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Love the title and the tiny home on wheels trend. So much creativity and craftsmanship to learn from. It’s a wonderful video wormhole imho. Would do it in a hea
by 6stringmerc 4y ago
Love the title and the tiny home on wheels trend. So much creativity and craftsmanship to learn from. It’s a wonderful video wormhole imho. Would do it in a heartbeat if just graduating uni.
Not sure how many under 35 will get the joke…like the fascination with the CD-Rom in the Jurassic Park Ford Explorer.
- danuker 4y agoI'm 30, from Romania, and I didn't get the joke. Care to explain?
- maxfurman 4y agoThere's an old Saturday Night Live bit[0] about a motivational speaker who eventually admits that his life sucks and he lives in a van down by the river. Pretty funny, although I suppose I've spoiled it for you. [0] https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8 https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8
- bigtex 4y agoJim Farley is also head of Ford and a close family member
- 6stringmerc 4y agoGives me whole new perspective on Tommy Boy now…going to have to re watch!
- hoosieree 4y agoAlso the comedian in that sketch (Chris Farley) was the cousin of the current Ford CEO.
- mindslight 4y agoI'd love to see a follow up to that sketch playing on the subsequent three decades of financial destruction. The motivational speaker is doing the same bit, trying to scare kids with the prospect of having to "live in a van, down by the river". The kids seem excited at the prospect. They ask the speaker if he really thinks they could ever afford such a thing, if he knows of anybody selling an affordable van, or if he knows anywhere they could even visit the river that hasn't been filled up with industrial trash. The motivational speaker grows increasingly frustrated with the kids, seemingly unable to get across to them why living in a van down by the river is a bad thing. The kids just don't seem to understand. The motivational speaker gets so frustrated that he has a heart attack and dies on the spot. Cut to the settling of the motivational speaker's estate. It turns out he owned an entire camp ground and trailer park, making a top-tier income off of the rent from many people living in various vehicles down by the river. The kids sign a 50 year mortgage to buy the speaker's rusty old van from the speaker's kids, getting implanted with subcutaneous microchips to help secure the loan. They smile as the sun sets on their new waterfront view, beyond the line of new/expensive vans closer to the water. They live happily ever after.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoGreat imagery, I am imagining houseboats on this mystical Unpolluted River, too.
- public_defender 4y agoI was scrolling as fast as I could through all this talk about vans--which is really just byplay--looking for a reference to Matt Foley motivational speaker, and holy chipped collateral did this make my day.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoThis is a work of pure genius and the most natural and hilarious modernisation of the concept. Bravo, take a bow.
- ksherlock 4y agoYou'll have plenty of time to get the joke when you're living in a van down by the river.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoThe tautology of this joke explanation within a joke about the joke is some kind of trick, and it can be used to explain anything now. “Why?” You’ll have plenty of time to figure it out…