1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 3 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant over there. Jerry's hanging 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: out in the ether again. Um, and this is stuff 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: you should know on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday. But it's not. 6 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: This will be out on a Thursday. That's true, true. True. 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: Is that guy I don't know, but he is an 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 1: American icon for those of you who live outside of 9 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: the United States and use the metric system. Um, there's 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: an announcer that is no one knows his name. He 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: may be living or dead. I'm not sure a lot 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: of people know his name, but we don't know his name. Well, yeah, 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,639 Speaker 1: I'm just generalizing, but from my own experience, uh and 14 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: then uh, but he is a he's like a Monster 15 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: Truck ad announcer, guy who's always getting you hyped up 16 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: to want to go to a seat the Monster Truck rally. Yeah. 17 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: I think he is second. I mean, there have been 18 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: some great announcers in the history of this country. I 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: would put him up there with uh, Michael Buffer, So 20 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,919 Speaker 1: let's get ready to rumble guy. Yeah, I put Triple 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: Sunday Man way ahead of him and Don Pardo to me, 22 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: is my all time favorite. Yeah, that's Sarah Live announcer. Yeah, 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: featuring Josh Clark. Oh, I've been waiting so long. And 24 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: musical guests, Chipo, boy, that'd be a double bill. Who 25 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: would be your favorite musical guest if you were the host? Oh, Boyton, 26 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: that's a good one. Sure. I was gonna say Gandhi 27 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: or Jesus Christ or something like that, but I got 28 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: my my fantasies confused. You know, our buddy Scott Ackerman 29 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: does a great Don Pardo. No, I didn't know that. Yeah, 30 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: he's he's good at that stuff. He is a brilliant comedian, 31 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,119 Speaker 1: he is. It's great. I've been listening to his new 32 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: new Ish show with Lauren lap Kiss and Paula Tompkins 33 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: our other friend, uh called Freedom, and it's hysterical and great. Yeah, good, 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: nice plug, Chuck. Everything Ackerman does turns to gold. Can 35 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: I give you my brief rundown with off Roading as 36 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: we get into the Monster Truck episode. Yeah, I predicted 37 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: Dad's story coming. Yeah. Yeah, when I was and I 38 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: think we talked about this a little bit and when 39 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: we talked at some point about CB radios. But when 40 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: we were kids, you and I in the seventies and eighties, 41 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: CBS we're a big deal, the whole culture around it, 42 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: and it's hard to explain, but it's interesting. And my 43 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: dad got a CBE and he and one of his 44 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: better friends, Charlie, had a They both had jeeps. My 45 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: dad had a brown, uh brown Jeep Renegade and Charlie 46 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: had a green one, and we would go off roading. 47 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, so we would go 48 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: up into the mountains and literally cut roads where there 49 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: were no roads, and my dad was the mud slinger 50 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: that was a seat hand. Yeah, I don't remember what 51 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: Charlie's was, but we did quite a bit of it, 52 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: including a fully four wheels off the ground jump at 53 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: one point on this dirt road where they had been 54 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: I think they're going to pave the road. So they 55 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: had um bulldozed basically a ramp out of dirt and 56 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: rocks and left it there to come back the next 57 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: day to probably remove it. And my dad and Charlie 58 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: heard about it and they're like, let's go jump the jeeps. 59 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: And my dad jumped a jeep with my brother and 60 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: I en it. No seatbelts of course, oh my god, 61 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: of course not. I don't think jeeps had back seat 62 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: belts back then. And uh I remember hitting the ground 63 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: and then bumping up been smashing my head on the 64 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: roll bar. I dude, I can imagine, and you still 65 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: have that divid Yeah, but it was the seventies, so 66 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: I don't even think he said, is everyone okay? I 67 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: think we just kept on trucking. He's like, take a 68 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: salt tablet. Yeah, exactly. That's a great story, man. I 69 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: had no idea that you've done any off roading. I've 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: done exactly zero off roading in my life. Um. I 71 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: do have a deeper appreciation for it after researching all 72 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: this stuff. But I have never been into monster trucks 73 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: and never gone to one of those, although I will 74 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: say the thought of you and uh Emily and me 75 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: and you me going to one of these had a 76 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: lot of appeal for some reason. Yeah. Well, I'll tell 77 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,239 Speaker 1: you what. Out of the four people you just listed, 78 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: as far as I know, you mean's the only one 79 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: who's been to a I totally believe it. Yeah. Yeah, 80 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: she was into um Power Motorsports for a little while there, 81 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: that's great. And the one she said, it's really loud, 82 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: and it's pretty great, except she said, breathing all of 83 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: like the gas fumes, exhaust fumes is not super fun. 84 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: You need to get one of those stadium ones outdoors. Yeah, 85 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: I saw. I saw a footage of one at the 86 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: in Anaheim where the Angels play. I'm like, oh, yeah, 87 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: that's an outdoor baseball stadium. That's that's the place to 88 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: go see a monster truck rally for sure, not like 89 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: enclosed sports arena hockey rink and I've heard of the 90 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: noise is really I've been to one drag race and 91 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: the noise was really bad there, so I can't imagine 92 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: what it's like for a monster truck jam. Yes, but 93 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: there's something about it, like even just watching like clips 94 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: on YouTube like I've done the last few days, it's 95 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: like I saw a couple of things that I'm going 96 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: to admit gave me goose bumps a little bit. I was. 97 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: I was that impressed with it. But part of it 98 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: was the noise from the engine, but also the noise 99 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: of like twenty five year old guys screaming like little 100 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: boys because somebody like did a wheelie, like a giant 101 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: monster truck that fully adds to the sound as well, 102 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: and little boys and girls screaming like grown men. Right exactly, 103 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: it's weird. It's a weird scene. It's a big crisscross. 104 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: So so yes, I think it's good that we fessed 105 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: up out of the gate that we're we We have 106 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: not been to a monster truck rally, um, and we're 107 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: not huge as far as our understanding of say, like 108 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: motorized engines go that kind of thing. I feel like 109 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: we could still do one on this like pretty well, um, 110 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: because there's just so much to it. There's a lot 111 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: of really interesting stuff to it. You don't actually have 112 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: to have gone to see a monster truck rally to 113 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: appreciate it, especially if you watch some clips on YouTube. Yeah, 114 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: and you know the reason I mentioned the off roading 115 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: is because that is where monster truck rallies is that 116 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: what they're still called munster truck jams. They're called monster 117 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: jam but that's like a specific uh a specific brand 118 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: of of show that you go to. Well, the monster 119 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: jam wrecked I'm calling them rallies. I'm gonna call the 120 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: monster truck promenades. Okay, so the prom I love it. 121 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: The cotillion started with off roading in with people like 122 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: my dad in the seventies and eighties getting off road, 123 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: and you know before that, even uh off roading in 124 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: these pickup trucks that eventually we're like, hey, let's get 125 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: some bigger tires, let's lift it up a little bit, 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: let's get some more ground clearance. And before you know it, 127 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: trucks are just a little bit bigger and taller than 128 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: they were before. And a man named Bob Chandler said 129 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: from St. Louis, said, I've got a great idea. Too 130 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: bad he didn't like have some sort of I P 131 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: around this, but he did come up with a great idea, 132 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: which was the very first big Foot. Yeah yeah, he 133 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: he's very widely credited as basically the inventor of monster 134 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: trucks just just from it was basically born out of necessity, 135 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: like he drove his car really hard. The reason his first, uh, 136 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: the first monster truck was named Bigfoot was because that 137 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: was his nickname. He was well known as a very 138 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: aggressive off roading driver. Um. But because of that, he 139 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: would break axels, he would get stuck in the mud, um, 140 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: he would find himself in his truck more importantly in 141 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: places that your average truck driver would not would not 142 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: find themselves, so um, to kind of get out of 143 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: those sticky situations or never get into him in the 144 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: first place, he started to try to upgrade his truck 145 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: well beyond anything you would buy from like a dealership. Uh. 146 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: And he was a tinkerer, uh so much so, and 147 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: he got like so into it. He actually opened his 148 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: own four by four parts store. Um. In part I 149 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: get the very strong impression to probably get a discount 150 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: on the parts that he was needing to use on 151 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: his own truck that he was breaking with regularity. Yeah. Yeah. 152 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: It was called the Midwest Four Wheel Drive Center h. 153 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: And the initial truck was a F to f fifty 154 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: and he dressed it all up and he got those 155 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: bigger axles and bigger tires and uh, he actually did 156 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: invent a technology, um, which was I'm not sure if 157 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: he completely invented this, but he at least installed four 158 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: wheel steering on his truck, which is when the back 159 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: wheels turn and the front wheels turn so you can 160 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: turn tighter. This was I don't know about a rage, 161 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: but this was a thing for a while because my 162 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: good buddy and your pal John Findell from New Jersey. 163 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: He had one of those four wheels steering Honda Preludes 164 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: that he just it was like his baby. He loved 165 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: this car more than anything. I remember that. They were 166 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: always like, you can get in and out of a 167 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: parking spot at the grocery store like you would not believe. Yeah, 168 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: you should have seen him park at the grocery store. 169 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: I forgot about the effortless. But yeah, so that makes 170 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: you know, and especially in a big monster truck when 171 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: you're gonna need that turning radius. Uh. And the tires 172 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: got bigger and bigger. I think he landed at forty 173 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: four inches, which was like a tractor tire. Yeah, initially, 174 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: and that was in nineteen seventy nine, and that was 175 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: sort of the very first monster truck. Yeah. And nowadays, 176 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: if you were riding around on forty four inch tires, 177 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: other monster truck enthusiasts would be like, what's wrong with 178 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: your tires? But at the time you could you could, 179 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: like people would ask you to pull over so they 180 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: could talk to you about your car when you were 181 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: driving down the road with tires like that. And he 182 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: actually used it to great effect. He he advertised um 183 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: his businesses parts but four by four parts business on 184 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: the car um when he was driving around town, and 185 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: he ended up adding the word Bigfoot, the name Bigfoot 186 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: onto it. And again, at first, I believe he was 187 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: basically saying, you know, like a long haul trucker will 188 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: put their name or nickname or CB handle on their 189 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: on their rig, That's what he was doing. But in 190 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: very short order that became the name of the car 191 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: or the truck, and then in in Um and the 192 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: successive trucks that came after that, there's I think iterations 193 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: of Bigfoot or some offshoot of Bigfoot. Now, yeah, he 194 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, he made one very famous initial video, uh, 195 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: sort of as a promotion like a local TV commercial 196 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: basically for his business of Bigfoot riding over some other cars. 197 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: And that was it. Man. After that, people went berserk. Uh. 198 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: There is one sort of I don't know if it's apocryphal, 199 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: but at least we can't find the original source, but 200 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: that he did get pulled over once in Bigfoot and 201 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: because he would drive this thing on the road, it 202 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: was just crazy, and he was ticketed because the only 203 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: violation that they found was the headlights were too high 204 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: off the ground. Yeah, which I mean, like I was 205 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: looking at what makes monster trucks not street legal, and 206 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: that's definitely one of them. But some other ones are, 207 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: like you know, usually they don't have winchaw wipers or 208 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: horns or things like that. Um, it's not stuff you 209 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: would think of. Another one, though, is like that, the 210 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: tires can't be like too wide beyond the body, and 211 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: if they do, you have to have mud flaps to 212 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: cover it up. Um. There's a lot of different like 213 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: laws state by state, but for the most part, yeah, 214 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to drive those things on the road 215 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. But yes, the height of 216 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: the headlights is definitely one of them. So he takes 217 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: off around the country and starts doing some promotional events. 218 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: He would go to exhibitions, he would drive over a 219 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: car or pull a weighted sled that looks like a 220 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: giant six pack of Budweiser. Did you see some of 221 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: the early Bigfoot videos, the very first one and a 222 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: lot of them after that. Yeah, yeah, they were like 223 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: slow motion. They weren't like hyped up. It was just 224 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: basically like, Okay, for my next trick, I'm going to 225 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: start in about ninety or a hundred and twenty seconds. 226 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll over this one are very slowly. Yeah, 227 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't that's what it was like. It wasn't like, yes, 228 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: but no one had seen anything like it though, you 229 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: know what I mean, Which so at the time what 230 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: seemed boring to us now was like just mind blowing 231 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: to the people. Oh yeah, So he was he was 232 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: doing pretty well, especially as far as business promotion goes, 233 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: and realized that he needed a second Bigfoot because people 234 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: wanted him in movies and they wanted him at their 235 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: county fair. And so in eight two, Bigfoot two debut 236 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: at the Pontiac's Silver Dome, this time with sixty six 237 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: inch tires, which kind of ended up being the industry norm. Yes, 238 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: apparently they get um or they started out with agricultural tires, 239 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,719 Speaker 1: the kind of tires that you put on tractors, are 240 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: huge combines, like just giant tires. And then to save 241 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: some of the weight, because these tires can be eight 242 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: hundred plus pounds each fully inflated like mounted to wheels, 243 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: they'll actually shave all a lot of the tread, real 244 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: deep tread, the lugs I think they're called um they'll 245 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: shave off a substantial portion, so they still have lots 246 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: of traction because you know, at these monster truck cotillions, 247 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 1: they're driving over like mud and dirt and everything. I 248 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: don't think those are lugs, are they? I saw somewhere 249 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: somebody referred to him as lugs huge treads. I thought 250 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: the lug was the thing that came out that you 251 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: put the lug nut on when you change a tire. 252 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: I they may have. I mean, this is a very 253 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: confusing world we live in. It's it's possible that they're 254 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: both called lugs. There's a lot of people laughing in 255 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: us right now, which is fine. They're gonna pat us 256 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: on our heads when they will probably be nicer than 257 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: soccer and chess enthusiasts. I certainly hope so, because I've 258 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: seen these people get up and yell, and I don't 259 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: want to be yelled at by a monster truck enthusiasts. 260 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: Should we take a break and look up what a 261 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: lug is and come back? Sure, Chuck, So, Chuck, where 262 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: we left off? Bigfoot had really kind of established this 263 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: whole thing um in the very early eighties. It appeared 264 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: in Take This Job and Shove It. Did you ever 265 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: see that movie? I'm sure your dad probably made you 266 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: watch it like all the time. That was an HBO 267 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: special for sure. Okay, I never saw it, and I 268 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: was very surprised to learn that Robert Hayes, the um, 269 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: the guy from Airplane was in it, like the main guy. 270 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: I would not have cast him. I'm surprised no one 271 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: has reinvigorated his career, you know, like Tarantino style. Sure, 272 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: sure come back, he really did. But so it was 273 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: in that it was in Police Academy to six. It 274 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: just it was part of like the pop culture zeitgeist 275 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: for sure. But at the same time, um, it's success 276 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: and like it's popularity spawned imitators is not the right word. 277 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: Um uhi mates, Yeah, fellow cotillion go or something like that. 278 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: Like other people are like, yes, this is what we 279 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: should be doing with our lives. And they actually, um 280 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: were able to make a livelihood by appearing at some 281 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: of those early like hot rod shows or um like 282 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: car exhibitions or um you know, like a drag races 283 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: things like that. They would just be there to entertain 284 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: the crowds, and then all of a sudden they're like, 285 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: well maybe we should you know, match these things against 286 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: one another, and so from that monster truck rally started 287 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: to grow on their own. Yeah, I get the feeling. 288 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: It was kind of like the Rodeo clown for a 289 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: little while. Like you said, there would be drag races, 290 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: and they said, and now you know, Bigfoot will make 291 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: it a special appearance. And it's interesting in that it's 292 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: sort of started it. It kind of followed NASCAR's footprint 293 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: a little bit, or stock car racing in general, because 294 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: the name is right there stock cars. Like initially those 295 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: cars were just juiced up cars that they would race. 296 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: And initially these trucks were we're four f two fifties 297 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: and Chevrolets, and they were just trucks that people built 298 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: bigger and heavier and more rugged and just made them huge. Uh. 299 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: They got to a point though, where they were, like, 300 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: you know, they were using military axles and stuff like 301 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: that on their their big equipment because everything was breaking. 302 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: But they found that those were even breaking, and as 303 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: they got bigger and bigger, they said, you know what, 304 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: we need to start over everybody. This is a real 305 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: thing and we can't just modify these pickup trucks. We 306 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: gotta build these things from the ground up. Like NASCAR 307 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: eventually ended up doing that. Yeah, and that's exactly what 308 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: they did. And apparently Bob Chandler led the the the 309 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: way on that as well, really tinkered around with UM 310 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: CAD designs, computer assisted designs UM and one of the 311 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: things he came up with. And it wasn't him specific, 312 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: or it wasn't just him. They were like a group 313 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: of people working on this by this time. This is 314 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: the I believe the late eighties so so, like monster 315 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: trucks were a thing by now, UM, but they revolutionized 316 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: it by basically saying, how about instead of these like 317 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: super heavy, brittle things where the truck itself weighs a 318 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: total of like fifteen thousand pounds UM and we break 319 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: axles because you know they're really strong, but they're really 320 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: brittle too, Let's start using tubes instead. And they created 321 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: a revolution by by by creating and welding these cages 322 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: these frames out of very strong but very lightweight tubes. 323 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: And you're never going to guess one of the components 324 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: that they use that they make these tubes out of molybdenum. 325 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: No way, way. It's funny. We heard from people about 326 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: to pronounce that and someone said, every I don't know 327 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: if you saw this, and they said, in the industry, 328 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: we just call it molly. Yes, I saw that too. Yeah, Yeah, 329 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: there's a They use a chromium malebdumum molebden um alloy 330 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: and they call it chrome molly. Wow. Yeah. So that's 331 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: that's what your average monster truck is made out of. 332 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: And you don't need like a like a the same 333 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: amount of stuff that like a passenger vehicle needs. You 334 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: need just the bare minimum amount of stuff that's gonna 335 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: make this thing wrong, keep it together, and then most importantly, 336 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: protect the driver inside. Because when you strip everything away 337 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: from the monster truck of today that Bob Chandler and 338 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: his friends revolutionized in the late eighties, you basically have 339 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: a roll cage, is what you're what you're dealing with, 340 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: a giant tubular roll cage. That's what a monster truck 341 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: is at its core. Yeah. And one of the other 342 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: big improvements and advancements they made was moving the engine 343 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: behind the driver, so it's a mid engine layout. Uh 344 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: no more, you know what's in front of you under 345 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: the hood. Uh. The bodies of these things now and 346 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: since the you know, late eighties, early nineties or fiberglass 347 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: and they're just I mean, if you watch any videos 348 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: of this stuff online of like current Monster Truck Rally 349 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: or contillions, excuse me, Um, these fiberglass bodies are just 350 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: they're just show pieces. They're made to just tear apart 351 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,479 Speaker 1: and break away. Like very few of them end up 352 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: end up in one piece at the end of these Yes, um, 353 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: but they still cost like ten thousand dollars apiece. But 354 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: they're super modular, super interchangeable, so that you might see 355 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: the same truck a couple of times during a rally. 356 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: But they just oh, sorry forget what I just said 357 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: for another twenty minutes. No, I mean spoil it for 358 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: the people that think they're watching different trucks. So I 359 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: am sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But 360 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: there are more bodies than there are actual trucks at 361 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: any given Monster Truck Contillion. They're just swapping out the 362 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: actual shells the fibery last body. Um, there's a crew there. 363 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: I was reading about them. They're the unsung heroes of 364 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: any cotillion where in between you know, um, appearances in 365 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: between shows. Like a lot of times those Monster Truck 366 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: jams will be you know, a couple of shows a 367 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: day on a Sunday in a certain city. Um, they're 368 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: working feverishly to fix everything that's gone wrong from the 369 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: abuse that that core truck took, you know, for the 370 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: last couple of hours and during the show. But one 371 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: of the things they do is switch out the bodies 372 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: real quick so that you have you have to transport 373 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: far fewer trucks. It's a lot easier to transport a lighter, 374 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: fiberglass body than a big, heavy truck. Yeah. I thought 375 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: it was funny. Ed the grabster help us put this together. 376 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: And at one point when he was talking about switching 377 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: out the shells, he said, you know, this kind of 378 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: started because multiple big foots would show up at an event, 379 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: and you can't have a big foot racing a big foot. 380 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: I was just like, I bet you no one would care. 381 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: They probably just think it was some twelve year old 382 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 1: boy would be like that, that ain't right right, keep 383 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: put my finger on it. Something's been violated here. Uh. 384 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: I don't know who knows, um, but they did. Uh uh. 385 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: They did start switching them out with regularity, and like 386 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: I said, they just tear apart. If you watch any video, 387 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: these drums are pretty insane. I mean they're doing like 388 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: double backflips. Now, I know it's crazy, so you have 389 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: to make a distinction whether you're talking about the double 390 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: backflip where the truck just follow us everybody, a giant 391 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: monster truck hits a ramp and does a backflip, and 392 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: then before it touches the ground, it does another backflip 393 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: in mid air. It looks hard to do. I didn't 394 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: see a lot of successful ones. You could also be 395 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: talking about a consecutive backflip where the U does a backflip, 396 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: lands and does another immediately does goes into another backflip. 397 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: Both are equally impressive, but this, the single double backflip, 398 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: is the harder of the two to do. Um and 399 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: it's fun to watch people try and fail at but 400 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: it's also pretty great to see somebody land. Yeah, And 401 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: speaking of trying and failing, we should talk a little 402 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: bit about the Anderson family, another first family of monster trucks. 403 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: So the father, the elder statesman of the Anderson family, 404 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: was in it way early alongside Chandler and they His 405 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: family truck was the grave Digger. Eventually he passed down 406 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: to his son, and then another son, and then eventually 407 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 1: his daughter, Kristen Uh is now the driver of the 408 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: Grave Digger and she set the Guinness record for altitude 409 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: for the highest jump I think just last year, right, yeah, 410 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: in June and beautiful Bradent in Florida. She landed a 411 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: thirty three uh foot nine inch uh jump off of 412 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: a truck ramp and you know, it's pretty impressive and 413 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: she uh I think it was her dad. The reason 414 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: I mentioned the trying and failing thing was her dad 415 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: was the first person who said, you know what, these 416 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: races are fine, racing, these things are good, but what people. 417 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: He was the one that said, hey, after the race, 418 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 1: why don't the drivers just come out and do some 419 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: tricks and stuff. He realized, like people like that more 420 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: than the races. And although they still do race now, 421 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: freestyle competition was born out of that notion, and that's 422 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: sort of where the crowd pleasing entertainment comes from. Are 423 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: the drivers that are doing these jumps and the driving 424 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: on two wheels and jumping over things and through things, 425 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: and you know it's it's all right there on that 426 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: big dirt pit and you can I mean Dennis Anderson 427 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: definitely was the one to be credited with creating that, 428 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: and it went from you know, just the existence of 429 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: of monster trucks to monster trucks, do you know, slowly 430 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: driving over a couple of cars, to them racing. Apparently 431 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: in the nineties they raced them. They got them as 432 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 1: light as like nine thousand pounds, which is about twice 433 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: as heavy as say, like a normal midsized truck today. 434 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: UM they which is really light for uh, a monster truck, 435 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: considering that you know, all four tires and wheels combined 436 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: maybe make up two thousand of those pounds. That's really light. 437 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: And they wanted them light so they could raise them 438 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: and get them really fast. And then they said, you 439 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: know what people want to see. What Dennis Anderson was saying, 440 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: is all the tricks, but you still need to be 441 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: able to go fast. So another about twelve thousand pounds 442 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: is what they clock in it. They're durable, but they're 443 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: also light enough to be fast and too to hit 444 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: thirty three ft high jumps when they hit a ramp. Yeah, 445 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: and they can do this thanks to a um A 446 00:25:55,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: massive supercharged methanol powered engine UH five cubic inch motors 447 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: and you've only got two speeds though it's got a 448 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: very low geared transmission system and I think first gear 449 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 1: is sort of like on an eighteen wheeler like that, 450 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 1: just sort of get your wheels rolling and then you 451 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: immediately pop into that second gear and that's all there is, 452 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: because all you need is torque and acceleration, so you 453 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: can go super fast in a very shortspan, so you 454 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: can hit those ramps and do whatever trick that you 455 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: have up your sleeve. Yeah, and I was like, what's 456 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: the what's the point of using methanol? These engines are 457 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: called blown alcohol engines are in the industry, they call 458 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: them alky's al k y and UM. It turns out 459 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: that methanol actually is less energy dense than gasoline, but 460 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: you can cram more of it into a gaseous state 461 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: than you can gas. So if you have a supercharger 462 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: and air compressor that's compressing a whole bunch of blown 463 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: alcohol vapors into your engine, you can actually more power, 464 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: more energy out of it. So that's the reason that 465 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: they all run on like pure methanol, no gasoline. Not 466 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: to drop a gasoline goes anywhere near these things. Um, 467 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: and they're the engines are extremely big, and they're also 468 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: extraordinarily inefficient fuel wise. Um, there's a there's one very 469 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: famous monster truck called the Raminader, and it clocked in 470 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: as the fastest. It was the fastest um uh monster 471 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: truck on the planet. It did zero to sixty in 472 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: three seconds, which is faster than a ferrari Enzo at 473 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: the time or at least, but it got um two 474 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four feet to the gallon and then awesome. 475 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: That's I was trying to figure out before he said 476 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: to the gallons, like, where's this going? Right? Wow, that's 477 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: that's really funny. Yeah, they're not worried about fuel consumption. Uh, 478 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: they're worried about making that big engine go boom because 479 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: people love that sound. It's hysterical. Ed put in here 480 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: that they have attempted electric powered monster trucks, but they 481 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: were not popular with the vans. They want to hear 482 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: that engine going. It's part of the allure. I think. 483 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: I think more than anything, they don't want to hear themselves. 484 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: Oh I doubt that. Um. They also have You know, 485 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: if you talk about shocks, when you see these things today, 486 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: it's crazy how uh they will do something where and 487 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: I encourage you to go check out videos if you've 488 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: never seen this stuff. Um, photos. But yeah, definitely video, 489 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: No watch a video, because they can contort themselves and 490 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: go back upright uh way more often than you would think, 491 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: like about eighty percent of the time. I'm like, well 492 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: that thing is is on its back or it's done 493 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: for the day, and it manages to just flop back over. 494 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: And those wheels look like they're all independent of one another. 495 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: They have for nitrogen charge shocks on every single wheel, 496 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: on all four wheels. Ye uh and it's it's pretty 497 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: pretty cool looking. And those those shocks are not like 498 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: normal shocks either. Your average shock has what's called a 499 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: range of travel, which is the amount of basically give 500 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: that it has um of about four to six inches. 501 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: These usually have about twenty four inch range of travel, 502 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: And like you said, there's four on each wheel. So 503 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: on the one hand, that keeps the driver's spine from 504 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: compressing every time they you know, land after a huge jump, 505 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: and on the other hand, it also pushes the truck 506 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: off of objects, objects and obstacles. Um. And I don't 507 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: know if we said those huge giant tires. You know, 508 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: in a normal car, you're you've probably got about thirty 509 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: three pounds per square inch inflation in them. Uh, these 510 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: have maybe eight to ten so there's a lot of 511 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: bounce in the tire. There's a huge amount of range 512 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: of travel in the shocks. When you put it all together, 513 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: they can pop up on their back wheels, they can 514 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: pop up on their front wheels. They can just do 515 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: tumbles and somersaults and all sorts of crazy stuff because 516 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: of those shocks and that that virtually deflated tires that 517 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: are basically like giant balloons. Yeah, they bounce. They need 518 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: more cushion for the pushing. They bounce around quite a bit. 519 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: I think, you know, safety is an important thing, and 520 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: like NASCAR, again, they sort of followed that model of 521 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: in the early days. I would be surprised that Bob 522 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: Chandler even use a seat belt. He seems kind of 523 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: like a wild card to me. But like I said, 524 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: along with NASCAR, they started improving, um the safety over 525 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: the years. There are still things like back injuries. UM. 526 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: Fire is another thing that's it's obviously um because you 527 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: know when you flip these things over and you're bouncing around. 528 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: They those fuel it's not just like a regular gas 529 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,479 Speaker 1: tank or oil reservoir. They're like super modified and there 530 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: are backup systems and redundancies to make sure they're not 531 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: throwing flaming gas all over people. Uh, they're automatic fire 532 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: extinguishers like in NASCAR. They're wearing those fire suits and gloves. Yeah, 533 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: I think they even. Um, I'm not sure if it's 534 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: the exact Hans device, but the device that I think 535 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: after I might be wrong. I'm just going from memory, 536 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: but I think after Dale Earnhardt died is when they 537 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: brought in that device basically that straps a NASCAR driver's 538 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: head completely stationary. Yes, and I think that's what they're 539 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: using in monster trucks as well. Yeah. So I was 540 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: reading a guy who went to Monster Truck University in 541 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: Illinois or Monster jam University and got to test out 542 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: driving a monster truck. And he said, you're your field 543 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: of vision or your feel. Yeah, it is basically relegated 544 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: to how how much you can move your eyeballs in 545 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: their sockets. Yeah, your head is not moving at all. 546 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: And um, and not only is your head to mobilize, 547 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: your your body is basically too, except for your arms. 548 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: And you're strapped in with a five point seat belt 549 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: that's actually ratcheted in. It's not some buckle like they 550 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: use ratchets to to to screw them in so you 551 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: are in that thing. And then also, if you're an 552 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: actual professional monster truck driver, the seat that you're sitting 553 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: in has actually been molded to your body, so you 554 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: um do you bumby can't fluctuate and wait too much 555 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: if you're on the monster truck circuit or else, You're 556 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: not going to fit into your own seat, you know. Yeah, 557 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: you gotta watch your weight. I imagine, uh, And you know, 558 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: the whole debate about whether race car drivers or athletes 559 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: is uh, there of course are athletes, and I would 560 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: imagine a monster truck driver. It takes a lot of 561 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: tool in the body and they have to be in 562 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: pretty decent shape as well. Sure. Also, like whoever, whoever 563 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: you are listening, you couldn't do this totally. It's not 564 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: something like driving one of these things is not intuitive. 565 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: It's not like, not only do you have to learn it. 566 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: I get the impression that you have to be basically 567 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: naturally talented to start with to even get good at 568 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: it at all. Too. Yeah, I mean, should we talk 569 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: a little bit about driving. I think one thing we 570 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: did mention, which is pretty coolol, is that the driver 571 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: sits in the middle. It's not mounted on the left 572 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: side like we drive here in the United States. It's 573 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: in the center because for a very good reason, so 574 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: so your arm doesn't fly out the window and get crunched. 575 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: That's a big one. And I actually have seen a 576 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: picture of um Bob Chandler driving Bigfoot. Yes, he's leaning 577 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: out the window looking at the ground, like checking his clearance, 578 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: but he's like he might as well be going ten 579 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: miles an hour down a country road for the way 580 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: that he's sitting in this car. I'm like, especially now 581 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,239 Speaker 1: knowing that they they're like strapped in and in the 582 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: center of the car, it's just hilarious to see. I 583 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: can't believe the guy is still alive. Yeah, I mean, 584 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: is he still a lot today? Is still yes? Um? 585 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: He uh? Like we said, there are only those two gears, 586 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: and there's also still that rear wheel steering that Chandler 587 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: came up with, and I don't think we mentioned he 588 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: called it a four by four by four because four 589 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: by four obviously for four wheel drive, and then that 590 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: four wheel steering. But you now can turn those on 591 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,320 Speaker 1: and off the four wheel steering feature with the toggle switch. 592 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: That's how it. Yeah, so like flipping that switch on 593 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: and off and steering and you know, hitting the gas 594 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: where you're and I don't think we got to that 595 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,399 Speaker 1: part yet, but you're it's actually attached via a toe 596 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: loop to the accelerator throttle because they would have problems 597 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: with sticking accelerators and that is not good in a 598 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: monster truck that can go that fast. So now you 599 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: can pull back on the accelerator. But all of this 600 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: stuff takes a lot of practice, and that's why you 601 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: would go to the Monster Truck University, yes, and have 602 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: to be naturally talented to UM. And then there's also 603 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: safety issues chuck that they've come up with because there 604 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 1: have been a lot of tragedies. Apparently no no monster 605 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: truck drivers ever died driving a monster truck, but plenty 606 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: of spectators have been killed because of things like and 607 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: you crush a car, debris can fly everywhere, um, parts 608 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 1: of the monster truck itself can come off, and they're 609 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: um usually moving pretty fast and are pretty heavy um 610 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: when they're flying through the air. And then sometimes monster 611 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: trucks can just like drive into crowds. So if you 612 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 1: go to a monster truck rally or Cotillion, whatever your 613 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: your preferences. Um, you will see that the lower seats 614 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: are just totally you can't go down there because these 615 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: things are so unpredictable and can so easily spin out 616 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: of control that that it's just not safe to be 617 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,439 Speaker 1: anywhere near ground level when one of them is driving around. Yeah, 618 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: and I think after they implemented that, there were incidences 619 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: where the trucks did go up into those empty seats 620 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: where where and everyone involved looked around and just sort 621 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: of nodded like, yeah, we did it. Yeah, just save 622 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: some lives. And then also there's another thing too where 623 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,480 Speaker 1: if you go to one of these shows, you'll find 624 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 1: that there's four people standing around each corn or of 625 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: the hockey rink or the baseball diamond or whatever. Um, 626 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: that they have little remote controls that in each one 627 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: of them is capable of completely shutting off the engine 628 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: in the fuel immediately with the press of a button, 629 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: And they do that in case the driver is knocked unconscious, 630 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: but the the throttle is still down in the cars 631 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: there the truck still running around. Yes, you don't want 632 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,839 Speaker 1: a ghost driven monster truck inside of a stadium full 633 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 1: of people. I mean, do you know then that just 634 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: shout how dangerous this is that there's people standing by 635 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: with remote controls that turn the thing off if you're 636 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: knocked unconscious while you're doing your job. Yeah, and you know, 637 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: maybe we won't go over all these, but there have 638 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: been fatalities multiple times through the years at monster truck rallies, 639 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 1: including small children getting getting killed in the audience, and um, 640 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: you know this was mainly in the nineties, but there 641 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 1: was one in Mexico and there was something else in 642 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: So Yeah, which is I don't know, why is that 643 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,320 Speaker 1: surprising to me? The Netherlands has monster truck rallies. But 644 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: I mean these people, they were just standing around like 645 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,240 Speaker 1: they were watching I don't know, a couple of dogs 646 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,800 Speaker 1: do it or something like that, just in a circle, 647 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the monster truck loses 648 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,800 Speaker 1: control and just plows into the crowd. I think it 649 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: killed like three or four people. Yeah, like they're watching 650 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: Disney on Ice basically, break yeah with that one for sure. 651 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: All Right, we'll take a break and we'll come back 652 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: and reveal why I mentioned Disney on Ice right after 653 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 1: this to Chuck. All right, so you mentioned there were 654 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: at least twenty five different big bigfoots over the years. 655 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 1: Bigfoot is you know, it's part of popular culture and 656 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: on the nomenclature. Like Emily Will if she sees a 657 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 1: big truck in our neighborhood, will be like, you know, 658 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: look at that bigfoot, get out of the way, or 659 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: some big foot. I mean, let me just rephrase restate 660 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: what I said. It was in Police Academy too and six. 661 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,359 Speaker 1: You had two different times. I'm sure when they got 662 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: to six they're like, who should we bring back there? Like, 663 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 1: definitely the guy that makes the noises Robert Hayes. No, no, no, 664 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,480 Speaker 1: no not phrase. Yeah, let's get big Foot back in here. 665 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: They were gonna he came that close to having his 666 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 1: career advised by Police Academy six, but they skipped him 667 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,880 Speaker 1: over for big So Bigfoot fourteen jumped to seven, seven 668 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:44,399 Speaker 1: and nine, and then big Foot five. If you look 669 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 1: this thing up, it's it's pretty ridiculous. Um it's the 670 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,919 Speaker 1: biggest one of all. They built big Foot five with 671 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: UH tires that are ten ft tall that were used 672 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: on the VC twenty two snow freighter land train, which 673 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,440 Speaker 1: was this. I mean it's a train, it's really a 674 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: vehicle connected to other vehicles. It's more like a big 675 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: shipping bus, but it's a trackless freight train basically that 676 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 1: they shuttled supplies uh between Cold War early warning outposts 677 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,840 Speaker 1: between Alaska and Canada in the fifties. And if you 678 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,280 Speaker 1: look up big Foot, uh, which one was at fourteen, 679 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: just just take a look at those ridiculous tires. It 680 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: doesn't look as fun or as nimble because they're just 681 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 1: super tall and not as wide. Uh. But yeah, it was, 682 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 1: it was. It was a stunt. It's ostentatious, even for 683 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 1: a monster truck. I think so, And it just doesn't 684 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: look as nimble and as fun. Um. For those of 685 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: you who were raised in the nineties rather than the eighties, 686 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: Grave Diggers probably even more familiar than Bigfoot. And like 687 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,320 Speaker 1: we said, Dennis Anderson, the original creator of Grave Digger 688 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 1: and whose family keeps driving for him, um, was the 689 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,399 Speaker 1: guy who basically came up with freestyle monster trucking. Yeah, 690 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: hats off to him. I think his daughter Kristen is 691 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 1: the the only first and only full time monster truck 692 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 1: driver who's a woman. Oh yeah, hats off to her 693 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: as well, and also in the Guinness World Record Holder too, 694 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: which is nothing to sneeze an that's right. There's also um, 695 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,359 Speaker 1: you know, since we were talking about fiberglass bodies are 696 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 1: super removable. Since you're no longer having to kind of 697 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 1: work with anything that was originally a car or a truck, 698 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,640 Speaker 1: you can kind of do whatever you want. And some 699 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: people model like the Grave Digger is modeled after a 700 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: fifties Chevy panel van Um. There's one that's uh that 701 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: called the Big Cahuna that looks like a Woody from 702 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,440 Speaker 1: the sixties that you know, go surfing in um. And 703 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,359 Speaker 1: then there's some that don't look like cars at all, 704 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: or they look like cars that are hybridized with like animals, 705 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 1: like El Toro Loco is a bull with horns. My 706 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: personal favorite is golow Down Giant Shark. There's higher ed 707 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,759 Speaker 1: as a yellow school bus. UM. There's one called the 708 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: Zombie Chuck that has arms sticking and tattered, tattered rags 709 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,439 Speaker 1: coming off of it like a zombie. And then one 710 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,240 Speaker 1: of the best ever, the Mohawk Warrior with a giant 711 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:28,879 Speaker 1: mohawk sponsored by Great Clips Is it really, which really 712 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,240 Speaker 1: kind of reveals like the state of monster truck contillions today. 713 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,120 Speaker 1: It is super commercialized and the main reason why it's 714 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:41,200 Speaker 1: super commercialized because Monster Jam, which started out from you know, 715 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 1: the hot Rod Racing community UM, was bought by Feld Entertainment, 716 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,200 Speaker 1: which has a lot of different live touring acts and 717 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 1: one of them is Monster Jam. Yeah, and that was 718 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: not without some controversy. UM, you know, prior to the 719 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,640 Speaker 1: big corporate takeover that was it was people like Bob 720 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 1: chand Or. It was it was these people that would 721 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,400 Speaker 1: get together, maybe get a sponsorship and raise some money 722 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,360 Speaker 1: because they're very expensive to build. Obviously, it's not like 723 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,720 Speaker 1: they were all just like rich guys doing this stuff. 724 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: So you get a sponsor, you'd build out a monster 725 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: truck team and your truck you'd be paid money to 726 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 1: show up at an event, and if your truck gets 727 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,239 Speaker 1: some notoriety, you get more money. And I think in 728 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,799 Speaker 1: eighty five is when the United States hot Rod Association 729 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 1: UM started having these races where there were actually rules 730 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: in a point system, and then these other point series 731 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 1: started up, and eventually that culminated in eight when a 732 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,360 Speaker 1: bunch of the drivers got together informed UH the m 733 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,360 Speaker 1: t r A, the Monster Truck Racing Association, where you 734 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,320 Speaker 1: finally had some like real safety rules and UM, everything 735 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: was just sort of codified. Uh. But then you know 736 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: that's when the sort of corporate takeover thing started coming 737 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: in and there was a lot of controversy with Feld 738 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 1: Entertainment coming in there, and they're like, it's sort of 739 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: lost a bit of its soul. Uh. In the Monster 740 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 1: Truck world, and half the trucks that you see at 741 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,959 Speaker 1: any given rally will be felled trucks, and and they're 742 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 1: and they're rigging it, so they're the felled trucks are winning, 743 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,359 Speaker 1: which is you know, some people say some people might 744 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,759 Speaker 1: get worked up about that, and others might say it's 745 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,839 Speaker 1: just about the entertainment. Who really cares about the competition, right, 746 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,280 Speaker 1: And it's very much the same as like getting worked 747 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,479 Speaker 1: up about you know, pro wrestling being rigged, where it's like, yes, 748 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 1: it is, it's for entertainment purposes. Is this isn't a sport, 749 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,719 Speaker 1: but it's it's still very athletic. What you're seeing is 750 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: really hard to do. Um, it's really impressive. It takes 751 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,479 Speaker 1: a lot of work to make that happen. Um. So yeah, 752 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,560 Speaker 1: it's for entertainment, but it's still legitimate and all these 753 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 1: other ways, and just just stop being upset and kick 754 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,319 Speaker 1: back and enjoy it, yeah, or don't and don't go 755 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: and just shut up about it. Well that's what Bob 756 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 1: Chandler did with Bigfoot. He's Bigfoot is is conspicuously absent 757 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,680 Speaker 1: from all of the Monster Jam series because he didn't 758 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,920 Speaker 1: like Feld entertainment. And apparently he since said, you know, 759 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,960 Speaker 1: I would have liked to have maybe not done that, 760 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: because I think my life would be a lot easier. 761 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: I'd probably be fifty times richer. But um, you know, 762 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: it is what it is. And so Bigfoot is still 763 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,279 Speaker 1: its own thing, on its own, just being Bigfoot. It's 764 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 1: going to a big Foot. You got anything else, I've 765 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,080 Speaker 1: got nothing else. This is interesting. I gotta say I 766 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,000 Speaker 1: enjoyed watching those YouTube beds. Same here. Uh, I'm still 767 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,759 Speaker 1: not interested in going to one unless the four of 768 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: us go together. All right, Well, we'll make it happen 769 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,080 Speaker 1: once this pandemic passes. We're going. But it can't be 770 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,759 Speaker 1: the first live event I go to that. Okay, fair enough, 771 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,239 Speaker 1: but we will go. We will go. We'll go to 772 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 1: the KFC Yum Center in Lexington, Kentucky to see it. Um. 773 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,919 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, everybody, if you were at all 774 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,800 Speaker 1: entertained by this episode. Go check out some Monster Truck 775 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,160 Speaker 1: clips and specifically look up moonwalking. It's one of the 776 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,880 Speaker 1: most amazing things you will ever see in your life. So, 777 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,879 Speaker 1: as I said, it's one of the most amazing things 778 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,400 Speaker 1: you've ever seen in your life. Obviously, it's time for 779 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:12,160 Speaker 1: listener mail. I'm gonna call this a correction email. We 780 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,200 Speaker 1: like to read corrections when we get stuff wrong. It's 781 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: been a hallmark of the show, and I'm gonna read 782 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,800 Speaker 1: one right now from Mike. Hey, guys, I was listening 783 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,440 Speaker 1: to the Uranium Mining podcast today, which was great and 784 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,040 Speaker 1: super interesting. However, I just want to let you know, 785 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,240 Speaker 1: and I expect I'm not the only person who emailed, 786 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,880 Speaker 1: but you are, Mike, that uranium is categorically not from 787 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:37,760 Speaker 1: the Big Bang. During Big Bang nucleosynthesis, hydrogen, helium, lithium, 788 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: and beryllium were produced, including various isotopes and basically nothing else. 789 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: Uranium is produced from supernovae exploding stars. During the final 790 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,120 Speaker 1: seconds of a life star, something called the r process ocres, 791 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,080 Speaker 1: where dozens of neutrons can rapidly be added to the 792 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,440 Speaker 1: existing atom at nuclei. Some of these neutrons will subsequently 793 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: decay into protons and electrons until the stay will or 794 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,680 Speaker 1: at least quasi stable isotope has reached such as uranium. Uh, cheers, 795 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,440 Speaker 1: thanks for all the great podcasts. That's from Mike. Cheers 796 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 1: any kind of abruptly there, but man, thanks for this 797 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: school in Mike. Who knew? Mike? I I definitely did 798 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,359 Speaker 1: not know, and I like to think that I know 799 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:19,799 Speaker 1: basically everything there is to know about the Big Bang. 800 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,160 Speaker 1: There you have it, no uranium, Thanks Mike. UM, if 801 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,279 Speaker 1: you want a school, it's like Mike did. We are 802 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,400 Speaker 1: always willing to sit in awe of someone else's giant brain. UM. 803 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,640 Speaker 1: So you can email us. That's the best way to 804 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,000 Speaker 1: get in touch these days. 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