Hell, that thing sounds good!
Sneak peek at what we're taking away, by the way, for season 10 of All 4 Adventure.
Anyway, how's it going guys?
It's Jase here.
It's time for another Ask Jase, so all the questions have been coming in, and I've got
a whole new line of questions here that people are asking me to answer.
So if you haven't sent in any questions, go for it.
Send some questions in, because I'll tell you what, people are loving it.
So hopefully I can give you the information that you need, all the information that you're chasing.
Alright here we go, #1.
So this is from George.
How you goin', George, if you're watching.
George H. Don't know what ‘H’ stands for... maybe George Harry.
“When you're making your episodes, what do you work out...”
No, hang on.
“When you're making your episodes, how do you work out how much food to take?
Do you prepare meals ahead of time and freeze them?”
Well George, hell no, I'm not eating TV dinners or frozen food.
Why would I do that?
Yeah, I get grandma to cook up a big pot of spaghetti.
No, no, it doesn't happen.
Don't do that. That would probably be a good idea actually.
I might think about it.
No, anyway no we don't do that.
What we do is we go to the supermarket, Simon and myself, and we just buy fresh fruit and
veg, as much as we can.
Now there's a lot of tricks involved in the storage of that fresh fruit and veg.
I'll tell you what, you've got to have 12-volt refrigeration.
There's no doubt about it.
The 12-volt refrigeration, gone are the old days of the esky and the icebox and all that.
And wet sandwiches and the bag of chicken half full of water.
Those days are gone.
12-volt refrigeration, which means you can store fresh fruit and veg for longer periods
in your truck in the hot temperatures up north or the cold climate down south.
So realistically I've got to sort of buy twice as much food for Simon and half as much for me.
There you go.
But what we do is we try and cook up some fresh veggies every night.
So veggies, either it's a piece of meat or a piece of salmon.
Oh we're big fans of salmon, and we're big fans of catching our own fish and eating that as well.
And then every now and again we'll cook up a damper.
Chuck it in the camp oven, and we'll have that at the end of our meal as well, so it's
sort of like a bit of a treat.
And then what you do is you get that damper and then you use the rest of it--you wrap
it up in a tea towel and you have it next day for smoko with a bit of jam.
How good's that?
So yeah, no we cook everything out in the field.
We've got it down to a fine art.
We can rock into a supermarket.
We know exactly what we want... potatoes, pumpkin, we need broccoli.
We don't use corn anymore, because it's a huge, huge cob of corn.
And then it's got all these little bits of yellow stuff on the outside, and you throw it away.
It's too bulky.
Aha, you wouldn't think that, would you?
Anyway, thank you, George, for your question.
All right, who else we got here?
We got Bill T., Billy T, how you goin', Billy?
Okay... “hi Jase, I always look forward to your adventures...”
Thanks, Bill.
“I know you have the magic of television at hand, but do you guys get punctures, blowouts,
shredded tyres and the like.”
Well Billy, that's a fair and legitimate question.
Yes the magic of television, smoke and mirrors, you know, 5 minutes you're watching us in
the bog takes 5 hours.
That's the magic of television.
But to answer your question, I'll tell you what... no.
I kid you not.
I do not be spending that much time in the bush with damaged tyres, I kid you not.
The tyre that we use is the MTZ P3, so it's a Mickey Thompson Mud Terrain.
Tough as nails.
I tell you, I do use a plug kit.
So I've got a plug kit because the punctures I get is a bloody roofing screw in my tyre
driving around the car park at Woolworths.
So we don't actually get the punctures and shredded tires that you get with--I don't
know what sort of brand of tyre you use--but we don't get it.
So there you go, mate.
Hopefully Billy, that answers the question.
Take a plug kit, because they are gold.
Alrighty who we got here?
We got Robyn.
Robyn T. How you goin', Robyn?
Robyn's question is “have either of you ever been badly hurt” and then she's got
in brackets “hope not”.
Thanks, Robyn.
Yes, yes and I don't know whether you watched this episode.
I was in the Kimberley, and we were on this absolute painful track.
Like it was an awesome track, but it was tough going.
And I was rolling these big boulders away out of the trailer from this big jump up that
we were going up, and I got a hernia.
Now luckily it wasn't as bad as it could have been, because they do say that when a hernia
pops out, pushing through the the wall and muscle of your gut.
So it's your gut popping out through the muscle, does that make sense?
I'm not a doctor. Anyway you gut pops out through your muscle, and you've got this big
bulge out here.
They reckon if it gets strangulated--so that means if if the muscle closes in around it,
clamps the wall, the lining of your gut--and then next thing you know you've cut off your gut.
That bit dies, because you're out in the bush and you can't get medical help.
And it's all bad.
Now I was extremely paranoid that that was going to happen.
So I made sure that when I slept at night, I slept and I pushed it back in and all this
sort of stuff.
So if you could say we've been badly hurt that would be the one time where I was probably
worried the most.
I'm pretty sure I didn't ring the wife and tell her until it was all good, because we
were literally in the middle of nowhere.
It would have been a bit of a mission to get me out to the hospital on that one.
But it was all good.
I got the operation when I came home, and now I'm a hundred percent.
So there you go, Robyn. Thank you.
Very legitimate answer that one... or question, hopefully that answers your question.
Alrighty who we got left?
We got Andrew H. How you goin', Andrew?
Okay... “hi Jase, I have a stock four-wheel drive.
Apart from tires, what would be the first upgrade you would do?”
Andrew, this is a very common question asked of myself and Simon all the time,
especially at the 4x4 shows.
Okay so you've got tyres on your virtually stock 4-wheel drive.
The second thing I would go with is suspension.
The third thing, I would go with frontal protection.
Why?
Well suspension... when you're up on those rough, rattly, dirt roads, you're carrying
everything including this kitchen sink as per normal.
You're gonna need good suspension otherwise your car is going to rattle to bits.
So don't be afraid to get a little bit of lift in your car.
Get some heavier springs because of the load that you're carrying.
Frontal protection. Why frontal protection?
Here's a scenario.
I've got the family in the car, packed 'em up.
We're going on our two-week trip to the top of Cape York, because this is the trip we've
planned for the last three years.
And we've got our 4-wheel drive, and there's no bull bar on the front.
We drive down the road.
Skippy jumps across.
Bang!
Skippy ends up through the radiator, and poor ol Skippy.
But poor old family trip, because I'll tell you what, one: the Skippy could come over
the bonnet and through the windscreen. Remember that.
Two: it'll instantly destroy your radiator, which means the car stops.
Now if you had frontal protection, just a bull bar even.
You're replacing the front bumper.
You've got a bit of impact protection there.
Old Skippy hits the bull bar, deflects off, he's gone, you keep going on your holiday.
There you go. Hope that answers your question.
And here we go.
I think that's all we got time for today.
Thank you, Andrew.
And I'll see you guys next time on Ask Jase.
And don't forget to send in some more questions.
See you guys.