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This week on the big three, we are

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talking about our favorite builds. We've been following

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new versions of three car enthusiasts icons, but

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our first big story of the week, us.

0:43

Welcome back to the show. Everybody. My name is

0:45

Nolan Sykes. I'm joined this week

0:47

by Justin Freeman, a his

0:49

dog, Edgar ziggers and

0:52

max. Hi. So there've

0:54

been a lot of comments about what's going on at

0:56

donut these days. And we figured we should just talk

0:58

to you about the big time

1:01

launch. Okay. So Jared and Joe, they

1:03

have started their own channel called big

1:05

time. It's their thing. They own it.

1:07

Uh, they had a announcement video, a couple,

1:10

but not like a week ago. Yeah. It's been about two weeks. Uh, we,

1:13

we gave them a shout out for them to

1:15

plug their channel and they launched their channel and

1:17

it's been going really well. They've been trending twice.

1:20

They got their first subscribers in a week. Yeah.

1:22

That is insanely impressive. It's really good. Super stoked

1:24

for him. Justin and I, we went to their

1:26

launch party that they had that day. It was

1:28

a great time. We're still very good friends with

1:30

them. They are still here. Um, most

1:33

days of the week working with us. They are. I

1:36

do think it's fair to say there is some confusion

1:38

about how involved Jared and Joe are going to be

1:40

with, uh, with donut. Yeah. So we should talk

1:43

about that. Yeah, let's do that. So Jared and

1:45

Joe will be on donut. You'll see their beautiful

1:48

enviable faces. Uh, they're

1:50

like Greek gods, uh, on the

1:52

channel through the rest of the year. You know, we got,

1:55

we got the, uh, Nora race with

1:57

the ranger coming up in October. We

2:00

also have a very big project

2:02

in between there. You're going to

2:04

see them very involved, longtime fans

2:06

of the channel. You might know

2:08

what we're talking about. We've already

2:10

bought one of them vehicles. But again, to

2:12

be 100% clear, there

2:15

is no bad blood between us and big

2:17

time. We still see these guys most days

2:19

of the week. Yeah. Everything is

2:21

fine. Another rumor is that when you get

2:23

acquired, I guess like suddenly you lose all

2:25

your creative juice and they come and suck

2:27

it all out of you with a big

2:29

vacuum, like the one from Teletubbies somehow. So

2:33

that's not the case. We come up with all of

2:36

our videos here that we make. We've

2:38

had some big swings that paid off, but we've

2:40

also made some big swings that did not really

2:42

pay off. Yeah, it's fair to say that we

2:44

try to make the best videos we can that

2:47

we want to watch and that we think people

2:49

are going to watch. And sometimes we're wrong. Sometimes

2:51

we make stuff that doesn't work. We like trying

2:53

stuff and we have recognized that there's some stuff

2:55

that we just won't make again. Do

2:57

you think some corporate suit would put

2:59

a PT Cruiser on the trending page?

3:01

No, no. That's not

3:04

a corporate decision. No, obviously.

3:07

Like I said, we make swings sometimes. Sometimes just

3:10

to borrow a phrase from Mighty

3:12

Mighty Bostone, it's a very timely band. They

3:15

can't all be zingers. That's

3:17

how I feel. And as I always like to say, we made

3:20

some bad stuff before. We made bad

3:22

stuff long ago. Look at

3:24

some of those earlier wheel houses or like mid

3:26

run wheel houses. Yeah, I

3:28

mean, we come up with

3:31

the ideas that we make and

3:33

the reality is like not everything

3:35

can get made, unfortunately, time, budget,

3:38

availability for you guys, directors, it makes it

3:40

hard to make every single thing that we

3:42

want to make, but we really do try

3:44

our hardest. I do want to

3:47

mention something. My buddy Zach, when

3:49

we do our little shorts on Instagram, we get approached

3:51

all the time where people think we have a team.

3:54

And it's just like, no, dude, that's just us and a cell

3:56

phone, you know? It's just

3:58

like, yeah, that's not what this. is this

4:01

is way bigger than what you might see

4:03

people do on short form content where you

4:05

just live the life and you're an expert

4:07

at it. This is a whole production. So

4:10

speaking of, yeah, for example, the F two

4:12

fifties or the F series video that you

4:14

did, that was your pride and joy driving

4:16

every F series truck from the F one

4:18

50 to the F seven 50. That took

4:21

how long? That took from like initial idea

4:23

to release. I was about six months, but

4:25

yeah, about six months sourcing all

4:27

the vehicles, getting the thing written. Uh, we

4:30

traveled for that. We traveled all the way

4:32

up to like Oregon or something. Graton, uh,

4:35

which was outside Petaluma. Um, yeah,

4:38

all the way down to San Diego. Like it was like the

4:40

whole all over California to get all those

4:42

trucks. I mean, it's just, yeah,

4:44

a video, a video like that in the

4:46

long run paid off very well for us,

4:48

but in the long run,

4:50

what are you posting? You can't just work on

4:52

this one video for six months straight and then

4:55

just dump it. You know, you have to do

4:57

other things that take less time and less investment

4:59

on the way there. Yeah.

5:01

It's a, it's a interesting dance

5:03

to be at

5:06

a YouTube channel. I think is that's

5:09

been my entire takeaway from my whole

5:11

time here is like, there's so many

5:13

other considerations that from the outside you

5:15

don't really aren't, you aren't aware of.

5:17

Uh, but also, yeah, I

5:19

mean, time is like the most valuable resource you

5:22

have and you never have enough of it. You

5:24

know, I guess on that

5:26

note, like the people in this building who are,

5:28

you know, contributing to our whole creative process are

5:30

like really stoked car enthusiasts who want to be

5:33

the best videos possible. And so, you know, we

5:35

really are trying, we're trying to, you know, improve

5:38

every day, every video guys,

5:40

like we

5:43

read comments. Uh, we shouldn't.

5:45

Yeah. Uh, you know, you do

5:47

have to curb the amount of comments that you

5:49

read. I learned that early on. I read the,

5:51

uh, first hour, first hour.

5:53

That's it. Yeah. That's pretty good. I like

5:55

to check when all the porn bots come

5:58

out. Well, and positive. Ranger

8:00

build videos, they can't all be F-150 videos, otherwise

8:03

you'd be like H-Bomber guy or something

8:05

making one video a year. So

8:08

that's just kind of the reality of that. And trust

8:11

me though, your concerns have been

8:13

heard and they're not just audience

8:15

concerns, it's like I wanna make the video, I

8:17

wanna be in videos that I wanna watch. That's

8:20

another big thing for us. And

8:22

Justin, we grew up watching people

8:24

like Top Gear or other car

8:26

YouTubers and just wanting to kinda

8:29

emulate them and do these

8:31

big shoots and things that we can hang

8:34

our hat on and be like, we did

8:36

this. Like the Mr. Beast jet car video

8:38

dude, that was such- The stuff you guys

8:40

don't know about. If I ever write a

8:42

book, dude, bro. If I ever

8:45

write a book, I was in a truck

8:47

with Justin, we're driving, we're just in the-

8:50

We're in West Virginia in the middle of the night

8:52

with the jet powered car on

8:54

the back of the trailer leaking

8:57

kerosene everywhere. Oh dude.

8:59

While a Tesla was strapped to the trailer and we

9:02

were dragging it so we could charge. Matt for more

9:04

perception, his car, towing his uphill to recharge the back.

9:06

It's a whole thing. But I was just thinking like,

9:08

just not, if I ever write a book, this

9:11

is the introduction right here. Cause

9:13

this was the, that was the craziest thing.

9:15

Sorry, my phone's going crazy. Oh,

9:17

my dad's here. Oh. He's

9:20

dropping off the trailer. Sorry, one second. One moment,

9:22

sorry, my dad just showed up. And

9:25

on that bombshell. Nolan,

9:28

welcome back. Thank you. We have a trailer now. We

9:30

have a flatbed trailer. All right,

9:33

another thing we kind of want to address

9:35

here is ads, paying

9:37

the bills. Yeah, cars

9:39

are expensive. If I had one piece

9:41

of advice for someone who wanted

9:44

to get into YouTube and they're like, hey, what

9:46

kind of channel should I make? Not cars. Cars

9:48

is probably not the first choice I would say.

9:50

It's very expensive. It's actually

9:52

a niche. And

9:54

there's millions of niches within that niche. Well, it's

9:56

just, look, you need a lot of space. You

9:58

got to buy. the cars, cars themselves are expensive.

10:00

Anyway, you got to pay for it. It's really

10:02

important for us to not pay all our content.

10:04

You've had experience with this. I've had experience with

10:07

it's like, hey, do you want to do an

10:09

ad for this company? We're just like, no,

10:12

not at all. Absolutely not. No, thank you. Yeah.

10:14

So we have the power to do that. And

10:18

I've definitely turned down a lot of stuff in

10:20

the past. So it's been tough

10:24

just reading criticism.

10:27

And obviously, like I love

10:29

getting vowed criticism and like using

10:32

that to inform future videos and stuff. We do

10:34

that all the time. It's like, hey, you guys

10:36

like. I got to get an example. Okay. Number

10:38

one comment on our civic build that we did

10:40

last year was, you know, we would

10:42

do, we did the engine swap video where we

10:44

put the K-series engine in the civic. And the

10:46

top comment was this should have been an hour

10:48

long and swap video. Yeah. I agree. No, that's

10:50

a really great example. So like we hear your

10:52

criticisms like that. We hear your critique. Sometimes we

10:54

get into our own heads about like what we

10:56

want to see and what we think is will

10:58

work. And like, we do defer

11:00

to you guys watching to

11:03

inform our future creative

11:05

endeavors. You know, like I know I am very

11:07

invested in every video I do because that's at

11:10

the end of the day, it's like my face

11:12

talking to you through the camera. All the criticisms,

11:14

like I take them to

11:16

heart every time because I want to

11:18

make the best video we can. I want to be the

11:21

best presenter I can be and just

11:23

have the most fun. So I

11:25

don't want you to think all that to say, I don't want you

11:28

to think that like your comments and critiques

11:30

are not falling on deaf ears and that we're

11:32

not listening because we are listening to

11:34

maybe like an unhealthy degree to

11:37

be totally Frank. But that's just

11:39

part of the game is like your videos

11:42

are so attached to the community

11:44

that supports it, that supports those

11:46

videos that you cannot ignore your

11:49

community. And that's what I

11:51

love about YouTube. I mean, even years

11:54

before I was even on this channel is

11:56

like, that's what I loved about the platform is like

11:58

you would see people respond to. your

12:00

critiques and If

12:05

YouTube abandons that principle of like Abandoning

12:07

the communities like and that's when the

12:09

platform fails So I want to do

12:11

my best to keep that tradition going

12:13

right? I mean I and to that

12:16

just to wrap that up I'm really

12:18

really excited about the stuff that we're working on right now.

12:20

I'm excited about the direction that we're headed This

12:22

feels like kind of like an exciting new chapter for

12:25

us. Definitely. We've got a lot of fun stuff going

12:27

on Absolutely. We got some really crazy ideas even plan

12:29

for next year already like yep, Justin.

12:31

Yeah Justin

12:34

Justin will be going on some adventures.

12:36

Yeah, they'll be Thrown

12:38

into some strife. He'll have to

12:40

solve some I volunteered for yes

12:44

My idea I'm very excited for that

12:46

it's safe to say our sponsors allow us

12:49

to do big stuff. Yeah We

12:51

are still friends with all our buddies.

12:54

There's no bad blood. We were at

12:56

their launch party They're going to my

12:58

wedding, etc. Etc. Yeah, and we've got

13:00

some talented awesome New

13:03

people coming in. Mm-hmm. We got some amazing

13:05

content on the way and we're all really

13:07

happy Now do you

13:09

guys want to talk about some real car news? Let's talk

13:11

about some car now was the real car news Last

13:15

week we had three big new car

13:17

announcements with the arrival of the new

13:19

BMW M5 Hell yeah,

13:22

the comeback for the Ford RS 200 and

13:25

the mark 1 escort

13:28

Ford rally cars Interesting.

13:30

So let's start with the M5. Okay,

13:32

it's the seventh generation or G90 for

13:34

you BMW nerds out there You probably

13:37

already knew that it's gonna have a 4.4 liter

13:39

twin turbo v8 and a 194

13:43

horsepower electric motor with a combined

13:45

output of 717

13:49

horsepower and 738

13:51

foot-pounds of torque. That's that's Hellcat numbers.

13:53

Yes Hellcat red-eyed red-eyed numbers seven Yes,

13:55

all-wheel-drive or is a rear-wheel-drive. That's the

13:58

question gotta be all Like the

14:00

M3CS we got the drive. That

14:03

was awesome. I would guess. So this thing is going to do

14:05

0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds. It's

14:09

going to have 90 more horsepower

14:11

than the outgoing M5CS, but

14:14

it is also 1,153 pounds heavier.

14:18

Whoa. Oh, that's an

14:20

entire family. This guy tips the

14:22

door half a family, depending on

14:25

the cracker rail you go to.

14:28

So this thing tips the scales

14:30

at 5,390 pounds. It's

14:33

a truck. That is a

14:35

truck. That's so big and is heavier

14:38

than some of BMW's electric sedans. This

14:40

thing's a monster. Holy cow.

14:42

Good Lord. Okay. Uh, thoughts

14:44

on this guys. I'm just shocked by

14:46

that weight figure. Well, you know, power

14:48

numbers are cool. Yeah, that's great. Cars

14:50

are way too fast nowadays. Yeah, I just

14:52

don't think it needs to be that bad.

14:54

Like it's supposed to be a cruiser. It

14:57

needs to have that power if it's going to

14:59

be that heavy. I think is the, well, that's

15:01

also true. And if they didn't need to make

15:03

it that heavy, if they didn't want that kind

15:05

of power, remove those hybrid batteries in that way.

15:07

I think that's what it is. Like hybrid also,

15:09

it's a big sedan and you know, cars are

15:11

getting bigger all the time because of, you know,

15:14

things like sound deadening and safety considerations. You

15:16

know, it's, it is impressive though, when you like drive

15:18

some of these new cars that do weigh a lot,

15:20

how good they are. At the

15:23

end of the day, like you can't

15:25

pay off physics, you know, with horsepower

15:27

or engineering, like it still weighs 53,

15:29

almost 5,400 pounds going around

15:31

corners. Like there's still a lot of forces working

15:34

on those tires. Yeah. A lot of mass when

15:36

it hits something. Yeah. I

15:38

kind of like what they're doing with the front bumper there

15:40

with like those angular kind of like, well,

15:42

what's that, what's that like baby blue

15:44

on that? Everyone? The M2CS. The M2CS.

15:48

That's a goofy looking car. It is goofy. It looks

15:50

like they took that design language and kind of held

15:52

it a little bit. No

15:54

more gigantic hog nose. It's not the worst.

15:57

I mean, as far as BMW, they've.