stuart in mn said:I was thinking about how much it must have cost them to ship the car and spare parts to the US, all the expenses to go through all the Drag Week, and then ship it all home. And that's not counting personal expenses for air fare, lodging, meals and so on. It had to be a major undertaking.
I have a feeling Benny, Al and Woody (?) walked into this with their eyes open. They've already mentioned being in contact with other Aussie's that had run drag week before, and at least Benny and Al were over with Moog and Marty for the MCM/Roadkill confab. So, the had a hook on say ~50% of the logistics, and they probably had a pretty good idea of views and number of episodes required to recoup, between the DoubleUnicorn and various SkidFactory views. Also, it looks like Benny's ventured out on his own, so (not knowing AUS tax law) perhaps all three of them are able to write off the costs of the trip as marketing/promotion.
Re: Episode #5, and the week hasn't even 'officially' started
Off hand, if you were going to pitch this to anyone... and you said "we're going to spend 5 20-30min episodes on the preparation, and then get TBD episodes covering the event. You'd probably be told to go pound sand. Yet, the remarkable things is... they're pulling it off! The content is engaging, maybe not quite compelling... but it's a long way from boring.
From a personal perspective, that's interesting, since OneLap... which is ostensibly: longer and 'harder'... has only ever really been able to pull out a couple of 45min videos, or 5 episodes that are they equivalent.
Then again, maybe that's a by-product of the relentless nature of OneLap... eventually it becomes difficult to make the time to "record the basics" that's needed to keep it interesting.
And, amazingly of all, Woody... their camera dude... is in the car with them.
That's, kind of... next level, from my experience
