Name: Congressman Thomas Massie Lives Off the Grid?
Uploaded: 2025-06-25T13:01:20.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Congressman Thomas Massie Lives Off the Grid?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Congressman Thomas Massie Lives Off the Grid?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-25. Transcript available.

all right thomas massey thanks for coming in man absolutely good to see you
dude good to be here
just had to cross the state border to get here yeah that's what i see from kentucky
and you uh
you drove like you just took me into your home in your camper home vehicle it's
a f-250 with
a truck camper and i lived for two solid years in it dc still occasionally do
and where would
you park that thing at well i don't want to disclose where i park but i did get
in trouble
uh i parked the uh truck camper it's a super duty it's got a even though it
fits in the back of a
pickup it's got a shower bathroom stove and a fridge felt super when i was in
there that living
arrangement in there i could have definitely cozied up it felt very cool the
milk felt cold in there
we had a little cup of milk which is definitely it's raw milk yeah yeah i'm
sure hopefully don't
tell anybody across state lines with that but uh so here's a funny story i was
parking this truck
camper in dc in a congressional lot and it got hotter than the hinges of hell
in the summertime in this
parking lot so i ran a little extension cord over to the electric car charging
station so i could run
the air conditioner on my camper at night well the cops like to park they didn't
know i was living in
this camper and i would park close to a sprinter van and the cops would park
between me and the sprinter
van to take a nap at night oh so everybody's working together yeah i would look
out the camper and do a
wellness check on them at night they didn't know i was looking out for them but
anyways one night
that's diplomacy it's how it all works it's like everybody's kind of hiding a
little bit behind the
other group one night it was like that movie bridge over the river quai they
found my 50-foot extension
cord and followed it over to the electric car charging station they said damn
there's somebody living in
this truck so my chief of staff got a call from the speaker's chief of staff
and uh he said we think
your boss is living in lot 28 and he said what do you mean in a pickup truck
yeah and i said i said
told my chief don't call him back let me settle this so we have a don't ask don't
tell arrangement
as long as i don't start a koa or something in the congressional lot i can live
there if the cops are
getting a little bit of shut eye you know what i'm saying yeah you're able to
operate a grill you
know or a little two-stroke motor in there something to keep the blender
working well you
know i gotta mix my medical margaritas in there and keep the raw milk cold so
what i eventually did
was cover it in solar panels and took off the old air conditioner and put a
mini split on the back so
it looks like the millennial falcon now oh yeah it definitely looks like the
guy that's in there
it definitely seemed like you want to get his fingerprints that has a codus
vibe outside of it
you know um but that's that isn't a lot of your vibe is that you're off the
grid i've heard that yeah
off the grid uh in the camper and off the grid at home so i haven't bought
public utilities in 20 years
wow and that you know that kind of ties into when i go to dc that gives me some
independence
because if all if everything goes to hell and i'm no longer a congressman and i
don't have a job
i still got a house where all my own utilities are taken care of um it runs off
solar got a backup
generator got a well that i dug and it just gives you the sense that okay
things the the worst day in
kentucky is better than my best day in dc and this is you right here this is
some oh this is you right
here yeah that's one of my gardens and there's some of my chickens clucking
around oh yeah i built
a mobile pin that moves with the chickens um to keep the coyotes from eating
them now it's like a
roomba think of a roomba with 50 chickens in it okay moving around in my yard
it runs on solar
collects grain water and it takes care of my chickens when i'm not there and
what makes it
move how does that even work bring that up trevin can you get me so we can see
what i'm looking at
i don't have any footage of it on here but um i call it so i it first ran off
batteries and a solar
panel and the batteries went dead and i'm like this sucks i don't like taking
batteries to a landfill
because i was trying to come up with a green way to raise chickens so i figured
out a way to do
it with super capacitors there's no battery in it and the super capacitors
never wear out and i call
it the clucks capacitor is this kind of an example yeah that's what it's like
except yeah except mine
moves itself mine's like a roomba version that's robotic and so what is the
point of it moving well
you know chickens poop and you don't want them walking around in their own poop
oh yeah they also like to
eat a certain amount of grass and bugs and so this gives them fresh forage and
it keeps them out of
their poop they don't get disease it fertilizes my yard it mows my grass
everything's all happy
in the clucks capacitor i got a good damn chicken dude or a little batch of
chickens i got to get
something i almost bought my mom two goats but she like for years she's like
give me some goats and
then then she didn't want she just has a problem with everything but um anyway
uh so what is a flux
capacitor clucks capacitor okay what is an actual what is a it's the circuit
that i designed so uh
i'm a double e by train electrical engineer by training and um i just had to
come up with some
way to keep my chickens alive and keep them healthy while i went to dc so i
came up with this
circuit board that's got capacitors that trickle charge from a little solar
panel the size of a sheet
of paper and um it's got an automotive winch in the front so it can pull itself
even if it weighs 2500
pounds along a cable so you don't have you don't pay an electric bill no
electric bill no water bill no
sewer bill i do have an internet bill because i use starlink oh yeah and is
that legal are you allowed
to legally be a person like that well you know they tried to bring more
regulation to our county
uh 20 years ago before i was a congressman and i wrote letters to the editor
and mobilized people and
we stopped them from bringing more regulation to our county so it's still legal
where i live
wow because this is it seems like a very like libertarian or almost like demo
like a lot of the
ideas seem almost very like something you would see like on the democratic
party which sounds kind
of wild you know oh i i'd say i'm the greenest member of congress and no
democrat has come after
me no fact checker has ever tried to check that fact because they know it's
true wow it's kind of
crazy that the greenest member uh you know with the term greens is now a
republican because you wouldn't
necessarily think that no you wouldn't think that i mean i have a tesla that
charges off the solar
panels on my house uh collect rainwater i dug a well i've got a bunch of trees
that i'm not cutting down
they are bringing in all kinds of co2 although i like co2 i wish i had more
because it makes my peaches
get bigger on my farm oh yeah my i raise grass-fed cattle and what kind of what
kind of group do you
have helping you over there because i don't think you can't get out there first
thing every day and
do it all i do it myself 90 of it i mean if i'm in dc and the cattle get loose
i got a neighbor
you know you got to have some neighbors that'll help you yeah and the deal is i'll
help them when
they need help oh there's a picture of my cattle they are angus crossed with
wagyu i call them wangus
oh wow wangus beef it's a little oh yeah it's a little urban over there
definitely that's definitely
uh there's there's the you know not the black sheep but the white cow uh he
kind of stands out i say i
feel like that white cow in dc some days they're like do i really belong in
this herd yeah yeah you
seem like a little bit of like an outsider i think like or you know like a
black sheep or like a maverick
i feel like people say if they talk about a maverick and they say thomas massey
you know um how much
money do you save by uh living the way that you do like off grid you know i don't
think i've saved a
dime it costs a lot to do it uh you can save money by heating your house with
wood which i do but you
if you start counting the uh how much you're paying yourself when you chop that
wood it's probably about
three dollars an hour right and i could go work a dollar general and make more
money than i do when i
save money heat my house with wood so if i were completely you know poor i
could keep living but
to set all that up took took a large investment it will probably pay off by the
time i die so you just
want to end the book with even book zero yeah yeah just clear the tab when i
leave the bar no debt
no debt yeah yeah because you always wonder like okay i want to live off the
grid i want but there's a
there's a real cost to it but a lot of that cost is sweat equity do you feel
like yeah it's sweat equity and
it'll it'll pay back unlike what we're doing in dc