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This will be out on a Thursday True true, is that guy but he is an american icon for those of you who live outside the United States and use the metric system There is in announcer. That is no one knows his name, He may be living dead, I'm not sure at the lower evil knows name, but we don't know his name. You will you generalise I'd get about from my own experience and then but he is he's like a monster truck. Add announcer guy, who is always getting you hyped up to want to go to a sea of the monster truck rally yeah. Think he is. Second, I mean there some great announcers in the history of this country. I would put him up there with Michael buffer.

The let's get curator rumble guy yeah I put triple Sunday, man way ahead of him, and Don Pardo to me. As my all time, favorite yeah boots I've, announcer, yeah, feature in Joshua Lark I've been waiting so long in musical guests. He's, cheaper. It wouldn't hurt her her boy there be a double bill, would be your favorite musical guest of your those Oh boy, Dolly Pardon, that's a good one sure to say Gandhi or Jesus Christ, or something like that. But I got my my confused confused know. Scott argument, as a great Don Porto no. I didn't know that these keys good at that stuff. He is said, million comedian. Fierce it's great I've been listening to his new new ish show, with Lauren Lapis in Paul, Tompkins or other friend freedom and in its history,

and great yeah, good nice plug chuck yeah everything Ackerman turns the goal. Can I give you my brief run down with off as we get into the monster truck episode, yeah, I predicted dead story conduct that figure oh yeah, when I was- and I think we talked about this a little bit and when we talked at some point about CV radios, but when we were kids you and I in the seventies and eighties CBS were Deal, that the whole culture around it. It's hard to explain but its interest, and my dad got a c b and he in one of his better friends Charlie had a they both had jeeps, my dad at a brown brown. Renegade and Charlie, how to Greenland, and we would go off roading and when I was a kid, so we would go up in the mountains and literally roads where there were no roads and my dad- was the mud, slinger

our allowances slowly handle yeah nice. I remember which are always was, but we quite a bit of it, including a fully four wheel off the ground jump at one point dirt road where they had been. I think there the pay of the roads that they had bulldozed, basically a ramp. And rocks and left it there to come back the next day to probably remove it, and my dad and Charlie heard about it. If you like, let's go jump. The jeeps My dad jumped a jeep with my brother and I added no seat belts. Of course, guy of course not think jeeps head back seat belt back then homeward and I remember, hitting the ground and then bumping in smashing my head on the roll bar I did, I can imagine you still have that did it there, but it was a seventy. So I don't even think he said. Is everyone? Ok, ethically just kept answer him he's? They take us all tablet the exactly

that's a great story! Man! I had no idea that you done any off roading I've done exactly zero off roading in my life again, I do have a deeper appreciation for it. After a Reece all this stuff, but I have never been into monster. Trucks never gone to one of those, although neither I will say, the thought of you and Emily and me, and you re going to one of these- had allow the peel for some reason, yeah well tell you what other the four people you just listed. As far as I know, you missed the only one who's been to a monster truck rally. I totally believe it using the power motor sports for a little while there. That's hurried and when I was really loud, it's pretty great except she said breathing all of the gas fumed exhaust fumes is not superfund. You need to get over the stadium ones. Outdoors yeah, I saw

full of one at the in an high where the angels play. I'm like I as out your baseball, stating that's. That's the place to go, see a monster truck rally for sure not like a inclosed sports arena hockey rink. Then averted. The noise is really I've been to one drag race and the noise was really bad there, so I can imagine what a site for a monster truck him. Yes, but there's something about like even just watching you clips on Youtube, like I've done last few me too. It's like a king. I saw a cup things that I'm going to admit, gave me goosebumps a little bit. I was I was impressed with it, but part of it was the noise from the engine, but also The noise of like twenty five guys screaming like little boys, because somebody like did a Willie like a giant monster truck yeah. It definitely adds to the sound as well and little boys and girls screaming like grown men right

is really weird, Jean it's a big crisscross, so Why so, yes, I think it good that we first up out of the gate that were wait. We have been. Do a monster truck rally. Not huge, is is our understanding of say, like Motorized engines girl. You are kind of thing I feel like wicked. He'll do one on this like pretty! Well, because there is so much too there's a lot of really interesting stuff to it, you don't actually have to have gone to see a monster truck rally to appreciate it, especially if you want some clips on Youtube. Yeah, and you know the reason I mention the roading is because that is where monster rallies is that what you're still called the truck gems, their car, monster jam, but that's like a specific. Brand of of show that you go to work

the monster jam correct right, I'm column rallies only called the monster truck promenades. Ok, the problem. I love it. the criterion started with offloading in with people like my dad in the seventies and eighties, getting road, and you know before that. Even operating in these pickup trucks, eventually where, like hey, let's get some bigger tyres, let's lifted up a little bit, let's get some more! round. Clearance and before you know it trucks, or just a little bit bigger in taller than they were before, ran a man named Bob Chandler said from Saint Louis said, I've got a great idea, too bad. He didn't like have some sort of ip around this, but he did with a great idea, which was the very first bigfoot yeah yeah. He he's very well thirdly, credit. It is basically the invite

of monster truck just just from firstly born out of necessity, like he drew car really hard. The reason his first, the first monster truck was named. Bigfoot was because that was his nickname is well knows very aggressive offloading driver, but because of that he would break axles who gets stuck in the mud. He would fight himself and in his truck. More importantly, in places that your average structure We would not would not find themselves so too can get get out of the sticky situ These are never get into him. In the first place, he started to try to great his truck well beyond anything you would buy from like a dealership news. Tinkerer so much so it he got like so intuitive actually opened his own for by four parts store impart. I get the A strong impression to probably get a discount on the parts He was leading to use on his own truck that he was breaking with regularity, yeah

it was called the MID west. Four wheel drive sinner in the initial too was to. Afford f to fifty and he rested all up and he got those bigger axles and bigger tyres and He actually did invent a technology which was. I'm not sure if he completely invented this, but he at least installed forward steering on his truck witches when the back wheels turn in the front, wheels turn. So you can turn tighter this I don't know about a rage, but this was a thing for a while, because my good buddy in your PAL John Fendel from New Jersey, he had one of those four wheel steering preludes that he'd just like his baby, he loved his car. More than anything, I remember that they are always a king in and out of the parking spot at the grocery store, like you would not believe yeah. You should have seen him park at the grocery store. I forgot about the everyday

But yes, it that makes me now and especially in a big monster truck, when you're gonna need that turning radius, And the tires got bigger and bigger. I think he landed at forty four inches, which was tractor tire, initially in that was nineteen, seventy, nine and that was sort of the first monster drug yeah, we're in nowadays, if you're right around I'm forty forage tyres, other monster truck enthusiasts would be like what's wrong through tyres, but at the time you could you could like people would ask you to pay over. So they could talk to you about your car when you're driving down the road with tyres, like that sure any actually used it to great effect. You he advertised the the his businesses parts before by four parts: business on the car. News drive around town and he ended up

adding the word Bigfoot the name bigfoot onto it and again at first. I believe you is basically saying like a long haul. Trucker will put their name or nickname or cb handle on their rig the rubber, that's what he was doing, but in very short order. That became the name of the car or the truck and the and the successive trucks that came after that. There's I think twenty five iterations of bigfoot or some offshoot of Bigfoot. Now yeah. He knew no. He made one very famous initial video sort of as a promotion like a local tv so basically for his business of riding over some other cars and that was it man after that people went berserk here There is one sort of it's Parker. But at least we can't find the original source, but that he D, get pulled over once in big foot

because he would rather singing the road was just crazy. Anyway, ticket, because the only violation that they found was the the headlights were too high off the ground yeah which, like, I was looking at what makes monster trucks, not street legal and that's definitely of but some other ones are like you know, usually they have Winchell wipers or horns, or things like that. It's not stuff! You would, of another. One, though, is like the dead tyres can't be like too wide beyond the body and if they do, you have to have mud flaps thick to cover it up. There's a lot of different like by laws state by state, but for the most part, you're not allowed to drive those things on the road for a number of reasons, but the height of the headlights, is definitely them Oh, he takes off around the country and start doing some promotional events. He would go exhibitions he would drive over a car or pull waited sled. That looks like a giant six pack of Budweiser did you

some of the early bigfoot videos are widely at very first one and a lot of them after that. Yeah they were like. Low motion yeah they weren't like hyped up. It was this basically like ok for my next trick, I'm in a start in about ninety year, a hundred and twenty seconds roll over this one car very slowly ere it was it that's what it was like a it wasn't like that. No one is seen Ernie that yes and no one had seen anything like it, though you know to me, which so at the time was seemed boring to us now is like mine blowing the people, nineteen eighty one one. So he was he was doing pretty well, especially as far as business promotion goes and realized that he needed a second bigfoot, because people wanted him in movies and they wanted to meet their county fair and so an eighty two big foot to debuted at the Pontiac Silver dumb. Time with sixty Six inch tires, which kind of ended up being the history norm. Yes,

they get. They started out with agricultural tires, the kind of tires that you put on tractors or huge combines like just giant tires and then to save some of the weight, because these tires can be hundred plus pounds each fully inflated like mounted to wheels. Actually shave off a lot of the tread, a real deep- read the lugs. I think they're called they'll. Shave offers substantial portions. They serve us attraction because you know these monster truck they they're driving? over like minded dirt and everything I don't think the other blogs are they. I saw somewhere Buddy refer to him as large a huge tread. I thought the lug was the thing that came out. There put the lug not on when you change attire. I they made I mean this is a very confusing world. We live in it's possible that they're both called log there's a lot of people laughing at us right now, which is fine, no.

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in nineteen eighty one yeah one. You ever see that movie, I'm sure your dad probably made you watch it like all the time that was an HBO special for sure. Okay, I never saw it I was very surprised to learn that Robert Haze, the barrier the guy airplane was in it. Like the main guy would not have cast him, I'm surprise, no one, his reinvigorated his career, you know like Tarantino style, sure. He's in forever come back. He really but it was in that it was in police Academy two and six. It was part of like the pop culture zeitgeist gazed for sure, but at the same time its success, unlike his popularity spawn imitators is not the right word, Catalian mates yeah Fellow Chilean go or something like that. Like other people like yes, this is what we should be doing with our lives and they act

we were able to make a livelihood by appearing at some of those early life Hot rod shows are like exhibitions. You know like drag races, things like that they would just be there to entertain the crowds and then all of a sudden they're. Maybe we should you know, match these things against one another and so on that monster truck rally, certainty grow on their own yeah? I get the feeling it was like the rodeo clown, for a little while, like you said there would be dragged races and they said, and now you know, big foot will make it a special appearance. And it's interesting in that it sort of started it followed NASCAR's footprint, a little bit or stock car racing in general because the name is right. There, stock cars like initially those we were just do stop cars that they were race and initially these trucks were were for it Fifties in Chevrolet and they were just trucks that people built

you're in heavier and more rugged and just made him huge, got to appoint, though where they were like him now there were using military axles and stuff like that on their big equipment, because everything was breaking, but they found that those were even breaking yeah and as they get bigger and bigger. They said you know what we need: to start over everybody. This is a real thing and we can't just modify these cup trucks. We gonna build these things for the ground up, you like Nascar eventually ended up doing yeah. That's exactly! Clear. They didn't, and apparently Bob Chandler led the way on that as well, really tinkered around with CAD design, computer assisted designs and one of the things he came. With it, wasn't him specific earned? It wasn't just him there really group of people working on this by this time. This is the young the late yeah. So so, like monster trucks worthing by now

but they revolutionized by basically saying how bout instead, These, like super heavy, brittle things where the truck itself weighs a total, like fifteen thousand pounds. That's ridiculous and we break axles because you they're really strong, but they're, really brittle to let's start using tubes instead and they created a revolution. Bye bye creating an welding these cages, these frames out of ferries, strong, but very lightweight tubes in you're ever going to guess one of the components that they use, that they make these tubes out of aluminum molybdenum no way way. It's funny we heard from people about a pronounce that someone said every don't know if, if saw this, and and they said in the industry, we call it Molly my I saw that too yeah there's they use a chromium. Molybdenum alloy they call it Chrome, Molly, wow

yeah. That's That's what your average monster truck is made out of in you. Dont need like a like a the same amount of stuff that, like a passenger vehicle needs, you need just the bare minimum amount of stuff. That's gonna make this thing wrong keep it together and then, most importantly, protect the driver inside because when strip everything away from the monster truck of today, that Bob Chandler and his friends revolutionized in the late eighties. You have have a role cage. Yet is what you're, what you're dealing with a giant, tubular roll cage. That's what a monster truck is at its core yeah and one of the other big improvements and advancements they made was moving. The engine behind, so it's a mid engine layout No more. You know what's in front of you under the hood the bodies of these things now, and u no wait eighties early nineties or fiberglass and they're just you watch any videos,

this stuff online of like current monster, truck rally or cotillions. Excuse me these five last bodies urges they're, just YO pieces there made to just tear apart break away. Like few very few of them in one piece at the end of these yes, but they, but they still ten like fifteen thousand dollars apiece, but their super modular super interchangeable so that you see the same truck a couple of times during a rally by oil. As is so sorry, I forget what I just said for another twenty now I mean spoil it for the people, it think they have watched from different drugs gotcha. So I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news in there are more. Bodies than there are actual truck, said any given a monster truck italian there, two more shall wiping out the actual shells. The fiery last body there's a coup.

The I was reading about them there, the unsung heroes of any catalian sure where, in between You know appearances in between like a lot of times. Those monster truck James will be no couple. Shows a day on a Sunday in a certain city there working firstly, to fix everything. That's gone wrong from the abuse that there were truck took. You know for the last couple hours and during the show, one of the things they do is switch out the bodies real quick, so that you have you have to transport far fewer trucks. It's a lot easier transport a lighter fiberglass body than a big heavy truck thought it was funny Ed the grab to help us put this together. It in point. When you saw how about switching out the shells, he said, you know kind of started because multiple big foot show up at an event, and you can't have a bigfoot racing, a bigfoot, bet you no one would care brand you think, I'm married oil, some,

Oh boy would be like setting for my finger on it that ain't right, Paul Somethin's been violated here. Who knows, but they did, they did start switching them out with regularity and, like you said they just tear apart. If you watch any video these drums, pretty insane, I mean they're doing double back flips. Now I know it's crazy, so you have to pay the distinction, whether you're talking about the double back, flip worthy truck its follows: everybody giant monster truck hits a ramp and as a back flip and then before it touches the it does another back flip in midair. It looks hard to do. I didn't see a lot of successful ones. You couldn't also be talking about a consecutive back flip, where the truck does flip lands and does another immediately does goes into another back flip. Both equally impressive, but this theme single double back flip, is the harder of the two to do in its

fun watch people try and fail at, but it's also pretty great to see somebody land bs speaking of trying in failing. We should talk a little bit about the Andersson family, another first family of monster trucks. So Father, the elder statesmen of the Andersson family was in it away early alongside Chandler his family truck was the grave digger eventual He passed that down to his son and then another son and then eventually his daughter, Kristen, the driver of the grave digger in she said the Guinness record for altitude for the highest jump. I think just last year, right, yeah in June, Twenty twenty in a beautiful Braden, Tin Florida she landed at thirty three foot, nine inch jump off of a truck ramp and you know it's pretty impressive and she I think it was her dad. The reason I mention the the trying in failing thing was her dad was the

first person. He said you, what these races or fine racing. These things are good, but what people He was the one that said hey after the race. Why don't, I was just come out and do some tricks and stuff he realized like people like that, more than the races, and although they still do race now free stuff- competition was born out of that notion and sort of where the the crowd pleasing entertainment comes from are drivers. It are doing these jumps in these drive an anti wheels and jumping overseas things in through things, and you know it's it's all right there, there is a bit and do you, I mean Dennis Anderson, definitely was the one too to be credited with creating that anyone from in a just the existence of a of monster trucks to monster trucks, do you, know slowly driving over a couple of cars to them

sing. Apparently in the they raised them, they got them as light as like nine thousand pounds which is about ices heavy as say like a normal mid sides truck today, these which is really light for a truck fearing that you know all forward irish and wheels combined, maybe make up two thousand and twenty five hundred of those pounds really light and they wanted them light, so they could raise them and get them really fast I said you know what people want to see. What Dennis Anderson was saying is all the tricks, but you still need to be able to go fast, so another about twelve thousand pounds is what they clock in it. They're durable but there also light enough to be fast into to hit thirty three foot high jumps when they hit around yeah, and they can do this thanks to a a massive supercharged methanol powered engine five in forty cubic edge. Motors, and

You only got two speeds, though it's got a very low geared transmission system. I think first gear is sort of like on eighteen Wheeler, like that, just get your wheels Rowan! and then you immediately pop into that second gear and that's all there is because all you need is to work acceleration saving go super fast in a very short spans. You can hit those ramps. Do whatever trick that you have up your sleeve. Yet I was like: what's the what's the point of using methanol. These engines are called blown alcohol engines or in the industry they come out keys. Kay why and it turns The method I actually is less energy dense than gasoline, but you, crime more of it into a gaseous state. Then you can and gas. So if you have a super charger in air Compressor, that's compressing a whole bunch of blown alcohol. Vapours into your engine we get more power, more energy out of it. So that's the real

that they all run on on, like pure methanol, no gasoline and a drop a gasoline goes anywhere near these things and the Indians, are extremely big there. Also extraordinarily inefficient fuel, wise, theirs, there is one very famous monster, chuckled the ram and eager and it Clock Dan as the fastest, there was the fastest term monster truck on them did zero to sixty in three so faster than a Ferrari Enzo at the time. I'm really I can t afford to Israel's hitting, but it got Two hundred and sixty four feet to the gallon. Often that's what I'm trying to figure out a visa to the gallows. I urge this going right. Louder That's really funny: either not worried about fuel consumption

their worried about making that big engine go boom because our people love that sound its hysterical ed put in here that they have attempted electric powered monster trucks, but they were not popular with the fans. They wanting. You hear that. Engine go on its part of the lower. I think- more than anything, they don't want to hear themselves. I doubt that They also have you know if you talk about sharks, when you see these things today, yes, Crazy, how they will do something where and encourage you to go check out videos if you ve never seen the stuff photos, but yet deafened video watch, a video because they they contort themselves and go back upright more often than you would think like about eighty percent of the time. Unlike what that thing is, is on it. Accurate done for the day. It manages to just fly back over and those wheels look like they're all independent of one another they have for

nitrogen charge, shocks on every single wheel, on off orientals yet and its it's pretty pretty cool lookin in those days, shocks are not like normal shocks either. Your average shock has what's call a range of travel, which is the amount of basically give It has about forty six inches. These usually have about twenty four inch range of travel and, like you said, there's four on each we'll so On the one hand that keeps the driver spine from compressing you every time they in a land after a huge jump. And on the other hand, it also pushes the truck off of objects, objects and obstacles. Yeah I don't know if we said those huge giant tyres. You know in a normal car you're, you probably got about thirty three pounds per square inch situation in these have maybe eight to ten

yeah, there's a lot of bounce in the tire there's a huge amount of range of travel in the shocks when you put it all together, they can pop up on their back wheels. They can pop up on their front wheels. They can just do tumbles and summer salts and all sorts of crazy stuff because of those shocks that virtually deflated tires that are basically like giant balloons, yet bouncer. They need more cushion for the push they bounce around a quite have hit. I think you know Safety is an important thing in Like NASCAR again, they sort of follow that model of in the early days, I've I would be rise above generally Vanessa seat belt. He seems, come like a wild card to me, but said along with NASCAR, they started improving. the safety over the years. There are still things like back injuries Fire is another thing. That's it's obviously, because you know when you for these things over in your bouncing around they those fuel, it's not just like a regular gas tankers. Oil reservoir there like

super modified and there are. Backup systems and redundancies to make sure they're not throwing flaming gas, all over people, There are automatic fire extinguishers, likened NASCAR their wearing those fire suits and gloves yeah they even. I'm not sure if it's the exact ponds device, but the device that think after I might be wrong, is going from memory, but I think after deal, Earnhardt died is when they brought in that device. Basically, that strike and ask our drivers head lately, stationary yes and I that's what they're, using in monster drugs as well yeah, so. I was reading a guy who went to Monster Truck University in Illinois or Monster JAM University and got to test out driving a monster truck, and he said your you're, a vision or your failure is basically relegated to have how much you can move your eyeballs in their sockets. Yet

Your head is not moving at all and in Not only is your head mobilized, your body is basically to, except for your arms and you're strapped in with the five point seat belt, actually ratcheted in not some buckle like they use ratchet, stood two to screw the men who you are in that thing and then also if your and actual professional monster truck driver, the seat that you're sitting in has actually been molded to your body. So your body can't fluctuate fluctuating weight too much if you're on the monster truck circuit or else you're not going to fit in your own seat. Yeah. You yeah to watch your weight. I imagine, and you know the the whole debate about whether raise her drivers. Are athletes, is Is there a course athletes and I would imagine, a monster truck driver it takes not at all in the body, and they have to be pretty decent shape as well sure. Also, like whoever whoever you are listening. You couldn't do this, no totally it's not

something like driving one of these things is not intuitive. It's not like do you have to learn it. I get the impression that you have to be basically, naturally talented to start with to even good at it at all to Yemen. Should we talk a little bit about driving? I think one thing they did mention, which is pretty cool: the driver, sits in the middle it's not mounted on the left side, like we drive here in the United States in the centre, because we're very good reason. So so your arm doesn't fly out the window and get crunched. That's a big one and I actually have seen a picture of Bob Chandler driving The yes he's, leaning out the window looking at the ground like checking his clearance but like he might as well be going ten miles an hour down a country road for the way that he's sitting in this car like this. Sleep now, knowing that they there, like strapped in in the center of the the car, it is

this whole area is to see a carefully the guy still alive. Yeah. I mean this is today, whose historians, yes He we said there are only those two gears. Also still that rear we'll steering that chancellor, I came up with another think we mentioned. He called it afore by four by four, because by four, obviously for four wheel drive and then that four wheel steering but you now can turn those on and off the we'll steering feature with the toggle switch debts. You drive it we're so like flipping that switch on and off in steering in you know hitting the gas where you- and I don't think we got to that part yet, but it's actually attached Via a tow loop to the accelerator throttle because they would have. Problems was sticking accelerators, and that is not good enough. That can go that fast. So now you can pull back on the accelerator, but all of this stuff takes a lot of.

This is. Why would you would go to the monster truck university? Yes and have to be naturally talented, too and then there's also safety issues chuck that they ve come up because there have been a lot of tragedies patently no, monster truck drivers ever die, driving a monster truck, but plenty of spectators have been killed because of things When you crush a car debris, fly everywhere. Sure parts of the monster truck self can come off in their usually moving pretty fast in pretty heavy, their flying through the air and then sometimes monster trucks can just like been into crowds so If you go to a monster truck rally or catalian, whatever your preference is, you will that the lower seats are just totally. You can't go down there, because these things are so unpredictable, and can so easily spin out of control that it's just just not

to be anywhere near ground level when one of them is driving around. Yet nothing after they implemented that there were incidences where the trucks did go up into those empty seats where wherein everyone involved looked around and just sort of nodded. We did it yeah to save some lives. Also, there is another thing to where, if you go to, one of these shows you'll find that there's four: people standing around each corner of the hockey rancor the baseball diamond or whatever, they have little remote controls that it Each one of them is capable of completely shutting off the engine and the fuel immediately with the press of a button, and they do that in case Drivers knocked unconscious, but the throttle is still down the cars. There is a truck still running around. Yes, you don't want to ghost driven monster truck, and so

the stadium full of people I mean. Do you know, then that just shout how dangerous it is? Is that there's people standing by with remote control to turn the thing off of your knocked unconscious, while you're too in your jaw of yeah? You know, maybe we won't gopher all these, but there have been fatalities, Several times through the years and monster truck rallies, including small children, yachting and killed in the audience and you know this was mainly in the nineties, but there was one in Mexico and twenty thirteen. There was something else and twenty fourteen, so another ones which is an outbreak. Said surprising to me that the Netherlands has monster truck rallies, but I mean these people they were just standing around like they were watching. I don't know a couple of dogs: do it or something like that does in a circle. Of sudden with a monster truck loses control, just plows into the crowd. I think it killed like three or four people like they're watching Disney on ice, basically, a break yeah with that one for

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Just just take a look at those ridiculous: it it doesn't as as or as nimble, because they're just super the tall and not as wide but yeah. It was. It was a stunt. It often Even for a monster truck I think so and it just doesn't look- is nimble. It's fun for Those of you who were raised in the S rather than the grave diggers probably even more familiar than big foot. I, unlike we said Dennis Anderson. The original creator of grave digger and whose family keeps driving form was the guy who basically came up with freestyle monster tracking. Yeah, that's off to him. I think his daughter Kristen is the only first and only full time monster truck driver whose a woman, oh yeah, hats, to her as well and already in the world record holder to which has nothing to sneeze in that's right. There is also you know. Since

you're talking about fiberglass bodies are super removable since you're no longer having to kind of work with anything that was originally a car or truck you can, A do whatever you want. An emerald model like the grave digger is model after a fifties. Chevy Van there's one that's called the big kahuna that looks like a woody from the sixties that you'd, you know, go surfing in and then there's some that don't look like hours at all, or they look cars that are hybrid ized with like animals, like L, Torah, Loco, the ball with horns. My purse, Favorite is on answers. A giant shark there's higher ed is a yellow school bus there's one called the zombie chuck that arms tattered, tattered rags coming off a really his army and then one of the best ever

the Mohawk warrior with a giant mohawk sponsored by great clips, is early. Which really kind of reveals, like the state of monster truck castilians. Today it is super commercialized and the main reason why it's super commercialized because monster jam which started From you know the hot rod racing community was bought by fell. Entertainment, which has a lot of different live touring acts and one of them is monster. Jam yeah, and that was not without some controversy. You know price To the big corporate take over, there was, it was Peter Bob Chandler was it was these people that would get together, maybe sponsorship and re some money, because their very expensive to build. Obviously it's not like they're all just like rich guys doing this stuff, so the sponsor you'd build out a monster truck team and your truck paid money to show up at an event, and if your truck gets a notoriety, you get more money,

I think, an eighty five as when the United States, hot ROD association, started having these races, where there actually rules and appoint system, and then these other wait. Siri started up and eventually that culminated in eighty eight when a bunch of the drivers got together informed, the empty our aid, the monster truck Racing Association right you finally had some like real safety rules. Everything was just sort of codified But then you know that's when this sort of corporate take everything. So to come in and there was a lot of controversy with felled entertainment coming in their there, like it's sort of stupid of its soul, in the monster truck world and half the trucks that you see at any given rally will felled trucks and their rigging it. So the Feld trucks are winning, which is some people say some people might get worked up about that, and others might say, is just about the. Who really cares about the competition Ryan, it's very much this

Mozilla getting worked up about in a pro wrestling being rigged where it's like. Yes, it is it's for entertainment purposes. Is this? Isn't a sport? Put is still very athletic. Why you're see is really hard to do it really impressive, it takes a lot of work to make that happen. So yeah for entertainment, but still legitimate and all these other ways and just stop being upset and incorrect back and enjoy it. Yeah And don't go and just just shut up about? Well, that's what Bob Chandler did with Bigfoot. Bigfoot is conspicuously absent from all of the monster jam series because he didn't like Feld, entertainment and apparently he since said you know, I would have liked to have maybe not done that, because I think my life would be a lot easier. I probably be fifty times richer, but you know It is what it is. So big foot is still its own on its own just being bigfoot. Like that's gonna bigfoot you anything,

I got nothing else. This is interesting. I got to say I enjoyed watching those Youtube beds same here. Still not interested in going to wine and less on the four of us go together. Well, we'll make it happen once this pandemic passes we're going, but it can't be the first live event. I go to that. Okay, fair enough! We will, we will go we'll go to the KFC Yum Center in Lexington Kentucky to see it. Oh, that sounds like what and in the meantime, everybody if you were at all entertained by this episode, go check out some monster truck clips in space civically, look up, moon walking it's one of the most amazing things you will ever seeing your life. Since I said, one of the most amazing things you'll ever see in your life. Obviously it's time for listener. Mail, I'm gonna call this a correction email. We like directions. When we get stuff been mark of the show

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