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Chris' Off Road Recovery - Sent and Bent #72
Chris' Off Road Recovery - Sent and Bent #72
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About this episode
Marketplace chaos, off-road mishaps, and a long, story-heavy road trip take center stage. The hosts swap funny lowball/trade stories from Facebook Marketplace, debate why people don’t just look up specs, and trade repair/rescue tales—from chainsaw hustles to a dramatic Mexico beach recovery using ropes and a 4x4. The conversation also covers live-streaming tech (Starlink setups, TSA battery rules), power-wheels crashes, hammock failure, and the “hundred mile challenge” Chang Lee plans. Expect lots of laughs, practical lessons, and big trip footage talk.
Topics:
facebook marketplace lowballing and trades
chainsaw repair and parts sourcing
off-road recovery rope-and-winch rescue
power wheels and off-road crash stories
live streaming on the road with starlink
tsa and lithium battery carry-on rules
hammock failure during camping
chang lee hundred mile challenge planning
mexico scallop fishing logistics
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Ford Raptor
"...iles. I mean that's 10 miles to the gallon like a Ford Raptor with the pedal to the floor a v8 Raptor You coul..."
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Renault Wind
"...e trailer including the K truck, which is a giant wind sale. Yeah, you and you've got a headwind You ca..."
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G-Class Gwagon
"I'm a kid, but you know, I guess I am talking about making my own cartoons right now But at the very end I'm going to have mac miller drive by in a g-wagon and nod It's gonna have to be the way the whole thing ends because it was his idea. I can't take credit"
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Ford Explorer
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Welcome to the scent and bent podcast number 72. We have a Chris's off-road recovery situation to talk about
Facebook marketplace situation to talk about all kinds of good stuff for you guys this week and surprisingly the Facebook marketplace is not about me
Well, you found some remarkable things, but I could just open up with
I've been holding on to this because it made me laugh and it might not be as funny to you guys
I'll just tell you the story, but I'm selling my old camera right now and selling cameras in this local market is always like
Obviously a pain and like you're gonna get a lot less for it than if you just went through eBay
But I don't have time for that like so I list it really cheap
I listed it for 1200 bucks the cheapest one on the entire internet right now is 1800
So I'm like this is a good deal someone local wants it great
So I get these offers like how about $400 and a Starbucks card and like you know like what you'd expect like massive low balls
Gaming PC, but I didn't put oh yeah, what was what people always try to trade gaming PCs
Oh, yeah, it had $2,000 worth of components three years ago. Yeah, that market
Fast to be valuable. Yeah, it's worth 600 now
So I did kind of ask for this because I I was just curious what people might have to offer
So I put like you know might consider trades like what do you got in the description? Yep
So I had a guy message me he's like well, I really want the camera and I have cash
But I might have some trades you'd be interested in and I'm like cool like what you got
You know like skies the limit like I'm into a big variety of different things
So he starts listing off and he's like I got
telescopes guitars
Amps and then the message is like all these different things and he's like but what you really are probably interested in is my glocks and ARs
That's like trading one kind of shooting for a totally different
That is kind of funny
So I haven't messaged them back because I don't know what the street value of those really is but you know that is funny
Yeah, yeah, well, there you go
You know it's pretty easy to find out cuz yeah, things are like, you know
Pretty easy to find out. Can you just do that though? You can just trade in this state for one of those and yeah
I mean you're technically supposed to register it under your name once you get it. Oh cool. Yeah, wow
So if you want one you might have a
Yeah, that's I know for you
Marketplace is always interesting though because it you have a lot of time dealing with all the different people. Oh, yeah
Yeah sucks
Somebody I have the the wheels and tires off of the side-by-side that we gave away last year
I have them on marketplace and somebody messaged me the other day and they were like hey
Would you consider trades and I was like, yeah, I mean depending on what it is sure and then he's like also
What's like the I know maybe this was a different one anyway
One guy wanted to trade me for another set of tires and I was like no, I'm trying to get rid of tires
I don't want your tires
But no that somebody else was like
Asking all these questions about like the bolt pattern in the center-bore and stuff. I'm like have you heard of Google?
I listed exactly what they came off of
You could just go there and find out way more information than I can give you it's amazing
People would rather type it in and wait for a human to respond and that happened to me with the camera, too
They're like what are the specs and I'm like you're literally a copy-paste away from AI telling you
It's not like a custom-built thing. You know, I also had somebody offer to trade me a worse camera for the camera
I'm giving away and they're like they're pretty equal value and I'm like, but I'm getting rid of it
Like why would I why would I want a worse?
Edition anyway, that's hilarious. Well, I always thought it wasn't worth it and then I got into my situation trading my
Weird Chinese electric bike with the blinkers that purple one the Kawasaki 125 and I was like, oh, I mean it's worth it
Oh, yeah, like you just have to do it because even just one deal like that a year. Yeah, totally great
That's why that's why like when the guy was like, oh, do you want to trade for the tires?
I was like what you got, you know, maybe he's got an engine we could use maybe he's got a
Nice chainsaw. I mean I traded a completely useless
Lave that was like falling apart in every way for a really nice chainsaw last fall. Yeah, that's that was great
And the dude was stuck because he had the same lathe and needed parts
Yeah, and he had a ton of chainsaws really like just shipping if he bought that anywhere else
Oh, yeah, and finding even one of the little parts off of there. They're so expensive and so hard to find
Yeah, so it's perfect, but textbook one man's trash is another man's treasure. Yeah, I mean it was a pretty nice chainsaw
That'd be most people's idea of a pretty good thing
He was a guy that had
He collected chainsaws as a hobby so he had just like fleets of them and he's like yeah
I got certain ones that I'll just never sell but you know, I'm always wheeling and dealing them
I buy them I fix them up and I sell them
All right, I got a friend like that too. He's got hundreds of chainsaw. Yeah, it's every imaginable chainsaw
That's ever been sold really that's hilarious
There's that place in town that just had chainsaws and lawnmowers
But it always seemed like such a good business idea because you only need to know how to fix one thing really well
You can make a good bit of money and then you also have all these extra ones for parts
Yep, like you could probably do pretty good doing that. Yeah
It's a good hustle. Yeah, well and around here everyone needs a chainsaw
Yeah, and a lot of people around here don't actually know how to fix or use their chainsaw
They just or sharpened or sharpen it
But they know how they know that they live in a place where they might need it once a year
So they get a chainsaw and then they go to use it once a year
And it doesn't run because they put gas in it a year ago and then so yeah
Chainsaw repair is a great business to be in around here. Well last time I was at the ER the one in town
Oh, no whiteboard and it has that's not a good place to start
Chainsaws and last time I was in the ER. Oh, yeah
Well, it's a whiteboard and it has little pictures of it's kind of like cartoonified
It's not gory or anything
But it's of the ways people got hurt and this is when I split my lip open and needed stitches on my surfboard
Yeah, and so on
There I was like wow
The surfing one for a place very far from the ocean was insanely high
It was like that week 28 people in the ER for surfing. It's from the wake
Yeah, they crash into the boat right like face plant into the back of the boat
And you just if you fall and then the board hits you in the face like it splits your your
Mouth your whatever it hits whatever your nose your forehead. Yeah, because those those fins like surf fins just have to be sharper
They're not good. Yep, and the wave behind a boat is so small. You need to be pretty efficient with your board
Yep, and so but they were so confused like wait, you didn't have a boat. How are you?
I was like mine is electric
I was going like almost 30 under my own power and jumped out of the water and landed on the nose and they were like
Oh, I'm like, yeah, it's probably worse than what you've seen. They're like, yeah, I thought it was like kind of
extra swollen
Injury but one of them that had even in the middle of summer
It was like probably a dozen chainsaw ones
But you know the only one more than surfing and Sam point last summer was
fireworks bicycles
Bicycles was really high bicycles. Yeah, that's a pretty good guess. That was third. I think was number one
In the summer and Sam point, I don't know. It's also mildly boat related
Fishing fishing. Oh, yeah, people people stick themselves with their fishing. It was like 40 in a week. Yeah
But I thought that was so funny that I saw them when I walked in
That's hilarious. I was like you guys are definitely taking pleasure in other people's pain, but I'm here for it
You could add to the statistics and I know I really added to the statistics there
Have you guys ever gotten a fish hook embedded in you anywhere?
I mean not for a long time. Just like tiny little one when I'm like in my foot once and it hurt to take it out
Because they have yeah, they're intentionally made so that it won't come out of
Yeah, I almost got one yesterday
Yeah, you know how it was like 60 degrees. Yeah, I
It was the first efoil of the season because it's so nice and I went out there in my two mil
It was so warm. I was like literally sweating in my wetsuit. It was so warm
But then when I crashed I was like, maybe I should have worn the five
Pretty nice water
Freezing still yeah, but there's I went by the long bridge and
There's never anyone really like fishing off the long bridge seems like a weird place to like try to fish
Yeah, but I guess maybe the fish hang out by the pilings or whatever, but anyways like right when I was going under
There was three people fishing with lines in the one next to me
There's probably like a hundred slits that yeah under through yeah, and I'm one away from the one where I would have just got
three fishing
Yeah
Yeah, so I actually thought I was like, huh, I actually need to be a lot more careful going cuz
Normally, I'm like, you know, I check for boats. Yep, but like I guess there's no way I'm gonna see a fishing line
But if I went through really fast and like a hook just could you not get it'd be really bad
Yeah, yeah, especially if like maybe in my wetsuit that would protect me a little bit would help
I'm not in the summer. Yeah, luckily I think at least the long bridge thing
I feel like nobody's gonna be fishing off that in the summer
Because the boats are constantly going under it
So hopefully that's only like an early season thing because that doesn't make any sense
Yeah, I was I was caught off guard for sure
But yeah, and I just go through the train bridge right because those ones are solid cements you can carve them
It's like tree skiing. It's yeah way better, but but yeah, so it was I
Thought cuz like I wore my crocs and I went in a little bit and I was like
I don't think I'm even gonna wear a wetsuit
But you know how like the lake is so shallow right now because it's not full. Yeah, like it takes forever
So like once you get to the deep parts, it's still really cold
I mean it is still a water temps probably like 35 or 38 degrees. I would yeah
So if I got stuck out there, I'd probably die pretty quick if I didn't have a wetsuit. So yeah, probably a good idea to keep
Man, but it was really fun to get out there and stretch the legs and just I did take a pretty big face plant
And I really felt my neck and my back from my last power wheels crash. Hmm. I got a quick crashing those things
I'm on a roll. Yeah, I mean
technically I crashed into you
You come off the jump
That is the worst possible place to stop literally any other part of the whole track
Yeah, the whole the whole track everywhere else you could see somebody stopped and my defense right before we did that lap
We said we were following Justin and I followed Justin and that's where he stopped and I stopped right next to him
And yeah, just no, I think Ethan was going for another joy lap
Yeah, no, I'm not saying it was a hundred percent your fault. I definitely could have stopped as well, but like I
Shouldn't have stopped there either. Yeah
The point wasn't that it was entirely your fault the point was just like you the spot that you happened to stop was the
Worst possible one on the entire track and I know through every single sport I've done the one place you don't stop as a jump
Exactly, I shouldn't have jumped but in like the video it does come across even worse. What were you thinking?
Well, I was thinking that Ethan was also gonna stop I guess because that was the plan but well
We were following Justin and Justin stop the plan was to do laps and Justin was just starting out in front
There was no if Justin stops. I'm stopping to we we should definitely
Have those conversations in the future of if someone stops we all stop
Yeah, but Justin didn't stop. He was just in front of me and it started sputtering. So I passed him because I
Knew what his problem was I knew he'd be able to fix it easily and I was like, oh, he'll get going again
And we'll be back to do in laps and I'll catch him on the next one anyway
I was like down the hill waiting for you guys to do another pass and I saw just you coming
But obviously I was too far away to like do anything about it for one to go check if anyone was there
Right to like the only reason I knew something happened was that I just heard all the engines stop
I didn't ever hear like an impact
It was just if they all stop at the same time it can't be good. Yeah, well
I didn't really know what to expect. I was like, oh, maybe they're just like waiting to like fix a problem on one of them or
Like yeah, you know most recently we had that two weeks before that was the Lamborghini
And then like even before that like I was thinking we just need to make a montage of all of the silly
Stupid accidents I've been in in the last year because there's also the day that we got the team who excavator and Chris made the jump bigger
And then I just washed out and just slammed my face. I was wearing a bicycle
Bank
I would have been totally fine and like a regular dirt bike helmet. I forgot about that one
Why is the wearing a bicycle helmet?
There's the one with that that we made the shirt of where you're flying out of the honey badger mini dump truck thing and that too was like
Days before the motorcycle crash. Yep, and then I've had untold amounts of
Looping wheelies this year
Mmm, I mean we haven't been witness to that because that happens with there's the one where I broke the
True. Yeah, that one was here. There's that one the rest of them have been on my on my own time
Every time Edwin I say be careful. Don't make me have to call your wife
the funniest the funniest one that's ever happened though was when you were trying to pull the Chang Lee for that like
Ridiculous reel that you guys were trying to make. Yeah, the trend where you're like pulling the rope and then yeah
It's like you're walking it on a leash and it stops and you're like what's going on except you were trying to pull a Chang Lee with
A toe strap. Yeah, and just both hands on the strap just full face bash the mud
Yeah, that one was the funniest one my favorite fail that you've ever done though involves you not getting hurt at all
Really, let's see if you think of it. I
Failed, but I didn't get hurt. I'm just not gonna miss. Oh
Yeah, when you're pouring gasoline into the
It seems like a lot of your fails are also
Proceeded by statements that are a little bit ominous. Yeah like that. I'm just not gonna miss pours gas over the entire
Rock yeah, and then even this most recent one Chris was like Edwin watch out for rocks and I ended up
It's like I don't know like I trying to think of like
I'm seeing a pattern here, and I'm never getting hurt like
You're on restriction Edwin. You're on restriction. Yeah. Well every time I get hurt
It's doing something so
avoidable like it's yep
So my fault just being so dumb every single time
I think you just love the dumb machines that we either build or buy so much you just lose your mind
A lot of seat time on them as well. Yeah, I love them so much right like and I guess I am
Pushing it to the limit isn't the right no, it's not because you're always putting yourself on things that like aren't even that fast
Or if they are you're not going fast like actually like for example
When you get in something that's like truly
Ridiculously fast like the kernel or whatever
Really terrible you just treat it like you're invincible. I think this machine couldn't possibly kill me
That's what happens with the Chang Lee's every time. Exactly. You're like, I'm so slow. I can't possibly get hurt
But you can oh, yeah, if you drive off a cliff or something you could get hurt
Yeah, or even like if that tree wasn't here the day that we were filming that
Oh, that was a good one. I would have rolled it so
Hard if that tree didn't catch me and I still hit the tree really hard
You would have rolled your single-seater if I wasn't in the back seat that time we tried to go up that hill
Oh, yeah, for sure because if I didn't get out holding the car down and then you were able to get out
You would have just you would have tried to get out and it would have rolled
Yeah, remember I tried putting on the parking brakes and it was like
Well, it was funny because you actually got really serious all of a sudden and usually when you're in a Chang Lee
You don't get that serious, but you're like, no dude. I really think it might roll this time
for the people because there's a whole era of Chang Lee that kind of like
was missed in the videos because I
Broke it the the red one we did the hundred mile challenge with it kind of had its story
I hit the stump at Snowden when we snow tracked it and put a cage in it
and then we like blew up everything basically and
We basically wrote that one off the blue one was gonna be the successor for the hundred mile challenge
Broke that in like two days
No, we're near or we can even yeah bent axle
Tried to order an axle an entire axle anything
Except for a whole new Chang Lee
Couldn't do it even with the only Chang Lee importer in the US. They couldn't get just the parts just the parts
You're probably the only person ever request that like hi, I bent my axle
Yeah, so this new single-seater Chang Lee that you guys have seen in the background and a lot of the ads and like you know
You could probably tell it's being worked on in the background getting ready for the hundred mile challenge. I
Was so close to rolling it with Steven and that's why I was so quiet
I was like if I break another Chang Lee before even attempting the hundred mile challenge the curse of the hundred mile challenge
Man, it's just never gonna happen no matter what you try. There's just a curse lingering over you
You know what you should do is just rebrand it just call it the 99 mile challenge and then go the extra mile
But you know what is going to happen on the hundred mile challenge now, you know how I've been talking about how
It I
Want to start with it compete completely stock and then I want to bring like a handful of small things to maybe do minor
Upgrades along the way airbags
That would be good that would be good. Well, Ethan
I were talking about if JB Weld would hold up for welding the death
I saw somebody I think it was big-time did that in a time
Yeah, and if it can do doughnuts in a 350 Z it can go a hundred miles
So because what Ethan I've been talking about is I'm gonna be sitting there waiting for it to charge like ten hours
So I got to have something to mod it, you know, well, I always say I can do repairs, but like I
Need to like so I'm gonna JB weld it on the trail and I think all I need is a
I was gonna ask you about this, but I just need a drip tray drip pan to get the oil
JB welds some break clean break clean. Yeah, right clean it and
Yeah, and then some oil
Yeah, you're gonna need some sort of jack because you're gonna need to jack get the whole thing up off the ground because to get the differential out
You'll have to pull the axles out of it from side to side. I can just pick it up. So I'll just pick it up onto a stump
Whatever. Yeah, you'll just need a way to get it up off the ground. Yeah. Yeah, so I just need to make sure I have enough tools to
Remove the move everything which I should have anyways. Yep. It's not that many. There's not that many
Yeah, one small little bit of kit and
This time last time I brought tire plugs Chris. Yeah
No way to re-inflate the tire
This time a compressor. Yeah, so this time
compressor tools
Enough fuel to run the generator for 10 12 days straight a
Good pair of running shoes. So when you completely get stuck you can run out of the mountains about 49 miles
And I'm going to loan you my small chainsaw
Itty-bitty baby one. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, I was thinking about bringing I have the same electric one Ethan has but
That's a lot of extra weight. Yeah, I should try to keep it because just in fuel
I'm gonna have to bring like 10 gallons of fuel. I think which is hilarious because literally almost any
Vehicle you could imagine would go through less fuel
Drive 100 miles. I mean that's 10 miles to the gallon like a Ford Raptor with the pedal to the floor a v8 Raptor
You could maybe burn that much like my truck if you're towing like
Everything on the trailer including the K truck, which is a giant wind sale. Yeah, you and you've got a headwind
You can break underneath 10 miles the gallon if you try on the original 100 mile challenge
How much fits in one of those?
Rotopax rotopax they're two two gallons
so we used
The generator was full and we had two rotopax and a jog I think I think you just had the two rotopax
But then you guys run out and have to go to town for more
Yeah, we ran out had to go to town and they only made it 46 miles and they started with a full charge and a full generator
So yeah, that's well under 10 miles the gallon and that Chang Lee charge
I've got I've got a great idea for the title of your video. Yeah, I made the least efficient electric vehicle in history
Go 100 miles. Yeah, I burned more fuel to go a hundred miles in an electric vehicle
Yeah, that's probably like a Ford Raptor
At this point, he's going for like 454 big block carbureted
Square-body range of miles per gallon a four barrel big enough to put your fists through exactly. Oh
speaking of Raptors
Dalton who won our Raptor for a giveaway came up here and we had a great time rallying around with him and his friend up here and
So on the way
Dropping them back off at the airport
They flew in at like a weird time and they're too young for a rental car
so we sent an Uber to bring them here and
they got
pulled over on the way here in the Uber because the Uber was going 20 over and
What I didn't realize until they were telling the story again when I was bringing them back to the airport was
So the Uber driver picked them up and he's like perfect five-star rating thousands of reviews, right?
He picked them up at the airport didn't say a single word to them and
The lights like the cop was following them for like
Five miles and he still didn't say a word or showed any intention of pulling over and
He just pulled over at the very end like right by their hotel
Oh my god, they literally were like sitting there for like running from the cops in an Uber. Yeah, just like
Yeah, it's wow cuz I was I was like they were like, oh, yeah like cuz I heard that the Uber got a ticket
It's like I felt bad it gave him like a big tip and they were like, oh, yeah
There's no way that tip covered that ticket and I was like
Well, what was so bad about it? Like he must have written them for like 19 so it's not considered because you go to jail
You know, so there's no way they wrote them for the full 20 whatever it was and considered reckless or whatever
Yeah, well, I think that they're they probably did write them for the full 20 because he didn't pull over
Shoot man, I'm like well that's his fault. That's his fault. Yeah, I mean I you know, but I just thought that was funny because especially
Dalton's friend who came with him up here
For the giveaway trip he was he is a sheriff's deputy. Yeah, that part's extra funny
He's been adds to the irony. Yeah, he's like a little guy was a deputy Elijah. Yeah, uh-huh
Yep
Yep, so so that was fun. Yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah
Wow, hopefully we have the limo going for the next giveaway winner so we could just pick them up in the limo and
Might need to clean a few crustaceans out of the inside of it before that's like a
Exciting option for people. Yeah, no, I'm gonna I want to try to get that started
We tried to do that live stream where we were gonna get it started and then we got distracted. Yeah, what even happened with that?
I was there was a lot of other more important things to work on that day. I see part of it
Yeah, it was kind of like one of those things were even finally convinced Edwin that we should be doing
No, I was just wondering I wasn't there that day, so I didn't I didn't know what actually happened
One of the tires is like flat and not in a way that's gonna like just re-inflate up there
It was like, okay. Oh, it's gonna de-bead. No, it's not de-beaded
But the whole valve stem is like cracked and like needs to be that's weird. Yeah, huh?
So I was like, yeah, let's like maybe pack for the the road trip and he's like, oh, yeah
Yeah, because I kind of thought like oh, just get it started, you know
Cuz I wanted to do one last experiment with the live streaming equipment before
Taking it out on the road
And it worked pretty well. I think the final tally by the end of the road trip was we were live
86 hours that's a lot. Yeah, that's an average of 10 hours a day because we were on the road for eight days basically
Yep, pretty cool. Yeah, unfortunately it
I guess we're gonna talk about road trip stories since that
We can talk about like some about the hammock one at least
There was one night where we finally got the equipment going to where we thought we were going to be able to live stream one night in
The stream died
Right before something very unfortunate happened to Steven that the only way we ever would have captured that moment is if we were live
Streaming because yeah, why else would we film ourselves sleep?
I'm also really curious because I was obviously like really tired
But based on that picture you showed me of myself the next morning. I'm like what was I thinking? Yeah
well, what had happened was is Steven and I were out looking for Bigfoot in Oregon and
We tried pretty hard. We didn't find them. I thought you were looking for basket people
Bigfoot was more
That's what we had decided after doing some googling
Because apparently Bigfoot is in Oregon also so I think he's
Popularly believed to be in the Appalachian Mountains, right? The stories I think originate from northern California actually
Oh, I could be totally wrong. I'm not really up to date on this. I just thought it was fun to walk around the woods
Well, we were looking around for Bigfoot, you know didn't get lucky and came back to camp
Pretty late in the dunes. Oh, I know I woke up at like 12 30 and you guys weren't even sort of like I went to bed
I don't know 10 30 or something. I woke up at 12 30 and you guys were still just out for rambunctioning around
Yeah, we're having a great time. I'm functioning. Yeah, that's a new word
I just did so
Steven and I when we're on like grind hard trips or up at Ethan's Mountain like we're constantly setting up our hammocks and like
Really crazy situations like one time you did from like super high up on Ethan's excavator up at the property
Yeah, well he went from the the the boom to the bucket basically
Yeah, and that was like how high off the ground though. I might have been like probably only like six feet off the ground
Yeah, it wasn't that high. I was like maybe five or it was high enough
Yeah, we've had all kinds of very extreme situations like overhanging rocks and cliffs and stuff and well even just on that trip
I had set it up like over these cactus one of those first. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so this is something that we always do and
This time we happen to be relatively normal just in between two trees
Relatively low to the ground like three four feet, but I wake up at like maybe like three in the morning to the most horrendous sound that's just
Like that like it I thought maybe Chris forgot he wasn't a tent and like woke up and just stood straight up
It's a cheap plausible tent that we bought on a road trip. So like and Chris is really tall
So I'm like if you just stood up full force
You probably would rip his head through the front of that tent, you know, you know
That's what I thought it was so I like woke up and I looked over to make sure Chris is okay
And then I looked on the ground and Stephen is just laying on the ground with a tiny little
Fragment shred of a hammock above him. He'd fallen completely out onto the ground clearly the whole
Full length yeah, but I just ripped all the way out and I'm the one that woke him up asking if he was okay
I was like, are you okay? He's like
I know I think I'm fine right back to sleep on the ground
I think after that's when I kind of like crawled into that other position
I was in because like it definitely woke me up at first but I was like well
I don't have time to deal with this so I went back to sleep and then you checked on me
And I was like, oh, I could probably use the remains of it as like a pillow
Because the ground was really cold. Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty insane
But seriously if the livestream would have gone like another hour that night
We would have had at least the audio from it, which would have been hilarious for the video
But that would have been really funny. Yeah, so we'll definitely have a recap
You guys will be able to see the damage in the video like I documented that part really well in the morning
But unfortunately, we don't have the action shot of it happening
That's my favorite hammock, too
But my my theory is I weakened it by gliding gently over cactuses, you know other nights
Well, the interesting thing is it ripped all the way across the seam at the top
Yeah, it didn't rip in the center at the bottom like the whole oh, yeah
It was like because it didn't yeah, it didn't it didn't split underneath where it would have been rubbing on a cactus
It split across the seam all the way because I I woke up before everybody else and I was just which I always do on our trips
I was like walking around cleaning up camp getting ready to you know make breakfast or whatever. I just look over and steven's
On the ground with his hammock just torn through. I was like, uh, that's a story
But but yeah, it was just torn straight across the seam. So I guess it just was it's time to go
I'm glad it gave up then versus many of the other places I put it at least you didn't land on a cactus
I couldn't believe it. He was still asleep. Yeah
It was pretty it was pretty uncomfortable though and the ground was actually really cold and my sleeping bag doesn't zip up anymore
So I rely on the hammock to keep me like cocooned in
So when I hit the ground I just laid on the pine needles and put it over me, but the ground was real cold
I didn't sleep that good that night. You don't say
Yeah, the the part that failed on the streaming setup was just keeping the
The laptop alive
Trying to stream from the laptop because our internet setup is
these things called star bats which are actually made right around here, which is pretty cool and
It's so funny. You're allowed to have a hundred amp hours on a plane
And these star bats are clearly a lot more than that like eight times that but you have one plugged in
That's a hundred and all these other
100 amp hour batteries unplugged and that's perfectly fine
Yeah to bring that on a plane, but if they're all plugged into each other making one big battery
Entirely federally illegal also, uh
It's a million milliamp hours. Oh, okay. Just just to clarify in case anybody thinks it's actually a hundred six hundred amp hour battery
that's like
You know a couple of tesla batteries. Yeah. So yeah milliamp hours. They're like
They're like a little brick. So like actually kind of a brick-sized battery. Yeah, but yeah, and so you can only be using one
Yeah, only one plugged in on
As a carry on they didn't even look
I thought they would care like they when we went through security
I thought they would get every single question under the book about them because like it looks
Like I don't know
Something you shouldn't have on an airplane in various ways. It looks remarkably like a hollywood rendition of what you should not carry on
Also, but or or even if it's not that it's like it looks like some sort of communication device
you should not have on a plane or
Like when they x-ray it they can see all the rows of batteries
Yeah
And there's a cover plate you can take off to look at that to show them that it's not
Did you show them that they're not all plugged in and it has all the like writing on you know
It has all the numbers on there to prove that it's legal for faa regulations
Dude did not care like he had to open it up take a glance and be like yep
All right, but he didn't even I was like there's another cover you can take off. He's like, uh, I'm fine
What and you're also only allowed to travel with $10,000 cash and
Last time Ethan and I flew we had a huge stack of premium stickers
And they searched us over that thinking it was a huge stack of cash
This time because we're buying these trucks on facebook and flying home and we don't want to stop at a bank
Ethan and I all both have like the limit of cash like massive water cash. That's the actual limit
But additionally you divvied it up in line while we were waiting
That was pretty funny
I almost walked through and the passengers who we were getting on the plane. It was incredible like
Wow, these look up what these four guys are carrying each one of those
What are these guys doing? Yeah explosive devices. Yeah, exactly. That's what they were. Yeah, exactly
Like everyone was looking especially the first class people were looking at us like dogs
There was a lady in first class and I thought her eyes were just gonna pop out. She was like, yeah
No, literally like in line
I like reach into my pocket and I have like 16,000 dollars of cash and I'm like, oh, yeah
I take off the top six and hand it to Ethan
And we go through and they still don't they just did not care that I got more trouble over the coffee grounds
I took on a different flight like I got searched and my coffee grounds got checked for
Whatever they checked for yeah, and I was like, huh? Yeah, they were more interested in my shoes. Yeah
It was crazy. Yeah, the only thing they actually cared about was your gatorade
They're like you can't have this do you want to go out and drink it or do you want to pour in the trash?
Yeah, that like and then the guy picks up my shoes and looks at him. Yeah, but this thing that we're carrying that has
Potentially way over the legal limit of lithium batteries on it. It looks like a bomb. Yeah
Don't care. Don't be one bit. Yeah, I could not believe like we even brought it says in the pamphlet that comes with the batteries
Like you will likely get asked for additional screening. Bring this pamphlet. It explains the battery sizes and what the rules are and everything
And like I had the pamphlet
And I made sure I was the one with the pamphlet because I read it and I knew what it said even told the guy you had the
Pam I know I did and like they're like, uh, whatever
I
Yeah
Crazy, maybe it's just so absurd that like maybe because those things are designed
In post falls
Spokane is the only airport nearby
Oh, that's you know those guys might have gone through that security like 50 times
Well, I'm pretty sure their own product. You know how they sent us the older version first. Yeah, and then they sent us this
I'm pretty sure that's because
This is like these are the first ones
The first ones the first production model of the star bat plus
Yes, but the star bat mini they had
Oh, that's what I mean that the mini you can't take on the plane
Oh, so I think it's yeah, but I mean but they might have been taking their own like for testing
And to see if they can actually
Like they must have at least tried to make sure that the tsa was going to allow them on a plane
Yeah, like there's no way they're going to sell a product and not find out pigs. We just like get arrested
And we call them and we're like, yeah, that that didn't that's not a real loss
Scratch that idea. So my point was just that maybe they were testing them
Or not not literally physically testing it but testing to see if if the tsa would let you on the plane
At the Spokane airport, which is a very small airport. There's a chance those guys had seen it before and they're like
Frickin these guys again. Where are they going with all these batteries that set up though?
so
I went
um
So yeah, I crashed that power wheels the last most recent power wheels crash Friday
on
Sunday, I took our live streaming setup up the mountain by Ethan's mountain to see
How far it would go?
When I was filming my little side-by-side video, I rolled that side-by-side twice so that adds to my damage there, but
Uh, but my neighbor who has the k-truck we put it in the bed of his truck not even on the top
it's in the bed, so there's
blockages of the cab and what have you
It's in the bed of the truck the downtime getting up there
two minutes of downtime
With like all the branches overhead and all that that's pretty good. It is an impressive setup. So we could basically
Like obviously Ethan's driveway to his mountains would be too covered
Yeah, that one's really overgrown and we wouldn't want to like stream it
live stream
This is how you get to my property in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, but I found this uh this blur filter
We could just kind of like blur the whole thing for a couple minutes, but basically we could stream
If we were doing some kind of cool
challenge or whatever we could stream from
Ethan's house to his mountain with like
Five minutes of downtime if we wanted that's pretty crazy crazy that the setup works that well that is crazy for live
uploading hd video in like
Yeah, couldn't be more in the middle of nowhere
It would theoretically work anywhere in the world like out in the middle of the ocean like yeah literally anywhere in the world
Yeah, except under the gas station room. Yeah
That was
Yeah, oh my god. That was so funny every time we had a lot of weird parking situations like
Yeah, as if people weren't looking at us weird enough. You're like holding out the gas pump like
Diagonally coming in from the corner of the gas turn around and go the other way back in here
Because for people who aren't familiar with mobile star links
Basically, if you've got a shot at the sky, you've got some kind of internet
The clear shot at the sky you got the faster the internet
So we had multiple of them merged together on the roof
Well, it seems to go through the trees pretty good. It's just
The metal it does not want to go through the metal rough. Yeah. So we didn't want to lose the stream. So we were
Backing in all kind of weird angles trying to fill up gas without losing the stream
Which was one of the funnier like
Corks of live streaming while traveling we had that was pretty funny
But a cool part of it is we didn't miss anything
like there's all kinds of things we weren't really filming like when uh
Uh
Ethan was in the radiator of this boiling hot radiator and Chris cranked the key
Give me a bath with with coolant
Nearly boiling coolant writing all over me and people were clipping the stream as we went and so like when I got home
I was watching the clips
And people's comments
During the live are like there for the clip too. Oh, that's what I didn't realize was
Is when that happened?
I guess like 10 minutes before that you were saying like, oh, it'd be nice to get a hotel because we could get a shower in
Like right before right before I got doused in coolant. So everyone's like, well, Ethan got his hot shower
Oh, that's funny because I think you specifically said like oh hot shower would be nice
We were debating we're trying to figure out where we were going to stay and everything. Yeah, that is pretty funny
So what we need to do next time is bring a hose extension
So we don't have to get so close to the pump and not go to california. So we can find places to camp. Yeah
Yeah, california coast is not the easiest place to find last minute camping
No, it's arguably the hardest place in this entire country to find a camping not even a koa or like a rv park like crazy
Yeah, not even it was pretty pretty crazy. Yeah
But yeah, that's that's a really good video coming out
Sierra when you're listening to this tomorrow
So yeah next friday you guys are going to see that it's going to be one of the best videos we've done
Probably one of the longest too, huh? Yeah, I think it'll you'll think it'll out do the mtv video
in length. I don't know it matters how much
Like
Since a lot of our problems were like repeating repeating. Yeah, like I think I am going to use most of them
Yeah, and we filmed every time that we had problems and we filmed every time we didn't have problems
So it's well, it was also just a footage and it was also just more days than the mtv trip and more different scenery
Yeah, it's over 70 hours of footage. That's a lot
Yeah
And dancing it down to two
Yeah, or less. Yeah, I've got
Let's see. How many hours have I spent editing it?
I think I did the math. I'm spending about three hours for every 30 seconds so far
Oh, no, that's not good math and I've got like the first 20 minutes roughly done
So
Oh, no, Edwin. Yeah, exactly. The math is not it's lining up to be a
It's a lot of hours. Well, you've always said that the first part is always takes you way longer
So as you go, you'll speed up. Well, maybe next month you guys
Well, once you have momentum in the story it is so much easier
That makes like figuring out how you're going to tell the story with all these shots and all these different things that happened and like
We just had so many funny moments on this trip too
Like the mtv trip was like different types of challenges and problems
But like I just feel like the comedy of this one was higher somehow
Well, and we went to so many different terrains and sceneries and locations like we went on the beach
We went up that dirt road up the mountain that looked like Kenya or something and yeah, like that was great
You know, like we just had so many and then before that we camped out on top of a random hill in the desert
We're driving up a hill that we had to go into four-wheel drive in the middle of the night
Yeah, no the um
The beginning of the videos are always the hardest for sure and then the more amount of footage
The harder yeah for sure
but
The mtv trip since we bought both mtvs from the same guy
the actual decision making
On how to tell the story that makes it pretty straightforward. I can see that. Yeah
It has this great intro you monster trucking over
Yeah, his car and his field and stuff and then it's like and here we are
It's like two for the price of one these cost over 200,000 new and we got both of them for like 15 16. Yeah
Yeah, it's so uh
So then it just starts there and then it just kind of tells the story linearly well this one
We bought the cars from different things. Yes
So i'm like having to decide how much to use of one and then the other and then flash back
So we're not wasting any footage and like mm-hmm. Yeah, so that took a really long time
But now that that's sorted it'll be
I'll for sure have it done by next friday next friday. It's gonna be a really good video
Yeah, and I got some really good music this time. It's exciting nice and
You know how the first podcast of the year we talked about our goals
And I was going to make an album
And I said that I'd do that
Not play fortnight until I did that. You didn't do that part. Yeah, I didn't do that part. I played fortnight
But you got your album done well no, I I have started my album and I know what it's going to be
And I had a dream where mac miller told me what to do. So I'm just going to do that
Is that song that you were working on on the live stream that like where I played the marimbos for you?
Oh, yeah, I'm going to make that part of it. Okay, cool
But yeah, I'm basically going to make the whole thing inspired by the lore of pepe and then do
well
Those animations that mac miller told me about that's like a pretty great idea
But then at the very end of I'm going to make a music video for each album. That's like
AI generated anime basically
Just the visuals none of the music of course would be generated, but
At the very end
Of the last song of the last music video
Because like the lore of pepe is like the same song on loop for like half an hour
But two of these amazing animations of
The lore of pepe
And so I'm going to do it in the same
Absolutely no idea what you're talking about
You don't even know pepe the frog
No, you expect him to know pepe the frog. Well, there's this like really poorly drawn frog. That's like the biggest meme
It's just a yeah, even as a crypto coin that at one point the market cap was like
It was a lot billion dollars. It was embarrassingly high and I was like, I want some of that
It's literally nothing except for like
nothing
Anyways people really like pepe and then the lore of pepe has been like a big part of my life for a long time
I thought it was a
Shrek. Yeah
Everyone does have a thing for green. Oh, yeah, I do creatures. Huh. How do you feel about your favorite color green?
No
I think it's I mean
I guess it was more of a big deal when I was a kid, but I guess it used to be orange
What do you mean when you were a kid?
Yeah, like aren't you still a kid?
I'm a kid, but you know, I guess I am talking about making my own cartoons right now
But at the very end I'm going to have mac miller drive by in a g-wagon and nod
It's gonna have to be the way the whole thing ends because it was his idea. I can't take credit
He just passed that on to me through the also who is mac miller
Oh, it's sorry. It didn't mean to laugh. I don't music
But that's it you would recognize some I'm sure I would but what I don't that doesn't I'm also asking for people like
They're inevitably somebody in the audience that has no idea
Yeah, exactly. Chris has no idea second famous white rapper second to m&m. I'd say okay
Yeah, see and that's a genre of music. I don't listen too much. I do listen to m&m, but like
Occasionally not
Daily so yeah, I'm on top of the world. So you know, I'm just chilling in oblivion. Yeah
An oblivion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
So he's like rasta sounding or is that just your impersonation? Uh, well, he has a really hoarse voice from like
No, I mean like you're you're not a horse part of it
The accent there was like an imitation of like a bob marley accent. That's just the reggae there
Yeah, that's just the way that he sings. Okay. Well, that's what I was asking is if that was him or you
You know the reggae
If that was that was both I think I did a pretty good impression what the people decide but but yeah, no, it's uh, gotcha
Yeah, but he's an artist. I really like but what's funny is
The way he told me to make the album is nowhere near his genre. It's way more lore of pepe
Well, you did dream it in your head
Not mac miller's head if mac miller had had a dream
And then emailed you
Then you would expect it to be mac miller's head, but since the dream happened in your universe
It makes sense that it would be a lore of pepe universe. Well, I guess since you don't know him
He is dead. So he's passing this idea to me from the grave
Is the way I see the top comment on our last podcast is relevant yet again. It really is steven
Oh, what is it that edwin's living in a continuous fever dream?
Yeah, another universe. Yeah
A couple more universes. I mean that sounds like a way better dream than some of the ones you've described to me
Yeah, well this one is great because that sounds useful and decent most of my dreams are just utter chaos and
Mayhem and the end of the world. Well, I guess this really is what most music is but like
I guess I will be sharing part of my universe with the people
It's true because what i'm doing is like
It's not much like things you've really heard before. I don't know
Well, that's what's really cool about like electronic music
Yeah, electronic music is really cool because it's always something that no one's ever heard
Like even if you're imitating like a different or imitating like a different style
Yeah, like it's so easy to put your own unique twists on it and yeah, and you're not limited by the physical capabilities of an actual instrument
How old is the oldest person of the generation?
After gen z
Like are they in there?
You graduated in high school yet
I think they're like gen alpha. I don't know. I'd have to look that up. Well
Well, I'll look it up right now early 20s now, right? All I know is that the
Gen z's like middle to late 20s right now. Steve. I don't know. You're very close to gen z. I escaped. I escaped
I know but think about how old you are and then subtract two and that's gen z. Yeah, well, this is either
late gen z or
earliest gen a
The
Moscow Russia
underground DJ scene
I've
discovered it on youtube
And these people are mixing some really cool stuff and I've tracked down some of the artists on soundcloud
and
It is like a really cool vibe. It is awesome. What what genre is it closest to it's like, uh
it's
it's all
resampled like popular hip-hop vocals over like
rave beats and like lil peep type stuff and like really
overly aggressively bassy 808s
but over like
Really famous Kendrick Lamar songs and so to answer your question Edwin
Gen alpha is born between 2010 and 24
So the oldest are 15 to 16 years old currently
So this would be gen z later. It'd be like in clubs. So there's these it'd be late gen z. Yeah late gen z
so
What generation am I?
You are what year were you born?
You're a boomer. I think
Well, Chris is the least boomer boomer
But yeah, baby boomer because you're you're
I mean if I remember it correctly, baby boomers is like after world war two
There was tons of babies born because all the up till 64 and then it changed, right?
Right. I think so something like that. So the world was peaceful and everyone was putting it off
Well, and also because everybody came back from being at war
The ones who survived came back and were you know, yeah
Ready to have some babies
And you were had
Except I don't think your your dad was in was ever in the military. Was it? Yeah, he was in the Korean War. Oh, he was
Oh, okay. Well, there you go
I didn't know that
Did he ever talk about that much? No, he didn't like it and
I'm not really sure what went on there, but he didn't like it at all. He never talked about it when we were kids
That seems to be a pretty common story. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we need to talk about your off-road recovery
We talked about at the intro people have been sitting
Yeah, between the edge of their seats for 46 and 64 chris. Yeah, there's baby boomer
So you're right in the middle of that boomer. We almost have a gen we almost have
Everything from boomer to gen z here. Yeah, we are missing. Uh gen x. There's nobody here. That's that because we're all slightly younger
Oh, that like people in their 40s now probably that's between chris and me
Oh, there's the the gen x was in between there. Maybe steven's parents are that yes. Yeah, they are
But they're not involved in you know the channel so
How old is jave dave chapelle
You know, he might be gen x. Yeah, okay. Yeah, and I mean so and if you count people who have in the past been on the channel
Or even like last month or whatever when uh, vasily was here. Yeah, he's uh, he's gen z
He's like he's young gen z too. He's he's not far off from alpha. I mean like 23 or something really? Yeah
Whoa, that's crazy. Yeah, so
Anyway, so we've had everything from boomer to gen z on this channel. Nice working on stuff in this shop
Uh-huh, uh-huh, and then what's the new generation the people being born after alpha? I don't know
I don't know. I
You know if we could just actually start at the beginning of the alphabet now and just keep going that would make so much more
Sense rather than all these made up things like yeah, and what have you even made up for just marketing like oh boomers want
This brand of cigarettes dude. I don't even know
Like who makes up these names?
The boomer the baby boomers one like that
That one actually makes a lot of sense because it was a boom of babies
Like a ton of babies were born at the same time at an abnormally high rate because of
And millennials were the new millennium millennials. Yeah gen x was just like nobody ever talks about them
Poor guys poor guys that is the meme though like
There's like all these memes about like boomers and and and millennials arguing about stuff and gen x is just like
Hi guys, it is funny too. Like what millennials are like stereotyped for like
willing to buy expensive coffee avocado toast
good at using phones and software but but also like
Don't want to work very hard. There's one of the like stereotypes. Don't own a house. Don't yeah
Don't want to work and don't own a house. Yeah. Yeah, that is on
That's like our only like stereotypes and they're all like pretty spot-on. Yeah
I think most of the stereotypes end up being pretty well based in reality. Yeah
The gen z ones are
Yeah, there's the best
Yeah, anyway. Yeah, we were gonna tell chris's uh off-road recovery story
Speaking of boats
Well, my my story is down in mexico when I go there every winter and
there's a
some fisherman down there and they fish for
scallops
and they freedive for scallops
and these fishermen have
Like one of the first gen ford explorers
and they have the whole roof cut out
and
They have a piece of plywood
Next to the driver's seat and a piece of plywood behind the driver's seat all the way up to the roof
So the driver doesn't get covered in scallops
And the rest of the ford explorer is heaped
Out the top of the roof with scallops. I imagine the tires are pretty well inside defenders. Yes
Suspension is screaming for dear life. This this is their vehicle that they haul the scallops to
Where they sell them
Which is about a hundred miles away a hundred. Yeah
Wow, that's a long way to drive
I'm amazed that ford explorer still is alive date over and over. I mean at least two seasons
We're still using it. That's impressive
but
One day they they always come to me when they get stuck on the beach because I have that big 4500 four-wheel drive truck
One day they come to me this the scallops fisherman the main guy. He's
He's built like a refrigerator, you know, he's perfectly square
Anyway, he comes to me dogs like that
They got this thing stuck
In the tide it's in the mud in the tide and they're trying to get it out before the tide comes up
And they're not really too worried about
That they explore but the tide will come up and all their scallops will float out of the vehicle
Then they'll lose their
Weeks income or whatever. That's a day or day. Yeah every day
They then they drive the 100 mile round trip every day to every day. Wow
I figured they'd fish for a couple days and then go. Wow. That's crazy. What's the going rate for an explorer full of scallops
They must be doing well
That's also a really interesting unit of measure for fish. How many can you fit into a ford explorer?
Oh, look fredrik fredrik is here. Anyway, speaking of the dog. I don't feel like a refrigerator
I drive down just drive down to the end of the spit there and I I look out there and that explorer is like
he's probably
75 yards out
From where the high tide is the tide goes out crazy farther and it's real flat
And you got to be real careful where you're driving
Because he looks like you're driving on sand perfect sand and then you just go into a sinkhole
And it looks like sand on the top
Because the tide washes a little bit of sand back right over the top of it
And it all looks the same. Oh
So they were driving this thing and trying to get up to the
To the edge of the beach so they could take it in and sell their
You know their catch
And they got stuck
And I'm I'm sitting there looking at it and they're trying to get me to back down
There and hook on to it with your 12,000 pound dodge
I go no no way you guys no no that's not gonna work
so
that I mean now they're all sad because you know the tide is coming in and
actually
Before we got it out the tide was like halfway up the wheels
but
I said, okay, here's what we're gonna do
You guys go to your boats and you get every piece of rope from all four of those boats and you bring it
And we tied those ropes we had four of those
one inch ropes
And we tied them all together and we made four of them go all the way from
Where the explorer was stuck all the way to my truck
and then
Of course my truck was full of scraps, you know wood scraps from framing and we took
two by sixes
Layed it flat and put another two by six on top of it making a tee
and I put four of them
on under this forward explorer leaning like this
And so when I pulled all the ropes it would lift it out of the mud hole
You know because it was you're just pulling against ground
Yeah, you know pulling against the whole earth. You're not gonna win that battle. And so
I got it all set up all ready to go and they're all looking at me like
Man, what's this guy doing? He's crazy. I've never seen you know, they're they don't have any idea what's going on
And so I get down as close to the beach as I can
And then coming up over the beach
There's a whole bunch of shells where they've all broken shells off for years and years and years
So you got pretty good traction there
So I put it in a four-wheel drive
And I just take off and I hit it as hard as I can
And that that forward explorer
Just jumped out of that hole like that when it hit the end of the rope
It's like a giant bungee with that large rope. Oh, yeah, I believe it
Just jumped out of that hole
And they were like cheering
You know
From then on I was always a big hero and they I every time they would
Go out and get scallops. They would give me scallops. They would catch and give me fish. They would
I always had fresh fish from those guys after that. They always took really good care of me
Now now chris imagine if you had the mtv there you could have just drove out there on the beach hooked up and just
Yeah, carried that whole forward explorer all the way back
But I did that trick many times in san felipe where we had the house where you stayed with us
Yeah, and people would always drive out there and get stuck over the hill a little bit like this
And then they couldn't back up out of the sand
You know and I'd just sit there and watch them
You know and they didn't pretty soon they're looking at me, you know
And looking at my big truck that I had done was the 3500
And I do the same thing with just a four by four on a piece of plywood
I mean a piece of two by six on the ground
I just pop them right out with my winch
Just start charging them. It's like 10 bucks a person really. Yeah, I did
It was 250 bucks to get pulled out from a wrecker in town and I charged 100 bucks
That's a pretty good deal. Yeah, I made quite a bit of money doing that
And all those ones getting stuck were not local fishermen. Those were just
Retired white people. Yeah
Yeah, kind of you know, I not to say anything bad against the migrants, but you know
Mostly americans that didn't know what the heck they were doing. Yeah, they didn't grow up having a beach to drive on
So they don't know what to do. Yeah. Yeah
That's funny
Yeah, that was a great. That was a great rescue
That's a pretty good one
When you've been flying out of its pit, did the scallops just go airborne? They lost a few scallops. Yeah, but
You know by 12,000 pound truck compared to there, you know, 5,000 pound
Yeah, it just yanked. Well, plus a thousand pounds of scallops or whatever
And it just it was funny that thing just jumped out with those, you know, those
The levers and yeah, did they ever tell you how they emptied it?
Did they just like set up a tarp and open up the door and just let them
Yeah, they just opened up the hatchback in the tailgate and let them fall out
Yeah, and they had they had a garden rake and they just raked the rest of them out that didn't fall out
Wow
Do you put nets to get them or because they like suck to things, right?
No, no, they free dive to get them
And they bring them up in nets and then they put them in the boat
Oh, so you free dive with like a net and just grab them and throw them in the net. Do they like hoard together?
I've only seen them prepared in the dish. I don't know what they look like and
They're a crustacean and no, they're they're a mollusk actually
They're a couple different kinds. So like sucking on rocks, right?
Some of the bigger ones just kind of float around
In certain areas and then there's most of them most of them are stuck on the rocks the ones that they get yeah
So they go down there and just scrape their net against the rocks and dump it into their ford
Or into their boat and then the ford they have gloves on they just pull them off the rocks. They just grab them off the rocks
Oh, okay
Free diving that sounds like a cool gig actually. Yeah, it's it's kind of tough
I mean they lose quite a few mexicans every year to that free diving really those guys get really good and
It's amazing how long they stay down
Wow amazing
I could never stay down that. I mean, I couldn't stay down a fourth that long
Really some of those guys are probably down there for like five or six minutes. That's not that uncommon in free diving anymore
Yeah, pretty crazy
That is not a sport. I will ever be good at that's for sure
Every once in a while the night one of them just doesn't come back up. You know jeez. That's crazy. Yeah
But they make a lot of money free diving like that getting scallops and
And all kinds of crustaceans and they get lobsters and they get all kinds of stuff, you know
They go out at night and fish the lobsters
Oh, yeah, because they're nocturnal, you know, and they come out at night
They're pretty easy to get I guess
Do they dive for those too? Yep
Yeah
Free diving for lobsters. Wow. There you go Edwin diving and crustaceans. Wow. I actually dove
One time down and we're clear off the end of
of Baja way down by uh los los friles and it was
We got 11 lobsters in 20 minutes
That's a lot of lobsters impressive with a Hawaiian sling, you know what a Hawaiian sling is. It's just a bungee spear basically
Yeah, yeah, yep. And fresh lobster like that
You can't get fresh lobster like that anywhere around here
Yeah, the freshest lobster I've had probably was in Jamaica when I was there for sam's wedding
Yeah, that's that's good. He loves probably good. Yeah
But I haven't I haven't had a lot of fresh lobster in my life
I've never lived anywhere near the coast for any significant period of time
Anything fresh like that, you know fresh shrimp right off right out of the water
Don't even get Edwin started on the crustaceans. Have you seen forest gump chris? Oh, yeah, okay
As I wasn't sure if you were getting it but since we were live streaming this trip, uh
Chris and I just put quiet for a while just
Driving in between engine explosions
and
And he was like doesn't just be in by the coast make you want tacos and I'm like, oh, yeah for sure
And then Chris went on for like 10 minutes every single kind of taco
He's like shrimp tacos
Fish tacos the whole chat was like forest gump forest gump because there's the scene
Bubba's going on about shrimp gumbo shrimp scampi and it goes on for like five scenes and he's like
Well, I guess that's kind of all the
Days and days and days of movie time that he's been doing this
Yeah, but it was so funny because Chris kept going and going and chat was just like
Exploding with that is hilarious. He's like and even when you had the steak tacos and he's had every different kind of steak
Oh
There's never a dull moment since
Exactly
Yeah, it was great. That was a lot of fun. We did eat a lot of tacos
It got to the point where I was like, ethan
Let's go anywhere other than tacos and then like three minutes later. You guys are like, we pulled over for tacos
We radioed in
I was like, well, we didn't pull over and we're ahead of you. Uh, so we're gonna go to this other spot
Yeah, that hawaiians. Well, that was one of the best
Oh, that was so good. I still think about those coconut shrimp. Oh, yeah
Yeah, that was that was really good
And then there was the time that a random fan
Had been watching the live stream brought us tacos in the parking lot while we were fixing the fuel pump
Those are really good tacos. Those are good tacos, too
You know the next podcast will be sent and bent number 73 and that will do all about the road trip
Yep, we just scratch the surface. Oh, yeah, we just told like the little tiny tidbit
So make sure you subscribe or follow if you're on one of the podcasting networks
Apple Music Spotify, we're on everything and next week we'll be talking about that. So, yep
Thanks for checking it out and we'll see you next week
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