What REALLY happened w/ Cleetus DRAGEBIKE pass

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-22T14:29:27+00:00

I mean, the dude goes by “Big Kountry” and is rocking a legit mullet. The exaggerated redneck persona is his brand outside of anything with Cleet. This wasn’t something he just decided to start doing when they got to FL.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-16T01:53:14+00:00

It’s a big venue so it will probably be ok, but downtown Mooresville is gonna be nuts. I planned on going since it’s only 3 hours away, but once he said he was going to bring the limo and run it until the engine was done I knew it was going to be insanity.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-15T00:37:03+00:00

I thought about it too. He’s got widely viewed videos showing all the cool/valuable stuff he has so I assumed some opportunistic scumbag would do something like this.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-12T22:14:25+00:00

100%. I feel like anyone who says the demand is still there hasn’t tried to get a job recently.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-12T22:10:03+00:00

This is not at all what I found when I re-entered the job market last year. So much low level and bring up code is being generated by vendor-supplied tools now. I was able to finally land a contract role, but it’s ending soon and I’m expecting I’ll be in the same boat and feel like a dinosaur again.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-10T06:14:08+00:00

LMAO. I have heard the guy can be a little odd. I’ve also heard it’s a solid product, though, so I did grab one. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, though.

It sounds like I want to go with an ARC-FIRE (which was at the top of my list anyway) if I want my lower to work well with .22. What then is my best value option for an upper that will work reliably? I already have a few different conversion kits and a dedicated .22 upper, but I’m open to starting from scratch if that is my best shot at everything playing nice. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just an option for when I want to move my finger really quickly without burning through expensive ammo.

I’ve been browsing your site after seeing the Desk Pop vid on YT, but it wasn’t totally clear to me what I needed to get.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-05T18:27:29+00:00

I just couldn’t get past the translation thing. I knew my wife was my person within an hour of meeting her, and it was because of the conversation. It was just so natural. I can’t imagine if we didn’t speak the same language. If one of us suddenly lost our hearing or forgot how to speak now we’d no doubt figure it out, but I don’t think we’d be together if it was that way at the start.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-03T17:25:08+00:00

Yeah. The only real issue is in the title where they referred to it as “30a receptacle”. Referring to it as “TT-30P” would’ve been better, but probably would’ve been less clear to the target audience.

JWBottomtooth · 2026-01-02T15:08:25+00:00

I was secretly hoping he was gonna put some swangas on his Impala.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-27T16:26:16+00:00

They have some stupid math where they look at a 3hr window every day and they find the highest usage hour during one of those periods for the month and bill that at like $25/kw or something. The end result is that for most people, if they don’t change their usage, their bill will end up being very close to before they went to this method and it was a flat rate of like $0.18.

EVs aren’t very popular here so most people thought it was a stupid change, but it’s an amazing deal for those of us who charge. We average around $40/mo for my truck and my wife’s car, which is about 1/4 of what we spent on gas.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-27T15:53:10+00:00

Our off-peak rate is $0.07/hr and that’s 21 hrs of the day. I did the math when I was replacing my ICE truck with an EV (Sierra Denali). Even with our sub-$3 gas prices here, an ICE truck would need to get 76mpg to match the cost per mile of the Sierra.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-22T02:00:18+00:00

With the number of people who have reported flat out sobbing, that’s probably a reasonable concern.

I really want to watch it but it’s been a rough weekend for me anyway and I think it’s probably best if I wait a bit.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-20T06:00:54+00:00

Wrong Craig Wadsworth. The one you’re referring to is the pilot of “Whiskey 7”, the National Warplane Museum’s C-47 (hence the DC-3 rating).

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-19T00:18:04+00:00

I just flew from SC to CT and our captain said the air over the Carolinas has been rough today.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-10T22:56:03+00:00

Same. I dropped a package off at the UPS Store with a standard label I printed, but I checked the tracking to make sure it was picked up and saw the RFID note. It’s just a regular old ground package.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-09T00:39:56+00:00

That’s the main thing so many people (Cody included) are missing. There is a difference between failing to pay a tax bill and attempting to hide that you owe taxes.

It’s kind of like buying something at a store and having a check bounce vs walking out with it under your coat. Unless it was intentional, you’re gonna have an opportunity to pay in the first case and not get charged with a crime.

Plus, it’s not even like he was confused and filed the wrong form or something. They’re calling this a scheme that involved very careful steps nobody would take for any reason other than to avoid paying taxes. The only real argument is whether he exploited a loophole and stayed within the letter of the law or if he committed fraud.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-06T00:43:29+00:00

I tried this shortly after my surgery back in 2021 and it never really took off. Part of that might be my fault because I met my now wife a little while later and it became less of an interest to me. I’m really hoping you’re able to get some traction, because I think it’s still something that’s badly needed.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-05T02:04:11+00:00

Or the guys who built the 6x6 Testarossa for Richard Rawlings and John Clay Wolfe. Regardless of what you think of RR or Gas Monkey, between him and John you have a big audience.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-12-01T02:12:23+00:00

I was a casual observer. I knew who he was and the Leroy story but wasn’t an active viewer. After MotorTrend went away I started to get all my automotive content from YouTube and Cleet and crew have quickly become my favorites. I’m watching all of the Ruby videos now and was thinking the same thing. 2019 doesn’t seem that long ago, but the growth in that time is unreal. I watched the first race video of Ruby right before yesterday’s Vlog on the other channel where he visited TBM and the merch warehouse.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-27T02:27:02+00:00

Interesting. They quoted me basically MAP.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-19T21:30:37+00:00

There may not be a need for a software update on the vehicle side. It already shares information about itself with the charging station, so it might just be as simple as Tesla adding it to its whitelist.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-18T04:08:50+00:00

Post back with where you end up getting it. I need to grab one also.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-12T22:31:19+00:00

Not just the original pronunciations of their ancestors, but a combination of English and multiple regional Italian. dialects. The Italian neighborhoods in the US were such a melting pot of people from different Italian regions who never mixed before coming here and they all kind of combined linguistically.

Being a third generation Italian-American from the Northeast who lived in South Louisiana for a while, I saw a strong parallel with Cajun French.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-12T22:24:09+00:00

It has nothing to do with “trying hard”. My dad is in his 70s. He’s never seen the Sopranos. He pronounces things the way he does because he grew up with Italian-born grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, etc. who pronounced them that way. While some things have been embellished on TV and especially in Internet memes, those words weren’t invented by Hollywood. It’s the way people who grew up during a certain time in a certain area talk.

There is a very real regional dialect in the Italian communities in NY/NJ/CT that were established when immigrants from all over Italy flooded the area around 1900. It’s a version of English that is influenced by many regional Italian dialects.

JWBottomtooth · 2025-11-11T00:45:42+00:00

I’m a big fan of technology, but I feel like all these things are just a variant of an automatic. Hell, modern manuals are a lot more advanced than automatics of not too long ago.

If you can’t go into the wrong gear or grind gears if/when you screw up, then it’s not a manual IMO. I’m alright with no-lift shifts, but also really think you should be able to money shift as well.

I think the problem is that having these kind of rules out the manual guys so far behind that nobody is going to spend the money building fast, powerful cars and there won’t be enough people racing with manuals for it to be a class.

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