Conversations with Big Rich Big Rich Klein

“If I’m going to weld, it might as well be for myself,” we couldn’t agree more. Join Todd Gronsdahl from Aqualu Industries and Big Rich on Episode 225. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.6:57 – I took any job I could get because I really didn’t have any skillset 11:15– Rich: I asked your wife, “Is that your boyfriend?” She says, God, no, that’s my husband, my boyfriend would be way older and way richer! 13:30 – I bought a dilapid...

Derek Trent, master fabricator and owner of Trent Fab joins us on Episode 224. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.9:11 – a couple of times I got in some trouble with the law and was told to push my motorcycle home 16:16– I was 21 years old and I hit a point where I had to make a “What am I going to do?” decision 24:31 – out of the box, a YJ was pretty damn tough31:49 – Jason Berger was driving my car and eneded up breaking the TH...

Bart Jacobs hails from Utah and has participated in every extreme sport the state offers – from skiing to mountain biking to OG rockcrawling. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.3:41 – I decided, as stupid 16-year-olds do, that drag racing would be fun. 10:40 – I was still ski-jumping and ended up hurting my leg, for rehab, I started mountain biking, and doing longer and longer rides 18:46 – XJ’s didn’t have a great reputation, an...

Diesel mechanic – because he had to be – Logan Backus shares life in the trenches, the rockcrawling trenches, with all of us. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.4:48 – We were known for the kids in the neighborhood to build the biggest, baddest jumps out there. 14:43 – my dad’s like, “I don’t know why you want a truck like that? They’re expensive and they break.” 25:47 – this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done – but the owner to...

Meet the Desert Rat in his Desert Toy, John James, D-Toy in the old Pirate days shares his history in rock-crawling. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.3:57 – We learned how to fight early, and we were little guys, so if one us got in a fight, both of us got in a fight. 15:09 – one of the best things I did, not just going to school in Phoenix, but just moving to Phoenix, it was literally the biggest city I’d ever seen, and living there on my own with my parents six hours away...

Cal Wells III on Episode 220. Such a privilege to interview Cal Wells. We talk about all the racing, racing, racing that Cal has been a part of. Cal was inducted in the Off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2020. Cal is why we say; legends live at ORMHOF.org. Be sure to tune in on your favorite podcast app.5:13 – I could get from Westminster to downtown LA in 35 minutes, and now it takes 3 hours 10:43 – I rode up there, it was like going to heaven; here’s this line on both sides lin...