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The Truck Show Podcast

S3, E39 - Mercedes and Andy Lilienthal

The Truck Show Podcast

Truck Famous, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Leisure, Business, Automotive

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Join Mercedes and Andy Lilienthal as they are fresh off of a 29-day, 7,163 mile, cross-country trip along the entirety of the historic TransAmerica Trail… in a Subaru! Hear all about their epic adventure, how the Crosstrek Wilderness did, how many flats they got, and how many nights were in a hotel room. Holman also ponders the $45,000 pickup truck, and what you get for your money. The Truck Show Podcast is produced in partnership with AMSOIL, Kershaw Knives, and OVR Mag.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Truck Show podcast where we bring you interesting interviews, along with the

0:05.3

latest in trucks a couple of times a week. I'm your host Holman, and I wanted to make a quick shout

0:10.0

out to my friend Jeremy Headley, who's recovering from what should have been a routine procedure on

0:14.3

his back, but he ended up partially paralyzed. Obviously with what I recently went through with my

0:19.5

daughter and myself, this one hits close to home. He's doing better. He's working through it. But there was a GoFundMe started to help him and his family out through this time. If you'd like to donate to it, you can find the link on our Facebook page or on the Podshed Insider Group. He's one of the good guys in the industry, and we wish him the best. A little update on

0:38.8

the 392 redo. It's coming along, and I wanted to say thank you again to Jackson Ellis and Ellis

0:44.8

Family Stores, which includes Glendale, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram in Glendale, California,

0:50.4

and I want to thank our friends over at American Expedition Vehicles, which the Jeep is currently

0:54.9

at. It landed there last Friday. And man, I've been on the phone, on emails. I've had so much

1:00.2

support from the industry reaching out saying, hey, let's get you back in your Jeep. Let's get this thing

1:04.6

going. Many of them you'll hear on the podcast in coming months. Real quick, I want to thank

1:09.3

Baja Designs, Warn, Factor 55, Z Automotive, Bill

1:13.7

Stein, BF Goodrich Tires, Midland USA, Mopar, Evo Manufacturing, American Adventure Lab, Apex

1:20.7

Designs, Expex, of course, our friends over at Amsoil, and OVR MAG, you'll see more of the

1:26.8

Jeep in the magazine. And again,

1:28.6

you'll hear some folks coming on the podcast talking about their latest and greatest products

1:33.4

for your Jeep or truck. On this episode, we check in with our friends, Mercedes, and Andy Lillianthal,

1:39.0

from Crankshaft Culture, as they give us their download on the most recent adventure,

1:46.1

traversing the entire Transamerica trail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in a Subaru.

1:51.9

It's a pretty awesome story of perseverance, adventure, and experience in a non-traditional

1:56.2

adventure machine, at least us truck folks. It's a great story and it was a fun interview to do.

2:01.2

Also,

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