S3, E89 - Mercedes Goes To Dakar
The Truck Show Podcast
Truck Famous, LLC.
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Journalist Mercedes Lilienthal shares her experiences covering the 2026 Dakar Rally and Holman pays an overdue visit to a long-time podcast listener. The Truck Show Podcast is produced in partnership with AMSOIL, Kershaw Knives, and OVR Mag. Don't forget to check out truckshowpodcast.com for special offers from our friends and sponsors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's good to see you. Welcome back to the Truck Show podcast. This is your host Holman, and we're coming from the pod shed live in Huntington Beach, California. And first off, I wanted to say thank you to everybody who reached out and said, hey, I can only download 28 minutes of the episode or something like that for the last one. And there was a glitch on upload. So that caused a problem, obviously. So I uploaded the file again, |
| 0:21.7 | pushed it out everywhere. And I know some of you continue to have issues throughout the week, |
| 0:25.4 | even though the correct file was in place. And a lot of times that has to do with the cash on |
| 0:29.1 | your phone, having downloaded the incorrect one, and then not resetting to download the new correct one. |
| 0:34.9 | So what you can do in the future is go to another app. |
| 0:37.9 | So if you listen on Spotify, try Apple or vice versa. Or you can restart the app or restart your phone and it should force a new download. So anyway, the correct episode's up. It's been up for a while. So if you're still having problems or you didn't go back, please try and go back and listen to that episode. It's a good one. but thank you, again, for reaching out letting me know because as soon as I hear those things from you guys, I instantly jump on it. And within probably, I don't know, five or six hours, it was corrected. But I know that didn't work for everybody. So sorry about that. Hopefully this episode is uncorrupted and untrunkated for you. |
| 1:14.1 | All right, so I have to admit this week, I had a triumph. |
| 1:15.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:22.2 | All right, that's enough. |
| 1:25.2 | I finally got, I swear it's been like 80 hours. |
| 1:33.4 | Finally got the entire KC American Venture Lab Arc, 105 amp hour battery system wired in the back of the Jeep. |
| 1:35.7 | And it is spectacular. |
| 1:41.6 | I wish I could tell you the amount of pain, time, struggles, extra money. |
| 2:02.9 | How many times a day the Amazon guy came to my house with like connectors and wires and things? How many times I still can't feel my fingertips, but the payoff is huge. And so there's going to be a video. We teased a couple of videos and they were over like, I don't know, 30,000 views between myself and American Veteran Lab and KC and all these handwriters and how do we get that? So if you're one of those people, stay tuned. |
| 2:06.5 | Hopefully this week I'm going to be putting out a new walkthrough video so you can see everything. |
| 2:08.8 | It is phenomenal. |
| 2:17.7 | The fact that everything's hidden within the shelf, I was able to get all the wires, all of the battery, all the controller, everything tucked up out of the way. |
| 2:19.9 | I'm really proud of my wiring on it. |
| 2:21.2 | Everything's super clean. |
| 2:25.8 | And then through the Red Arc Red Vision, I can control things like lighting. |
| 2:26.6 | I can dim it. |
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