From Donut to BigTime: Building Cars, Bombing Jokes, and Sending It Anyway

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On this episode of the Full throtlPodcast, Mickey Andrade sits down with Zach and Jeremiah the chaos-loving masterminds behind BigTime. They talk about the real story of how the channel exploded to around 1.8M subscribers in a year and a half, why their projects look “all over the place” on purpose, and how a 50-year-old cab-over semi became the perfect mission statement for what BigTime is all about.

They get into the behind-the-scenes reality people don’t see in a 30-minute video: months-long Marketplace negotiations, parts-hunting headaches, fuel lines that leak if you look at them wrong, and what it’s actually like driving a straight-piped, twin-charged rig for hours. Plus: why showing the painful moments matters if you’re trying to inspire people to build stuff themselves.

It gets personal too, from hockey and motocross to comedy, standup nerves, and the mindset shift that comes from failing in public and realizing you’ll be fine.

If you’re into cars, storytelling, and building ridiculous things with optimism and questionable decisions… this one’s for you.