited about their products the way that they handle their their customers, their pricing is very, very unique.

And then and then they're also, you know, coming out with these very cool expedition trucks. So, you know, Rex Rover is an Expedition truck on a Ford F Three Fifty. This hilt is an Expedition truck on a Dodge. 55100. So they're kinda different, different sizes, different weights, different features, and functions. And, you know, we always like to have anything we do. No matter how big or how little it is, we we like to have different options for custom 1st.

We don't we don't just like to say this is the only one and this is it. Come to us if you want this. It's like, no, we wanna say, hey, come to us and we'll show you some options. We'll show you the selection of of class b selections of vans. And so, like, the one you just showed was start skiing hutch. Like, how cool is that? It is really cool. A red and white sprinter van. That's the beast mode they call it. You know, that that I mean, they they made a lot of changes in 2024 as well.

Mhmm. But that's their beast mode. They they released their hilt on the 1st day of open house. What was that? September 26th released it. Is that right? I'll go with that. What day was the first day of Open House? I think it was September 26th. I have no idea. And Yeah. And And we and we saw we signed up with them. And that within that day or 2, they sold 10 of them. Oh, wow. You know, lots of interest, a lot, you know, lots of demand, and we actually sold a couple of them.

So we were we had people who were who who heard from their reps that we were becoming dealers and they decide, you know what? If if we can get a storyteller from Sunshine State RVs, instead of one of these huge conglomerates, and the price will be the same, but the service will be a thousand times better. I'm gonna go with Sunshine Strange RVs. So so pretty pretty exciting there. Yeah, that's a big deal. You know, congratulations to to you guys for that.

You know, I always tell people one of the benefits of going to Sunshine State RV is that you guys have lots of different kinds of camper vans there. So you're doing B and B plus and and and kind of on on the edge of sea as well. But for for someone to be able to come down and see, you know, the the the brands you're already carrying, and storyteller, which makes really cool vans, and now some adventure, some, what we would call, like, expedition vehicles, I guess.

Right, not just from storyteller. You like you said, from 27 North, but also for this help from storyteller. That's a big deal. It's awesome for folks will be able to come down and look at all these things and make this, this kind of decision with all these things at hand because you don't typically see that when you go into a lot of the other, big box retailers of RVs out there. They might have you know, a bunch of RVs, but just very few vans. Yeah. That's correct.

It's almost like going to a class b RV show to where you can see everything all in one place. Yeah. And so now you can also see some explanation trucks. So the storyteller has the hilt which just came out It's like 27 feet. It's on the Dodge 55100. It's thinking to use 100 gallons of this and a thousand watts of solar. You know, tons tons of of lithium and, I mean, all all kinds of of really, really cool, features that that that that make up.

I mean, it's a 55100 diesel 16.8kw lithium batteries, 1300 watts of solar. I mean, really, really, you know, really neat. You know, they have the liquid spring suspension. You know, lots of things that make it that make it great for all for expeditioning. Yeah. And when you walk inside of it, it's very comfortable, very luxurious, very nice. Yeah. We'll have a video. We we we did do a video there at which we're gonna get up. But storyteller also, I think a some point acquired. What was it?

Global global expedition? Global edition vehicles. Yeah. Yeah. So they have this kinda, like, pedigree that comes in with that for doing this kind of thing. And I think it's very well thought out. I I know they put some time into developing it. You know, so, yeah, that's that's pretty cool, man. That's pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing one on the lot. Yes. And what else is cool with storyteller is they came out with some new colors.

They came out with with the whole brand new lithium system. So they're not using volta anymore. They they are now using lithonics, which is very neat. They're they're going to a 16.8kwithionics system. So it is a huge lots of capacity, lithonics system. That that's an all of their storytellers. So so It's a 144 Sprinter with with a with a big lithium ionic battery system, tons of solar, all kinds of stuff.

Yeah. For the van folks out there, I think this is really cool to to be able to get so many different. What's the let's do the rundown. Since we've got you here, what's the rundown of what you We know you carry Winnebago. We know you carry coachman. What else are you talking about? Coachman, storyteller. Storyteller. Road track. Road truck. American Coach. American Coach. Midwest Automotive Designs. Right. Mhmm. Okay. And then we carry the the 4 shiver dynamax.

So those are, like, the asada 3, the asada 5, carry both of those. We carry 27 North, which are adventure vans and expedition trucks. You know, anything basically anything that's a class b that's that's available in in our area in Florida is is what we carry. I mean, you know, Chinook RV, Chinook has the base side, the summit, they Hank, the Maverick, you know, some pretty cool, yeah, pretty cool b's and b plus.

So, yeah, anything that's in our area, you know, there being in Florida, this is like the RV capital of the world. We we can't always have everything because other dealers have been here longer and and they have it, but, you know, we try to and then some things we just won't carry because of quality and and and reputation, you know, it Yeah. Hank can tell you before we carry any brand, we fly off to their factory. We tour the factory, meet the owners, and make sure that it's a good fit for us.

And we've actually taken Hank along on, one of those trips that we did. Yeah. Absolutely. And, you know, and I think also you guys do have some use things that maybe, you know, you're not in the right region, because I know all that stuff is territorial to carry those things, but you do have those things there, used from time to time. We just don't Yeah. Like, we can't carry pleasure way, but we have 2 pleasure ways here. We have a 2022 and a 2023. So we we have pleasure.

We can't carry air stream, but we have a couple air travel trailers here. Mhmm. You know? So so we definitely have things here that we can't carry new, but we leisure travel. We have leisure travel ban here. And we can't carry it new. So yeah. But yeah. Oh, we have a lot of used 30 or 40 right now. Oh, absolutely. Let's see day 49. Day 49 says, yo, Vanasore, SSRB. Thanks for all the class b demos, innovations, Do it yourself, Vantag, upfitters, etcetera. This is extremely helpful, to all to all.

To all. Yeah. To all. And the o is just extra. He didn't charge us extra for the o. No. Absolutely. The thanks for that, Dave. I appreciate it. Do you want to talk about, road track? I think that's Yeah. So We've got So road track. Hank some very cool stuff. Hank, you you were pretty impressed with it. So was I? I know you just put that video up the other day. Road Check made a big announcement, this week that they released the West Failure. The West Failure is a pop top van.

That is on a Pro Master chassis, but it's not your average pop top. No. Check that bed out there. That folds very quick and very easy. That two chair system folds into a twin size bed within 2 seconds. And That was cool. And what's neat is those chairs actually have 3 point seat belts. They have child. Harnesses, very comfortable, and then they just fold right right right into a bed. So so love love that functionality. It does have the pop top. Very European.

And then and then in the back of it, it has the big draw. I mean, I mean, just the look of it's pretty sweet as well. Yeah. In the back of it Hank has the big garage, and then the garage can kinda be modular almost. So you can have a bigger bed and a smaller garage. You can have a two thirds of a bed and a third of a garage, half of a bed, half of a garage, and you can kinda make it fit what you want. So which is Here we go. Very unique. Nobody else.

I haven't seen this in any other manufacturer. So you just slide it in, and now you have 2 thirds of a bed and you have a third of a garage. You can bikes or kayaks or skis or, you know, canoes. You can put golf clubs. Whatever it is you do, you can put back there. And and, yeah, no, the west failure is is, you know, roadtrek is owned by the same company that owns west failure. So they are they are desperately trying to bring the European models to the United States.

It's not that easy with all the customs and all the different regulations, but they're doing a great job. Yeah. And people always ask for that. Right? So I know I see it in the comments and you get that all the time, when we're gonna get the European stuff over here. So, you know, you're actually seeing companies starting to respond to that. And you should I wonder if your opinions ask whenever when are they gonna get the American stuff over there?

No. No. The grass is always greener on the other side. Oh, that's good. Yes. A lot of the stuff is safe. Yeah. And West Valley is telling us that that we should be able to get some of their units by next summer, by, you know, next spring or summer. So it'll be cool to actually have some on the ground that people can look at and see if it's a good fit. You know, it's hard to tell by a video if something's a good fit or not.

Mhmm. But, you know, if if there are lots and they're there and there are shows and all that, then then you can, you know, we actually we're gonna be in Tampa with, with roadtrek at the Tampa Super Show. And during that show, we're gonna have, you know, some of the a lot of their new products there, which is gonna be the new pivot and, you know, some of that. So it'd be pretty cool to to see all of it in Tampa.

Yeah. And it there is already a video up on that that guys could check out in that video. We do you'll get more details of the west Volia as well as the pivot. Some of the new colors. I think we spoke to the, the is is he the CEO or the president of, he's a CEO. Right? He is a he's a CEO of Roadtrek. Yes. ProTrak Inc, which is the American version. The other guy that we met while we were there, he's a president of all the repeto. So they have they own, like, 20 brands over in Europe.

And he's the he's the president of that. Yeah. I think as they well, the the the CEO is Massey, or we call them Massey. Name is like. Massey. Yeah. Masimo. Yeah. Masimo. I I can't wait, Hank. I'm gonna take him to Burn Steakhouse in Tampa when he gets here. I'm gonna see what he thinks about about our American Steakhouse as being from Italy. Oh, okay. He's a nice guy. Very nice guy. I think he has a, an engineering background.

So it'll be it'll be really good to see, like, how, you know, this all benefits roadtrek and what you're doing and what they're doing. And as you've you've said all the time, like roadtrek, also has, like, deep history here when it comes to class bs. Right? Yeah. No. They were the first real class b manufacturer. When, you know, people making conversion vans, they took it a step further and made a class b back in 1974. So they're coming up on there. What year? 30, 50 year?

50, 74. Yeah. They're they're gonna it's gonna be 50. 40, 50? Yep. Yeah. It's gonna be 50. So this is their 50th year don't ask me how I know. Man, is this your 50th year as well? Hey. Oh, my 50th year already passed. Man. Next year, I'm gonna be fifty 2. Yeah. I'm gonna be fifty 2, so I'm a old dude. Yes. Yes. But the they're, yeah, they're pretty exciting. They're pretty excited. We're pretty excited, and I think roadtrek is is definitely on on a revitalization tour is what I like to call.

They're they're revitalizing their brand. Yes. Alright. Let's see. So I'm back. I don't know what's up with YouTube, to be honest with you. I think you guys are out there. I could still I think I could still see it. Looks like there's still people out there. We'll have to get Nick dialing back in. I don't know what's going on with YouTube. They may be having some technical issues because I'm pretty sure it's not on my side.

Kipp was asking the question, what will be the new features of the new 24, coachman beyond. There is a short that Nick and I put up on that that you guys could look at. They've got a lot of cool new things coming, including the, including a pop top. Let me see. I'm getting Nick Darling back in here. There you go. What's up? I do I don't know what's going on with YouTube, man. Let's be rolling. So the question was, do you wanna dive into some of the new stuff from Coachmen for this coming year?

Yeah. New stuff. Pop top. Pop top. Big deal for Coach to get a pop top. Huge deal. I love it. I'm so excited. So excited. Because so many so many of the pop comps are more like, Winnebago's solace type RVs that they're not they're not, like, fully loaded with all the lithium and all this, like, the real cabinetry and all the and all the stuff that that coachman does to their class bs. But but, they they're coaching's doing a great job of their pop top.

Yeah. For the field, full bathroom, cabinetry, everything. Starting with the Nova, which is cool. I'm not sure that every Nova floor model, floor plan is gonna have them, but, yeah, there you go. And there is a short Right? We've got a short out, and there's other stuff coming on that. So Yes. Yes. You know, you know what? I like Hank. I like a pop top.

That has four seat belts and that has a big fridge and that has real cabinetry and has a lithium Hank that has, you know, like, full quality of everything, not not just a pop top that is, very, you know, like like off road ish, utilitarian feeling. You know? So I think I think coachman's hitting a good market. Road check makes one. Like this and now show to Coachmen. So so they're they're both making a a real nice high quality pop top.

Yeah. I think a a pop top here would be awesome because you can if let's say you're using downstairs now, right? Cause now you'll have upstairs downstairs. If you're using downstairs for whatever, like, a, like, a office setup or something, you could always pop that top and sleep up there, you know, and, Yeah. So there there's I Hank this is a cool thing. We're not exactly sure, you know, which floor plans will have it, but it won't just be the Nova.

I think you will see it coming on the Beyond as well. And there's a there's quite a few other things that I know that I saw there at the show. They've, you know, we always talk about the, the system. What was it? Jensen that they were using? That's going on. Yes. They they stopped using Jensen. Now they use JBL. Yeah. So there's there's some cool things there. There's some new cabinets, some new, a new color on the inside.

So before you had either your wood grain, your your typical wood grain or white cabinets. I think you're gonna get a nice gray, which is kind of in the middle. Yeah. Yeah. The gray The grays, I mean, gray. They up they updated their sink. They updated some storage on the back. They've they've updated some of their they're awning. They're awning controls. They're, you know, they're fine tuning. I think they have a great product.

And I, and I think now that all the pieces and parts of the puzzle are available to them, they're fine tuning what they have. And, I think now's a great time for them to fine tune what they had. You know, it's like, we're before everything was controlled in that firefly, Now they're starting to take things out and making it independent to where you're not having to rely on one point that breaks and you lose control of everything in your coach. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What is the reason?

So they went to a square Hank from a round sink. And you would know the answer to this better, I think, than anyone. Would it because you've got customers that want a square Hank and not a round sink, and I'm I'm exposing it. Every What's the Everybody wants a square sink for some reason. Why? What's the Can you fit more in a square sink? I don't know. Maybe people out there can tell us what is so cool about the square or rectangular sake versus the round 1.

Well, Joanna Gaines started making a farmhouse sink on, fixer upper, Magnolia, something or another. And so maybe I think that's what it is. Oh, okay. Alright. That's I have no idea. Okay. Alright. Jackie Pee says, thanks guys for covering the Westfalia. I'm definitely interested. Okay. Very cool. And, make sure you hit up Sunshine State RV for that when, you know, when you get ready. I'm sure Nick will be happy for that. I will be thrilled to help you.

I'll even get Hank to come by and and meet you when you're there. Yeah. So she so Jackie P wants to know if I'm in town. Sure. Jackie P wants to know when can I purchase? A west failure. I would I would say it would be, you know, spring or summer of 2024. Mhmm. Okay. There you go. Alright. I hope that's good. Lola was asking if, was this speaking of the pivot, are they in production now? That was a big tease this year, and then it wasn't available.

Thanks, Lola. Yeah. Yeah. We did the we did a video on those going back to Tampa at the beginning of this year. Right? We did. Yeah. And so we're getting our first ones now. So we're, like, just about to get our first pivots here in the next the week or 2 they're telling us. Okay. You you won't know what to do with yourself. I will not know what to do. Now, well, now we're just waiting for the West Salia. So What happened what happened to the one that we did the video on? Did that get sold?

Was that a prototype? It went back? Yeah. I don't ask those questions. Hang on. I just seen, I'm just No. They take it back. They give me a little chrome, and then they take it back. And they give me a little chrome, and they take it back. Nick does not personally build these. I do not. I do not. There you go. So and Jackie Pee says, Nick, you're right. I want it all. So then he could We all do, my friend. We all do. Yes. And then she says, square things go with square RV. Okay. There you go.

I guess that's just a thing. Yeah. That's just a thing. I have seen people change from the van that they really wanted over a different van, because that van also had a square, you know, a rectangular sink. So No. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen people like it's all about the sake. And you can't, you know, that's people are like that. Right? There's just one feature that they had to have. When I bought my Beyond from you, you know, what my feature I had to have?

Something to put the toilet paper in to keep it dry because you didn't want wet toilet paper. No. No. No. That wasn't I I had to have all wheel drive. I'm joking. I have no idea. Right. Okay. All wheel drive. Yeah. All wheel drive was my thing. I went there. I saw the Beyond. It was all wheel drive. I liked the bathroom, the rare bath, biggest bathroom that you could get in a van. And then I was like, oh, this is my van. I'm just gonna sit right here.

And, it was Shelley that that, Shelley's great. Yeah. That was our salesperson. And Lola is like, well, aren't you gonna look at something else? I was like, no. This is it right here. I know what I want when I see it. So Lola and Shelley went and looked at other stuff, and I was like, good for you guys. I want this thing. So This is the 1. This is the 1. Yeah. That's how that's how it goes sometimes. Alright. Any other any other new stuff that, that that you saw Yeah.

Up. Mhmm. So, yeah, 27 North is coming out with with some new stuff. So we are about to get our 1st Rex rover It is Rex Rover.

Very exciting. The the the mold is there, and they sent me pictures of it. That is the Rex Rover. Mhmm. So if you notice, Hank, that's on a super cab, which is a small backdoor. They're telling me our our first one is gonna be on a truth 4 door crew cab. So I'm pretty excited about that. It is a F Three Fifty Larry it. Yeah. No. It is currently in production now. So very, very excited to see. That is the beginning of it. Oh, okay. Nice. That's F Three 50 Lariat crew cab.

Okay. And then And then let's see here. This And then there is this other picture that looks like the sandwich packed in, foil. It does. And then it goes. What is that? And then I don't know what that box is, but that that is gonna be our 1st Rex Rover. So very very excited about that. It's gonna have lithiumics, lithium batteries, and they have a thousand watts of solar. It's gonna have some really, really cool stuff on it. And and for all about half the price of an earth roamer.

So I think, I think it's gonna be huge things were really cool. So so they kinda released some of that stuff at OpenHouse. They also, on their venture vans, they showed us some of the new features and some of the new lithium them and, you know, some some cool new stuff that they're putting on the venture van as well. So 27 North was there at Open House as well. Yes. And I did do a video out there with Pavel, which is on the channel here. You guys can take a look at it.

Pavel basically showed us 19 changes that they made from the prototype to what they have there. One of the cool things I would say about 27 North, they are listening to people taking feedback, the folks that are that they're running into as well as people like, you, and they're they're making some cool upgrades to to their vehicles, man. So Yeah. I respect that. You know, that it's it's pretty cool because when whenever I give Pavel a suggestion or an idea or anything like that.

His he he always has the same you know, the same saying here, which says consider it halfway done. And, Yeah. Okay. Consider it halfway done. Right. Right. Yes. So you know what? Listen. I think that, some of some of the things I've seen them do, like, in the van, we did a video at this point, I don't know, maybe a month ago of the vans, the venture vans, and there's there's some cool things in there. Very big storage space in the back. You know, Yeah. Like a big garage area.

Yeah. Yeah. So, let's see here. So Lola says you're gonna need a bigger facility to house all that cool stuff. What do you know? We are building a new dealership right now. Oh, okay. How long is that gonna take? We're Mhmm. A year. A year. Okay. Alright. We bought 13 acres. It is it is starting to get cleared right now. Mhmm. And then once it is done getting cleared, then they will build the building on and they're telling us by theendofnextyear, we should be in fully functioning.

Mhmm. Okay. Alright. Cool. So very exciting. Hank, you're gonna have your own your own special parking spot right on the side, right next to the dumpster. We're gonna save you a spot right next to the dumpster. You know what? I'll take it. If I could get a dedicated spot, I'll take it off. You don't care where it is? No. I'm not gonna complain about it being next to the dumpster. Because I've seen the place now. So Sunshine State RVs right now looks like a airport.

Yes. Okay. It's packed in tight with vans, and you have other space and stuff like that. You guys got, places there. But it's so busy with things going in and out. It's crazy. And, yes. Yes. All day every day. Just leave. We bought 3 we bought 3 within a hundred foot radius of us Mhmm. Just to keep all of our RVs at them to have our customer parking to have everything that we need to function, to run the dealership here.

Yeah. Your guys are good at keeping those things from colliding with each other. You know? Yes. Yeah. Yes. It's insane. Absolutely insane. Yeah. When I look at it, it it, it amazing to look at. I'm gonna do a I'm gonna do some kind of time lapse one day. I'm gonna go we'll see if I could get someone up on the roof. And just do a time lapse of things moving around there. And just put a drone up in the air. And the whole time you're there, the drone will just be filming it.

Yeah. Yeah. There you go. So let's see. HD Stevenson says glad you're back. This is Steve soon to be are being from Virginia. We'll send in a question in about a few about one of your sponsors' coachmen. So that so there you go. Let me let you wanna know from them. Lola put up a a link, I guess, in the in the chat that you guys can go to to the, 27 North video. But you could just look here. We got tons of videos. And Sunshine State RVs also has a YouTube channel that you can look at the videos.

You, you know, you're putting out your own videos there. So and then let's see here. It says Everyday. Nick mentioned in another video that he has a 2024 coach from Beyond ordered and coming in a week or so, what options will they have?

So, every van from Coachmen that we order, we order the exact same way. Fully loaded every single option. So the only thing we go back and forth on is lithium or no lithium, because sometimes we don't order lithium on it. Because some people wanna generate her and they wanna save the $20. Other time, you know, the majority of them have lithium and, but every option that's available. So you got the leather, You got the upgraded installation. You got the upgraded window covers.

You have all the tank heaters. We flatbed ship all of our vans here, so nothing has any miles on it. So all of the options that coach makes available we utilize all of those options, and and we put it all on every single band. A a new cool option, Hank, that we just got one of our first ones, is a double lithium. So instead of 630 amp hours of lithium, they now have 1260 and powers of lithium. Okay. Cool. So the 60th edition or what is it 60th anniversary? 60th anniversary.

Yeah. They're all not gonna have double lithium, but that is one of the things that you can put on it is double lithium. Oh, sweet. Is that a Beyond, the Galleria, a no So the ones we have right now is a Galleria FL in the Galleria a. The the beyond 20 22 c that coachman, Nova 20c20d can all have double with them. So those 5 models. Okay. Alright. Awesome. There you go. And there's gonna be Yeah. We Hank we have 2 or 3 here right now with double lithium.

Yeah. And some of these things are kind of, like, rolling through. So you might see videos that are really prototypes of stuff that's coming. Right? And then those things all have to get worked out and all that. Usually, first, they make the prototype and test it and see how it all fits together. So for example, like, we were talking about, a pop top. Right? Everything can't have a pop top. Correct. Yeah. Correct.

I mean, if you have a rear bath, you can't put the air conditioner in the back of the van on top of the bathroom. Right. Unless they figure that out somehow. How do you figure it out? I don't know. They better because I want a pop top in the future. But I want a rare bat. So someone better figure out where to put that AC. So my wife said if we ever got 1, we would have to get the pop top because I snored too bad. And she would put my butt up top, she said, and she'd sleep down below.

Yeah. Okay. Don't blame her. You need to get a sleep. But she shares a bed with me now for 20 years every night. She has shared a bed with me. She needs to put you on the Darth Vader mass, you know, the sleep machine. Yeah. Lola is happy since I got a sleep machine. So there you go. Mary's gonna have to drag you down there and get you on 1. And, Sunshine State RV also, I'm guessing that's Bethany did put a link to the YouTube channel here.

HD Steve HD Stevenson says you and Lola influence us to get it beyond. Saw your video on dumping. Do you know if coachman plans to offer a macerator on the beyond anytime soon, wife's not a fan of the stinky slinky. Okay. So don't they do a don't they do a May Strange on a they do it on the Galleria, but I don't think they do it on the beyond, though. Yeah. So they they do not. There are, a maturator Excuse me. There are a master's systems that we can install at the gravity fed.

So there's a port there's, I don't wanna say portable because you can't move it. But there's a a a latch on macerator system that we can install at the tank place. So right where you dump, we can put a master heater there. And then there is no stinky, slinky. You just pull it out. Just then it pumps itself, and then you put it back. Yeah. Okay. So aftermarket, so to speak, you can get that. Right? Is it accurate? That is correct. That is correct.

Yes. You know, I'll check with that's a good question, I think, for for Coachmen and I don't know anything about that. I'll check with it. I know whenever I borrow something that has a macerator from you guys, I prefer that. So I don't blame anyone for wanting that. You know, it's a good option, a good upgrade. Yeah. So, you know, short of a of some kind of like Tesla bought that comes out and it does all of that for you. You know, I don't know what's better. So there you go.

Yeah. Yeah. So I'll check I'll check with with, Coachmen here sometime in the future. And see what's the possibility of getting that because I think it would be cool. Jackie Pee says speaking of ordering every option, will you order order lithium packages on Westfalia and have them stocked with everything? Yes. I will. Yes. The Westfalia is gonna have lithium I don't know what type of lithium. I know they're what they're currently doing is 600 amp hours.

I don't know if they're gonna be continue to do that or do something different because it is 6 or 8 months away. Mhmm. But a 100% we will order it with lithium. Yeah. You it's your door closed over there. Are you getting enough oxygen? No. I I I I actually had a big lunch today. And I ate lunch, and I'm ready to fall asleep. Oh, it's Thursday. This, you see, this is Thursday. This is the problem with you getting a big look. Okay. Lola says, we saw a lot of upgrades coming.

Lola and I are now official brand ambassadors for Coachmen class b. So I wanted to take a moment to tell you guys why we, as Vanosaurus, like it says on our t shirt, are very excited about our partnership with Coachmen Class B. First off, Coachmen RVs has been a leader to the great outdoors since 1964. So next is the fact that Coachmen really cares about you as an owner whether you bought new or used after you buy your van, they really take care of you.

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You can't go wrong with a coachman class b. So if you're interested, check out the link in our description and find the coachman van that's best for you. Alright. So I I know we're running a little bit late. That's because we had some issues. We can take some, some comments and things like that here, and then and then we'll wrap it up. Hang on. I think you just sold the first West failure to Jackie. Yes. That's right, Jackie. Come on, Hank. Let's go.

You better hurry up and get that voice mail over there. You better go to Canada and have that thing built right now. I just text I just text Mike Williams, Canada Mike, who is our our our road trip rep. And I said, hey, Mike. We just sold the first West Valley on Hank's podcast. I needed it to be a special edition. And and he said, okay. Oh, there you go. The Jackie P edition. The Jackie P edition. There you go. Yeah, Lola, I was gonna say right there.

Well, that Lola said we saw a lot of upgrades coming from Coachmen in the 2024 model. So you guys should look out for that. I think coach wins listened to a lot of, feedback and all that kind of stuff and and, you know, you'll love it. So and there's and some of these things are rolling. Right? You're saying you're already seeing some stuff coming through the vans that you have there. So That, yes. Yeah. Some of the stuff is coming through.

It and it will be here soon, you know, some of the new 24 stuff on the coach bins and everything else. But, yeah, there's there's a lot to be excited about. There's a lot. You know, now that the chip issues, you know, the chips where they can't get chassis and parts, all that. Now that seems like it is being solved. They can actually go back to being some kind of innovative and upgrades and some cool changes, and now there's a new strike.

So I don't know if there ain't really a chassis now, but I got I got no idea. Always something, throwing a a wrench into this to the work. Hank on. I got a great idea. Jackie Pizza. Let's do a show together. You know, it'd be a cool show if you did one, like, showing how people make decisions on what van they wanna buy. I'm assuming she doesn't have one, and I'm assuming that she saw your video of your Westphalia wants to buy 1 now. Like, that'd be cool to say, you know, why the Westphalia?

Why this? Why, you know, like, kinda talk through that with her And, yeah, I think that'd be a cool show. Absolutely. Yeah. Let let me know when you're coming to town. You know, I'm not sure where Jackie is. You don't have tell us right here, but you can get in touch with either Lola and myself, or you can go directly to the Sunshine State RV guys. And, if you're in town and I'm here, I'll come down and hang out with pop top and a garage from my ebike, big fridge, and lithium package.

One thing lacking its 4 by 4 ability. What can you do about that, Nick? Nothing. Add some 4 by 4 up there. You know, is there a retrofit for 4 by 4 for the Pro Master's for the new ones that I don't know. I don't know. We're gonna have to research that. I've heard there is, but I don't wanna say definitely that I mean, like, Quigley Quigley is a brand that makes, you know, after market 4 by 4. I've seen transit vans with them. I've seen different vans to have have that.

You know, Quigley might be a good one. Yeah. There you go. So David, 40 day 40 9 says is double lithium composed of 4 of those extra large regular lithiums? No. Double lithium is 2 of the lithium ionics battery. So each battery is 630 amp hours, and then it includes a second one. I'm I'm trying to, you know, the size is, I don't know if I had to guess 2 feet by one foot. I don't know. Hank, does that sound about right? Yeah. I'll go with that. I'll go with that.

Yes. It's just of those batteries, so far as I know. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I I I'm not quite sure. Yeah. Their foot risk. I do know it's too bad because I've seen it. We've installed it. We've done it. I just I I just don't know what the actual measurements are. Yeah. Durfoot racing says, hey. Hey. Hey. You know, Durfoot racing. That's Walter. Who bought a van from you that he's worked that, you know, he completely gutted and he's rebuilding.

Yeah. So, yeah, we need to catch up on some videos of that. And Oh, that'd be cool. Yeah. Me and Walter did a little, a little bartering. We need to we need to catch up on a video of what we bartered for. Oh, oh, yeah. That's a whole other thing. A whole completely different other thing. Lola says, what about accessories like roof racks for the Pro Master? Will you be upfitting for people that want that with the roof racks and stuff. Yeah. So we do that every single day.

So every day, we're hooked up with Owl vans, Illumines, flare space, adventure wagon. We're we are buying in the backwoods, We are, we are buying and installing those every single day on people, Strange vans, transit vans, Pro Master vans, any any of that stuff people want, we can do a 100% of it. We double lithium systems, triple lithium systems. We do all the off road stuff. We lift them. We do LED lights.

I mean, that's, you know, I got 3 vans in right now that we're doing that type of stuff for. Yeah. Yeah. So the answer to that is more like We did a video, remember turning from a beast to a To super mega mega beast or something like that. I don't remember what we called it. Yeah. I was telling a lady that, was she in Arizona that Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She bought a regular American Coach Patriot. We wrapped it matte black, and then we did, wheels and running boards and and front bumper, rear bumper.

We did all these LED lights everywhere. We did suspension upgrade. I mean, we did so much stuff Yeah. It looked really nice too. I wanna do I have an yeah. I've had the van vinyl wrap. You've seen that. And folks have seen it out there. We've we've been traveling all over the, the country with it. So let me see if I could if I have a picture right here that I could throw up of the of the van as it is right now for for, for people out there who have not seen it.

You know, I've got some things I still wanna do with the van. We just hit we just actually hit, 55,000 miles, Nick. Wow. 55 k miles. Lola and I did a update. So that video will be coming out. 55 k miles. The van is is still good. Are you ready for trading yet? No. Not It's not quite yet. I'm waiting for the pop top now. But check it out. Waiting for the trail. Oh, look at that. Oh, yeah. The trail. Oh, the trail. The Strange. Yeah. Trails are nice too. So checking out I love your yeah.

See, I love your grill. I think the grill is sharp. Yeah. That is the Raptor grill that's on there. So, yeah, that's, you know, I think what I wanna do, if if anyone asks me what I wanna to do. Next thing, I wanna put, like, a minimal bumper there that I think Backwoods is coming out with that, well, a mill a mill like, it's almost like it's, what's it called? The, the, the rescue, the, the rescue thing that goes in the bumper and completely. Lynch? The winch. Excuse me.

See, I told you I was I was, over 50. Yeah, I wanna I was

about making a joke. You made the joke yourself. Yeah. I wanna put a winch in there, and then also there's like a roof rack. So I wanna take my awning put a roof rack and then hang an awning off of that roof rack. Can be done. So, yeah, that's that's my plans, with that. So, Jeff Erderman's, let's see what's he say. He says a friend has a 2023 Riz 18 m that he said uses a lot of battery power, are there any recommendations to make it more efficient?

Yeah. You know, the most efficient thing you can do for your batteries is not run your air condition. I'm assuming he's talking about lithium. Yeah. The microwave and batteries are are what really drained your lithium batteries. Or, yeah, the the microwave and air conditioner I would drain the lithium battery. So if you cannot use those 2 things, that that would definitely, conserve Your battery power. I agree with that. If it so and obviously, some people, you know, you've gotta use your AC.

If you live here in Florida, for example, no matter what you do, you're gonna have to use that AC, but you wanna, do things like park in the shade. You know, that kind of stuff. If you've got an older AC that maybe is not as efficient, you could upgrade that AC. I know that people go to 12 volt ACs, for efficiency. But if you live in Florida, 12 Volt AC is really not gonna or if you spend a lot of time in any place that's hot, Florida, Texas, Arizona.

Yeah. 12 volts is not really gonna be able to handle the work out there. I think that the Trauma, which I have the Trauma Aventi it's 110, but it's it's better. Nope. You know, it's more efficient. So, Jeff Erdeman says refrigerators specifically. Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm not sure of that van. Have you heard of that? I've never heard of that van. Yeah, I think it's a Thor RISE, r I z e. Yeah.

The fridge, I mean, you know, if if it doesn't have lithium, then then, then a regular battery isn't gonna run it for that long. If it does have lithium, it should run the fridge for days. If it does have lithium, I don't know what options Alright. So it does. Yeah. Is that is that refrigerator a twelve volt? Is it big? Is it small? All that kind of stuff will have things to do with it? You know, and you can always go. Like, we were talking about accessories that you can get.

You can always get accessories for a refrigerator as well. Get a separate fridge that you go in and out of that versus like the main fridge. But, yeah, you you know, ultimately, it it's, you know, it's just one of these things that has to do with the conditions that you're in. So if you really wanna save power, go to colder places That's that's the big statement. Don't be in Florida when it's hot, which is for most of the time. We're in North Central Florida, so this is the good time to be here.

So, and then I'll take this one last thing from Lola oh, we've got another one coming in. Lola says, when it comes to service issues, what are, say, 5 things folks can do to to make themselves to maintain their RV? What do you got?

5 things. Mhmm. Yes. They can. To maintain their RV itself. So, obviously, you wanna get your engine oil Strange. Mhmm. Regularly. You want to cock, it gets your cock checked out on all of your fans, on all of your joints, everywhere that there's calk around your windows, Hank that checked out every year.

Mhmm. Your your furnace, make sure that it gets your, your furnace hot water heater, make sure that gets blown out because you end up getting, things like during the summer when you don't use your furnace, you know, bee's nest and mud daubers end up growing in there. And so getting that, you know, checked out and now maintaining the hot water heater and all that.

Your fridge, you wanna keep, you wanna make sure you are using that regularly because if that sits, it doesn't get used for a year or 6 months, and then you try to use it it ends up having to work really hard, and it's just not, it's, it's not good for it. And then for your lithium batteries and solar panels, keep the solar panels cleaned off and you're lifting batteries charged up to where they they're they don't run dead. You wanna keep them charged up if you have lithium.

Yeah. So those would be my 5 things that I would do if I had a class BOB. Yep. That's all that's all good stuff. Day day 49 says probably needed least double lithium if one uses much AC. That is correct. I I was doing a video with Raven yesterday on the Galleria that had double lithium. And when we turn the tremor air conditioner on, the the double lithium package said it could run that AC for 13 hours.

Compressor was on, air conditioner, the fridge was on, every light was on, inverter was on, And then so I can run that AC for 13 hours. Yeah. So just to go to Jeff Erderman's question here, he actually came back and gave us some info. He says there's a 12 volt 12 volt fridge and there's 2 100 amp AGM batteries. So that would be the issue right there. The AGMs. Yeah, you you know, my advice, if your friend can do it, is switch over to lithium. So Yeah. And they make drop ins.

Battleborn makes great drop ins where you can just take those 100 amp hour lithium or agents out. And just put a bottle born in, and it's gonna make a world of a difference on your fridge. Yeah. There you go. And so do you guys I know the answer to this, but do you guys do kinds of, upgrades, retrofits? Every single day. That's good. That's good. I didn't harass you too much on mine. Right? So and I'm happy with my upgrade. You did not. There you go. So you can go to Sunshine State RV. You know?

And We got some some some funny information on your Hank. Yeah. Well, we wound up, you know, I I think we I I've said this, and I even said in the video we recently did. We put one battery inside and one battery outside. Which initially, you know, everyone thought that was gonna be okay. We just made there was a longer cable going to the outside. So the inside one, we made the cable that length. And we thought, oh, that will be fine.

But as Nick is saying, these lithium batteries are very finicky, and there's lots of things that could affect them. So one being outside and one being inside, different ambient temperatures outside versus inside, and the management system didn't know how to properly function with those batteries, and one went bad. So Well, it's also the amount of of wire.

So if you have one battery that from the charging source, the battery's 20 feet, and the other one, the back charging source, the battery's 10 feet the one at 10 feet ceiling charge faster, and they're not getting charged the same. So you can't have that. Both of your batteries has to have the same, the same distance or the same wiring from the charging source to the battery.

Yeah. We did that However, I think the issue was the temperatures and just like the the the battery management system reading those different temperatures, because obviously outside is gonna be hotter. So, the battle born guys advised us to put both batteries inside, and we wound up, obviously, I had to get a new battery and we completely different batteries. And we got the GC threes from Battle Born, which could both fit inside. And you guys were able to move everything around.

It is under one of my bench seats, everything had to be moved so that those 2 batteries could sit in there. And that's pretty much solved, whatever issues we Hank there. So, So I had a crazy idea. The Galleria that has 2 batteries in it. Right now, there's enough room to put a third battery in it. Oh, no. I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna post to the guys at Coachmen to make me one that has 3 batteries in it. So it's at 6:30 12 60 The 1890 amp hours of batteries. Okay. Alright.

Yeah. How cool is that? That would be cool. Probably, like, about 30, $40,000 extra. That's only money, Hank. Yeah. Well, you know, listen. Someone I I would be happy to have that much, lithium power. You could go, like, 24 hours on your AC. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you could sleep through the daytime like a vampire. You know, so if you It's so funny. If you are nosferatu out there and you want to sleep through the daytime, in your van. Yes. 3 3 of them. 3 batteries will do. Will be awesome.

Yeah. Okay. Listen. Where I gotta wrap this up. I gotta wrap this up. Hey. So one last question. You know how Mister Beast got famous. Right? How did he get famous? He counted to 1,000,000 on YouTube. He counted to 1,000,000? Counted to 1,000,000 in a consecutive YouTube video. Why don't we sit here and do this for 24 hours Strange? And then maybe maybe we'll get famous. No. No. I can't do it. You can't do it. I don't even know what you're talking about. If I agree with you, Ben Watts.

I'm gonna fall asleep over here. You're bet you're betting that I'm not gonna agree with you. That's the thing. But I think we got a lot of good info out. We we had some interruptions. I apologize for whatever caused that, but I think we got some good info. Of course, I'm gonna give you the last words here, Nick. What do you want folks to know? If people are looking at this, they wanna get in touch with you guys. How should they do that? Yeah. So to recap the video or the podcast 2024.

I had some great things for the RV industry, especially class b's, and I'm glad that Hank got to experience firsthand and and that we got to experience it together. And that Hank was so generous to document a lot of it, for you guys to see it. You know, we deliver any RVs that we have here for free anywhere in the United States from our front door to your front door. No charge. We can get you anything. We can help you with anything.

We have this pretty cool sunshine state elite club where where we we fly you here. If you do wanna come here, teach you how to use CRV puts you up in a campground for 2 nights to so that way you can test everything.

And then we guarantee service appointments within 5 days. And we give you tech support no matter where you're at anywhere in the country on your RV. So we're there with you before you buy it. We give you the selection. While you're buying it, we teach you how to use it. Then after you, you buy it, we guarantee service appointments. We pick it up from your house, valet it, deliver it back to you for free and Don't be embarrassed to ask for this because I see people doing it.

You should not be some people folks out there might Hank, oh, there's no way people take them on this. They do every day. Yeah. And I love it. Yes. I heard their lovely lady who at the airport, someone one of your guys met her at the airport with a car that said congratulations on your new RV. I heard that. Yes. Yeah. There you go. And in our waiting room today, it was full of people who were taking us up on our 5 day service appointment. Then we had extra lunch, and we fed them all lunch.

And the people just come here and they make a day of it. What was for lunch today? I missed that. Today was public subs, chicken tenders, mac and cheese, corn nuggets, and onion rings. Okay. Alright. Nice. I missed out on lunch. Pretty good. Yeah. I should get lunch. Lunch should be delivered to me out here every Thursday. Every Thursday. Yeah. Every Deal. Yeah. I gotta go in. I gotta actually go in for this. Alright. Listen. Thanks a lot. Day 49 says Chow. Hank so much for everyone out there.

We'll see you next Thursday. We'll be back here doing this again, and make sure you check out Sunshine State RV on YouTube as well as the videos that we have here. We've got some stuff up already. That's it. We're out of here. We'll see you guys. Peace. See you in the next one. See you.