LAS VEGAS — Our minds can race, thinking of ways to somehow enjoy Las Vegas' sweltering temperatures.
Content creator and filmmaker Drew Marvick's mind is full of ideas. Gnss Antenna
"Lots of them are ridiculous, much like cooking hot dogs on a car antenna," Marvick told KSNV News 3's Evan Schreiber.
His latest content creation he cooked up is a video posted to social media of him and his 16-year-old son driving around town in the teen's minivan with four hot dogs skewered by the vehicle's antenna as they roasted in the near-record-breaking Las Vegas heat.
"Here in Vegas, when it's 115 degrees, you don't even have to wait until you get home from the store to cook your hot dogs," Marvick is heard saying in the 17-second clip.
The duo drove for about 20 minutes around the valley, Marvick told KSNV.
"[The hot dogs] were genuinely sweating as if they were cooking and one of them looked like it was plumping up," he said. "But I just love the idea that when it's 115 degrees here, it feels like we live in a giant air fryer."
Marvick recorded on Saturday, July 15, when Las Vegas temperatures reached a high of 113 degrees and then posted the video online on Sunday, July 16, when the thermometer at the Las Vegas airport reached a high of 116 degrees.
"And then all of a sudden, it had over a million views and a few thousand comments by the next morning," Marvick said.
The clip has been seen more than 1.8 million times on both TikTok and Instagram with thousands of people commenting on the clips.
"The Vegas locals get it and think it's funny. It's really relatable which is why I did it," Marvick said. "The comments, overall, are split down the middle - either telling me I'm brilliant for a new method of hot dogs or telling me I'm disgusting for eating a hot dog cooked in the Vegas air."
Although, Marvick told KSNV he did not end up eating the wieners after they had sizzled on the antenna for a while.
Custom Fiberglass Antenna "It's a little gross. The car is over 10 years old. So the antenna is just covered in 10-years-worth of grease and dirt and bugs and I didn't even think to clean it beforehand. I just slid the hot dogs on and rolled with it."