Size Doesn't Matter.....

Westen Champlin
27 Jan 202416:14

Summary

TLDRThe script describes an adventure in the Utah mountains where a group attempts to drive a massive, lifted Ford Ranger monster truck through deep snow. They struggle to traverse the terrain and get stuck repeatedly, requiring others to pull them out. After making upgrades to improve its performance, the truck fares better but still can't climb steep hills. Ultimately the truck wasn't built for these conditions but proved surprisingly capable. The experience leaves them eager to bring more appropriate vehicles to grip the snow.

Takeaways

  • 😀 They are driving a lifted, monster Ford Ranger truck through heavy snow in the Utah mountains to meet up with other YouTubers
  • 😲 The truck was not built for snow but has big, aggressive mud tires which they deflate to try driving in the snow
  • 🚙 The truck gets stuck many times but is able to power through deep snow for periods before needing rescue
  • 🔧 They take the truck to a shop to make repairs and upgrades to improve performance
  • ❄️ The upgraded truck handles better in the snow but still struggles and ultimately gets stuck
  • 😅 They seem to take an amusement in both the truck's successes and failures in the snow
  • 🛻 They use another vehicle to tow the truck out when it gets stuck
  • 😁 Despite limitations, they are determined to have fun driving in the snow
  • ⏳ They challenge each other to return in a month for a monster truck-off
  • 😉 There is a humorous, adventurous spirit to their approach

Q & A

  • Where is the video taking place?

    -The video is taking place in the mountains of Utah.

  • What kind of vehicle is the main focus of the video?

    -The main vehicle featured is a lifted Ford Ranger monster truck on 49 inch tires.

  • Why did the Ford Ranger get stuck in the snow?

    -The Ford Ranger got stuck because it was not equipped for driving in deep snow. As a mud truck with wide tires, it had trouble gaining traction.

  • What repairs and modifications were made to the Ford Ranger?

    -Repairs made included a new starter, fixing a coolant leak, and adjusting the fuel pressure. The rear differential was also welded to help with traction.

  • How did the truck perform after the repairs?

    -After repairs, the truck performed better and was able to drive through deep snow for a period of time before getting stuck.

  • What hill did the driver attempt to climb with the Ford Ranger?

    -The driver attempted to climb a very steep snow tubing hill.

  • How far up the hill did the truck make it?

    -The Ford Ranger made it surprisingly far up the steep hill before getting stuck near the top.

  • What vehicle does the video mention using after the Ford Ranger?

    -After getting the Ford Ranger stuck, the video mentions using a Razor ATV to continue riding around in the snow.

  • What challenge is issued at the end of the video?

    -At the end, the driver challenges someone else to a monster truck competition in about a month.

  • How many engines will the other monster truck have?

    -The other driver claims his monster truck will have 26 engines.

Outlines

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🚗 Introducing the Ford Ranger Monster Truck

The paragraph introduces a Ford Ranger monster truck with big tires and axles that is brought to the Utah mountains to drive in the snow. It gets stuck a few times but they let air out of the tires to get more traction.

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❄️ Driving the Truck in the Deep Snow

The truck plows through the deep snow at first but then gets stuck. They try to get it unstuck but break the starter in the process. So they take it to a shop to fix the starter, differential, and other issues before taking it back out in the snow.

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🚙 Attempting to Climb a Steep Snow Hill

They attempt to climb a very steep snow-covered hill with the Ford Ranger but it almost makes it before getting stuck. Still, they are impressed at how well it did given it's just a mud truck. In the end it conquered a lot before getting stuck.

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🤝 Planning a Future Monster Truck Race

They decide to challenge each other to a monster truck race in the future after they've had time to prepare their trucks. One person says they will add 3 more engines for a total of 6 engines to improve their truck.

Mindmap

Keywords

💡monster truck

A monster truck is a customized pickup truck with extremely large tires and suspension. It is designed for recreational off-road driving and performing stunts. The video features a Ford Ranger monster truck with 49 inch tall tires driving in heavy snow. Despite not being designed for snow, it is able to drive and get stuck only in very deep piles.

💡snow

Snow refers to the heavy snowfall in the mountains where the video takes place. There is over 4 feet of snow, which most vehicles cannot drive through. The monster truck is challenged by the depth of the snow.

💡stuck

Stuck means when the monster truck gets immobilized in the deep snow and cannot drive any further. This happens a few times when the snow depth exceeds the truck's capabilities.

💡throttle

The throttle refers to pressing down hard on the vehicle's accelerator pedal to provide more power. This is needed to plow through the deep snow.

💡rip

Rip means to drive fast and recklessly. They use this term when the monster truck is able to move rapidly through the snow.

💡mud

Mud refers to the monster truck's intended purpose of driving through mud. The truck is designed for mud rather than snow, which is why it struggles.

💡wheels

Wheels refer to the monster truck's 49 inch tall tires which help it traverse the snow, even though it eventually gets stuck.

💡engine

Engine refers to the truck's motor. More engines are jokingly suggested to give it more power to handle the snow.

💡hill

Hill refers to the steep snowy hills that the monster truck attempts to climb. It makes it surprisingly far up one very steep hill.

💡stunts

Stunts refer to the monster truck's ability to perform daring maneuvers like jumps and climbs. It tries some risky hill climbs in the deep snow.

Highlights

We're testing a monster truck Ford Ranger in deep snow in Utah mountains

The Ranger isn't built for snow but has big 49 inch tires to help it traverse

We'll let air out of the tires and see how far we can go before getting stuck

The truck gets stuck but we add a starter and increase fuel pressure to improve performance

We take the truck to a shop to weld the rear diff and fix other issues before returning to the snow

The truck rips through the snow much better after the shop fixes

A snow cop questions if we'll get far but we make it pretty far before getting stuck

We use a winch to get unstuck then try to climb a steep snow tubing hill

The Ranger almost makes it up the extremely steep hill in an impressive climb

After more generous throttle application we're able to get unstuck

The mud truck exceeded expectations in deep snow but still got stuck sometimes

Now that we got it working well it did remarkably good given the conditions

We came, we saw, we conquered - the Ranger still rips in mud and snow

We challenge someone else to a monster truck-off in the snow in a month

I'll add 3 more engines for a total of 26 to be ready for the monster truck-off

Transcripts

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we're in the middle of the Utah

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mountains right now with the coolest

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monster truck on the absolute Internet

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it's got big tires big axles it's tall

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as hell no not that one look at that one

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right there see that Ford Ranger on 49s

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out here in 4T of snow we don't know how

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well it's going to do you don't know how

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well it's going to do but as scientist

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we must figure it out oh God oh God oh

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God no

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no

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up

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all right here's the good news right the

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good news is we got a ripper of a

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vehicle this is the only thing I can

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find that was foot wheeel drive and we

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have a 3 and 1/2 hour drive up into the

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mountains with a bunch of snow and

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there's a snowstorm currently happening

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up there so I figur we need some mobile

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drive we are currently in Salt Lake City

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Utah because Heavy D does this snowed in

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series where he takes a bunch of

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YouTubers puts them in a cabin has them

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bring out all their toys and they go

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play in the snow for a few days right

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and you know what we're bringing we're

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bringing our monster truck Ford Ranger

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which is currently on a truck HED this

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way now here's the thing right

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everything else that's been brought here

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has been dedicated and built to go on

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snow it's got tracks it's got skis it's

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got something it's ready to go but our

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Ranger is not really ready our Ranger is

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a mud truck but it's got 49 in uh tires

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on it they're 13 13 in wide they're big

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old bur girls so we're going to let the

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air out of them and see how far we can

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go in the snow before we get stuck and

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the thing is also would have been riding

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in on a helicopter if we got here on

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time but United has a raggedy ass

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Fleet raggedy ass Fleet of godamn

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airplanes and they keep breaking down I

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was supposed to be here at 9:40 a.m.

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it's currently 4:25 p.m. and I'm finally

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here so but you know what they say

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better late than

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[Music]

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cender we left at 4:00 a.m. he left at

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4:00 a.m. this morning headed this way

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fuing

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yeah come on so how do you think she'll

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get down out here you know more about

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the snow than I do I mean it's going to

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make a lot of noise what are you doing

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where try to put this bad boy uh here

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he's going to move this out of the way

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just pull on up here and we'll unload it

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like a massive blueberry well guys here

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we are we're in the middle of a mountain

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in Utah we're surrounded by snow

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machines and snowmobiles and Sharps and

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things that are really really dedicated

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to do what we're just here to

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do oh this is the blast I'm not sure how

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fast you're supposed to go with the

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tracks but I know how fast we're going

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to go as fast as we can go a oh God oh

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God oh God no no keep going keep

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[Music]

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going well that's not good hey you need

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some help I need some help I'm here help

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on the good stuff here hold on it'll

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still do things let me see the things

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it'll

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do I think if I just pour it I think

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that's the best way to get out of any

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sticky

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situation keep going stay

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in okay yeah we're good the snow piles

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about as tall as the cages dude I

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thought I was going the right

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action there's some rats out here yeah

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you got to keep your speed up yeah yeah

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I know see the thing is Dave invites the

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two like to up the most

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out here and like here's a bunch of free

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machines is this Dave's who's is it I

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don't even know I just grabbed some off

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the road down yeah down in in a

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town I don't know man I can't talk today

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did you get that from the dealership in

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town yeah it's from the Chevy dealer we

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locked ourselves out oh man we we didn't

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do it we came out here and it was locked

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so have you tried onar playing some sort

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of sick prank I'm going to kill him if I

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find him I'm going to kill

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him it wasn't you was

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it

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start what are you up to did your truck

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is your truck all right no it's it's

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really I got stuck on that side Hill and

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then I buried it there and then uh I

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burned up the starter trying to get star

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back at oh no yeah so there's a starter

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going to be here 3:00 but until then I'm

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just going to dude everybody's things

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are just falling apart here like yeah I

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thought this was just going to plow

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through absolutely everything and then

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we had to let all the air out of the

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tires and floor it and it still does but

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it just digs down to the dirt it's just

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like a monster like where's the Earth

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and like grabs the Earth and pulls it up

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grabbing for dirt yeah guys here's the

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deal right this thing is done so we're

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going to make performance upgrades to it

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so we're going to take and load it up on

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the trailer we're going to take it into

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Logan Utah Robbie is going knows a buddy

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he knows a buddy of his that has a shop

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up there and we're going to weld the

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diff in the rear maybe figure out how to

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fix the diff in the front so it locks

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fix the coant leak put a new starter on

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it and then she should

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[Music]

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rip guys we've raid this poor guy shop

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to come here and realize we was going to

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try to weld the diff but we could well

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the diff because it's a limited slip and

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like well let's try to fix other parts

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about it so we put a new starter on it

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and I think we figured out why it's run

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like these things normally need like 55

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lb of fuel pressure and ours was running

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like 30 so we took an air temperature or

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an air pressure gauge off a few air tank

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put it on there checked it raised it to

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50 and now it runs way better we think

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we don't know there's only one way to

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test it let's go back to the

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snow now way

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better

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[Music]

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baby she's a ripper hold on I got to go

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I got to go get a Instagram

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[Music]

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photo it looks so tiny huh it looks so

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tiny hey so as tall as moner I know what

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you're talking about look we're in the

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same height right now

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they have snow cops they're they're snow

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cops oh God here oh here he comes oh I

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shouldn't have W how you guys

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doing how we doing doing pretty good

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that's awesome we're waiting for

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something cool well nothing cool happen

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nothing cool yes happened but we'll see

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so how far do you think it'll make it

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before it breaks before it gets stuck

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not

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very he has no faith that thing get does

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Epic in mud bogs though I'm sure it does

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so it's not the same as snow not quite

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why do you guys look so

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cool we take it after you oh sh is there

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any rules I should know before I go do

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something wrong nothing where you're at

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right now okay yeah we'll stay here then

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you guys have a good one so here's how

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this is going to go either this is going

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to go really really well and we're going

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to have lots of shots of this thing

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ripping around or this is going to go

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two shots of it ripping around then one

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shot of it stuck that's going to last a

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while we'll see which

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one

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long I'mma Be My Name Stone my name in

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stone yeah I'm back my

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in

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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back

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yeah rid like a beach yeah new old bat

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up in here the ride's great though you

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know it's like a let me think what it's

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like you ever rote a bowl my feet are

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currently fing Frozen they it is so cold

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out here and I'm only wearing cowboy

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boots I should have got snow boots but

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don't worry my truck comes with features

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like boot warmers so you put them in the

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stack let it warm them up so I'll fire

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it up let it idle for 5 minutes I'll

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have warm nice boots when do you know

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when you get frostbite you can't

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move they don't

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wiggle he's like oh

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[Music]

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sh

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yeah you want to get the razor give me a

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little tug there's a kinetic rope in the

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back end of this a little

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one let me guess we broke

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it hell yeah there's a recovery vehicle

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now God D I heard you guys are stuck now

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we ain't stuck we're just enjoying the

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scenery you know oh I'll come enjoy it

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with you then yeah but while you're here

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can we use your winch all I need is the

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littlest of tugs all I needs like baby

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bump like a

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motivation yeah you got this there's

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some motivation that's all I

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needed hey hey hey hey

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do you want to try to Hill Climb it get

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some

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serious up the which Hill long one the

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tubin one God I don't know not it

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probably won't make it out see how high

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Mark you can get dude that's aing steep

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ass Hill I'm not sure how far I can go

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up that but we're getting ready to find

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out

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[Music]

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God Dam bring

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me

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God damn it I almost made

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it you guys aren't going to see how like

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incredibly steep this hill is but it is

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steep ASU I cannot believe the ranger

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made it that far up here that's

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[Music]

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wild God damn did it rip I have no idea

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how I made it that far up I was so close

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if I cred that last whole thing I made

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all the way to the top now guys if you

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remember right just a little bit ago we

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got stuck right back there right but I

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feel like my feel as a snow driving

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machine is way better now and I feel

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like alls I need is more generous

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application of the throttle and we

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should make

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[Music]

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it

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yeah Yeah Baby

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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Woo guys regardless we kind of knew it

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wasn't going to do well we brought a mud

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truck to uh 4 ft of snow and this isn't

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really where she's meant to be but I

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will say after we got it working it's

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done remarkably well except for the

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couple times it got stuck but to be fair

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look at what we got stuck in this is how

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much snow it took to get the monster

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Ranger stuck and you know what it made

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it through this much snow for you know

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200 ft we came we saw we conquered the

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ranger still rips it still runs I think

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this gives us a perfect

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opportunity to take their razor and go

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rip it around now less than

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catch let's get let's get this all

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wrapped up here and we'll challenge you

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to a monster truck off today or like in

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a month or two yeah yeah yeah today I

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don't even have one engine I have two

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left one's out and I won't even use the

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other one I'll just use the one in the

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back the one in the back yeah the jet

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one yeah okay well give me about like

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you know I need like a month to prepare

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you know I need a month too do you add

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another engine on the to the back of it

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because there's only three now so let

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get I need need a um more time as well

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okay well we'll meet back to we'll meet

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back together in a month yeah and don't

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don't even get your hopes up cuz um I'm

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adding not two more but three more

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engines for a total of 26

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engines