So the movie that we're going to be talking about on this episode is Hands on a Hard Body from 1997.

It's a documentary that's set in 1995 at Longview Partnership, which is a truck dealership in Longview, Texas, about 120 miles east of Dallas, where every year a unique competition was held, where 23 randomly drawn contestants would compete to take home a brand new Nissan truck.

All they had to do was stand with at least one hand on the truck for longer than anyone else.

There would be a five-minute break every hour and a 15-minute break every six hours, but otherwise,

there's no time to sleep, and they also

all had to stand upright. You know, you couldn't lean on the truck or do anything sneaky like

that. So typically... You can squat. You can squat as long as you're not supporting your weight

on the truck. Right. Typically, the contest would last four or five days until the last man was standing.

I understand that the contest actually lasted until 2005, during which time there was a tragic

incident where one of the contestants went to a nearby Kmart and bought a shotgun and

killed himself.

So after that, the, you know, this monstrous barbaric

competition that actually drove people into having, you know, paranoid delusions and hallucinations

and all manner of physical wear and tear was finally retired. So I was telling Luke this,

I message him about it after I watched the movie.

I was watching this and I thought this is a Michael and Us movie because it is so inscribed with,

I mean, I know you guys talk about the end of history so much.

So I don't know if I get to fill out a bingo card space just for saying it.

But with this very kind of hollow idea of American ideology, right? Like you have this idea, again,

we were talking about the lone wolf for this kind of spirit surviving against all odds.

It's very much about that. It's very much about who has the will to survive and win and

basically earn this Nissan truck. But then you have to constantly remind yourself in the way

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