First! Can't wait to see it!

Hello everyone, good viewing🤓👍

FIRST AGAIN!!!

Heck yeah! This is awesome.

First!

What are you doing here?

yessir

I remember seeing a video where some guys blew up some little glass paint jars in some other guy's garage. That was pretty "Southern".

Roll Tide to you sir

@@smartereveryday Hey Destin, I think the word Will used at the 7:50 mark might have been 'mire'. To mire down is a synonym for bog down and he was talking about the sled getting stuck in the mud.

I’m from a large city in NC and the same thing happens to me. It’s called code switching. When I’m with “the boys” or people with southern accents it gets real southern real quick. However in normal conversation I have a very standard non southern accent.

🤣I was thinking the same thing, if the video went on much longer I would need subtitles

Yup. My wife is from Kentucky, get her around family or mad and it comes out.

Blending .

or when he is doing something crazy like rocketpowered circularsaw tied to a zipline, or with mark rober doing the rocketpowered golf club.. he more or less always goes to the hillbilly accent 🤣

Yeah they seem like real pricks

We had a pull about 5 miles from my house. I ride the roads there on the 4-wheeler and there is a lot of clay there. People brought trucks and tractors from all around

Hey now it ain't just a southern thing, im from western Massachusetts and all the country folks up there including myself can regularly be found at truck and tractor pulls! Lmao

Close, his name is strawberry.

Popcorn the lytch

​@terrorbit3553 according to my poppa's cousins Punkin and Puddin (swear to God names on birth certificates) you're right. 😂😂

Nah the moonshine is never that far away

He already did that, UKposts just didn't allow him to post it due to local laws.

I bet you used the closed captions to get wat jim was saying

People living in southern US are in fact a joke, it's far beyond comedy.

@@gordonbyron5145 A look, a small-minded person. What are you doing here?

@@kaldo8907 I'm laughing!

@@gordonbyron5145 It is common for people who don't understand something to laugh out of nervousness

My first handshake lesson was "Squeeze hard, don't give a wet fish son".

Best part of the video. Teaching that young boy one part of being a man. Priceless. Thank you Destin.

Also the boy looks so much like Destin

I'm in my 30's and actually felt a little envious that I didn't have someone to do that for me in my youth. I would love to shake Destin's hand and thank him for all that I have learned from him via this and NDQ

I don't understand how young men can make it through their childhood and not learn to shake hands properly... I've made it my goal to make sure EVERY young man I come into contact with learns how to properly shake hands!!! It's not a big deal anymore, but it should be :-)

Could you explain to someone who never saw a gun in person why that's funny?

@@tom.e its not a .380. Hes making a joke about his gun being small.

@@tom.e .380 is a small caliber.

@@tom.e it’s funny because.380 is a pretty small and weak round. Not much stopping power. Single stack refers to how the ammo lines up in the magazine. Single stacks are a lot thinner profiles for little guys or girls to better carry. While I personally have nothing against .380 there are some who would consider it emasculating.

@@tom.e 380 is a small round that is often recommended to women because they make very compact 380 cal guns. Therefore in 'Merican, "is that a 380?" Is basically saying "are you a little girly girl with a girly girl gun for girls?"

That was my favorite part! What great training for that young man! And so happy to my spirit. ☺️

this is the comment i was looking for that’s easily the best part of this video i loved that clip

I noticed that, too. You made that kid feel seen.

Came here to say just this.

I had to stop the video and look for a comment like this because thats how important that lesson was to that boy, and how much i respected him for taking the time to do so.

Thank you from Europe. I was wondering in which part of the states the first encounter took place. Close suspects were Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.

I'd be a little reserved as well if some stranger dude walked up with a camera in my face asking all kinds of questions, lol.

God bless you all

That sideways glance when Destin first asked about the sled really cracked me up. Please tell Brian thanks for the laugh!

@@PatrickKQ4HBD I knew Brian was give Destin a hard time he’s not about to tell his secrets

LPL!!

Fancy meeting you here.

I don’t know much about guns, can you explain his joke?

@@beermonster1234 it's a little baby gun, much smaller than that guy's actual gun

@@beermonster1234 It's like asking a person driving a large truck if he's driving a Toyota prius.

I don't think he kept up with Will.

Tractor pull, ear plugs, hamburger & drink. I think he knows the keys to happiness.

thank you. it seems to be those who are packed into densely populated cities who appear less than warm to strangers. room to roam is remarkably healing to the psyche

that tells you a lot about the Brain washing going on everywhere.

MEGA DITTOS TO YOU AND WITH YOU

I'm not American, never been to nor intend to go to America, as I'm happy in my country, but I fully agree with the comment and also the sticker at 22:26. Why? because proper independent America is better for the world, independent from whom some may ask, well, you guys are smart, and many already know. ;) Take care.

They seemed half aggravated in the beginning when he went to look at the sled the tractors pull lol, wouldn't call that welcoming at all..

i love how he is just eating some kids fritos

@@PizzaWheels427 YEAH man was like "Am I taking too many" And then asked for an o t h e r

@@cherriberri8373 And the kid was so polite "You can have as many as you want".

Destin loves to let other people shine in his videos, and I think people sense that he's coming from a place of respect.

I felt that guy he just wanted a drink and he's got this guy with a camera asking him questions 😂. Destin is amazing at understanding the intricacies of blue collar diplomacy.

Thats just the south when it comes to some old timers haha and I can tell you Destin knew exactly what was going on and didn't take it personally.

I would be a bit stand off-ish too if someone walked in off the street and started asking questions while pointing a camera at me.

I was somewhat shocked of their initial inhospitability. But, if they would've shut down completely, Destin wouldn't have shown them in the video, of course.

Heck yeah! It's an engineering problem in the truest sense

Are you still pulling though?

The guy that built the engine for Financial Mistake (and Volunteer Deere and several others at that pull) followed a similar path. He is an engineer for GM but plays with tractors whenever possible.

She's used to that, she was upset about the engine not running. If I remember correctly, it was a broken camshaft that time.

She's a pretty talented driver! Funny enough she's my cousin!

People, not humans.

Yeah idk if you're from the south or the midwest people are kinda guarded. Idk why tho.

Are you talking about the old cast iron ones that were made back in the 1970's that were replicas if the old Farmall H tractors? My brother and I each had one, and boy those things were heavy! They were very easy to turn over to trapping you underneath it. Lol. That was back when toys could kill you or at least break a few bones in the process! Lol

@@chadh3441 yes indeed!

@@MyClutteredGarage Holy cow that's awesome!

@@Samuel-sg2iv yeah I’m from southern NJ. Hardly “the south” but very similar culture and attitude.

The proper handshake, with the look in the eye, is what did it for me. Destin is a real one.

@@MasonH24 Details are important like that. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

that classic southern hospitality too

The accent got noticeably more southern the more he interacted. I love it.

I was gonna say the same thing haha

I'm not even a native English speaker and I noticed that too :)

His energy multiplies

Im from california and I started to sound like these folk after living with them during grad school for four years haha

Ah yeah that was great :D

I noticed that too! I find myself doing the same sometimes, I moved countries when I was 11 and when I speak to my parents (who kept their accent) or my grandparents and friends from my country of birth I find my voice just sort of adapts and I start pronouncing words and vowels more like my native accent.

That's just how accent's work. Mine'll drift all over, depending on the people around, what I'm doing, or even just my mood.

That's called code switching. I'm from Texas and I do the same thing. I was taught to do this depending on who I'm talking to, whether it's business or pleasure, and where I am.

@@blackdragonxtra I honestly thought I was the only one. I can adapt my accent to whoever I'm around, and I do it without even thinking about it.

@@WDCallahan I had no idea there was a term for this. I do it all the time. Interesting

As a Georgia boy, when I get back around other southerners, the accent automatically changes without even consciously thinking about it. I normally do not have much of an accent.

Seems more like code switching to try and make the folks he's talking with more comfortable with an engineer with a UKposts channel pointing a camera at them.

@@cbb8991 I have a friend that talks normally but any time he'd get a call from his grandparents it was an automatic switch to deep south lol "Hi paw"

@@farLander1 There are certain words that I'll say, that you can pick up that I'm probably from the south. Everyone in my family is from Pittsburgh except for me, I was born in Georgia. I think that gave me a more neutral accent and most of my classmates in engineering school didn't have accents either. When I would go down to the hunting camp though, my accent would just naturally change to sounding a little more like the good Ole boys down there.

In his submarine series he mentioned that he will subconsciously pick up the accent of people he is working with. I don't remember the video specifically but it was when he was speaking to someone with a thick southern accent as well.

The kid was right tho, giving his left hand knowing the right one is full of chili cheese!

man dont care if the hand is dirty. brian looked at his hand and saw how dirty it was and just went for the shake. also a valuable lesson. kid was still good mannered, nothing to complain about

And look him in the eye! Respect!!

@@brian70Cuda Destin's an awesome dude, through & through

@@brian70Cuda It took way too long for someone to teach me this. Good to see this kid learning it.

i'm not into guns and i don't get it... is .380 a small caliber or something? tnx

@@NALOvs a lot of people call .380 9mm 'short'

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 lol i was close enough then, tnx

yup

The .380 is considered to be a "girl's/woman's" caliber. That's the joke and why he gave that look.

Well here in our small town of Gibson you don't have people like him come to your work and start asking lots of questions. That's my husband and we were all kinda like, 'is this guy for real ?' Brian was just caught off gaurd

This is true. Probably some of these people who engineer, machine, test, fine-tune the tractors, they would have excelled if they had instead pursued aerospace, semiconductors, chemicals, etc. Talent and intellect can show up anywhere, whether those "high tech" types of endeavors or something more bucolic, even though society conditions us to see only the high tech stuff as intellect.

@@ErrantChordier they're building 100 thousand dollar tractors, they have excelled

@@brittanylyles8285 I meant, they would have excelled *at aerospace* if they had done that instead.

Engineers can sniff out engineers a mile away. We smell. :P

Brian obviously isn't intelligent. He uses dumb grammar and has a limited vocabulary, and, for those who don't know, all people from the South don't talk like that.

Its typically called code switching and is nearly impossible to stop even if you can hear yourself doing it. Happened to me just the other day meeting a friends family and even being intentional about how I was speaking it still came out quite a bit thicker than my normal southern accent.

I'm from the UK and had to put on subtitles 😂

@@MatthewBryce Being from the Southern US, they were speaking my language. I've had you Brits get to talking fast and I get lost. Lol

@@Falcodrin it’s interesting, same thing in some parts of Britain. Almost like another language is being used

I’d worked with the Marines over the years and I’d struggled too with that rich southern 😂. For us Downunder it’s like us being up in the Territory 😂🤣

I still have zero interest. There’s zero things to be applied to doing something useful

@@GreenAppelPie it’s more like a ton of useful things applied to something enjoyable

Come on, what's not to like about tractor pulls, monster trucks, and top fuel dragsters, and other purely recreational engineering.

I also like horse pulls. Not so much engineering as much as well taken care of animals and harnesses.

@@GreenAppelPie For just one example you are to empty to realise... All the learning about pulling things could be aplied to pulling things in farmwork and any kinds of pulling heavy things.... like your food and fuel on trucks.... Its actual real science... for fun...

You!

Agreed!

Better then your Content at least !

What the... do all my favorite UKpostsrs watch each other?

@@Pimps-R-us petty much?

That's a real thing. My wife is from the Deep South but has lived elsewhere for a long time. The minute she goes home, or talks to relatives on the phone, her long-lost southern accent returns.

And likely some of these people worked on it.

Science is everywhere!

@@alpham777 I'm not sure about that, but we do have an engineer for GM.

Australia teaching America how to do proper burnouts via Cleetus with KillaB, so we have reached the next part of the formal cultural exchange 😅

Welcome to the land of the free

DESTIN NEEDS TO GO TO SUMMER NATS!!!!

I'm not sure what to make of someone calling American Southerners crazy when y'all live with crocs, giant spiders, venomous snakes, dive-bombing magpies, and warmongering emus. I guess I'll take it as a compliment.

@@semvhu1494 Yep and whatever the heck that football game is they play :) THAT's nuts! :)

I’ll take the earplugs, hamburger and soda. See you in the stands!

I grew up in South Carolina, and honestly I wish there were subtitles in this video... w/o Destin repeating things for clarity, a lot of it would be incomprehensible. Reminds me of how technically Scottish people speak English too, but not any kind we'd understand half the time.

@@oneeyedziggy2 I had the benefit of growing up in Idaho but living in Georgia for two years. I really had to study the accents to understand them and started realizing they are pretty finely regional. At one point I could tell south GA from North GA and Tennessee from Carolina, but I've lost my edge. :)

He pretty clearly said mar down, not more down.

@@oneeyedziggy2 and there is me, from Quebec with english as a second language. But I hear enough different english accent that I think I was able understand most of the video.

That's just what any human talks, changing your voice based on the environment

yeah I agree, like when he says 'poonay tangs' instead of 'growlers'

She's beautiful

@@smartereveryday and pretty. You are lucky.

she is

♥️

For the record, she's also lovely without a cowboy hat. Destin, you're a lucky man and you've got a lovely family.

He just didn't want to use his chilly cheese eating hand on it, i been there and i can relate to the kid

Some cultures don't shake hands, when they do, it's like a wet fish. That's no reflection on them, they just never learned a correct handshake. Shaking hands is not that easy, sometimes people grab too early, ending up shaking fingers, not cool.

This.

Handshakes are pretty simple: just do whatever the other person is doing. If they've got a light grip, use a light grip. If they look you in the eye, look in theirs. If they clearly are done, let go. If they're trying to break your hand, reduce theirs to paste.

That is something I can thank my cousin for. He walked me through it when I was about 10 and I have done it properly since then. I'm not much of a handshaker being a bit of a germophobe, but if I encountered anyone who shook hands improperly, I would pass the favor onward.

IDK, where I come from being short and dismissive of someone because of your immediate perceptions of them is called being rude.

@@aceofspad3s1911 Well you ain't from around here now, are ya? 🤨😉 All kidding aside, it's a cultural norm to be a little suspicious of outsiders and take a bit of time to welcome them into the circle. Please don't judge.

@@aceofspad3s1911 Tell me you aren't from the South without telling me you aren't from the South.

That's the definition of rudeness

@@aceofspad3s1911 "Southern hospitality"...

Next week on the South Main Auto channel: Etiquette with Eric. O. - Rule 23: Don't call the shop if you don't have a car or don't want to make an appointment. Thank you.

It's Eric O! Lol

Well come to Finland to Härmä

Europe has plenty of tractorpulling events as well😉

Not even south, if you have a large agriculture scene you'll see tractor pulls, it just has popular here in Iowa has it is Tennessee

It's quite big in the Netherlands, here in Belgium not as much I think.

We got exactly this in the Netherlands

Same!

There is a reason Art Arfons ran the tractor pull circuit longer than he did drag racing or land speed record competition. Part of that was safety but part of it was the level of competition was and is higher than most people think.

He barely scratched the surface.

You know, I find that I achieve this as well through no great effort of my own. People are excited to talk about their hobbies if they think you're actually listening

That is the beauty of good Southern Charm and genuine curiosity. When done right, it's the best of social engineering.

I find code switching so absolutely fascinating. My wife was born in Trinidad and raised in the US and even she is fascinated at how she'll code switch around Caribbean people and not even know how she's doing it

Yep I am from the south, but from the city. Not really a thick natural accent. But when I go to more rural areas, it gets MUCH thicker. Easier to fit in and connect with people.

I love tractor pulls and found this a great watch, but the code switching was absolutely the most interesting part for me. As soon as the video opened and I heard Destin's voice, I knew he'd been down there for a bit filming this. The accent is magnetic. When I go back to visit family I tend bring it home with me for a few days. Ol' Brian in the beginning got me. That whole awkward interaction when he's just letting him talk and responds after a long silence with a 'yeeap'. I bet Destin felt like he was 11 yrs old again and asking the neighbor if he could mow his lawn 😁.

@@rijlqanturis625 Heck I'm from the north east, but i lived in North Carolina for a number of years and by the time I moved away I would find myself speaking with a noticeable accent in casual conversation. My inner monologue still has a pretty heavy twang to it. It's a good comforting way of speaking. Laconic in a way.

Wow, I'm English and really noticed it, too, before reading any of these comments. Destin's accent changed radically.

I noticed that too, I wasn’t watching just listening and had to see if it was the same person, haha

That's honestly such a solid lesson to teach a young man. Use the right hand, give a firm handshake, and look the other person in the eye. It's a small social interaction that says a whole lot. I'm betting Destin had someone teach him the same way when he was younger.

I thought it was perfect. He treated Will like a grown man he could learn from. When Will got a little mixed up, he kept him on the level. Hopefully they both walked away with something.

teaching him to be one of a true professional!

and then took his Doritos

THANK YOU DESTIN, FOR YOUR WHOLE CHANNEL AND HIGHLIGHTING AMERICA AT ITS FINEST

And with an awesome accent!!👍

Louisianan and Texan? Can you be both?

@@RobertBeckk I’m mid-migration

1000x this. Just because they use their words sparingly, or possibly don't have a college degree doesn't make them any less smart. There are some real smart people doing what they do in sports, industries and communities like this.

"doesn’t talk down to his fellow Southerners" This implies they are naturally "less"? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Why would talking down to people simply because of where they're from ever cross his mind in the first place, especially when they are doing something you have to have money and smarts to do in the first place? I get that people with a southern accent are looked down upon by suburban kids from the north, but Destin isn't that.

@@jasondashney Yes. We agree. There is no reason for it. And Destin isn’t that. 👍

the man himself

what to do if your parachute fails?

@@Cinnamine3D lol, probably the same thing you do in any other scenario when a parachute fails: pray, even if you're not religious.

I really hope one day y'all can do a Collab. I don't even care what the topic is. 2 of the best UKpostsrs out there!

Came looking for this comment

Smarter Every Day!

I hope that the kid understood what was trying to be taught.

@@peterkelley6344 He's already respectful and clearly a smart kid. I'm sure he picked it up.

That's definitely a southern thing. I remember having that taught to me when I was younger, how to give a good firm handshake.

It was a really wholesome moment with Will there. Good head on those shoulders.

Code switching is very important to genuine interactions

Sneakiness, or maybe just reverting to a more comfortable dialect?

@@autorobot8240 Yeah, nothing sneaky about it.

Hes from Alabama lol thats probably just him slipping back into his natural dialect.

Sneaky maybe isn't the right description. It's more like he becomes cheeky, hometown playful when he talks to these character its a musical feedback loop that he can't help. It seems so fun and comfortable for him that it's probably not a conscious shift

I noticed this immediately and as someone who does the same thing, I think I might have an explanation. I grew up in the south, but after college moved to the Midwest, then to the Pacific North West where I am now. Most people don't realize I'm from the south because I've adopted a fairly neutral accent over the past 4 years. I think there are 2 reasons your accent changes. 1. You want to fit in with the people around you. Going back to your hometown/area, the last thing you want to do is feel like an outsider. You quickly slip back into your old accent because you don't want to stand out and you spent almost your entire life speaking that way so it comes naturally. It's like if you went to a country that speaks your language, but prefers their own language. You learn their language because you don't want to be a tourist. When you go home you go back to your language for the same reason. Nothing sneaky about it, its who you are. Listening to his dad speak, I know little Dustin had some serious twang growing up. 2. People with southern accents (as far as I can tell) are seen as being less intelligent, but, because of this, are also seen as less threatening and more trustworthy. If I ever need a favor from a stranger, my southern accent comes back thick. There's a reason the phrase "southern charm" exists. If I ever need to seem more intelligent to people outside of the south, I go back to a neutral accent. I don't believe Dustin is partaking in option 2. I believe Dustin is back with "his people" as I like to say, and is doing what comes naturally. If someone from California had gone out there and used the same accent to interview them, the interviewees wouldn't have participated because it would have been insulting. The first guy may have detected his city boy status in the beginning, but realized he was actually from that area and immediately started to get more friendly.

Watching paint dry actually be interesting if you could figure out a way to visualize the VOCs coming off and the polymers cross-linking.

“Hi. I’m Destin. In a recent video a viewer challenged me to do a video on paint drying…” “It turns out there’s so much science in that this may run a bit long.”

Didn't he do a paint drying episode for like some paint company I think

Lot of, if not all of the western states do hunting.

"Hi I'm Destin, and welcome to my newest video, 'Watching Paint Dry.'"

What makes it move up to the front though? I didn’t get that bit.

@@petergeorgehill drive shaft from wheels on the sled to gearbox.

@@petergeorgehill the rear axles on the sled drive a drive shaft that turns a transmission hooked to the chain system that pulls the box forward. This allows the sled operator to make the box move at different speeds for different classes of vehicle. Once a sled is "set" for a class then no changes are made between vehicles, if any changes are made they have to restart the class and anyone who pulled before the changes has to rehook. This also ensures that the box moves the exact same distance on its rails for every puller regardless of what speed the pulling vehicle travels at and with the laser measurement system it doesn't matter if the sled is precisely in the same spot it was for the previous puller. They shoot the laser before each puller hooks and after and the difference gives the distance the sled was pulled. Also, it doesn't matter If the sled is three feet further forward the box will still move the same distance after any given amount of forward travel.

Heck yes Napoleon, I live up in Summertown TN. Where do u live? I’ll comon over fir sum ice tea?

Agreed, and insisting on a proper hand shake was gold.

I'm Dutch and actually never seen a tractor pull in real life. But my son loves tractor's so I'm definitely going to a few soon. Probably will enjoy it myself too 😁

@@DerekSmit I went to the Made Power Weekend 🙂 It was awesome fun!

Are you the UK slayer?

@@JT-91 Shhh 🤫 I have to keep that a secret…

I don't get it. There's global warming. And people have a hobby that blows up tons of carbon in the air -- for fun.

It's not just "Southern entertainment". It's nationwide!

Have your ever seen Barbie Jeep Races?

It's huge in the Midwest

@@Cougracer67 it’s now just nationwide, it’s worldwide. We have it here in Denmark too

To be quite honest, it’s everywhere, especially in the Midwest