"America's Most Iconic Delivery System - Grumman LLV" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

[@cerberus144]

"I'm being watched by the government!" "Man, you're being paranoid. "I'm not. A federal agent comes to my house every day man!" "Dude, that's the mailman."

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

yes, and?

[@mrslipyfist2021]

Exactly!!

[@goldenhate6649]

To be fair, buying a bible now puts you on an FBI watch list...

[@m2hmghb]

I hate that you're correct. @@goldenhate6649

[@benjin3993]

Where's the lie though

[@PYROMANIAC806]

“The crash course Dale Earnhardt experience” Kip nooo

[@NoobGamer-46-i9d]

Unfortunate wording

[@AhHereWeGo]

Oh boy…..

[@Generic_guy_with_glasses]

I thought the same thing as soon as he said it.

[@benn454]

Big oof.

[@jetcox6760]

I know right, lol

[@pokemonrocks08]

My neighbor worked for the the post office delivering mail for like 40 years and is now trying to retire. I say trying to because over those 40 years, he almost never used his PTO, so he has almost 8 years worth of PTO saved up that the post office requires him use before he's allowed to retire. To rephrase this, he has to spend 8 years getting paid to be off work every work day before he's allowed to officially retire.

[@KipReacts]

That's absolutely wild.

[@snowgrave2475]

​@@KipReactsbest kind of retirement plan. Getting 8 years of paychecks you don't need to actually work for while getting to enjoy life

[@ravenzyblack]

@@snowgrave2475- He should just use that money to invest in bitcoin and gold.😂

[@mr_tableflip4362]

Has anyone told Kip that the Fat Electrician made a second channel called The Fat Files?

[@KipReacts]

Yes. The Liquid Death video is already in queue.

[@Dan-ASICPlug]

The bears video is so good too!@@KipReacts

[@joeojeda4651]

​@@KipReacts yessssssssss

[@domination1985]

I told him the second after I finished his 1st vid

[@Dingodile1997]

And new obsession unlocked thank you 😂

[@inkman4703]

For a brief time, I worked under a USPS contractor and delivered mail. Those specifications are NOT arbitrary. In some places, you are lucky if there is 20ft between each mailbox, and if you want to be done quickly (by between 2-4pm), you need to speed up quickly and slow down quickly in order to deliver the mail. Mind you, I also worked in WA and under a contractor, so we were not using LLVs.

[@darkwindplus]

Anyone else remember that Jake McNasty was a mailman. I’d put money on it that he moonlit as a postal inspector

[@GhostWatcher2024]

Hey Kip.... I used to work for a printing company that printed a lot of junk mail... For much of the mail pieces, we purchased mailing lists from a listing company for a geographical area. Its no big deal, all mailers do this, which is why list companies exist. And companies rely on these to hopefully get a 2% response rate. The only main rule set is it is illegal to procure names for mailing junk mail if the person is on the USPS's Do Not Mail list. So Kip, get yourself on thay Do Not Mail list.

[@ryantannar5301]

it's still a fairly shady practice. it's not illegal or anything like that but you cannot deny selling someone's address is kinda scummy. On top of that, most of the mail being sent out is for predatory loans and other less than moral marketing practices. EDIT: to be clear just working there isn't really a big deal, gotta work to eat. Just want to make sure I make the distinction between people working at a place like that vs someone running a place like that

[@themalcontent100]

Physical post is still important because email is not secure. It's slow, but people need bills delivered. And a lot of places don't have internet.

[@c0baltl1ghtn1ng]

Regarding TFE's ad reads, there was a razor that he did and he broke their rules and read their agreement and a list of talking points and whatnot, but the agreement said "We don't want an insincere endorsement." It's not just his ad-reads that are good, it's also the products he advertises. Also Ralph Dale Earnhardt was a NASCAR driver known for his aggression during a race, and has won something to the tune of 100-some championships in 26 years. He was killed in a crash during a race early 2001 from a balisar skull fracture. He was the fourth racer to die from this kind of injury, all 4 within a year, and this sparked a huge safety improvement to the cars and driver safety for the whole organization. Since then, no NASCAR driver has died in a crash. His Son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., is still racing in NASCAR to this day to my knowledge. ALSO here's a code-word for the Internet people to get off their butts: "I'd like to cancel/suspend my service." At that point, they'll win a nobel Peace Prize if it'll satisfy you.

[@brandonteflon1232]

24:57 Postal worker here, Kip. Oh yeah. Wouldn't want to be in that in an highway accident. In 2019 was in a bad accident on the job in a 2 ton mail truck (not the LLV). Had i been in a LLV at the time, I would be either dead or permanently crippled. Like that thing would've flattened with me in it.

[@Good20win11]

7th and it still blows my mind that a defense contractor gets to make the Mail truck. Would have been cool if they stuck an old plane engine it for drag racing

[@SuperBossGiovanni]

Lockheed Martian should absolutely make a game console.

[@shaded.ghost.]

“Lockheed Martian” 😂 I mean it’s not wrong lol

[@AhHereWeGo]

Kip, you can straight up buy a humvee. There’s nothing classified about them, homie, it’s just a base model of the base model hummer h1. There’s 3 for sale in post falls right now. Also, yes, getting a humvee over 45 turns it into a hitachi magic wand from hell

[@leechowning2712]

Iron planet... they are on auction every single month. Starting at about 2k.

[@AhHereWeGo]

@@leechowning2712 sounds like I need to go on iron planet

[@leechowning2712]

@@AhHereWeGo Just remember that that $3,000 starting bid is on a vehicle which probably spent the last 30 years in the Middle East, normally driven by a person who would have been sent back to drivers ed 2 or 3 times.

[@AhHereWeGo]

@@leechowning2712 I've paid more for worse tbh

[@MarvRoberts]

They are built on a Chevy S-10 frame. Swap out the stock Iron Duke 4 cylinder and drop in a LS V6 (not sure the V8 would fit) and THEN you will have a 'Mailcat'. lol

[@deSloc]

One of the pictures in the video @4:39 is exactly that. The "LS Postal" on the drag strip, with a supercharged LS V8, making over 700hp to the wheels.

[@JG-nc5yf]

I thoroughly believe that every single person should be required to do a customer service job so they actually understand just how terrible it can be so they have a bit more respect/understanding because there are so many people who just make the job worse then it need to be out there its terrible

[@ShiningDarknes]

No, hat is dumb. You don't need to do the job to understand how shit it can be. Plenty of people are more than willing to tell me unprompted how bad it is, no thanks I would rather be happy than be literally forced to do something I have zero interest in. It is called empathy, all you have to do is fucking listen to people to be able to understand that what they do sucks the life out of them.

[@leetneet4958]

15:35 I've been a mailman going on 5 years. The key you're referring to is called an arrow key and it not only opens post boxes but it also opens a lot of doors throughout your zip code like apartment buildings or even office buildings.

[@KipReacts]

Thank you!! I forgot the name of that key. There was one that was taped to a package someone on tiktok got a while ago, and it was a huge thing. Thank you for being an absolute Legend and delivering us our mail. Mad respect.

[@self-awaregunship6869]

Kip, you can purchase military humvee's when they come up for sale. may not be in the best shape, but you can.

[@initiative_general2227]

You can get a military humvee without a lot of difficulty. In fact, since they are starting to replace them, the market will be getting a surplus of them pretty soon since the government is just gonna try to get rid of them any way necessary

[@fixman88]

That's quite the difference from about a decade ago when they would go so far as to cut the frames apart with torches when they scrapped a Humvee to keep them out of private hands; the 'official' reason was because they were 'too dangerous for civilians to drive on public roads'. Interestingly, they dropped that policy right about the time GM quit selling Hummers. Odd thing, that.

[@KharneSunar]

Hey Kip, I remember you mentioning how you like historical content so perhaps you might find the Sabaton History channel intriguing.

[@KipReacts]

I've actually been debating on reacting to it!

[@LanceCorporalHawk30]

@@KipReactsI recommend it

[@Generic_guy_with_glasses]

I would recommend starting with The Last Battle, or The Unkillable Soldier

[@LanceCorporalHawk30]

@@Generic_guy_with_glasses I’d personally recommend going in order of episode release. Since they’re all numbered it would make keeping track of which he’d done already pretty easy

[@voraciousblackstn]

What are HMMWVs like to drive? Be happy you don't know.

[@wmdragonj]

Dale Earnhardt… Crash Course… Jesus Christ Kip.

[@ryantannar5301]

accidental savagery

[@BrandonStephenson-gp6tf]

In texas the energy market is deregulated, so we can in fact choose our own energy company, if we are in the city and not in a co-op

[@Elkion_Designs]

as a idahoan who is a nascar fan, emplemon's dale video is perfect to learn of nascar

[@ImprovmanZero]

Can we petition congress to rename it the Mailcat?

[@jasonmarkwell8593]

Just prior to working at ESPN home office. Another security guard lost the grandmaster key to the whole campus. It cost them 2 million to replace all the locks, and now the campus is divided into two different keys.

[@KipReacts]

Oh no...

[@AnimeFanatic5602]

Right at the end of production, there was an overrun of LLVs that were sold on the private market and Regular Car Reviews has a video on one.

[@DillanWill]

The B-21 Raider is brand new. It is still in testing and development.

[@grantharriman284]

Kip talking about the Fat Electrician's "S.O." had me momentarily confused because that's a military term for "Superior Officer" when he clearly meant it as "significant other", but then I realized it still works either way

[@KipReacts]

"Corporate needs you to identify the difference between the two." Significant Other Superior Officer "Eh, it's about the same."

[@grantharriman284]

@@KipReacts Precisely! Also, that is a paranoia inducing level of prompt response.

[@RocRolDis]

I love the segments with he and his wife.

[@americaforever2798]

Just gonna drop this here fot that algorithm.

[@onesniper2211]

Porch pirate: (steals mail from mailbox) Next day: gets bodied by (tactical mailman) with shotgun

[@benjin3993]

New meme: MAILMAN OPEN UP *boom boom boom*

[@CorporalCargopants1749]

Kip: *Says SO* Everyone Else: "Significant other" Me: "SUPERIOR OFFICER"

[@benplassmeyer9832]

Kip he has a video about Humvees, it's an excerpt from a podcast he was on.

[@voraciousblackstn]

And he now hosts... With Brandon Berberra, Donut and Eli Double Faps.

[@captin3149]

The Fat Electrician has an excerpt from an appearance on Unsubscribed that talks about the Humvee experience. Can't put a link, but the title is 'Driving a Humvee Over 55mph - No Thanks'

[@mmasque2052]

I used to work in the service department of a Chevrolet Dealership and we got service manuals for these when they came out. Grumman built it but it’s based on the frame, engine and transmission of an S-10. An S-10 with a 2.5L 4 cylinder engine but still Chevrolet. Other than brake pads, which’ could wear out in as few as 2,000 miles, they were effectively indestructible.

[@mmasque2052]

They are also the little brother to the Chevrolet P-30 van, now built by Workhorse. Any plumbers, electricians, carpenters with sn older big boxy van with a bow tie logo on the grille? Those.

[@Mage_man]

Raise hell, praise Dale!

[@domination1985]

We live in the country and when I was 18 we moved about 5 miles south and it just happened to be on the same mail route with the same mail man. Well about 2 years after we moved it stopped me to give me a letter he found in his old truck. The letter was 12 years old

[@ryantannar5301]

Home delivery of letters started in the Civil War. Before that, you had to go to the post office to get your mail. This all changed when some guy (I forget his name) noticed how many people were getting news of their loved ones dying in the war. These people would break down right in the middle of the post office. He decided it would be better for people to be able to process this news in their own homes. This isn't related to the video really but it's super interesting.

[@JaxMerrick]

With your comments on security, and your little story about the master mail key (sounds like the FEOK1), I feel like you would enjoy some of the con talks from Deviant Ollam.

[@neisan92]

That description of the highway was my exact experience to a tee. That shit was terrifying. The heating and cooling was shit, made both winter and summer suuuuuuck. Handling in snow was a travesty. My managers spent most of their day driving around town getting us unstuck from the ice, some guys would keep their own rock salt and sand buckets in their LLV's.

[@Matthew_Calmert]

28:12 "Crash course Dale Earnhardt". What poorly yet perfectly phrased for my dark humor.

[@michaelparham1328]

32:33 I've been in construction for 4 years now, and a lot of safety protocols are nonsense, but I only say that because some things that need reform are just never addressed. So there's a lot of times where you're doing something small, like moving like 60lbs worth of dirt with a shovel. Technically you should wear gloves, and you can legit get sent home, suspended, or fired for not wearing gloves to use a shovel for 6 scoops. So you do a meerkat maneuver, stand up nice and tall, look from left to right to make sure no one that might rat on you is around, and knock it out in like 20 seconds. Meanwhile, your peace of heavy equipment can't put it's bed down unless you do it like 30 times, but it's the only one we have, so just keep driving it. Write it on the inspection, but don't expect it to get fixed.

[@nightstalker638]

If you want to learn about Dale Earnhardt I have to recommend Emperorlemon's "There will never ever be another Dale Earnhardt"

[@PolymurExcel]

The B21 Raider is a very recent addition, meant to replace both the B1 Lancer and the B2 Spirit stealth bomber. It was revealed like two years ago and I don't think you would've heard unless you actively follow military news., so it's understandable

[@sierramike0913]

Driving the HMMWV is not... bad (for a given definition of bad), and handles like a brick on wheels, but that thing goes a max of 55mph. It can't go faster than that, it can only go louder. I was in a convoy as a HMMWV driver on the Freeway (speed limit is 70mph). It was horrible and I'm pretty sure that I had some hearing damage.

[@artisan09]

Ive driven quite a few variants of the hmmwv (Humvee). Some are definitely more fun than others. The base model with no armor or heavy equipment that you just throw people in the back of is pretty smooth to drive however loud if its a soft top. Versions with armor or hauling heavy equipment is very sluggish and they are a lot less roomy on the inside than you expect. Granted ive gotten them over 60mph maybe like once and his description of driving a hummer 55mph+ is very accurate.

[@johnbarry1712]

The words "crash course" and "Dale Earnhardt" brings back bad memories. RIP, DE.

[@gryphon9507]

I agree with your thoughts on sanctity of mail. That's why no one feels anything but schadenfreude when a porch pirate gets it.

[@alden2085]

100% the standard experience driving a humvee.

[@anthonynorwood8441]

Also because we have to lock the LLVs whenever we leave them with the windows at most cracked open. I have seen temps of over 120F inside the LLV in ND. We have at least 1 carrier every year die of heat exposure inside thier LLV

[@DerekKnop]

Kip, TFE posted a clip to his channel from the podcast he does, the unsubscribe podcast, where he and all the other vets on the show describe driving humvees and it's hilarious.

[@The_Bell_Tower]

So. For navy history, worldwide and up to the end of WW2, I'd recommend the channel Drachinifel. You probably won't want to do reactions to his stuff, just because of length, but he far from boring.

[@fixman88]

THIS.

[@The_Bell_Tower]

@@fixman88 a fellow fan do I see?

[@fixman88]

@@The_Bell_Tower Yep.

[@The_Bell_Tower]

Nice! Which one is your favorite?

[@LWolf12]

Dale Earnhardt was a NASCAR driver, I don't know a lot about myself, but Emplemon did a really good video about him called "There will Never Ever be another driver like Dale Earnhardt". One of the better tributes to the man.

[@Jetster637]

My mother usually has a snack and some water ready for our mail carrier to hand off when they arrive.

[@Zeldafandaen]

As a former mail carrier, your mother is a saint and should be cherished by all, for all time.

[@classyviking1965]

As a former mail man... Can confirm. STAY OFF THE INTERSTATE in an LLV

[@KipReacts]

Thank you for the citation!

[@michaelparham1328]

15:55 funny story, possibly illegal...probably illegal. In 2009 I got my first PO box. TBH I forgot which number it was, but I was standing near by when the worker checked the key they were giving me, worked with the box number they were telling me, to confirm the key they were giving me worked in the box that they were saying was mine. So the first time I checked the box I thought ''I don't know exactly which one it goes to, but it was somewhere in this general area of like 10-15 other boxes. I'll just try each one, till it works, and that must be mine.'' I stand by this reasoning to this day. I found A box the key worked in, and not terribly surprising, I got someone elses mail. I assumed was meant for the old owner of the box...it wasn't. PO box keys can open a surprising number of boxes that aren't yours. Is it due to wear and tear over time to the locking mechanism, or the key? Maybe.

[@NagaTales]

Oh yeah, highway driving in a HMMWV is... extremely uncomfortable. It is painfully loud, the seats are not comfortable, the controls are stiff, the entire vehicle vibrates at anything above 40mph. They're fine when you're off in the dirt traversing hills and rough terrain, but putting one on the highway is asking for it to do something it just isn't built for xD

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

so, tldr, dale earnhardt is NASCAR Guy™️, Captain NASCAR, NASCAR Man, The NASCAR, Sir NASCAR, etc he was a very infamous guy

[@r4venprogr4m77]

HMMWV driving is great, when doing what it was designed to do. Meaning off-road driving at less than 50mph... at least in my experience, anything over 50 is a nightmare

[@Scraps_Underscore]

1:50 my mans just called le iconic Top Gun plane a Raptor

[@shannonrhoads7099]

29:35 Kip, Senator Amidala said it best. "The Courts take even longer to decide things than the Senate!" I understand that *some of the cases from a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away are *still* pending... 😆😆

[@SgtAwesome97]

Yeah, the internet situation is pretty slim here. I ended up going with sparklight, $80 a month for 1 gig speed isn't too bad tbh, they've been pretty good for me.

[@marcomoon6]

You can buy old surplus military Humvees if you really want one, as well as many other old military vehicles

[@caladur2092]

The HMMWV is miserable. I had to drive one across Washington state back in '05-ish. Not fun.

[@chrismaverick9828]

One of the ironies of the LLV using the Iron Duke and not having decent heat is that the Pontiac Fiero with the 2.5L Iron Duke would absolutely bake you the F out of the car in the coldest sub-zero weather in less than 30mins run time. This was because GM used the full-sized Citation heater core in a car that was less than a third the cabin space. For the LLV it would have been nothing to get even a generic heater core off a parts counter and route the coolant off the head to it and have fantastic heat using a small blower fan.

[@jameslars7391]

So Kip just to give you the background on Dale Earhart he was a NASCAR legend until he died during the 2001 Daytona 500 in a crash on the last lap of the race.

[@mmasque2052]

Here is a working solution to stop getting unwanted mail. They come with a postage paid envelope. You buy a bunch of bricks or cinder blocks. You get one of these letters, you tape that PPE to a brick/block and mail it in. The postal service is required to ship it and deliver it. The company that bought the PPE is required pay the postage involved; much more than a typical first class stamp. The company will stop sending you junk mail.

[@KipReacts]

Didn't people do this with potatoes recently? I love stuff like this.

[@mmasque2052]

@@KipReacts potatoes work, yes. But bricks require more postage per unit.

[@btdfightertheavali1848]

Fourth and LLV is cool

[@thomaswellerton3783]

I think there it a Super Eyepatch Wolf video about that racer you don't know about

[@MrAnpu42]

He is in a Video where him and a few others talk about driving a HMMWV.

[@brianriphagen9074]

24:38 Volvo be like: What's a crumple zone? Are cars are tanks so we do not have that

[@plumdestiny6968]

Two major things I got from this. One the most American things is having a sub division for either the armed forces or for the civilians like General Electric. Two the mailcat is definitely a missed opportunity

[@TheMNrailfan227]

I was gonna tell Kip that he needs to watch some Dale Earnhardt and older NASCAR stuff but he beat me to it

[@Kalebfenoir]

Theres a hilarious clip out there from the Unsubscribe channel featuring Fat Electrician, and theyre talking about how horrible it was to drive the HumVee. You'd probably get a kick out of it.

[@Kalebfenoir]

I just checked and it's on FE's channel, but it IS a clip from Unsubscribe. Lol

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

Most of those little mail “trucks” are so old now that they can’t be repaired because Grumman no longer exists to make replacement parts. One of my friends prays his truck starts in the morning because it has become a roulette wheel of who gets the nearly dead LLV on any given day.

[@anssisalonen7990]

Interesting example of government bidding is FBI's new service pistol contract back in the day. FBI wanted Sig's P320s so they made contract spec so that they would get them. Glock had other intensions and came up with their design G19.... G19 has been in service for quite some time now with G17(for normal sized hands). Don't know what happened FBI's fetish for 10mm pistol though.

[@Puma1Sunfire1]

This was a fun video but it just goes to show how Government & Bureaucracy EFFS IT ALL UP!!

[@chriszaspel7812]

Yes Kip, that is the normal experience for the HMMWV, or Hummvee. Top speed 55mph. You go 75. It feels so dangerous and bad.

[@KipReacts]

That sounds wild.

[@chriszaspel7812]

@@KipReacts you have no idea. It is scary

[@jackleonthegamer]

31:29 cue that episode of south park about cable companies

[@obiohaz6023]

ive learn that the post office has federal agents from seinfeld lmaooooo

[@xiiguardian]

I wanna talk to the guy who tested the different trucks to see if it could hit 30,000 potholes without breaking.

[@Z3MusicOfficial]

How is driving a hummer….. best thing I can equate it to would be imagine a rock polisher on wheels that’s about as quiet as a drunk frat boy sneaking into the dorm at 4 am after a Friday night football game that ended 6 hours earlier and every time you press the accelerator a faint sound of the Devil laughing is heard as those three witches from Greek mythology try to cut your life string with rusty scissors

[@kenjackben]

never forget that Jake McNasty McNeese was the letter carrier in his golden years

[@Lancer376]

Me wondering if Kipp is gonna notice the thong or not

[@KipReacts]

I thought it was a shirt pattern...

[@pitbullseatkids2682]

Ive never had a package damaged through usps, but multple times through ups sadly

[@ElderonAnalas]

on the whole, digital info selling and companies sending you random mail about loans or whatever. I want to start doing like i saw someone else do, take a big box, fill it with rocks and random garbage, tape that "no postage necessary" return envelope they give you to the outside, and make that company pay to send back like, 50lbs of useless junk back to their home office or whatever. do that every time you get one and see how long they keep sending you stuff when you keep draining a few hundred dollars in postage out of them every time.

[@mcmogg_incmogg2080]

And FedEx and ups can’t use the mailbox. It has to be delivered to the door or mailroom as such.

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

My man kip, just to remind you, llv "mailcat" may be your new favorite vehicle, but it will make your life hell if you drive it.

[@SomeKrieger]

The difference between a Bomber and a Mail truck is the fact one of them has wings

[@KillerNetDog]

Only most iconic for the younger folks, the Jeep that preceded it is more iconic for many older folks. Lotsa folks wanted to buy those jeeps, these newer vehicles not so much.

[@bodugok]

the KZbin channel 'Emplemon' made an excellent video about Dale Earnhadrt a few years ago if you are interested.

[@chriscalvin5083]

kip what wild is the postal inspector as a uniform division call the postal police that serve as guards for postal centers, guard post office in high crime area and mail box patrols in areas with high mail theft (large metro areas)

[@christopherambrosio8147]

Kip you'd probably like the Art of Revenge, a video on Nascars most infamous rivalries and dickmoves

[@HutchTheWolf]

Kip, if you ever *do* have the capability to buy a Hummer; the current model is basically just a Suburban or Yukon. Can’t remember what year that changed.

[@KipReacts]

I'd love to have the money to, the gas alone would be rough.

[@felixthescholarlytitan4437]

Kip: Yes I’m Combat sexual. Me: Oh My God! Kip is Goku!

[@CreatureOutOfTime]

In regards of Dale Earnhardt edition Chevy Monte Carlo, i recommend video by Regular Car Reviews. Do It For Dale!

[@TheM0dernPatri0t]

RAISE HELL!!! PRAISE DALE!!!!

[@SPastaL]

"Not rotary cannon, minigun", that self correction is baffling to me

[@nwomatt125]

hey kip i recommend there will Never Ever be another driver like Dale Earnhardt by EmpLemon you will learn al;ot about Dale Earnhardt

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

Dale Earnhardt was the greatest Nascar Racer everrrrrr 1951 - 2001 Rip Dale Earnhardt