Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 117 -Monster Truck Guys with Tim Faust

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

We had Tim Faust @Crulge on the show to talk about Monster Truck Guys. Has Monster Jam ruined a once great institution by getting rid of car crushing? Is Bigfoot better than Grave Digger and why isn't Bigfoot competing? We read Ticketmaster reviews and some amazon reviews! There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST and I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Welcome to guys. The podcast about guys. I am Brian Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. It's monster trucks I Don't know but Chris we got Chris here. They Monster truck or something. Yeah, maybe I was thinking you could go like Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday or whatever cuz that's when the show is coming up Oh, no, I and by the way, did I say Sunday or Monday? You said Sunday good. Thank God. I thought I said Monday Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday. So this week we are we because I just went and did it. I did. I went to monster trucks this week and it was fresh in my mind and I had a guest in mind for this week and I was like, you know what? We're going to talk monster trucks. We have Tim Fowlst. Hi, Tim. Hi everybody. Thanks for having me. I love monster trucks.

I'm looking forward to this. I recently went guys and I'm going to tell you one thing. OK, OK, not as good as you think it's going to be. Oh, no, that's the worst part. It's one of those things like baseball. It's best watched on TV, in my opinion, because once you're there, it's I mean, it's cool cool but it's the exact same thing for like three and a half hours and you know cars but you know cars that this totally

makes sense to me because I have made I brought up my the person that I know who loves monster trucks the most is my nephew who's four years old and that does make sense because he loves to do the same thing over and over again or watch the same thing over and over again for three hours. That's his dream. So it makes sense that he loves monster trucks. I'm going to talk. We're going to talk a little bit about a lot about monster jam and the issues with monster. Because there's a rift in the world that people don't talk about. There are indie guys. Okay, so there are independent guys that do independent shows.

Then those are the ones with truckzilla and stuff and where they crush cars. That's the independent shows. Then there is Hot Wheels monster truck. Now that is not a contest. That is an exhibition. They do crush cars and they do have some version of a truckzilla. And then there's monster jam, which is apparently a real sport.

I don't believe in it, but it's an apparently a real sport. And I went to monster jam and what it was, was it was a mound of dirt in the middle of an arena. And then the cars just kind of drive around the dirt. They don't crush any car. They don't crush anything. Monster Jam is all stunts, whereas Hot Wheels is like kind of like pro wrestling and that it's the exact same thing happens every day. That's kind of scripted, which I think is great. Like, I think more things should be like wrestling, which is to say very stupid.

I think it's fun to watch a dumb thing happen that's explosive, you know, for children. Monster Jam is one of those things where it's happened to me twice. I'll be in a bar. It's happened once on a date and once during like a job interview and right behind the person I'm talking to monster jam is on TV. And it makes me incapable of having a conversation. All I want to do is just watch the trucks go fast. I think the issue with me for Monster Jam was like it's three competitions. Now we're going to read a lot about how these are scored, which makes me it's bullshit, right? But the these are not judged by judges. These are judged by audience vote, which of course Gravedigger is going to win every. Okay. So, so that's the one that Gravedigger is in, is the Monster Jam?

Yeah. Okay, so you're telling me Gravedigger never crushes cars? Is that what you're sitting here telling me? No car crushing at all at Monster Jam since like 2018 or something. Okay, cuz I was gonna say, I swear to god I've seen Gravedigger crush cars, but I watched the old one. Like I used to go when I was a kid, obviously, which would have been a long, long time ago.

And I and they were definitely crushing cars then. So what was the situation back then? Well, they're afraid to crush cars now. They say it's a safety issue. It's kind of woke. Woke. Yeah, it's definitely woke because they're like, oh, they're all plastic now. So the plastic flies into the stands. Who cares? Who cares? I don't care. Yeah.

What is the piece of plastic going to hurt me? Maybe. I did get the I did get to crush a car in Vegas. They've got this thing where you can, you know, you can pay money and drive a steam shovel and crush a car. And I got married in Vegas in January. And so when I was in, thank you, it was it was a hoot. We got paper married last year and we had a wedding this year but one of my friends for like my you know after the fact bachelor party rounded us up and took us to the desert and I got

to go into steam shovel and just punch the car with the steam shovel and pick it up and drop it and it fucking rocked that was exactly as far as I thought it was going to be for like the seven and a half minutes that I did it. I've always wanted to do it. It's really fun. It's a little, it's too expensive for what it is, but it's really fun to push a lever and spin around and smash a car. It rocks. It was certainly worth the time. Could you have done it for longer? Do you feel like you mentioned like the seven and a half minutes was fun for, do you feel like it's something that you could have done all day long? I did it half and half with a friend. So we feel like it's something that you could have done all day long? I did. I did it half and half with a friend. So we grounded to 15 total. I

definitely could have done it for an hour. I think after that I would have lost some appeal, but it did feel kind of like Street Fighter where you know, Ken kicks the car. Yeah, I did get that crunchy feeling in my in my hands. It was nice. This this sounds like because you said an hour. I'll just say this. I don't know if I've ever talked about on the show, but I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and we were like, we should do the the the atv tour, which I expected to be like, hey, you get to drive

an atv. You know what I mean? Like like you get to go. You maybe sometimes you get to open an ATV. You know what I mean? Like, like you get to go, maybe sometimes you get to open it up. I didn't think you get to jump, but I thought maybe you went to an open field and you could go fast. So you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't, I wouldn't think that just because of my ability and stuff like that, that I wouldn't take like, Oh yeah, let's, let's let these random tourists really open it up on these ATVs with, you weren't wearing any sort of- I wore a helmet.

Oh, you did? Yeah, they made me. I wouldn't have, but they made me. Yeah, yeah. I would imagine again for the liability stuff. But yeah, listen, that's what I would hope for if I was renting ATVs for ATV tour, but yeah, you were driving them real slow. Oh, real slow on a path.

You didn't even get to go anywhere that they, and in a line, and then they're like, hey, we know that you're gonna try to slow way down so the pack gets away from you and then speed up to catch up. Don't do that. They said that. So they've encountered that a lot, I guess, enough that they

mentioned it. I mean, all the bullshit you have to endure as an ATV group leader, you probably got guys trying every trick in the book to go off course to go faster. That's a place for dirtbags to try and cause trouble, including me. I would 100 percent do all these things. You're trying to figure it out. You're like in your mind, you're doing the math of like, OK,

how can I go the maximum amount of fast? And you just can't. You drive like maybe 10 miles an hour in a line. And then you get to the end. And once I discovered that I was like one minute into the tour and I was like, Oh no, this is good. This is an hour. And I hated it. And it was having a panic attack the whole time because I had to swipe my credit card and I'm broke as fuck at this time. I had to swipe my credit card and they're like, if anybody wrecks one of these things, we're

going to take it out of your credit card, which would be crazy because I didn't have much money. And, uh, I was worried. I was scared the whole time that Katie and when we're going to wreck the fucking thing. Oh, the Katie and Gwen were, that's, that is too bad that they didn't let you really open up that ATV in the midst of your panic attack. Let's go to let's go to our slice monster jam where we're going to get most of our stuff today. And visual nail says so monster jam sucks now. I've been going to monster jam for 24 years now would be 25 but COVID happened. So we took a for COVID. I think they did. They probably did, I'm guessing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm guessing that they didn't even have the event, probably.

I just like it that he's clarifying this would have been his quarter century trip, the monster trip, like the number 25. I want you to know that it is my 25th anniversary. It's sort of been robbed from me. You know, it'll be a I just I want you to know that it's it is my 25th anniversary. It's sort of been robbed from me. And yeah, they want to get his flowers, I suppose. We are here we got during covid and I think Monster Jam is no exception. Yes. He goes, and after attending the show in Indy, I found it extremely boring and uninteresting. Seems like there weren't nearly as many people there as there used to be, too. And the trucks all look awful, in my opinion, outside of Grave

Digger, which I hate an Avenger. Like, what the fuck happened to El Toro Loco? I only watch when I go in person. Fuck happened. El Toro Loco. What have they done to my fucking boy? El Toro Loco. I just wonder what has happened like you know what is

What we used to look like and what it looks like now and what he is so upset about I know Okay, good The trucks aren't shaped like trucks anymore. That is a big deal. What are they there? What are they sharks and scooby-doo? big deal. What are they? What are they? Sharks and Scooby. I see. So they have like strip like they have like custom, like unique body like that. I see they don't actually sell toys, right? Like so Megalodon is a big shark looking and it looks like a shark. You know, they got a sparkle pony one that's like a unicorn. And that was for girls. I don't sparkle pony one. That's like a unicorn and it was for that was for girls

I don't like that one. I don't Are cool. Excuse me. They got a sparkle pony at my god damn monster jam I mean this that is kind of funny to me because I do recall it being a very Toxically masculine place. Oh, come on. So to have the sparkly pony, it does seem kind of funny to me. And I could imagine that would make a lot of old guys angry. You know, else makes them mad. A few women driving these things too. Now, excuse me. Yeah. Because I don't keep up with the newer retired trucks, but it just isn't nearly as good as it used to be. What happened to trucks looking like trucks and not at ugly ass Megalodon?

I remember as a kid, trucks like backwards, Bob Destroyer, Predator, Prowler. I don't want to be Predator or Prowler. Yeah. Why they get rid of Prowler widely known as like a pervert thing to do. Why they get rid of predator and browler coming this Sunday. Come see Groper. It's what it feels like. Yeah. And racing. And then they go and racing, which had always been boring gets worse every year with these stupid track designs. It seems like no other trucks are allowed to legitimately try and beat Grave Digger in a freestyle. Not that it matters. Digger wins based

on name recognition alone. That truck could literally have a boring run where nothing happens and everyone still gives Digger a 10 and the over the top advertising. You can't go 10 seconds without hearing someone mentioned you and OHBKT tires, spin master, toys, et cetera. It's so overstimulating. I'm seriously considering about no longer going to the spirit going the spirit of Max D and Tom Means is sorely missed after just a year. It sounds the grave dig. The grave dig riders are unbelievable. They don't stop.

Sorry. I had to say my stupid thing. Yeah, what he he's a Brian. This sounds and I'm sure it's going up again. This sounds exactly like wrestling guys complaining about John Cena or Roman Reigns or whatever. Yeah, totally. Fuck. So there's Megalodon for.

Oh, yeah. No, doesn't look like a truck. That's not a truck. It kind of still does look like a truck, but I get it It does look it looks pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie. This one looks pretty cool I'll show you El Toro loco. Okay. Yeah, show me El Toro. Look. I want to see what they've done What they how they've massacred they turned it into a bull is what? Oh, yeah. Yeah El Toro loco That's the old one. Okay, I'm trying to find the new one.

I guess I could type new. I think that is the new one. You think so? Yeah. See? Oh, yeah. Toro Loco looks great. It looks great. What's the guy even talking? I use a bad example even for what he's saying because it still does look like a truck. Horns on the front, but that used to be banging. That's what it used to look like. This design is a different color. Really? Yeah. But good colors better because it's black. So let's get into the comments here. Guy goes that show in particular was rough. The track felt really spread out. Only two or three trucks

really felt like they generated much energy. like six trucks got their freestyle runs ended early off the backflip ramp. The backflip is the only cool thing that happens at Monster Jam. I stood up and screamed at the backflip. Now, it does sort of a bouncy backflip right where like bounces off the top like it doesn't fully go up in the air and flip around or flips fully go up in the air and flip around or flips. It goes up in the air and flips around onto it's beach. Okay. I would, I would go fucking crazy. I mean, I, I, I wonder if they did that back in the day and I wonder how much that would have blown my fucking mind as a six year old kid to watch a digger do that. Now, Tim, you, you, you do speak, you've been to some of these events. When was the last time that you went to a, to like a monster jam event? Oh, I went

to when I was a kid. Um, and then I've watched it on TV intermittently. I had tickets to go in Milwaukee last year, but I like went out of town or something, which I regret. Although maybe cause master jam sucks. Now I actually, uh, I'm left out on that one. But the backflip is extremely cool because they don't always do it. Sometimes they fuck up and they land like on their back and it's everybody goes. Oh, so that's what happened.

Oh, I'm sorry. That's what happened in Columbus. Three trucks flipped over and weren't back out again. Like they get like 75 seconds to do a freestyle run and three of them just flipped over and in like one minute and like 10 seconds and then we just had to sit there while they towed it off. I want to go into to know that when he said three truck, Brian said three trucks and he held up two fingers. I did notice that two trucks, three trucks. I did notice that two trucks three trucks. You didn't see my other finger was the way this guy goes.

I'm less than qualified to comment as I live in Outback Australia, but looking at the post COVID-19 shows on YouTube seems very lackluster compared to the 2017 World Finals. Is it a loss of sponsorships over time or something else that has changed? Now we get to the crux of the problem. This next comment is why everybody is fighting all of the time. They become a lot more targeted towards little kids.

Uh, Hey, on a second, that's always been the case. You just used to be a little kid. That's the only, that's all it just that's there. They're always geared towards little kids, right? Like, I mean, I guess in my opinion, they are like that's that's who I see as being the people who can truly enjoy something like this is toddlers, young children. But is that maybe I'm wrong? No, my wife wanted to go this guy goes I'm wrong. No, my wife wanted to go. This guy goes, I'm here now. So he's at the event now in Albany and I couldn't be more bored. There's six trucks racing a circle. Have the guy come to the middle and then interviewed two kids who

have VIP tickets and did a cartoon race on the TV. That all is true. I saw that but that's a whole the whole first they, they just, they just explained the first, like three quarters of the show. I swear it goes, uh, this guy's at monster jam and he's going on our slash monster trucks while he's at the event. Yeah, that's how bored he is. It's on his phone. He's like, who looking for anything to do? And he's like scrolling around on Reddit and then he like looks up

He's like cut. They're still just fucking driving around. He's on site he's looking for more pictures of monster trucks to look at because He's he's that monster jam and all these cars look like sharks. It's all bullshit. I need to look at some real trucks Let me go on our slash monster trucks and look at what a real truck looks like only got mad Let me go on our slash monster trucks and look at what a real truck looks like. Only got six. Mad. He's like, and we love an onsite review on this show. There's there's no better type of review than the onsite review. Yeah, this is a form of an onsite review.

He's going to read it. But yeah, we love the ones where like in the parking lot and they're giving a review, they're so angry that they can't even wait till they get home, you know? And he goes, then all. And it's worth noting that all these guys are like three to six beers in whenever they're watching or complaining about Monster Gym. It is very much one of those high alcohol consumption events. Absolutely. At 100 percent.

He goes, I'm here now, Albany, and I couldn't be more bored. Oh, I'm sorry. He goes, then halftime. I kid you not. That's it. It's been an hour and so much talking and literally two small events. If you want to call it that, I feel like when I was a kid slash teenager, it was so much more intense or action packed. It was because you are a kid slash teenager. But it was also there was car crushing. So he's right on both things. It probably was also objectively more car crushing. So he's right on both things. It probably was also objectively more exciting too.

He goes back in it. This guy goes back in the day. Monster trucks were always regular vehicle bodies because lifting a standard vehicle body was how everything started. Then monster trucks and specifically monster jam became marketable to a mainstream audience. So with the advent of newer vehicle manufacturing and materials, fiberglass molds could be made with more wild body designs than your standard Ford Street vehicle. Moreover, they're trying to sell merchandise, especially toy trucks with the same body style gets stale for consumers and children, the animals monsters that are vastly more marketable to children

than a standard Ford body. So that's uh, yeah, I'm afraid to say that, uh, my beloved manly adult hobby has been taken over by children. It's happened to me again, guys. I love it. Uh, so I get, I, I, I'm scrolling through and this guy, uh, you'll, you'll, you guys like this. Chris is a movie guy, Tim. So you like movies? I run a movie club in Milwaukee. Oh, well, this guy has. Wait, wait a second, Brian.

Hang on a second. A couple of fucking film guys wanted maybe to chat a little bit. That's very cool. What's the most recent film you watched? We just watched what was it? Obsession, which is a nineteen forty eight movie made by a guy that was part of the, like the, what was it called? The Red Scare, the anti-health, yeah, it was Edward Duhmetrik. He went to London and made a movie called Obsession, which is great. It's about a guy

that, an English doctor that locks a guy up in like his garage to like try to plan the ultimate murder. This week we're watching naked killer, which is a Hong Kong action movie slash lesbian erotic thriller, which they don't make anymore. That's been taken from us probably by woke about a bunch of it's like about like a harem of female assassins that fall in love with each other and then shoot guys in the dick. It rocks. It's really, really, that's, I saw the drop movie where the guy dropped, dropped a thing on his phone and Tyler Kelly to kill their date guy. It doesn't watch anything

artsy Chris. No, this is a real not artsy movie. Let me tell you, it had pretty good reviews and it was pretty okay. This guy says my cast for a Monster Jam animated movie. So. Cast for a movie, Sylvester Stallone as Grave Digger. Oh, of course, you got to have sly Christian Bale as son of a digger. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Max D. Who what son of Grave Digger is that is that your son

but I don't think you're fucked a woman truck and wait a second who is the mother of Grave Digger Jr. That's not in here. God damn it. Christian Bale is son of yeah and then George Clooney as Monster Mutt. This is the most expensive movie ever made. Whoop. No No, you can get these guys to just do voice work You can get a very reasonable price. Whoopie Goldberg as Monster Mutt Dalmatian Vin Diesel as Monster Mutt Rottweiler Cillian Murphy or Killian Murphy as great clips mohawk warrior Great clips mohawk warrior Getting Matt Damon

is Dragon. Yeah, Matt Damon is Dragon. Diego Luna as El Toro Loco. Tom Hardy is Blue Thunder. Frank Welker is Scooby-Doo. Richard Dreyfuss is so do they talk in this movie? Can the car monster trucks talk? Society they have a society or whatever I would imagine right where like our different jobs. Yeah, it's like cars

Yeah, will our net as Bakunin Dragonoid Johnny Depp is pirates curse Daniel Kalu has zombie Jeffrey Wright as Thunder or us Tom Hanks is soldier fortune Christoph Waltz as soldier fortune black. I think he's just saying that because he is a Nazi in a movie. This movie would cost five billion dollars now. Now even one voice acting. Yeah. Now you've just stacked it with too many stars.

And also this is just yeah I don't know man. This is this doesn't it just feels like you're just naming a bunch of Actors or what Tom Kenny as Earthshaker Christian Kenny is Tom Tom Kenny did like spongebob. Yeah, and he could he could definitely do that Kristen Shaw as whiplash Paul Giamatti as Jurassic Paul Giamatti in a monster truck movie is a really good idea. I mean, they can all do it. They can all pull it off. I don't think that's the, you know,

it's finally Tara Strong as Sparkle Smash. So that's his dream cast of a monster jam movie. First, first answer is this is such a dumb idea for a movie. Yeah, thank you. That's well, this guy goes, I would watch it though. And then another guy goes in no way, shape or form, what a studio put Diego Luna over Pedro Pascal. Pascal is way too hot of a commodity for him to not be included in something like this. Yeah, I'm sorry to say say but you're this huge gigantic list of celebrities. You've made up for your fake movie that you created in your mind

Yeah, there's one big problem with it. You got Luna over Pascal That's I do like that. I just sort of like Just sort of entertaining this person's stupidity just sort of entertaining this person's stupidity. You're dealing with talking about it. It's a real thing. A guy that almost seems too smart for that. You know what I mean? Like I know it's a dumb ass comment, but for the guy to be like Pedro Pascal is so hot of a commodity right now in Hollywood is not like I think one level up from the original poster.

I think he's like it might be goofing on him too. Like a little who knows. I don't know. He seems very serious. This guy goes looks like sponge Tom and toy Tom are in this and he got a guy goes in parentheses. I don't know who either Tom is. I'm sorry. First repeat. First reply is Tom Hardy is venom and then he replies back says, Oh, okay, thanks. Well, I have some bad news for everybody. Uh, this is, this is from Capitol tiger and he says monster jam is castrated. This show is a joke. Now people vote for them to drive circles, not even one jump in the first 40 minutes. Um, and he goes, uh, listen, I know we are, we are sort of, we're ripping on all these always just so far all the people that have posted

have said basically the exact thing that you told me after you left Monster Jam. Like they say it's castrated. That would be a psychotic thing to say. I mean, you said something like that. It wasn't that exact word, but I mean, these posts could have been done by you so far. The castration thing is funny. Like there is a lot of like psychosexual tension like wrapped up and how these guys feel about their cars, which is I think healthy. That's that's good. Most psychologists recommend having those feelings about your car.

Because people vote for Monster Jam is cash. Act one. This guy people vote for he monster. Jemma's castrated act one that this guy writes down the whole show. So you guys are going to get to hear the whole show through a psycho that thinks it's castrated while he's he's at the show. This is an at the show review from a guy and he goes monster. Jemma's castrated act one. They run around circle 25 seconds. People vote for a minute act two, they quote perform wheel spin for 10 seconds. People vote for a minute at five bikers perform.

What the **** are bikers doing here in general? I did feel that way too. The motocross, the freestyle motocross. I don't need that here. That's not what this place is. Actually, monster trucks is for big things to do stuff, not little motorcycles. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I agree with him on that. Yeah. You agree with him on everything. Just to be clear. I still, I don't know what you're saying on that, but I think you agree with him on the other parts too. Act three, they do freestyle, which is just a jumping for another minute. People vote.

This shows that Joe take your money and pay for YouTube premium for a month and watch monster truck videos online. All drivers should retire and licenses taken away so they can't drive on roads either because their show is bullshit. Well, hang on a second. That doesn't seem fair. That doesn't seem fair that they have their actual license taken away because you don't like the show. If you're saying that they're doing bad driving, that you're concerned with their ability to drive. Oh, he's not by the way. No. The next line is no tricks, no crashes, no skills at all, except for one guy who has performed a backflip. So he wants it to be more crashes.

Yeah. Of crashes. This guy has done a back flip with his truck and you still want that guy to lose his license. That guy is a very skilled driver. You know, clearly one back flip for a whole two hour show. This is rubbish. They vote for running circles.

You understand that's not an F one. This show should have a new owner who can manage to make it a show. Wait a second though. I think you guys both as wrestling fans, you can say sometimes there's something to be said for having a low amount of high spots. Yes. Thank you for saying this. Yeah, I do agree with this. I, I, I feel like, you know, I'm not like one of those Dave Meltzer guys or one of those guys that comments and Brian is, by the way, Brian, if I had subscribed to Dave Meltzer's podcast for a long time, even in literal years,

I ever heard about him. I do agree that contrast makes the high spots better. Yeah. You've got a show of all flippy stuff. It's fine. You know, that's great for kids. But I like it when you have every, yeah. And some adults is good for kids and some adults. I know. I mean, I, I'm somebody who likes a lot of high spots. Yeah. You do you. Yeah. You famously watch that one thing that sorry, continue Tim. No, I'm just, I I'm saying saying honestly this guy makes a lot of good points. I

do agree that you got to have some real hard-hitting on-the-ground matches to make all the flippy stuff extra special. Yeah That I mean, I suppose I think like because a big complaint You'll see you'll hear as we go through this stuff is they don't do doughnuts anymore That's nuts. You know what I mean? So the first comment is a guy that goes biggest mistake you made was going to an arena show, not a stadium show. Now I did that. That's what I did. Oh, you're an idiot. Nationwide or not even nationwide, which is a bigger arena. I went to the shot and steam center

where the Ohio State basketball team plays is very small. Like I don't I when I saw the course I was like I don't know why I thought it was going to be bigger but I genuinely thought it was going to be big. I do agree that they shouldn't take place inside. That seems wrong to me. I don't like it. It should be outside. There should be like a rain risk so it gets muddy. But like cars don't belong indoors. Cars belong outside. That's where they wanna be. This guy goes, what's the natural habitat? Like the Jeep, can you imagine seeing a Jeep inside?

It would like, oh, one of the saddest things ever would be to see a Jeep like caged up and not able to sort of roam around the countryside where it wants to be. This guy goes, you went to an arena show. What did you expect? And then he gets a reply that goes, uh, something better than what's currently presented. If the last arena show you went to is 10 years ago and you went to one today, you'd be very misled slash disappointment. And then a guy goes, yes. And then the next

guy goes, if you don't like it, don't go. I still love monster jam to be quite honest and still enjoy going to shows. Then he gets a reply. I love this guy enough asparagus. He goes, uh, just went last night and it was the worst, most lamest money grabbing event I've ever been to. I went last year and it was much better this year, this year, very low effort for not much action, but boy, did they charge out the ass for everything. It's just a pathetic money grab. I'll never take my kid again.

So I bet you it's not that much more expensive, but I know how that can be when you're like light like a situation is different for whatever. It's like money's more tight at that time, you know, and it's just like you start really kind of noticing like, what the fuck is this good? They're charging $10 for that. you know, like that's what I feel because I don't feel like they could have increased that much. The price is over one year, right? No, I nothing has changed over one year.

Yeah, I feel comfortable. I'm sure that it is overpriced. I think it probably is overpriced. So like everything else in this damn world like how Brian, how much did it cost you to go to the monster jams, jams to get in wasn't expensive, but there, I don't have a, I had a, my 20 year old daughter and her 20 year old boyfriend and my wife. So we weren't like pressured to buy merch and all that stuff. Like none of us wanted any toys or anything. You know, you didn't have any children there. Yeah. If you take a a little which isn't you know, hey, it's monster truck. You should be allowed to go as an adult but um, you are

Man, I don't know what yeah, there's no problem. You're like one of the few freedoms They haven't taken from us is the freedom to go to a monster truck show. Yeah, you can go it's like Yeah, you're gonna be confronted Constantly with the fact that you're at an event that is for children, but yeah, you're going to be confronted constantly with the fact that you're at an event that is for children, but you could definitely still go. This guy goes, I'm sorry. I haven't seen it been bad this year. Barring breakage, which I can't say is something the crew have control over. And our guy comes back and he goes, okay, I'm sorry. I'm just not a fan of being berated for every dollar in my pocket. As

soon as I step into the venue on top of watching more people talking to microphones and stand on their truck more than actually drive it. My 10 year old was so bored. He suggested we leave early. That should tell you something. See more of an overpriced truck display than an actual show. And guy goes, I got that with Hot Wheels Monster Trucks live. To be honest, Monster Jam might not have as great as shows of late, but in general, I would say they aren't bad shows.

So we're just fighting pretty much. You know what I mean? I feel like the fucking Hot Wheels Monster Truck shows have become so corporate club seats for those. Yeah. Did you look into the available? Oh, corporate. Club seats for those. Yeah. Did you look into the available? Oh, yeah. It's coming here.

They have club seats. And I'm you keep saying it as if you've already decided you're buying those clubs. I want to see truckzilla. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bigfoot.

That's another issue. Bigfoot is a Hot Wheels thing. So Bigfoot isn't even at Monster Jam Like yeah, I want to see Bigfoot Bigfoot's the guy. Well grave digger is the guy. Let's know Bigfoot's the guy Hmm. Okay. I think we all like Bigfoot more than grave digger. I Am more of a grave digger guy. I got a little course on this one I'm a gravedigger guy a couple of Goths over there. Yeah, I'm pretty gothic. Sorry. I'm a red-blooded American man. I love Bigfoot This guy goes this is from our slash another one I don't think fans should be allowed to take part in judging I Always see a gravedigger driver in the lead for Arena Series, but I think it's biased considering

that Grave Digger is possibly the most popular monster truck of all time right there with Bigfoot disagree. A lot of people will give Grave Digger a high score just because they're a fan really makes me think it's unfair for smaller unknown drivers who actually do well all year just to not be recognized in the point stand now this I agree with. Yeah, that that that does make sense. I, this, this reminds me of the way that they give ratings on Google for like footy matches. The players will have a rating beside them, how well they played.

And only recently did I realize that this is just people on Google voting for who had the best game. So it's not people who even watched it. It's like, that's why you'll see like a game and like the most famous player or whatever, you know, he'll just have a high rating like, and the people do it as a joke and shit like that to get like inflate people's ratings. So yeah, that reminds me, people can't be trusted in this kind of thing. Definitely. They'll vote for their favorites. They it's Grave Digger. Not a hundred percent of the time that I can't think of anybody else that would be Grave Digger.

He's so much more well known than any of the other trucks in the monster jam. If Bigfoot's not even in it, that he's just like hands down the most famous. He's the only one that 95% of the audience has ever heard of. So what happens to the, is there like a, there's not like a purse. It's just, there is, there is a purse. It's a competent, me and Chris, I looked it up while I was there. Hey, I got it wrong. I looked up is monster jam a shoot and it said, no, it's a work. But then it said it's a shoot. Like it didn't understand know what it was. AI Google AI didn't know the difference between a work and a shoot and Google's Like yeah, let's toss that we'll run that out now. It's a past beta testing

We're gonna run it out for people to start spreading that information So it's a real sport That's in my opinion. I think that's why it's not that good compared to like the old Exhibition shows like Brian Brian likes his sports fake. Thank you very much. I mean, that is actually what I'm saying. Yeah, I know. Is that like, I don't think anybody that goes

to monster trucks is looking for a real competition. No, I agree with this. Yeah, I'm not interested in like learning who's the best monster truck driver because it's Gravedigger. I want to see them do cool shit. But yeah, it's an exhibition. It's it's literally like it's an exhibition. People are just coming out to watch them do cool shit. Yeah. The idea that there's like fans in the way that there are sports teams or whatever, but they're all fans of Grave Digger. No, no, no, no. There are literally people who are fans of specific drivers. They so

there's like 10 Grave Diggers. It's not just one Grave Digger. There's like three Grave Diggers working every night. It's like Gallagher is a Gallagher situation. It is a Gallagher Gallagher to situations. What the hell? And so he's crushing, yeah, he's freaking crushing cars and watermelons and whatnot. No, he's not crushing any. Yeah, no, I forgot. He's driving over a dirt hill. So, you're saying that there are,

so you're saying there are, so then that sort of flies in the face of what you're saying then, Brian, because then those people would care about who wins and loses, those people who are fans of drivers. But my, my rating is weighted the same as their rate. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. So you're saying you should give them more. The super fans should get more power and they should be voting it. That would be talking about that for a long time. And in other, in other sports, you want to have a say in AEW decision-making. Yeah. I think I'd be

great at it. I Brian, wait, wait. Everybody listening knows that you think that you've said it a number of times. I think people could tell you're not joking. You are not joking. I know I'm very serious. I know I'm deadly serious about this. Have you have you ever like written down like, no point. Well, I think that's your first issue right there is you're not taking it too seriously. I think if you put together a packet, I want to be a consultant. Okay. So you don't want to fit. You don't want to have a job. No, you don't. I do this. I want to be a consultant. Okay. So you don't want to have, you don't want to have a job. No, you don't. I do this. I know, but you know what I mean? You have time to do a job like that. I think in a part-time. So you, so, so you're, you want to work for

AEW and that you want to make decisions on what happens in the storylines, but you do not want to have to do any of this stuff as an employee has to do as a worker. I want to be either flown out to the arenas and be like, I think this should happen. Like I want to say, like, I don't like that. I do like this. Like you're saying you're going to like call on zoom too. You're saying you're going to call an audible, like something's about to happen. You're going to like call on zoom to say you're going to call an audible like something's about to happen. You guys I don't like this crap. This we're going to go at this angle instead. I just want to have a voice. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to say Tony. This is bad. Yeah. Well, yeah, I call him

by his first name. I agree that there are people he could stand to have a couple of people tell him that a few times. Hey, Tony, this idea that you have and you won't stop doing is actually really everyone agrees, but they focus on letting kids interact with the show, but honestly get rid of it during finals. There goes agreed. I missed the old judge system where it was three or four people in the audience voting consisting Monster Jam

officials and fans was still biased at times, but not as much as now. So from what I can gather, the old way of consisting monster jam officials and fans was still biased at times, but not as much as now. So from what I can gather, the old way of doing it was they pick three fans as judges and then had real judges and then maybe a couple of kids. And you know, I would say, I would say there's about a 0.5% chance that those judges were not bought off. If there was real money on the line, I mean, you know, Grave digger is grease in those pockets. Grave digger is, I hate Grave digger because he's definitely a villainous character. I feel like in any, in any event, it's it's gonna be there's no right way here

You know Grave Digger is going to win whether it's by fucking greasing the pockets or just by being the most famous You just know he's inevitable. Yeah betting on the Washington generals Here's a question Brian so you and I know that there's e-federations, right? There's guys that go on and do fantasy booking of wrestling, which I think is cool and good. Are there E federations for monster trucks? Are there guys like a message boards going out and like, I don't think that because the storylines are so for monster jam, the storylines are so sports bait. Like they really want this to be a legitimate contest that people watch and gamble on. And like they want all of that stuff. You know

what I mean? They, so they've kind of stripped away all of the things that make it like this sort of like, uh, somebody called it a white trash hoot nanny. Like they've, they've stripped away anything that feels like kind of lower, lower culture, low class stuff. And they're just saying like, this is a sport. This is a legitimate sport where we do legitimate things. And then they're standing. So I don't think there's people like, I don't think there's people like writing stories for it, but I think there probably are stories throughout the year that

arise even though like I just I don't think the drivers care that much. Yeah, there's not like they're not doing they're doing interviews, but not like it's not story like promos. Yeah, they're not cutting promos and they're not doing like shoot interviews and or I mean, no work interviews and stuff. You know, they're not doing like shoot interviews and or I mean, not work interviews and stuff. You know, they're not doing like actual, God, I messed up shooting work. I've been reading Google to my well, these next two comments are going to show you that, you know, sometimes things are a little different than we think.

The first guy goes, I remember when monster trucks were a legitimate contest. And then the next person goes, main reason why Scooby Doo won best freestyle at the finals. So scooby-doo gets a lot of votes too. Oh, because of his movies and television appearance. Oh, of course. I never even thought about how fucking famous scooby is. I mean, these guys, he's very famous.

Yeah, it feels like if you can get the right IP for your truck. Like what if you got, if you got like sponge or SpongeBob or whatever Patrick, he's a very easy, very easy to voice in the inevitable film as well. Cause you've already got Kenny on board. He's already doing another voice. This person goes, it's always been fans. They literally used to pick fans. It's never been another voice. This person goes, it's always been fans. They literally used to pick fans. It's never been quote legitimate. This era of fan judging has certainly been one of the worst. It's a reply goes, I might be wrong, but I swear I remember they used to have pro

judges, at least for the finals. He goes, person goes, they've been using fan judging at the World Final since 2017. And our final thing is I've never liked fan judging. Let's go take a look. Pro judges. Yeah, we need some projects. Let's look at this person. Yeah, yeah. Monster truck judge. I can't imagine they got another job.

I would imagine I was reading. So this is going to be on a bonus. You will have already heard this on a bonus show, but I was reading this guy pops into the R slash slow pitch softball forum. And he's like, uh, if I quit my job and stuff and just trained, like how long do you think it would be till I can make a living doing so pitch softball? I love that. He's like a Ronan. He's like traveling from city to city, you know, judging softball. I think that's, that'd be cool. Kind of the journeyman, the, the, the noble masterless samurai of soft, of softball baseball.

Well, everybody's like the guy that they named the bats after has two jobs. You maybe could become like a commissioner and cobble together something, but no, you're not going to make a living doing slow pitch softball. That's well, no, not with your, not just with your salary, but with endorsements and stuff, you'd be able to probably do it. No way. Let's look at some reviews off ticket master for hot wheels, monster trucks live. This guy gives it one star. Tim, did you know that you can do reviews on Ticketmaster? Oh, did I? Absolutely.

And I think it's a really important way to express your feelings and share feedback with the the event management and staff. They they share with the artist as well. Yeah, they they they share it with people with zero control over any of the things they're complaining about. Zero. Like a lot of zeros with. Yeah, too much talking, not much action. One star. Any other things they're complaining about zero. Too much talking, not much action. One star. This is nothing like Monster Jam.

It's a cheap knockoff. There's very little monster truck action. The hype people talk too much, like way too much. They try to be funny and get the crowd involved, but I could barely hear more understand them. I would honestly say 60 to 70% of the show is them talking and yelling at you. The trucks run over a handful of cars slowly.

Then the hype people talk for about two or three minutes. Then another truck goes slowly over a few cars, then repeat. Then in the middle of the show, they spend about 20 minutes changing arena for motorcycles. The motorcycles did a handful of jumps, and they spend 10 minutes changing it back for monster trucks. Probably stop. He said probably. So we all sat there for about 30 minutes. No action. I would not recommend. What do these

guys want? Like they want constant constant. They want the cars constantly driving around, smashing into each other, flipping around big explosions going through hoops. They want one of the cars to come up to them and start talking to them and know their name. And yeah, it's a pretty simple ask. Yeah. They're paying hard earned money for it. No, I'm sure it does suck, but yeah, the, the idea that it's like they're building it up and doing a bunch of it's like, yeah, they kind of have to a stuff like this. You kind of got to do a bunch of build up hype work. It could be, you need it to be good, but it is, it is necessary. I feel like, yeah, I mean, I guess like we are geared because we all grew up at a time when it

was sort of different. And like, I think we do all think it's something that it's not, but I think that what we think, like, I think that what we think it was never, you know what I mean? Like these shows were never constant action. No, no, no, they were never that. And they, I mean, I guess like the thing you have in your mind all the time, the picture you have in your head of like grave digger or big foot is they're driving really fast outside. There's a ramp and they ramp over some, uh, monster truck. They ramp over some cars and then they do a donut and it may be a backflip. That's like what we think but that is not what happens number one number two That's impossible. Yeah, you can't get speed up in an arena. It's I don't know like I

Don't know how you can look at a building that is an arena, which I did Like I get it now Like as soon as I got in there, I was like, oh, of course, there's no room for anything to happen I went to a stadium show, I think, BC play stadium, big, huge football stadium. And I think, you know, they, they did the like jumping over cards and stuff like that in there, definitely. But it's huge. It's a big, giant, massive football fields, you know?

Yeah, I think maybe a problem here is that all these guys watch monster trucks on YouTube, where you can see just the action over and over and over again. Yeah, because this thing all like this kind of stuff always takes a long time to set up. I'm sure it did in the 90s and the 80s that there was a lot of downtime. These guys just watch monster trucks all day on YouTube and think about monster trucks and talk about monster trucks. And you never think about or watch the videos of you know The guys sweeping the thing or setting it up or whatever

So they've got like totally brain fried on on too much non-stop action on the computer I can't fall or fall down the floor to fall and then the red then a new one is comes out and then they Immediately start doing monster trucks again. I think that'd be better that be but because of woke you can't do that. Yeah I had this idea for a concert tour Years ago like people people have done this I think what my idea Yeah, I think so cuz I remember when you did it like people on patreon Maybe they commented that it's a thing. But yeah, I want a bunch of one hit wonder bands on a fucking spinning stage so that you're setting up while like a house plan take on me, Durand Duran or whatever, setting up to play hungry like the Wolf. And when take on me is over,

it spins around and boom, you got hungry like the Wolf and hungry like the Wolf's over. It spins around. You got ice ice baby. And like, I think like you get 12 acts on a situation like that, that would work. Like you have four different sides of it, basically, and it's rotating and then you're switching them out in that way. Yes. Yeah. That's not all. Do you definitely exists? 100%. And it's good. I think, I think that's a good idea. I know, for example, they have that technology at schools and stuff. I got a friend who's a professor at Berkeley. And for the end of his semester, he had all three sides of it with like a light show and spinning around and people posing and doing weird shit. It was great. But there is like the big spinning, like classroom lecture. That's definitely

an idea that that works elsewhere. And I swear I've heard about it with shows too. Yeah, no, it's it's half that's what they're saying like people have done it before I think bands Oh, there's like three bands playing and they like switch out or whatever and they like yeah, I don't know the other idea I have is animatronic like Chuck E cheese. Mm-hmm that you switch out every six months or so. So maybe you got the Beatles Animatronic at this you go to this bar. They got the animatronics like Chuck E cheese Yeah, don't all want to be kids these days anyway. So like I have a question about this venue. I got a question about the venue. Oh, don't. Is a person going to be paying attention

at the door to make sure that my child is not taken out by somebody else? Or is that person going to be, uh, this is a 21 and up club for all. But if there was, I'm sure a person would take that very that job very seriously. Yeah, of course. It's a very serious job and not one to be high on acid for. I'm sorry. I walk into the venue and I watch a bunch of animatronics play different songs, especially a jukebox with moving with moving parts for an hour and a half. Yes. But there's also games there and like this is adult Chuck E cheese. It's adult. The pizza is better. The pizza is better. In what way?

Tastes better. Okay. So the politics and style, it's new. Yeah. Oh, they're, they're doing it on like a, I got you. So it's like a, this is like good pizza. It's not like by the side sort of it's it's fancy pizza. Do you got chili oils and stuff to put on hot? Wow. I gotta tell you, I've been to a Chuck E cheese in the past month and Chuck E cheese is now also adult Chuck E cheese. Yeah. They got rid of the animatronics, which is horse shit. You know what I mean? What was the pizza like? Tim? Did you have any of the pizza? I went right to the bar. That was my whole reason for being there. I wanted to get a drink at Chuck E cheese. Oh yeah. They do serve booze. I love that. This person goes too much talking, not

enough action. One star. We spent $300 to bring my son and his children ages three and five. They were bored. And so were we. They talked the whole time. They needed to just keep driving their trucks around and do jumps and tricks. I would not recommend the iPad. The iPad generation has been spoiled and can't appreciate good old fashioned monster truck. That's what that is. The computer. Hey, talk to your children in between. How about, no, I have a conversation with them about what's going on and stuff like that. Use that time and like get a little bit of excitement going. And listen, of course, we don't know. People may have been, I mean, and say, Hey, it is really way too much talking

and they're not building it up anyway. Yeah, it is for sure. It's more talking than you could ever imagine. So yeah, maybe there's like some, you know, I don't, who knows? Maybe these people are kind of justified in what they're saying. Like maybe they're not being even shitty at all. I mean, I could pose a question for you guys in that, like, uh, how much of a percentage of an app, like of a two hour show should be just trucks doing stuff. And I would say 90% of it. And that's not that that's the dream.

It's also not possible. It's not possible. You can't you can't do that. That's what I'm saying. Like the expectations of what you want at a monster truck show have been formed by seeing monster truck videos or all this like expectation of nonstop action, which is just physically not possible unless you develop some real insane technology, which we don't

have the capability for right now. And even just like getting getting all of them in the room is not easy. You know what I mean? They hate each other. They hate each other. They got all kind of beef and stuff and he's with her rubbing at each other all day long.

Right? Yeah, they're rubbing. Yeah, they're rubbing. Yeah, they're picturing Memphis, Kansas. What's that song? You know, the truck. Never mind. Well, there used to be when we were growing up, there were like DVDs and VHS as if monster truck shows that you could get for like, you know,

1999 off the TV or you could rent. And I think that has definitely sort of colored our opinion of what it is because like Tim said, we're only seeing that one thing. I'm trying to find, oh, I got a picture of an arena show for you. I think the ideal monster truck show would be you have two gangs of

monster trucks and they drive in a big circle and rub it each other. And then they just crash at each other. That's what we want. That's what I want. But we're denied this because that's not possible. My wife had wanted to go really bad. And I was like, oh, you know, it'd probably be fun. So I got us. I got us tickets. She also wants to do a demolition Derby, which I've also been to in the past. And like, I remember my expectations for a demolition Derby being something that people would literally die at. So you were anywhere and you went? Yes, I was a teenager, but like I thought that when I watched it, I was like, they can't even get up enough speed for anything to happen. You know what I mean? Because the pin is too

small despite design, obviously, so that they don't like get going like 30 miles an hour and smash into each other. You know, So this is the arena of what it looks like, um, of what it looks like in an arena. So how long do they drive around in that circle for? Well, that's a ray. There's a race where they bring two trucks out and one starts at one line and one starts at the other line and they drive around in one circle and whoever makes it around when that sucks. I know that's what, see, thank you, Tim.

I'm, I'm, I'm like justified here. And then the next thing they do is freestyle. And there's like four tricks. There's stoppies. There's something else. I just remember stoppies because it was so funny. Me and my wife were yelling stoppies, stoppies, um, and bicycles where they're on two wheels and they like drive around. Uh, and bicycles where they're on two

wheels and they like drive around, uh, and they each do like two tricks out of that list of tricks that they have. And then the third part is freestyle, 75 seconds to do whatever you want. And, uh, generally in that 75 seconds to, or when we were there, two trucks flipped and just couldn't drive anymore. So they had to come in tow at all. So it's just like it is very little action. I think compared to what a lot of people are thinking it is,

you know, this next guy, he goes, brought it back five stars. So this is, oh, wait, no, this first guy guy gave it to and said pretty boring. This was something new. We are going to try as a family. It was boring and very slow too much talking not enough hot wheels, maybe less trucks for the competitions. The competitions take too long was six plus trucks. Also having less trucks would have helped for more space. The Simmons Bank Arena is too small. The tricks were same old same old back to boring.

I'm, I go ahead to, I'm, I'm having this memory of something that I haven't thought about in years, which is that when I was 16 or 17, I had a job at a golf course, like digging holes, you know, wake up at 4am, go dig holes to 2pm and go come back home or whatever. But you got, you got to drive the golf cart around the golf course. That was like the best part of the job. And I had this coworker whose name was Wes. And he discovered that if you lift up the back of the golf truck and jam a Sprite bottle onto like some part of the engine, you could get much, much faster on the monster truck or on the golf cart. You could speed like three times faster than it normally goes. And so Wes would just do this and drive around

going really fast. And one day it rained. So everything was wet. And Wes it normally goes. And so bus would just do this and drive around going really fast. And one day it rained. So everything was wet. And Wes takes us out and there's like a small mound. He's like, check this out. I'm gonna do a jump. And he rushes down going super fast in the golf cart and hits the mound and just crashes and wipes out immediately. And I think that we we really underestimate how hard it is to do a jump in a vehicle. It's like not a thing you can do spectacularly. It takes a lot of memento in a very specially designed ramp

and you just can't do that very easily or spectacularly. I totally agree. It doesn't look that impressive to us anymore because we've seen like crazy stuff in movies and those crazy big jumps and then all the monster truck videos like we're talking about they were just kind of expected but yeah, just Itself, it's crazy what they're doing. They were like the impressive right?

There was a road there was a road and Columbus called the end of the world That was like a legend when you were like 10 you talk about the end of the world There was the end of the world in Devil's ditch We went to Devil's ditch. It was the ditch where people said that people were worshiping Satan, but it was also a really good place to ride your bike. So we would go there. But the end of the world was just a drop off. It was a road that has just a drop off to drive down. You know what I mean? And once you, once one of you gets your license in a car you go there You drive as fast as you can and jump off of the end of the world, you know

And I remember the first time I did it and we caught air in the car. I was like when you land You really do feel like this thing's gonna to break from under me. Like, this is fucking crazy. It's like such a heavy thing when you're doing it. We did it in so many big trucks and stuff like that. So like catching air is so much more intense than you're giving it. Like you said, Tim, you're giving it. You're not giving it credit for how intense catching air is.

Right. Your 2000 to 3000 pound vehicle, like was designed to not catch air and to not fall off things. And so it gets very strong. You guys ever go mudding? I haven't because I hate mud. That's a terrible place to for you to be. Then you'd really not fit in very well. If you were going muddin, I haven't mudded, but I've been in a car that went

mudding. And I think that's like that's a good car activity because the car is doing things that was meant to do, which is spin around and fishtail and drive through stuff, but getting air. I don't know that you're you're you're playing with fire there. Yeah, it's loud when you land to because we did it so many times. My my friend's mom when you land too, because we did it so many times. My, my friend's mom had a dually that we would take off of the rich and poor no Sean's mom that we would take off of the end of the world. And it would be so loud when we would land.

It was fucking crazy, but he was crazy and he would do anything with that car. He didn't, you know, I mean, he ain't giving shit. He's driving a hundred miles an hour and that fucking thing. Uh, and oh yeah, that's Sean. You know, brought it back five stars. I haven't been to a monster truck show since I was in third grade. It was everything and more my first and still my favorite truck is big foot. Thank you. And he was there being driven by a ginger female made it so much better. That part. So turn turn them on. I don't know. I find it strange for whatever. I'm very happy that monster truck shows are still a thing and I hope they never stop. I hope monster jam comes back to San Antonio, Texas. That guy's happy. It will. Yeah. Now we're

going to read monster jam reviews and as an extra bonus reviews of the ones I went to the one I went, Oh, the actual event you went to include your review. Yeah. I didn't review it. I don't want to use stuff. Well, that's not totally true. Can you pull up your thing and just read one of your No, Brian just one of the ones you read before because I forgot though there I love the bright has done a couple of reviews That's silly to bring up but I don't know how to find them. I guess come on you do too I don't really know how to find them Where do I search for it?

You gotta find him for me. I'm sorry. I'll find next time. We'll be on a, on a, on a bonus episode. I would just love to hear them. I remember them. They're really good. They're I, I mean, I only do it when somebody makes me, you know what I mean? So, uh, here we go. Uh, uh, this guy goes, uh, one star, no crushed cars, a tiny obstacle in the middle that they barely rode over. Not to mention no serious jumps. They seem scared to death to do anything. By the way, you guys saw the picture of that arena. What are they supposed to do? That's death defying. You know what I mean? Also like, I don't know. I don't think they are that scared because I think they've been driving these trucks

for a long time and they're very, they probably feel, but they would be justified in feeling scared to be doing a flip in a big truck. Because it is a- With a bunch of people in the room, like. It's a scary thing to do, I would say. It's pretty scary to, you know, like it's like, I think it would make most people feel scared. I would do it. I would do it. I scary to you know, like it's like I think it would make most people feel scared

I would do it. I would do it. I Can see you doing it. I can't see you pulling it off, but I can see you doing it I would do it though. I'd sure I'd give it a shot. Yeah, absolutely I've no I can pull it off because I would just put the pedal to the friggin metal If that's all it took then yeah, I think you can pull it off I think there might be more to it than that. Oh, what else could there be? I don't know. I don't know what else there could be. I don't know. Now that I think of it, you might be right. It depends, I guess on some things, but I don't know, I guess a driver might tell you that there is some other stuff, but yeah, I think if you just go as

fast as possible, you should flip if you hit the, the, if they make the, the jump proper. Well, I guess that's, that's what all the work is then the work is in building and designing the jump of the truck is just an accessory for this demonstration of engineering performance. It's the, and again, no reason for it to be a shoot at that point. You know what I mean? Oh, we built a ramp that you can flip on. You know what I mean? Which one is shoot? It's real. But I'm saying like we built a ramp specifically made so you can do backflips. Yeah. So what is the driver doing that they deserve extra points when they do a backflip other than doing a backflip, which seems easy. All of it seems easy. I mean, stopping seemed kind of hard. So now you've turned her over to it all seems very easy to do. And I think,

I do think the stuff in the truck is relatively easy. This is quite an incredible episode in that Brian has yet to disagree with a single thing that anybody has said. This guy goes, I recall as a kid, both ends of the arena, having trucks side by side and some intense action. I don't know what he remembers. I was, he's just, it's a vague memory. He's being honest. The only, he's not, he's not trying to make stuff up. He's like, I remember two cards, trucks side by side. It was fucking intense. Like what was the action though? Well, he doesn't remember that part. Brian. He's just sharing with you his memory. It's not a total complete memory. Yeah, my kids enjoyed it, but I have

a feeling if I took them anywhere else with a real show, they wouldn't want to go back to this tiny anti-climactic show again. So his kid, first of all, I gave it one star. His kids enjoyed it. He hated it. I feel like that's a three star review. But the kids, well, the kids can do their own fucking review. He's doing his review and it's one star and these fucking idiots. If he took them to a goddamn good show, then they'd realize it's just because they don't know shit. That's what I like. I like it. It's a real show. a real show Yeah, it's so sweet like my kids liked it

But it's like if I fuck it out if they don't know what a good thing Fuck is stupid. It's cuz I've no fucking taste about monster trucks. They honestly like they're it's honestly Embarrassing their lack of knowledge when it comes to the history of monster. Yeah This guy five-star smashing experience. I like this guy already. He's a he's cool because this year was the greatest year of monster jam. We've been to we had the best seats with the greatest view of the trucks. The aroma of the methane was so heavenly lol. The happiness on my children's

face was so well worth every penny we spent the drivers definitely did not disappoint. We plan to attend every year when they come back to our hometown. So that's smashing experience. Lovely. I like that guy. Yeah. Managed to have a smashing experience despite the fact that there was no

smashing of cars. And I wonder if that was a little bit of a play on words there, but this guy seems very positive and his, his kids had a good time. He's got it right. If you go somewhere with your children and your children have a wonderful time, then that's a good outing. Here's some reviews of me from Airbnb. Brian was a charming guest. We would be delighted to host him back. That's one of those things that you click like it. You know what I mean? Like you don't type that out.

That's just one of the things you can click like an auto generator. We would gladly host Brian again in the future. Again, these are auto generated ones that they're hosting. Brian was a delight. None of them have said anything specific at all. I can't find my reviews, so I'm sorry. Is there any negative reviews of you on Airbnb? No, no, no, no.

I do agree with Brian as what he said in the past, as I do feel pressure to leave a good review for my Airbnb hosts, and I do put effort into making them feel special. Okay, this guy goes, this is for Columbus. The one star review for the show I went to. okay, so this is the one you were recently at Yeah, oh, I just realized that like when I look at my profile on Airbnb. It says my work podcaster Pets know where I went to school Ohio State University. I spend too much time on Legos. Oh I went to school, Ohio State University. I spend too much time on Legos.

Oh my God. Why did you fill out? Why did you take it so seriously? I'm obsessed with pro wrestling. Why did you divulge so much about yourself on the Airbnb profile? That I don't know. I can't give you an answer to that.

I don't know why I said I'm obsessed with pro wrestling and I spent too much time on Lego. Would you see a box? You just fill it out. Is that just kind of thank you? Yeah, you do. I'm obedient. Unless unless it's his doctor, in which case he will lie about it. Okay. Yeah, I lied once and it was for a good reason. Because you didn't because you didn't know the answer. That's the reason he lied to his doctor. He called his doctor to say, hey, I'm having this issue. And then she said she asked a number of questions. The person at the doctor's office and he didn't know the answer.

So instead of saying, I don't know, he instead lied and said, yes to every single thing. I think it's safety, Tim. He instead lied and said yes to every single thing It's safety Tim it was actually a safety thing for me because it was like I don't know the answer I'll just answer yes, just in case that's the answer ended up in the emergency room for seven hours and And then the doctor was like hey dip shit. You got constipated This guy goes we usually go to Monster Jam every year. This was the first year that I took my nephews and my son for a Christmas gift. The show felt shortened. The trucks were not as interactive as usual. That I don't understand. Well, they used to

come up and talk to you. That's what I mean. You used to be able to ride on top and they would say like they would talk to you and stuff. Did you did you used to be able to chant like back flip and it would do that? They would do the back flip. Oh, like you could like give them. I don't think they would take direction. I don't recall that being a part of it. Yeah. I wonder what that could mean. Technology. Now with technology, you could just have people vote for back flip. Yeah. In real for backflip. Yeah. In real time on their phones. Yeah. The Lord knows they're on them anyways. Zombies guy goes the show felt shortened. The trucks were not as interactive as usual. No donuts, no

flips. And it felt like the announcers talked a lot more than usual. Very disappointing to see trucks flipping and breaking down and regular trucks like El Toro loco not there I thought I'll tour a loco was there is a little low code no showed it. I Don't know. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it says this guy three stars Okay, probably better in an outside arena ten-year-old daughter had a fun time and didn't complain What a way to open a reach Yeah, that's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. I'm sorry to say but that's it You're not realizing then you're just you're that guy's in a fantasy world where he thinks this event is for him

Right and that he's not just a fucking chaperone of the child that he's bringing to the event If your child had a good time, that's a four or five star review. That is you, Tim. I guess it's a little weird, though. OK, like there's a reason it's not a good review. He goes, took forever getting in and we missed the first 45 minutes. Accordingly to the arena staff, it was the fault of the Monster Jam company. They have their own staff and there wasn't enough there.

Again, show was OK, but would have been better outside. So hang on a second. This was when you were at yes. Yes. So did you were you late? Did you get no, I didn't barely have to wait in line. And what time did you get arrived at six and what time was the show? Six 30 I think or seven. So you got there a little early maybe on. So it sounds to me like maybe this guy got there late. Yeah. And but it was the fault of the monster jam company that he was late. It sounds like he was late and maybe there was a bit of congestion in the line because it was late. He's also probably exaggerating. You know, you do that thing where you're like 45 minutes, but it was like 20 or whatever, like 21 minutes. Hot Wheels on Amazon sells

monster trucks. They have a monster trucks collection. Are these hot wheels, monster trucks, or are they like, cause there's the hot wheels brand of monster truck. Or is that related to hot wheels? Yes. This is the Hot Wheels Corporation, which one day, one day we're going to do Hot Wheels guys, because I was at the convention center one day doing what I do and I was. What's that walking? And that's not all you do there. There was a there.

There was a thing, a Hot Wheels convention there. And I am not exaggerating. It happened during the day during the week for like two days in a row. And I didn't see a single child there. That's wild because Hot Wheels are like, like my nephew is he loves monster trucks, but not as much as he loves Hot Wheels like Hot Wheels. He has so many of them and he is obsessed with he has the ones we're looking at on screen. I know these I have these like they're at my my mom's place for my nephew.

So this is like a very much a thing that children around the age of four love. Well, yeah, but there and I would be there and I could like go to Starbucks and there would be guys trading cars. And they would have like their little case open on the table at Starbucks with their coffee. And they're like trading Hot Wheels with each other and stuff. Forty year old guys. It was incredible to see. That was cute if they're like 12. But no, they were men with like beards and jobs.

It seemed like how's your tear down? How's your tear down going on your working on a Lego set? Now I might have to get rid of a lot people. Somebody comment and I think is I think you commented and hadn't thought of it. But yeah, you should get rid of them. Donate them definitely smart. Yeah, I might do that. Yeah. Okay, so no, no, no.

Commit to it. Why I don't commit to anything. This guy goes, but I want you to see the description of this because it's going to be very important for the reviews. We read Hot Wheels Monster trucks to pack Easter basket stuffers demolition doubles set of two toy vehicles and 164 scale for kids and collectors. Now, the next line is in parentheses and it's a styles may vary. Oh, so you're not buying these specific trucks. You're buying a two pack of trucks, which I think is stupid, but that's what you're buying. You know what I

mean? Yeah. And so I don don't I hate to tell you guys this There's some people are very unhappy with what they got this person goes disappointed. I Got a set of monster trucks one shaped like a toilet and the other one That's a biggest laugh I got in a while on the show Shape like it does seem like a fucking insolent The other one has poop patterns all around it Purchased to add to a birthday gift and it's actually embarrassing that designs not even show on that design doesn't even show on the collection list. So they're like, I can't even give this away.

Yeah, somebody this sounds like somebody's getting you like, you know, like this isn't even on the list of monster trucks that could be possibly given out. I somehow got a toilet and a poop truck. Here's the next one. They look like roller skates. Oh, that's cool. Oh, really? You think so?

I personally think it looks pretty cool. Yeah. This person says I realized that in the description it says that styles may vary, but these weren't even trucks. They were shoes with wheels. My nephew, who is a huge Hot Wheels Monster Truck fan, was so disappointed. I was as well. When it says Monster Trucks demolition doubles, you don't normally think, oh, please send

me shoes. Sounds like they sent you roller skates. And, and, and yeah, those are roller skates, not shoes. Great point. But also I wonder who was the poster mentioned that they were disappointed and their daughter was disappointed. I wonder who was disappointed first. That would be an interesting question. If maybe mom was disappointed first or whatever and then the kid was emulating that or if the kid would, because I just, I feel like a kid would find that pretty fucking cool. I agree. I agree. I don't think the kid open it was like, oh no shoes. Yeah, like I think it's like it's a shoe that dry like the Henry has plenty my nephew has plenty of

Like Hot Wheels cars that are complete like a hot dog one. I got for him. That's like a spatula hot dog Hmm. I don't like that. How come not a truck? Yeah, so he he loves it. You know, he's like, yeah, is it a sandwich? Is this hot dog truck a sandwich? Right. Yeah, him and I, we we I get into that with them all the time. Like, is this a sandwich, though? And he's like, I want to play with it.

I'm like, no, no, no, no. This is more important. Is this a I do feel like a jacked up wiener mobile would be a cool thing to see driving around. Oh, yeah. Dude. Yes. Like seeing it jump. Oh, fuck. A monster truck wiener truck. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oscar Meyer, Oscar Meyer, the famous Oscar Meyer truck. Like, like maybe, you know, you have to think of like a cool name for it.

Like that would be like a bulked up version of Oscar Mayer, and then have it be the Wiener truck. Or even an AMS 700 truck. Oh, an AMS 700 truck that pumps itself off? You pump it and it gets a hard on. Do you know what the AMS 700 is? I don't know, but I really do. He wanted, it's, well it's, okay, so if you're, I'll just quickly go through this. Do you know what the AMS 700 is? I don't know, but I really do.

You want it. It's well, it's OK. So if you're adults quickly go to this, if you're having problems getting erections and of course, you're going to take your regular erection pills. When those stop working, you have to take super high like potency ones and then those stop working. You have to inject your penis directly. Got it. And then after the injections don't work, then you have to purchase something known as the AMS 700, which is a penis pump that you physically pump

your penis up with and make it hard. The pump is in your balls, though. The pump is like your balls. Yeah. If you're at a party or something like that, you can like if you're at one of your swingers parties, you go like a rebar pump on your balls on your balls. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, it is. It is. It is very cool that like it's a cool piece of technology, medical technology that we came up with as human beings.

Definitely. Obviously we'd rather have, you know, uh, the injections, but those just stop working. Well, of course. And I know what you're thinking, Tim. Yeah. Why don't you keep using the injections? We'd love to keep injecting our penis with a serum of some sort to make it hard. It just stops working after a while. But I love this line here. When it says monster trucks, demolition doubles, you don't normally think, oh, please send me some shoes. You think it's going to be trucks? Well, have you seen the modern day monster jam? I mean, maybe back in the day you think that, but nowadays I think you got to be open to what anything, you know, being sent to you. Uh, one star, this was so bad. I received a toilet

theme. Yeah. One truck had a toilet on it. The other had poop, a toilet and toilet paper. How ridiculous. A few extra monster trucks for my son, but no way will I keep this track. I want to get old of the poop truck. That's one that I want the secondary market for the poop one. I bet is huge. I mean, they don't even recognize sure you don't want it. How about fucking sell it and then buy the whole fucking company, buddy?

That's the poop truck. If I went to Hot Wheels and they busted out a toilet truck, I would lose my shit. I'd be cheering for that thing. I'd be tearing my shirt off and waving it in the air. That'd be incredible. That'd be the best. Everybody should want the toilet truck. It's crazy. Yeah. People are mad. I Oh dude. If I was fucking seven years old and they got me a toilet truck, it would have been the best thing I ever had in my life. You know what I mean? Nowadays you would appreciate it as well. I mean, I love toilet. Yeah. You have a complicated relationship with toilets. I would say, but it's a, why are you looking at me like that? You definitely do. I w I would say you love toilets. I don't know that toilets love you. I don't know that it's reciprocal. One star, not trucks. I got

this in the mail today. I was fine with random trucks, but not sneakers. They're not even trucks designed as sneakers, but just shoes with four wheels. So it seems to be the ones that are upsetting. People are the shoes in the toilet. Yeah. They don't like the shoes or the toilet. If I'm hot wheels, I'm getting some bad heat for that. I might recall the shoes in the toilet. Hey, hey, nasty Gary. Can you come in here? We want to talk about your idea. Nasty Gary is the guy who keeps creating fucking shoes and penises. This guy is a foot guy. The shoe ones are actually more gross in his mind than the toilet ones. Well because shoes are obscene I like that. That makes sense. He hates shoes because they're covering up his you know, Rob says love one star

demon faces So I ordered a pack for my two-year-old thinking he's getting a monster truck that looks like a train and another one that looks blue And white what I get instead are two monster trucks with demon faces and fangs for teeth on them that have weird Chinese sounding names I threw them straight in a garbage. Oh, yeah. And so, yeah, take your Chinese demon cars. I mean, demon car is almost for me. That would be my toilet car.

I would be so excited. I'd be sick as hell. Yeah. Yeah, that would be cool. And also, kids aren't like afraid of demons in that way. They don't really understand what they are a two year old kid. So I will say like there are maybe certain imagery and stuff that will scare them. But I don't know, like, yeah, I'm sorry to keep bringing up my nephew as an example. But he has, you know, there's lots of stuff that's very scary kind of stuff.

And he doesn't see it in that way. Or it's like almost funny to him. Yeah. If I was like five or six or seven and I got a demon car, I think was the coolest thing on earth. Yeah. I wouldn't show my friends and stuff. It's like getting mad at Gravedigger for being like morbid. You know what I mean? Like, I'm sure somebody has gotten mad at it for that. But like, that's what it reminds me of. This person goes one star, no deal, only got one package with two trucks from Star Wars. I need to update my last review. I went back and read the original ad. The order was correct in every way. I was wrong. Get and read it right. So sorry. Oh, that's some humility. I appreciate that. And listen, I understand

you're pissed off. You got freaking Star Wars. That's that kind of sucks to be getting something. You know, what if that guy's like a big Trekkie or whatever really hates Star Wars? I don't know about giving somebody a start like something that's that specific from like a movie that that feels like that shouldn't be in the mix. In my opinion. Let's do one more thing real quick. This is just a threat I saw that I think you two will love. I love Monster Jam, but it feels like it's slowly getting more and more targeted towards children. I don't have a problem with a younger audience. I was even part of it. It used to feel like it was something for everyone, but not so much now. I used to be a child. It seems like every year

I get older, they decrease the target audience by one more year. I just keep falling out of it. It's ridiculous. It's like and listen, I understand I. Was a child. It's it's 35 year old figuring out that MTV isn't targeted towards them anymore. You know what I mean? Like, because I remember that happened to me once all this shit on here. Ridiculousness like why would I watch that? It's fucking stupid.

And then I realized, oh, because I'm outside of the target. Oh, I got I got my channel. Time to pop over to show time for a whole bride. It's like going to the Minecraft movie and saying, ah, the pacing was a bit off in the third act. Yes, exactly. I see the Minecraft movie. Yes, I lit off fireworks and create create caused quite a stir up here in Canada

I thought it was gonna be pretty meme worthy to be honest. But yeah, I guess a bunch of people died. Oh This guy goes I'd argue it was always was monster truck fam from 1988 here and this guy goes no I mean, it's always had a kid audience. But back in the day in the 2000s, 2010s, it felt like an auto racing show, something the kids could enjoy, but can easily be enjoyed by auto enthusiasts to not only with more of a focus on the driver's stats and beat behind the scenes of the trucks, etc.

Now, I don't know who have drivers are. Most of the interesting independent teams like to extreme aren't there anymore. And they had an actual life-size play set at the World Finals this past year. drivers are most of the interesting independent teams like to extreme aren't there anymore and they had an actual life-size play set at the world finals this past year that was a jump the shark moment for me so they had a kid's play set at the finals he's like that was a jump the shark i mean these kids so that was a that was a self-actual is it that was like a real moment where he's like, holy fuck, it's like everything starts to like slow down around him and he starts seeing all of the children displays and stuff, and he's like, oh no. He's looking in a mirror and he sees the face of a child just rapidly getting older.

He sees himself aging to like a crazy like old man. God, I wish I could find my Airbnb reviews. They're pretty boring though. Guy goes, I mean, I'm 19 and consider Monster Jam to be one of the most crucial parts of my childhood. Heck, I was literally potty trained by being bribed with monster truck toys. LMAO. The toilet car.

That's a perfect use for that's a hundred perfect i don't know you probably get mad you got it though yeah i mean i can't believe people are mad about the toilet car i i it blows me away like you're that is the best thing for a little boy is a toilet you know i told you guys there was a soccer team when my daughter or a little girl a little girl. He's a toilet as well. There was a soccer team in my daughter's League when she was really young called the Golden Toilets. Like they named it because it was like, yeah. So anyway, this guy goes only getting familiar in the last year or so due to my four-year-old twin boys interest.

We hit Hot Wheels and Monster Jam between the light up snow cone cups, cotton candy, masks, plush toys and toy trucks. It's fully the modern day circus. Um, so yeah, it's over. I have a Google map of everywhere I've ever had a beer or used the toilet. So I think toilets play a pretty big part in my like perception of how the world works. Oh, that is, I should get that. But I use the toilet and mostly in two places. I guess I pee other place. Well, when you travel, you can see a map of all your toilet experiences. Well, I always just going to be the lobby of the hotel or

whatever, but it's always like, I don't. It's always like, yeah, a bad experience for me. Okay, I found one for the place I went last time. I got to get to the place and I will read a review from a place that I stood. Oh, motherfucker. It's so important. All right. Well, you know, someday.

Oh, here it is. Okay. Someday I'll read a review for you. Brian. Oh, oh, we had the best time. It was a perfect room. I don't know why it's always funny. Yeah, you don't know why.

I know that's what makes it funny. You have more of them say, yeah, I got I got more. I got to get to it. This is from when I was in Packwood, Washington, to see Mount Rainier You got to scroll through there's 62 reviews here, but I'll get It's so hard. They should just list your first of all this place has a 5.0 score. So you can't really complain about it All right. Well, it's so impossible to find your stuff here

you should be able to just click a thing and have all your reviews. And I think we'll go ahead and we'll finish up the show. I'll find my reviews for everybody on a bonus show sometime on patreon. I mean, we've gone through them before, so it was only I was only trying to hear. Here it is myself. This is 100% the best Airbnb I ever stayed in. The beds were really comfortable and the place is cool looking. I really love this place. And Eric was a great host. Perfect stay.

I really love this place. I did. All right. We'll see. Tim, thank you for having me. Thank you. Do you want to plug anything? I you know, I write about health policy. So if anybody, if any guys listeners want to learn about how American health finance works, I've got a button down. My username is error. So button down.com slash error. Nice. Yeah. I mean, it is good. We don't do politics stuff on the price doesn't cause he says there cause he's concerned. Chris is like a big conservative. All right guy.

So he's like, we shouldn't talk about politics on the show it's funny the only this dream that I did where you weren't here and people pointed out that I actually talked a lot about politics like local politics I talked a lot about like the by-election in Vancouver and shared a lot of political views on there so yeah but it was because you weren't there to remind me. But yeah, Tim is very funny and also very smart and yeah, writes about important things. I followed him for a long time. So yeah, go check out his stuff. Definitely. And he also, my name's in his book. So that's right. I have acknowledged in his book. So you know, it it's good and I don't I I love that. That is Christ. Is it Kweber? Chris Christian? We're done.