Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating - $5 Million Ski Resort for Sale in Wyoming Reviewed

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

In this episode, the hosts explore a $5M remote Wyoming ski resort with epic scenery, zero financials, and huge hidden costs—ultimately concluding it's a billionaire’s hobby, not a real business.Business Listing – https://www.land.com/property/230-acres-in-washakie-county-wyoming/24410346/Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous – the #1 podcast for small business M&A. Every week, we break down businesses for sale and talk about buying, operating, and growing them.Looking to build a professional website in minutes? Try Wix: https://wix.pxf.io/c/6898629/3115214/25616?trafcat=templateHubSpot is the backbone for how businesses scale without chaos. Try them out here: https://go.try-hubspot.com/OeG9Vr💰 Sponsored by:Go High Level – The all-in-one sales and marketing platform built for agencies and entrepreneurs. Automate, manage, and grow your business at https://www.gohighlevel.comViso Business Capital — Get the right SBA loan tailored to your acquisition needs with Heather Endresen’s firm. Sign up for a free live Q&A on SBA loans at https://www.visocap.net and click “Zoom Sign Up” in the top-right corner.This week’s deal is a $5 million ski resort in the remote Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, complete with a 20,000 sq ft lodge, 35 ski trails, 15 cabins, an RV park, and a single lift facing a pristine alpine lake. But what sounds like a winter wonderland quickly raises red flags: there are no financials listed, no clear cash flow, and heavy CapEx lurking beneath the snow.Key Highlights:- $4.9M price tag for 230 acres in Wyoming with ski and summer amenities- 800 ft vertical drop, 1 ski lift, cabins, bar, restaurant, wedding venue- No stated revenue or EBITDA—possibly breakeven at best- Remote location = staffing, access, and utility maintenance challenges- Hosts suspect it's better for a cult compound or tax-optimized lifestyle than a business investmentSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking here Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations. For inquiries or suggestions, email us at [e-mail]

Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous. Today's episode was a super fun one. It involves property in Wyoming and some outhouses. So me, Bill, and Heather went through it. I'm Michael and really enjoyed it. See what you think. You'll be, I think, surprised where we ended up at the end. Here you go. So at Acquisition Anonymous. Hello, another episode of Acquisitions Anonymous. We don't have 100% beers anymore. And thumbs downing on just the plus inventory line. Big thanks to High Level for sponsoring this video and helping us pay for our editors. High Level is the all-in-one CRM that handles your emails, text, funnels, and more all-in-one place. Think of it like the Swiss Army Knife for small businesses, and you can try it for free for 30 days at go-highlevel.com slash Michael Gurdley.

All right, guys. Guess what? It's the middle of the winter. Ski season. Heather, how much skiing do you do? You know, I don't do as much anymore. In fact, if I go on a ski trip, I do a few runs, and then I don't, that's it. You enjoy the Opry lifestyle? Yeah, right. The aprae is much better for me these days. Yeah, it's just, I don't want to fall and hurt myself,

so I take it super easy. How do horses do in snow? What is the typical for a horse in snow since you're a resident? I used to have horses in Virginia when I was young, and so we would get a little bit of snow. And, you know, you have to be careful. I see, icy ground is too hard on their legs. You don't ride around in the snow.

Actually, it's kind of nuts to do that because there could be rocks under there. It's really kind of unsafe footings. You don't do a lot of riding in the snow. And usually you let the horse's hair grow out, you know, have a full winter coat. And often you have to blanket them too. Keep them in a barn. Yeah. If you're ever really interested in that, check out the horses, the Icelandic ponies in Iceland.

They keep them in barns all year in winter. and then in the spring they let them out, and they're just out grazing. And then there's a roundup once a year where everybody rides them, it rides around and gets them back into the barns. Oh, cool. I want to do it.

Do you have to fly to ice men to do that? Yeah, you do. Fascinating. Well, speaking of snow, it is ski season for all of us since we're recording this in January, and I brought a ski deal. Yes.

I'm so surprised. It's tradition. I know you're shocked. Have we got a ski resort before? This is our first ski resort, I think, on the show. Mills and I did one in... I was there. We did. Oh, yeah. You were there, too. Mills and I, Bill, were trying so hard to make the deal work. I've never tried so hard to make the deal work.

It just didn't work. Well, this is my first ski resort, so I'm excited. On the other one we did, and Heather, you can correct this, But on the other one we did, I think the conclusion was, okay, here's how to make this deal work. First thing you do is you get a billion dollars. You get a billionaire friend. You sell your other company for a billion dollars and then you buy this one. Pretty much.

That's correct. So this deal, I sent it out in the group chat. I did not write emergency pod next to it, but it was pretty close. So it's in Washachie County, Wyoming. It's $5 million on 230 acres. And this is the call for the best and final offers. And the name of the place is the Metal Lark Ski Lodge and Metal Rark Lake Lodge, located in the Big Horde Mountains.

And they have a beautiful picture here. It looks like, Heather, this looks like a giant lodge, right? Like a 20,000 square foot lodge? Very picturesque, yeah. It looks amazing. Yeah, it does. The seller is inviting qualified buyers to submit best and final offers for the seasoned and profitable mountain business opportunity.

This is not a formal auction. It is a structured request for competitive offers to be submitted, by the deadline below. How was that? This is not an auction, I swear, but you need to submit your offers that are competitive by this deadline. Then we're going to go back to everybody,

and we're going to ask him for another round of offers. Which is not an auction. Not an auction, no. The good news about business in America is people just lie. It's crazy. Say whatever you want. Business broker. That's why you get licensed,

because when you have a business broker license, then you can say whatever you want. It's like a get out of jail free card. Business Brokering 301 is lying. It's what it is. It's not lying. If you have a license, you can say whatever you want, remember. Oh, it's like being a lawyer.

Okay. Yeah. It's an established profitable operation, approximately 8,500 foot base elevation, two lodges, 15 cabins, four duplexes, and a six-room motel. It has a bathhouse, a restaurant, and a bar, two full-service kitchens,

and it's in the Big Horn Mountains near Buffalo and 10 sleep? 10-a-tne-sleep? the pricing has been reduced recently from what looks like $5.7 million to $4.9 million, and they're asking for offers by March 1st, 2026. And they have a picture here. It looks like of the ski area itself. So there's a bunch of runs that they have going on.

And then in the summer, they have a picture of what looks like kind of the most beautiful place on the planet. Is that how you kind of see that, Bill? Yeah, it's gorgeous. Yeah, mountains in the background. if you're with us on YouTube, you know, beautiful lush forest in the foreground. I mean,

this is one of those areas that's as beautiful, really overlooked in the summer. I mean, obviously it's awesome and, you know, snowy and everything in the winter. But when I moved out west,

everybody that doesn't live out west really underestimates the summer. The summers are gorgeous. They're like three weeks long, but they're great. Semester, we can't like. So, Heather,

it looks like this is, I'm zooming out, trying to find a nearby city. And I'm, Michael's zooming. He's scrolling like four or five times. It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah.

For those of you not watching on YouTube, I basically had to scroll out to Starlink level to basically see the next town over. And what is the next major town here? How do you get to this thing if you don't have a private jet? That's tough. So this is due east of Yellowstone National Park is where it is. But at least a couple hours, right? Yeah. So your airport's nearby.

You can fly to Jackson Hole, which is sort of the left of your screen, which is. not close, or you can fly to Bozeman, which is north of Yellowstone. So if you're going to Yellowstone, those are typically the two places people fly. Jackson or Bozeman, you access it from directly in the north or directly in the south. This is directly to the east. I would imagine Jackson Hole is likely the closest airport. You would have to map this. I bet it's two hours easy.

Wow. Wow. This is out there. There's anything to the east. that was closer, but it's out there. But this is, I mean, gorgeous. This is like, if you ever watch that TV show Yellowstone, like it looks like that. It's awesome.

Holy cow. I'm playing the video of it here. Hopefully we can edit this into the thing on YouTube, but they have a drone flying in. They're going down the ski runs. And as you go down the ski runs, you basically look into a beautiful mountain lake, and then you go to the lodge.

And it looks like they have one lift doing the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, this is not like veil level skiing, but I think what the pitch here is it has skiing. It has, you know, the lodge. It has stuff to do in the summer. Like it's beautiful. Like it's like a bit of more of a treat. Like you probably don't go here just to ski because to get here, you drove past Jackson Hole and like all of this other skiing. Right. You're here because, you know, it's probably less expensive. You know, maybe you're from the area. I bet there's a decent size local draw to this place. Yeah. It's probably. more of the locals dive, I had to guess. Oh, now here's a lake. This thing is incredible. Huge lake. Massive lake. And they do have a ski lift, one lift, servicing the whole hill. But it looks, it feels kind of like an East Coast ski area, for sure.

Except way better because it's not on the East Coast. It's got West Coast, and West Coast weather. Yeah. This is dubbed, okay, so they have more here texts about it. This resort boasts over an 800 foot vertical drop, that is very East Coast skiing. That's kind of Michigan-level skiing. That's not even Vermont. That's Michigan level. Yeah, except for the rest. It differentiates

from East Coast pretty quick, and the rest is paragraph. Yeah. Dubbed the Little Jackson Hole of the Bighorns. Metalark Ski Area has over 230 acres and 35 trails of ski terrain for beginner and experts here's and very challenging shoots in an area of Wyoming that averaged over 300 inches of snowfall. At the end of the day, one could join Friends in the Metal Arc Lodge, Lodge, which has over 20,000 square foot space that provides food beverages and all the rentals and ski shopping downstairs needed to support any skier. They give us the directions,

and then there's a property website, so I'll click on this, but I think it's just more of the same. Oh, wow, look at this thing. You go to their website, and it says on the homepage that it's for sale. Yeah, they're not messing around. Michael skips immediately to the Wyoming tax benefits section of the pitch. Yeah, so what is this?

it says here are 10 great reasons offered by Brian Jones, a senior vice president at Bank of Jackson Hole, why it's good to own a home in Wyoming. So obviously there mean you to live here as well, right? No state income tax. Dynasty trusts in Wyoming can shield your real estate from federal estate taxes for a thousand years through a dynasty trust. No inheritance tax or estate tax for Wyoming.

No state gift tax, no tax on out-of-state retirement. retirement income, low property taxes, no excise taxes, meaning on gas or buy a bag of groceries, I guess that would be a sales tax. You had no state sales tax. How do they make any money in Wyoming? Yeah, the state doesn't have any money. No tax on mineral ownership, no tangible taxes on financial assets, no tax on the sale of real estate. It's a really good question. I mean, like here in Texas, we get so much of our state revenue because we charge taxes on all the oil coming out of the ground. curious how Wyoming affords their state, given they have no people. Because I think Wyoming is like the, they have like five thousand people.

There's nothing. Yeah, it's crazy. Like if you want to fast track to be a senator, like go become Republican and then go make a couple thousand friends in Wyoming. And then that's your way to become a U.S. senator. A couple thousand, a couple hundred. I think. This is one of the things I always keep trying to tweet whenever people are like, oh, you know, our country is going the wrong direction.

They're usually people from California. No offense, Heather, but there's just a lot of people in California and they're not very happy by the direction of the country. And I'm like, look, if you guys just got a couple of 10,000 of your friends and moved to Wyoming,

it would solve so much in this country. Like, the whole Senate would be blue for the rest of future. Anyway, I keep trying to tweet that and nobody likes it. I guess it's a practical. Somehow it's not working. Well, that would require people to want to do something rather than just complain.

So that's the fraud. Exactly. Here, Michael. Sorry, yeah. So, Heather, when you see something like this on a business listing, what does this tell you about who they think should buy this thing? I mean, they want someone who's going to move there, who's going to relocate there and live on site and kind of consider this their home

with a little bit of business income. and it's going to work financially because you're not going to pay any taxes. And probably it's a hint to me that you're not going to make much money at the ski resort, but you're going to shelter your other assets and other income from state taxes. And you're going to have this great, you know, you're going to get all these tax benefits, but you're really not going to make money. That's what it's hinting at because I don't see what we usually see, which is EBITDA. Yeah, I don't see any financials here.

Or any hint of that. income. So Michael, go back to the original listing. Was there any financials at all on this thing? Yes, the price. The price. That's all we got. Okay.

All right. So it's 250 acres, middle of nowhere, beautiful Wyoming. Five million bucks. It's got a ski resort on it. I'm ready to submit a bid. You guys want to know what it is? $1. I bid $1 because I'll bet you anything.

the operating expenses exceed the income. Probably. Ski lifts very expensive to operate, the insurance, I mean, all that stuff, just to keep it going, the maintenance. So keeping that going. I mean, you guys have been skiing. Think about the kind of maintenance cap X here. You know, all those cats, the grooming, the safety, the insurance, the ski patrol staff.

I mean, the snow blowing, maybe they don't have snow blowing because they don't need to in this place. but there is a lot of sneaky CAPEX to keep a ski hill going. But think about the tax benefits. Yeah. When you lose money, yeah. When you lose money, you're going to save even more in taxes. Isn't that great? Or you can do all of your stuff here and break even,

which I think is kind of the goal, and get your Wyoming outdoor lifestyle paid for, which would be great. You know, this is like a break-even second home instead of a money-pit second home, perhaps. But I mean, I would be interested to see kind of the fully burned in cost of owning this. I know, you know, they say property taxes are not big, but it seems like they're not zero.

So between the property taxes, I mean, when you're out here, 250 acres of mill in nowhere, you got to think about like maintaining the power line that comes to your property. You know, the sewer, the water, the infrastructure is your problem, you know, on a large plot like this. so the cost to keep that running to repair it when it breaks. I mean, you could be sitting on, boom, half a million dollars of CAPX when a route goes through your water pipe or something, you know, where a big snow store comes through. I would want to really understand what it costs to own this place on a kind of 10-year window, not just last year. Because there are, you know, we had a big blizzard five years ago and there was a million dollars of CAPX. I need to know that.

Right? So I got to look at the last 10 years or so and understand also what is my insurance costs. What is my liability insurance costs? Was my property insurance cost? What is the insurance on the sewer lines cost? You know, there's, I would be fascinated to see sort of the P&L and the upkeep cost of this thing. Is there who's buying this? It's just got to be, there's nobody's buying this to run it as a real business.

Yeah. You're either, I think there's only two folks. You're either a billionaire or you're somebody who's running a really, really successful cult. Like those are your two options. I mean, you could relocate your cult to this property would be pretty, would be a very nice home for a cult. I mean, I would join that cult. You probably have, too, Michael, I know you love skiing. There's a cult that involves skiing?

Yeah. It's got to, I mean, so hang on, I think this might not be as bad. It's got an RV park there and a highway. It looks like it's right off of a highway that kind of cuts through, like, in between two mountains. So you might have, you know, some traffic going by. is this thing, if you're going to buy this, you got to ask yourself the question, how do I further monetize it? Right? Like, are we doing weddings in the summer? Are we trying to, do we have a restaurant more of like a roadside restaurant so I can capture people that drive down this highway? Are we trying to do, are we really doing like summer retreats? I'm doing mountain biking on my ski hills.

You know, there's a lot, this playbook, you don't have to come up with from scratch. Like, look at the big successful ski hills and the way they monetize in the summer and just copy it. because you've got to find a way to make money year-round on this thing. Hi, Heather here. When I'm not breaking down deals with these guys, I'm helping people get the right SBA loans for their business acquisitions. Because when you're buying a business, the best financing isn't one-size-fits-all. There's the best rate, fastest to close, the specific loan structure that you need,

or a little of all of those things. That's why my company, Vizzo Business Capital, works with over 30 different lenders to find you the best funding in less time and with less friction so you can focus on the deal. Sign up for a free live Q&A session on SBA loans at VisoCAP.net. Then click Zoom sign up in the top right corner. That's V-I-S-O-C-A-P.net and click Zoom sign up. Didn't say anything about accommodations, did it? You know, there's not like that.

It did. I thought it was, oh, they have a bunch of pictures. Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. They've got, so they have a six, they have a six-room motel. They've got several cabins. It looks like they do. Oh, there's a wedding venue. Okay.

Yeah. So, I mean, I don't mean to imply that this thing is losing money hand over fist. But I can't imagine it's making a ton of money. The value is probably here in the land. But my question, though, is how much is the land really worth? I mean, in rural Wyoming. Can you imagine trying to staff something like this? Right.

Well, maybe, Michael, or maybe you're the only game. in town. And like maybe it's the best job in an hour drive, right? Because it's not manual labor. It's not, you know, cutting down trees. It's not, you know, intense, hard physical labor. Be a ski bomb, working the restaurant. You know, this might be the cushiest gig for miles around. You know, you don't need skilled labor. It's not like I need 100 plumbers or something. Holy cow, look where you can have, you can ride the ski lift up and then you can have your ceremony with that view. And if you can't see that, um, you know, if you're listening to this on audio, like, it, imagine you're, imagine the scene from the end of Mad Men.

You remember when a Madman when he's like, you know, I wish they'd all could see Coca-Cola and it's like he looks out over the paradise. It's the exact same thing, like off of a cliff, like this beautiful picture. You take the ski lift to this, I'm sure. And they've got like wooden benches that overlook the valley and the mountains. Like, it's a gorgeous, gorgeous piece of property. I mean, to some degree, and this is why my bid is a dollar, because a some degree I can't believe it's only. $5 million, which tells me that, I mean, it seems like it should be three times that. For 250 acres improved with a pond, with all the ski capics already done, I would bet this is not a money printer. Now. And then it is interesting, you look at the other listings that Compass has here, and some of these ranges are incredible.

It's like 500 acres for like $10 million. Yes. Mike, so I've talked to a couple folks that own ranches. This is mostly Texas talking here. But the cost of the ranch is nothing compared to running the ranch. Yeah. These are their other listings, 407 acres for $5.7 million in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. And you've got to have a staff with two or three people just to keep up with all this.

Fences coming down, animals doing crazy stuff. Yeah. And this one just has some little cabins on it. Yeah. And the, the, I mean, these are beautiful pieces of property in a gorgeous area of the contrary. And it's so easy to fantasize, right, about this lifestyle, right? You know, I'll buy a $3 million $200 acres in Wyoming and live this wonderful yellow zone lifestyle. But it is tough. I mean, there's a lot of manual labor here. There's a lot of snow. The pictures are always in the summer. You'll notice the three weeks of summer. And the huge gotcha out here is property taxes because they can change. That is, talk about stroke of the pen risk, right? You lose an election and somebody comes in and they need to fund the state. There's a giant bullseye on the huge property owners. And they can do it to you and you can't fight back.

They just raise your property tax. So that is the scary thing that you need to, and you need to cash flow the property enough to cover the property tax, and that is what's going on in so many of these ranches. They are just trying to make enough money to cover the property taxes for another year. So there are all kinds of schemes now where people are doing these like tax credits and stuff like that for like wildlife tax credits and stuff. I've started to get hints of these people here in Texas, like different types of,

it's not just exempting you for property taxes, but it's like these weird incentives. and look, I'm not somebody who wants to buy a big ranch or even playing any of those games. They're not the games I'm good at, but I'm starting to see more of that stuff. I wonder how many times people are doing that stuff. But I did find this picture here, Heather. It's not of our listing, but it's one of the other listings at $6 million. You and the horses could use the same outhouse right here. The latrine.

Yeah. It's rustic. And I think to Bill's point, if you haven't been on a farm before or spent some time, you have no idea how much work it is. You know, it is beautiful, but if you're not used to that, if you're a city folk type of person, this might be a tough one. So, Michael, what you kind of mentioned about the taxes, so if you own a huge ranch, your saving grace is what's called the ag exemption. Are you familiar with this?

Yeah. So our listeners may not be, and add some context here. Oh, I'm sorry. I did the wrong thing as a coast. No, tell me about it. I just did the wrong thing. I answered the question the way I... It's all right. I give you a pass for today. I was like, so... So the ag exemption, I didn't know about this. At some point, we all don't know about things.

At one point I didn't too, but I find it really interesting, is that if you, and then there's a wildlife exemption, Michael, which you mentioned. In many states, Texas, among them, I would assume Wyoming, there is an agricultural or wildlife exemption. And this exists because if they charge property taxes, you know, at 2025 rates on the people who bought these huge plots of lands or inherited them in the 1900s, they wouldn't be able to everybody be losing their property, left, right, and center. And so because landowners are an influential constituency in a lot of these places, they have codified these things called agriculture exemptions. And the idea on its face is to make sure you don't lose the family farm to property taxes, right? So if you are using, and Michael add some color here if you know, but if you are using a certain fraction of the property for agricultural purposes, or you can get it designated as like a wildlife preserve, which I think is the loophole that you drive trucks through that most people do. They functionally exempt you from property taxes. You got to enjoy an almost zero property tax. So I have a friend who owns a ranch sort of in this area, and he is like desperate to lease out a corner of it to a farmer like every year.

And what the farmer doesn't realize is he totally has my friend over a barrel because it has to be actively farmed. So he charges this farmer like absolute pennies, like nothing. But if this farmer were to just walk, my friend would get smashed with six figures in property taxes annually. So this guy should be being paid by my friend to farm his land. So it's a very interesting power dynamic to keep the ag exemption going. In Texas, you can also do it with bees. If you put bees in, if you put a certain number of bees, it's considered you get a wildlife exemption. Yeah.

So that totally works. But it's different by state, but the Texas laws are like most of the states, which is this stuff that was designed to protect farmers. too often gets just leveraged by billionaires as a way for them to save money. So if you go look around like here around San Antonio or in a lot of Texas cities, you'll go out and you'd be like, why is there this giant farm

and all this in the middle of all of this kind of valuable part of the state? You go look at who owns it. It's some billionaire. Are they paying any property taxes on it? Absolutely not, right? And the reason they're not is because they have a wildlife exemption that was designed to protect the farmer. Well, the farmer sold out a long time ago.

The billionaire, the billionaire just let the farmer keep using it. So that happens over and over again. But the other scam that rich people do all the time is you go buy worthless land. You get it appraised really high or you put like a conservation exemption on it. And then you go donate it and then you get a bunch of tax credits for that. That's one of my favorites. We can also talk about the art scam at some point, donated art scam. Those are all good ways to get stuff off your taxes.

I don't do any of those things because I'm not hanging out with those people. But I know enough to see that they do it, which is whatever. Rich people are going to be rich people. So do you think you could buy this ski resort and carve out a portion of your 200-some acres conserve it because it's basically forced anyway and take a big tax write off part of your $5 million? Theoretically, yeah. I would want to talk with tax. You know, the tax laws change all the time.

So I want to make sure I have a really good attorney to talk through about that. But that seems like a good first place to start. Yeah, I think if you are looking at buying this, kind of 1A is tax diligence, tax and legal. I mean, it's functionally the whole thing. Like, what are the tax benefits here? If I pay $5 million for this, how much can I get as a write-off? Can I conserve some of it? I mean, there could be a – you've got to kind of want to own a place in rural Wyoming, right?

But if you do, there are lots of ways to buy one in a tax-advantaged way. And I would have – I have a sense the broker here might be able to guide you on or off the record, being that there's a section in the menu called Wyoming tax benefits. So they're acutely aware that this is an important selling point. I guarantee whatever Casper the biggest town is, I guarantee there's three or four attorneys that all they do is, hey, you're a billionaire. I'm going to help you use Wyoming tax law and Wyoming law

and work with your tax advisors to help you save big time on taxes and use this as a tax dodge. I guess that's it. I think I read in Heather, I don't know if you've ever seen this stat, but like per capita, Wyoming has more billionaires like than any other state. There's something weird like that. I got to look it up,

But I read that one time, I was like, oh, this what's going on out there. A whole lot of rich people sitting around around their money. Yeah. Leave it. All right. Well, let's wrap it up there. So Bill's putting it an offer for $1. Heather, you're offering four horseshoes.

Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. There's no cash flow, so I'm out. If I had $5 million, I would spend it on a place on the mountain in an awesome ski resort with a town nearby and a lot less hassle. or I would just put it all in the bank and I would just get $500,000 a year on 10% return and just not worry about it

and then rent whatever I wanted. So I think I'm a pass. But man, that's so cool. So cool. All right, well, we're wrapping up there. Great job, guys. And if you, dear listener, enjoyed this episode and have a ski friend,

I encourage you to send this episode to them and tell them that they should check out Acquisitions Anonymous. Oh, and I have a story for you guys. So this morning, you know, I'm working from home today. This morning, I go down to the kitchen and my wife's like, did you hear the doorbell? I was like, yeah. She's like, there was a guy here. And I was like, okay, then what happened?

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and a booger came out, and it was sitting on the tip of my nose for the entire video. So I'd waste... So I'm sitting there, and I'm like, do I delete this video and record it again, or do I just publish a video on YouTube with a giant booger on the end of my nose? You know the answer. What do you guys think I did? You let it rip, man, and the comments go crazy. Exactly.

There's booger everywhere. Did the comments go crazy? Nobody noticed. I'm like, what did you guys think this was? Like, just a skin tag? that was a giant bugger. That's like when you misspelled something intentionally in a tweet. People love to call out your,

you know, your mistakes. Good times. All right, we'll catch you guys next time. Thanks, good story. Bye.