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Reacting to Viral Redneck Fixes
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There’s a fine line between 'that’s a bad idea' and 'wait... that’s actually brilliant,' and today we’re finding out where it is. We're reacting to viral redneck engineering and sorting the legit problem-solving from the stuff that's one bump away from disaster.
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What Counts As Redneck Ingenuity
SPEAKER_02If you want to rednecy your project, just add a diesel engine. Now we're playing with a loaded deck. You better redneck in that. Recently, you guys loved our reaction videos to some DIY stuff, some construction stuff, and pretty much whatever we could find in between. And today we're reacting to one of my favorite categories of life: redneck ingenuity. Joe's pulled some clips from all over the internet: short form, long form, reddit, whatever we could find. And we're going to dive into them today. But before we get started, let's paint a little bit of a clarity picture here on what redneck ingenuity is. By our definition, which is incredibly loosely used here, it's going to be anything that gets the job done with whatever can be found. We like that? I think it's a good idea. That's pretty fair. By any means necessarily.
SPEAKER_03Or a new invention that isn't yet.
SPEAKER_02It's getting the job done with whatever you can find though.
SPEAKER_03It's inventing something that does not exist.
SPEAKER_02Or inventing something that probably shouldn't exist, that doesn't exist. Personally, I love a little bit of redneck ingenuity. I think it uh brings a little spice into life and also paints a picture on how things could get done in a way that may be better or maybe worse. So, Joe, without further ado, you got a first clip for us? No, hold on. So while scrounging the internet, we found a gambit of categories. A little bit automotive. We got a little bit of a workshop. We got a little bit of construction, right? No. A little bit of hauling. No construction. I lied. There's zero construction.
SPEAKER_03Oh wow. Some hauling. And uh. I gotta mute all these sounds just for a warning. They all have copyrighted music on it. I apologize. It's all good. Just people playing TikTok sounds over. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02They're funny. They're here for the views. Let's
Pontoon Tractor That Should Exist
SPEAKER_02get it started. Look.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02That's a pontoon bone on a tractor frame. Look at how they have them.
SPEAKER_01The side by side makes the video. That is excellent. Uh, do I see a single strap on that thing? Wow. They have a strap on the crazy for some reason.
SPEAKER_02There's no is there no strap on the Polaris? This is what I'm talking about. I think that's just the tie off. They just put it on it. That's incredible. That's incredible. Go back a little bit. One more time. Now, like this should 100% exist. Like, this should be a product. Doesn't this exist? Pontoon on the pontoon, but. Well, it looks like a pontoon on like um some sort of like combine frame or like it's a large I guess it looks like tractory. You got the like the walkway to get up to the front of it? I want to build one of these. What's the purpose of it being up on the tractor frame like that? Are you driving it around or just to get it in the water?
SPEAKER_03You can drive it around and then you can go in the water.
SPEAKER_02But you think it's like a duckboat. So it is like a duck boat. Okay. It has to be, right? Or do you think it's a little bit more than a little bit? I just thought it was just a Land Rover on like. Maybe it is just a Land Rover with a platform to hang out on. I didn't think of land pontooning. That's a good point. Imagine having that up at your parents' home. 270-acre piece of property. Just putting around. That'd be awesome. I didn't think of that. That'd be awesome. That gets my redneck stamp of approval.
SPEAKER_03I love that. I say we start ranking them redneck or not redneck. Yeah, it's pretty redneck.
SPEAKER_02I love it. I think it's glorious. I would love to see a video of that being made. I'm yes. Have you ever seen please tell me the video of the pirate ships on here?
SPEAKER_03The guy making the pirate ship, I don't know if I included it. The driveable pirate ships. Yeah, I've I've seen it plenty of times.
SPEAKER_02That's like a whole like series, though. We got 200 people sent me that thing. They they they very much, Sam, think we could make that. And then they want me to give it to you. By the way, if you didn't know our channel's just turning into Johnville things, give them to Sam. That's what everyone wants. To give me things. And when you just yeah, they
Cinder Block Shed Move Scare
SPEAKER_02just want you to have it all. I don't know what the place is. Oh my god. Wow. Oh my real. This is I mean, obviously it's real. That's it. I mean, it's holding. It is holding. Fart near that. It's tumbling over. How did they get it up in the first place? It had to have been up already.
SPEAKER_03It had to have been like that, and they just put it on the corner and knocked everything else out, right?
SPEAKER_02What are they raking? I am I gotta get these leaves out from under the house. They put it on a trailer. Like a modular. There it goes. Alright, so they jacked up the shed to move it. They weren't, thank goodness. Oh I mean if you can see my heart rate right now, I'm pretty sure it's at like 103 for no reason whatsoever, except that just gives me massive amounts of anxiety. As a kid though, I might have thought that was stable. I'd have been like, we're gonna be good up here, guys. I feel like it was just a series of like him going like block after block, where it's like we just need to go up one more layer. I know it's dangerous, but just one more block, then another, then another. Now they can just hit it with like a jack, you know, and then jack it down.
SPEAKER_03That's terrifying.
SPEAKER_02So there's a building like if you drive up around the corner from here, there's like a little pavilion that's built on blocks, and they're literally just like that. Just like the four posts on the pavilion are like that. Now they're mortared, but I don't know, it gets me worried. Every time I see it, I'm like, strong wind. Like the car's getting crushed every time.
Tarp Pools And DIY Filtration
SPEAKER_02Now we're talking. Now we are talking. There's one of these next to my in-law's camp. What is it? You take a back a giant giant hole and you put a giant tarp in it, and you got yourself a beautiful hole in yard line tarp pole. Homemade in ground pool. Yeah. It shows in the editorial.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_02Dude, so there's this video, it's incredible. It's of the world's like largest pool. It's built just like this. It's just a giant tarpole. See, this is what this is amazing. This is what this is the more of just a pond, though, I guess. Yeah, but like think about it. You don't want to commit to the cost of an in-ground pool or the jankiness of an above-ground pool, but you still want to get some pool. Get out your shovel. I guess tarp. You can't circulate the water there. You can. Oh. You just gotta get creative. I mean, I can't. You could. You could pump it in one side and pump it out the other.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02I wonder how waterproof the tarp. I mean, I guess the tarp pulls here for a good time, not a long time, but I wonder how long it'll stay waterproof. There's a dude with the I mean, I'm telling you, probably like once a season. I wasn't kidding. Like, I love this category. There's a huge, I'm talking this guy has like a lake in his yard, and he made it like this. And though it's it's wild. It's somewhere on the internet. He throws people into it with backhoe.
SPEAKER_03Roman Atwood? No. He made a big pool like that, similar to like a pond, though.
SPEAKER_02Whoa. Yes. 500,000 gallon. This guy. Yeah, so that's not the same thing. It's the same thing. He's got a giant tarp. Go back into the building. Who is this guy? This guy rules. Don't you say work. You shut your mouth. It's like flashboards. See that? This is this is the 90s. It's evolved a little bit from that. You're telling me that that is an insanely awesome. That's pretty bad. That's pretty sick. Yeah. Oh,
Trailer On Trailer And Flapper Pipes
SPEAKER_02wow. Yeah, yes. Let's go. Trailer on a trailer. This is trailer section. How else would you haul a trailer, though? Maybe interlock them like a big train. Yes. Like a trailer centipede? Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I don't know if I can endorse a trailer centipede. I could. I think that's a trailer on trailer crime. Not any not in uh Pennsylvania. Actually, in Pennsylvania, I think a piggyback isn't even illegal. Nothing questionable about that, son. You're just getting it done. Getting it done with the tools you were given. And I respect it. Also, do you want a job? Call me. We need another guy in the shop with a brain. I'm too dumb. That is incredible. Just floating. I guess you get enough pressure down on it, you know. Yeah. We didn't even get to see it. This is getting better. He already unloaded it. He skipped the unloading portion. That's a giant trailer. We have one of those. The dump trailer? That huge trailer? Like the 22-foot trailer right there? Yeah, that's so low though. Three wheels on it? Never mind. That thing is probably 40 feet long.
SPEAKER_03What? I'm so confused at what's happening in this video.
SPEAKER_02It's just it's just trailer magic, Joe. Just let it happen. Just let it let it exist.
unknown40 footer.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, 40 feet. Go me. 40 footer. He's speechless over here. You know how hard it is to make Sam speechless? I don't even know what he's showing us. I don't know what he's showing us. Check out my own.
SPEAKER_03I don't know how crapnecked this is. That's not everything, honestly, seems pretty kosher here. Really? I just think this is sketchy. That's all. That's that's that's part of the lore.
SPEAKER_02Kinda, but I don't I don't think it's like there's nothing. I guess I don't know like another way to haul a trailer on a trailer.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I'm sure this is like not a recommended way, it is sketchy, but I I don't know. I just I just I guess I've never seen that before.
SPEAKER_02Yes. I used to have a buddy with a Toyota Corolla. He welded a pipe off of his exhaust pipe so it had the little tractor, like it looks like it's awesome.
SPEAKER_03That's actually that's pretty good.
SPEAKER_02Do you know how to do that? I think you just weld pipe on with that on there, and it's good to go. What like to what? To your exhaust. So that's that's the exhaust right there coming out. Instead of like those little pipes that come out the bottom, I guess. Yeah, so that would neck raining or something where there's no water going on. That's for sure, redneck. That's awesome. Oh, that's a great, I think we should all have that in our exhaust. I like to live in a world where all vehicles had little floppers. What if you uh we don't have an exhaust? Well, you could you have a fake one.
SPEAKER_03You could literally just have a little we can get you like a little set boom box.
SPEAKER_02What if I like just show up here on in on like a 450 dually? Would that make you happy? I mean, you still would have owned an electric truck. We'll probably just bring that up some more. You'd be like, wow, this is pretty cool. Electric truck is incredibly convenient. I think he's he misunderstands how convenient an electric truck is. Not on a road trip. I don't take that on a road trip. So you can't take that on a road trip.
SPEAKER_03You could. It's paying a lot of fit stuff.
SPEAKER_02I took it to Virginia once.
SPEAKER_03We had to it's like driving Teslas, but it'll take you to all the Tesla.
SPEAKER_0280's dad's worst nightmare. Another stop for one. We gotta charge. It's a supercharger. Only be 30 minutes. 30 minutes! That's 100% exactly what it's like. I thought that's I've got no issue.
Quad Towing Four Lawn Mowers
SPEAKER_02He's towing four motors behind a quad. Oh, I love this so much. Were you pushing them? Yeah. That would be amazing. I just okay. How does it keep him on? That's I wonder how good this would be like on a non-flat. He probably had to do some crazy stuff to get those. Think about it. Think about it. Like you, you like you got a large piece of land, you're probably blowing up mowers, you know, trying to get it's because there's so much land. But if you could just get them to run.
SPEAKER_03I guess the other option is then going and buying uh a John Deere 82-inch. Superwide or whatever. That that's like I think they're 60,000, I think you should. More than that.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, they're up there. Or the other option is you get like four or five friends, you guys all mow together in tandem. That'd be pretty bad.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but you don't need anyone for this friend, obviously.
SPEAKER_02Because you know how hard it is to get four friends together at the same time, you don't have to be friends. You can just drive around four strangers. Yeah, get some then.
SPEAKER_03You're paying people though. That takes away part of them up, man.
SPEAKER_02Like, hey, cool. Yeah, that's normal. That's real normal. Just hold them right at gunpoint. Get in the car and we need to mow. No, this is why you need to procreate. You just get four free laborers in your bloodline. You did. Yeah, this will be me. Just get my daughters all on tractors. Shut up. You're getting on the craftsman today if you don't shut up. I'm pretty sure that far top right one's a craftsman. I love that they're all different mowers, too. I'm gonna guarantee this dude was just blown up mowers trying to get this yard done for years, and then he came up with this brilliant idea. This is my favorite, like redneck ingenuity for me. There's so much intelligence behind it. That's why I love it. It's like I am too dumb. I could not make that. I just couldn't keep, I don't even know how to keep the tractors going.
SPEAKER_03You know, the only the only bad part about this is now you have five times the gas. Maybe it's cheaper than maybe it's faster than a hundred thousand dollar.
SPEAKER_02The ATV's going way faster. I you look at how you clean lines. Like, good for good for the this is. I'm sure there's probably a little sketchy areas on the other.
The "Redneck" Label And Internet Taste
SPEAKER_02If you want to red redneckify your project, just add a diesel engine. Or add an engine of any kind. Spray paint it. Like ask yourself the question how can I add an engine? Then we're then we're then we're playing with a loaded deck. I think it's fair. You know what I'm saying? Here's the better question. Why haven't we tested building redneck things? I don't know. We can't. Well, I think because it doesn't, it's in a weird area because it's doesn't necessarily or at least it for a while it didn't meet our build standards. But then it's frowned upon. We can't build on unscrew. That was the one rule.
SPEAKER_03We don't like saying the word redneck in the YouTube title for some reason. There wasn't much out there on it. Red You better redneck in the eyes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I guess it did have a it had a rough patch there, the word redneck. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. I got a lot of fleck for not like just We're bringing it back. Did you see my like uh I did a ranking of my favorite like music? Yeah, I saw that. People just really don't like that I didn't have like Hank Williams as like the final or something. I don't even know who Hank Williams is. I'm kidding. Oh my goodness. Was it Hank Williams Jr.? Hank Jr. Oh yeah. Looks good. I mean, Led Zeppelin's my favorite band. I just think it's weird that I'm not allowed to have like a favorite band. Well, music, I feel like everyone gets super opinionated on music. I took it Compete over Kanye pissed a bunch of people off. Yeah, I'll do it too. I took Eminem. You were smart too. How do you feel about that one? Took Eminem over Morgan Wallen, I think. I don't think that's crazy. I think the problem is with the internet, there's just massive fan bases. I don't think there is one right answer. There isn't. I just thought it was a trick. You took Taylor Swift pretty far. That was smart. You only get Taylor Swift fans mad at you. I think I just took it. He played it right.
SPEAKER_03He did it right. It was all scripted, by the way.
SPEAKER_02Hey you went through that bracket like 12 times. I mean, teardrops on my guitar. I've been at Swift fans since since she was in country music. OG days. Anyway.
Overloaded Trailer Physics Debate
SPEAKER_02The tongue. So the the weight on is that the tail the tail weight on that would have Jason losing his mind. I think if you guys know anyone, you do Joe. You might. Jason's my only. Look at that. Anyone that was properly trained to rig a trailer, this would just make them infuriated.
SPEAKER_03The problem is he has sod, I think it looks like here. Looks like hay or sod. So there's like no real weight here. I mean, sod is heavy, but it's not as heavy as that.
SPEAKER_02No, he's got the dingo over the wheels. The dingo. And then the bobcat over the tongue or the tail.
SPEAKER_03Unless that's just like a hollow cookie instead of fake. Well go start at the beginning. Look at that. I think it was a ram. If I had to bet money, it'd probably be a ram.
SPEAKER_02I think you're right. Look at the bed of it. Yeah, it's a ram. It's tucking. The bed's full of stuff. It is sod. In the bucket. The backhoe, the bucket, dude. This is it's actually incredible. Lots of straps, at least. I'm glad that's a good thing. Look at that thing bounce. Oh, yeah. Like that. I'm I don't know how I don't know. I don't know anything. That's wild. Is that a 1500 too? It looks like it, yeah. You push it to the limit, dude. Oh man, that's like how you might as well get your lightning out there in tow.
SPEAKER_01I don't know how you blow up your truck.
SPEAKER_02Lightning has a lot of torque. There's something my lightning cut. I'm just saying. That lightning. Lightning's the most convenient truck of all time. Is it the best truck? Not even close. Convenient as hell. You bet your ass. As long as I go and live within a 10-mile radius of everything I do. What were you saying? Oh, I was saying there's something inspiring. I feel like when you see like a truck like that that's like undersized for its load and it's still loaded. That guy's probably tweaked that engine, and he's so good. Don't give into that statement.
SPEAKER_03No, and he doesn't give any Fs. Don't give into that statement. He's only saying that because the Ranger one time pulled a scissor lift and shook it.
SPEAKER_02Scissor lift that weighed like 2,000 pounds.
SPEAKER_03My truck was struggling to pull the scissor lift occasionally. That thing was heavy as well.
SPEAKER_02It was more than 2,000. It was up there. Yeah, it was a big boy. I keep Ford keeps calling me to buy these giant trucks they're bringing. And I'm like, no guys. I don't want to sell the giant trucks. We towed more than that. I have no need for it. F550. I think we need to get a van. I can get you a fleet of old 80s vans. Old 800s. We've got to fix your trucks. Your trucks all got problems. We all got problems.
SPEAKER_03Okay, wait before we move on. Is that redneck or is that just stupid?
SPEAKER_02I don't know. I don't know. I think I was just a guy in a tight spot that needed to move his load. Yeah, man.
SPEAKER_00I agree with that statement.
SPEAKER_02Just how you said it, I'm not sure. Load mover.
SPEAKER_03Big load mover there. So we're reacting to a guy reacting to something. I like it. Reaction section. You could always react to say.
Semi Tip Clip And Fake Builds
SPEAKER_02That's a semi. Easy. Oh boy. Is there a person standing there? Oh!
unknownOh!
SPEAKER_03Oh. This isn't even what was redneck about this.
SPEAKER_02Why is he off-road? How did it just randomly flip? He wasn't moving. Why is he off-road? He's moving forward a little bit. What video are you watching? He thought he wasn't moving. Probably has doesn't have his. Look at me. He's like barely moving. He's just like like the truck just starts rocking. It's not like he was coming around a bend. I had a truck. I don't know what to think about that. That just makes me sad. Yeah, poor guy. Makes me sad. Whoa, what the f look at that thing. It's a lot. Is it a tractor behind a tractor? No, look at the wheels on it, though.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01Look at the exhaust on it.
SPEAKER_03So, what's the point of this video?
SPEAKER_02Wait, look at the battery. Yeah, go back. Yep. Yep, the battery terminal.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, this is redneck.
SPEAKER_02What are we doing here? Praying mantis, it's alive. As a craftsman. I was cutting the grass here yesterday. I saw a praying mantis. I took a photo for you guys. Oh, thanks. You didn't send it. No, I didn't. I was infuriated. Oh. Is that look at the toe itch on the front? Front itch. What am I looking at, Sam? It's like a monster mower. They did some work on the exhaust, the frame aftermarket tires. Looks like it has a mean toe on that grass anymore. No, it doesn't. It's things racing. I would literally. I don't know. I was just gonna say there's nothing I'd be on that. No, I was gonna say there's nothing more I'd be afraid of than a man approaching me on that mower. I feel like I'd rather have like a soldier in a tank coming to me than see a man on that mower. I feel like if you got the opportunity to drive that, there'd be zero chance of survival. The way you drove that go-kart. Hey man. I mean, that was that one's probably a little stupid. I felt like a dad just doing irresponsible things when you were in that go-kart. I was like, I have no control over this situation. The one he flipped on himself with his arm out.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the the fucking factory flipped.
SPEAKER_02That's why there's a roll cage on there so you flip it, get back up.
Pool Builds And Monster Mowers
SPEAKER_02DIY DIY pools, baby. Let's go. Black water. Look, tarp. I'm telling you, maybe they choose a blue tarp though. Oh, wouldn't they? Yeah. Maybe they like the I think the black tarp are more available. I don't like the black. More readily available. Maybe. I just don't like that black water. I kind of like that, actually, this pool. Does it remind you of Shark Week? Yeah. Do they still do Shark Week? It's right now, I think. I don't know. Why aren't we reacting reacting to shark videos then? I think for good reasons. Let's just react to live television. Alright, let's record ourselves watching live TV. Look at the size of that show. That's actually that's what streaming is. So I mean, wouldn't we? Yeah, I mean, you're not. I mean, I'm I'm I'm loving the DIY pools. But I own one, most likely not. But do I love them? That's just a normal above-ground bowl. What are we reacting to? He's like, by the way, I just got this above-ground bowl. I see the guy again.
SPEAKER_03He's always hiding down in the weeds. Oh, wow. Trying to push that onto the trailer. Oh wow. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Did the truck die?
SPEAKER_03Maybe.
SPEAKER_02Look at that. It's working. And he's just nursing him up there. Just come on, buddy. Get up the hill. I love all the dudes like standing around. Like that thing goes off. You guys are doing zero. Yeah, I mean. Excellent execution.
SPEAKER_03I mean, whoa, it's still going. Wow, and it stops right as he continues to go.
SPEAKER_02I've been seeing a lot of videos of people that do like the mini homemade pools. I think these are pretty sweet. Would you do this? 100%. It's like tiny pool oasis thing. Oh, yeah. Got some tarps hanging. Yeah, that's not bad at all. That's that's cool. That's kind of neat. You ever see the natural water pools where people have fish in there and they naturally clean the water, like no chemicals. The fish are all they get in them? Oh yeah, yeah. It's like I have not seen that. You're talking like a koi pond that you see. It's like a natural swimming pool, I think they're called. That's redneck. Redneck Riviera. Come on, give me something good. I need something like mind-blowing. I want some engineering that's completely over the top. I already know this is gonna be nice. Oh yeah, it's already like you care about your outdoor space. Where's the redneck? Above ground pool's kind of buried. This is what This person is like a half above, half not above. Yeah, that gets a no thumbs down from it's not redneck enough. I mean, it's like it looks like yes. Oh, the tarp pool is not ready to oh boy, they're already in it. Oh yeah. Now that's a tarp pool. Problem with the tarp pools. Look at the you know, the mud. Yeah. You see their water filtration? Yeah, they got a whole wait, is that a container?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Wonder if it's full of sand. That's nuts. Right in the mud. If it makes the kids happy, whatever.
SPEAKER_03That'd probably be the most fun you've ever had in your life as a kid. As a child?
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, you're talking about that forever.
SPEAKER_03Now, this is my kind of pull.
SPEAKER_02I'm surprised there's been no redneck slipping slides. I'm sure we can look those up. Slinging people on quads. Hay bales, water. Yeah, let's go. Like, why not? Sign me up. Sign up. Sign me up. Afternoon fun. Biggest redneck lawnmower. 246-inch lawnmower. Yes. Now that is what we needed. That's such a This is Pula's dream. That makes so much more sense than the first one. Is that even cutting? Joe, you know it's cutting. You can tell just by the demeanor of that. Let's start them all. That's the question. That would be so sick if he had these all hooked up on a switch, motor one, on, motor two, just run down the line. This is this is uh something I could see you. One pull per mower out. This is so smart. This is so above my pay grade of like knowing how things work and function. Like, how does he get them all? How do you know they all are on? What if one shuts off? The lines will be off. It's the risk you take. Exactly. Then what do you think? One cuts it, one mulches it. I guarantee he's got mulching blades in one row, cutting blades in the other. He's got brushes. He's like, I gotta make sure my ears are safe. Here's like 22 mowers all running at once. Wow. What about collecting the clippings? Send them back to the when you're mowing fields, you don't care. That is awesome. I'm sure that's probably wild to make turns on. That dog looks like it could run 100 miles an hour. Yeah. Just like those dogs, whatever those are called. They're just I want to see him turn. He just looks so fast. He's not turning, he's mowing all the way to California, yeah. Nah, California would send him back. He's got gasoline in that thing. Does he have dirt on his tires? They might not let him in the state. You're not allowed in Cali. You have a mission, you're missing emitting shit. What is this? It can be sound. There's no sound on that switch. There's no sound on it. What is going on here? I don't he's got a mower on front of a mower.
SPEAKER_03I don't understand. Is he brush hogging with this?
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, he is.
SPEAKER_03Let's go.
SPEAKER_02His rules. Wow. Is that even gonna work?
SPEAKER_01We're gonna find out, Joe!
SPEAKER_02It doesn't seem to be working that well. It seems to be working better than nothing, which is pretty much what we're going for here. First time we're making the mechanism.
unknownLook at that!
SPEAKER_03There's no way this rules. On a little brush. I think he's just knocking them over more than the extra brush hog. Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02How can you hate on this? I'm not hating on it.
SPEAKER_03This man's a genius. It is smart. I'm just saying I don't know if it's working as well as.
SPEAKER_02Rent the brush hog? The other mo the other guy that modified like the 20 mowers on the back. I'm all down for that. But this, I just rent the brush hog.
SPEAKER_03He like hooked it up to like a plow attachment, too.
SPEAKER_02So he's just like. Yeah, it gets stuck. You can, you know, get it up. It doesn't seem to be doing much. What do you mean? It just knocked out a good three square feet of brush. Look at him now, though. Less than a minute and he's sitting there the whole time. He's dragging it more than he's cutting it. The only thing that would make this super annoying is if that tractor has it doesn't have like the foot pedal for reverse. So if you had to like shift back. Yeah, oh, every time you'd remember when my old man upgraded tractors when I was like 12 and had a pedal to go backwards. Shuts off the PTO every time, but that was nice. Hydrostatic transmission. That was nice. I have the thumbs up for me. This thing rules. I give that one a thumbs sideways. I agree with cool. I'm a side thumbnail. Come on, man. I would you I would see you owning that. No. When you have your dream farm with your goats,
Trailer Airbnb And Tailgate Bed
SPEAKER_02yes. Trailer in the sky. That is a dream worth dreaming. That could be an Airbnb that charges $1,200 a night. Airbnb in the air. Custom built deck. We could build one of those out here. We just gotta get the teardrop camper. Yeah, we gotta get it. Build the teardrop from scratch because that's what we would be forced to do.
SPEAKER_03What if you were like just super plastered and you like wake up to go pissed in the middle of the night and you just accidentally go out that door? That's the risk you take.
SPEAKER_02That's why whenever the fate you earned. Living that high and that close to God. That's why whenever we open up our AA campsite, it's gonna be in the sky. Get drunk if you want. Good luck waking up in the morning.
SPEAKER_03You just forget. That's actually pretty neat. Probably in West Virginia. Yeah, it definitely is West Virginia vibes.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Custom welded bed.
SPEAKER_03Uh this is I I pulled this one personally.
SPEAKER_02No. Is that roofing?
SPEAKER_01That is made out of a tailgate.
SPEAKER_00Made out of a tailgate and some side. What kind of truck is it?
SPEAKER_02Is that a Ford? No, it's a I love they kept the gap so close on the back wheels. Oh, I love it. That's a rims on the truck. It's beautiful. That is incredible. What is it really doing with that bed, though, is what I'm wondering. Like putting in there. What? Eric. How bad do you want AC? Full house unit. Dude. How's he getting the 240 volts to power the thing?
SPEAKER_03He's hard. Look at the big gap.
SPEAKER_02I've seen crap like this on the highway in New York City wild enough. You got like external AC blowing into a window. Yeah, but this is like a full house unit.
SPEAKER_03This AI. Incredible.
SPEAKER_02I don't think AI could think of something this cool. I've seen like vans with the window units, but.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, isn't it? Watch the AC unit up here when it turns. Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say it's AI. That's so unfortunate.
SPEAKER_02Watch the damn. Oh my god. I was gonna say, I'm like, where's the power? Also, like, where's the air going to?
SPEAKER_03Dude, people are using AI for this shit. We're cooked. We're cooked. Why would someone make that? Like, what's the point of making that fake video?
SPEAKER_02What do we got here? It's a croc, shower croc. Show me what that water's coming through. Through the croc.
SPEAKER_03What? Is it like holding it?
SPEAKER_02Oh, they're holding the It's a depression, I think.
SPEAKER_03You have to like push it in. You get to put it on a timer. You ever see those knobs where you push it and then it slowly releases, and once it releases, the water stops? No. We used to have those in prison. Yeah. Sounds like prison. It's where they are sometimes. Great use of a croc.
SPEAKER_02I think the most versatile footwear on the planet. I don't know. We have a snack puller while I pull up some more.
Tang Snack Break And Shop Shades Jokes
SPEAKER_02I need some spunk, Sam. Oh, if you need spunk, you're in luck because we've got tang. I don't know about you guys. When I was growing up, I used to love the Tang commercials. They'd have that orangutang that would go nuts because the Tang was out, and he'd be like, I gotta terrorize the town now.
SPEAKER_03He's like the before its time Kool-Aid Man. I feel like was the Kool-Aid Man before that.
SPEAKER_02Kool-Aid Man was actually-I think Tang was a I don't know. Remember we had Tang in the MREs we tried? Yeah, it was pretty good. Yeah, surprisingly, there's only 15 servings in that entire doesn't burn the nostrils. Well, there's 140 calories per serving. Your serving is three tablespoons. Holy shit. I was expecting that like a little I remember this stuff used to get you like going when you were younger. You know, it was it was basically just a scoop of caffeine. RFK made them take those chemicals out. What do we got in here now? There's not even any okay. Sugar fructose, citric acid, less than 2% of maltodextrin, calcium phosphate, sodium acid, phosphorate, another acid, another acid, natural flavor, artificial guar gum, yellow five, yellow six, and xanthem gum. Gotta have that xanthem gum. A little thickening agent in there with the xanthem gum, huh? Yeah, a little fiber to that. We might be on to something, huh? Alright. We'll go slightly below line one. I believe we remember we tried to make the tang for um for the MREs and it just wouldn't dissolve. Yeah, we might have that same. It's like a chunky powder.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the new stuff.
SPEAKER_02Joe, would you mind looking up the formula formulation of Tang when it changed? Maybe look up the Tang orang. Look at the history of Tang. Wasn't this an astronaut thing? I could believe it. Oh wait, 19 well, 1957. Oh, 1959, it was launched in grocery stores. NASA included on the John Glenn's Mercury flight. They were go me. Go me for knowing that. Didn't you just read it? No, I I said it before you pulled it up. How could you ever make the argument that someone doesn't need tang when the astronauts had tang? Probably just because it's a lot of calories in that little. Oh, wait, here. Jumpstart your morning with a refreshing glass of tang. Each glass of tang contains 100% of your daily value of vitamin C. How no one's getting scurvy in this podcast. Oh, there he is. The orangutan. You think that guy's still getting royalties? Probably hope so. I think his orangutan family is like living large. You never saw that guy, Joe? He would freak out for some tang. Oh, yeah, here we go. I know. Oh, you fool. You put the tang in now, he's going nuts. There he goes. 150 calories of just sugar and acid. Look how lethargic this poor boy is before he had his tang. There he is. Just blow your pants off. It's a kick and a glass. It's a kick and a glass. It's a kick. You want to load a sniffer up for you and Joe? Glass. There you go, Joe. We'll get a little pep in your step. I will say it's a little bit more. Smells exactly like an orange peel. Smell like your childhood? Yeah. Alright. Do we shoot it? Do we snort it? What do we do? Well, you should first get a nose feel, mouth feel.
SPEAKER_03Tastes just like a kid, dude. Oh yeah. Not as strong. It used to load. I remember we used to load it up with more scoops than prescribed. That's it.
SPEAKER_02I mean it's terrible there. It's considerably better than when we did it with the MRE. Oh yeah. That shit was probably old. Oh yeah. I don't hate it. I don't love it. I don't crave it. Is there an expiration date on that? Does that expire? Never. 3021. The year 3021. You're joking, right? I hope. April of 28th. That's not even fun. Come on, Tang. They just want you to buy more. That's Tang's marketing team. They got nothing left. They got rid of their orangutan in the marketing. That was a simpler time in the Pete of got them and now they're now they now they gotta get us to you know expiration days. We know that shit doesn't expire. It was a simpler time in the 90s. All you had to have was vitamin C, just like one shtick. Oh, vitamin C was like the protein or the like nootropic or like the the now. We're thinking about adding protein to shop shades. What do you guys think? Let's do it. Grab yourself a pair of shop shades. The most protein-enriched safety glass on the market. What do you how do you make that happen? What's the process? Osmosis for your temples. Os biodegradable shop shades. Wait, what think about it? Making shop shades out of recycled toilet paper. When you're done with them, bury them. Use recycled toilet paper. We're working on that. There you go. Require some funding.
Tool Mashups And Hurricane Hacks
SPEAKER_02How do we feel about this tool right here? I I have no idea how that's gonna work. Yeah, I don't know. I don't even know if they show how it's working, but it's just a photo. You need speed, not torque. Okay. Nothing. That's actually brilliant. Let's be honest here. Yeah, it's nothing. It makes more sense than the last one. Wait.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_02Wait. He welded that. Dude, need a tool, make a tool. I welded a socket onto a set of dykes. Are those dikes? No.
SPEAKER_03I know the person that owns this. He's on YouTube. Really? His name's Something Mav. Yeah, I've watched his content before.
SPEAKER_02What the f would ask? I feel like you would have driven a Volkswagen Beetle. I don't like the Beatles. I think the band's terrible, but I mean what do you think about the Beatles? No, I love the I love the band. I'm not a huge fan of the car. There's a big enthusiast community behind the Beatles. What about the original? No. I just I don't really like the body style of them. Really? No. I saw one that was super cool though. Some dude chopped it down, so it was so low, it was just the top of the fenders and the little middle bubble. So it like literally only came up to this table and he's sitting in it like that. I've seen those. I've seen them in real life. This guy.
SPEAKER_03Terrifying. I've watched his content years ago. Who is this? His name is Mav.
SPEAKER_02He spent overnight in a small car camper.
SPEAKER_03He does a lot of camping in his truck videos. Okay. Oh, he's on a sheet of ice there. But he owns that. I don't know if that's exactly his, but it looks like it. Probably is. He lives in Minnesota and can't skateboard fan. Now that is redneck.
SPEAKER_02And I love it. That's hilarious. Funny play on words. I don't think that they are gonna get a lot of air movement out of that. This is a pallet shutter. Hurricane prep. I mean hell.
SPEAKER_03What is this? Is he cooking? Oh, it's like a he's cooking in a shopping cart.
SPEAKER_02It's a shopping cart.
SPEAKER_03Seal to save. What? They vacuum sealed their TV remote so it doesn't get dirty?
SPEAKER_02Man, I don't know about you guys. I'm hooked on vacuum sealing. Love a good vacuum sealing. What? Wait, where does that what? What are you sealing? Like if I use like the sous V or something, I'll like vacuum seal stuff. Yeah, but what else? You gotta look at the case. Like we made bacon. Uh oh God. Oh my god, what is it? They're warming up the water with a candle. They have hot water. There's no way that's gonna I want to try that. How's the flame stay lit with all that steam in the air? Yeah, you're not wrong. That's bullshit. Michael trying to smoke. That is Steven Seagal. Bullshito. I mean, that's not a bad idea. Imagine being sm oh, electric hand mixer.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. That's a fan. That's a fan, and they put a mixer on the fan. I love how we just knew we just knew what it was. I used to have one of those. That's the fan mixer. Oh yeah, Alice isn't going anywhere.
SPEAKER_02I've seen a lot of people do this before hurricanes. I don't know if it works, but that's kind of cool. The spoiler? We knew you'd like a spoiler. Yeah, the little latch on it. How do we get a spoiler on your golf? It already has a spoiler. Does it? An OEM one. It's going that fast. Keep the ass down. Yeah, on a front-wheel drive car, you need that. It's kind of a spoiler, but it's there. Look where the powertrain runs to, Sam. The minivan. That's not just a minivan. That's a Dodge Grand Caravan.
Nostalgic Road Trip TV Rigs
SPEAKER_02Look at the look at the rear. Oh, and it's a dually, too.
SPEAKER_03I ever tell you we used to have one of those when I was a kid. Dodge grand caravan? It was silver. We called it the silver bullet. That's so badass.
SPEAKER_02Nothing about that is.
SPEAKER_03The seats, we had this compartment, the seats would stow away into the vehicle. Yeah. So you had nothing in the vehicle. Nothing.
SPEAKER_02It was just like an open void. How much wrestling happened back there? None because how much fighting between you and your brothers happened back there? None because it had.
SPEAKER_03Is that the one you locked yourself in? No, no, no, no. That was a work truck. This, it was a truck, not a van. This had like a full-down screen, and my brother did some wild stuff, connected some cords, he spliced some cords, and we would play PlayStation on all the trips.
SPEAKER_02Is that rules? We're leaving for a vacation soon, and I'm like, my children will never understand the redneck ingenuity required. We were doing some crazy. We remember going on a to a baseball tournament. Do you ever do like you didn't travel for wrestling, or did you? Yeah, pretty much every tournament. You'd drive not like anywhere super far, but yeah, you travel like every weekend. I remember we were traveling to like Ohio or something, so it was like a couple hours enough to like annoy us, but then we went on a I think we were going to Cooperstown, New York, um, as kids. And and uh my teammate's dad had an excursion. Oh, I wish they brought that back. We need to get one.
SPEAKER_03I know someone that has one with 400,000 miles on it.
SPEAKER_027.3 diesel. It can't be one of the dials most reliable diesel motor four ever built. Can you find me a 7.3 liter excursion? Alright, I'm gonna get us one. Anyway. We're going on this road trip to New York. I can't remember what part of New York it was. It was Cooperstown, New York, actually. I'm an idiot. Um and it was just like, I don't know, I don't remember, I was 12. But he picks me up and has an actual TV in the middle console. It was like 12, 14-inch TV, PlayStation one, sitting right underneath it. And this had the pop-top disc, right? So you couldn't slide it in. But this, he like fabricobbled this box that we could play while we were going up there, and then we were able to take it out and put it in like the bunker house. Yeah. So I was like, this is this is this is the coolest thing I've ever witnessed in my entire life. I was like, we we never did anything, I've never seen anything like this. I was like, my life is completely bland. I was like, You're the richest kid I've ever met. He was like, you were living the most glorious life of all time. I was like, I I I I envy you. His name is Matt. He's like, he's actually brilliant. He was a left-handed pitcher through a Cornell. Good dude. Ah. But it was like blew my mind. And then there was this giant vehicle, like to your point, Joe, that's like you're 12 years old, you feel like this this truck is the size of a bus. You're just like, is there anything better? No. No. See, I wish they would. We need to do that in our 30s. Well, they need to bring that back. Like the late 90s, early 2000s, that was a big thing. The big family road trip vans with the little TVs. My mom had a Sequoia when I was in high school. Remember that? They still like Sequoia. Yeah, they still do. This truck had like a six-cylinder V8 in it. Had no business having an engine. It was turbocharged or something, I think. This thing ripped. And I mean, like, ripped me and the boys got our license, and like she'd let us drive it around if I needed to take the guys anywhere because I drove like a four-door pickup. It was the it was the best. Yeah. That thing ripped. You're right. We need giant sub giant SUVs back. I have two giant SUVs. I know. I need a bigger one. I need giant vans, but I'll tell you about a van. My dad had a Ford Clubwagon Chateau, and that translates to castle. Look up the Ford Club Wagon. Look at Club Wagon Chateau. Make sure it's the chateau now. How do you spell that? C H there you go. Oh yeah. It had lumbar supports in the seats where you could pump up the seat. No, no. It's that's the no. It's the lap the laps of luxury in there. This? Oh yeah. Look at that. Those seats look so soft. Oh yeah. They just they used to design car seats like like furniture. Like my old 250, it was like a sofa. It's not there's no bucket seats. There's no every one of them you fit in now is just so worn out. Yeah. So either not comfortable or the most comfortable, but it has such a short lifespan. Well they had box springs.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because the springs are just gonna wear out. Now that's everything's just plastic.
unknownFuck it.
SPEAKER_02Unfortunately Plastic. I wonder what the interior of this bad boy looks like. Yo. Bad boy pull a wow. That's got pull-written all over it. That's also got pull up. Sir, please. That's a pearl vision. Wait, we go back, go back. Hold up. The parking job.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Obviously.
Rapid Fire Hacks Then Wood Splitting
SPEAKER_03He probably wrote dodge on it after he parked.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's a Chevy. Anyway, that's smart. That's actually smart. Truck cab on a boat. That's smart. What? Wrench? Wait, what am I looking at? They got a bar welded to a nut. Oh, so the nut doesn't turn. Nice. Huh. You just wedged it in there. Oh, okay. I see now. What is that though? Oh. Beer opener. Ratchet.
SPEAKER_03So you have your lineman pliers with the beer opener that has a ratchet with a I think we have our next invention here. We need to start manufacturing. We'll get that radar.
SPEAKER_01Honey, go get my lineman plier, beer opener, ratchet, screwdriver. What are you doing? I don't know yet, but I need it. It can do it all.
unknownWhat? What?
SPEAKER_02It's a maquito. I'm telling you, we've been talking about it, cooking with power tools. Who wants to challenge your boy? You can take the lightning on a road trip like that. You can use the gas to power the generator to charge the truck.
SPEAKER_03I mean, if it was a diesel generator, that might that might not be uh look at that old school iron. Why is it on the back of the I don't know on the wait.
SPEAKER_02So they're using shotgun shells to hold to hold up their laptop.
SPEAKER_03That's an interesting one. Whoa.
SPEAKER_02Too much effort. On demand hot water. That actually's hilarious. Slab of beef. Just huh. I don't know what's going on. It's a washer or dryer. Homemade lift. Man, that's now we're talking. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. Yeah, he'd blur out his plate. I mean, you gotta get it done. I like it. What was that fishing rod?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. With the bird feeder.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yes. That's incredible. Whoa! Oh, what?
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's just like that guy's house. The entire player cool is held up on Cinderbly. Oh my goodness. That's smart, except it's permanent, but it's smart. How do you get that through? Get it through. Yeah, initially. What? What? The parking pad for your Ford Rav 4? You're a big fan of the RAV4, huh? Uh, the OG RAV 4 is pretty sick. I don't know how I feel right now. Is that air conditioning? No, they're air conditioning the house with the car.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_02Nice Gen 1 Hum V.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_02We needed that on that one red chair. Yes. Let's see what we got here.
SPEAKER_03It looks like a weight on the mirror.
SPEAKER_02Good old mirror weight. That's a Ford Expedition anchor. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03Someone put a stick to hold up the power lines. That's an interesting one.
SPEAKER_02I'll get you, get you. What?
SPEAKER_00I don't know what's going on.
SPEAKER_02I'm too dumb for a lot of these.
SPEAKER_00What's happening here?
SPEAKER_02It's a bunch of bolts welded together. That's such a real problem. The handle brakes on a microwave. It's like I don't want to see it. In copper fittings? He could have probably done something cleaner. Copper does class it up a bit, though, let's be honest here. If he could have gone with a black pair cord.
SPEAKER_03Oh god, he just set screws through it. Yeah. You really want that metal in the microwave.
SPEAKER_02Supposedly it's a myth. You could put metal in a microwave.
SPEAKER_03Definitely not a myth. Don't do that on that before. It's like don't do it at all.
SPEAKER_02I've no burrito wrapped in aluminum for the colour. Well, have you ever seen the microwaves have metal shelves in them? They just don't touch. They sit on plastic tabs. But they don't have they don't touch what? The walls. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03I've put a fork in a microwave.
SPEAKER_02I was touching the plate. Put some metal in that microwave. Suspend it. We gotta suspend it.
SPEAKER_03You suspend it? Who the f how the f are you doing that? Why would you do that?
SPEAKER_02Turn off gravity in your microwave. Now we're talking. Just drop a trailer and leave it permanently. I can't keep up with it. These are too fast. What is happening? What? Now that looks like a wire job in one of our houses.
SPEAKER_03This video makes no sense. It's like super slow and then fast. Whoa. Yeah, there's a cooler. Yeah, that is a video. You're gonna hit that. That's some dangers in there too, yeah.
SPEAKER_02What is this? A lamp within a lamp? I don't know what that is. Ooh. That's hot. The dual toothbrush. They're probably cleaning something of the toothbrush on both sides.
SPEAKER_01What?
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_02Okay. Hang an ashtray. Raw wires into an ashtray light. Oh, that's I think we're gonna I'm gonna end on that one. That's what you choose to end it on. I love the like ever seen like any of that redneck wood splitting. Like just throw that in real fast. There's some incredible feats of engineering. Yeah. I've seen that Jacob Whitzling guy. He makes a bunch of weird axes. He's like an axe on a chain. No, no, no, no. Just throw it in real quick on YouTube. Just redneck wood splitting. I mean, you get some guys that are building some shit that's like you're gonna lose a limb if you get in the way, but it's so so efficient and so smart. That's what that's where I'm at. That's what I want more of in the world. Like that one right there on the truck tire. Yeah. Oh, I think I've seen this is one where it's the little thing. Close the doors around and oh no, never mind. What the f yeah on a car tire. You know how many people have DM'd me that I need to turn a bowl on a car tire? I've seen that with pottery a lot. I don't know about wood. I feel like pottery. Yeah, people use it uh to like turn stuff or throw stuff. Yeah, you get some wild machines for like wood splitting. They got these like big mechanical, kinetic kind of arm things going on. They're they're super impressive. We got a giant stump. Yep, we got mustaches. I'm in for all this so far. So far, we're good. So far we're good. What are we doing? Using a regular log splitter is what it looks like. That's not that redneck. That's actually that's incredibly efficient and well built. What do you got? What do you got? What are you guys rednecking? I don't think anything. No? Oh, that's sad. Anyway, so I guess that's gonna be a wrap on this one. Some
Wrap Up And Viewer Submissions
SPEAKER_02good, some bad. I'm actually a little bit disappointed. I was hoping to see some better. If you guys got anything awesome that's in this vein, send it over. We'd love to react to it. We'd love to review it. Sam is gonna be awake for the next three weeks because he's taken down this entire can of tangle. Appreciate you guys. See you on the next video.
