Living the dream.
Ask anyone what the most powerful force in the world is, and you’ll get answers like “nuclear energy,” “gravity,” or for the more poetic minds, “love.” Despite all of those being well-thought-out answers, there’s actually one force that blows all other things out of the water.
A redneck with an idea and a plan to see it through.
We’ve seen examples of redneck ingenuity time and time again. You’d think we’d get tired of seeing them, or vice versa, rednecks would eventually run out of ideas. Somehow, both of those statements are false, as our country’s greatest dreamers continue thinking up outlandish-yet-amazing ideas, and the rest of us keep having our jaws dropped by them.
Like this guy who is going viral for mounting a television to his pontoon boat so he can watch college football while fishing for catfish:
@thereeltill Catfishing 🤝 Football Season #megadoinks #catfishing #football #whatatimetobealive #tournament #SC #LakeMarion #Santee #fy #fyp ♬ A Country Boy Can Survive – Hank Williams, Jr.
As the song overlayed in the TikTok describes, a country boy can indeed survive – and even thrive.
Social media users were floored by the combination of TV and the outdoors, and had to know how this outdoorsman pulled it off. So he put out another TikTok breaking down in detail how the Pontoon TV came to be:
“Simple TV on the boat setup. Got the Generac 330 on the back, then an extension cord from here to there around the seat, then up to the TV. Got a 2×4 bolted into the back of the pontoon, then a full swivel TV mount connected to the 2×4. Take the TV mount, extend it, put it up against the rail there, and then take the green bungee around it and boom. Not going anywhere.”
And as for the service needed to stream the games, the TikToker revealed that he uses a mobile hotspot and connects the TV to the internet through that. All in all, it’s really just one of those, “How did I not think of that?” ideas.
It doesn’t get much better than fishing and watching football:
@thereeltill Replying to @Jacob_Engel04 DIY unoffically sponsored by @generac @MadKatz Gear @Roku #treatyoself #diy #fyp #fy #fishing #football #SouthCarolina ♬ original sound – A.Till
