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- Hello, people in the television.
I'm Danny McBride, the creator of "The Righteous Gemstones."
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Now, it is no mystery that the Gemstones have
an array of vehicles,
whether it's a private jet-- three of them--
or fancy cars, swamp boats.
In this third season, we introduce
a brand-new vehicle that the Gemstones own--
a monster truck.
- ♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ Redeemer ♪
Now, how are we going to pull off a monster truck?
Where are we going to get it from?
How are we going to get it to do some crazy stuff?
Everyone was worried. I wasn't.
I knew all we had to do was call our boys
Rick and Ryan at The Metal Shop.
♪ ♪
- My name is Rick Disharoon,
and I'm the owner of The Metal Shop--
Delmar, Delaware.
I work with my daughter Jaclyn
and my wife, Sherri...
and my son Ryan, who you may know
as an acclaimed monster-truck driver.
Together with our crew at The Metal Shop,
we build the toughest, most innovative monster trucks
on the market.
It's more than just a business.
It's a family affair.
Look, man, we're the best in the business
when it comes to this.
♪ ♪
Come on, man, come on,
I got something important to tell you.
Check this out.
I just got a phone call from Danny McBride
with "The Righteous Gemstones." - No way.
- Yeah, yeah, man. Is that badass or what?
- Baby Billy-- - Baby Billy, yeah, Jesse.
What they want us to do--
they wanted the best in the business to build them
a badass monster truck.
They want to call it The Redeemer.
- Nice.
- I want 557 cubic inches of big tire brand
and badass motor.
I want it to be thumping and humping,
and I want smoke and flare.
- We'll build you something.
- They got to have this thing in less than 30 days.
- God dang. - [whistles]
- We can do it, man. I know we can do it.
We all pull together,
we can knock this thing out of the park.
This is a chance of a lifetime. - We can do it.
I mean, for this kind of deal, it's got to happen.
- That's what I'm talking about, man.
And this truck is going to be
the baddest truck that we've ever built,
and we're going to make those guys proud
because I know that everybody standing here,
everybody is going to make it happen, am I right?
all: Yeah! - Hell, yeah! Come on!
Let's get this done, man! Put it all in here!
All right! - All right, Metal Shop!
- One, two, three... all: Metal Shop!
- Whoa, let's go!
- Now that we're on Max
and we're going to be running for "The Righteous Gemstones,"
the world is going to see our work.
I mean, finally,
after all these years of this quality craftsmanship,
the world can recognize what we do.
This timeline is tight. This is do or die.
♪ ♪
- The Metal Shop is comprised
of three different buildings.
We have a speed shop up front, where my wife and my daughter
run all the office and dailies.
- You better get back here and clean this mess up.
Don't be running away with the bear.
- We have a fabrication shop.
This is where the truck is designed
and the body is built.
That is run by my son.
- First, we got to get this design down, man.
We got to model this thing out.
- And then we have a man that's just like a son to me--
Brandon, and he runs the automotive.
Basically, it's where we build the engines and install them.
- I got to make it perfect, you know what I mean?
- You know what they say--
put lipstick on a pig, you still got a pig.
- Oh, yeah.
- We're kind of like a force to be reckoned with
in our industry.
You know, we have monster trucks, drag cars.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Man, we're in amusement parks.
I mean, we do everything,
from the Tilt-a-Whirl to the roller coaster.
We don't just make the biscuits--we cook them, baby.
- Whoo! Look at this thing right here.
This thing is bad, dude.
I'm Ryan Disharoon, vice president at The Metal Shop.
♪ ♪
Not all monster trucks are alike,
and the reason why is because everybody
has a different thing they want to do with the monster truck.
The Gemstone truck has to do two things.
Number one, it's got to be reliable.
I got to make every single set
that they're going to have me do.
Then it's got to be ready to be around people
and do crazy stunts with it.
You know, how are we going to implement
this crazy monster truck around actors, famous people?
This is Danny McBride standing next to this truck.
I'm not about to run this guy over, you know what I mean?
There are four crucial parts to this monster-truck build.
First up is the chassis.
That's the internal skeleton of the truck.
Next, we'll attach the axles to control our steering.
From there, we will mount the engine and tires.
And after some testing, final assembly,
the body goes on, and she's ready to go.
- You know, building a monster truck
is definitely unique,
in the sense that it's built 100% here.
And it starts with Ryan, with a design that's impeccable.
- So we got our main rails,
then we start doing these tie-ins,
Shocks will go there.
So this is actually a monster-truck rear.
This is where the tires and wheels are going to mount,
and this right here is where the shocks
are going to mount to it.
Here, suspension system.
So then you got this body on here.
We got to make all of our mounts.
Of course, we got to have a bed also.
So, when I get the design done, it's got to be perfect.
But that's just part of it. It has to be built perfect.
Hey, guys.
- What's up? - Hey, man.
- Zack is the perfect guy to build this truck.
He's an amazing fabricator.
As you guys know,
the Gemstones want something wild.
And this is our premier race truck
that we're going to be building for them,
but it's also going to be a freestyle truck.
So it's got to do crazy stuff.
This is it with all the components on it,
but then we also got to get this blower motor in here.
And on this build, I want to lower the engine.
I want to make this thing
so if they want us to go into a crazy corner,
it's not going to want to roll over,
'cause for the stunts, they want to do a lot of drifting
and a lot of just blowing through stuff.
You don't want to be flipping it over, tearing up that body.
But I just wanted to implement
some "lower center of gravity" thoughts.
- Okay. - Mm-hmm.
- The reason we're placing this engine so low in this truck
is to make it so it doesn't flip over so easy.
It's gonna make it easier and safer
for me to be able to pull these Gemstones stunts off.
This is our standard big-block Chevy that we always put in--
the 557.
And we'll actually be able to move it up and down.
And so when this comes up into here...
- Oh, wow.
- Let's just say it slams on the bump stops, right?
- Man, that thing is close, but it's perfect.
- It's cutting it close, man,
but that's as low as you can go.
- Anybody can get it any closer.
I would have to say that's one
of the definitely best designs I've ever seen.
- Thank you, man. - I love what I'm seeing, man.
It's definitely gonna look like the Devil
will be driving that bad boy. - Oh, yeah.
- But all we got to do now is build it.
♪ ♪
- My name is Zack--
one of the "foremans" here at The Metal Shop.
- First up, Zack will build the chassis with steel tubing
from my designs.
- All right.
So, once I get that design into my program,
I'll start with the frame rails.
I'll run them through our machine that cuts them all.
Then I build the bottom half off of those frame rails.
♪ ♪
I use about 400 foot of tubing
that goes in each one of these chassis.
- Get them babies clean.
♪ ♪
- Oh, that's hot, dog.
Whoo!
Shit!
- So we've bent up all of our frame rails
for the bottom half.
Robert and Cody are cleaning up all--
Shut the [bleep] up!
[tools whirring loudly]
♪ ♪
They're cleaning all the bottom tubing for the bottom right now
to tie all of our frame rails together.
Right now it's just a big pile of tubing on the table,
and at some point, it's going to take shape
into the bottom half of our truck,
and we're just getting started.
♪ ♪
- Monster trucks began in the late 1970s
and became popular in the 1980s
as side acts for motocross, tractor-pulling,
and mud-bogging events,
where they would do car crushing to wow the fans.
They were originally built
from modified stock pickup trucks
and today have evolved into custom tube chassis
with fiberglass bodies.
Today they have their own events, like Monster Jam.
They're usually divided into two main categories--
racing and freestyle.
And no one has been more recognizable in freestyle
than Dennis Anderson and his Grave Digger.
- Hey, man!
- What's up, buddy?
- What are you doing?
- Riding, man.
How you doing?
- Oh, my God. So good to see you, brother.
- Yeah. - Oh, man.
Well, what do you got with you?
- I got just another project, man.
- Man, she's sweet. What is she--about a '68?
- No, it's a '67,
and this is what I had when I was in high school.
- Oh, that's so cool, man. Well, you know what?
You brought her to the right place.
We'll make her badass.
I'm going to put probably a 496 in it.
Look, man, let's go in here.
Dennis Anderson is the icon of monster-truck motorsports.
We both mud-raced together.
We're best friends, you know. He's like a brother to me.
How long we known each other now?
- Man, I don't know, Rick. It's been 35 years.
- Yeah.
You remember I was at the four-wheel-drive jamboree,
but that day they asked me to drive Grave Digger
and I wouldn't fit in the seat because I was too big?
- Yeah, that's right.
- You got your hand caught in the door of an elevator.
Yeah, we were all going for autographs, I believe.
- Yeah, yeah, we were.
We were coming back, and I was the wise guy going,
you know, follow me, I know the shortcut
'cause I done been in this building ten times.
- It was a freight elevator.
- Yeah, it went like this. - Yep.
- One door went this way, and the other went this way.
- Yeah, yeah, it was like a frickin' guillotine.
- Ah!
The year was 1998 I started monster trucks.
My truck was Backdraft.
I raced from 1998 to 2006.
My truck was ahead of its time,
and we went pro after one year.
As we monster truck raced over the years,
we became closer and closer.
- You told me about this place when you were going to do it,
and then when I see it really happen
and then the staff of people that you have,
I'm honored to be a part
of anything with The Metal Shop,
with Rick Disharoon, with what you do.
- And you're a hero of mine, always will be.
- Don't get stupid and make me cry.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- Normally, we would take about 60 days
to build a truck like this.
30? That's gonna be tight.
So, while the chassis is being built,
I had my number-one guy in the performance shop
on the case.
Brandon's a extremely smart mechanic
and also a shithead.
That pretty much sums him up.
- Stand by. [speaks indistinctly]
- Do I look fat? Do I look--
I feel like I look good but for a fat guy.
Like, you know what I mean?
I'm like Brad Pitt of the fat guys.
My name's Brandon.
I am the automotive shop foreman.
The Gemstones are going to get the best of the best.
We're going to make sure this thing's bulletproof, man.
This is, like, not a normal engine.
A regular engine-- 200, 300 horsepower.
This thing is 1,500 horsepower.
Just idling it makes 300 horsepower.
When you're building the engine,
you kind of start with your block,
then you go on and start getting
your rods and pistons together.
This engine gets its power
'cause we got a high-flowing head on it.
We got high compression.
The best way to make horsepower
is with compression.
The piston is what compresses the air and fuel together
to make the horsepower.
We need this truck to be reliable
for the "Gemstones" shoot.
So we're custom-fitting these pistons for reliability.
This truck's got to go 10, 15, 20 takes a day,
so we got to have a truck that has big power
but can start every time when they want it to start.
So right now we're doing ring filing.
So these are too tight.
So he's going to come through,
cut them over here on the cutter,
and now he's going to come back and fit the ring into the hole.
The better the rings seal up, the more horsepower you make,
and the more horsepower you make,
the more stuff you can tear up, I guess, really.
[chuckles]
What's up there, slap nuts?
- What's up, dog? - Nothing, man.
You want to help finish these piston rods up?
- Yeah, what you got? - All right, grab one of them.
I'll show you how to throw these together.
Usually when I'm in the engine room,
I'm building with Jordan most of the time.
Sometimes now I'm teaching James, so he's learning.
I'm trying to get this thing knocked out,
get a little help in here.
Yeah, oil your pin.
- I love a good oil pin.
- Oh, man, yeah, slide her in there.
Pull her up, and then you want to grab your rod.
You got to make sure your chamfer's
over to your left-hand side of your piston, man.
All right, now make sure you hold your piston like this.
- Yeah, now I see. - So piston like this.
Now put your chamfer on that side.
- We work well together.
I can put up with his shit.
I can listen to him and not get upset.
- How's everything else going? - Can't complain.
You know what I mean?
- I feel like you can. - I could complain.
- It's nice, 'cause I'm like his dad but not his dad
but his brother but not his brother.
- But he is kind of like my dad
'cause he wants to [bleep] my mom, so it's like--
- You do have a hot mom. I will give you that.
- You know what I mean?
- So now we got a piston down in it.
We're actually getting the rod.
And then what we'll do is, we'll flip it over,
and we're going to torque the rod bolts.
- I love him to death.
Like, I would not be where I'm at without him,
and that's wholehearted--
Well, all of this, but he's the reason that I'm here.
♪ ♪
[bleep]. [laughter]
This never-- - Make me cry.
- This never happens.
- All right, so you got a piston coming up,
making compression, pew, 1,500 horsepower out of it.
She's definitely going to be badass for the Gemstones.
The Gemstones are going to love it.
♪ ♪
- You guys ready? - We're ready to go.
- Sick.
- Next up is attaching the driver cage.
This is the most difficult part of the chassis build.
- Somebody hold this right here.
- I got this. - Hold that lined up.
- Up on the top.
- We can build a truck in 30 days,
but if anything goes wrong, it's a problem.
- I need you to hold that whole junction together right there.
- I'm gonna hold it there, but double-check it
before you tack them. - Okay.
- So this bar is here.
- Now, Cody. - Yep.
- The symmetry of this truck is what creates
such structural integrity, you know.
Everything's got to be distributed perfectly
right and left.
You can't have a little more weight on the right
or a little more weight on the left
or this bar is a little different angle than that bar,
'cause if this thing collapses, someone gets hurt,
it's my ass.
- Nobody moves. Nobody gets hurt.
[dramatic music]
We drop what's called a plumb bob down,
and we basically hold all of that up there,
and we shift it one way or another.
- Give it a nudge, if you will.
No, more of a push. - You're throwing me off.
- Really, our main focus
is making sure that these drivers are safe.
- We're off now.
- No, too much, too much. - We're good.
- Matt, right there, perfect.
And once it's centered up in between them frame rails,
then we can go ahead and just start laying tacks
everywhere, really, just to lock it in there.
[rock music]
- Ah! I'm on fire! - Smells like burning hair.
[laughter]
- This stinks. - Oh, my goodness.
- So this cage is all tacked up.
It's time to weld this thing up, man.
♪ ♪
We actually work hand in hand so well together.
♪ ♪
It just looks like this guy's making this move,
and this guy's making that move,
and there's sparks coming over here,
and sparks going over there.
♪ ♪
Now we need to send the chassis off-site
to get powder coated,
which would give the fab shop some time
to complete some of these other projects.
♪ ♪
We got the monster-truck chassis getting built,
but there's more projects rolling into the shop.
I mean, we've got a boat that we're building,
but it's not just any boat-- it's a tiki boat.
Tipsy Tiki is a company
that runs party boats in Maryland,
and they want us to revolutionize
their existing metal boat frames.
They want the new frame to have a bar, a bathroom,
and a collapsible roof so it can go up and down the highway
so they can bring the party to future areas.
Well, I've got Ryan Bell on the case.
He's going to come up with something that's perfect.
- Marker.
- I'm Ryan Bell.
My job here at The Metal Shop is shop foreman.
This is the design of the tiki boat.
- Hey, we gonna be able to fish off this thing
if we're building a boat?
- No, this is for drinking purposes.
- Well, I like to get drunk when I fish.
- I'm going to have Zeke and Jackson helping me.
Most of the time,
Zeke's just like a head-down type of guy who just--
he's all about work and trying to get it done.
Jackson, on the other hand, he's a goofball.
- Oh, my goodness.
- Yeah, I got a hole here.
Kind of like to have good ventilation flow going.
Some people would like to put a hole on the other side.
Not me, I like to keep it trapped inside.
You know, it keeps it nice and fresh.
- So, when we get down to fine details on a project,
I always like to come in and help.
I like to lend a hand, because I am a fabricator.
I'm not just a designer. I'm not just a boss.
- Get this man a helmet! - I'm glad you were prepared.
- The most complex part of the frame is the roof,
which we'll assemble from four aluminum posts
That will allow it to slide up and down.
[indistinct chatter, welder buzzing loudly]
♪ ♪
- Weak side there. These are different.
These are gonna be different. - All right.
♪ ♪
- We're moving now, man. We're moving now.
We're getting it.
I'm guessing this one goes here probably.
There you go. All right, yeah, so we're good.
- Where there's a will, there's a way.
- The roof is all tacked up and looking good.
Now the guys just need to weld it.
- Knock, knock, mother[bleep] - Oh, God.
- Got a lot of standing around
for someone who's supposed to be building a boat.
- Marker.
My name is Jacklyn Disharoon.
I'm technically the store manager.
I wear a lot of hats, and I do a little bit
of babysitting with these little shitheads.
What are you naming this bad boy?
I mean, every boat has to have a name.
We should have a Metal Shop contest
to come up with the best name for this build.
- Can we do it between the automotive shop
and the fab-shop guys?
- That's a really good idea.
- Both shops are so competitive with one another,
and just something like this is just fun.
You come up with your names, you come up with your names.
It's always friendly competition,
but they are competitions nonetheless.
- So what are we going to name this thing?
- I was thinking, like, Wasted Away or something.
- I was thinking something like Freaky Tikis or something.
- "Freaky Tikis"? I like that. - Yeah.
- The Wet Deck. - Ooh, Wet Deck.
- Love spending time on my Wet Deck.
[laughter]
- We got to do something better than that, though.
We don't want them automotive boys to beat us.
- Yeah, I know-- they'll probably come up
with something good. - Yeah, they're ridiculous.
- I'm 100% with Deez Knotz.
- I feel like Deez Knotz. That's my favorite.
- Deez Knotz. - I think I'm going with it.
- It's very nautical, also inappropriate,
but not too much.
This whole boat-naming competition,
you're doing it disrespect calling it a competition
because it was over from the start, you know what I mean?
I mean, you've got pure wit and excellence
over in the automotive shop.
And then you come to the fab shop--
they've been breathing argon entirely too long,
No, they ain't got nothing.
- Go ahead and write that thing on that board.
- I'll put it up. - Show 'em what we got.
- I'll put it up. This is for you.
[tool buzzing loudly] - Watch.
- Should I put "Knotz" with a Z?
- Yeah, Z it up.
Get it? Deez Knotz.
Nautical-themed. I mean, it's a perfect fit.
[smooches]
Hey, Zeke, see that?
We don't even need the other two spots.
We're out of here. - Hey, you wait.
You're going to need them.
They done put a name on the board.
What the hell is Deez Knotz?
- I mean, it's not bad,
but I think we can do better than that.
- I mean, we're not going out there to tie knots.
Going out to get drunk. - Like a party boat.
- It's a tiki boat. - Yeah.
- You want to do Freaky Tiki? - Let's do Freaky Tiki.
- Everybody gets a little freaky.
- Sometimes you get a little drunk, get a little freaky.
- We're just giving them a little bit of what we got.
- It's definitely a lot better than that one.
- Yeah, I think so.
[indistinct chatter] Yep.
♪ ♪
- Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah, look at that thing.
- Phew. The clock is ticking.
Now that the chassis is back from powder coating,
it's time to put in the rear, attach the suspension,
get the engine in, and hook up the exhaust.
- She's shiny, boy.
- Let's get this sucker unloaded, man.
- Yeah, let's get this joker inside.
The timeline is hard on our people.
Our employees are working 14 to 16 hours a day right now.
But I promised I would get the Righteous Gemstones--
I'd get them in and get them done,
right while we're trying to do the tiki boat at the same time.
So it's made it really kind of tough,
but we will get it done.
- The faster it gets unloaded,
the faster it gets put together.
The next big step in this build
is assembling the axles, which hold the differentials,
which takes power out to those big tires.
And we got to hook up the steering
so we can turn those big things, too.
Rear sitting here, ready to rock and roll.
All we have to do now is, James and I have got to put
this clam shell together.
Got to throw the tires and wheels on it
so we can roll it in.
- And we still got to do the motor, too.
- That's your deal. - Yeah, but we got to get
all this and that-- we got a lot to do.
- I brought your sleeping bag for you.
- I hope so.
- Let's get her knocked out. - It's time.
- Let's party.
- First thing-- get all your parts lined up.
It's basically you're, like, laying all your toys out.
So you got all your parts laying there,
and then you got to start building it,
but there ain't no damn directions.
There's only what you know in your head.
Most of the time, every truck's so different,
we have to make everything.
There's no monster truck store,
so you just got to start putting it together.
Hopefully it all fits.
♪ ♪
- Like a glove. - Nice swing, dude.
- Oh. - Perfect.
We ready to slam tires on it? - Yeah.
- The small tires are just temporary
so we can roll the rears in.
Once everything's done, we'll swap these out
for big monster-truck tires
and get this thing up to 11 feet high.
- I got it back here. Don't worry.
♪ ♪
- Next step-- you're going to start
getting your rears all together--
front differential, rear differential.
Let me give you the ratchet strap,
and I can ratchet-strap these up real quick.
- Yeah, we're going to tie them up.
- Hey, or just get two big cable ties.
- It's something that has to be custom made.
So to fit it in was more than a notion.
The differential allows each wheel
to spin at different speeds,
which is important for smooth cornering.
And for the Gemstones build, this is crucial.
However, this is a new chassis designed for them,
so hopefully we can make that happen.
- There's one thing with monster trucks.
I like to be dangerous.
- All right, don't put your hands over there
'cause Brandon's choosing death today.
[laughter]
You got that bolt out, Brandon? - Ooh, shit.
- There it is. - Oh.
- See, Brandon? [indistinct chatter]
- Let me go get the big ones. - Yeah.
- Told you.
- All right.
There you go.
- You get them rears underneath the truck,
then you can put the shocks on it,
and then you can actually make that truck sit
so it's on the suspension,
'cause if you just stick that motor in the frame
without no suspension on it,
I mean, it's going to tip backwards.
Hold on. - Listen to that breathing.
- There it is.
- [breathing heavily]
- Jesus... - [laughs]
Murder scenes have been less noisy than this.
[laughter]
- Somebody get this man a pillow
and some air conditioning.
[laughter] - It's right.
Do you need a cool beverage? - Ready?
One, two, three, go. - Go!
- There it is. - That's it.
- Give her a little wiggle diggle.
- Ryan, ready? - One wiggle diggle.
- One, two, diggle. - All right, she's in.
Rears went in.
Now I can move on, set that motor right in there,
and have it ready to go for tranny
and all the rest of the stuff.
- Where are we at? Let me know what's going down.
- Four link's in. Rear's rolled in.
Now we're doing the drive shaft.
Brandon almost dropped the four link on our hand earlier.
- All right, well, look, man, you guys keep moving.
- All right, cool. - Thank you, guys.
Keep rocking.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
Been doing breakfast for the shop since 2007.
We always do it on Wednesday.
We talk about what we've done and where we're going
and what's going on for the week,
and it's a family deal,
and a happy belly is usually a happy heart.
- The breakfast is really, like, one
of our biggest bonding things.
- Hey, guys! Breakfast time!
- Hey, start here. Don't-- You like to bypass the line.
- Thank you for breakfast, man. - Give me some bread.
Yeah, man. - Good God.
- Oh, yeah. - Look at this spread.
- This is spicy scrapple, non-spicy.
- Sounds good. Thank you.
- I think it makes everyone feel important and loved.
And I like that I go to work every day
and I feel like I'm at home.
- Ryan, where are we at with the tiki boat going on?
- We're making good progress.
We've got pretty much the whole bottom bar is framed up.
- Would you like to have some extra hands over there?
- That'd be a big help because we're trying to get it done
and I can't just rush on it.
- I appreciate that.
It's really, really important
that we get this tiki boat done.
And if you guys need anything from me today,
you come grab me.
You guys get at it. all: Thank you.
- Next up, a crucial point in the tiki-boat frame.
We need to attach the roof to the four posts
on the bottom-half bar.
We're going to grab this, swing it up underneath of here,
and I've got Dad sitting outside with the forklift.
He's going to come in, grab this thing, pick it up,
and we're going to bring this in and slide it in,
get it all centered up.
It should fit perfect, but it's the moment of truth.
We're building the roof over here, right?
And we're building the bar over here.
They're separated.
But then when you set them on top of each other,
it's the moment of truth.
We're going to get all four of those points to line up.
It's got to be "telescopical."
[dramatic music]
- Somebody fix that one.
- When we tried to get that to slide in,
we had a little bit of a hiccup on some of our notching.
- Go back up. We need to swap these holes right here.
- Swap it.
Spin the top a little bit. Yeah.
♪ ♪
- I think you just notch this back a little bit farther,
and that'll fall right in.
We're just trying to grind these posts
so they fit perfect.
They'll get them back in.
Then we're going to come down a little bit.
- We just had to go back and cope it out a little bit more,
so that way, we didn't have a big gap to weld,
and the top sat down on them poles.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- There it is.
[tool buzzing loudly]
♪ ♪
- Good to go.
♪ ♪
- Hold up. Should be closed.
Oh. - There it is.
Nice work, fellas.
- Where's the beer at? - We need to crack one on this.
- We do. It's a good feeling.
Let's put this thing on the boat, baby.
- Last thing we had to do was just pick that bar up
and put it on the boat.
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
- My hat's off to the guys that work for us, man.
They're the best in the business.
Tipsy Tiki wanted
a revolutionary roof-frame design,
and the guys delivered.
♪ ♪
- All right, boys, here's the powerhouse.
- Man, now that this engine's all finished up
and final assembly's taken place,
we can get this thing in the truck.
Building the truck is more than just housing the engine
and housing the transmission and mounting the shocks.
You got to have that perfect.
This is a brand-new chassis, designed for the Gemstones.
If it doesn't fit, this is a huge problem
for our timeline.
[dramatic music]
- Shift towards the front. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Looking good.
- Yep.
- How much more?
- Keep coming.
♪ ♪
- Right there. Oh, right there. That's perfect.
- Hold on. - My dowels are in.
- Your converter's in all three clicks.
So be careful. Don't let it slide forward.
Don't let it-- - James, you just hold it and--
- I got it. Go. Go. - Someone else--
[tool grinding]
- Good work, good work, good work.
She's in.
My work is done here, boys.
[upbeat music]
- I'm finally feeling a lot more confident,
but we have a lot of work to do.
Not only does this engine have to fire up and be reliable,
but this new engine design and where it's located--
we don't know how it's gonna act.
Drivability is gonna be the questions
that we're gonna need to find out when we test it.
- But I want to make sure you guys get the headers on,
starter, starter wires.
- I'm going to get the transmission buttoned up first.
- All right, boys.
After the engine goes in,
I like to start putting all my little parts on--
hydraulic tank, steering wheel, seat.
I like get everything bolted in,
then the biggest part, the most scariest part for me,
I mean, is always firing the engine up.
- During a production,
things often tend to shift around and change,
and things were no different on this season of "The Gemstones."
We found out that we needed the monster truck
a week earlier than anticipated.
We had to pop it on the boys that they had one less week
to prepare The Redeemer.
[rock music]
- Hey, Brandon.
Brandon!
- Hey! [chuckles]
- How you making out, man?
How's it going? - Good, good.
- I got good news, and I got bad news.
The good news is, is the Gemstones are going to use this
in the first episode.
The bad news is that's going to speed us up a whole week.
- A week we're going to lose?
Damn. - Yeah, one week, man.
- Man, we're going to be staying late,
busting ass all through the night some nights.
- We got to get done a week sooner.
At first, we were like, no, there's no way.
- You know how it is. It ain't easy.
- All the oil good? - Yeah, everything's good.
- Torque converter tight? - Yeah.
- I mean, we're losing a week,
but I feel like we can still do it.
Like you said, if you can stay late,
then that'll put me in a good spot for testing.
We can do it.
I mean, this is for "The Righteous Gemstones."
Let's pull those late hours.
Once we get it all tested,
we're going to need that day, day and a half
to get that body on and get it wrapped.
- Yeah.
- You guys still feel good about it?
- Yeah, we're close to firing it up.
- You're sure this baby's ready to rock?
- You want to get Ryan in there and maybe--
- Hey, man, what do you think?
You want to get in there and give her a shot?
He thinks he's got it right. - You ready to fire right now?
- Hell, yeah.
- I want to see some smoke out of this pig.
Get your ass up in there.
- Yeah, so the engine test--
super important that thing just fires right up.
When those guys set up the cameras,
that is a crucial moment-- you can't miss it.
When they say, Redeemer fire, Redeemer go,
you better go.
If not, the day might be ruined.
- This is the most nerve-wracking part
because anything could go wrong.
- Everybody clear?
- If something goes bad, it's usually something we did.
So it's on me always.
You can't warranty a race motor.
- Hands off. All right.
- Good? - Yep.
Fire in the hole!
- Moments like these are always tense.
[engine cranking]
[engine turning over]
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
- The thing fires up,
and I'm like, oh, my God, look at this.
This is a relief.
[engine revving]
- Once we fire the engine and we hear that roar,
smell the alcohol and you feel the shake
and your chest is just trembling from the horsepower
running through you, this thing's alive.
It's just like Frankenstein when they say, "it's alive!"
- Oh, my God, that thing blows your goddamn ear drums out.
[laughter]
- I definitely have ear damage at this point.
- Yeah, so the engine test went great.
Now you're gonna have to do some finessing.
We're gonna have to tune it.
But this thing fired right up, man,
without a flaw--great work.
- Come here, boys. - Uh-oh.
- Goddamn. - Hell, yeah!
- Love you guys. - Thanks, guys.
♪ ♪
- Well, Jordan, let's get the old girl's shoes on.
- Let's put these big babies on.
- All right.
- We only have seven days to finish this build.
Now that the engine test was successful,
it's time to mount the biggest and baddest part
of this truck-- the monster-truck tires.
The suspension plays a huge role in our trucks,
but a lot of people discount one factor that we have.
We have a 66-inch-tall tire.
So, basically, these tires are humongous.
Monster trucks, that's what they're known for--
these giant tires.
And you pump up your car tires at the gas pump,
and you're putting 30, 40 pounds in them.
You got a truck, you're putting 50 or 60 pounds in your tires.
These tires are-- the big giant tire,
you're thinking hundreds of pounds of pressure.
No, we'll run anywhere from 10 to 20 pounds of pressure
in those tires, and that is part of your suspension.
10 pounds to 20 pounds--
you don't go no more than that.
It's just--the volume of that air is what's so crucial,
you know.
You can't over-pressurize that volume,
or they just turn into giant bouncy balls,
and, hell, they might blow up.
- Perfect. Let me have some lugs.
- I love it.
- I love when a good plan comes together.
- I got these.
- These what? - Nuts.
[laughter]
- The Redeemer is asked to do a lot of things
that a typical monster truck would never do,
like abduct people.
At one point during the season, the monster truck
needs to drive up onto the trunk of Judy's car
and flip her car up into the air
so she can be kidnapped.
Now, how are we going to pull that off?
Well, we had to get the guys to do a test for us.
- You ready to do some testing?
- I'm ready to burn her down or something--you ready?
- Yeah, you don't mind me taking it out for a spin,
do you? - Yeah.
Make sure everything works, man.
- All right, well, hop in, get rolling.
- All right, man.
- So we got a scene we're gonna shoot--it's a kidnap scene.
So we're actually gonna simulate that at our shop.
I'm gonna get even more comfortable
with being around people and doing this at the shop.
Everybody thinks all monster trucks are the same,
but each one we build has its own personality.
I'm gonna drive it around. I'm gonna get to know it.
I'm gonna shake its hand. I'm gonna rub its back.
- We're going to have Jordan--
Where's Jordan? - Right here.
- You're going to be the girl.
Jordan, we're driving up on the car with you in there.
I want a big squeal. Let me hear one.
- [squeals]
- Oh. Can you give me one more?
I don't feel like that was real enough.
- [squeal]
- All right, that's pretty good.
I'm good with that.
I want you, Twinkle Dee, and you, Twinkle Dum--
I want you to prance over there,
and I want you to steal my man squealy pig out of the car
and get him out because you are kidnapping his ass.
As soon as he's out of the car, you smash that bitch flat.
We had Jordan dressed up as Judy,
and he had a mop on his head for a wig.
The only thing we could find was a dirty, stinky mop
that we had been mopping the floor with,
so it smelled like straight ass.
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
- I was nervous, but I had to perform.
I couldn't make a mistake.
I don't want to be out of control.
I don't want to hurt anybody.
And I want me and this truck to be one unit.
It's not a joke.
They play it lightly, but it is not a joke.
When that thing has to go, it's got to go.
- Turn your brights off.
[engine revving]
- [screams]
♪ ♪
- When you're sitting in the seat,
your ass is 10 feet off the ground.
Your head's pinned back to the seat,
and you can only look to the right or left
to see where you're at.
But you want to be relaxed--
not too relaxed but relaxed enough that you can drive
and you're safe.
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
- This truck has got to be 100%.
When you look at our normal situation,
Ryan is usually just cut loose out in the big open area,
but this is a case where we're around actors and movie crews.
We're going to have to make sure that this truck
is 100% controllable.
It is a brand-new truck.
♪ ♪
- To become a good driver, you need to know your truck
and be experienced with your truck.
Going into a jump, it's instinct.
Almost all your driving is instinct.
[engine idling]
[dramatic music]
[engine revving]
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- How'd it feel? - It felt good.
She took it like a champ.
I mean, ain't much left of that Ford.
- [laughs]
I think you're ready to move on to something bigger.
- The Gemstones also asked if we could blow through an RV.
I mean, who are we to say no?
First thing I do when I run through an RV like that,
go up to the ramp, touch it.
♪ ♪
It may sound crazy, but that little nudge,
I just know how it's going to collapse.
Give it a little nudge, prepare myself mentally
because this is about to be a total annihilation.
Back it up.
♪ ♪
I get the green light, and it's all or nothing.
[engine revving]
[cheering]
When I'm doing this kind of crazy stuff,
it may look like I'm just getting my rocks off.
No, I want to beat it up so that if something fails,
it happens here where we can fix it, correct it,
and make sure it doesn't happen again.
♪ ♪
[cheering]
And this shit's all flying over you.
And I'd be lying
if I said I didn't close my eyes for a split second.
I'm like...
It's just like you're inside of a bomb.
♪ ♪
God dang. - Oh, I know.
- Hey, asshole, you ruined my portable house!
- Look, guys, I'm really proud
of everybody's hardworking effort to get it to this point.
We really got to get this body put on this old girl.
We definitely don't want to hold the Gemstones up.
Once the testing is complete, it'll come back in,
have everything re-nut and bolted,
everything rechecked and tightened,
and once that's complete, now we go ahead,
and we get it all prepped and put a new body on it.
- Let's do it. - All right, man.
Thank you, guys.
♪ ♪
Oh, my goodness.
This is the best that you guys could come up with, huh?
- Man, I really want to win this boat-naming contest
against the automotive guys
because they're some shit talkers, man.
They want to win.
- So let's see what we got here.
I'm going to go ahead--
and it's going to be a kick right to the balls to you guys,
but the Funky Floater's got to go.
Only thing I see is a turd
bouncing up and down in a toilet.
- Picking our third name for the boat,
I'm not going to lie-- we were spent.
I mean, we're hilarious as hell over there, but we were empty.
- Now we'll look at the fab side.
I don't know, man.
The Bayside Boozer, that's lame.
- Well, Jackson picked it. - We're eliminating that one.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. - That one is definitely--
- I'm gonna be honest with you--
- I don't even think there was no effort in that one, none.
Now, I have tell you--I'm not even going to take this one
because I know this is a brownnoser.
Who is that? - A little Brandon brownnoser.
- So I put down the name Wet N Wild
because I know that means something to Rick,
so I'm going to put something on there
that's going to have a soft spot for him,
and he's going to want to pick that name.
- But I will say-- - [babbling mockingly]
- I will say it is one of my favorites,
but I can't go with it because of that.
All right, now let me go back over here to fab side.
I don't know--something about the Freaky Tiki...
- Imagine your granddaughter running around
yelling "Freaky Tiki," because she's young--
- Well, that's right.
That's why it's going off of there.
My granddaughter ain't riding around on a Freaky Tiki.
- Man, that went backward. [indistinct chatter]
- Here's what we got. We got one on each side.
- That was terrible. - We got Deez Knotz--
very, very creative--
and Wasted Oasis.
I know you guys are going to hate me,
but the winner is...
Deez Knotz! [cheering]
Deez Knotz, baby!
I hate to do it to you, but, hey.
But at least they had something cool to go with.
- Want to see it before it goes?
Want to see it before it goes? - Oh, oh, oh.
- See before it goes. Oh, it's flying away.
- Yeah, we did lose the competition,
but Deez Knotz is a pretty good name, man.
I mean, they had to dig deep for that.
- All right.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
Man, I tell you what-- today's a big day here.
We're so excited. Richard Pierson's coming in.
He's going to wrap this truck,
and it's going to become The Redeemer.
♪ ♪
Now we go ahead, and we get it all prepped
and put a new body on it.
♪ ♪
The body is made of fiberglass to keep the truck
as light as possible.
100% badass 1970 Chevy.
It's one-of-a-kind wrap.
Richard Pierson--
when he does one, you just do not know it's not wrapped.
You just think it's airbrushed. It's beautiful.
♪ ♪
[engine revving loudly]
- ♪ The Redeemer ♪
♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ ♪
- I feel like I'm the luckiest man in the world
to have all these men and women
that support me every day.
When all the work is done and all the smoke is cleared
and all the welding shields are flipped up
and everybody's punching that clock,
I feel like I'm the richest man in the world.
- ♪ Redeemer ♪
- They pulled it off. They pulled off the impossible.
We wanted to make sure that The Redeemer
felt like a character, like it was part of the show,
that it had a personality.
I think every single person on that set
wanted to take The Redeemer home.
♪ ♪
I want to take the Redeemer home.
I could just park it in my driveway
and piss off my neighbors.
I would love that.
And when they come over and complain,
I'd get inside The Redeemer, and I'd smash their cars.
- ♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Redeemer ♪
♪ ♪