BONUS - Overland EXPO PNW 2026, Redmond

Hello and welcome to another bonus episode from the Subinu podcast.

This one is coming from my trip out to Overland Expo PNW 2026.

And as you can see, this is a really long episode, but there's a lot of really great conversations and I mixed in some fun stuff in the middle, which you will find out whenever we get there or whenever you get there.

But I encourage you to listen to it all at once or break it up in pieces.

It doesn't matter.

But I had a lot of fun with these interviews, and I was extremely thankful for Subaru bringing me out to do this.

So, yeah, it's a long one, but it's a good one.

The majority of the conversations are with people that were at Subaru Base Camp.

I recorded a lot of them there at Subaru Base Camp.

I also did some over at the Subaru booth.

I did one with Benjamin who goes by BMC Adventures because his car was in the booth and I wanted to record in front of his car.

I actually had another conversation with a guy named Mike who just happened to be visiting Overland Expo.

He wasn't a camper.

But he was coming through the booth and we just kind of bumped into each other, started talking.

Turns out he's from Dallas and he actually drove out.

Not in his own Subaru, but he did drive out to Overland Expo P&W, which is crazy.

He did say he is going to drive his Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness, though, to Overland Expo Colorado.

So I think that's pretty cool.

But I got a conversation with that guy as well.

But I want to give a huge shout out to Subaru of America, first of all, for putting this together.

Thank you to everybody.

Subaru of America, Rune Management, G7, and also to Emily, our camp host.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Emily.

Happy birthday to you.

Yay!

So Emily's birthday was two days after that particular day of the event.

So everybody wanted to sing happy birthday to her because her birthday was going to be in two days.

So that is why I included that.

They all did such an amazing job.

And then there's also a whole team of people that have to pack all this stuff up into a trailer and then unpack it when they get to the next event.

Put it all together and then take it back down again and then just...

Up, down, up, down for all these events.

And it's a lot of work.

If you've been there, you've seen the structures, you know that it's a big deal.

And everything looks so amazing.

And then, of course, Subaru Base Camp was just elevated by like 1,000% from last year.

And it was just such an incredible experience, not just for me, but for everybody that was there.

All the people that I was talking to, so many people expressed many, many thanks for even being there in the first place So that is what I ended up asking people about their cars.

Of course, you can't just like not talk about their Subarus and there's a little bit about their Subaru journey.

But the majority of the conversations were asking them like what their impressions were of Subaru Basecamp.

what their impressions were of the booth at overland expo and then of course overland expo itself but that was what i was there to talk to these people about and it was just again it's so great having these conversations you know that most of the time i'm recording from in my closet in houston so to be able to go out to these events and meet people in person like really really means a lot to me and um because i don't get a chance to do that very often So thank you so much, Joe, for bringing me out to do this.

It really, really means a lot.

I'm extremely thankful and grateful, and I feel very, very blessed to be able to do this.

Make some noise for Joe, everybody.