**We Built A Semi-Truck Boat (The PeterBoat) — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Watch as Westen Champlin builds a custom Peterbilt pontoon boat from a semi-truck cab and a pontoon in under 5 hours.

## Key Takeaways

- Creative vehicle modifications can be done quickly with proper planning and teamwork.
- Repurposing old vehicles and boats can result in unique custom builds.
- Structural reinforcement is important when adding heavy components to lightweight platforms.
- The project balances fun and functionality, prioritizing impressive results over perfection.
- Community events like boat shootouts provide motivation and deadlines for builds.

## What the video covers

- Westen Champlin announces a giveaway for a 600 horsepower supercharged Cadillac.
- The main project is building a Peterbilt boat by mounting a Peterbilt semi-truck cab onto a pontoon boat.
- The pontoon boat used is a 1998 Sun Cruiser with an old Evinrude motor, chosen for its suitable structure.
- The Peterbilt cab is taken from a truck with a blown engine, donated for this build.
- The team plans to complete the build quickly, aiming for about 5 hours.
- They remove the front half of the pontoon boat to create a deck for the cab and hood.
- The cab and hood are carefully lifted and positioned onto the pontoon boat.
- Structural reinforcements are added to support the heavier cab on the boat trailer.
- The boat is painted red to complete the 'Peterboat' look.
- The finished Peterbilt pontoon boat is tested on the water with mixed but mostly positive results.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and Giveaway Announcement
2. 01:38 Pontoon Boat Overview and Selection
3. 03:01 Peterbilt Cab Preparation
4. 04:49 Pontoon Boat Disassembly and Prep
5. 06:42 Mounting the Peterbilt Cab and Hood
6. 08:22 Structural Reinforcement and Final Assembly
7. 10:00 Painting and Finishing Touches
8. 12:00 Testing the Peterbilt Boat on Water
9. 31:00 Wrap-up and Reflections

Answers

## Questions about this video

What is the main project in this video?

The video documents building a custom Peterbilt pontoon boat by mounting a semi-truck cab onto a pontoon boat frame.

How long did the build take?

The team aimed to complete the build in about 5 hours and managed to disassemble and reassemble the parts within that timeframe.

What challenges did they face during the build?

Challenges included lifting and positioning the heavy Peterbilt cab, reinforcing the pontoon boat trailer to handle the weight, and working under a tight deadline.

## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00

Speaker A

Guys, in today's episode, we decided to build a Peterbilt boat. But before we get into that, I have to tell you, this is your last chance to get entered to win to take this 600 horsepower supercharged Cadillac home with you. We

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Speaker A

are giving this thing away to someone that buys merchandise on the website, and we are shutting this giveaway down this weekend. This thing's got all the options. 6.2 L supercharged V8, 8-speed transmission, leather seats, does really good burnouts. Hypothetically, this is

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Speaker A

one badass freaking car. So, this is your last chance to get entered to win.

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Speaker A

Don't miss out. Go to westkate.com. Get yourself some entries. Get yourself some badass merchandise. And let's get into today's video. [music] >> Are you ready for the coolest build we've ever done? Oh, hold on. Back it.

00:43

Speaker A

Let me back it up. What were you doing? Are you READY FOR THE COOLEST BUILD WE'VE EVER DONE? GUYS, here's the thing.

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I've had some brilliant ideas in my time. I really, really have. Now, the thing is, I've wanted to build a Peterbilt boat for a very long time. So much so that I bought that Peterbilt over there. We'll look at her here in a

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Speaker A

minute. But, you know, I've actually bought a different pontoon boat to do this with. And then that pontoon boat was so nice, I couldn't bring myself to tear it apart. But, we got invited to Lake of Ozarks. They got a big shootout.

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Speaker A

Bunch of stuff they're doing with some really, really high-powered boats. And we got to be there tonight. So, I bought another pontoon boat that's wayier, but also the perfect bones for a Peterbilt boat.

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Speaker A

Guys, I actually seen what I'm talking about on the internet. This guy put like a Peterbilt cab on the front of a pontoon boat and it was really, really cool except for he wanted like $65,000 for it

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>> for $6,500 >> for $6,500. And I'm thinking we can build it way cheaper and I think we can build it in about 5 hours hopefully.

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Speaker A

We've got us a nice printed Sun Cruiser pontoon [music] boat. Now this is like a 1998 pontoon boat and it's got about a 1958-70 Evinrude two-stroke on the back. So, not much power, but it does float. It's got

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a nice deck. It actually has a decent interior, and it's got really, really good bones for what we want our Peterbilt boat to be.

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>> And the good news is that when we capsize, there's plenty of other boats to rescue us.

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>> Well, actually, our other Bond Doom boat is already there, too. Our 250 horsepower tri-tune boat that we was originally going to do this idea with.

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Our buddy [music] Rich took it out there yesterday and it's already out at Lake of the Ozarks and we were supposed to leave this morning, but then I found [music] this boat on Facebook Marketplace at 1:00 a.m. last night,

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Speaker A

messaged the guy, and here we are. This thing set for 4 years in the guy's barn.

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Speaker A

We pulled it out, threw jumper cables on it, choked it, primed it, fired right up. Truly is the perfect boat to put a semi cab on and take to the Lake of the Ozarks. Um, you guys know like we got

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Speaker A

like a couple hours to get this done and we have to leave, right? >> Yeah. Let's get to work. I went ahead and called basically everyone at about 7:00 a.m. this morning and I'm like, "Guys, get the Peterbilt dragged out of

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Speaker A

the weeds, get everything ready to get the cab off of it. We're going to set it on that boat." So, here's my plan. We're going to back [music] the boat right in where this excursion sitting. We're going to take the whole front half of

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Speaker A

the boat off, so the seats, the railing, and make a nice empty deck. And then we're going to take our nice Peterbilt, well, actually, let me reword that.

03:01

Speaker A

affordable 379 cab and hood off of this truck. Now, don't worry. This truck's got a blown-up motor and the guys ripped the hydraulic [music] tank off of it when taking it off the trailer, but she's going to donate her body to a very

03:12

Speaker A

good cause and then Kyle might paint it if we have enough time. How do you like this idea, Dale?

03:18

Speaker A

>> Should we go test it and make sure it floats fast? >> No, it floats. The guy floated it 4 years ago. I actually genuinely think like I know we're doing this last second, but I don't think it's going to

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Speaker A

be too difficult. I think our quality level just went down a little bit. >> Oh, dude. We don't care about quality here. Not in this one. It's going to barely work, but the barely working it does is going to be so impressive that that's

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not going to matter. >> Impressive isn't the word I'd use for it. >> The good news is the guy's got the cab and the hood ready to come off this Peterbilt. So, once we get this kind of

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backed in here and get started on it, pick up the cab, set it over, pick up the hood, set it over, call our day.

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>> [music] >> All right, guys. 5 minutes into our Peterbilt boat construction and I think it's already ready to start coming apart. Get that out of the way. But my plan is just to take the whole front from right here off and then we'll set

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the cab and the hood down on it as close as we can. I'm going to hold this to the front. Hold it right there.

04:16

Speaker A

We got 112 inches of usable deck space. Let's see how much room our Peterbilt's going to take up. So hopefully the hood and cab of this isn't longer than 112 because then we won't have to hang it

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off the front. Hold that, bro. It's 115. It's perfect. If we put the back of the cab right up against the front of the console, the hood will overhang the front of the boat by 2 inches. [music] [music]

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Speaker A

>> Well, hey, what's that? 30 minutes and the boat's ready. We didn't have a film would have been 10 minutes. [music] >> Well, that was the easy part. Now comes the hard part. Actually getting that Peterbilt cab over here onto it. All

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Speaker A

right. Hey, you want to grab the other side of the hood? READY. [music] [music] >> So guys, this isn't the way you should pick up a cab, but what the way we're going to try to do this is we're going

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to take that fork extension and go right through the windows. [music] Keep going up.

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[music] Hold on. We got a brake linkage still hooked up. Got it. All right. Now, tilt back.

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Speaker A

[music] Originally, we thought this project might take us like a week to do. And I started thinking about it. I'm like, you know, if all hands got on deck, we forgot to do everything else.

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Speaker A

Um, [laughter] anyway, as I was saying, if it was all hands on deck, I thought we could do it in like four or five hours. So, we're an hour and a half in and we've got everything disassembled. Now, we're

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going back together with the Peterbilt boat [music] on down. We'll have to just scooch it around once it gets on there.

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[music] Wonder how heavy it's going to be in the water. >> [laughter] >> Guess we're going to find out.

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>> There he goes. There it is. >> Guys, by the way, the fact is we put a little bit of a heavy cab on the front of this pontoon boat. When you got here, the pontoon boat was completely level,

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but now the trailer is bending right there really badly. Normally, I wouldn't worry about it, but we're going 5 hours.

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So, we're going to go get a piece of metal, a piece of 4x4 rectangular tube, and we're going to go all the way down the center of it and just weld it in real quick before we go just to

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really strengthen her up. But, we're going to send somebody down there, grab that piece of metal, and while they're doing that, we're going to try setting the hood on this thing.

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Speaker A

>> Holy, it's perfect, dude. What the hell, >> man? We're doing We're getting good at this.

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Speaker A

>> We planned this. What are you TALKING ABOUT? [laughter] >> MOM, COME HERE. Look what we built.

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Speaker A

>> Oh my god. Are you serious? >> It's

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Speaker A

>> All right, I got to get to painting. I'd love to talk about how great this is going to be.

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Speaker A

>> What color you think? What color you think that would look? >> Um, well, it's going to be a Peter boat.

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I'll paint it pink. >> That's red. Good. >> Red be good. I see you coming. [music] >> [music] >> Well, the plan is we take a white truck, a white peter boat, and we make it a red Peter boat. That's pretty much the whole

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plan. >> You did black in the fur, huh? >> Yeah. We like to have some black accents. You know what I mean? Cuz I'm fancy.

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>> So, they're doing like less important things like screwing it down, making sure it doesn't fly off.

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>> Yeah. >> The real important stuff is me just making sure it looks good. And because if it looks good, it looks good.

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Speaker A

[music] >> So guys, the thing is obviously we've got a Peter Bell boat, right? And a Peter belt wouldn't be complete without a set of train horns. So guys, Horn Blaster sent these out for our actual real Peter belt a while back and we

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Speaker A

haven't had a chance to put them together. But we've got a set of train horns, compressor, tank, everything that we need to put some really freaking loud train horns on this thing. We're going to wire it all up. That way when we're

08:38

Speaker A

cruising through the lake, we can go make sure everyone knows we're there. >> I know you're going to be having a happy button with that.

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Speaker A

>> Is that the big metal bar? >> Do what? >> Is that the big metal bar? Yeah, this is the big metal bar. So, if you can see, it's touching here. It's touching all the way at the back, but the whole

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Speaker A

trailer's going like this just cuz it's got too much weight on it. So, what we'll do is we'll jack it up and we'll clamp this bar to it nice and tight and then go through and weld it all the way

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Speaker A

down. [music] Well, guys, this is a monumental moment. The Peterboat is finished. The cab is mounted. The hood is mounted. We got Horsepower Labs banner on this side. We got a Redneck Science banner on the other side. The paint job is painted.

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Guy did a nice red paint job with a black grill on it. And it looks a different color than it was before.

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Speaker A

Considering we start on this thing at 10:00 a.m. and it's currently 3:00 p.m. and we have a completely finished Peterbo boat. That's pretty good. And with all of us working on this thing, we got this thing knocked out. Now, the

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Speaker A

question is, will it work? I have no clue. I don't know if it's going to work or not, but we have a 5-hour drive to Lake Ozarks. We don't really even have time to test it. So, we're just going to

09:57

Speaker A

test it out at the lake. Guys, it's been a while since we've done a good shop challenge. And today, we're doing an intense one because we're doing arm wrestling. The winner of this arm wrestle gets five bucks thanks to

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Speaker A

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Speaker A

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Speaker A

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Speaker A

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Speaker A

[music] Guys, we've got company for when our boat sinks. Got Uncle Rich and we got Gavin here, too. But here's the thing.

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Speaker A

Now that everyone's here and we have a whole ensemble of Australians, Americans, bread necks, basically everyone, we're going to run down to the gas station real quick, fill both these things up with gas. So, we got to mix

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Speaker A

some two-stroke oil into this bad girl. Make sure this thing starts and then we're hitting the boat ramp and we're going to see what happens with the Peter boat. Fingers crossed. Hopefully, we don't see.

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Just know this is going to be the moment we look back on before everything goes wrong. Captain goes down with his vessel. Good thing Captain Douglas is the captain of the vessel.

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>> I'm the second mate. >> Who's the captain? >> Well, you're the captain because if it sinks, I have to swim with the the >> I feel like I'm going be standing on top of the stack like Captain Jack Sparrow

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when his thing sinks. All right, guys. She's full of gas. She's full oil. We love you, honey. We know you're from 1977, but do us well today. Do us well today. So, we're going to go down there.

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We're going to launch our good pontoon boat first cuz we know it'll probably be okay. Then, we're going to ease the Peter boat into the water. Now, my thought is I kind of want to back it in far enough just to see how she does.

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Speaker A

>> It looks like a very deep uh ramp as well. Like, >> dude, it's a very steep ramp, which is good.

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Speaker A

>> It should float off the trailer. If it goes down with the trailer, we know to pull it out. [music] >> Yeah.

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Let me back in a little bit more. I want to start this motor. Make sure it runs.

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All right. Hold up. >> Is she running? >> Yeah, she's good. She's even smoking a nice amount, too.

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>> Floating. >> It's slightly floating. Wait till we get the front side in. This ising terrifying. No, >> we're fine. We're good. We're good.

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We're good. >> You want me to throw it in gear? >> Yeah. >> It's either I go full reverse and just like punch it, but then it's going to come off the trailer.

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>> Yeah, we want to get off the trailer. >> Yeah, but I don't know how well it's going to float on the front.

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>> Well, we're going to find out real quick. [music] There's no point around. Just get into it.

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>> All right, here we go. Holy floating. OH, WE'RE ACTUALLY FLOATING. HOW LEVEL IS IT?

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>> IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD. YOU WANT TO TRY PULLING UP NEXT TO THAT BOAT? HEY, NICK, BE READY TO CATCH the mirror or something.

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>> I think it's good, actually, to be honest. >> Hey, once we get wound up out in the ocean, we'll be fine. [laughter] >> That's where she'll be. All right. I never thought my truck mirror would rub a pontoon boat. Well, guys, that was

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stressful because our two-stroke engine in this thing barely runs, but she's running and uh it honestly feels pretty solid, to be honest. It doesn't feel sketchy at all, dude. It took us 4 hours, maybe five to build this.

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Speaker A

>> Insane. How many beers? >> None. >> Completely. >> True Redneck. >> Hey, one of the guys from the from the Four Seasons.

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>> What's bad about that? >> I don't know. I feel like he's going to come talk to us.

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>> He does look pretty official. >> He's got a golf cart. >> What's he upset about us about?

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>> You blame it on whoever's your captain. [laughter] >> That's the captain. So, the guy that couldn't back his trailer in here spent 20 minutes when we got here to the boat dock, couldn't back his trailer in to

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get his $800,000 boat out. When complained about us revving our two-stroke when there's a big block over here idling that's way louder than our two-stroke. It's not my fault you got four engines on your boat. If one of

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them fails, you got a couple others. We're working with what we got here. All right.

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>> If he keeps up, I'm going to come and deer one of his engines. [laughter] >> I think Rich just went up there and gave the guy 50 bucks and said, "No, it's no big deal." He said that you were

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revving. said there was some complaints about loud revving and music and I said, "We don't got a stereo on that thing." I blamed that on the other boat and he was like, "No, I got down here and heard

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him." So, you guys are good. >> So, guys, here's the thing. We got the old Peter boat launched. But Rich here has set us up to go on some big high-speed boats that go like 100 fast >> 160

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>> 160 mph on the water. We're going to go over there. We're going to jump on these boats that make probably like 75,000 horsepower. Once we get off those lame things, we're going to come back and get on our Peter boat and go hit the lake.

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>> [music] >> All right, guys. The Peterbo boat is on the move. We took the airbox off. I have no idea why anything else, but that just made it run perfect. Oh, dude. She's She's barely going under on the front.

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It doesn't feel unstable at all. I feel like we just need to get this thing up on plane and then she'll be good. HEY, IS THERE ANY TRUCK PARKING?

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>> WHERE DO WE PARK OUR TRUCK? HERE. >> OKAY. WELL, I guess if you if you insist.

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>> Parallel park semis these days. >> All right. Start to turn. Start to turn.

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Start to turn. Reverse now. Reverse. Reverse. Perfect, bro. Perfect. [screaming] >> Oh >> Hey, what's up, buddy?

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>> What? >> HOW YOU DOING? >> Who else you think would have a Peter boat? How you doing, BUDDY? [laughter] Getting my sea legs in. Can we just go pulling that slip just to dock her up?

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We just need to leave her for like an hour. We need to put her stickers and stuff on.

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Guys, we made it into about 5 foot out of the cove. And the chop was uh substantial.

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>> Can you see how good that grill sits in the water? That's perfect. >> Yeah, look at it. It's like we designed it that way. She just kisses the water every once in a while and then comes back up. All right, so let's go ride

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these speed boats. >> Is that what we're getting on? [music] >> That looks very dangerous.

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>> That looks dangerous as That's 1,000 horsepower. That's not much. >> This is the type of boat that can flip over.

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>> What do you guys think about that? Well, I thought that about the Peter boat earlier. Didn't one of these flip over backwards earlier today?

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>> 20 minutes ago. We put the video right here. >> Mom, if you're watching, turn off right about now.

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>> So, dude, how does it work? Like, are you best friends with everybody wearing a monster suit or like a brotherhood?

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He's a He's like a mechanic from Monster, right? But because he's got the claw around the brothers like automatically.

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>> I love it. You know, I just realized you look like a walking billboard.

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>> You really are. Every time. >> Every time. It's like monster hat, monster shirt. And if he had socks on, they'd be monster socks.

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>> And undies. I'll show you my undies later. They're monster. [music] >> How fast will this thing go?

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>> Uh, we're going to go about 140. >> 140. >> Probably 130. >> What's the hatch in the bottom for?

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>> That's for us to get out. >> What? If we roll it? Yeah. >> Does that happen? [laughter] >> Yeah.

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>> Okay, dude. I appreciate you boys letting me come out here. >> Yeah, it's going to be fun.

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>> Hell yeah. Guys, big shout out to these guys for coming. And apparently I'm steering this bad girl. So, I've steered a few things in my life. Horses, horsepower lawnmowers recliners couches. Never a 1000 horsepower race boat. Oh, this is sick, bro. Don't get

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me started on another damn expensive hobby. >> You can do it. >> How much is this boat if you don't mind me asking? Uh, you can buy this one for probably 550 600.

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Speaker A

>> Bought my pontoon boat this the yesterday morning for three grand. So I guess we're doing we're doing good. So radio I'm going assume in case we flip >> Yep. We need oxygen. Oxygen's on too.

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>> Okay. So just >> so don't worry about that. If we got to put that in your mouth, you just throw it in your mouth.

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>> Okay. And then hatch if we got to get out. >> Yep. That that little thing right there.

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>> How likely is it for these things to roll? >> Oh, pretty easy. >> Really? We just rolled one 3 weeks ago.

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>> Like no >> No All right. You're going to drive now. >> Which way are we going?

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>> We're going to go straight up that way. >> All right, cool. >> So they have outboards, inboard classes, all different classes and stuff like drag racing.

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>> Yeah, we're going to do outboards, inboards everything. >> We're actually racing. >> Yeah, we're going to drag race the MCON boat. Jackhammer against MCON. We race against them all season long. Jackhammer does. So we made a challenge that you

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and your partner are going to drag race each other. We're going to be the first drag race of the year, 2026.

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>> Are you serious? >> Yeah. So, make sure you stay straight. >> Okay. >> I'm going to tell you where to go.

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You're going to go in a straight line. I'm going to tell you there's a buoy.

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>> I want you to go left or right. If you turn that wheel just a quarter turn, you're going to turn real quick.

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>> Okay. So, it's very sensitive. >> Very sensitive. >> Okay. >> And if something ever happens, I'm going to give you mouth to mouth. I promise you.

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>> I sure hope we roll over. [laughter] >> Man, you gave me the big guy, bro. Hey, if we roll, I know what way we're going, mother.

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>> Here we go. We're going to be Keep your wheels straight. We're going to the right of them, guys.

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>> Oh, this is wild. >> You good? I'm good. All right. Ready? >> Yeah.

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>> Here we go. Go right a little bit. Right a little bit. All right.

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Holy. That'sing wild. Here we go. TO THE LEFT OF THE GREEN BUOY. RIGHT. >> HOLY.

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HOLY. Here we go. This is crazy. All right, we're going to go left. Now we're going to turn around.

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>> So, we're going to be on the outside now. >> Yeah, we're good. You're going to go fast this time. All right, here we go.

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You're going to stay right. You got it. >> Yeah, I got it. >> Come on. You can do it. You can do it.

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Here we go. >> Come on. COME ON. OH, DUDE. DUDE, THAT'S SICK. >> THERE YOU GO. That's a photo finish for >> That is badass.

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>> Good job. >> Why did you do this to me? >> God dang it.

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>> How do you like that? >> I want one so bad now. You know what it is? I'm like, you know, boats are cool and all and I'm like, you know, I get it. I get it. I didn't get it. This is

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sick. [laughter] >> We did get up there, though. >> What? What did we get to?

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>> We got up to 138. >> That's getting after it. I'm just so happy I beat Gavin. He's such a cocky son, [laughter] That was insane.

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That was super freaking cool. And now we're out here. We're at the finish line. Ran 138 mph in that run. 138, guys. Gavin here.

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>> Try to race. Yo, >> how about you go? >> We did 120. You guys got us, though.

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>> 120. And you know what? I've never felt so addicted to something, but I feel like I'm addicted to this.

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>> You're a boat guy now. >> I'm a boat guy now. >> [music] [music] >> Guys, shout out to the Reese with Jackhammer. That boat's a sender. The thing is though, we had such a good time racing the boat. I think we got to go

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back and get in the Peter boat. See what she's ready for. Let's go. [music] >> So guys, this is about our top speed right here. Does it look choppy out there to you?

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>> Choppy. >> How's the front of our boat look? >> Oh, where's all that water coming from?

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So slow. Go faster. >> That's not good. >> No, that's fine. >> I DON'T THINK WE'RE FINE, KYLE. LOOKS A DICK. IT'S FINE.

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>> WAIT, HOW'S IT ACTUALLY LOOK? IS A LITTLE WET FOR SOME REASON, >> DUDE. It's choppy as out there. You want to stay towards the edge?

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>> I think you should. >> This isn't good, BOYS. THIS AIN'T GOOD. THIS [laughter] THIS IS NOT GOOD. HEY, CAPTAIN. I DON'T THINK THIS GOING TO WORK. MORE RPM. WE CAN'T SEE. It just washes off. It's fine. I DON'T THINK THAT'S RIGHT.

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>> TECHNICALLY, IT won't sink. It'll just roll. [laughter] >> Hello. >> Hey, you're getting real close to getting water in your engine. I would maybe if you want to leave the airbox off, do that. But maybe put the cover

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back on. >> Uh, that killed it. We did the air cleaner off. All right, >> guys. We have a six mile trek. We've got to make it to Shady Gators, which is the the bar down here.

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>> You're too heavy. Get down the back. [music] >> To the left, KYLE. TO THE LEFT. THIS AIN'T GOOD, KYLE.

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>> THIS AIN'T GOOD. DON'T TAKE THE WAVE STRAIGHT ON. >> FINE. >> THIS IS NOT FUN, GUYS. IT'S 3.1 MILES AWAY. IF WE make it to the bar, it's a success.

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>> We should give it to somebody at the bar. Wait. So, you got to wait on me to go. We need to tie the rope up. Go over there and tie the rope.

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>> You do it. I'll steer. What? >> You're the captain here. >> That is true.

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>> Hey, grab grab the wheel. GOD DAMN YOU. ABANDONED THE HELM. THIS IS LIKE THE DUMBEST IDEA WE'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE.

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>> Going on the other side. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. >> WE'RE GETTING TO THE BAR.

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>> OH MY GOSH, BRO. >> OH, WE'RE nosing under bad. WE NEED TO HELP PAUL. He's a captain.

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He's got this. [screaming] [laughter] >> I need to try that rope. >> Turn it down.

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>> Fall's in. Ready. >> Well, I'll tell you what. We're testing out the stability of the Peterbo.

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[laughter] It's actually very stable. >> Hasn't sank yet. >> I mean, we're this far in.

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>> Yeah. It's a pretty reliable cruiser. You know, if you're not in a hurry, it's pretty great.

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>> That was serious. Rough in there. >> Yeah. Are we done? TIME TO GO.

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>> HIT IT. [music] [music] >> WELL, GUYS, we're getting a little help for the chase boat. I'M TRYING TO EASE UP ON THOSE TWO STROKES SO SHE GETS THE GAS POWER. [music] >> [music] >> GUYS, I made the executive decision. As

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much as the Peter boat is awesome, I feel like we should take her home and refine her and then get on the big boat and go party. We were doing all right for a while until the whole thing was

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given up on us. >> We were never doing okay. >> NO, WE WERE DOING ALL RIGHT WHILE WE WERE IN THE COVE >> from the start of >> All right, we're going to run grab our truck and trailer. Do you mind watching

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it for a second? We'll pay you or whatever. >> No, we'll be here. >> Dude, you guys are all right. Thank you.

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Appreciate you. [music] >> You know what? I think we're going to do I'll figure this out. The Peterboat is fantastic inside coes. That's where we went wrong. We like, damn, we tried to take it out in the open lake. So, we're

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going to take her to the cove tomorrow and watch some boat racing and cruise around with the yachts and she'll do well there. I feel guys, things didn't go so well yesterday. Things [laughter] did not go particularly in the right

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direction for the Peterbo boat. We've got a new plan of attack. There's a boat ramp down here that's inside of a cove, which means no main channel choppy [music] water that almost sinks the Peterbo. We're going down here and we're

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going to drop right down here. And whenever we get out, we can just kind of motor real slowly down to where they're racing.

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>> Well, there's only really one option and that's slow. That's true. [music] So guys, [music] we don't currently even have our uh our backup boat right now.

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We're just working with what we got. And what we got is the two-stroke that doesn't run very good. But all we got to do is just putt to where we need to go, which shouldn't be too far away. Man,

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this is so much smoother here than it was over there in the main channel. You see the state patrol boat over there? I wonder if they're going to have an issue with us.

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>> Feel like it's capitating. >> It's got so much power. She wants to rent is what you're trying to say.

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>> She wants to go. >> See, the thing is, guys, we don't actually control what the boat does. The boat does what it wants to do.

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>> And we're just here just to have a good time with the boat as long as we can.

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>> We're existing with the Peter boat. So, you know, the nice thing about it is right now we're in a no wig zone, which is fantastic cuz this is the fastest this thing goes. They don't know that.

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It just looks like we're cruising along. We could have a thousand horse in this thing. You don't know.

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>> I'm pretty sure that's the patrol boat. >> Where? No, I don't think so. That doesn't look very patrol. coming right at us.

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>> No, I don't think so. >> That's totally them, Weston. >> Well, they haven't turned the red and blues on yet.

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>> Oh, yeah. >> You like it? >> It's nice, ain't it? I like the boat.

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Now that we've experienced the main channel, this doesn't scare me at all. No. >> Compared to what we were in yesterday, this is like completely fine.

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>> This is probably what the feeder boat was designed to do. >> Exactly. >> It was out of its element yesterday in all that chopping water.

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That was the problem. See how the guy on the $800,000 boats taking videos of us?

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>> Exactly. >> We've succeeded. [laughter] >> Guys, here's the thing. If you know, if you come to Lake of Ozarks, there's million million million dollar boats out here. Those guys, they're going to beat you in the nice boat competition. So,

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you got to have the interesting boat. That's what it comes down to. >> Damn, that mother.

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>> WHAT DO WE GOT TO DO FOR A TACO? >> HOW MANY TACOS YOU NEED?

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>> I don't know. Just a couple. Oh man, that smells good. Oh, thank you.

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>> Did they let you race that boat yesterday or what? >> Yeah. >> Were you in the cockpit?

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>> I was driving. >> Oh, hell yeah. [music] >> Can I get three cruising down the river today?

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Keeping folks aloat. They spot the hear now. Y is here. >> Good boy. >> They got their own theme song, bro.

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>> I actually thought it was going to be a joke. It actually kind of goes hard.

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[laughter] [music] >> Best tacos ON THE RIVER. >> I APPRECIATE YOU. What do we What do we owe you?

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>> Shout out, man. >> Guys, shout out to these guys. I'm not saying that cuz the tacos were free.

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They were free, [laughter] but they're good tacos, too. So, if you're out here looking at Ozarks, make sure you stop by the taco boat.

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>> Tacos. >> D tacos. Thank you. Guys, we're just cruising around. See what everybody thinks of the Peterbo.

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It's kind of early in the day, you know. Nothing super big's happening right now.

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HOW Y'ALL LIKE IT? YOU THINK IT'S COOL? >> GOOD. Cuz it almost sank a little bit ago. HOW Y'ALL DOING?

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>> I LOVE YOU. >> I LOVE YOU, TOO, BUDDY. I love you, too. God damn. I love being American.

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[laughter] This is just the best thing ever. Cruising my truck down the lake. [laughter] >> He's recording.

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>> Oh, he's using it for evidence later. How y'all doing? >> Give us the balloon for this.

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>> I sure hope it's not illegal. >> HE DON'T CARE. >> OH, LOOK. THAT'S ANOTHER drive by. It's called a fly over, not a driveby.

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[laughter] I actually thought the state troopers would have a problem with us, but they're just like, "Chill. They're just taking videos." [music] So guys, there's one final thing I want to try to do before we get out of here.

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I want to see if this boat will get up on plane. I think there's a place over here where we can go and and try it. And if there is, we're going to let the old Peter boat loose and see if she'll get

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up on plane. Now, the two-stroke has been running remarkably well, and I kind of leaned into it. And listen to this.

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I'll lean into it for a second. Hear that? That's that third cylinder coming alive on her. And if that third cylinder comes to live on her, I think this thing will get up on plane. But it's one way to find out. All right.

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Make sure we don't hit nothing. [music] >> [music] >> I don't think you're going to do it, boys. [music] >> [music] >> I'm going to miss Lake of Ozarks, guys.

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All things considered, we've had good times and we've had bad times with the Peterbo. But today has been nothing but good times. We've just been out here cruising around having us a good time.

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This thing, as stupid as it was, as fast as we built it, is pretty freaking cool, guys. Hopefully you enjoyed the Peterboat episode. But just before you go, I got to remind you this is your last chance to get entered to win to

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take this 600 horsepower supercharged Cadillac plus $10,000 cash home with you. So depending on when you watch this, there could be a day or an hour left in this giveaway. So go to western icek.com, get yourself some merchandise,

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get entered to win this bad girl. The giveaway ends this weekend, and I will see you guys next week. [music]

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