- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Oh my God, I'm screwed.
(laughing)
- [Man] Oh beep.
- [James] You got something under your car.
- If we bring the cone with us, it doesn't count right?
- I have a question.
How do you win, when everyone is going the same speed?
- What do you mean?
- Cruise control.
- That does sound fun,
that sounds fun. - No!
- You're so right.
- This,
- [Group] is Car Wars!
- I forgot, I forgot to say it.
- Oh my God.
- We are super excited about our guest today
because he's legitimately one of the funniest dudes
on the internet.
A big round of applause, even at home,
for our guest today, Gus Johnson.
(applauding)
- Wow, we truly are out here.
- As always, today's challenge is
fairly simple, Nolan.
- As usual, we're gonna split into two teams.
Each driver will do three laps
with the cruise control set to 20 miles an hour,
and you're gonna try to avoid some cones,
in the first lap, the cones will be worth one point.
Second lap, two points, third lap, three points.
The team with the most points at the end, loses,
and thus, gets the punishment.
(dramatic music)
- What is it? - The punishment?
- What is it?
- We have a new punishment for today.
I actually don't know what's in this box, ooh.
- Is that the death chip or whatever?
- It's the death chip again.
- What the hell (laughs).
- This is a very, very spicy chip,
made with Carolina Reaper Peppers.
- It's not just a very spicy chip, Nolan.
- It's the spiciest. - It's the hottest chip
in the world.
(dramatic music)
AHHH!
Now let's go take a look at what I'm sure is a
terribly difficult course,
that our producers have come up with for us.
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] The cruise control challenge is
not a game of speed, but a game of precision.
The objective is to navigate the course while knocking over
as few cones as possible.
First, drivers must use the open skid pad
to set their cruise control to 20 miles per hour.
The course begins with a large sweeping right,
followed by a short left, and down a tight straight.
This path continues into a large opening,
before entering, the maze.
In the maze, there are a multitude of routes
and various lines for the drivers to chose from.
The maze exits into another opening
where the drivers will line up
and enter the final sector of the course, the joker.
Drivers will have to make a choice between two paths,
to the right, a wide open straight that ends with
an unavoidable row of cones.
To the left, a riskier, more narrow, cone packed curve,
that will put the drivers skill to the test.
The two routes merge back together for the final straight,
and across the finish line.
- Going in to the third challenge,
having eaten two chips and lost twice,
I hope that luck is on our side today.
- I'm really excited, it looks pretty difficult but,
that's what we're here for,
here for a challenge, play to win.
Right, Gus? - Yeah, we'll do it up.
- I literally googled, can you eat Carolina Reapers
four days in a row, and not be hurt.
- What did you find?
- Not much.
(gong ringing)
(slow drumming)
- Let's go show these nerds how to do it.
- Oh, they're coming through the approach.
- This is them getting up to speed, right?
- All right, we're at 20.
- That is way faster than I thought it was gonna be.
- Into the course they go.
- That is so quick.
- Whew!
- Oh, oh! - That's good.
- Damn, that was a tight turn.
- Whew, that's a turn.
Aw, this ones tough, up here dude.
This one is tight. - Yeah, yeah, but.
- They haven't hit anything yet.
- No, they're good.
- Into the maze, oh (beep) (laughing).
- I was looking in the rear view to see
if I ran anything over.
- Yeah, don't do that. - Oh god.
- To the right, that's fine.
I wish I would've gone to the left.
- Oh, that's a turn, all right, Zach.
- Are they just gonna bite the bullet
and just go through this?
- Yeah, looks like it.
- Damn, that's a good strategy.
- I'm plowin'
(crash) (laughing)
- Four. - Jeez, that was really good.
- Wow.
- You did a great job, dude.
- Hey, thanks.
- You did, barely knocked down any.
- Dude, I'm nervous now, I'm gonna be real with you.
(laughing)
That was a good, you set the bar high on that one.
- I actually, my favorite part was running over the cones.
- Nice! (laughing)
- That I am, a little shook, I'm not gonna be honest.
- Yeah, dude that was-- - I'm gonna be honest.
- I'm gonna lie straight to you.
- I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm feelin' shook.
- Predictions for Gus?
- 10, at least.
- This is the most nervous
I've been in a long time, honestly.
I'm on 20, here we go.
Is it on the right?
- Yeah, it's the one-- - Probably a bad time to ask.
(laughing)
All right, here we go, we got it, we got it.
- All right. (upbeat music)
- Solid start. - Oh oh oh.
- There ya go, there ya go, there ya go.
- There we go. - Good good good,
good job Gus. - Nice.
- Dude, I feel like I'm taking a driving test right now.
- Whoa, really tidy.
- Into the maze, let's see what he does.
- Where the, ooh - Right here?
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Ease him out, ease him out.
(laughing)
- Boom baby!
- [Man] That might be the move.
- Yeah, go to the right. - Yup.
- (beep) it, we're going for it!
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Yeah - Yeah!
- Guts glory baby! - Let's go Gus!
- Here we go, here we go. - You're good buddy!
- Yes!
- [Man] Oh my God, look at him go.
- She took-- aw, dang it no!
(laughing)
No!
- Oh yeah I did five.
- You did five - Holy (beep)
- Oh my God.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
- Well that was, amazing dude.
- Dude that was terrifying, holy.
- That was so good.
- What'd you guys have, four?
- Five. - Five.
- Okay, down to the wire.
- You're in the, the top spot.
- Whew, here we go.
- Playing to the boys.
- James is now behind the wheel.
- And just the course all floor it.
- (laughs) No problem.
(whip cracking) - Oo!.
- Just be smooth.
- [Nolan] That's one cone already for James.
- [Gus] Dang.
- Perfect. - So weird over here.
- Hug the left, hug the left.
- All right - he's gonna go
for the same route?
- [Nolan] No, he just went straight through it looks like.
- [Gus] Okay, okay, he went for that--
- [Nolan] So he went all the way around.
- [Gus] He just stayed right.
- Oh, oh!
- I think we might end up eating another chip today.
(laughing)
- James is gonna do--
- [Gus] Is he gonna go for it?
He's gonna go for it-- - No!
He chickens out.
- [Nolan] He goes for the wide boy.
- [Man] See if you can just get one.
(laughing)
- Oh God, oh God.
(whip cracking)
- Did I knock any down back there?
- a few. - That's fun!
- That is so fun.
- Nolan hopping in?
- Yeah. - All right.
- Wrong car, Nolan. - Oh.
- All right, do you feel nervous?
- A little bit, yeah.
- Honestly, I'm like why do I feel so nervous.
(laughing) - Don't mess up Nolan.
(dramatic music)
- Don't hit any cones, bud.
(cone thudding)
- (beep), that's a cone.
- Watch the cones, Nolan.
Watch out for that cone, Nolan.
- Cut him off.
- Whoa this is--
- Whoa, right over here. - Yup.
- Okay, great.
(laughing)
(whip cracking) - oh (beep)!
- Cone?
- Gonna be tight man. - Going for it, man.
- Ooh. (whips cracking)
that's a lot of cones.
- Five, six.
- I think we just took the lead back.
- Seven.
- Not my best, work, if I'm being honest.
- [Gus] These aren't league standard cones.
- They are. - They're thicker!
- I know it! - That's BS.
- Well then, what's the count?
What's the--
- [Zach] Officially it's eight right now.
- Ooh.
Not a good start.
- I feel good about the first round,
it's still super, super close.
I think both teams have a great chance of winning.
- [Zach] What are the scores currently?
- Score-- - nine to 12?
- Nine to 12.
That could be decided,
anywhere. - James' fault.
(gong ringing)
- Round two!
Each cone is now worth two points.
They've narrowed some of the sections,
they've tweaked the maze, and they've added another cone
to the easy route, in the jokers section.
- Let's get it! - Is get it.
(laughing)
- Baby, I'm ready. - Aw baby.
- These guys were hazing us last time, on the radio.
Bush league play, I'm just gonna say it.
So I've got to return the favor this time.
- Okay.
- [Gus] Drivers, be on the look out for an elderly male,
age 76, on the track, wearing all beige.
He's hurling hard candies onto the track,
so just keep an eye out.
(laughing) - Go to channel five.
(laughing)
(whip cracking) Took a cone down there.
(tires screeching)
- Turned it off. - Oh, turned it off.
- What's the protocol if we,
if the cruise control turns off?
- Redo the lap and all the cones that you hit stay down.
(dramatic music)
- They're doing a redo because their
cruise control turned off.
- All right, here we go.
Let's try to be smoother.
- [James] Yah, yah.
Smooth, nice. - [Nolan] Very smooth.
- Oh (beep) (beep)
- Oh, damn, dude, they're gonna go left right away.
- [James] No no no (popping)
will they stay up? - Aw, I think I took two down.
- Damn.
- That was pretty good. - Hey thanks.
- Yeah, well it wasn't a complement,
I was just kinda gettin' it out there.
(laughing) - that's the same
as a complement.
- Your taking it as one, your taking it as one.
- This is it.
This is the US against the USSR in the olympics.
Same tier right here.
- All right here we go. - We're good?
- I was really hoping Gus would show up
and just be terrible at this.
- Suck, yeah.
- Nerve racking right now.
- I got this.
- Oh (beep) (laughing)
oh no, oh no,
that's all right, well take this one,
I'm taking the one in the middle.
- Okay.
- Okay, coming to the joker.
- This could be good for us.
- He's in the tight bit, was that a cone?
Maybe not.
(crashing)
- Oh shoot! - Oh, that felt like
multiple cones!
- You can't avoid it!
- That puts them at 20 to 19
- 20 19, whoo hoo?
- We're still ahead by a hair.
- It is way to close for comfort man.
It is a tense boy.
I just gotta keep my cool.
- Gus is a great precision driver, I'm very,
very happy right now,
this is going great. - I was banging, it's that,
this whole ass week GTA five baby.
(laughing)
I was following pedestrian rules and everything.
(whip cracking)
- Yep yep yep. (whip cracking)
- This is our cash money, round here, okay.
They're gonna hit like seven cones.
(whip cracking)
- [James] Hey, shit, hey.
(laughing)
- Aw, they're bumping, he's nervous now.
- Keep it tight.
(whip cracking)
Not bad.
- Yes! No!
That was so many!
(chuckling)
- That was not a great run.
Lost my composure at the end a little bit.
- Dude, that really, I'm feeling really good about that.
- I'm feeling good.
- Again, not to just revel in other people's
(laughing)
shortcomings, but, ooh, we needed that.
- Yeah, we did that was a good break.
- What did they get, how many cones?
- Seven. - Ooh.
I called it, I said seven cones.
- You did, that's weird.
Come on guys, I don't sound like that, we know that, gosh.
(laughing)
- [Gus] I got so much adrenaline in me right now man.
- [Nolan] I know, I can tell man.
- [Gus] I feel like I'm in high school football again.
- [Nolan] What position did you play?
- [Gus] I was the quarterback,
I was just terrible. - What, no way.
- I was terrible at it. - I was a center.
- Really.
- We had such a small school, I was the quarterback
and the left linebacker.
And I did not deserve to be there I was about a 160 pounds
in high school and I'd get my ass kicked.
- I might offer Nolan a thousand dollars
to take out 10 cones in the last round.
- Oh fantastic, dude, that's fantastic.
- God, can't you just, just screw up Nolan.
Just quit.
- Perfect little boy.
- [Gus] That's okay, didn't need it.
- Should I go gamble? - I almost wouldn't.
I don't know-- - Okay, let's go easy,
let's go easy. - Okay, okay.
(cones smacking)
(cone dragging)
(cones snapping)
- Ugh. - We got a scraper!
(laughing)
how is she gonna land?
- It's not going anywhere.
Stop - I'd say...
(thudding) - Whoah.
- That's BS!
- You kicked it, you interfered with it.
- That was a (beep) move by him,
I'm gonna say that right now.
- What did we get?
- [Man] Six.
- Dang, six, okay.
- [Man] Zach and James, 33, Nolan and Gus, 32.
- Okay. - Woo, guys.
- Whew, fun game, this is a super fun--
- If I didn't have anxiety issues.
(gong ringing)
(techno music)
- It's the third and final round.
It all comes down to this.
Each cone is now worth three points and on top of everything
in this round, we gotta do it alone.
No partners.
I'm so tense, I'm gonna get an ulcer.
I don't know if it's because I'm nervous,
or because I had to eat two of those chips.
- It's probably the chips.
- But I don't wanna eat another one.
- Solo round, baby.
- Let's get, let's get it over with.
(intense music)
are we ready folks?
- [Woman] Are you ready for the chip?
- No, (laughing) no.
Dude, I believe in you. - This for you.
- You got this.
You're my brother.
- You're my brother.
I love you! - Love you!
- [Nolan] What do you think Zach's thinking right now?
- [James] I bet he's thinking, don't hit any cones.
- I would probably think that if I were in his position.
- If I we're him, that's probably what I'd be thinking.
- I feel like, they're probably gonna make it impossible.
(dramatic music)
- Okay.
- One down.
- Okay, okay, okay.
(crashing)
- Ooh, okay.
- All right, we're about to be in the maze.
(crashing)
- Three.
- I think they made some things too narrow.
- Whoa whoa.
- Let's see if he's gonna gamble, or just knock 'em all down
I think he's gonna-- - I think you gotta gamble
- You have to gamble - Home stretch dude,
he's cleaning house here. - Oh he's gambling,
he's gambling.
- Taking the hard line.
- Very smooth and tight through there, well done.
- Ooh, okay okay, (beep).
- Is that four?
Five?
Four?
- Eight. - Eight.
- [Nolan] Eight?
That's way worse than five.
Eight!
- I'm not even in the spirit of talking trash,
this is the most difficult one so far.
- Yeah.
- Nolan, of course, takes the high road,
I am in the spirit of talking trash,
you guys are human garbage.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah, I'm feeling good about this, I'm not gonna lie boys.
We're two for two on the day here.
- Gus is cool, man.
- Yeah, your teammate's cool.
- I love Nolan for who he is, he's a beautiful soul,
he has not brought his a game today,
I'm gonna be real with y'all, okay.
I'm gonna carry this team,
my back's gonna be aching tonight.
- Dude he's really good.
- He's really good - He's the best at this game.
- Yeah, he's the best, he's really good man.
- I have full confidence in my abilities here.
- [James] I'm very confident in Gus, he's really good.
Ooh, smooth dude, this guy is smooth.
- Come on Gus. - Ooh!
- Gotta focus, can't look back.
(gun shots)
- Ah, crap dude, I'm wrecking it here.
- Dude. - Okay, two cones, two cones.
- No, I miss Nolan.
- [Nolan] Come on Gus, you got it bud.
- All right, all right, we got this.
(suspenceful music)
- Ooh, that could've broken,
I think he killed cruise control.
- Aw, yeah. - You kill cruise control?
- I killed cruise.
All right fellas and ladies back home, I gotta go again here
honestly that might be the game right there.
I just killed too many cones on the first part here, so.
(belching) excuse me.
(inspirational music) - Here we go.
- He is through the main section,
through the first base--
- [James] He didn't knock anything down.
- [Gus] Nice and clean.
- Oh, he's just going casual.
- [James] Yes, yes Gus!
- I gotta go skinny again, I gotta do it.
- Dude, he's gonna do better, than he did.
- Oh my gosh, this is (beep), come on buddy.
- Are you-- - Come on buddy.
Come on buddy.
- No...
(cheering)
- A perfect lap,
oh my God, dude.
- [Man] 57 to 53, so they have 53 you have 57.
So they're in lead by two cones essentially.
- Two cones, okay, we can get this.
- I'm feeling the James choke right here,
that's gonna give us some good wiggle room.
- Let me go ahead and dedicate the win to my dead dad.
If I win know I just don't wanna let down my dead dad.
(laughing)
- I wanna crush him.
- Does he think it will bring him back?
(laughing)
- [Nolan] This is so tense.
- Dude, I'm legitimately more nervous
than I've been in a whole year right now.
Very serious.
- [Zach] All right James.
If I ever needed you.
(tense music)
- Dang it! - Okay guys, good good.
- All right, first gate.
- I am not-- - Whoa!
- That's my boy.
- Crumbling, crumbling. - that's my boy.
- Easy--
- Two, three, oh he's sliding, four!
- Game. - This is it dude.
- Oh no.
- He's choking, he went the bad way there too.
- Come on, James.
- He's gonna go for the, for the--
- Come on, James!
- Yes, he's going hard now. - Come on, James!
(crashing)
- Oh dude, he got so many of them.
- Ahh. (giggling)
- Yes! - Oh (beep)
(laughing)
- I shoulda just gone through there.
Oh no, that wasn't very good.
- What did they say, 14 on that?
- [Woman] It was 14 right, 14 cones?
- Yep. - Okay.
- Nolan, I'm not even worried dude, don't even worry.
Come over here.
I'm actually extraordinarily worried about my teammate
Nolan's performance here on the final lap here.
- Gus is really, really good at this.
So, I just gotta be as good as Gus.
He needs to hit 16 and then we loose?
- Yeah. - By a point, I believe.
- Okay.
It's a wide margin or error, I am very scared.
- I'm nervous not gonna lie.
That looks good.
(crunching)
- Oh (beep), Nolan, one two. - Terrible start, I love that.
- Stick to the left, like Gus did.
Stick to the left.
Hit another one that's fine.
Not a good start for Nolster.
- And just 12 more, Nolan.
12 more cones. - Get lost in the maze, man.
- Smoothly, through here.
- Okay he's looking good in there.
He's looking really good.
- Really good.
(crashing)
- Ah. - He's at five.
- Hit 10 more.
- Just 11 more - Okay.
- Hit 11 more, hit 11 more!
- [Gus] Okay yes.
- [James] Yes.
(laughing)
God!
Whoo, baby. - God.
I hate this!
- Yes!
- Joe!
- That was good, you might've got like seven or so.
That's perfect dude.
- Good job, Nolan. - Seven?
- [James] Good job, Nolan, you did great man.
- Yeah, good job bud - Good job bro.
- That was really good. - Thanks.
- [Woman] Mouth ready?
- [Gus] I'll hear it again.
- [James] I'm gonna amputate my tongue.
- [Gus] If you've got the data in front of you.
- Gus and Nolan had a score or 74 points,
Zach and James, total of 99.
- That's almost a hundred, we're under a hundred.
- Stick to double digits.
- That's an A plus, dude. - Yeah that's an A plus, dude.
- I just wanna point out that if it was opposite,
then we would've won.
- In any other game, we win. (laughing)
- All right, this brings me joy, there you go.
- Here are the holy gloves for you.
- [Zach] Well James, we did it again.
- I'm gonna take a little, just a little
- I'm gonna try it, Gus, do you want
a little dinker like that.
- I'll dink it. - Yeah, it's still really hot.
- Cheers boys.
- Cheers. - See you on the other side.
- Big thanks to Kia for making this series possible
and giving us these awesome cars to battle in.
Today we drove the 2020 Optima SX turbo.
Under the hood it's got a two liter,
turbo charged four cylinder.
Putting out 245 horsepower and 260 pounds of torque.
That's a lot of scoot for your boot.
It's easily the sleekest optima yet.
It's got aggressive, yet refined styling,
much like your boy and the SX rolls on 18 inch alloys
and lights up the road with dual projector, LED headlights.
And, this smart looking sedan looks just as good
on the inside as it does on the outside.
It has tons of cool features,
like heated and ventilated power seats.
A panoramic sunroof, a wireless charger for your phone,
apple car play and android auto.
This car is packed.
The Optima SX helps you navigate today's crazy roads,
it's equipped with blindspot detection,
forward collision avoidance assist with
pedestrian detection and lane keep assist.
Thank you Kia for partnering with us.
(crunching)
- Wow, it taste terrible too.
(coughing)
- Thanks for watching Car Wars,
make sure you comment, like and subscribe.
I wanna give big thanks to Gus Johnson,
check out his channel, he's awesome.
I get excited every time he puts on a new video.
- Me too.
- Be nice!
- I love you.
I love you.
- Till next time.