A skid steer is a small construction machine that can turn very tightly. Instead of steering like a car, it pivots by using its wheels/tracks, and you can swap tools on the front to do different jobs.
An excavator is a big digging machine with a long arm and a bucket. It’s used for digging trenches, moving dirt, and doing heavier earthmoving than smaller machines.
Attachments are add-on tools you swap onto the machine so it can do different work. Instead of buying a different machine for every job, you change the tool.
Mechalac is a type/brand of special construction machine. It’s known for having an unusual articulated arm and wheels, and people use it like a mix of a small digger and a skid steer.
They talk about a trip to Moab and Arches where they drove around in a 4x4 van. The story is basically about exploring and finding cool roads that made them like these vans.
These are camper vans that can drive with power to all four wheels. That helps them get through rough roads or trails where a normal van might struggle.
An eFoil is a battery-powered board that can lift you above the water using fins/“wings.” It’s like a surfboard, but the motor helps it glide smoothly with less water drag.
Flow rate just means how quickly fluid is moving through the machine. If you increase it, the hydraulics can make an attachment move faster or work harder.
Logging protection is extra protective gear to keep important parts safe during rough work. In this case, they’re talking about a cage that helps protect glass.
“Void the warranty” means making the manufacturer’s warranty invalid, usually by using the product in ways that violate the terms (like unsafe modifications or unapproved changes). The hosts say the company will instruct them on how not to void the warranty while filming.
Duramax is the name for a diesel engine family used in GM trucks. Diesel engines like this are known for strong pulling power and smooth driving when you’re carrying a lot of weight.
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horse power and torque numbers
Horsepower and torque are two different ways of describing engine output. Horsepower is related to how quickly the engine can do work, while torque is the twisting force that strongly affects acceleration and pulling—especially noticeable in heavy vehicles like trucks.
Air ride is a suspension system that uses air pressure instead of metal springs. It helps the truck ride smoother and can keep the height more consistent, which matters on heavy vehicles.
The external air compressor is the device that fills the air system with pressure. If it breaks or if air leaks out, the suspension can’t stay properly inflated and the ride gets worse.
This is a built-in pump that makes compressed air inside the car. That air is then used to run systems like the rear air suspension/airbags and some seat functions.
Coolant is the fluid that keeps the engine from getting too hot. If the level is low, the engine can run hotter than it should and the car may warn you or eventually overheat.
The expansion tank is like a coolant overflow container. When the engine heats up, coolant goes into it, and when things cool down, it pulls coolant back in.
Volkswagen is mentioned because the host says some VW cars use a cooling design that keeps pressure in the coolant tank. That can affect how warnings show up when coolant is low.
An air leak means air is getting into the cooling system. That can stop the system from pressurizing correctly, which can cause coolant to boil away and trigger warnings.
Heater hoses are the coolant hoses that feed the cabin heater. If they leak, you can lose coolant and the engine cooling system can also get messed up.
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boils at a significantly lower pressure
If the cooling system isn’t pressurized, the coolant boils sooner. When it boils, it turns into steam and you can lose coolant.
“Boil off” means the coolant is turning into steam and disappearing. That can happen slowly, so you might not notice a big leak on the ground.
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dropping someone off at a hospital in the ambulance
They’re explaining a real trip they had to make using an ambulance to drop someone off at a hospital. That context matters because it explains why they were paying attention to the vehicle and its problems.
A head gasket is a thin seal inside the engine that keeps coolant and oil where they belong. If it breaks, coolant can leak or get burned, and the engine can start running hot or lose coolant. The hosts are wondering if their cooling problem could be caused by that.
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system would pressurize
Cars cool the engine with coolant in a closed system. That system is pressurized, which helps keep the coolant from boiling too easily. The hosts are talking about how the cooling system’s pressure behavior can hint at what’s going wrong.
A “hundred mile challenge” just means trying to drive something for about 100 miles to see if it can last. Here, they’re using that challenge idea on toy cars to test how well they really work.
“Range” means how far the EV can drive on one charge. They’re comparing the stock battery’s short distance to what they needed for their event, including how fast it could recharge.
A “40 volt battery” is the EV battery pack’s electrical voltage. That voltage affects how the car’s power system behaves—sometimes letting it feel quicker, but it can also stress parts if the car wasn’t designed for it.
A “24 volt system” means the car’s electronics were designed to run at about 24 volts. Using a higher-voltage battery without adjusting the electronics can make it faster, but it may not be ideal for long-term durability.
“Controllers” are the car’s power-management electronics. They help regulate how battery power turns into motion, and if they’re not adjusted for the new battery, the car can behave differently.
“Charge quickly” means the battery can refill faster. If you have to do multiple trips in a day, charging speed can be just as important as how far it goes.
Coolant is the fluid that helps keep the engine from getting too hot. If there’s a coolant issue, it can mean the fluid is leaking or the cooling system isn’t working right, which can lead to overheating.
Atlas is the battery brand/line from Harbor Freight. They used those batteries to power their tools, and the voltage/capacity determines how much power and runtime they get.
Miles to the gallon (MPG) tells you how far a vehicle can go on one gallon of fuel. Higher MPG means better fuel economy, and towing or heavy cargo usually lowers it.
The “Gambler 500” is a fun car rally where people start with a cheap car and drive it to a destination. It’s popular because it’s more about the adventure than having a perfect, expensive car.
“Off roady” means driving on rough ground away from paved roads. It usually involves dirt, gravel, or uneven tracks that are harder on tires and suspension.
“Power wheels” means the wheels are driven by electricity rather than a traditional engine. If the batteries aren’t charging right, the vehicle can’t move or run its systems as intended.
“Battery charging problems” means the system wasn’t successfully charging the batteries, which can happen with wiring, charging equipment, battery health, or power-management settings. In a vehicle context (like an ambulance conversion), it can prevent running accessories or keeping onboard power available overnight.
A pedal-assisted e-bike is a bicycle with an electric motor that helps you while you pedal. The host is saying it’s not really made for jumping like a dirt bike or BMX bike.
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We just had a massive, massive weekend, our first trip with the reliable Doramax ambulance,
and gambling with some stock power wheels. We've all got some pretty funny stories to tell.
And also, I've just been sitting on the biggest bombshell, grind-hard announcement that even
these guys don't know about yet for like a week. It's been challenging, but I wanted to do it on
a podcast. All right. Should we start there? I feel like we can't, where are you going to make us
sit on that the whole time and tell stories about our weekend? I guess I was just going to make you
sit on that, but I could tell you guys. I mean, it's up to you. You know what it is, and you know
how it fits best into the story. So it's just truly the greatest thing to ever happen,
is what it is. It's the best sponsorship. I already know where this is going. We got a sparkling water
sponsor. Is that what it is? What do you think it is? That was exactly my guess too. Well, let me keep
going. It's the greatest sponsor slash gift we'll ever receive probably in our entire careers.
If I had to guess, I mean, the sky is the limit, but it's hard to get better than this.
What else could I hype it up without actually giving it away to say?
It's the coolest thing ever. I just, you said that. Yes. All right. What is it?
So remember the day that I was going to come up with like
belts and parts for the ambulance and the mini Cooper and I didn't come into like two. Yeah.
So I met with our friend Davey, Davey breaky. Oh, and he
basically has organized us getting a mechalac for free.
Okay. So much better than sparkling water.
Dude, that is awesome. So dude, mechalac are the coolest things in history. You're right.
Actual coolest thing ever. Right? Yes. So we are getting the eight M. C. R.
Dude, the eight M. C. R. is the most amazing thing ever. It is. Do we get to like keep it?
Yes. Like long term forever or like even for a few years is fine. 90% sure like forever. Dude,
that is the most amazing thing ever. Those are the coolest single piece of equipment that I've
ever seen. It's so fast. So cool. It has like an excavator arm on a skid steer for people who
don't really know what it is. Well, it's actually six and a half miles an hour. It's like one of
the fastest skid steers also. Yep. If you can even call it a skid steer. I mean, personally,
I would call it an excavator that is it's half and half, but it's more excavator than it is
skid steer. But that makes it way cooler. Yeah. So and he said that basically they're just going
to give us whatever attachments we want. Dude, that's amazing. What all attachments are there?
Dude, everything. Anything for logging, building, road building. They're really, really popular
in logging, he said, which is why did you know that he is a dealer for them? Yes. And it's the
biggest dealer in the world. He is. He is. I didn't know that. I knew he was a dealer because
I see his listings on marketplace. Yeah. And I that it's kind of funny because I was thinking
about messaging him and just seeing if we could get like a solid discount on a used machine
because I've just thought about buying one. They're so damn cool. It is the coolest thing ever. So
he texted me and I didn't see the text because I was driving. Yep. And then he called me and I
didn't remember what a Mechalac was, but I remember on one of our early, early podcasts,
Will was talking about how Davey has this crazy machine that he drove. And I was like, Oh, is it
a Mechalac? And he's like, I think so. Yeah. He's like, it's this crazy arm with these wheels. And
it's like a, dude, the way we'll describe it was so, I know, on the wall, we're probably
gonna have to put that clip in this podcast at the end. But this is, yeah, that's Will's explanation.
And so Davey was like, he was talking about it and stuff. And in my head, I knew that he had
owned one for his business because he did snow removal and logging stuff. And he's still,
I hung out with him. He still does that. He has a business partner who's another
kid from the same, by the way, for anybody not knowing, my mother was the teacher for all three
of these kids, Will, Davey and Davey's business partner, Max, all three of them were in the same
class at the Waldo school. That's how they all know each other. So my mom was their teacher. And
there's so much history there too, because I drove the van for their eighth grade class trip.
Aizen, I did. We drove two vans for their whole eighth grade class trip, which was like in the
Southwest. They did like volunteer work on the Hopi Indian reservation. They did like a rafting
trip down some river or other. We went to Moab and arches and all this stuff. And that is also
when I realized that I really like vans, like four wheel drive camper vans. I was driving,
I was driving a four by four, a Quigley four by 473 diesel,
Ford, a conline and the guy that owned it, that loaned it to the, for the class trip,
like he was like, make sure you put the pedal down every once in a while, you know, clear the
cobwebs out. Like he wanted us to drive it properly. So there was a period in there where the whole
class was rafting down a river for like five days or four days. And Aizen and I were just
free to roam Moab in a four wheel drive van. So you know that cool road that we've driven up?
Like every time we've been there that goes underneath the rock that fell off the cliff.
Oh yeah. We just found that road by accident because we were looking for some archway out there.
And the rock that we always jumped to all of that happened on that trip. Anyway,
side note about Davey and yeah. So the last time that I hung out with Davey, besides just talking
to him around town, I was teaching him how to efoil because he has a boat. So like I went up to his
boat and like said, hi. And then I was showing him his friends how to efoil and stuff. And
this was before he was like a dealer. He was still doing the like logging and stuff. Yep. And so
he just calls me and he's like, how's it going? This stuff. I was like, oh, it's going really
good. We're doing this. We're working on the cabin and stuff. And he's like, that's actually what I
wanted to talk to you about. Mechalac wanted to like help you guys out with the cabin. And I was
like, it went right over my head. I'm like, oh, Mechalac like yeah, we like I figured it's some
kind of machinery, you know, I was like, yeah, like, it's the best opportunity ever for
machinery people to get behind. Yeah. And he's like, yeah, I've been talking to them and they're
like getting more serious about marketing. And like I told them that you were the best people.
And in my head, I'm like, they're just asking random loggers who own Mechalac's how to do their
marketing. I couldn't figure it out in my head why our friend Davey is like able to secure us like
a six figure machine. Yeah. And I'm like, that's amazing. Also some context for Davey is when you
meet him like out in the wild, you don't expect him to be the kind of guy doing this. No, the last
time I saw Davey, we were at iCarts, which is a local pub and it was blues night. I think
this is the last time I saw him too, which as much as music is really cool. I hate going to
venues where there's live music at like a pub because I go there to hang out with my friends
and talk and I'm super deaf. And if there's live music, I can't hear anything. Anyway, Davey walked
in wearing like a Santa Claus bathrobe. Literally just on a Tuesday night or whenever blues night
is at the iCarts. He just was not in the winter either. I mean, it wasn't like the height of summer,
but it was not winter. Springtime or something. It was just in the Santa Claus outfit. You would
not expect him to be the number one seller of mechalax on the planet. Yeah. That is so cool.
And then it clicked and I'm like, I just paused him for a second. I was like, wait,
is this that thing that Will was talking about that you used to do logging and snow removal with
like that he said was like some kind of crazy robot machine on the podcast? And he was like, yeah.
And he was like, ask Ethan. Ethan will know what it is.
And I was like, no, no, now that you say it, I know exactly what it is because I'd
looked him up and I've seen him on Instagram since, you know, and I'm like,
I'm like, wait, are you serious? And I'm like, how did you, how did you make this happen? And he's
like, I'm like the number one mechalac dealer. Mechalac dealer. He's like, I just sold like my,
I think he Hawaii was like the last state he needed. And now he's sold on in every state.
That's crazy. He said he just sold. I had no idea he was, I knew he was a dealer, but I had,
I thought it was just a local thing. I thought he was just like the Idaho dealer.
Yeah. And so then I was like, Oh, okay. And then he was like, yeah, so, you know, what they want
to do is like, I can like spare the podcast or some like the technical deals, but like,
basically they're just going to give us this thing. And the only reason why they'd take it
away is if they want to give us like a newer version or whatever. That's like the, the basic
version of it. I could tell you guys the details later, but like, you know what? I'm what we,
what I'm thinking now is that we are going to need a bigger trailer and possibly a bigger truck.
Yeah. Well, actually all we'd have to do, all I'd have to do is get a CDL and then register
the MTV as a bigger truck. You imagine driving around our mechalac with our MTV.
He's so sick because like that thing's really cool, but it's way too cool to just have it
only be up at the property. Like we need to bring it here up at the property, like wherever we
need to, you know, get a mine or something to really use it or something or like we might need
to have a barge to put it on for reasons. Yeah. There's all kinds of, you know, you just don't
know. We have an exciting future here at Grindtart. Man, that is so much cooler. I thought you were
over hyping sparkling waters because you really do overhype so many things and especially
sparkling water. Yeah. I was a hundred percent convinced that was going to be the case and I
was like, Ethan's going to be like, okay. Yeah. It was so funny because we needing a bigger truck is
a good transition to our other topic of description. Our first trip with the ambulance, but on the way
to Gambler, we're driving the ambulance and Ethan's like, man, I just like really maybe thought by now
in the success of the mountain series that like, because we drove by a cat dealer, remember? Yeah.
I really thought and in my head, I was like, man, it just be so fun to tell you on the podcast.
Yup. That was probably hard for you to sit on this. That's why I brought the podcasting stuff to
Gambler. Cause it was like, I heard about it the day before we left, but there's no way we would
have had time for a podcast. We always bring the podcasting stuff and then like never have
time to do it. I'm not going to be able to like sleep until we get that thing. I know. I know.
I figured we could call Davey this afternoon because he wants to do a, we're going to do a video
call with him and the head of marketing to talk about what attachments we want basically. Right.
And it was funny because he was like, well, you know, I'm just kind of the way that I am. Yeah.
And he was like, yeah, so, so basically like the only thing is like,
they don't really have like anything they specifically want you to say about it or
anything or like, there's no like amount of times we need to have it in videos a month or
anything like that. He's basically like, they just want you to use it on camera and talk about it,
how you're using it. And he was like, and they don't want you to do anything that dangerous or
like heavily modify it. He's like, cause some people like do things to increase the flow rate
and then post it on a forum and then like other people do it and then breaks or something. Right.
He's like, he's like basically like that was there cause clearly we modify everything. Yeah.
And I was like, oh no dude, we're going to treat this like our little baby princess.
Yeah, absolutely. But then the first thing I said is, oh yeah, we just got this like sketchy
Timu attachment for the excavator for a video and it spins way too fast. And I was like,
so what we're going to do is attach a log to it and try to base, hit a hit a basketball with it,
like a spinning circles. And he was like, he's like, yeah, so that's exactly the kind of thing.
I think they don't want to see. It's like, well, we're not going to do it on the mech. Yeah. That's
like literally the first thing I said. Yeah. He was like, yeah, I'm going to make sure they,
they hit you guys up with the logging protection because they sell these like a cage, big cage,
things that go over the glass. And I'm like, yeah, if you've watched the first handful of mountain
videos, we probably should have the glass protecting thing. Absolutely. But I just thought
it was funny that the first thing I say is like a super dumb dangerous idea. And he was like,
that's exactly what they don't want. Basically, they're going to give it to us. No strings
attached. And then tell us how to not void the warranty. Yeah. Okay. So nice. Do they care about
the fact that we have a giant John Deere excavator up there already? Nope. They don't care. Oh, cool.
Yeah. No non-compete. No. It's great. They just don't want us doing,
and he said excessively dangerous. Like inherently like logging is dangerous, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
He just said like, you know, like trying to hit a basketball. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or like, you know,
if we were to say like, do the thing where you like spin it in circles and somebody's like
water skiing or something, like that's what they don't want to see. Yeah. Like if we're using it
for its intended purpose, and it's a little sketchy, they're fine. They just don't want us to be
like intentionally being stupid. I mean, I guess that makes total sense. Yeah. But he's telling me
about some of the attachments, dude. Yeah. What was he in? Well, just like there's all these logging
ones and different scoops and like different shaped things for like road building. And I was
trying to remember the name of that thing that you were talking about that just like can make a road.
Oh, a multure. Is it a multure? Like, no, the one that does it to like rocks and stuff though.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a rock. I mean, it is a multure. It's just a rock multure. That's literally what
they call it. Yeah. And he said he thinks he knows of another company that makes one.
But the one that you found is like the only one, right? There's probably ones that are made. They're
probably just a little smaller or different. Like this is the first one that's designed to just put
it down and make a road. Well, and it's just, it's like six feet wide and it's designed to go on the
front of a skid steer. Like there's plenty of rock grinding attachments for all sorts of machines.
You know, like when they go out and they grind up the asphalt and then redo it, like that machine
has existed for forever. So there's variants of that. But anyway, yeah. Well, that's the coolest
thing ever. Yeah. That is literally, well, dude, I've never heard you say the coolest thing ever
in a not exaggerative tone of voice. So it's a Chang Lee that has green wheels.
That was equally likely equally likely was the sparkling water thing. So yeah,
if it was the sparkling water thing, I don't think I could have gone all gambler without telling you
guys. See, now you can see why we thought that was the case. Yeah, man, I wish. Man.
Um, yeah. So that's, that's really exciting. And, and that's, um, uh, kind of takes us into the,
the ambulance is set out to be our reliable trusty steed support vehicle for grind hard missions.
And boy, did we have a mission this weekend. And it was just so much fun and so much stuff
happened. And so much things happened behind the camera that I think the three of us could regale
the tail. So we don't forget. Like I was going to journal, but I've already forgot so much,
so much stuff. But as far as the vehicle goes, we got everything dialed in. We were even doing
aesthetic mods. We were so ahead of the curve. Like Chris put a mud flap on the back and painted the
custom bumper we put and for people listening, the trailer hitch is not a trailer hitch. Um,
and for people listening, you haven't seen the bonus bolts video potentially yet. It is a four
door Kodiak O five Duramax and it is awesome with a ginormous ambulance body on the back.
Yeah. Ever since we especially drove it on this trip and back and, uh, um,
you know, spent that much time in it. I'd now look at all ambulances I see with a different light,
you know, and I'm just like, wow, those are really small ambulances. Yeah. That's one I see. I'm
like, I used to think ambulances were big until we got ours. And now I think all other ambulances are
little children's toys comparatively. I'd never paid attention to that, but there is a massive size
difference. It's like double the size. Like the box is probably 50% longer and the cab is 50%
longer. So you add it up and it's like, what I was driving through town this morning, I was trying
to figure out if it was like wider than my dad's RV cause like my dad's RV is probably the biggest
thing I've driven. I would say it's as wide as an RV. Well, cause there is just a maximum width you
can be and it's probably that probably both that that makes sense. Um, yeah. But yeah, it's but my
dad's RV didn't have a Duramax. That thing is nice to drive. So smooth. They're like, it just,
it doesn't have an excessive power cause it's stock. Yeah. Also fun fact. Um, I'd have to look
this up to be certain again, but I'm pretty sure that that Duramax has basically the same horse
power and torque numbers as our Ferrari really or rather the Ferrari has the same as it, which is
insanity. Smaller engine. It's an extra. It's a one. It's 1.6 liters smaller than the Duramax.
The Duramax is a 6.6. The Ferrari, the Toureg engine is a five liter. Wow.
So it's got two turbos. Yeah. Anyway, so we'd been going through this thing and
the guy we bought it from drove from Oregon, Seattle area, Seattle. So he drove about as far as what
our drive was. We're going to South Oregon up here. No problems. Uh, just it had a external
air compressor thing cause it had a bunch of air leaks to keep the air ride. Yeah. And the built
in air compressor had failed at some point, but we, we fixed that. Um, Chris found a circuit board that
was, uh, not working. So we took it. He, Chris like spent like an hour calling around and trying
to find the manufacturer of that circuit board and like he could, they would, they would make one for
us, but it was going to be like $700 for a circuit board, like this big that had like four circuits
on it. So I was like, well, let me take a look at it. And I just, I forget exactly what it was,
but I just found one of the leads that are something that had just broken off,
not even of the direct board, just like somewhere else. Like we just saw something and it's fine.
Yeah. Heck yeah. That's amazing. So that's how we fixed the onboard air compressor, which all it
runs is the rear airbags and the air for the seats. Um, but you know, you kind of need the airbags to
drive down the road. Yeah. And just to get over bumps and like we did some pretty serious driving
on this trip, but the not serious driving, just the first an hour goes by. We're just driving on
the road, regular road, 45 miles, not even as far as a Chang Lee cause the Chang Lee on the
hundred mile challenge made it 46.7. So we got 45, a light comes on. We come to a stop, not just
a light, but the most obnoxious alarm as well. Like a non stop. It's not like, like my truck,
for example, my Tundra has alarms for everything and it'll come on. Like if your wiper fluid is
low, it'll go bing, bing. And then it'll be like warning alert. Your dealer has been notified
and it's like, bro, my wiper fluid is low, right? Yeah. But you can turn that noise off or it shuts
off on its own. No, this was just a ding, ding.
So bad. Yeah. Well, it was funny too. Cause I was like taking the ambulance for a test drive in my
way. I was like, Oh, I can finally get some sleep. So I'm sleeping in the backseat of it.
And then I woke up and it just like wasn't working. We were just dead in traffic cause once we came
to a complete stop for a red light, it just shut off. Yep. And it's not a normal truck problem.
You can't just push it. Yeah. You really can't. Yeah. So also the light, I don't know, early
2000s Chevy's, I don't know what they were thinking with their symbols. It's not obviously a low
coolant light. It could be a gas tank. It could literally just a tank, a box with fluid in the
bottom showing that it's like below half. And you're like, you have to just do some. And at first,
we didn't think it was coolant because it wasn't overheating. Yeah. It wasn't overheating at all.
And then there was another symbol that was just a circular arrow with an X through it,
which usually means like your engines shut off or something, which it did as soon as we stopped.
Yeah. And then when we were driving down the road before it even turned off, I was like googling
it and I was like, well, that doesn't make any sense because it wouldn't be coolant because
we're not overheating. Well, and then your AI said it was something like the low fuel or something.
And I was like, definitely not that. Yeah. Cause we've had the water in our fuel light on since
we got it. I don't think there actually is. I think it's just the, yeah. I mean, clearly we went
through multiple tanks and nothing went wrong. But, but, but yeah, it was, it wasn't the best
place to stop. Well, and I like was so caught off guard by it and we're in the middle of traffic.
Like I didn't, I tried restarting it and like I was just like trying to get it going again. And I
didn't even, it took me a few seconds to realize that I needed to put it in park for it to start.
And then I still didn't, I never, I kept trying and not turning it all the way off.
Once I turned it all the way off for a couple of seconds and then turned it back on,
it restarted, but I kept trying like frantically to get it going cause I was like,
we can't push this. We're holding up traffic. And the funniest part, Ethan goes, he goes,
man, where are the emergency flashers on this thing? Cause the regular hazards are like
hidden versus it'd be so easy to just flip on like the big outside lights.
I didn't want to turn on all of those. Like people are going to think we're a real ambulance.
Probably not even allowed to on the real road. I, yeah, I mean, not strictly legal,
but I also don't think anybody would really care. But like, but then we'd like people just be pulling
over and like, yeah, right. Why is this ambulance with lights on stopped at the light? Yeah. So
anyway, we've, I finally figured out what was going on. I just turned it off and turned it back
on again. We made it to the next stop light. It shut off again. And, but that by then I figured
out what to do. So then we, then we pulled over it then because it wasn't overheating. So I wasn't,
I knew that the alarm was being excessive. I was like, this is ridiculous. It's not actually
overheating. And then yeah, we pulled over and it was just actually low coolant in the,
a lot of vehicles traditionally have a, you know, a pressurized cap on the radiator or
somewhere in the cooling system. And then they have an expansion tank, which is when it gets hot
enough to push it coolant or pressure out of the system, it goes into the expansion tank. And then
as it cools off, it sucks it back in. Well, Chevy and Volkswagen and some other people have decided
that's not a good idea. And they just have a pressurized expansion tank that's part of the
whole system. I don't really know exactly how they make that make sense, but that's what it has.
It's a big old plastic tank and the sensors all the way on one side of it. So if you're sitting
at even slightly a slope, it all drains to the other side and goes, sets the alarm off. Anyway,
that was low. I figured, well, we just got this thing. We've never topped off its coolant. It's
probably sat for years being barely driven before we got it. So no big deal. Put a gallon of coolant
in it, put a little bit of water in and then we were good to go for like basically two days.
Yeah. And then it did turn out that it kept using coolant. And I noticed later on as we were adding
it, that that's that tank is supposed to be pressurized because the whole system's supposed
to be pressurized and it's not. So either we never saw a drop of coolant on the ground. Either
there's a leak, an air leak somewhere very high in the system, like top of the radiator,
one of the higher coolant lines, one of the heater hoses somewhere in that part of the system,
or the tank itself is cracked and is leaking pressure because if it never builds pressure,
the water in the system boils at a significantly lower pressure and it'll just
gradually turn into steam and boil off in the atmosphere, which is what I think is happening.
Although the leak also does seem to have accelerated whatever it is. It definitely has because
we only filled it up at the gambler once. We parked it super sideways. Yeah, pretty much. And even
then I just threw in the rest of a gallon of water we had. I didn't even fill it up. I just,
you know, put in some to make it shut up on its alarm. Yeah. So on the way back,
we had to fill it up again and then twice before, before you even dropped me off and spoke hand.
Oh, I filled it up twice because there was a jank gas station getting worse because that was the
same speed, the same distance, the same weather, everything. Yeah. Yeah. So I was definitely
getting worse and we finally got to do a mini life goal side quest, which was drop someone off at a
hospital in the ambulance. So we dropped Ethan off for an appointment there and then Stephen
and I kept driving home and we did make it all the way to your house without no, no, we did once.
It's like slightly after silverwood. We had to fill it again. Yeah. So whatever the,
we'll hope it's not headgaskets, but it probably isn't because the system would pressurize.
And wouldn't it overheat then if it was the headgaskets usually, but there are instances
where headgaskets can fail in such a way that you're just burning through water and it won't
actually overheat unless it's empty. It's rare. It's not rare, but it is getting a lot worse.
That's for sure. So you said this morning on your way this morning, I had some situations and there
was also just some situations with it being in front of my house. So I live in like a really nice
retired area of town where everyone who has houses there has been living there for like
20 more, like even more, like some multi-generational families in my little nook of town. And I'm the
new kid on the block renting a house in this nice part of town. And so I get a text last night
because the ambulance had been in front of my house all day. And it's our friends whose parents
live next to us. And she texted us and she was like, guys, it's so funny. The whole neighborhood
is freaking out checking in on each other because they like the ambulance has been there. So they
think that something's wrong. People don't notice it's not an ambulance anymore. Like it is so obvious.
The stickers are all peeled off. Half the lights are gone. Like it's clearly not actively an ambulance.
Even the part where it said ambulance is like barely even visit. Like it's like all that's all
peeled off. The previous owner peeled off the amp on the back of it. They peeled off ambulance and
put Rambo. Like it's not an ambulance anymore guys. But ironically, our ambulance being in my
neighborhood all night almost caused a heart attack. So oh no. So everyone is freaking out and calling
each other and checking in on each other. But but yeah, I thought that was super funny. And then
this morning I, I just go start it, go back in to grab the camera gear and stuff, let her warm up.
And then I came out and it wasn't running. And I was like, oh no, well that's weird. And so I
flipped the key and sure enough that lights on. So I top it to the absolute brim. And the light
goes off 10 minutes later. And so I'm like, well, I mean, if you top it off and then run it for a
minute and then top it off again, that would be actually full. So what's probably happening is
the leak is definitely getting worse. Gallagin at the first time, but it's not going to properly
bleed through the whole system until you drive it for a little while or run it for a little while.
So, which is what we've been doing the whole time. I'm not saying you did that wrong. Just
get doing it again right away. Once isn't all that surprise. I mean, also it's getting worse,
but well, and probably what's really here. Yeah, I died too. I saw you pull into the field and I
was like, yeah, what is he doing that way? Cause I wanted it to die not in the middle of the driveway,
just in case like Amazon came or whatever. But um, but yeah, I died again and then I filled it
up again. But what's funny is the, the spickets at my place are like so close to the ground,
like an inch, like, why? That is so weird. So dumb. And so I had the water drug in the kitchen sink
with like the hose thing going out. I'm like, I'm not equipped for this kind of thing. That's
hilarious. I don't even have a hose at my house yet. But um, but yeah, it was funny. I filled up that
jug in the sink and I'm glad that I did since it died again and again. Right? Um, oh yeah,
cause it died on your way here too, not just when you got away here and then it went off at wrap.
It went off at a close road. Yeah. And then so I, I just kept it under because if you keep it going,
it doesn't, as long as you don't stop, it's fine. So I was like a couple of the corners on the way
here. I was taking like kind of fast. I was like, don't die, don't die. Cause I wanted to at least
get here until I had to fill it up again. So whatever it is, it's basically soft.
Like, well, that's good. It means it's going to be easier to figure out what the issue is.
Probably we could literally let it idle and figure it out probably. So likely. Yeah.
So yeah, maybe we'll do that at some point, but um, yeah, that's the ambulance side of the story.
Before we get away from the ambulance, that thing is the best road trip vehicle we've ever had by
a mile. Hands down. I'm used to our trips. Like I'm usually in the back seat and I'm usually like
crammed with all the camera gear, like in this, even in the limo, limo that happens,
cause it's just like, it's not built for cargo. It built for people. So like,
though it's huge, yeah, there's no like cubbies to put anything. You can't even put things
underneath those bench seats. Not really. There's only a few spots you can and it's not anything big.
Yeah. And if you put something there, you risk never seeing it again. There is that. Yeah.
But yeah, the ambulance just, it's, it's just smooth and quiet and comfortable. It's so comfortable.
It's, it's stevo nap approved. You well, not just nap dude. You slept like what,
two of the three nights on the trip in the back seat. Um, yeah, all the nights actually at some
point, true. Cause one of them you started on the roof and then ended up in the back seat. Yeah.
I have questions about that night by the way. Oh, should we start there? Or
I, or we could just try to tell the story a little chronologically. I mean,
yeah, spoiler alert, but like we aren't going to tell the conclusion. So right,
we are going to talk about some things that you'll probably see in the video on Friday, but
don't worry. The conclusion is still up in the air. We won't go there, but
recently you guys have probably seen, uh, me crash a very modified power wheels, lamborghini,
into a rock and get launched out into said rock personally. Yeah. So when we first bought that
thing, we were like, wow, this thing is so good. We could probably do an off road challenge
with them. And as much as, uh, as much as it's unexpected or, uh, might be, uh, you know,
out of character, it was actually my idea to do a hundred mile challenge. It really was in the
power wheels, Lamborghinis. I was like, these things are actually comfortable. We could probably
legitimately drive them at least attempt some part of a hundred mile challenge.
My enthusiasm for the hundred mile challenge has finally spread to the other guys because
Steven did it too. Yeah. This is the first time like I was like, well, I'll do that with you guys.
Like, well, because at first we got three of them and we're like, Oh, well Stephen will film
because he probably doesn't want to do this. So Stephen can film and he can ride in the ambulance
or whatever our support vehicle is and we'll get Justin or somebody else to drive the other
Lambo. And then Steven's like, well, I actually like want to do this guys. Yeah. And it ended up
being hella fun. It's the kind of thing you don't force upon someone. You let them choose it if they
desire or nature of these challenges that are, uh, on the surface level miserable, but actually
really fine. In some cases you choose it not for them like Chris, he may have thought he wanted
to drive a Lambo, but he would literally not fit. Yeah. We knew he didn't. Yes. Exactly. So Chris
sat this one out. Yeah. Um, but yeah. So we bought three of them, kept them mostly stock. I mean,
I would argue they're, they are just 100% stock. Look at it this way. If you put a better battery
in your electric Lamborghini, it's like putting an extra fuel tank in your
car. Everything else car, right? You know, it's not like we're not modifying it. We're just giving
it more range. We literally didn't even retune the controllers. We just plugged in a 40 volt battery
into what was supposed to be a 24 volt system. So we did actually get a little more speed out of it,
but that really was a side effect more than an intentional. It could potentially be worse
for the longevity than right. It was just, it was a lateral move. We were able to go a lot faster.
Uh, and the main thing is that we needed batteries that could charge quickly. The stock batteries
actually do have quite a bit of range. We were able to get like three miles out of the stock
batteries, but they don't have any ability to recharge. They charge like in like six hours
or something. I really liked that sentence. They actually have quite a bit of range three miles.
I mean, that's too far. Children's toy. That is a lot of range. No, it is, but
us in the context of a hundred miles. That's not very high percentage. No, it's not.
Yeah, especially on the terrain we were on. Yeah, exactly. So, so we load them all up in the back
of an ambulance with a lot of sparkling waters and food and we get out on the road and what else
happened on the way to gambler? Not really much of note. I mean, it was basically the coolant
issue thing and the rest was just driving down there. I mean, we did eat fish in a home in a
Harbor freight parking lot at it. It was a really good parking lot. It had a sushi restaurant
and Harbor freight. So we got fish power and literal power. Yes. Cause we modified them to use
Atlas tool batteries, which is Harbor freight's like yard tool brand. So there, there are 40 volt
or 80 volt batteries. So we bought their biggest ones, which are at 40 volts, eight amp hours.
And then we wired them to use that, but our local store only had a couple of them. So we had to
stop at the store in tri cities to get another battery. Man, that air compressor, it just
like randomly hits during the podcast every time, but it's fine. I've learned that we can talk
through it. Nice. It always gives me a startle though, cause it's like, we're all locked into
conversation. And then it's like, bam. Yeah. No one's even using it. It just knows that we
want to be quiet right now. So it goes, but, um, but yeah, after we figured out the water thing,
I mean, it really wasn't a big deal. Oh, also of note, we got nine miles to the gallon, which may
not sound like much, but in a, I don't know, 12,000 pound ambulance with a ginormous box
on the back. I feel like that's actually quite good. Yeah. Like I've gotten worse than that in
my tundra, which is a three and a half liter V six towing a trailer. I've gotten significantly
worse than that. And we would have had to bring a trailer too. Absolutely. Yeah. Granted, we probably
could have gotten like still above 10 on it with a trailer in my tundra because it wasn't that heavy.
Well, and it's low profile. When I've gotten really poor mileage with the tundra is towing
like the K truck, which is way taller than the tundra on the trailer. But still nine miles to
the gallon of that ambulance, plus the amount of gear we were able to bring was just ridiculous.
Oh yeah. Yeah. We didn't go without anything. Also had we brought the trailer, then we would
have had to deal with the trailer on all sorts of, you would have been kind of a swindle. Well,
we could have left the trailer at right somewhere. Yeah. But then we still would have to go back.
And then yeah, it's like, it's another pro ambulance situation. You have a hard shelter
everywhere you go and a place to store stuff while driving that you don't need a trailer if it fits,
which the monster chopper does fit back there. So yeah, a lot of things that we do, we can run
without a trailer, which is actually quite nice. And more importantly, if we do need to run a trailer,
we still have, we can do the trailer and it's, you know, we just have more anyway. You know how
Goose Lee likes biting the bottom of shoes. Yep. Now that he's bigger, you really feel it. Yeah.
Pulse on the shoes. It kind of tickles actually. Here, let me, I'm going to catch that little
goose just to show the people of the podcast how much he's grown. Yeah. He's huge now. Yeah,
he really is. He's about ready to turn into a man goose or woman goose. I guess we don't know yet.
Yeah. We'll know if it starts laying eggs. Yeah. Look at the size of this thing.
Look at the size of him. Yeah. He's like three times the size is the last podcast, I think.
And twice, twice the size is before the gambler, I'd say. I'm going to just,
he'll just be a little lap goose here for a little bit. So he doesn't crustace in the table too bad.
And since he's this big and still so okay being carried, I think your idea of making him a
shop goose is really working out. I think so. He's much more independent now. Like this morning,
I got him out and he spent like the whole morning hanging out over by the other geese.
But then again, now he's been in the shop for a while. So yeah, basically I made the 100 mile
challenge sound like so much fun. Ethan wanted to do one. And then Steven had a really good
contribution, which was why not do it into and out of gambler town for the OG gambler 500.
And that was a fantastic idea because we really needed an excuse to go anyways.
And it just made everything so much better and so much more fun.
Super entertaining because it was like so against the grain. Like so many people came up to me and
they're like, Oh, what do you got in there? How many watch you run? And it was so funny to be like,
no, it's stock. Yeah. And people like wouldn't believe us. Well, and the other yeah, along with
that or like the flip side of that is that it was also hilarious because
like where else in the world could you go that everyone you run into does not even question
the fact that you're driving tiny Lambos down the road. Everybody was just like, yeah, let's go.
Even if they didn't know us or know who we are or what we do, everyone in the vicinity was just like,
that's the right choice. Whereas like everywhere else in the world at any or even that part of
the world on at any other time than when the gambler 500 is happening, you would not get that
reaction. People just be like, what are you doing? Heck? Like there was never a question of why are
you doing this? Like even when we told people that we were trying to drive a hundred miles,
they're like, oh, yeah, you got it. They're like, yeah, you know, instead of people being like,
why would you do that? Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised with the confidence everyone seemed to
have because I asked multiple people. Like we can make it a hundred miles. They're like, well,
yeah, I mean you got batteries like now, of course you will. Yeah. And every single person there
asked if Goose Lee was there. So yeah, so many people. Yeah. Once he's like a small once he's
a full grown goose and he can like fend for himself a little bit more. It'll be easier to bring a goose.
But so funny to bring Goose Lee to grind hard events. It'd be so awesome. Every one of you's
so psyched to meet him on the way there. You guys were browsing marketplace while I was driving and
which one of you guys found that FJ or FJR or whatever it is Yamaha 1200 sidecar.
But we've been talking for years about some sort of motorcycle adventure. There's nothing to give
away because we don't even have a plan yet. But when we were talking about that sidecar, I was like,
man, I need whatever I do. I need to get something with a sidecar and modify it for the goose. So
he's got like a little like little cover so he can't accidentally fly out on the highway. Yeah.
But then he can just like stick his little goose head out and like, yeah,
we'll have to get him some like custom goggles and a little helmet. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't
know. Geese fly, you know, they're pretty used to like, you know, speeds of wind speed. Yeah,
they're for wind actually. It's more like a little rock gets kicked up or something. That's
true. That's true. I mean, he could just have like a little plexiglass dome too and be protected,
you know, but anyway, awesome goose in a sidecar. That would be hysterical. Yeah. So we get
into because the idea was we'll camp 30 miles outside of gambler town and then we'll drive
the power wheels into gambler town. Yep. And so side note, I'm not, we haven't edited the video yet.
I'm not sure what will or will not make it in, but the very first campsite for our ambulance was
number 69. Yep. And by coincidence, we picked the campsite before we knew it's number. Oh, yeah.
So that, that really went the way that this goose is like shedding all over me. I know. Oh, wow.
Also, it was funny because that was the, I talked to Tate ahead of time a few different times trying
to like come up with a good idea and like asking him if he thought that was like feasible and like
how the reaction like in town would be and the roads and stuff. And he like had originally given
me this pin for the campground we did end up at, but then once he like put the plan together,
he's like, actually you should probably start here. It's a little closer. You'll have a better
chance and not have the elevation gain. And I was like, no, we won't do it. Cause we knew
we were going to start with that massive hill for anyone who doesn't know. Tate is the basically
the founder and person in charge of the gambler 500. He's a legend. Yeah. Exactly. He was so psyched
when we talked to him. Yeah. Yeah. So we, uh, we're at this campsite and Ethan's cooking and he's like
needing a chair and I'm like, Oh yes, we did get chairs and we got these little children's chairs
that match all of our Lamborghinis for the video. And Ethan was like, see, this is why
that I have this hat and he bust out this hat that well first, first I said, yeah, but first I was
like, this is why you guys can't be left unattended in the store. Or no, I was like, this is why
people say don't leave your children unattended in the store. And then I was like, wait, wait,
I've got a hat for this. Well, at first you were in that store and we kind of like split up to divide
and conquer because it was like a massive store. We needed a bunch of stuff and you're like, Oh,
I'll just wait for you at the front. And I'm like, Oh yeah, we'll only be a minute. And then we found
the chairs and it turned into like a 15 minute ordeal because we couldn't figure out how to
fold the thing back up. Yeah. Those, those child safe chairs, they have this little walk for children.
I still to this day do not know how it worked. I never put one away myself. That's hilarious.
Yeah. To be fair, it did take, yeah, both of us a few minutes to figure out where the little lever
was because it's not obvious. The chairs were hilarious, but they were not comfortable. They're
built for a child, which seeking comfort after being in a children's toy all day is kind of,
you know, I guess a little underrated, like maybe having a nice chair after sitting in one of those
cars off road all day is kind of nice. But I mean, luckily the ambulance has still has two
nice seats in the back, which not for long. I think after using it for this trip, well,
like I have some more ideas of what makes sense and what doesn't. And like the only things we
really use those chairs for 90% of the time was putting stuff in. So I think we should just
delete them. That was kind of funny. We'd have like our food stored in the comfortable chairs,
and all of us would be like kind of miserably sitting in those children's instead. Well,
they're just in the wrong place really is what it boils down to. So I think we should delete those.
But anyway, back to the story. Yeah. Yeah. The campsite was also called Skull Hollow,
which kind of is an ominous place to start a journey such as this. Yeah.
Oh, and then our friend Mark met us at the campsite, which I'm sure was an interesting
experience pulling into a camp with a giant ambulance and three tiny power wheels. Yeah,
he just like kind of knew to expect to do what to expect. But imagine all the people just driving
through the campground. Yeah. Well, we were like unloading the Lambos and like putting the covers
on them, keeping them all nice. And there's like this nice couple walking their dog and they're
like, Yeah, what is going on? Yeah, that was pretty funny. Yeah. So many people too didn't
believe us when we made it to Gambler Town. People were like, No, you did not come from Skull Hollow.
And I'm like, Yeah, or like the kids that we ran into at the drive through when we were getting
ice cream. Oh, yeah. That had no idea. I when they first started talking to us, it just kind of
felt like they knew what we were doing or like who we were. But they clearly did not. And they're
like, Oh, how far did you guys drive? Because at this point we're in town. Yeah. So that like we
could have just driven from around the block, right? And they're like, Oh, how far did you guys
drive those? And I'm like, we started at Skull Hollow this morning and all of their faces were just
like, what? Yeah, exactly. The locals knew the scale of that journey. Yeah. Yeah. And what they
didn't know is how that we'd done it all on dirt roads pretty much. So like Skull Hollow from town
there is like 25 miles. But the way that we did it was like 35 and very off roady. Yeah. Yeah.
Those roads were like perfect though and a great test of the ambulance. Oh, dude, you can't. But
that's my finger. It's not food. Your beak is getting strong. You got to cut that out, buddy.
It was funny before. Now it kind of hurts. Like training a puppy. I was exactly like training
a puppy. Yeah. Except they're a little less trainable, I think. Yeah. If we could convince
them to go to the bathroom outside, that would be nice. That would be really nice. Yeah. I guess
that's one part about growing up in a shop that, you know, but, um, but yeah, I feel like a lot
of the actual adventure there will be, I can't think of anything that wasn't like going to be
part of the video until we get to gambler really, unless you guys, yeah. And I mean, also it was
just, you know, a sequence of events that was driving the power wheels, like not to say it's
not exciting to recount, but like, yeah, there wasn't anything it was like, Oh my God, this one
thing was insane that we need to tell you. I think a lot of the things that like happened that we
like weren't able to catch on camera like happened like in gambler town because that first night
we were just trying to figure out how to charge the batteries and we're having a bunch of battery
charging problems. And um, Steven and I decided it'd be a good idea to sleep on top of the ambulance
because Ethan and Mark had already gone to sleep inside of the ambulance and we was like, you know,
it's a nice place to be in nature. So we wanted to like be out on the roof and look at the stars.
I've wanted to do that since we got the ambulance. I saw how flat the roof was and I'm like, Oh,
I'm going up there. Yeah. Yeah. So we like strategically lined ourselves like with the
direction of the wind and Steven didn't even have a sleeping bag. And so we wrapped ourselves in a
tarp. You only had a sleeping bag bag because you bought it on the way. You forgot your sleeping bag.
That's true. I won't lie. I intentionally didn't bring a sleeping bag because every sleeping bag
I've had a gambler just gets destroyed. So do we have boxes of ones from the limo? You should have
just brought one of them. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, we could have, but I actually am super
comfortable that blanket that we got on the MTV trip is like God's blanket. Something about that
fleece is warmer than my sleeping bags. Wow. Yeah. And it's way more comfortable. I mean,
it's slowly getting destroyed, which happened later that night more too, but yeah. Yeah. So I'm
going to cheap 40 degree grocery store sleeping bag. You were cold and I was not exactly. And I
slept. I use my crocs as a pillow. And then we wrap ourselves in this tarp and I wake up like
probably like two something in the morning we go to bed. And I'm like, right? That's what he told
me the next round like four. I kind of wake up and Steven's still there and our tarp is kind of like
shaking all over the place. So like I tuck us in to our tarp all nice and the tarp is like locked
in and it's like the warmest I'd been all night. And then I wake up like an hour later and I'm like,
I'm so cold and like on top of the ambulance and clearly hadn't slept super well.
And I'm like, Steven's gone and the tarp is gone. And I'm like, what is going on? I didn't mean to
take the tarp with me, but I think in the events that followed the tarp left the chat. Well, so
so my side of the story is I don't know what's going on. I sleep until the sun comes up. And then
I hop down the ambulance and I go in to grab a camera and the ambulance is just full of hay.
And it was not like that when I went to sleep. Yeah. And so then that's my side of the story.
And I'm like, at some point, Steven left the chat with the tarp and now the interior of the cab of
the ambulance, not the back part is just full of hay. So I still haven't got like a clear story
from Steven of what transpired there. It's actually quite simple. Pardon me. It's actually quite
simple. So I, I just had to use the bathroom and I'm like, Oh, it's like, you can't just go off the
top of the ambulance in a public place. Like the sun was rising. So I was like, well, okay,
I'm going to do that, but I definitely need more sleep afterward because that was only like three
hours or whatever after he went to bed. I'm like, okay, I'm not going to climb back on the roof and
wake up everybody inside the ambulance and stuff. I was like, I'll just bring my blanket with me and
sleep in the back seat for the rest of the morning. So I think I either tripped on my blanket or the
tarp not from the very top of the ambulance, but from a roof area. And I fell onto the ground,
into the hay, like wrapped in my blanket and that fleece blanket just tracks sticky things. So
did you slip or like, how did you fall? I'm not really sure. Like I either slipped on the blanket
or like on the tarp or some still pretty far ways to fall. It was and I landed feet first
because I practiced all those like death dives because I was going headfirst. I was like, oh,
but I was able to like kind of like tuck and roll and I was completely fine. I think impressive
getting tired in the middle of the night and for context with the hay gambler was held the
venue for gambler town this year was just a farm field that's empty. So it was just bits of grass
and straw and everything in the field. I didn't realize how much hay I got in the ambulance until
I was sleeping back there really comfortable and then Mark opened the door to try to get a camera.
And I was like all the way under my blanket. So he didn't even know I was in there at first.
And he just goes, Oh, no. And I thought he was saying that because he realized I was in there
sleeping and like, you know, was worried about me or something. And so I opened my eyes and look
and in the full daylight, I was like, Oh yeah. Oh no. I mean, it was filled with hay. It took me
a while to get it out of there. I'm sure there's still hay floating around like everything. I thought
that was so funny. Oh, that was hysterical. Another funny thing that I put together actually
when you guys were talking about sparkling water was a funny slash not funny change of event of a
series of events. How does that phrase go sequence of events? Yeah, series sequence. So
something that happened pretty funny the night after that, which would be our second night in
Gambler town is everyone's hanging about the ambulance chatting. We're talking to a lot of
fans. We signed our first boot, which was cool. I liked that. That was cool. We signed a Grindhard
flag. Yep. Also very cool. And it's just awesome meeting the fans and hearing what what things
they think we do is cool or what part of the show they like is always really inspiring and cool.
What was interesting to me, I mean, it kind of makes sense because it's what we've been doing
a lot of lately, but like also it's mostly been on bonus bolts. Like I feel like the thing that
most people wanted to talk to me about was the house or the property, but like largely actually
the house property here. Yeah. Well, and additionally, the ambulance. So many people are like,
That's your guys ambulance. That's so people didn't know us. We're like, that's a cool ambulance.
The ambulance turned more heads than like the other crazy crafts we've brought to Gambler. But
like the Gambler crowd even not knowing us or anything. There's like, wow, this is a great
ambulance because it really is. Yeah. It's rare. You find the four door Kodiak. But
but yeah, there's this one mega fan who brought us these like rare sodas from Illinois. I think
Chicago and he was riding around on this bike. You know what's funny about that is he was like,
I'm from Illinois and I have this really specific to Illinois drink for you guys. And I was like,
Oh, is it Malort? And he was like, Huh? No, it's soda. I don't think that kid knew about no,
probably not. But like, yeah, I just assumed it was Malort because like, so he had to be this one.
And he's like, he's like, just a warning. Like he's like, this is really coveted. Like people will
you know, like wait in line when like the supply comes to the store and stuff. And it was like,
it was green. And he was like, so the warning, it will make your poop green. And then I look at
the label and it says green river. And I was like, is that why they call it the green river? And he
looked at me and he was like, No. I'm like, Oh, that's, I mean, I was like, okay. I
think that's kind of the reason why. But, but anyways, I was pretty sure he wasn't 21 and like
stuff. And I was like, Oh, this will be fun since he's such a hardcore fan. So I went to the cooler
and I got myself a clear sparkling water. And I also got him one. And I was like,
you want to have a clear sparkling water with me? And he was like, Yeah. And so I, we crack him open
and we cheers and I'm like, I warn you, this is going to hit a little different, you know, and
he's like, yeah, like he was excited because he's such a fan, you know, like, and then we're out
there jumping our toy Lamborghinis off these ramps. And then he like jumped over one of our
Lamborghinis on like a little pedal assisted e-bike that like those things aren't really built to jump.
And so I was like, it's a bummer because we, we like went away and stuff and did some other stuff,
but we heard that he had broken his arm jumping the bike because they've stacked the ramps on top
of another ramp and it was too much and he got hurt. And I was like, Oh, I think I built him a
little too differently on the clear sparkling water. I probably went straight to his head. He
got all amped up. No one in history has ever cared about that other than you or believed in that.
I missed that whole thing because I was off on my own little side quest that I've been thinking
about for like four years or three years since last gambler. What's that? Oh, I finally got my
tattoo. So anyone who has seen the last gambler video before this one, which is a couple of years
ago in the little about three years ago, right? Yeah. If you want to go watch it, it's it's got the
limo in the K truck and the thumbnail. It's something about six by six off road adventure.
And you'll see me in a massive bandage because I, and this is a hundred percent my fault completely
tore my belly open in a river. And then, um, so I always wanted to get like a gambler tattoo
underneath that scar. And so I was able to, uh, within like, what do you think it was? Half an
hour? Something like that. Not even walking more than a hundred yards from our camp gather every
supply I needed to do a tattoo, which I thought was cool. I thought that would take a lot longer
and then did it in that children's chair. And that's where it really set in that those children's
chairs are not comfortable. Cause I was sitting there like leaning back, trying to tattoo my
belly for like an hour, but yeah, it came out good. We'll see. Thank you for the pen, Edwin.
That was the missing piece of the puzzle. Absolutely, man. I saw you going through pens and you're
like, yeah, this one isn't so good. And I was like, I think I have one that you've done a tattoo
with that kind of ink before. So, so yeah, that's, we can regale, uh, after the episode comes out
more, but that's an hour. So maybe we should call it there and, uh, move on. We'll see you next week.
About this episode
The hosts kick off with “BEST News ever” and explain how a friend helped them line up a MechALAC for free—specifically “the eight M. C. R.”—plus a dealer promise that they’ll get “whatever attachments we want,” including logging options. Between the announcement, they share weekend road-trip and Gambler 500 stories, then dive into hands-on ambulance ownership: fixing an air-ride compressor issue, troubleshooting warning symbols, and diagnosing coolant/pressure behavior. The episode blends big equipment news with real-world mechanical problem solving.
