- Yo, what's up? [grungy rock music]
I'm Rick Thorn.
This is.
- Tony Hawk.
- Oh, Mr. Jesse,
Mr. Master Fabricator.
Ooh, motorcycles. [bell dinging]
Why's you step it up on the vert ramp?
What are you scared?
Ooh.
- [Host] That little dude just called you out
Jesse, what's that skinny dude think?
- What he said.
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] Join us now as Jesse
and his g*ng of
maverick mechanics [tools whirring]
rip, grind and burn, transforming
ordinary street vehicles [engine revving]
into monster machines in the "Monster Garage."
[static whirring] [grungy rock music]
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster [glass shattering]
- [Host] This week's challenge,
take a 1987 Winnebago Sun Cruiser
and breathe new recreation into a road weary RV
by turning it into a skateboarder's
death wish come true. [wheels whirring]
A radical rolling monster half pipe.
The rules. [tools whirring]
- And take out that narration.
The rules of the game,
vehicle must appear to be stuck.
- [Host] The team can spend [coins clinking]
no more than 3000 greenbacks for parts.
[fuse sparking] [firecracker exploding]
Jesse and his crew have seven days and nights.
On the first day they design,
for the next five they build. [vinyl scratching]
And on the seventh day,
they race. [horn blasting]
[grungy rock music] [team cheering]
If successful, each team member
takes home a $3,400 set of MAC tools
and the clock starts now. [bell dinging]
[clock crashing] [grungy rock music]
Day one starts off with a twist.
The same guys who call Jesse out
are going to lead him in.
Tony Hawk and Rick Thorn know
how to make an entrance.
- Yeah.
[skateboard clinking]
[wheels screeching] [engine revving]
- Time to party.
[upbeat punk rock music]
- So basically what we're gonna try
to do is make a half pipe
outta that big monstrosity.
- [Host] If you don't know
what a half pipe is, you do now.
- I don't think it's gonna be a challenge.
I think it's got enough space to make it
so it's gonna be like a smooth transition.
- Can you raise the roof
a little bit when you do it?
Or do you need to keep it
the same height as it is now? [grungy rock music]
- [Host] Tony Hawk didn't invent the skateboard.
He just showed the world what to do with it.
- I know what it takes
to put together a ramp
and I know what it takes
to put together a portable ramp,
which is even more of a challenge.
- [Host] In a sport dominated by youth.
The 33-year-old Hawk is still the man.
- I think we should take this whole thing
and cut it right behind the driver's seat
and gut it all the way down to the frame,
and then build the whole ramp
all the way up around it.
So it's just like a rolling ramp.
- [Host] When this old folks' home
is all carved up and ready to get extreme.
It's going to feel like home for Rick and Tony
because for one legendary road trip,
it was their home.
- In 1999, we did a tour
called "The Whoop a*s Tour,"
and there were about six of us on this RV
for almost six weeks.
I slept here when people would drive.
- You know, there was a really good time.
One time I had [beep] so bad [friends laughing]
they wouldn't pull over,
and I was like, "Dude, I got to [beep],"
no, and I [beep] right actually
right where you're standing right there.
Right on here, so.
- [Host] BMX freestyler Rick Thorn
has a lot of nicknames. ♪ Money
Radical Rick.
- Dude, you suck.
- [Host] T-Bird.
- Well, I came outta the closet.
No, I'm just kidding.
- [Host] He made a name for himself
with moves like this.
- I've been riding 22 years.
I ride even a good or bad day.
I feel it's like somewhat like satisfied.
It gives me that kind of sense of like
looking at other challenges in life.
Like, "I can do that."
- [Host] And Jesse can design a monster.
This one is moving fast.
The RV will lose its home
and be replaced by a steel frame
for the half pipe.
- I kind of think we should
do a whole steel frame.
You know, we can extend it
as far back as we want.
I think the chassis will hold it.
- I set this diagram up here where we could kind
of set the guidelines if you want.
Like the whatever amount
of flat we want right here
or what radiuss you guys want.
- [Host] Mike McIntyre realized
he'd never be a top skateboarding pro,
so he turned skateboarding into a profession.
- There wasn't a lot of money to be made
as a professional skateboarder.
So go get an education.
Next thing you know,
graduated formed my own company.
Turned my hobby or my pastime into a profession.
[upbeat rock music]
Yeah, it's 32 from bumper to bumper.
So conceptually, we could
take this thing right up to
an eight foot radius, go 10 feet of flat.
- No, you could do like eight foot ramp.
You could do, you know, like five forties
and you could do airs
probably about this high off the top.
And then the guy like Rick
can do a back flip on it probably.
Right, right, Rick? - Yeah.
- Can you back flip? - No, I can flip.
Yeah, eight foot.
You can flip an eight foot.
- [Host] Always one to push it.
Tony wants more out of his monster.
- We've never ridden a half pipe
that's intended to be moving
while you ride it.
- [Host] Launching and landing
on a moving target. [grungy rock music]
Sounds crazy.
Jesse's all over it.
- If you're skating on it
while it's going 50 miles an hour,
you're also going 50 miles an hour too.
- [Host] The design comes into focus,
the half pipe will be 12 feet wide
with an eight foot drop and 10 feet of flat.
The dimensions of the ramp are now critical
landing a jump on an extremely narrow
wind swept moving half pipe will push
these two top g*ns to their limit.
- Yeah, I'm excited, man.
I can't wait.
This is gonna be pretty cool.
It's a good idea.
Cut it, roll it.
Cruise around.
- It's just gonna be a whole lot of labor.
- But since it's not.
[static whirring] [grungy rock music]
- [Host] Delivering a monster is never easy.
Here's how they'll pry one out of the RV.
First, they'll bring down the house.
Next sections of steel tubing
will form a half-pipe skeleton.
Sheets of half inch plywood will
give it strength and muscle.
And finally, a composite surfacing material
called ramp armor.
[upbeat funky music] [skater screaming]
The design's nailed, some last words from Rick.
- Every RV has its day.
We're gonna put this one on the map.
[wheels whirring]
- [Host] And one last look at the master,
Tony Hawk.
Day twos in your face. [grungy rock music]
Jesse leads the build team
into the world's greatest garage.
[cards shuffling]
Joe McCluskey hails from Hemet, California
creative car customizer. [cards shuffling]
Jason Jessee, Santa Cruz, California.
He's a grinder and a welder.
[cards shuffling]
Chris Artiaga, alias Body Drop,
from San Luis Obispo, California.
He skates and fabricates.
[cards shuffling]
Steve Cadena from Anaheim, California
calls himself an auto re stylist.
[cards shuffling]
Jeff King from San Diego, California.
A skateboarding rebel ramp builder.
[cards shuffling]
Nigel Benjamin, Los Angeles by way of London.
He's a master craftsman.
[cards shuffling]
Staying on for the build
skate park designer Mike McIntyre.
[static whirring] [grungy rock music]
Jesse maps out the road trip
for his mobile homies.
- Alright guys, so what we're gonna try
to do is transform this thing
into a skateboard ramp.
It's gonna be like the wiener mobile
except for just permanently mobile ramp.
We're basically gonna have
to gut this thing from the steering wheel back.
So I think the biggest challenge
is just the enormous amount of work.
That's why we added a couple extra guys.
- So you're definitely not gonna put the size
back on and make it look like a stop.
Make it flip open?
- I think it kind of looks cool just
as a big giant half pipe.
And this thing will be a,
total ramp just going down the street like this.
You know, man, we will put
some plexiglass across here.
- Right then.
Let's smash this bugger apart.
[tools crashing] [grungy rock music]
- [Host] This is the biggest team
to ever sink their teeth into a monster.
- [beep] smells like [beep] in here.
- [Host] Eight men evenly divided
between hot rodders and skaters.
Both camps are high rev.
[parts thudding]
It's all cool now.
We'll see what happens when [engine revving]
the monster turns up the heat.
[grungy rock music]
The team tears into the RV.
[metal thudding]
Putting the wreck into recreational.
[tools thudding]
These things really are fun.
[parts thudding]
- Kick it, hit it, pry it.
Whatever you gotta do.
[grungy rock music]
[tools whirring]
[grungy rock music]
- Don't try this at home.
[tools whirring]
[grungy rock music]
- Should I help these guys sweep
or just like wander aimlessly?
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
Ooh, convertible.
- It just splashed in my mouth.
And you know what?
It was a radiator fluid.
And you know how cats,
when they drink it they,
I feel like I'm getting bloated right now.
- [Host] On a team loaded with characters.
Jason Jesse is in a class by himself.
- Cops don't even think twice. [engine revving]
They just feel sorry for me.
And they don't pull me over.
It's like, "Oh, whoa,
I ran through that stop sign.
Hey, sorry."
Wave to em and they're like,
"Nah, don't even, don't even bother."
- [Host] This native Southern Californian
makes cool cars, no surprise there.
But his have strange things written on the dash.
- I just need counseling probably.
- [Host] This guy isn't just a dude,
he's one of the original dudes.
A skateboarding legend
who made history every time he hit a half pipe.
- Marvelous.
- [Host] He's here in the garage.
- Terrific.
- [Host] He's on the team.
- Yeah.
- [Host] But nobody knows
what the hell he's doing.
[g*n firing]
- I'm okay, it's all right.
- [Host] It's not really clear
if he knows either.
- A lot of men lead lives of quiet desperation
and then here it is.
[tires screeching]
[funky rock music]
- [Host] The RV's been flattened
into the garage, comes a shipment
of steel to build it back up.
[funky rock music]
- All right thanks a lot Frank.
- All right pleasure doing business, alright.
[grungy guitar music] [register dinging]
- I pretty much laid everything out,
you know, in AutoCAD
and real world design first.
And that's how when "Monster Garage" called
and said, "I need a material list,"
I was scrambling to, you know, quickly
design it and give him a material list and.
I got it all set up.
It's ready to rock.
I could cut out everything today.
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] Jeff is a pro skateboarder
from San Diego, who builds custom grind rails.
- I was 10 years old
and I just found out that
I didn't make the soccer team
and I hung up the phone,
I walked outside and grabbed
my skateboard on the way out.
And then from then I never stopped.
And the thing about skateboarding is
that there's nobody telling you
how to do it or when to do it,
or usually they're telling you you can't do it.
[saw buzzing]
[upbeat rock music]
These are the pieces for the
transitions of the half pipe
and they need to be cut at 15 feet long.
[saw buzzing]
[steel clinking]
- [Host] The steel has been cut to length.
Now it needs to bend
to the wheel of the half pipe.
Mike takes it out to be rolled.
- Basically exactly what we talked about.
We want the eight foot radius to the back,
the backside of the pipe. - Right.
- So, alright, perfect.
[steel rustling] [funky rock music]
- [Host] Individual stems of steel
are fed through a system of drums
to form perfect arcs, one after the other.
[funky rock music]
An hour and 24 bends later,
they are loaded back on the truck.
- Sign your life away. - All right.
I will sign received.
[register dinging] [funky guitar music]
- Are we gonna make it out the door?
- [Host] The teams discovered
a major flaw in the design.
The width of the half pipe was set at 12 feet.
If they followed the directions,
their monster will never get out.
- Why are we making it 12 feet?
Does anybody know why we're making it 12 feet?
- [Host] It was the man himself, Tony Hawk,
who set the danger limit at 12 feet.
Jason Jesse has a different opinion.
- The skinnier, the better, the more dangerous.
- There you go, the more dangerous.
Let's get a tape measure.
Here's the official measuring.
It's not even 12. - We go 11 six.
- This isn't even 12. - Or 11.
- Huh?
- We should go 11 six or 11 then.
- If we're gonna go down, we gotta go down enough
to make it worthwhile going,
you know, clear on it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
So let's try the other one. [door rustling]
So we're not gonna wanna start
knocking out the the cinder block,
the building will fall down.
It'd be good TV though, wouldn't it?
[logo crashing]
- [Host] Nigel Benjamin is a master craftsman
who builds recording studios.
Before he built studios, he burned them up.
Back in the seventies,
Nigel took center stage
as the glam rocking lead singer
for "Mott," formerly "Mott the Hoople."
- I used to be in the music business.
Most people know me as the lead singer
with "Mott" back in the seventies.
And after about 20 odd years, I became disgusted
with the whole music business.
So I stopped.
I'm not big on attitude.
If what I'm doing ceases to be fun
then I just generally stop doing it.
[static whirring] [funky rock music]
- [Host] When Jesse returns,
the team breaks the news
about the ramp size.
- We've had to make one change.
Can't make it 12 feet wide. - Why?
- Because we won't even go through
this cinder block opening.
- Well, we can fudge a little bit.
I don't think we need to go a full 11,
but we could go a foot out on each side.
- Eight feets fine.
You know, for who we're talking about.
Tony can skate anything.
Jason will k*ll this thing.
- No, not, not. - He will k*ll this thing.
- I'll get swung off the side
into like parked cars.
- But see, don't let him say that, dude.
He is trying to pretend like he can't skate it.
He'll skate it better than anybody dude.
- I need sports girdles. - He'll skate it so good.
- Do it wrong.
- Holy [beep].
- This is Jason Jesse, dude.
- I'll go into cardiac arrhythm
but I'll give it a shot.
- Now's the time we go to the side
because he's cutting the metals.
- Let's flip a coin.
- What the [beep].
What if it's? - Alright, so heads is eight,
tails is 10.
[grungy rock music]
- Cool. - Ten feet.
- We're done.
- [Host] What could have been a disaster
turns into an early victory for a team
well, on its way to clicking.
[door thudding]
"Monster Garage" factoid.
In the 1950s, some California surfers
put wheels on wood and started sidewalk surfing.
Skateboarding was born.
[static whirring]
♪ Monster monster garage
- [Host] Day three is in the garage
and it's in your face big time.
Jesse starts off by probing
the team for weakness.
Body Drop breaks first he admits
to membership in a truck club.
- It's not a mini truck club is it?
- Yes.
- Oh man.
- Are there mini truckers? - Mini truckers
infiltrating "Monster Garage."
- [Host] Jesse zeroes in on Nigel
a sitting duck in bright red.
- You're not wearing a Jeff Gordon
jacket on "Monster Garage," are we?
- Oh, is that who he is?
- Yeah.
- Hold on.
- [Host] Target practice over time to work.
Mike's got his eyes on the day's big prize
building the steel frame for the half pipe.
Jesse heads off to make sure
the RV will be ready for it.
The two generals will divide up the rest
of the troops as needed.
- I've seen a lot of crappy ramps that are made
and once a guy hits the transition really hard,
you can see those things opening up.
- Oh, what. - So it's, I don't,
I don't really think this is great
to push against.
- [Host] The carved up Winnebago
is too weak to provide a stable base
for the half pipe frame.
[tools whirring]
The RV needs an ivy of steel.
- Well, we're just packing it. [metal clinking]
Get it all square first,
then we will finish weld it
and really warp the hell out of it.
- [Host] Jesse enlist Steve [static whirring]
to lay down a heavy metal mounting track.
[grungy rock music]
- It's real common on any vehicle
that you're gonna weld on.
It's gonna burn somewhere.
You know it's gonna catch on fire.
That's part of the fun
of building custom cars though.
Smoke and fire.
[logo thudding]
- [Host] Steve Kadina started
working on cars when he was
knee high to a lazy dad.
- When I was a little kid,
my dad used to paint cars at the house
and I was only about three feet tall.
So my dad would have me sand
the bottom half of the car
so he wouldn't have to bend over.
- [Host] He's very precise about
his work and what he calls it.
- I don't restore em,
I just restyle 'em.
I love the smell of the metal when it's burning.
I love the smell of fresh paint being ground off.
I love walking into a shop,
leaving my problems at the door
and it's nothing but me and this vehicle.
- [Host] Mike and Jeff get the steel ready
for the half pipe skeleton.
The first rib is marked up on a wall.
- Okay, hold it.
Hold it right there.
- Park it right to the edge of the ply.
- [Host] Leaving a template for
the other ribs to match up against.
- That's the mark right there.
- Okay.
- [Host] Joe builds a jig, [static whirring]
which will help speed up
the frame building process.
- This here is a jig table.
A jig table is a template.
I like a lot of production welding and stuff.
They all have jigs
for everything that they build.
It takes a little time in the beginning,
but in the long run it saves time.
[logo thudding]
- [Host] Six foot eight inch
Joe McCluskey has a nickname
that fits him like a tree Leaf Eater.
- I've been tinkering with cars
since I was a little kid.
Buddy of mine and me
started a shop when I was 20.
We started fixing up cars
and doing suspension work on em
and custom body work.
- [Host] It wouldn't be going out on a limb
to say, "Joe's making California
a better place one car at a time."
- The biggest thing that gets me going
is to know that at the end
I'm gonna see a result.
- [Host] Mike's ready to see the
result of his careful planning.
- One thing I did when I designed
the framing is made sure that
everything was designed
to be built in repetition.
So the deck panels are all gonna
be the same, flat bottom, same spacing.
[saw buzzing]
Today's goal is to have the whole ramp
framed up in steel on the RV bed
today and ready to start servicing
first thing in the morning.
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] Mike's got the pieces
and people in place.
He gets the wheels rolling
on his steel frame assembly line.
[grungy rock music] [tools whirring]
♪ Yeah
♪ Yeah
The team is a model of efficiency
as they churn out the
flat sections for the half pipe.
Mike's turned the garage into a monster factory.
[grungy rock music]
[metal clinking]
- Two.
- [Host] A couple of snips with
a sawzall and the jig expands.
It's now the template for
the larger curve transitions
of the half pipe frame.
- How is that? - 131.
- Holy [beep].
- It is on the money.
- Hey, you guys wanna start
a business up, seriously?
- Oh yeah. [friends laughing]
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
- [Host] Jesse's idea to make
their rolling half pipe bombproof
is to build two support frames
that will extend off each end.
He and Nigel start preparing the front.
[tools whirring]
The old bumper gets bumped
and a new one gets welded in its place.
A steel beam will run from the new bumper up
to the half pipe's top deck.
- So this is 99 and a quarter, Nigel.
- [Host] Jesse calls it, Nigel cuts it.
[grungy rock music]
The framing team puts the finishing touches
on the second transition.
[teammates chattering]
Jeff clamps the transitions together.
- We're gonna be fighting over who's gonna
be the first one to ride it. [logo thudding]
- [Host] Body Drop is an ex graffiti artist
turned skateboarder and window tinter.
- For the last two years,
I've been running my business.
Skateboarding for me is an exercise.
I enjoy doing it, it keeps me in shape.
- [Host] How did you get involved in this team?
- How did I? [vinyl scratching]
[grungy rock music]
They bring up the flats
and take a few measurements.
- Yeah it's square.
- [Host] carefully measuring the angles
and making sure that everything is level.
The team assembles the rear support frame.
[tools whirring]
The guys bring in transitions three and four
and pull them back to the rear support frame.
[grungy rock music]
Clamps hold the beam in place
as they weld the pieces for security.
At the end of the day, Jesse takes a look
and likes what he sees.
- Look at that thing.
Doesn't that it looks,
that's just the kind of vehicle
you don't normally see mobile.
That's why it doesn't need sides.
It's just taking something
that was sort of useful
and making it even more useful for skaters.
- [Host] The hot rodders and skaters
can sleep soundly tonight.
No team ever had a better day
in the garage than these monster makers.
"Monster Garage" factoid.
The word dude has been around since 1883.
Originally being a dude meant
to be persnickety in dress and manner
a dud with an attitude.
[water bubbling] [grungy rock music]
♪ Monster monster garage
- [Host] It's wheels up on
a face full of day four.
If the team can duplicate yesterday's success,
they'll be just a kick flip
and a grind away from a swift
and decisive victory.
It's time to rattle their monster's cage.
[grungy rock music]
- I am just grinding it down
to where you lay on the wood.
There's not gonna no bump or anything.
It's gonna lay flush.
[tools whirring]
- [Host] Mike started his day off campus.
- Where we are today right now
is the Encinitas YMCA,
home of a lot of the famous vert riders.
The "Monster Garage" RV ramp
only goes up to here.
So this ramp that we're
gonna be riding is only 10 feet wide right here.
It's a very narrow ramp.
- [Host] He picks up 12 sheets
of ramp armor, the all-weather,
surfacing material for
the half-pipe skating skin. [register dinging]
[funky guitar music]
[upbeat rock music] [tools whirring]
- I've never welded in my life.
He showed me how 20 minutes ago.
Super easy nowadays I had my eyes.
- [Host] Jason woke up on the
wrong side of the skateboard.
He's gone goofy foot.
- They say, "If I didn't have
the mask I would be sunburned and blind."
I'm supposed to weld right here
and I just trailed off daydreaming.
It's terrible, I have narcolepsy too.
- Today's the day you find out
who the real workers are.
- [Host] Nigel's a real worker,
but he's really angry and not working.
- I could detect an attitude
like if I ran into a brick wall,
I would detect a broken nose this morning.
- [Host] He's ticked off about something.
Exactly what is anybody's guess.
- It was going great and I
right now I just find it boring.
It was a lot of fun up until yesterday.
This morning it becomes an annoyance.
I'm gonna go for a walk.
- [Host] While Nigel tries to work it out,
work continues on the half pipe.
[funky rock music] [tools whirring]
[funky rock music] [tools whirring]
- Jump out.
Are you, you think you can fit through there?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- This thing's gonna be so gnarly.
It's pretty steep, dude.
Let's get a piece of 10 foot coping up here.
- [Host] The coping is the round pipe
found where the deck meets the ramp.
Jason sizes the coping
so it fits right up on the edge
of the frame and Jesse welds it into place.
Meanwhile, Nigel licks his wounds
just outside the garage.
- I told him, "Come on, I need help."
- [Host] Body Drop will cheer him up
with that funky black wig.
♪ Come on everybody and do the dance now ♪
- Does that look like it's moving a lot?
- It's pretty wobbly, dude.
- [Host] A heavy metal two by four
is fixed to the back of the vehicle
to provide support for the rear frame and deck.
- It's on there.
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
- [Host] Back in the garage office
Nigel and Jesse are having a chat.
- What are you pissed off about?
- [beep] I had two problems I think.
- I was pretty happy that you were
on the team then when you totally choke
and I seen you sitting there
watching everybody work.
- You weren't paying attention.
I just had [beep] gloves
and goggles on and told him I had about
five minutes ago and you missed it.
- Who cares if you got gloves
and goggles on if you're not
doing nothing with them.
- I tried to go the front of
your [beep] thing on the thing yesterday.
Since one o'clock in the afternoon.
I got [beep] thwarted every [beep] time.
- I saw here this morning.
I had to make a whole new one
'cause you made it too short.
- It's not my fault.
- Why don't you k*ll yourself?
I think Nigel is PMSing.
- [Host] As Nigel drives off [tires screeching]
into an angry sunset,
the team finds themselves down a man
and day four ends in a resounding crash.
- Whoo! [grungy rock music]
- [Host] Day five arrives,
but there's only one face
it can get into Steve's.
The other team members are
taking their sweet time.
- Looks like I'm the only one here.
- [Host] Looks like Jeff slept in his car.
Body Drop strolls in at his own pace.
[engine revving]
- I slept through the alarm clock
through the phone call
and woke up scared.
Have you ever been scared up?
Like, "Oh my God, where am I?
Who am I?"
That was what happened this morning
and just walking around for minute.
Like, "What the [beep]?
Where am I?" [metal clinking]
So yeah.
I'm here to work now I'm gonna get [beep].
What did I miss?
- What time did you get here?
- 8:30 like we were supposed to be.
- Nobody was here, huh? - Nope.
- [Host] Are the wheels starting
to come off this team of hot rodders and skaters?
- Where's Nigel?
Where's Nigel?
You know what I mean?
- Right now I'm not really concerned
about what people who aren't here,
what they're doing.
I'm just concerned about the people that are here
and getting know we can get done.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Why don't we just concentrate on the
day and we'll see what happens.
- Yeah. [upbeat funky music]
- I just wanted to make sure that
this morning everybody knew
what they were gonna be doing
and that we wouldn't have
anybody wandering around.
We're getting down to the wire.
- [Host] At 9:30 AM 14 sheets of plywood arrive.
But now they have no carpenter to go to.
[register dinging] [funky guitar music]
The team does their best
and works their way through the plywood,
but they're still trying
to catch up from yesterday.
[tools whirring] [upbeat funky music]
- We need you up here.
We need you to put your weight [grungy rock music]
on the end of this panel.
Just lay down on it.
[grungy rock music]
[tools whirring]
- We're a little behind.
So I think everybody got
a little too relaxed yesterday.
All week I've been telling people to
not count their chickens till they're hatched.
- Do your deal. - Yeah.
- Wait, I gotta, I gotta wait for a little bit.
I wanna wait until.
- I gotta wait until he is not around.
- Dude.
- [Host] Looks like Jeff is hatching something
and it's not chickens.
- I wanna paint over that thing.
- [Host] Ramp Logic, a local
skateboarding company has donated
the use of one of their ramps
for this build week.
Jeff's company also makes ramps
and he's not happy to see one
of his competitors getting exposure on the show.
- I wanna paint over that thing.
- [Host] So what does he do?
He spray paints over the Ramp Logic logo.
You can take a skateboarder out of the street,
but you can't take the street
out of a skateboarder. [thunder crashing]
When the show's producer finds out
a heated argument ensues.
- [Producer] That shows no respect for us
and what we're doing here, okay?
- What are yelling at me for right now?
- [Producer] Because we told you
once not to do it. - Okay, okay.
And where's it gonna get us?
I did it and I did it, that's it.
And that's all.
- [Producer] Listen, you have no respect for
what we're telling you here.
Is that what we're about here?
- I just wanna build a ramp. - [Producer] Half pipe.
- You don't care. - [Producer] I do care.
- No you don't.
Why do you care?
That doesn't matter.
You know what matters?
This guy right here.
This guy matters right here.
- This is like what you do.
Don't [beep] what I do. [grungy rock music]
- [Host] The end result.
Jeff walks out, the team is down another man.
- I think I've lost my entire crew.
All I need is bodies.
I may just go get some people off the street,
hold the screw and you go like that.
That's all I need.
- Losing Jeff is gonna hurt us.
- Lost a couple people.
Nigel not being around here,
that kind of hurt us.
I miss that guy.
He was a good worker.
- It does hurt when we lose a crew member.
We were all brought in as a team.
- [Host] Jesse missed all the drama.
What does he think?
- We're still just me and five guys.
Well six counting Jason.
Do I look fat?
I'm starting to feel fat.
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
- [Host] A good leader knows when his team needs
to blow off some steam.
[grungy rock music]
- We gotta do the ramp armor.
- [Host] After the ride,
a meeting on the half pipe.
- Decks, right?
- Yep.
- I think that's it.
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] Back to the plywood.
These guys still have a lot
of work to get through before
they call this day a day.
[grungy rock music] [tools whirring]
- Oh, there's actual
skateboarding going on right now.
- [Host] Body Drop, then Mike
become the first skaters to
hit the monster half pipe.
[tools whirring]
Then Body Drop hits the sheets of ramp armor.
- We did all the pilot holes.
There's a counter sink bit that's on there.
'Cause you don't want a screw sticking up
above the surface when you slide
on over the panel.
- [Host] Time to give their half pipe some skin.
[grungy rock music]
[tools whirring]
Instead, he is in plywood
where you use like a polypropylene
panel half inch, which is, you know,
waterproof and has a good.
- No splinters?
- No splinters, easy to work with.
- Well they put the ramp armor over my list
so I forgot what we were gonna do.
I wrote it on the plywood.
- [Host] One thing Jesse always
remembers to do,
make a set of monster certified exhaust pipes.
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
- Does that look about right? [metal clinking]
[tools whirring]
See if that fires up.
[engine revving]
It sounds good.
It's gonna be a total throw
people on left because they're gonna hear this.
They'll be looking for a hot rod
and they're gonna see a skateboard ramp
with loud pipes.
- [Host] Jesse wants to make sure what's left
of his team doesn't get the half pipe blues.
He treats his mobile home wreckers
to some headbanging,
courtesy of San Diego's baddest
garage band, "The Shooters."
[upbeat punk rock music]
♪ Direct hit you set it in you set it in ♪
♪ Wanna play wanna play again
♪ Your move what to do what to do ♪
♪ Wanna play wanna play again
♪ Far out far out
♪ What's it about what's it about ♪
♪ Get away get away again
♪ Can't quit can't quit
♪ You started it started it
♪ You started it
♪ Get away get away again
♪ And what you gonna do
♪ You never wanna lose
♪ But you never wanna win again ♪
♪ What do they expect
♪ The people are a wreck
♪ Get set yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪
- That band makes me wanna smash [beep].
That's a good sign.
♪ You started it you started it ♪
♪ Wanna play wanna play again
[bright guitar music]
♪ What you gonna do
♪ You never wanna lose
♪ But you never wanna win again ♪
♪ What do they expect
♪ The people are a wreck
♪ Get set get set
♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
♪ Direct hit you started it
- [Host] After coming out
of the gates like gangbusters.
The last two days almost busted this g*ng up.
They just needed to get back to their roots.
Music and skating.
Tomorrow's their last day
and it's looking good.
[grungy rock music]
Okay dudes, stick around for the dude fest.
[grungy rock music]
[bike thudding]
[static whirring] ♪ Monster monster garage
- [Host] Day six skates in
and finds the team staring
victory right in the face.
The ramp armor is screwed down tight
and the half pipe is skateable,
but it's a day in the garage
and that means work to Steve.
He rounds up the troops.
- We got four guys here
and I think that's plenty.
We stayed here all night last night
trying to get this as far as we got it today.
- [Host] A set of trailer jacks came in,
Body Drop and Steve, get on them.
[register dinging] [funky guitar music]
[tools whirring] [grungy guitar music]
Four jacks, one in each corner
will keep the RV from rocking when it's parked.
In a time zone all his own,
Jason Jesse arrives two hours late.
- So is everyone mad that I'm late?
Well, here we are.
People actually skate these things?
They're crazy.
- [Host] Jeff returns to find
the garage holds no grudges.
He and Jason lock down their work for the day.
- They're feeling like they're
doing all the work or what?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna, what should I do?
- I dunno dude.
- [Host] The garage might not hold grudges,
but Ramp Logic, the company whose
logo Jeff messed with does.
- This whole thing is between
Jeff and Ramp Logic.
I'm here to build a ramp.
I'm not here to leave the
set halfway or anything else.
I just wanna build this thing.
- Ramp Logic sent me a bill
for the cost of the stickers,
the gas, and the time spent
for the guy to come up
and put the stickers back on for 160 bucks.
Yep, I'm busted. [metal clinking]
- [Host] Jeff wants the boss to
sign off on his invoice. [tool whirring]
- This is the invoice.
- [Host] Jesse applies his patented signature.
Read between the flames.
- There.
- [Host] Pay up suckers. - Oh no.
- [Host] For the last two days,
Steve's been a working machine.
He makes the last piece for the ramp's ladder.
[grungy rock music] [tools whirring]
Leaf Eater grinds out some guardrails for safety.
Into the garage comes a
courtesy of MA Audio.
"Monster Garage" mantra,
if you can't hear it before
you see it, what's the point?
Freebies, zero, nada.
Jesse's formed a special bond with Body Drop.
He treats his little buddy [engine revving]
to a little ride on a big bad West Coast Chopper.
[grungy rock music]
- I want my own. - Yeah?
- [Host] The always revved and ready
Radical Rick Thorn is back in the garage.
- Hey, what's up dude?
You like that thing?
How fast are you gonna go on this?
- Huh?
- How fast are you gonna take us on this, dude?
- I don't know.
This is like something we used to dream about.
It's freaking smooth.
Let's take, can we please take it outside?
- [Producer] Yeah. [camera clicking]
- Can we please take it outside, dude?
Pretty please?
- [Host] This team is going down working.
They've got the time.
So they install a couple of lexan portholes.
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
- Oh my God, lets wrap this.
- [Producer] Alright, let's clear the garage.
We're gonna move this thing.
- [Host] Monster zero hour has arrived.
[grungy rock music]
It's time to test the beast.
But first the beast wants to test Jesse.
[metal clinking] [workers chattering]
[engine revving]
[grungy rock music]
The monster hits the streets.
The skaters hit the half pipe.
[siren blaring]
Jesse drives off.
If nobody dies,
we'll have a success on our hands.
[grungy rock music]
All hands accounted for
the monster passed its test.
Time to park it and ride it. [siren blaring]
School's out forever. [bell dinging]
[engine revving]
The skaters on the team take
a ride on their monster.
Mike.
Body Drop.
[ramp clinking] [friends cheering]
Jeff.
Victorious dudes.
And finally, Jason Jesse,
who had a week in the garage like no other.
He did little or no work.
- I've never used tools before in my life.
- [Host] Made little or no sense.
- Oh my God, where am I?
Who am I? [friends laughing]
- [Host] And appeared genuinely brain damaged.
But this dude isn't dazed or confused.
- The poster child for skateboard helmets.
- [Host] Don't believe it.
He might be dented, but he's not demented.
This skaters skater can still
light up a half pipe [friends cheering]
and smoke it down.
[grungy rock music]
- He's amazing.
He's been like top skater for 15 years.
- [Host] Body Drops, Body Drops.
- Yeah.
- Body Drop, give us the status
of that lump on your head.
- Oh, look at that melon dude.
- Do not try this at home.
Alright enough, enough.
Mission accomplished. - Yes.
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] How do you paint a monster dude?
First, a Linex crew sprays
a protective coat of urethane.
[tools whirring] [grungy rock music]
Then some aerosol wizards take it and tag it.
- My name's Real from KBH Crew
based outta Long Beach.
This is my partner.
- This is Precise.
AKA, the I, the N, the D, the E, the X.
"Monster Garage" all up in your face.
- Here we are doing this for you guys.
Paint some graph up on your bus.
[grungy rock music]
[grungy rock music]
- [Host] In 1977, there were
Today there are over 1000.
In contrast, recreational vehicles have access
to over 16,000 campgrounds.
[static whirring] ♪ Monster monster garage
[grungy rock music]
- [Big Swag] Okay fans, Big Swag here.
- [Frankie] I'm Frankie Whiteside.
- [Big Swag] We are ready for another
"Monster Garage" challenge.
Where the hell are we?
- [Frankie] We got a bird's eye view
of Venice Beach Swagman.
- [Big Swag] Nice dude.
- [Frankie] And that's why we're here.
- [Big Swag] Oh yeah.
Wait a minute, what is it?
- [Frankie] That's the world's first
and only half pipe on wheels.
It's called, "The Dude Monster."
- [Big Swag] Dude Monster.
Hey, who are these dudes?
- [Frankie] That's Tony Hawk and Rick Thorn.
These guys are major dudes.
- [Big Swag] Dudes.
- [Frankie] Check it out Swag.
They're busting moves while it's moving.
- [Big Swag] Dudes, total dudes.
[grungy rock music]
[grungy rock music]
Hey look, rocking dudes.
- [Frankie] That's "Passafire."
They're from New Zealand.
- [Big Swag] Awesome Kiwi dudes.
- [Frankie] Dude, this is beautiful.
The dudes are on the half pipe
and these dudes are playing music.
- [Big Swag] It's a dude fest.
It's dude stop.
- Gather around one of the sickest
bands with the dopest sounds,
from the land down under,
give it up for "Passafire."
[grungy rock music]
♪ The devil in me
♪ So damn insane to me
♪ Come on the speedway
♪ Caught in the middle of a choppers play ♪
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Bet you see me in the boring car ♪
♪ Not in my city
♪ If I try to run I wouldn't get that far ♪
- [Big Swag] You gotta be kidding me Frankie.
The two dudes are doing it at the same time.
Dude.
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
♪ Not in my city
- It looks good on paper.
It sounds pretty sweet.
And you get here and it's like, "Whoa."
It's just kind of scary.
- [Frankie] Swag, Tony promised
he'd do a 540 on this thing.
- [Big Swag] Dude, that sounds really dangerous.
- This is hard 'cause it's so, it's so tight.
I gotta like curl up in this little ball
and kind of stay that way
all the way down the flat.
♪ The ride the ride the ride
♪ The ride the ride the ride
♪ The ride the ride the ride
- [Big Swag] Dude.
- [Frankie] Dude.
[grungy rock music]
♪ Do not trust the price of the government ♪
♪ Slapped down cop sentiment
♪ Watch TV
♪ I'm caught in the middle of a shopping spree ♪
♪ Not in my city not in my city not in my city ♪
♪ Not in my city not in my city not in my city ♪
♪ Not in my city not in my city not in my city ♪
- That scared the [beep] outta me
on this little ramp, dude to be honest.
♪ Not in my city not in my city ♪
♪ Deal with it
♪ Deal with it
♪ Deal with it
♪ Not deal with it
♪ Not in my city not in my city ♪
♪ Not in my city not in my city ♪
I can't believe we pulled it off.
- I know, huh? - You know what I mean?
Actually, I think it's really cool.
I'm glad you guys had us.
I think that this is something
that a lot of bike riders
and probably skaters too have
always thought of doing.
You know, being able to, to ride
something while it's moving.
I mean, I've never ever done
that in my whole life.
- And as soon as you take off on one wall,
it creeps in on you or it creeps out.
So you gotta adjust for that.
You actually have to think about which wall is
forward and which wall is backwards.
♪ When all that I've been through now ♪
♪ Don't help to make me see
- We'll see if you want me to
for birthday parties, anniversaries,
you know, anything like this is perfect.
Just call "Monster Garage."
Me and Tony will come to your house.
- It's the new Dino jump.
- You can play your own music even.
You know what I mean?
We'll flip and dip, you know there's some whips.
- [Big Swag] Dude, I don't know what to say.
- [Frankie] All I can say Swagman is, dude.
- [Big Swag] these dudes have no time
to be anything but dudes.
And as for Jesse,
he's got metal to burn, sparks to fly,
the next "Monster Garage" challenge
is just around the bend.
[grungy rock music]
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
♪ Monster monster garage
[bright synth music]
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02x14 - RV / Halfpipe
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A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."
A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."