Recreating Hollywood’s Greatest, Dumbest Road Trip Of All Time, with Zack Courts and Ari Henning

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of summertime road trips, this week we’re revisiting an episode from our archives that is one of PaddyO’s favorites. In 2021, two men set out to do something seemingly impossible. And also pretty dumb. Motorcycle gurus and YouTube stars Zack Courts and Ari Henning would squeeze together, buttcrack to belt buckle, onto a minibike—a vehicle roughly the size of a children’s bicycle and powered by an engine that can barely run a lawn mower—and drive 400 miles from a cornfield in Nebraska to a little place called Aspen, Colorado. Sound familiar? It should. That’s right, this is the same iconic road trip that Hollywood stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels’ Harry and Lloyd took in the cult classic Farrelly Brothers film Dumb and Dumber. The big difference is that this time it wasn’t a hilarious 3-minute movie montage. This road trip was for real. And it hurt like hell.

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0:00.0	This is the outside podcast with Paddyo.
0:12.0	Howdy pals? While you're listening to this, I am at a small cabin in the woods with my family.
0:17.8	Hopefully, I'm not so sunburnt. I need to apply aloe with a paint roller.
0:22.3	That's right, I'm on vacation.
0:24.2	Which is why we're dipping into our archive for this week's episode.
0:27.9	It's one of my favorite stories I've ever reported on, because it involves a bunch of things
0:33.1	I love.
0:34.1	Friendship, doing objectively fun and simultaneously dumb things with said friends, and
0:39.8	90s pop culture. Way back in 2021, two motorhead friends were joking around about famous movie
0:46.8	road trips. You know those buddy films where a pair of pals set out on the road for an adventure,
0:52.7	but there was one cinemified road trip that they became
0:56.7	obsessed with, a 400-mile mini-bike sputtering from a cornfield in Nebraska to a little place
1:04.2	called Aspen. Yes, the road trip from the 1994 classic Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy, Dumb and Dumber.
1:15.4	And this obsession transformed into the audacious idea to actually go out and do it.
1:22.3	From the mini bike to the costumes to the locations, this wasn't a hilarious three-minute movie montage.
1:29.3	This adventure was a down-to-the-last-detail recreation.
1:33.7	And when I heard about it, well, I just had to find out about how the hell they pulled it off
1:39.5	and how they had so much fun doing something so very, very dumb.
1:50.0	It's always just kind of been up there on a pedestal
1:52.0	as one of the most ridiculous motorcycle trips of all time.
1:54.5	And I remember it was very vaguely, it was like a,
1:57.0	oh, it would be cool to ride a mini bike like they did in dumber and dumber.
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