They’re describing charging a battery and worrying that if something goes wrong, it could catch fire. Charging is a common time for battery problems to show up, so it’s smart to think about safety.
They’re basically worried that the battery could fail in a way that makes it overheat and catch fire. With lithium batteries, one bad cell can cause the rest to heat up too.
They’re talking about a past story where a cheap golf cart ended up starting a fire. The takeaway is that some low-cost electrical parts can be risky, especially when charging or using them indoors.
Concept
insurance companies are going to invent a new clause
They’re joking that insurance might respond to these kinds of fire stories by changing what they cover. In real life, how safe the device is and how it’s used can affect claims.
Term
Chinese battery
The hosts single out “Chinese battery” as a perceived risk factor, implying concerns about quality control in low-cost battery packs. For listeners, the key idea is that battery safety depends heavily on cell quality, protection circuitry, and charging behavior—not just the device type.
They’re saying the product is rare, so companies don’t sell many of them. When sales are low, the company often has to charge more per unit to make money.
They’re describing an electric watercraft you stand on, kind of like a surfboard, but it’s powered by a jet. A remote controls the speed, and the board has fins to help you steer.
They’re saying there’s a remote you pull that makes the board go faster. It’s the control for the power, so it matters for safety if something goes wrong.
A pickup is a truck with a bed in the back. The tailgate is the hinged door at the back, and riding on it is dangerous because it’s not a safe place to be while the vehicle is moving.
A car seat is a special seat for kids that keeps them safely buckled in. It’s required in many places because it greatly reduces injury risk in a crash.
CPS is the agency that can step in if a child is in danger. In this story, it’s mentioned to emphasize that unsafe situations with kids are taken much more seriously today.
A mini bike is a small bike with an engine—kind of like a tiny motorcycle. It’s the kind of thing people might ride around the yard, and here it’s used for jumping.
Suspension is what helps a vehicle smooth out bumps and shocks. If a bike has no suspension, landing from a jump is much harsher and more likely to cause problems.
Briggs & Stratton makes small engines for things like lawn tools. The speaker is basically saying their mini bike probably had a similar kind of engine.
A spigot is basically an outdoor water tap. They used it to quickly put out the fire.
Concept
DV footage
DV footage is an old kind of video file from older camcorders. To edit it, you sometimes need older computer programs that know how to read that format.
Company
iMovie
iMovie is a video editing program from Apple. If you have old video projects, you may need the older iMovie version that matches how the project was saved.
Concept
Mac computers
They’re using an older Apple computer because it still has the right program version to work with old video files. Newer computers might not handle that old setup the same way.
“Pyro” basically means someone who’s really into fire. Here they’re using it as a nickname for how they acted as a kid—always messing around with flames. It helps explain why the stories involve fire and trouble.
A woodchipper is a machine that shreds branches and wood into small pieces. People use it to clean up yard waste faster. In the story, it’s brought up to contrast with the speaker’s earlier fire-related behavior.
Propane is a fuel gas that’s stored in a pressurized container. If you throw one into a fire, it can ignite and make the fire much bigger, much faster.
Airsoft is like a shooting game using toy guns that fire small plastic pellets. Some airsoft guns use pressurized gas to shoot, so messing with the gas can create unexpected results.
“Green gas” is a pressurized fuel used in some airsoft guns. It’s basically a gas that helps the gun shoot, and if you introduce a lot of it into a fire, it can make things go wrong fast.
CO2 canisters are small pressurized containers. They’re used to power things like airsoft guns, and because they’re pressurized, they can contribute to a sudden, intense reaction if exposed to fire.
Fireworks are special explosive items used for celebrations, but they can be risky. Some areas set rules about what’s allowed, because they can start fires or cause injuries.
A forest fire is when fire spreads through plants and trees and gets out of control. It can start from something small—like burning debris or fireworks—especially when the weather is dry.
A fire line is a cleared strip of ground made to slow a wildfire. By removing the stuff the fire would burn, it gives firefighters a better chance to stop the flames.
A backhoe is a big construction machine with a digging arm. Here, it’s being used to make a cleared path (a fire line) so the fire can’t spread as easily.
An excavator is a big digging machine used on construction sites. In this story, it’s working right near the fire, which is why the heat is melting grease and stressing the equipment.
Grease is like heavy-duty oil that helps moving parts slide smoothly. The fire was so hot that it melted the grease on the machine’s arm.
Concept
burn barrels (burning garbage to consolidate ash)
They’re talking about a way people used to get rid of trash by burning it in barrels. It makes the trash take up less space, but it can be dangerous and create a lot of smoke and fire risk.
Term
aerosol deodorant
They’re talking about spray deodorant in a pressurized can. If you set it on fire, the pressure and chemicals can make it explode or flare up fast.
Term
hairspray can go off
They’re describing what happens when a pressurized spray can gets hit by fire. Because it’s under pressure, it can pop or explode more violently than you’d expect.
Term
propellant
Propellant is what makes spray cans work—it’s the pressurized stuff inside that pushes the product out. If the can is heated or burned, that pressurized material can make things worse.
Term
gasoline (used to start a scrap wood pile fire)
They used gasoline to get a fire going. Gasoline ignites extremely fast and can make a small fire turn into a much bigger one very quickly.
A mushroom cloud is what you see when an explosion or big fire heats the air so fast that it shoots upward like a column. The hot gases rise and spread out at the top, making that mushroom shape.
They’re talking about making homemade fire/explosion experiments with fuels. Mixing flammable liquids is unpredictable, and it can easily turn into a dangerous blast or flash fire.
Diesel doesn’t behave like gasoline when it comes to igniting and burning. If the fuel doesn’t burn completely, you can get lots of dark smoke—what they’re describing as a very black mushroom cloud.
Term
Home Depot bucket
They used a regular plastic bucket from a hardware store. Regular containers aren’t made to safely hold or handle fuel-and-fire mixtures, so things can go wrong fast.
Electrolysis is when electricity is used to break water into simpler parts. In this story, the kid used a battery and collected the gases in test tubes.
An internal combustion engine is the kind of engine that burns fuel inside the engine to make power. If you change the fuel (like hydrogen), you usually need different parts to make it burn and run correctly.
A carburetor is a device that mixes fuel with air before it goes into the engine. If you switch fuels, the carburetor has to be set up to mix the new fuel correctly.
A two-stroke engine makes power every two piston strokes, not every four. That often means it can spin faster, but it also needs different fueling and tuning than a four-stroke engine.
Car
2020 125 two-stroke go-kart
They’re talking about a 2020 125cc two-stroke go-kart. The big point is that it revs extremely high for its size, and it uses a single-cylinder engine.
They’re pointing out that the engine spins to extremely high RPM. That usually means the power comes on more at the high end, and it can sound and feel very different than a normal car engine.
They’re talking about a racing class (X 30) where everyone runs the same engine. The goal is to keep the competition fair so driver skill and kart setup matter more than engine upgrades.
A shifter kart is one where you change gears while driving. They’re saying this kart class doesn’t really need that because the engine makes power in a way that doesn’t require shifting.
They think the exhaust/muffler might be part of why the kart doesn’t sound great. The muffler changes the sound the engine makes, not just how loud it is.
To “rebuild” an engine means fixing it by replacing parts that have worn out. With small engines that get pushed hard, rebuilding can happen more often.
Power Wheels are small battery-powered ride-on vehicles for kids, often resembling mini cars or trucks. In this segment, they’re treated like a go-kart analog—something that can be driven fast enough to cause crashes and injuries.
The clutch is a control that connects the engine’s power to the machine. If something grabs or engages suddenly, it can move fast and cause you to get hurt.
“Sticky throttle” means the gas control doesn’t move smoothly. When you try to slow down or control speed, it may not respond the way you expect, so you can end up giving it more power than you meant to.
The passenger door is the door on the side where the passenger sits. If it’s left open and you hit it, it can get damaged badly because it’s not protected like when it’s closed.
“Full throttle” means you’re giving it the maximum amount of gas. If you do that by accident, the machine can lunge forward or surge in a way you can’t easily control.
A steering bolt is a small metal fastener that keeps the steering parts attached. If it loosens, the steering can get unstable or stop working, which is dangerous at speed.
It means the driver is keeping the engine spinning as fast as it can. That can make the vehicle feel really strong, but it also puts a lot of strain on parts.
Term
R1 RPMs
They’re saying the engine was revving extremely high. Then, right after the crash, the motor shut off immediately.
A roll cage is a strong protective frame inside the vehicle. If you crash hard or roll, it helps keep the cabin from collapsing, and if it’s damaged you need to fix it before driving again.
They describe the wheel breaking apart from a huge hit. When a wheel fails like that, the vehicle can become unstable very fast.
Concept
rollover protection vs impact risk
Even if a car has safety gear like a roll cage, crashing into something at speed can still be extremely dangerous. The gear helps, but it doesn’t make reckless driving safe.
Concept
processing wasn't happening
It sounds like the car didn’t respond the way they hoped. When you’re going too fast and lose control, the tires and brakes may not be able to “save” the car, so it just keeps sliding or crashing.
Concept
thumbnail is shot from the back
This is a media/visual presentation point, but it ties to automotive design: rear-end styling (taillights, silhouette) can be more recognizable in quick thumbnails than the front. It also reflects how filming constraints can change what angles you capture.
The Suzuki Samurai is a small SUV designed to go off-road and handle rough roads. In the podcast, it’s mentioned in connection with an engine swap idea, where someone puts a much bigger motorcycle-style engine into it. That’s why it comes up—because it’s a common base for creative modifications.
The Toyota Camry is a mainstream midsize sedan often chosen for comfort and fuel efficiency. Here it’s mentioned as the rental the host reserved specifically because they wanted something efficient and not too expensive, before the rental company couldn’t provide it.
A BMW 430i is a BMW model you can rent that’s meant to feel sporty but still be practical. The host liked that it sounds fun when you accelerate, and it still gets decent gas mileage. That combination is what makes it appealing.
An eight-speed transmission is just the gearbox with eight different gear settings. More gears can help the car shift in a way that feels smoother and can save gas.
The rental company is using a scanner with AI to look for damage on the car after you return it. If you didn’t take before-and-after photos, it can be hard to prove whether a scratch was already there.
They’re talking about the car’s automatic gearbox. When you modify a car for drifting, the transmission choice can affect how well the car handles and how hard it is to set up.
A drift car is built to intentionally slide sideways while cornering. It usually takes more than just horsepower—things like tires and drivetrain setup matter.
The wiring harness is the car’s main bundle of electrical wires. If it gets damaged, parts of the car can stop working or even get fried when you try to power things back up.
They’re describing the process of trying a few things to see what fixes the problem. With cars, especially electrical or no-start issues, you sometimes have to test and narrow it down until you find the real cause.
Cars often have heat shields that protect other parts from the exhaust’s extreme heat. If that protection is missing, hot exhaust can make drips or residue smoke for a long time after you park.
The BMW E46 is a specific generation of the BMW 3 Series. People often talk about certain recurring problems on that generation, which is what the host is hinting at here.
“Low range” is a special low gear for 4x4 vehicles. It helps you move slowly with more pulling power, which is great for tricky surfaces like sand.
Car
Chevrolet Greenbrier
The Chevrolet Greenbrier is an old-school Chevrolet van. In the episode they explain it’s actually related to the Corvair, and it’s the kind of vehicle people remember for its fun, old-fashioned driving feel.
They’re saying the Greenbrier is basically a Corvair-based van. That means it drives differently than most cars because of how it’s built, and it can be really fun to drive.
“Four speed” means the car has four forward gears. With fewer gears you have to shift more, which can make the drive feel more hands-on and fun.
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Did I ever tell you about the day my dad started a forest fire? No. Oh,
I know this one. Your dad. My dad started a legit forest fire. It was crazy.
Welcome to the sent and bent podcast episode 75. The weather's getting good here in Idaho.
We have a bunch of great things coming up this summer that we're about to talk about
and thanks for checking in. Yeah, you guys doing doing pretty good. I worked on the house all weekend
started putting the tile in my bathroom downstairs. So my knees hurt today.
That's always fun.
Nice. And I got a wood chipper from Timo that's unexpectedly satisfying to use. I'm proud.
It was really funny because I showed up this morning and Ethan's like, come check this out.
He's like, my Timo era is a little different than Edwin's.
That's probably safe. Yeah. Wait, what's safe? Oh, to say that it's different than yours or
yeah, and like legitimately safer. The wood chipper. I mean, yeah, I guess you'd have to be
really stupid to hurt yourself with a wood chipper. Whereas like a Timo dirt bike could
just decide to break in half while you're riding it. Yeah. Well, my electric jet board,
for example, I was charging the battery this weekend and it's charging on the basement outside.
Like there's a little cement thing outside of the basement door. So I'm charging it on a cement
patio and I was still looking up and I was like, I think if this thing popped, it would still burn
my house down. That would be bad. And that's the kind of thing I've been thinking, especially since
listening to the last episode with Andrew and his Chinese golf cart lighting his garage on fire.
And I'm like, it'd be really bad if I lit my house on fire. Generally, that's not a good thing.
And if I was doing it charging the world's cheapest surfboard, that would be a really dumb
really dumb story. Yeah. Yeah. Insurance companies are going to invent a new clause
because of people like you, Edwin. Yeah, I think we ensure everything that's not a Chinese battery.
Yeah. What's weird about the surfboard though is the entire board battery charger, the whole setup
costs significantly less than the next one, the next cheapest ones battery alone.
Wow. How can that be possible? I got my whole setup for like 3000. The battery for the next
more expensive one is seven. Just the battery is over double the cost. That's crazy. So whatever
safety mechanism is in my battery is probably not that good. Probably not. No, but also it also
shows you that the next company up is just doing an insane markup on everything because their
manufacturing costs are probably not that much higher. Yeah. Well, I think things like that,
you don't sell very much of them. So the ones you do sell, you need to make like a pretty good.
It's an extremely niche market. So you got to, yeah. So what is this thing you're talking about?
It's basically a electric jet ski that you stand on because it's like a surfboard,
but it has like a jet, like a little tiny jet motor, like electric jet. Yeah.
Uh-huh. And it has three fins and you can, you can move them around if you want to like corner
harder or lighter. And then it has bindings that are only over the top of your foot because if
you fall, you don't want it to stay attached to you. So you like kind of fall out of it. And then
it has a remote with a rope go into the nose of the board. So when you pull the trigger it, it
goes faster. How fast is it's top speed? Like 30. Which on water is like terrifying. Yeah.
That's pretty quick actually. Especially because you're half strapped. My greatest fear is one leg
coming out in a crash and not both. Just getting dragged across the lake by your surfboard. Yeah.
Yeah. That'd be brutal. That sounds like it could be hard on your foot too. Oh yeah, for sure. Your
ankle would be very unhappy. Yeah. It's, it's how long is it? Uh, probably like five foot.
Five foot board. Pretty short. Yeah. Yeah. But it's pretty buoyant. How wide?
14 inches. It's like a normal surfboard width. Yeah. Give or take. Wow. It's just,
it's probably just a lot thicker for the buoyancy. You have to come try it out, Chris. It's awesome.
Oh no. Have you done much surfing, Chris? A little bit when I was younger,
you know, down in Mexico, but not, you know, significant amount, mostly surfing in a kayak
I did quite a bit of. Oh, I've always wanted to do that. That's pretty fun. Yeah. I've got
capsized in a kayak and waves before trying to surf, but never actually have done it.
You know, I've known Chris for most of 30 years. I think I've seen him wear shorts
three times. So about once a decade, you might see Chris in shorts. I've never seen it. And
there's been some hot days up here too. Yeah. Those are the days that Chris takes his hoodie off
and might not be wearing long johns. Do you go swimming like in the lake when it's like 100?
Sometimes. Yeah. When it's like really super hot. When was the last time you went,
went swimming here in Idaho? Long time ago. Probably before we were born. Any of us?
10 years ago. Wow. Yeah. It's wild. Man. I love being in the lake. I'm like a fish.
Yeah. That's why I relate with them so much. I like being on the lake fishing, but I get that
not in the lake like a fish. Yeah. I'd fish this year. I give it a go. I would really like to do
a challenge of some sorts where we need to find food along the way. Yeah. So we could go somewhere
where there are fish and like make it more of like a survival challenge than just a can the car
make it their challenge. Our trips are already like survival challenges. I mean, I am into that
sort of thing, but combining that with also a vehicular challenge and also making a YouTube
video, we would definitely have to have backup food. Like we'd have to have some rules about
like we can only use it if, but I would not really want to partake in an adventure where we
actually just starve if we don't get food. That sounds miserable. We need to go where there's
where there's freshwater creeks. Yeah. If there's a lot of fish, then it's it's pretty plausible.
I love fly fishing. I love it. I've been fly fishing since I was five.
Really? Yeah. I want to get into it. I have a bunch of friends who are super into fly fishing.
They're always offering, but I'm always kind of doing Steven things. If you have the patience to
fly fish when you were five, Chris, you probably don't have ADHD. No, he just has the hyper fixation
type where he got into the fly fish and he's just like, Oh my God. I couldn't imagine doing it now,
let alone when I was five. Yeah. But 90% of the stuff that you do for hours on end,
Chris couldn't imagine doing for five minutes. That's true. Right. So it's just,
he's just into different things. Yeah. Yeah. The fly fish is the greatest.
Yeah. You know, if you don't, if you don't catch something or get a bite from something
within the first five, 10 minutes, you move on. Oh, okay. It's not there. Okay. Well,
I see fishing. I'm normally surfing, looking at shore, seeing people waiting for the bobbers.
And I'm like that. I just wouldn't have the patience for like, I couldn't do golf,
couldn't do pickleball, couldn't do any of the things that like I'm coming into that age of,
but fishing is definitely one of those things that I'm coming into that age of.
You know, a lot of people fishing is to be sitting in their boat, drinking beer, talking
to each other and watching their bobber. It's not just watching them. Oh, it's like a beer
drinking sport. Yeah. It's a social beer drinking sport. Oh, I think those other sports I listed
are as well. I think that's the main appeal of all of those things for most people. So one of the,
one of the ways to refer to that type of fishing is bait fishing because you're using bait. Okay.
And there's a really funny story from when I was like four or five, maybe I don't actually remember
this happening. My uncle told me this story like a handful of years ago, like 10 years ago, probably
I was like one of those things you did as a kid and you don't know because it to me, it was nothing
memorable about it, but my uncle and my uncle was visiting us and he and my dad. I have no idea what
their conversation was actually about, but all I heard was something about baiting, you know,
and I was like, Oh, I love fishing because I was into fishing so hard when I was that age. Like,
it was my favorite thing. So I just like chimed in and I was like, I'm a master baiter.
I was talking about bait fishing and I was like, I'm really good at putting the bait on the hook
and catch the fish. So again, I have no idea what they were actually talking about, but that's
I just overheard part of it. And I was like, that's me. That's amazing. Yeah. I'm a master.
I'm a master baiter. When did you stop being super into fishing? Probably when I was about 12
or so. That's the last time I remember fishing. Was I laughing or do they just let you run with it?
I'm sure they died laughing, but see that's why I don't remember because to me being five. That's
a totally uninteresting event. Yeah. Adults having conversation. I say something. They laugh. Why
would I remember that? Yeah, but they remembered it as the best thing they heard all month. Yeah.
Like I remember plenty of times of actually fishing. That was the exciting part, you know,
catching the fish and driving out there and you know, whatever, driving through the woods.
I have a lot of stories that are the opposite. Like things that I did that I didn't tell my parents
about until I was an adult. Yeah. And those are always really fun because if they would have known
when you were a kid, you would have been dead, but knowing as an adult, it's funny. You know, I
actually don't have really any of those stories that I can think of because one, my parents were
like super unconcerned about my safety and two, like I didn't really tend to do things that they
frowned upon. Like my sister was the rebellious one. She was always doing stuff that they didn't
want her to do and whatever. I was just like the things that I was into, my parents were
supportive of. So like I don't remember, like I couldn't think of a single story really that I
would tell my mom and she'd be like, Oh my God, you did what? Yeah. But also most parents would
like look out at you at like 12 or 13, building a tree house like 50 feet in the air and be like,
Okay, little Jimmy. My parents were like, just don't use this wood. We were saving that for
something. Yeah. Did you have any of those Chris that you got to tell your parents as an adult?
You wouldn't believe what I got up to. Well, yeah, you know, I learned really quick not to
say them. But I mean, there was a lot of things as a kid, you know, that we did that I mean,
even with my parents, you know, like riding on the tailgate of a pickup, you know, for long ways,
you know, and now like, that's like a huge no, no, you know, you can't, you can't even take your
kid anywhere unless it's in the car seat, you know, or CPS is going to get you. Yeah. I mean,
more like things that your parents wouldn't have proved of in the moment. Like you did that, you
know, you got away with and and but if you if they like if your mom had caught you, she would have
made you do the thing where you sat with the your face to the refrigerator, your your nose to the
wall holding a piece of paper. I'll give you an example, Chris from from from my thing. So my
first job washing dishes at the restaurant, you know, the first thing I did with my own money was
buy a mini bike and I had all these skate ramps and my parents really weren't into me setting fires
and jumping over them when they were gone or when they were there all that much, but they
bared with it if they were there. But so when I got my mini bike, I'm like, awesome. And we had a
DV camera, you know, with the tapes. And so, uh, well, yeah, you know, you probably remember
when they first came out. So, uh, uh, Nitro Circus was like the show, you know, with Travis Pastrana
doing stunts. And so this was kind of really the first Grindhart video now that I think of it. So
we're like, we got to do some stunts. And so I was like, well, we need to land on the lawn because
our driveway was flat, but the lawn was downhill. We had a jump, but we didn't have a landing and
the mini bike didn't have any suspension. So I'm like, we need to land downhill. Pretty smart,
really. If you think about it, this is like a Briggs and Stratton Sears mini bike or something,
right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like the same as a little chopper that razor used to make. And it was like,
it was like a 24 volt, like 300 watt motor. It probably only was electric. Yeah. But it would
still go like 20 downhill. And, but it looked like a chopper. They had like a fake plastic
V2 engine over the, yeah. And they were really small and I was already like too big for it.
Yeah. I was going to say, those things are made for like 10 year olds. Were you like 15 or something?
Yeah. And so I was like, well, we can't make the fire in the driveway if we're going to land
downhill. We can't make the fire in the lawn because we'll burn the lawn. And so I was like,
well, we'll put, there's a bunch of scrap metal from roofing. I was like, we'll put the scrap
metal down, build the fire on top of the metal. When the fire goes out, we'll move the metal
back to where it was and no one will ever know. And so we set it up in the lawn, like bigger than
this table, like as like a 10, 12 foot section of steel, we build this giant bonfire on it.
We jump through it. My friend and I both lit our hair on fire and like put it out in the spigot.
So my parents come home. I don't have any eyebrows. My hair is two inches shorter. My
friend's hair is like basically non-existent. And there's, when we moved the steel, we thought
we were so genius, but of course the heat still killed the lawn. It wasn't charred, but it was
very much dead. So we had a huge 10 foot section in our yard that was dead. And my parents saw it.
I'm like, what happened there? And I was like, oh, like, you know, maybe like you guys left
something there. Like, I don't know, like maybe like, you know, maybe the dog too much fertilizer.
It was like, maybe the dogs like always pee there. And my mom was like, huh, like, I don't know,
you know, but it was kind of like early spring. So like the grass didn't have really enough time
to go full green. Yeah, exactly. And so, uh, and you got away with it. Yeah, they didn't know.
I haven't had video evidence, but they never saw the video either.
Do you still have that footage floating around? It's just one of my biggest regrets, man. I
kind of do in a way. So the DV footage to make it digital, you play it back real time into iMovie
that came for free on like Mac computers. And so I do it on my dad's computer for work. And
you just have to sit there and play it back real time. And then it creates this file
that's in an iMovie file. And I have three episodes of this show called stunt dummies
where we do stuff like this and it's on a hard drive, but it's not like, uh, like our
files with our cameras modern. It just saves to its own digital file. This one, that digital file
is inside of the iMovie project. And I need that version of iMovie to open it, but I need
that version of old Mac computer to get that version of iMovie.
It also hasn't been updated too much. Exactly. So one of these days, I'm just going to be like
at a thrift shop or whatever. And if it has the right version of iMovie, I'm going to buy it.
And then I'm going to make like a, uh, edit of like the first grind hard video. Nice. One of
these days I'm going to find one, which is crazy. I actually had one when I just go on like ebayers.
Are they like, I could, it's just like finding the time and like, but yeah, I could find one
that's like, I feel like they're not probably that valuable. I might have a Mac book that's old
enough like iMovie. I'm trying to think of what see, I don't remember the specs. It's just the
first one I had in college. So I would have been about 16. And I don't think I ever updated it.
I have 300 gigs of footage from back then. And that's like,
I mean, that was like multiple hard drives worth like hard drives were pretty small
back there. I was filming at it every day for years from like 12 to now.
Yeah. Yeah. If YouTube would have been more of a thing, or if we would have had go pros,
I would have had some really, really embarrassing videos on the internet.
Yeah. But yeah, that's a, that's an example what I'm saying. Like, and then you tell your parents
and they're like, Oh really? And though like my parents, they don't even remember that,
you know, because there's like, to them, it wasn't really an event. To me, it was a big deal. And
they would have known what I would have done. It would have been a big deal, but you know,
and then you told them. Yeah, but I told them in like my 20s. Oh, so I was like an adult,
you know, moved out, you know, I'm like, Oh, remember the day that the tree was on fire
when you woke up? And they're like, Yeah. And I'm like, Well, this is why.
Well, there wasn't not, not too much of that when I was a kid, because I,
I knew that would be a big trouble. Well, and you said that your mom always caught you too. So
always caught me. I mean, I couldn't get away with anything. Yeah. You know, I, I would sneak
into the kitchen just with my socks on. Nobody could hear me. I touched the cookie jar and
she was a floor away upstairs in her bedroom. And she'd yell Christopher, get out of that cookie
jar. She just like senses it. I couldn't get away with nothing. Nothing. Wow. Yeah. I was too good
at the kid. I didn't like have anything I wanted to do that wasn't approved of really. I was just
a pyro. I was thinking about the right word. I was thinking about that the other day. I was
out, you know, burning some brush and stuff before I got this team of woodchipper.
And I was just remembering like, I was like, Yeah, you know, you can say I'm a pyro. And
then I was like, Oh yeah, I let my hair on fire countless times when I was a kid. Oh yeah. Like
even I would just get, I would just play with candles. So like would just light a beeswax
candle and then I'd just sit there with a matchstick and just like make it the wax run in
different directions. But it gets so into it that I'd lean over it like this and then
hair just up in flames. I actually did get in trouble with fireworks. Also, it looks like
the the guy from the water jet company might have got here a little early. Oh shoot.
Yeah. Well, I can save my firework story. It's pretty good. Well, if you want to go talk to
you guys can keep going for a few minutes. So my whole thing was we'd get like a bonfire going
and then I'd go into the shed and just grab things and throw it in to see if it blow up.
Like I do it for hours. Like I had these like those little propane tanks you use to like
start fires and stuff. Yeah. I just throw one in and wait for it to go. I also filmed all that.
And then I do like paint buckets. If you throw a paint bucket and if it's the right kind of
paint when it gets hot enough, it'll make a nice boomer. Oh yeah. This kaboom. But one time
the way I should have my mom on the podcast to tell this story from her perspective. But there
was a kid at night and I had a fire going and I put in a relatively, do you remember green gas?
It was popular when like airsoft was like super popular. No. So green gas was like,
I don't know exactly what it was, but it was a kind of propane, but it was like more compressed.
And you just shoot little bursts of it into your airsoft. And then it would have capacity to shoot
like a bunch of rounds without like a spring or anything. Cause it's just the little bit of
gas hits and then the BB goes out. So it's like, like a CO2 canisters and like BB guns now. Right.
It's like that, but more compressed. And so I was like, I wonder what would happen if you just threw
a full one in there. And then I threw in a propane tank as well. And they went off at like
the same time. Cause I think one went off, fractured the other one. And so it just was like
like, it was like not even exaggerating, like a 70 foot like of ash and it was dark. So it was like,
it's like a giant fire. The embers of the fire. Yeah. It went off like a giant and it was so loud.
And I was like, yeah. Like that's awesome. Then my mom came running out. She was like,
what are you doing? She was like, actually, and I were inside the house and like things were
knocking over inside of the house. And we were like pretty far from the house, but it was like
a blast wave. Like you felt it in your chest. Yeah. It was crazy. The worst one I had was
my cousin and I used to, and this was kind of condoned. And then we had a new rule after this
incident, but we used to round up all the like dead fireworks and we would make a little bonfire
with used fireworks. Oh, that was really fun. But also I started getting a little crafty and I'd
kind of remix fireworks. I was probably like seven or eight and like it was mostly burnt ones. So
we'd have, you know, like the tube is still there. So I'd put in a bunch of puppets and like
little stuff, but one time we had these little like rockets that I think are illegal now.
And one of them hadn't gone off correctly and I put it into my little bonfire of other fireworks
and it just shot off and it almost nailed my uncle. Like it went right past his head and it
lit this tree on fire and then my mom was like, you guys can't be like remixing fireworks anymore.
Fireworks like one of the most unhinged thing that like we're all just like allowed to have
is kind of crazy. They're still kind of crazy. Yeah. Like there's like all those forest fires
and stuff. It's like, it's kind of crazy that we're still allowed to have them. Yeah. Honestly,
well, a lot of states you can't anymore. Yeah. And in a lot of states, people just get the
illegal ones anyways, because you can't go over what is it? It's not that tall. It's like 20 feet
or something. So anything that's over that height is just illegal anyways, but people don't really
care. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we used to live out in the middle. I can't believe we got away with
that. Yeah, we lived in the middle of the forest and we just had like a 40 by 40 patio. Yeah. And
we just launched fireworks all night long. Yeah. I don't know if I ever told this story on the
podcast before, but I certainly haven't told Chris, which means if I told it, it was a long time ago.
Did I ever tell you about the day my dad started a forest fire? No. Oh, I know this one. Your dad?
My dad started a legit forest fire. It was crazy. He was working up on the lot where his house is
now, which is like at the top of a mountain and he was kind of like clearing brush, moving around
brush piles, this and that, probably later in the year than he should. Like it was technically
still allowed, but it, it wasn't a good day to be burning. Pretty dry. And yeah, he woke up
really early back then to get as much done as possible before work. And I was up really late,
teenager, punk ass, you know, I can imagine. Imagine me when I was 16, Chris.
And so I'm sleeping and it's six in the morning and this guy comes running into my room and he's
like, Edwin, Edwin, your dad started a fire. He said, you got to come up right now. And I'm like,
yeah, he's always doing fires. He's like, no, like real bad, real bad. You got to come. And I was like,
what the heck? So I throw my pants on and stuff. And he's like, he said, get all the axes, all the
shovels and like all your friends. And I was like, what is going on? And so I opened the door and
from like a mile away, you could just like see the smoke. And I was like, Oh, no, like he really
did it this time. And so I get up there and he's cutting a fire line with his backhoe.
He's pushing trees into the fire, digging the fire line behind the trees, pushing the trees in,
digging the line behind the trees. And he had us running the brush from where he's about to dig
the fire line, you know, throwing it onto the fire to try to contain it. And it probably went like,
I mean, we'll have to get him on the pod for his side of the story, but two to four acres
cooked, but his fire line worked. But you're able to get it contained. But the excavator is so
close to the flames. The grease was melting down the boom and everything. Like he was just
pushing it straight in and it was so it was his own lumber. It wasn't like, you know, he started
on forest service property or something. So he lost a lot of lumber that day, but timber, timber,
timber. Oh, it's only lumber after it's cut. Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, so that was like
one of the more interesting mornings I had growing up.
Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. I was like, learned how to be a firefighter that day,
but I mean, he stopped it. It would have, it would have gone. If he didn't have the excavator
there, the, the, the backhoe that day, it would have gone. Yeah. That was pretty wild. Wow. Yeah.
And that's how the spot got so clear where it kind of worked out in the end then that's where
his house is now. Yep. He was going to keep more of those trees, but now there aren't any trees for
his houses. It's pretty great. I reminded that story sometimes and he's like, Oh, it wasn't that bad.
I was like, the guy who sent down to call me in the morning searcher seemed to think it was pretty
bad. That's pretty bad. Yeah. That's pretty bad. Yeah. It's pretty bad. Yeah. You gotta be careful.
Well, when I was a kid, we used to burn all of our garbage. So we had these burn barrels.
We had this little spot out in the middle of away from everything, you know, because we had hay
fields and all kinds of stuff like plastic and all that everything we burnt everything.
Was it just expensive to take to the dump or something? Well, no, we go to the dump,
but after the burn barrels was full of ash. So we, we burn it to consolidate it. Oh,
did you have like an extra a lot of trash because of the restaurant? No, no, that was that was in
Arizona. Oh, that was later. Yeah. So this was in Olympia, Washington. Oh, okay. Olympia.
And so every, you know, I take the trash out and take a book of matches and you light it on fire.
And so, but my mom used to use a lot of hairspray and my parents both used aerosol deodorant
back then, you know, that's what people use back then. And so those cans were in the garbage.
Have you ever seen a hairspray can go off? Oh, yeah.
But in a can, that's like the more compressed something is, the bigger the boom is. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I used to light that stuff on fire and then run.
Oh, so it happened all the time. Yeah. Because there's a little bit left in their cans,
they threw away or whatever. Yeah. And, you know, plus the propellant, I don't know what
propellant was back then propane or whatever it was. But yeah, when those cans would go off.
Wow. I mean, you know, you yeah, talk about shockwave if you were close, you know. Yeah.
When I was like a teenager, I started working construction with my dad. And he used to just
kind of hire you'd give people a chance, you know, he'd hire people off the street pretty much.
But there was this one guy and it's like, Oh yeah, go burn that, you know, scrap wood pile.
And he's like, Oh, do I, do you have anything I can, you know, get it started with?
He's like, Oh yeah, I just use a little bit of that gasoline over there. Well, he used the
entire five gallons. And it wasn't that big of a pile. Like it wasn't even as tall as this table.
Like, I mean, the two and a half, a tiny little scrap pile. We're just trying to keep this guy
busy. He used the whole five gallons and he lit it. And I was on a different property,
like probably like two or three blocks away. This was in a old, not old, but a retirement
community we were building. So I'm probably two blocks away and I could feel the shake.
And I mean, there was like a little mushroom cloud. And then they just yeah. And so he was
all singed up, but it also we had just put the fence in behind it. It melted the entire fence.
I mean, 30 feet of fencing that we had to redo because it was amazing. He didn't last long on
the crew as you can imagine. Oh, no. But yeah, five gallons of gasoline that'll create a little
boom. Wow. We used it when when I was me and my best friend, I go to his house and we play around
with fire at his place. And we put we fill up plastic jugs with gasoline and throw them into
the fire. Oh, that's fun. And then get way back and watch it. You know, boy, when those things
went off, the shockwave was just like, you know, incredible. And you know, the the mushroom cloud
going up into the air and then, you know, we started mixing stuff like paint center and diesel
and getting yeah, we were getting, you know, kind of creative. But boy, I'm telling you with a
mushroom if you mixed it with diesel, the mushroom cloud was incredibly black. Yeah, way up in the
area. Yeah, I got into mixing for sure too, because you could get like bigger booms and
different flames and stuff. Yeah. And one of the closest calls I ever had personally, we had this
big fire going and I made my concoction in a five gallon bucket, you know, like the Home Depot
bucket kind of things. And it was too heavy to like pick up. And so I kicked it, but enough
sprayed towards the fire to bring the fire towards me. But the bulk of it dumped like
towards me right on my foot. So I kicked it. I started running backwards and it lit my like
foot on fire and stuff, but I was able to like roll it out, you know, but the, if it was like
a little bit closer, if I got out of there a little less soon, like I would have been on fire,
on fire. Yeah. Yeah. I always wanted to try the stop drop and roll that you're taught as a kid.
Oh, I never had the opportunity. It works, man. I figured you probably have tried that.
Yeah. Uh-huh. Because you had to, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, in a lot of our experimentation,
like you don't have any hope. The beach is like very rocky. So if you're doing it on the rocks
by the lake, there's a lot of, you know, no matter how bad you let yourself on fire,
you're going to get it out. You're going to go in the lake or in the rocks. Yeah.
The one time what we did was if we built a raft and then we put a bonfire on the raft,
put it at the end of the dock, put a BMX jump at the end of the dock, and we jump over the
bonfire straight into the lake. It's like we were catching on fire, but just for a little bit,
that into the water. Yep. I was, you know how like, uh, people are like, Oh, like you can't
let kids watch these shows or play these video games or they're too impressionable
and how people are like, no, it doesn't really work like that. For certain kids, it does work like
that. I saw it on TV. Yeah. Well, my problem was I was influential by science books and I'd learned
that if you like could run electricity through water, you can split it into hydrogen and oxygen.
And I was like, well, if you light hydrogen on fire, wouldn't that create a reaction where it
creates water? So I used a nine volt battery and put it into some hard water. So it would be
conductive and I had two test tubes over the ends of it and I split it and I did a little bit
of math and I was like, well, yeah, like H2O. So I had about double the amount of hydrogen and
oxygen and my mom caught me about that. And she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, well,
I'm splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen and I want to light the hydrogen on fire. So
we're going to do it in the house. Yeah. Oh, that would have been built differently.
But I was trying to get it into a balloon and then so like that's about where she caught me
is I was like holding a balloon and I had these two test tubes and they're like,
yeah, I don't remember exactly how that worked because I was just kind of following directions
in the science book that was probably a little too advanced for my age, but it was working.
Yeah, sounds like you would have had a great experience. Yeah, we probably try that again.
Yeah, I'm down. I'm down. I was probably like eight. Maybe we should build a hydrogen-powered
go-kart. That'd be pretty cool. Yeah. It's amazing how like downhill our videos can come without
Ethan here to tell us it's a bad idea. We're like, oh, I'll build a hydrogen go-kart tomorrow. Why
not? Well, how do you like with hydrogen-powered things, how do you capture that energy? Is it
like a regular motor? Yeah. So you just convert it to run like how do you can, can you convert a
regular motor? Yeah, you'd have to have a certain kind of carburetor do it. But yeah, it's a regular
internal combustion engine. Can you do it with a two-stroke motor? I don't know. Probably, yeah.
I never thought about that. Sounds like we have some homework to do after this podcast.
Well, I ask because get this, Chris. I'm looking at this go-kart because I have a go-kart idea
that I want to build for the Grindhardt video. Is this the one you tried to buy the other day?
They were thinking they were going to sell it to someone else, but then someone else didn't buy
it. So this is, I believe it's a 125. Let me pull it up to confirm. The stats are so unbelievable.
I'm actually going to have to show you to get you to believe it. So this is, it's a
it's a 2020 125 two-stroke. Just go-kart. Guess what it revs to? You can get the whole cart
and motor for two and a half grand used. Guess what it revs to? 10,000?
And this is a single cylinder, have you? Single cylinder. Why can't I find it? I found it so easy
last time. Single cylinder, two-stroke, 125. It goes up to 16,000 RPM.
Isn't that crazy? Wow. For a 125. Isn't that nuts?
And that's regular gasoline. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's a whole racing series where they
use this. It's called X 30. The motor is an X 30. And so all the carts in that class have
the same motor to like be fair, you know? Yeah. And it's not a shifter cart because the RPM is
so crazy on the motor. You don't even shift. So it's really most the power is in the high end
with the research I've done. But why does that sound like at 16K? I mean it kind of like,
I don't know if the muffler on these things aren't all that good. I found like one or two
YouTube videos with this motor revving out and it kind of doesn't actually sound good.
We're just crazy because I'm a two-stroke guy, but I'll admit it if something doesn't sound good.
It sounds like amplifying the inside of a bees nest kind of. Yeah, exactly. That's actually,
yep, that's exactly what it sounds like. I'm trying to find the power. That's what I'm imagining.
Wait, can you show me what the go cart looks like? So it's roughly 30 horsepower from a 125.
Wow. That's a lot. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's like just a regular red go cart. That's it.
Really? Yeah. Nothing fancy. But why I think it's such a good deal is the motor alone,
3,200 bucks new, like given if you're revving like that, like I'm sure you'd have to rebuild
these things a lot, but they're also what's easier to rebuild than a 125 two-stroke. Yeah.
Where the motor is completely separate. So yeah, I'm going to build a contraption, Chris. You're
going to love it. He's not being specific, Chris. So we know we're in trouble now. It's going to
be the coolest thing I built since I built the electric Amazon quad. I'm going to have to call
his wife and tell her that he's in the ER again. Watch out for rocks. Yeah. I can't believe that
last time. Oh, I went to a professional. My back has been so messed up ever since my
power wheels crashing incidents recently. Well, you had like this series where it was
like every video, something was happening to you. I know. I just really messed myself up.
So she's like very professional. What do you call the people that straighten out your spine?
Chiropractor. Something like that. Yeah. So she's feeling my back and she's like, huh?
Huh? What'd you say you did? And I was like, well, two things. I had like two really bad
power wheels crashes. They're kind of like go carts. And she was like,
okay, you crashed a go cart into a powers wheel. And I was like, no, we like build
power wheels that go really fast. And I crashed one into a rock and then my buddy jumped one into
my back and she was like, and you did this within two weeks of each other. And I was like, yeah.
And she's like, have you seen like anything bad before that? Like do you have scoliosis,
all these diseases? And I was like, no, I don't have any diseases. I just kind of like took
some hits recently. And then by the time she got up by like my shoulders and my neck,
like she was trying to keep it cool and professional. She literally started laughing out
loud. She was like, you did this on a power wheels. She was like, she was like, she literally said,
I don't know where to start. Yeah. It's not a good side when a professional doesn't know
where to begin. Edwin, I could stand in front of you and see you were all crooked.
Yeah. No, I was, I was standing, I could see in the videos, I had the videos and I'm seeing
myself and I'm like, oh geez, do I look like that? I have a, you know, how your neck's supposed
to have a natural curve. Mine went away recently. Yeah. So she said, if I don't fix that, I'll get
arthritis. Oh no. So yeah, I think I need to stop crashing so much and get straightened out
before I do anything that crazy. So I should get straightened out before I get this go-kart.
When you get older, you're going to feel it, Edwin. I know. That's what I'm worried about.
You're going to feel it. Yes. That's what I'm, I feel it now. I know it's going to be worse.
Oh, way worse. You're going to feel it anyway. Yeah.
What do you think you feel now that you like really wish you wouldn't have done when you were my age
or a kid? Well, before your age, I guess I was, I guess I was about 19, maybe 20 years old.
And I was doing electrical work on a house out by Le Cleed. And I was backing up drilling studs.
And there was a, there was a balcony and there was a railing and I backed up and I'm drilling
studs and I hit that railing with my butt and the railing fell off and I went over backwards.
I went down two stories and landed on a saw horse on my back, my lower back.
Are you serious? Yeah. And it, it took my breath away. I couldn't breathe. It hurt so bad. Yeah.
And yeah, it was bad. And I, I really feel that today. Today. Yeah. Yeah. And you know it was
from that. Yeah. Yeah. The exact same spot. I know it was from that. Yeah. Wow. How'd you
light your grind hard hat on fire?
Did I light it on fire?
No, I think that's just maybe from a welding berry. Oh, yeah, that could be, that could be.
The one that I regret not going to the doctor for is, well, you can kind of hardly see it, but
I severed the nerve in the tip of my finger and I should have gone to the doctor because I like
cut it on a blender blade really bad. And I wish I'd gone because I'm already feeling it.
Yeah. And it's only been like eight or nine years. I'm like, when I get older,
that's going to be bad, but I don't have any feeling in the tip of my finger anymore.
And when it gets cold, your fingers. No, I noticed it. And if I grab something wrong,
it feels like a, you know how when you hit your funny bone, it feels like that through my hand.
And it's, yeah, should have gone in. See, everyone has like kind of normal
things that they got hurt with. And then all of mine are like me driving a grind hard machine
poorly. Yeah. Most of what my injuries are, it's not from like, oh, like, you know,
I was in a car crash when I was a kid, like normal things, like cut my finger. Mine are all like,
like the first really big one was that scooter, the snowmobile motor. Have you ever seen that
video, Chris, where Ethan put is the front and rear of his dirt bike between a scooter
with one of the phaser motors on it? Oh yeah. Yeah. I saw that one. Yeah.
When the clutch just hit my calf, that one, I'm like aware of every moment of my life
ever since. Yeah. That changed. Wait till you get older.
That machine was dangerous. And I don't know why that, that was like the first time I hung out
with you guys in the grind hard context. Yeah, it was. And I was just there taking photos because
I couldn't film because I was on crutches. Yeah. But you guys are like, Steven, come with this
and then you're like, oh, do you want to try it? I don't know what I was thinking because
at that point I had never done anything with dirt bikes or like, not much with two wheels in general.
So they put me on there and Ethan's like, oh, the throttle's a little sticky and like,
I don't know how this happened, but we hadn't shut the passenger door of Ethan's old truck.
And I nailed it directly like head on. Like I bent the hinges on that door with my knees.
That hurt really bad. But I don't know why no one filmed that. Like you're probably just thought,
oh, Steven will probably just like go slow and go over there. And no, bam, full throttle right
into Ethan's car. Yeah, that would have been good to have on camera. Oh man, that hurts so bad.
Steven's first day at grind hard. Well, that's one of the reasons I don't drive as much as you guys.
Like, I don't know, maybe I should like, I see Edwin's track record and like,
mine can't be much worse than that. Well, yeah, that's why I worry about Ethan a lot, you know,
because he's, you know, it's, it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when
he does push it to the limit. He also like has this consistent tendency of getting really lucky,
though, like things go wrong and about the worst way possible with the best twist possible. Like
when he lost that bolt on the golf cart and like hit the tree, like that could have gone so much
worse. Yeah. Yeah. Well, any other place on the whole track, especially any other place going
down that hill. Yeah. That was probably the most afraid I've afraid I've ever been in my whole
life. Well, cause we heard the impact and then Ethan wasn't saying anything and he was going.
I mean, you've seen him around the track, but oh yeah. Have you seen that golf cart go the R1
golf cart? Oh yeah. Okay. So this was like, cause not taking it easy, but like the limit
used to be not as far because the steering was so bad. So he fixed the steering and now the limit
was like way faster. He was going just so fast around the whole track over and over and over
again and Stephen and I were filming over this corner, then that corner, then that corner. We
were all the way up here. So all we heard and I think on camera we're like, man, he's not even
letting off before the hill. Like he was in it rev maxing from the corner all the way to the downhill
let off right at the end of the hill. That's right when the steering bolt came undone.
And so all we hear is full R1 RPMs and then bam and then quiet, the motor die, everything died
instantly. You and I had this little delayed reaction too. I remember that footage because I
was filming you and you were like, and then you just start running. It was like this half a second
of like, Oh no. And then we just started running down there. And that's the thing like when
when Ethan's kind of hurt, like if he like bumps his head or whatever, it's like a
really big deal, you know, but if he's actually hurt, then he's just quiet. And so like when
Stephen, I first started running, not even the motor was still running. So we're like, oh man,
and we kept talking. We're like, we have to rebuild this roll cage because like
the roll cage is not as good as the thing is fast. You know what I mean? And so we were like
all aware that this isn't something that should be rolled ever. And we just hear this sound and it
was like the sound of trees breaking in half because they did, you know, so we just hear the
trees breaking no motor. Ethan not saying anything. We're sprinting down the opposite side of the
track. And then like when we're just enough to see like the wheel on the wall here with the face of
the wheel completely ripped in half. So like we saw one wheel. We saw the golf cart bend up in the
woods. And then Ethan, what did he say? I don't remember what he said. He's like, that didn't
end well. Something like that. But like super, you know, like, like funny Ethan kind of way.
And we're like, like then, but it felt like it took so long for the weight to get like
lifted from our like hearts, you know, because like Stephen, I remember messing around or
being funny on camp. We just looked at each other and just started running. Oh no. Yeah. That was,
I just, I just don't think I've ever been that scared. Like even about anything, because you
know, like we didn't know, like he just could have been gone, you know, with that roll cage going
that fast. I mean, well, like you're going into that rock out there. Well, yeah, that was pretty
dumb. I don't know if I could have died though. If you never know if you could eat your head first
instead of your body. I was wearing my helmet, right? Yes. You were wearing a helmet.
I was really close to hitting. It was pretty scary. Yeah. It was pretty scary. Yeah. No, I,
I, I agree. I really shouldn't have done that. I saw the look on your wife's face when she watched it.
Yeah. Yeah. That's, she was not psyched on that. I lost a lot of trust that day from a lot of my
peers. She didn't do like a one handed, like it was a two handed. Yeah. And that's through the
context of a week later, knowing that I was okay. Yeah. Yeah. And the moment in the sound was
horrendous when I hit that rock. It was, it was really funny from the angle I was filming you at
cause I was a little further around to the drift corner. So I'm just panning with you and I just
like, Oh, he's going into the rock. Like I had that thought right before he hit it. And then you
just see plastic fly up in the air. That is one thing that I'm jealous of that some other
YouTubers have like normally like I don't play the keep up with the Jones's game. I don't,
I don't really care. I just like making the best videos we can make and have fun with it. You know,
but when people are testing things and like big fields, like a lot can go wrong and you'd be fine.
But when you're around the trees and the ups and the downs and the rocks and the, you know,
the driveway is like this and you're trying to go super fast through it. Well, and we have this
like internal tendency to try to avoid the fence because we've crashed so many things
into Eden's fence and now we're airing too far on the other side. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. The fence
was like a really big meme for a long time. I told you that day, Edwin, stay away from the rocks.
You really did. You really did. And I was like thinking in my head, I'm like, we put
140 times the electrical power into a standard power wheels and didn't change one thing about
the handling. Yep. And I drifted it at full throttle thinking that the handling and braking
could get me out of that drift. Like what was I thinking? You weren't, Edwin, you weren't.
The processing wasn't happening that day. That incident was the nail in the coffin of
what's take pictures before we test our vehicles. Cause then we have to get all crafty with making
the thumbnail for that video because we didn't have any photographs of it complete. Fun behind
the scenes grind hard fact. That's why if you look at our Lamborghini video, the thumbnail is shot
from the back and Ethan is looking back at the camera. Normally for a car like that, the front
end is more distinctive. So we would have shot the thumbnail from the front, but, but it didn't
last 90 seconds. Hey, the, the, I wish Ethan was here to hear this truly. The samurai Hayabusa
experiment, I think was shorter. I think it probably went less feet forward before complete
destruction than the Lamborghini did. No, it went a little longer, but not much, not very much.
Yeah. Cause remember Ethan went all the way up and down the driveway a couple of times.
I went up and down the driveway a couple of times and even after I crashed it still worked
enough for us to film for like 20 more minutes. Yeah, that's true. So I think so. Yeah. But it
went, it went a little bit further than your crash. Oh, then me driving it personally into the
rock. Yeah. It went a little further than that. Oh, that's fair. I missed you guys testing the
samurai. I was kind of excited for that, but I was a re road tripping California. No, how was that?
It was really good. It was kind of funny because I, I rented a car. I already told Chris a little
bit about this, but I rented a car ahead of time and I was like, well, I'm going to be driving up
and down the coast. I want something pretty fuel efficient and comfortable, but not too
expensive. So I rent a Camry. I get down there and they're like, we don't know what happened,
but we don't have a Camry and they're trying to put me in these like big jeeps and like trucks and
stuff. They're like, Oh yeah, you could cruise in style. I'm like, well, no, I really wanted
like the car I reserved. So they ended up giving me a free upgrade to this little like convertible
BMW 430i and I've never really been a BMW fan, but I understand the only because you hadn't
only because I hadn't. Well, I've driven a couple, but not for very long and something about putting
the top down, having like the turbo sound and it still got like 40 miles a gallon. I was like,
this is great. Like I see why people like these. Like you really get on the throttle, hear the turbo
and the sound system bumps in that thing. It was pretty fun. But then I picked up a couple
friends in LA and had to drive back to San Diego. Their suitcase wouldn't fit. So we had to put the
top down to put the suitcase in the back. So I'm so high. But yeah, no, I'm, I definitely
understand the BMW appeal now. I'm telling you getting good gas mileage, still having a little
bit of fun. It's an eight speed transmission. Yeah, it was they are fun. Yeah, I get why people
want them now. But the problem is I returned it and they're claiming that I have all this
damage on the car. Well, I got, I was just in too much of a hurry. So I didn't take pictures
before and after like I was trying to get to the airport. I was like, Oh, there's scan machines
will take care of this. I'd paid for the full coverage. They're still trying to get me to pay
for it after I'd paid for the full coverage and my credit card has insurance and I have personal
insurance. They're still trying to get me to pay for a four inch scratch that they haven't sent me
more photos of that their scanner picked up their AI detection, their AI detected it and it looks
like a reflection on the car and they sent that to me three days after I returned to the car.
Car renters like the biggest scammer. Oh man. Yeah. So I yeah, I can't recommend that company.
What's the name of them? Yeah, drag them through the weeds. Let's throw some shade. What are they
called? Oh, it was six S I X T. I've never even heard of them. Well, I guess they gave you a free
upgrade though. So yeah, I mean, it was as long as they don't try to steal your money too bad.
Yeah. Well, Chris is like salivating over these donuts and stuff here. He's like ready to go
ready to go. Cool. Well, yeah, I mean shoot, dude, I just think we need to be Beamer boys again. I
really miss mine. Yeah, I would have one if I wasn't so hard on stuff. Like that's why I drive
around my crusted up route for because like I know I'm just going to drive it into more trees.
You know, like Ethan and I were basically flipping BMWs to pay for the early Grindhard projects
like straight up. Our BMW still works too. Yeah, that one does. Yeah. No, that wasn't one of the
flipped ones. Yeah, that one's great. No, because I took my automatic transmission to turn mine into
a drift car and then Sam found a car for a good price that needed a new transmission
that was my exact transmission. And so we bought that put my transmission and it sold it.
That kept me going for like, you know, a month of early Grindhard not getting paid. And then
through some situations, there's an abandoned E46 M3 just wouldn't start, wouldn't run
that we got for a really good price. And Ethan and I drove to Portland. I think it was actually
one of the very first like Grindhard trips. Like we didn't make a video out of it or anything
because we're just, you know, fixing a regular car to make it regular and then sell it. But
it was, it was pretty hilarious because you know how Ethan goes for like trial and error sometimes?
Yeah. So he was like just shoving in fuses and then the wiring harness just smokes. Oh no. And on
that car is like kind of famous for like, you don't want a wiring issue with that car, which is why
we got it so cheap. And it ended up being nothing to do with the fuse. It was just the fuel pump.
So we switched out the fuel pump, which is super easy in that car. We did it in one day,
never figured out what we fried with the wiring harness, but it was fine. Like we replaced the
fuses and stuff. Like I don't think we actually damaged anything, but it could have been a lot
worse. Like we could have started on fire. Well, if at that point we would have lost money on that
car, we would have had to like get our regular jobs back for a little bit to keep grind hard going
cause we would have been in the hole if we would have melt down that wiring harness, but it ran
fine and I even drove it for like a month just to make sure that there weren't, there weren't any
problems with anything. And then we sold it. And then after that, we kind of, you know,
or make it enough from the videos to, well, considering I was just living here for free
in your boss. And yeah, well, not even then I was just living in the tree house when we first
started. Yeah. So it from zero. Yeah, we hear exactly. Yep. That's how you start. Yep. It
worked out. But yeah, then I had to sell my, well, I didn't have to sell my drift car, but
it was getting to a point where it was, it was going to cost more to really fix it than
it was actually worth in any, in any question, doing the work yourself, getting a good deal
on parts, it was still going to cost more than it was worth. Yeah. Yeah. And then my wife hated it
because the, there was an exhaust leak under the passenger seat. So the bottom of her shoes would
like melt. I remember the last time I saw it, you just had cardboard in there and you're like,
yeah, it's for the exhaust leak. Yeah. Yeah, I know it's not a great idea. There was a one time
where that was like right before I sold it because I was like, dang, like this is becoming an issue.
I, I'd always drove it to the same gym after, after work, right? So people knew that was my car
because it's convertible with a bright red roll cage and I never put the top up on it.
I was, I was just like on the treadmill or something with my noise canceling headphones
and this guy was running like right in front of me, like waving his hand and I was like,
Hey, he's like, bro, your car's on fire. And I was like, Oh shoot.
This was like a super believable story, but it just had such a bad oil leak right onto the header
that there's just so much smoke coming out of the hood. So like I ran outside saw it and I was like,
Oh, don't worry about it. It does that parking lots, because it would just oil smoke. Yeah.
Cause it would just when I parked it, just drip, drip and the headers stay hot for a long time,
especially they had no like, you know, of that covering insulation stuff, right? None of that.
And so just drip, drip every time I parked it, it would just billow smoke for hours.
No wonder your wife didn't like that one. Yeah.
There's like a pretty common BMW thing for E46s, but that was also an E46, but not an M3, my drift
car, but I missed that car a lot. And actually driving the Samurai's home, that's really what
I was like, man, I just miss like actually driving like automatic cars are so boring.
They are, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah.
But like driving the Samurai, I'm like, Oh, I'm like going into low range on the sand and it's
just so much fun. Yeah. I like a stick too. Yeah. I really do. My first, my first vehicle was a
Chevrolet Greenbrier. Do you know what a Greenbrier is? I think you might have showed me that.
Yeah. It's a Corvair van. Oh, yeah, you showed me. Yeah. Yeah. And it was a four speed.
And I love that car. I mean, I learned to drive in the neighbor boys 52 Chevy pickup,
which was a four speed. And so I, you know, I always, always like to stick, always love to have
a stick. And then I, I had so much fun with that Greenbrier. That was a fun van.
The four speed sounds super fun. I don't know if I've ever driven one, but
I'm actually really slam the gears and you shift a lot since there's only four, right?
Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. Super fun. Yeah. I could tell you're dying to get
after these cinnamon rolls. We should call it here and see what, what Ethan jumped out for.
But that's the sent and bent podcast guys. We'll be back next week with number 76.
Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. We've done that many. Awesome. Isn't it? Well, thanks for watching guys.
This is fun.
About this episode
A loose, funny hangout covers summer plans in Idaho, house projects, and the hazards of cheap electric toys—from a wood chipper to an electric surfboard that could theoretically burn the house down. The conversation drifts into lake life, surfing, fishing, and fly-fishing culture, including a hilarious childhood “master baiter” misunderstanding. It then turns to reckless kid stunts, mini bikes, homemade ramps, and filming dangerous jumps, setting up stories about childhood antics and the kind of chaos parents usually never hear about until much later.
