Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Ben's Emergency Surgery, Important Male Skills, & Our Largest Subscriber Meetup

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

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by me already one day you pull up in a lambo the next the ambulance is taking out man so i was taking my boat out of the water today and i asked my parents to help me so my dad pulls the trailer over and he backs it in and i pull it in i was having so much anxiety getting it uh out of the water because i was just waiting for somebody to be standing there with a phone and be like we're putting this guy on the news who would be rightful and next thing i know like like i'm like dad day hey hey hey to the left to the left the trailer sitting sideways i'm yelling and i'm trying to crank and i can't i can't crank because i'm leaning over the boat and i'm not supposed to be like cranking and next thing you know like there's a little bit of confrontation i'm getting hot just looking around oh i'm like i'm like

just pull it out he's he's like what i'm like it's like dude all we need is just one person to just catch us on video and be like viral Yeah, these guys that put other people on the news are getting put on the news. For sucking at backing up. Taking your boat out and backing up in the water. But yeah, I guess for the listeners, we did this bit in a video going to the boat ramp with a bunch of our friends. There's 10 of us there. Basically cheered people on coming in and out of the water.

And then if people were doing a bad job backing up, you know, encourage them to do a better job. People love the YouTube video. And then we recut it up, put it on in. Instagram and it went viral on Instagram. It's got like almost 500,000 shares on Instagram. Wow. That's people sharing to another person. Like, isn't that crazy? Well, it's just so relatable. I feel like everybody who's been at a boat ramp is at the same thing. Oh, 100%. I saw another video on Instagram the other day of like just a dad standing outside the window or like the hotel was next to it. And there was like 10 different clips of him like watching the boat ramp throughout the

weekend. And I commented, we need to get this guy in our next boat ramp. video i feel like it's just a standard male pastime going to the lake yelling at your wife for doing a bad job backing up the boat trailer the other times you've been there plus that day no there was a lot of like a husband to wife like all right yeah i'll make sure you do this this isn't that i'm sure the kid with the megaphone did not frustrating it's a high tense situation it really is so anyway yeah i was laughing though i was i was uh pretty nervous that somebody who was gonna get it on I should have been there. Evan was just making fun of me for

like how I back up because I'm I was backing up a trailer and I don't use the mirrors. I mean of course I like use them a little bit I don't use. You're not using the mirrors. I use the backup camera about as much as I use the mirrors. I go like this like you know obviously yeah throw it over yeah I'm just like really I'm like an owl

like fully turned around and he's like why do you do that like it's just unnecessary I'm like totally agree it's so unnecessary yeah but it feels better it feels like yeah more control the like the scaredness like if i'm at the boat ramp i'm not scared because i'm like i can see like i'm like fully turned around but if i'm depending on the mirrors my brain might short circuit and then i feel like all you got to do is just look at one side and know like i got to hold it to here and that actually is that's the best advice you give it's like yeah if it's a high-stakes situation you got to look at

everything but if it's a normal backup just watch at one side yeah yeah there's few things that are more insulting to a man than being called a bad backer-upper with the trailer. That seems to just hit a soft spot on really any guy that considers himself a man. I think just being a good driver in general is important for a guy. Sure, you could chalk it up to that. Like if you're a bad driver and you say that to a male. Remember that one time in Afton, we were on a snow wheel trip and I went down the wrong road and then I just backed the trailer up.

Like we were at like a T or not a T, whatever one. of these intersections are you know full-blown four-way stop and then i just backed up in front of that car that was driving down the icy road and we almost caused that pile up oh yeah that was like probably my latest almost big mistake that was pretty good though you backed up like three miles yeah yeah you back that thing up like three miles i've never seen anything like it it was it was really impressive or when we took the RV and we went when we were doing the ebay motor shoot we went in that neighborhood and i was like oh there's an airport back here i'll be able to turn around there and then there wasn't and we had to back the whole rig up. Ryan spent a lot of time in reverse.

What are you doing here right now, Ryan? Just trying to talk about all your times that you successfully backed up out of a hard situation. Yeah, man, you're good at backing up. Hey, remember that time I did that whole mile long drag strip backing up and I beat that other car that was going forward. Remember when I beat you in a backup race and then you had to get a nipple piercing? I do remember that, yeah. But yeah, just the other day we're filming rollers and CJ is in Cormon. I saw you. I saw you. in the corn rock community center parking lot like you could have turned around kind of chat with ben a little bit look back up cj's in reverse and i was racing that other car racing a car and then that car was trying to not sure if he knew he was racing no but it was hilarious because i was in you know obviously the correct lane

if i would have been going forward but then i was like you know what we live in the middle of a tiny little town no one's coming this way i'm gonna just throw it in reverse drive half a mile down this way and say what's up to the guys so i'm going reverse and then i'm going reverse and then another car comes up and when I punched in reverse they were just and we were just even and like I would just be I was like going I was using my mirror and every time I'd look over at him we'd just look at each other and he's just like this he's wondering what the heck is this lunatic doing he's just cracking up and he did not he was just like confused yeah I didn't even crack a smile as most people would be I was waiting for him to be like this is funny we're like kind of racing but I had that thing

to the floor and man there's so many instances like we're uh I'll say it we're respectful most of the time, like in our small community. I would say, like, literally most of the time. But sometimes, sometimes we just, like, we just... CJ was having fun there, and the guy was having fun with you, but people are, you know, from the outside. I don't think the guy was having fun with you. Maybe not.

He was waiting for Cidipo an accidental J-turn to take them out. I think that guy was just driving the story and got caught up in a race. He didn't know he was a part of. Imagine someone beating you in reverse in a race. It would be embarrassing style, dude. A lot of instances. Yeah, you look over at his Dom Tureto. He's both ass head.

Shave my head. Dude, you would look like Dom if you shaved your head. I'd have to get more jacked, man. There's so many instances where, like, we just have to make it happen when it comes to making a video. And Cormoron and the surrounding area is an extension of that sometimes. Like, we just kind of make it happen. So I'm sure sometimes people are just like, these guys are always in the way, even

though we're not. I mean, do you think that? I hope not. I don't think that. I think we're like. I think, yeah, sometimes people have to be like, geez, like, I'm not even saying mad. They're just like this particular day. They're just like, geez, these guys are like, they've been back and forth on the road like 16 times today.

I feel like we're almost like a myth. Like, you hear about us, but you don't even, you never really see us. And you never really know when we're operating. You never really know what's going to. So it's like we do something that just happened so quick as like, you missed it. So when you do see us, maybe they're like, you know. Whoa. Like, yeah, this is supposedly where they're at.

But no one ever knows what they're going to do next. And it's just like, you don't even know what happened until it's done. I looked down my window and I saw this big water truck, this old water truck driving down the road. And a man, a man standing on up spraying water. And he looked an awful lot like the decal on the side. Yeah. And then I love that. And they're probably like, and then I think that was the only time that whole year.

I saw the water truck driving. Yeah. Apparently it's a business in the area. Mike's watering service. He flooded the shit out of the community center flowers. but I haven't seen them come back. That is the case too, though, think, like with the water truck, me standing on top of it, a bunch of other,

let's say we're running tiny through town. Like, that might be, if someone sees us out, like, that's probably the only time they'll ever see that vehicle out and about. Yeah, I would like to think that people look at it as like a myth. Yeah, you don't really see it. Yeah, because most of the time, no one's ever really around and we're doing stuff, so you never would. Yeah, my buddy who knows them just says they're always editing.

You know, they're at the computer. I always ask them what they're up to today, and they always go, nothing, you know, just hanging around. In the office, just hanging around, just like beetle juice. And then all of a sudden, they just appear. But people have been loving the Hummer. I was just driving with Alondery this morning, 10.30 a.m. on a Sunday, and there was a woman with a minivan

that had driven out into our field and was taking a picture like this of the Hummer in the air. Did you go and tell her to get her ass off of our property? No, I just let her have her moment. You know, I didn't want to disturb it. kind of like a peaceful thing. Well, it's like a historic landmark. Yeah. It's going to be there forever.

Dude, no, that was, hundreds of years. Hundreds of years. I saw one comment. It said the Hummer's been on land, water, now air. It just needs to be lit on fire. And it would have all four.

We can have a fire underneath it. I think that's called Burning Man. Yeah, it was like, we could do our little burning man. And it's like, the neighbors look out their window next week and it's just like this crowd of people and the hummers like there's flames going up the pole.

Yo. That would be a tribal meeting. Oh, that'd be an amazing event. It would be. We could bring a DJ in. That's what we need to do is we need to do an event. Yeah. We'd just think we could have an awesome event out in that field.

We could. We get the track dialed in. We maybe get some music. I could live all my dream of being a DJ. We could literally have an event for subscribers to come out and have a good time. And there'd be stuff to do. Because I mean, just think about it. Like the crowd we draw for heydays and like they're paying to get in to

hey days just to see us for you know sign and whatever but we could actually have a good good good time like a real good time with stuff to see besides just stuff for them to do yeah obviously there's a lot of liability that we'd need a lawyer to probably there'd be waivers and whatnot but our insurance guy just had a heart attack he's not sure why well our insurance guy also thinks that we're just editing yeah right exactly that's true what do what kind of uh work are you and uh just an editor you know have video editor no i think that's a great idea though cj i think about that. I guarantee you people are going nuts in the comments right now. They're like, I will come to that. That'd be great. I don't know where everyone's stay. Maybe it's like

RV parking, but it'd probably fill up. You could build a hotel. Now we're talking. That'd be pretty cool. But having like RV parking, that'd be pretty cool. No, I think we actually should shout out to everyone that came to our heyday's booth. So fun. Crazier and crazier. Like, it blows our mind every year. Yeah, it was amazing. And so we do like a meet and greet and we do a meet and greet all day because we try and meet as many people as possible and every year it gets a little bit longer of a line people were waiting in line for like three hours long time so shout out to those people we try and give everyone a you know great experience without making the line four hours for like the next people it's a tough balance man

it is a tough balance but it would be cool to do our own event put together uh like a full day experience i guess yeah i would love to see that hummer on fire man i can't get that It could be, like, out of my head. Like, at 10 o'clock, we're lighting the Hummer on fire for, like, a ceremonial passing of the Hummer. At that point, then we would have to finally pay Ryan. In my opinion, the thing doesn't suck. I love the Hummer. And then once we turn into a boat, like, I really love.

Well, then I started loving it a lot. So if it was on fire, it'd make me sad. But sacrifices. Right. It could be made. Yeah. In the name of the Burning Harbor. Yeah.

Complete the circle. Well, what if something crazy happened after it started on? on fire like avatar comes out dude fucking aliens come down to earth like we just like unlock some oh dude yeah yeah and it wouldn't it wouldn't be like that it would be cool but like i heard they like just discovered another alien but then it turns out it was just cake oh yeah i saw that which is still funny i got a good laugh out of that hey mike i just i just want to be a good friend and let you know that you have a piece of black stuff in your in your tooth thank you you know who's the best of telling you have shit in your teeth or your nose or your face evan

Really? You wouldn't believe it. But I just will put that as a PSA. I think no matter how rude it might come across or how awkward it is, like you should always tell something. Yeah, I'd appreciate it if you tell me that food on my face. Even if it's like super awkward when you tell them. I had a, I had that at Hades.

It was a guy that only met just a few times, a pretty popular fellow. You know, second time meeting him and he just had a big old booger in his nose. And I go, I could let him continue on with his night or I could just be the guy who tells him. Oh, you did. And I just go, hey, man, you got a, you got a, you got a, and he goes, got it. And he goes, I get it. And I'm like, yeah. And he goes, thank you.

He goes, I've talked to 15 people and that. No one said anything. He goes, that's a real friend right there. And then you start to, like, resent, you start to resent the other people you talk to that didn't tell you. Exactly. Come friends, they are. You know, what I have to help you out on, it seems like at least once a week is your zipper

being down, as suss as that is. I know, I hate to even say that. No, and I'm bad about it, too. weiner falls out and he's walking around we're in Walmart the other day and Mike was in the grocery out of his wieners hanging on he's going to go Mike your weaner's out it's amazing how long he can go through his day without people noticing the guy greeting him at the door that was pretty rude to him not to mention that Mike's weiner is no I think the worst part is if you like maybe notice it at one point in the day uh you might notice it later in the day too and that's actually a second

offense be uh I left it down again and I'm going to blame the damn Hollister pants with just buttons up the front that's all i had for like a stint you know when i was like yeah when i was like no they didn't come undone i just like it just had buttons so i never used a zipper i shouldn't say never but a zipper wasn't really it was foreign to me so like i just like it's just one of the simplest devices no no not i was just used to not i was not used to regular pants not how to use it but like i know how to use a zipper i just like i just the buttons you either button them you don't but the zipper is like your buttoning you zipper but i don't i think it was the first guy in line yeah at hey days yeah i i saw a guy with the zippery down there was a first guy in line at

hey days mike goes hey zippa's down and imagine this dude i i then last him how long you've been standing here and he goes uh six 30 and there's nine so it was two and a half hours been standing there waiting and the first thing the first thing one of his favorite people in the world says is your zippers. To be fair, to be fair to come back, I'm pretty sure the first like 15 people told Mike how, how bad he looked.

Really? No, right away in the morning. Some people were being kind of, they're like, man, Mike, you look a lot rougher in person.

And then at first I was like, ha, ha, ha, yeah, like I'm hung over. After like, I started to hear it more, I'm just like,

oh, man, just, I get it. These guys are coming out. It was like everybody with Evan. God, Evan probably got told how short he was. 75 times.

Yeah, people love Yeah, every other every other person Yeah, and he took it well, but he did I think to be fair It's like, It's like the icebreaker Yeah, exactly

Of like kind of the icebreaker What do I say or what's the first thing? Yeah, you're trying to come up with something Other than just high Yep Honestly, the dude is so small If I met him in person After watching every video

Oh my God, this dude is He's like what? Probably like four foot nine or four eleven no he's in the fours he's he's four eleven yeah we'll go on and then we'll go on to segue to he's tall to like short people being kind of like rippers so you got him you got like we got to meet um levi lavali yeah we ronnie renner was short too all those guys were tiny dude like you meet them and you're going around and you just say well whoa you know like how do you do what you do and be that size and it just seems to be yeah but isn't travis pastronatol i mean yeah

Well, that's why he told Levi LaValle, he goes, dude, I'm so jealous of your size. You're built like a bowling ball. You must be able to crash and tumble so well. Yeah. Because he was like, when I crash, I'm all flailing all over the place. I'm a safety hazard. But you, it's just like, do, too, do.

Which is so true. Evan is just like a little meat. Honestly, though, like, I started feeling bad for Evan a little bit when people would just come up and be like, man, Evan, you are so short. Like 14. They're like, I'm taller than you. I'm 14. Like they just,

they, like, just keep going. It's almost the same as, like, walking up to someone and being like, man, you are ugly,

you know, like it's, it's kind of like on the same. Yeah, it's pretty rude. It's something you can't control. It's just like, obviously it's light or it seems like it's easier to say,

but it, you know, it's, or it would be like, man, you are overweight, you know, or like,

man, you are super skinny. Like, you have like no muscle at all. Like, you know, it's like, man,

you're kind of the shame. I feel like the small like shit one is valid Because like you can fix that That's true You can fix that I used to get it Before Evan was a part of the group I used to get the short comments

And I don't think that I'm that short Yeah Ben's like maybe half an inch shorter You're like average height I'm five nine Oh you are Well he's a lot shorter Can you look up an average height Of a US male

He just knows it off the top of his head Alex tape measure from downstairs. I haven't measured myself in probably five years. Average male height in the U.S. is 5.9. Nice. Right now. You're average.

I'm just a little above average on the smartness. And that's in the U.S., I'm assuming. What's the average height of a male in China? Judging by the size of our Chinese trucks, just triggered everywhere in our parking lot. Actually, in China, the average male height is 5-8. I don't know if I believe that, but. you'd be stupider than all of them but you would be a little taller just that might help out that's like so you we you obviously found evan you know you're like we got to find another short guy so i don't have to be looked at as so short i'm trying to find a new stupidest member that we can take it won't be hard there's one right there no but that's what i'm saying i'm sick of having all the pressure of being the stupid we're going to have to search for a while if you want to find someone that'd be stupider and you dude i don't think it'd be hard at that's

All right, Ben, take your shoes off before you do this. Don't want to give you any, uh, got to be exact. Got a half an inch of hair there. Are you sure you want to be this, Ben? Actually, that's a good question. All right. We're doing it on the record, Ben's height. We're going to get this figured out.

Mike, you take the phone. All right. You're good. Yeah, don't move that phone up at all. Oh my gosh. Five nine. Hey, which is excited, dude. 69 inches.

Alex, what's the ideal height? Like, I feel like women always say they want a tall man. Like, what's considered tall? Six foot. Like, you have to be six foot up. Some girls really make a thing. Yeah, I'd say, like, starting a... Do you guys want, or do girls...

Tall guys? You just have to be taller than the girl. Yeah, I mean, I feel that. Some girls really care are, like, really tall guys. Alandra's always on me because she has... I have a long torso and she has long legs. So when we take a picture, I'll pop it up and show you guys. She also wears high-waisted jeans

and I wear low-wasted jeans, but look how funky we look. Because her legs are so much longer than my. Holy shit, yeah. Yeah. Is that wide-angled, though? I don't know. I honestly never noticed.

But now that you pointed out, Ryan, you should start wearing high-waisted jeans. So you guys, you don't think it's going to work out? God, I hope so. She's like, look, one of us needs to change

and it's not going to be me. I'm making these legs any shorter. It's tough out here. man like i i just i guess i'm not a runner you know i don't know if running would make your legs longer run no but it would be like i would be so dumb it's like hard to sit at the same table well it's a good thing you're all the way over there said beat your hands let me at him typical stupid behavior tries to fight when he says something dumb he's a hot head too does not how to control his emotions

Not only does this guy have a long torso, just an awkwardly long torso. He's got a short fuse. Long torso short fuse. This should be the caption of your next picture. I'm 5.10 and a half, Ben, so you're an inch and a half short foot. Are you? Yeah, 5.10. And people that are below six feet don't, they don't add halves.

But people that, I'm saying like, People above six feet don't. Sorry. Sorry. That's what I meant. That is what I meant to say. But that's because I'm like five, nine and a half. Well, do I round up? Am I? Because I'm literally five, ten and a half. So do I round up to five 11 and be lying? You're right. You're right. And be able. And sell myself short. I'm not doing that. When you say how long your dick is, do you say it's five inches or do you round up to six or do you use half? That one's totally fair to use desk.

Well, it depends. It depends what you're telling. Three and three quarter. So, got my appendix taken out this week. Ooh, yeah. That sucks. Let's talk about it. Literally the most painful thing I've ever endured. Like, really? Hands down.

Yeah. Yeah. Like if they're like, hey, what's your pain on a scale of one to ten? You're like nine, ten. Yeah. What was the deal? Like you went to bed, felt fine, woke up, and it hurt? Or you couldn't sleep?

Like what? No. So Monday this week, got done filming, ate dinner. And then was just chilling, watching TV. And was like, oh, damn, I kind of got to, like, go up or go to the bathroom. Just like a, like, noodle dish or something. Normal food. Yeah.

I go home, tried throwing up. Really? Yeah, because I was like, I don't feel good. I feel like I need to just get this out of the way. Okay. It was like 9 o'clock on Monday night. And I couldn't throw up. Couldn't go to the bathroom.

Next thing I know, I'm, like, laid out on my bathroom floor all night long. Three finger tickling the back of my throat trying to, like, you couldn't throw up though? Make myself throw up. Because at this point, you thought you were sick. I thought I had food point. Yeah, yeah. And I would drink a bunch of water and then I would just throw up the water.

Oh, so you were. Okay. I didn't get any sleep all night. And the whole time, I was just thinking about the story that you told me, Ryan, when your appendix or when you thought that you were having an appendicitis. And then you were calling me in the middle of the night, do I have health insurance? Should I go in? And I didn't. But you didn't end up, like you woke up the next morning, you felt fine, right?

Uh, no, I still hurt, but basically throughout the entire night, Alander called me a baby for having a bellyache. Okay. And I went, I guess I have a belly ache then. But it was, like, quit being a little baby. Let's go put, takes a pole. I ended up being, uh, too much crab, was it? Yeah, it was, it was too much butter.

Apparently I have a butter in colors, but like, I didn't eat, didn't dump, didn't do any, like, I literally couldn't even drink water because, like, my whole body hurt. And I felt the same way, like, I needed to throw up, but couldn't. So anyway, continue on. So I was thinking about that. And I was like, well, Ryan, you know, kind of had similar symptoms and he didn't end up having it. And then our friend Justin got engaged, got a dog, and an appendicit is all within like three hours of each other. And we were just talking about that the other day.

And I was like, well, maybe it could be that. I'm like going back and forth. I didn't get a dog or engaged. I skipped only steps. And all night long, I'm just debating like, oh, man, maybe I am just being a person. pussy going back and forth and finally at like 10 a.m. called Greta and I was like, can you bring me to the ER? This is not normal.

Like something's going on. I couldn't drive. I couldn't even move, dude. I tried to walk into my fridge and I'm like hunchbacked over like, like shuffling my feet, trying to get to my fridge. And so they bring me in and they were like, you know, trying to diagnose it without giving me a CT scan. The CT scans are trying to avoid them.

And then like there's car crash, happened and a bunch of people came into the ER and a bunch of sirens were going off. Like, everyone, get to the emergency room right now, boom, boom, boom. Cold red. Yeah, cold red. So I'm laying there like crippling pain. Like, all right, let's get the CT scan done with. Because they were like, we'll get you in there any minute.

Next thing I know, I'm waiting four hours for the CT scan. Yeah, because God forbid people were dying. But that's what I mean. At this point, you make you feel like an asshole, Ryan. You had to lay there and you still didn't know that it was appendicitis. Yeah. Yeah, because, like, usually an appendicitis is, like, lower and, like, my whole stomach hurt, and so that's why they didn't really know.

I just, I had to poop real bad. That's why I was like, I hate to go in. Brand muffins. I hate to go into the ER, and they're just like, look, buddy, here's a bunch of laxatives. You can't use our toilet. Go to the holiday across the street. They hit you with the, and use the walk-in clinic next time. Yeah, so I end up getting a CT scan.

The nurse, like, runs in and was like, you have. having acute appendicitis, thankfully it hasn't burst, but like we have to get you into surgery immediately. And then like 45 minutes later, I was put under anesthesia and they chopped it out of me. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty, it was like pretty fast moving, but they were like if it were to burst, your appendix holds so much toxins. It's like kind of a filter for your body. And if it were to burst into your, into your bloodstream, real bad, real bad. I guess like that happens though, right? As in like, like, Like, not like, like, life-threatening, right?

Well, you don't have to say it like that, C.J. What's going to filter that now? Wait, but yeah, what happens? Obviously, you're fine. What happens if it bursts? Like, it's not life-threatening, right? Yeah, he just said it was. It's life.

Oh, yeah. Because it's like, it's like, just like, you were here right now and it burst, and you're like, I'm not going to the doctor. I'm being in rough shape. Yeah, you, maybe, I don't know. I mean, I've gone 15 years of that appendix, and I'm fine. Well, Ken's. Debatably.

Do you have your tonsils? Tonsils do kind of similar. I got those taken out too. Really? Man, you are susceptible. You got your wisdom teeth? All the unimportant organs out. Ken, you got your wisdom teeth?

No, I do have tonsils. I don't have wisdom teeth. Oh, yeah. Same thing, no, easily confused. One a dentist does and the other one is surgery. Oh, really? I honestly thought a dentist took your tonsils out. I thought they were the same for a second, but I'm mistaken those.

One is a tooth. What are wisdom teeth anyway? anyway that sucked that sucked real bad yeah and still feeling it really but also like yeah i mean they they so it's like a laparoscopic surgery so it's like three small incisions and then they like go in there and they still put me under anesthesia i i uh the last thing i remember is yeah did you try to fight it one one nurse going my son's a big fan and i think i would make a picture what a great thing to drift off to yeah and then i woke up i woke up i woke up up in the start i woke up uh you know like in the hospital room and i just remember going all right

we doing the surgery or what they were like oh it's done the amount of confusion i had i was done what just happened to the last two hours of my life like it's crazy how it's just man just nothing to sleep nothing wow yeah so do you feel different i feel like i was like cut open and like part of my body was taken out of me do you really feel that way well i feel like shit yeah Like, I've had really bad brain fog Like the past couple days, mostly from getting put to sleep Have a hard time the way that is articulating words You guys made fun of me actually so that helps

Oh, of course, true You were singing your, you know that song Richmond North of Richmond or whatever it is? Ben's just like, Northman, Rich, Northman Dude And we just took that and ran all day We're like, No Uncle Rich is going to Northland

He just singing all the words wrong No I felt like a But that's pretty typical for you I felt like an old tractor starting up It's just shrinking Yeah We didn't really talk about it in the video Other than a quick thing

But it is crazy You went to work Then you had a full day I filmed all day Yeah well then you had a Tuesday Of being sick And in the hospital all day And then Wednesday

all day in bed you must add your computer propped up somehow edited Thursday all day edited I didn't edit at all on Wednesday I lied to you guys oh really yeah I thought I could but I'm it's a good thing that I didn't it's a good thing that I didn't because you guys would have I was like so just lost you guys think that my brain isn't working now you guys should see Wednesday oh man I bet but I mean that is some serious freaking dedication grinding it out on Thursday though yeah that is woke up a little bit on Thursday too yeah yeah out in the field around around Pit bike track. I mean, I would assume most people would at least take a couple days off of work.

Well, I would have liked to. It would have been nice. It would have been nice. Are you going to, like, do any lifestyle changes now that your appendix is gone? Dude, okay, I was thinking about this, though, and they were, like, telling me that the reason that my appendix was so inflamed and was about to burst had nothing to do with my lifestyle or, like, anything, it just is the luck of the draw. And I was like, bullshit.

There's no fucking way. I have heard that, though. They say that it's just like, oh, it's just at random. Yeah, maybe for some cases, but I was like thinking of like the last eight years of my life. But let's just say the last eight days. Film a video all week.

Edit it. Hop on a plane. Go to Bristol, Tennessee. Bang out another video. No sleep. Hop on a plane. Come back. Hit a video.

Edit it. Hop in the car. Go to Haydays. No sleep. do the meat and greet all day, party, heyday's night, get no sleep again, eat like shit, like fair food, and then come home, start stressing and planning the next week, and then a bunch of things happened on Monday, super stressed, and then boom, it all just like came crashing crashing down at once. And it was like between like stress, poor diet and then just

lack of sleep. I was like, I'm not that surprised. Yeah. So, one, what in your appendix is bacteria i don't i think they say it's like a filter for your body see that's why only drank a lot of mountain do because my body is such an uninhabitable place that no sickness can take over me because sickness can't survive inside of me it is funny how i try to be as like health conscious as possible and it's tough with the lifestyle that we live how fast-paced it is And I would consider myself a relatively healthy human compared to my surrounding comrades, you guys. I would agree. Yeah, I would agree.

And then that shit happens. And I'm like, I'm like, now I'm second guessing everything. Like, damn, maybe I just need to think less. So something that like, I mean, we talked about it before. We're like, you know, the more you expose yourself, drink the well water, hose water, whatever. Something that blows my mind and is definitely going to gross you out, but gross me out, gross me out bad. so we're at heydays i probably shook and knoxed and whatever high-fived literally 2,500 people in a day yeah and then i mean i try to stay away from the finger food and stuff but like i'm just saying

it had to be at least one point where like i got some food or something on my finger and i go yep that's effed up yeah i just like i thought about it and i let it get to me and then of course i'm like well i've done that my whole life so like that calm me down well it's just like yeah i mean exchange germs with 2,500 people and then lick your finger Yeah, it comes down and just having a strong immune system. But even at that rate, that amount of people, it's like, how strong can you possibly have? That's why I was trying to do nucks. But if someone went for the handshake, you have to do a handshake.

That's like disrespect. I guess it's just being more conscious of like washing your hands. And that wasn't super available there. But I'm like, I can go through a whole day without washing my hands. Try not to let that happen anymore. But like, it's just kind of gross. Yeah. Part of being a boy.

Yeah, there is something about building up like the immune system. for that like not being afraid of germs yeah for sure but there's a line though you know it's like yeah we're protecting yourself versus my mom works in a hospital and is constantly around sick people never get sick really it's pretty impressive actually and of course they have tons of things they're washing their hands 75 times a day and doing all the different things but it's impressive she never gets sick she probably has a strong immune system that's what i mean was built up never got COVID all that shit never got it she really does it that's crazy yeah not knock on wood but I mean yeah it's pretty impressive so there is maybe something to be said about little doses of

sickness dude I have so much respect for the health care workers that live in that environment oh yeah day in and day out just the shit that they see and experience in like in your mom's case with pediatric being young yeah you know like that's that's heavy dude I have no idea how she doesn't I couldn't certain people can do it certain I like I could not do that I could not do that that would be too tough for me what's the hospital like now like if they upgraded from those like old shitty tube TVs do that basic cable are you still watching like static this guy really never does get sick I wasn't I wasn't turning on the TV you couldn't even turn on the TV well I could have but I didn't like I was just literally just sitting there and agonizing pain I didn't even have my phone oh wow I was just straight up just like staring at the ceiling thinking about how bad this sucked yeah that makes for a long day yeah but i mean yeah i don't know there's technology and shit there there is yeah okay well that's good to hear at least like i didn't know if they just set like an old transmitter radio next to your bed and like put on a m radio and just let you suffer

i i don't know what the surgery bill is i've health insurance thankfully like we nice you know it's probably like a twenty thousand dollar surgery or something like that so i'd hope that they'd have not tube TVs. Yeah, exactly. And hopefully insurance covers it. I mean, like, Olandre has insurance and then still got a bill for three grand. Your bill is still going to be like at least six,

but probably closer to eight. Really? I thought there's a, I thought we had like a $2,000 deductible. The fuck is insurance for them? Dude, excuse my language. My,

my, for my neck last year, I paid like six or seven thousand out of pocket. And what was it total? Like 20. and they didn't even have surgery. Yeah, that's actually wild. When I was, crapes.

When I was in the, just about to be wheeled into the operating room, I look over at Greta and I go, I don't think that my insurance covers this. And she goes, why do you say that? And I was like, I think it's for like a different hospital because it's like, there was like, there's like certain, certain plans. And I was just like, fuck it. Yeah. Yeah, she goes, well, nothing you can do now.

And I was just like, all right, whatever. It's so much pain. I was like, I don't even care right now. Like imagine they're about to wheel in and you're like, stop, stop all operations. I wonder who gets all that money. I say like the worst best part is like the doctors, they go to school eight, nine years to. Yeah, but they get that. I'm saying like a lot of it goes to the hospital.

Yeah, I think they're paid a salary. I think they're paid a salary unless you're a private practice. I didn't know. I'm pretty sure you get salaried out if you're a. I always just figured, like, some doctors, you know how some doctors are like operators, like surgeons, they're super gung-ho and they're like, yeah, you know, I don't do many extra curricular activities. Like, I like to do like five surgeries a week and some are like, I usually do one.

And obviously there's different extenses to the surgeries, but, you know, some doctors seem like gung-ho and they're like ripping through surgeries and trying to make that dough, I guess. Man, surgeons deserve the salaries that they're paid. I agree. Yeah. And they can't have a bad day. that can look up like average uh surgeon salaries um in fargo it varies so like our local town it varies from 280 to 550 they come out with obviously a shitload of debt yeah like an insane i've heard

like they come out of of school with like a million bucks worth of debt that is so good but also like a million bucks worth of debt is nothing you could go and start a business a plumbing business and it could be a million bucks worth of debt to start a plumbing business like debt people are so afraid of debt. That doesn't mean anything if you're working towards something. Yeah, it's an investment in yourself. But if you decide you go to school for nine years to be a surgeon and then decide you want to like save the trees in Alabama. Yeah. Then you may a value. True. Because you can't you can sell a plumbing business, but you can't sell like your knowledge obviously, but it is that time spent. Yeah. But I know like some some doctors coming out

of school. Granted, they've been in school for like 12 years with everything piled up. And, like, their base salary is, like, 1.2, like 1.2 million or something, like, they may get a bunch of dope. Yeah. But they deserve it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, because you don't want the cut rate guy in there today. He's like, yeah.

So the guy that cost a million a year, he's busy. So we've got Freddie. Yeah. We pay him 75 and he also sweeps the floors. And you're just like, no, give me the guy. To what you said, yeah, you can't have a bad day. Like, you, yeah. I mean, there's such a thing as, like, canceling,

postponing surgery but you can't come in even if you were like yeah like I I smack my elbow really hard last night even that could you know mess your whole you have a bad night's sleep just think about that like you got a huge surgery best bed in the world if you're a surgeon when what I was saying though about like the hospital surgeons they they're salaried versus like let's say you're a breast implant surgeon you have your own practice like those guys are making a lot more than yeah I'm pretty sure, like, I'm sure those guys are getting probably 280 and the titty surgeons are probably getting 500 or a mill, you know, like those are like, you know, or whatever else kind of like a, obviously brain surgeon is probably the most difficult.

What do I know, but, you know, I think it's different. I think a lot of those, like, private practice people, like their customer bill is less, but their take home pay is. I'm sure, yeah, because that's what I was saying, though. Like, I wonder how much the hospital gets that. If it was 30 grand for that, like, it didn't go to. a surgeon, because he's probably getting a salary. Then you have the anesthesiologist.

You have all the support staff. You have the surgery room. There's got to be a profit going out there. Oh, yeah. That's what I was wondering. Who got that money? Yeah, I mean, it's a business. Like, you know, Sanford.

Is that a public company? But who owns that? Danny Sanford. No, it's a public entity. So that guy's getting the money. It's a nonprofit. Yeah. Oh, so then it's a nonprofit.

Real. Where's that money go then? Why does it cost? so much. Yeah, it's a nonprofit integrated health care delivery system. Okay, sounds like, I don't know how the fuck that works, but could you see their annual revenues? 5.2 billion dollars in 21. No, what? It's a pretty big nonprofit. That's me. What's like the nonprofit side of the business? Well, they just get to build sports arenas and. Oh, yeah. Different stuff like that. Like they build family wellness, which is Sanford sponsored, but it's technically.

not so then he can make money there charging a hundred bucks a month yeah there's a whole good system to it dude okay so i watched uh pain killers on netflix have you guys watched it it's a it's a it's about the sackler family and oxy cottons crazy crazy just like how bad oxy cottons were and the amount of people that got addicted to it because how bad the abuse because they said that they were non-addictive or believed to be non-addictive just a blatant why it's insane to think about how much money that made the sackler family and like they didn't even care about the money at a point they wanted the name to be like outlive you know generations to generations be like a Rockefeller really kind of name you know like these

uber rich like it gets to the point where like five million bucks donated to have your name on a football stadium or whatever for your local college and it's like the roth stadium or something like that like that gets them off so much more than like making money and like that's like what the sackler family was doing donating a bunch of money to like art museums and stuff like that so their name was like all over and it would outlive because they wanted it to be like remembered for an art museum the art the sackler art museum versus oh the family that created oxy cotton yeah the drug epidemic but it but it's crazy to think about how many things have a name connected to it that could be connected to like dirty money like that i'm sure and and i think yeah i'm sure like it's

you know probably getting aired out you know things like that more and more now yeah oh that was a crazy if you guys haven't watched uh i gotta watch painkiller watch it it's it's extremely eye-opening yeah it is interesting how like i don't know just like the tumultuous lifestyle of always wanting more initially they were probably after money and they had money but then they're like oh i want like fame or you know i want recognition mission by other people. So then they're trying to, you know, do this whole, getting their name everywhere. You know, isn't that weird how you just always want more even when you got.

Yep. And what actually started it was kind of ends up like screwing a lot of people, always wanting more. So it was basically like the guy that created OxyContin's uncle that started the company. And then his, uh, his uncle built it into this empire and like created a name for the Sackler family and was like donating all this money and trying to like make it into become like a generational thing. And then he died and basically, like, the brother and the nephew and, like, the whole family gets this guy's empire and was like, oh, shit, we have, like, a very short runway unless we change something because they were living, like, this rich, extravagant lifestyle. And then the uncle died and, like, somebody had to step up to the plate. Otherwise, like, you know, it would have carried on. So that's when this guy created OxyContin to try and make the family name continue on.

and then, like, you know, continue to be successful. In it, they talk about how the guy that founded T&T was something Nobel. Wait, TNT what? Like, like explosives? Oh, okay. Like T&T, like bombs. When he was getting older, there was this news article that was posted that said, so-and-so Nobel passed away, the merchant of death.

That's what they called him. That was like the article name. He realized being the creator of T&T explosives. that's how his name was going to be remembered, the merchant of death, and the amount of people that died from explosives. So he then started the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, he did.

And now nobody remembers him for being the creator of T&T. When you think of Nobel, you think of the Nobel Peace Prize, being like the most prestigious award. But does anyone really think of him? Because I don't think of him. Like, I don't know of name. But I guess, you know, when I hear the, Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm like, nice to whoever won it. However, when I think of, when I think of a TNT, I actually, I don't think about killing. You think of Minecraft. Yeah. No. That's what I thought of. I think of mine. I think of, I guess, real life Minecraft.

I think of them using it to blow up mountains and build highways and. Or that building. Oh, yeah. How was that? It was cool. So, uh, you guys may know Fargo, North Dakota is just, like 45 minutes from us. And there's this huge building. I don't know how many stories it was, but the high rise,

let's say it's 20, 25 stories. Pretty decent size of building for Fargo. And it was full of a bestis. They couldn't re-renovate it because... It was old, too. I think it was asbestos or... It was asbestos. Evan calls it a bestis, so then I'm doing.

And it was like low-income housing. Like, it was just in general a shitty building. Also, that's a year ago. I'm confused how they could blow that up. Isn't there, like, extreme removal process for asbestos? What Ken and I were just talking about. So, like, yeah, I'm sure they had a bunch of Evans in there removing the abestis. Evan been in that building before removing the abestis.

Yeah, so they were just going crazy. But again, I don't think you can get all of it. So, like, that, so they exploded the building. 7 o'clock on the dot. Can't believe I was up for it. But, you know, I wasn't going to miss. Dude, it was so funny. Like, it's difficult for me to get up.

as usual, but that, I'm just like, it's $6.50, we got to go. Yeah, yeah. And it was so worth it, dude. When you said you were going to that, I was like, no, you're not. You're not going to make it. You're not going to. In my head, I said, yeah, right. This dude's going to get up on his own. Sydney thought that we were going to be one of a small handful of people there. Like half the city was there. Oh, really? It was a spectacle. Yeah, totally traffic jam. And so like, and it really was a spectacle. So like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Thing falls down. We can put the video up right here. Can we say what it was supposed to be? Supposedly, insider information,

Mr. Beast was going to pay, you know, this is all allegedly, that Mr. Beast was going to pay $100,000 to be able to, like, blow that, like, he'd blow the building up. I don't know what that would consist of. He presses the button and they get to make a video of it. But then I guess he pulled out. Damn. And then they asked if we want, well, they didn't ask.

The gal that was telling me was like, guys should come to it i go we're not paying a hundred thousand dollars to blow up a building that's already going to get blown yeah i said i don't know the cash grab and then uh i was like that'd be cool and then just kind of fell through it was just no point like what there was like a couple buildings surrounding it and we're like it'd be funny if we told evan yeah that was my idea that we get to blow up a a building and then we tell them it's the other building and we point And we go, press the button. And he presses it in the other building.

And we all turn and look at him, oh, what the heck? Or like if there's two buttons on there and we tell them, press the top one, do not press the bottom one. And he press the top one. We go, we told you to press the bottom one. That's good. Dude, I'm pretty sure. That's crazy that it's a, I didn't know about that. The $100,000 price tag just to be the forefront of it.

It's crazy. Keep in mind, basically the entire demolition to be cleaned off the face of the earth was 4.8 mill. Wow. Just to take the damn building down. And again, clean it up. $100,000 to be the forefront of it.

It seems insane. Dude, how loud was that? Like, it's got to be insane. It was loud. I mean, it was basically, yeah,

I mean, it was like louder than any explosion we've ever done. Like somebody had... It's a well-built building. They need to blow it up to get rid of it. Yeah.

Think about that. Somebody had to put all those explosives in there. Think about that. And the bond, dude. Think about the high stress of that. The bricks. I mean, I feel like, would it be that high stress, though? Because you're just like, we're fucking blowing this thing up.

I don't know. It either doesn't blow up or, oh, yeah. I'm saying like placing those around the building. I mean, you mess up. You're like, well, fuck it. Let's get some more explosives. Yeah, just. And the fact of buildings that completely surround that building.

That would have been what's crazy, yeah. Randy was telling me that you could hear the explosion on Big Cornon. Someone was outside in the morning and heard it two minutes later. 50 miles away. 50 miles away. That's what I was cracking up to. So apparently, so your mom actually went to the top of the downtown Sanford

to watch the explosion, but didn't make it there in time. And she's like, she's like, yeah, we were on our way up the stairs, but I guess like, we didn't even hear it.

Oh, wow. There's no way you didn't hear it. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Fair.

But yeah, she's just, and then like shortly after that I read the text that someone heard it. And on Big Corma, I'm like, that's what I would have assumed. Someone could have just been, I saw there was a TikTok of it and I was like oh I know I know that and then some guy commented wow they did it with no plane this time

yeah I got a I got a lot of I got a lot of 9-11 responses on my really uh snapchat and I was like that was a tall building I was like just because of that maybe not have been the best week to do that did you guys see the rainbow of New York it was like a double rainbow and it's like the most insane rainbow I've ever seen above New York on 9-11. Wow. Yeah, like on 9-11. It was insane. Like, I couldn't, I couldn't believe my eyes.

Of course, I didn't see it in person. A bunch of TikToks about it. People were just like, this is like the most insane rainbow I've ever seen over New York. Quick poll. Wild. Just yes or no? Do you think it was an inside job? Oh, Ryan.

You're going to put you on the spot here. Just a quick guess. Yeah, I do. I feel like it was. Yes. Yes. I, uh, no. Okay.

I think probably yeah, but let's, tune back to our resident. I think it was an inside job. There we go. Ken watches Fox News every day. So if it's, I just think, it's a little weird.

You think George Bush did it? The developer that owned the tower took out like some insane insurance policy like a few months before the accident. And that's one of them. And it's just like that's that's fishy. Plus there's like a whole docu series of all the different little fishy things that don't quite add up. Dude,

it's like such a crazy thing to wrap your mind around. If like, the United States actually was behind doing that or like some one person maybe it wasn't even like the government but it was someone who else would have been yeah who else would have been like who else would have had any incentive why would that guy like have that much power to be like are we to take an insane insurance policy out on it yeah now he's talking to like the most fear I don't think it was his idea I think he that let's say that guy was just filled in on it and he's like sick like I'll be a part of it of course because I'm the like owner of the building gosh I don't know it seems like there's, like, so many more, like, discrete ways to, like, cash in on something than to, like, take an insane insurance policy out on the building. No, I'm saying he could have just been one, one piece of the moving cog. No, I know. I'm just saying, like, there's, like, so many things that I'd like to just, like, believe

in humanity not being that corrupt. Yeah, same. And I guess, like, certain things, yeah, like, certain arguments are hard to make as, like, why they would make sense. but it's also on the other end of it, like, man, how dark do you got to be? And then the fact that like really nothing's actually came out like hard evidence wise.

No. I don't know. Like, there is so many things that are fishy about it. Ryan, you just had that. It's also like, well,

I actually didn't really want to get into it because unfortunately so many people have delve, delve into this topic. Is that a term? They've wrung it out. And we unfortunately do not have any insider information or higher power discussion to add but I just wanted to get a quick quick insight. Dude the Pentagon thing

just seems weird though. Sorry to wrap back on that but that just seems so strange. I saw this TikTok of a guy. There was another plane hijacking either years before, year after and he was on the plane and then he while everybody else was hiding in the back corner of the plane the guy was wearing like a bomb vest and said he was going to bowl a plane up

and this guy went I think I'm going to go take a picture with that guy because he basically called his bluff right? He's like well, one, I don't take the picture and then I only have my story to tell about being on the plane or two, I take the picture and we end up dying anyway. Yeah. So he went and took a picture with the guy. And he was bluffing or no. Yeah, they ended up everywhere.

He was fine. The guy didn't blow up the plane, stuff like that. But he's just got this picture of him smiling with a thumbs up or big cheeson. You pop it up? And I thought that is exactly something one of you two would do. When you were all hyped up on something, you just be like, I'm going to go take a picture with him. we're going to die you might as well troll this guy exactly you're like we might as well mess with them man that guy had to be like this guy's crazier and me yeah

what a beautiful thought process that's something like david that's reverse psychology dude legit something david do idecker photoman ben innis explains egyptar plane snap but i mean how classic is that you're just like well i might die either way so might as well get a picture like stood up to take the picture you start treating them all good like oh sir sir please let me get a picture with you he's just like what hold on you're supposed to like me i know this is so born in 1999 of me to say i can't believe there wasn't tsa before nine eleven wait i know it really is was there not no no no dude he's walk right never that's why bush put tsa in uh i never every airport you used to be able to like greet people at the gate

when they got off the plane dude that that's blowing my mind maybe it was all a long con just to make us miss a plane in the future you know it's a long con to make you buy a hundred dollars a year every five years for pre-check. Yeah, Ken, I'm sure that's why. My gosh. Okay, so I would have thought that it would have been, it would have started out really light and then, like, got more strict. And then, you know, nothing crazy.

And then 9-11, then it got really strict where it is now. Like, it feels so strict now. Again, it's gotten a little easier. We can get in and out pretty fast. But like, you know, I'm like, I could deal with TSA every time. I'd prefer it if it was just fast and easy and they weren't like dickheads. I mean, it's all fun in games. I try flying with an avalanche airbag.

Ooh, they do not like that. They don't like that. To be fair, it looks a little suspicious. It does. Yeah, it looks a little fishy. Man. What am I going to do, inflate a inflatable sack? I was, blow the plane up.

Dude, the TSA agent was so like when we were, I'll make this quick. When we were here last, Evan's bag gets stopped. He was like, huh-ha, look at you. Of course, Evans' baby would stop. Evan was tweaking. My bag got stopped. I'm thinking, yeah, I'm like, oh, boy, these guys might be actually. And then CJ's, like, still like, damn, of course it's you guys.

Both your bags, Mike. I'm like, Chuck. I'm like, and Evan just like, stiff his board, like, striding, thinking he's in trouble. Yeah, he's terrified. He's just like, he's just telling him, it's just a cater. I'm, I'm sure it's just a gator. I'm like, Evan, did they ask, bro? And then, uh, yours gets stopped.

Then I was like, okay, what the fuck? Now they're, they're just being strict because obviously I don't got shit in Tennessee. So I was saying, like, if you're trying to be fast, like, yeah, they were just being strict. But, like, yeah, they were just being strict. But, like, anyway. Anyway, mine, Evans was my water bottle, or his water bottle, mine was a water bottle. But anyway, the guy goes, he goes, he like pulls it out.

He's like, the reason we pulled your bag is because we had a water bottle in him. Not about bullying. No. And then he's just like, oh, yeah, sweet. You can toss it. And then he, like, didn't hear that. And he's just like, so we can do one of three things. We can either throw it away.

And I'm like, yeah, you can throw it. He's just like, oh, you show? And I'm, like, walking away at this point. And I'm just chuckling. Couldn't take them seriously, man. They were taking their job seriously, man. Yeah, yeah, they were. I mean, they were saving, I mean, shit.

I don't mind to be taken serious, I guess. I don't mind it. I, I'd prefer them to stop someone with a gun or a knife or an explosive. Yeah, exactly. It's just like when the credit card company calls you and they're like, hey, we blocked a suspicious charge. It's just you at the ATM in the casino all late at night. And you're just like, I'm mad that you're doing it right now.

You start giving a little. Like, don't question what money I'm taking out. But also, thank you for trying to stop someone from stealing all my money, you know. Dude, the way the world's going, I wouldn't be surprised if one day, like, every Walmart had a TSA or something of the sort. Or, like, everything you go into had some sort of TSA. Like, our kids would be sitting at some podcast table and they'll be talking about like, back in my dad's day, it used to only be an 80-year-old man who said, thanks for coming in when you walked out. Dude, the amount of stuff that gets stolen out of Walmarts every year.

is nuts. Like so much that like certain Walmarts are shutting down. I just shut down a goddamn Walmart was stealing. Well, dude, you guys. Three billion dollars worth of products every year. Whoa. Did you guys hear like that new like California law? Oh,

that you can't stop shoplifters. Well, that might be the problem. What is that? They just don't get it down there. What is that? What are they going for? It is going to be free for all. Everything's going to get shutting down.

Yeah. Dude, what are they doing down in California? They literally, I feel, feel like they look at like a sane situation and then they're like how can we really fuck this i think they're like pushing everyone normal out you know because i'm not even talking like they're not even pushing like low-income people out they're just pushing like anyone who's not like uh part of let's say they're called like they're just pushing all these people out and then california will just be like the woe you think eventually though it's going to kind of just like ruin itself like it's

going to take itself out with that kind of like if everyone's just stealing and there's no repercussions and when everyone's going to move out and they're going to move to like other places that don't have those laws right and then they're going to vote those laws in yeah and they're going to ruin everything else is going to go to shit I had a buddy that was arguing the fact that like Gavin Newsom is like doing a good job really oh my gosh I don't want to say I was like you might be the only person in this in this side of the country saying that. You know, he's running for president, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I couldn't believe it. You should have told him. I literally couldn't believe it. He'd be like one of the few people. You just have to tell him to fuck their own face. No, I was, it was like kind of refreshing to hear.

Like someone would say something so outlandish. Like, you could go five years without meeting somebody who says that. I literally heard him say it. I literally heard him say it. I laughed and went. Really? You're expecting to also start laughing. Dude, I honestly have nothing to say.

If you feel that way, I'm going to let you, brother. Let's just keep on moving. I love that. See, that guy's got to be stupider than Ryan. We could hire him for something around here. Fuck no. No, he's a good guy. So speaking of that song that you couldn't sing correctly, Northman, North of Richmond,

living in the north. Ben's just making up his own words to the song He got the melody right But that song has gone so, so viral Like, mega viral And he just recorded off his Android phone It's amazing Android?

Yeah, he did off an Android Is that kind of heard of an iPhone? Just record it and, but it's like has a nice touch to the song Like it, there's this like almost realness to it And it's just him with his But that song has gone so viral And like the way that it speaks

I think it really connects to just the average person, especially in middle of America. And I kept hearing about how this song is this big deal and it's going so viral. And I was like, this is a good song. Like, I like this song. When we were at Cletus's for the race, we were in Bristol, and there's like all these people in the stands. And they're just sitting there for hours, waiting for stuff to get set up. And they have like music going. When that song came on, people started cheering.

like cheering i was holy shit like that's that's amazing that's like one of the most patriotic things i've seen a long time it was beautiful and all the people just sat there and sang along to it and then when it got done they all cheered again and clapped and i looked at mike i think and i go dude never seen a song do that this song has some serious impact yeah i think it's been like so refreshing i think for like the uh the common man it was really interesting to to be in that environment and hear it because that was like i feel like because that's where it was it was virginia and we were in virginia or right on the edge of virginia and uh clearly hit close to home that guy oliver anthony he's got a crazy story i listened to him on joe rogan's podcast uh really interesting

like you said recorded the song on his phone wow yeah man he was in like such a dark place uh he was releasing the music because he didn't know if he was going to be here tomorrow like Like he was like suicidal, wanted to release the music before he, if he killed himself, wanted to leave it to the world, release that and it went viral pretty much overnight. Wow. Yeah, I haven't seen a song go like that viral that fast or an artist really pop off. But it's like, because people resonate with him. And he's like, you know, he's, you know, he's so.

I think it's refreshing too. And it's also kind of the truth. Yeah, it is the truth. Yeah. People like to hear it. And most people don't say that. Dollar ain't shit. I guess, I know the way, yeah.

Dude, I remember coming across that TikTok and then, like, watching it, like, over and over. Like, you know, you kind of, like, sometimes music comes up. I set my phone and I, like, listen to it over and over. I'm like, man. Yeah, this guy should sing. Something about it, man. Yeah, I guess he's going on tour now. And obviously, so he wasn't obviously, like, a wealthy man or anything.

I think he might have been normal or maybe, I don't know, maybe a little bit below. But, uh, he was living in. in a trailer uh with a tarp over the roof okay wow i didn't know that very bow he is uh it's it's now going you know he's going on tour but he canceled his tour because the ticket prices were like up to ninety dollars a ticket or something and he said that was too much and he canceled his tour and they need to refix the prices because what he's doing is he's he doesn't want to switch up on his people and uh i don't know i just think it's just a great story i remember making some stuff about that too people are like where's your we want more music he's just like listen i don't care about

fame i don't care about money i care about getting the exact message that i made in that song across however it's possible i don't know it seems like america and people are starting to turn back to that and well i think like a lot of like super conservatives were like trying to say like see this song this song is where america's at this is our anthem and then he was like no no no no i didn't make this song i didn't make this song for the conservatives or the uh the liberals like this is this is for like neither of you guys yeah which is great that he prefaced because you're right a lot of conservatives were like taking that and running yeah yeah all the the talking heads at news stations that are exactly who was singing about one last crazy part on that was so the last presidential debate they played

that they played the music video like you know him singing the but the music video and the song they played it at the debate and then that's kind of what it hit me i'm like this song's literally about those guys yeah you know because when i first heard it i'm like north of richmond north of northman no yeah so yeah they played it and i'm he he got a kick out of that he's like the fact that they played it for the yeah the people i literally sang it about is crazy i don't know man all i got to say is that was one of the it was a beautiful moment i just can't even i wish we had it like on camera the way like the people cheered i was like what are they cheering And then I realized they were cheering for the song.

And then when it all wrapped up, they started cheering again. I was like, that is amazing. Like, this song has some serious weight to it. All the best, hopefully, for that guy and his new future. Yeah. Dude, I saw another video of a bald eagle taking off and flying around a stadium during the national anthem. I thought that was just Ronnie Mack. This, dude, the national anthem's going.

in a football stadium, and this bald eagle is just soaring around the crowd. And then at the end of it, lands on it. Oh, no, it's trained. Oh,

I thought it was a rana. I was like, everything's fake. No, but I was like, yeah, man, you can train bald eagles now?

I didn't know that. But it was so American. Honestly, I shut a tear. I was like, this is the most American thing I've ever seen. Next Cletus event we go to,

I hope that he's got this eagle. He does need an eagle there. Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. That'd be American. I bet the list of like whatever you got to sign in the applications and the training. Yeah, what if that thing did some shit, man? That's a tactic Canadian or something.

Right. I'm just to get one. They're like, listen, we only give one of these licenses out to train a bald eagle. I'm sure it was a baby ball to the-eagle they trained it as. Who? You know? Who's giving the license? I don't know.

But that's what I'm saying. The eagle's coats. The eagle's coach. You're saying this eagle was trained? Yeah. I'm sure the application process and whatever else goes with it to get a eagle in your possession is insane. I got you, got you.

To like be able to have an eagle. That's what I'm saying. They give one out every 30 years or something. You know, I'm making this up. But like the country. You're saying like the president has got a sign up. Joe Smoke can have an eagle. That's true.

How do you, how does one acquire an eagle? To begin training it. I'm sure it was a captive eagle and there was a baby and then they raised it from a baby. I'm not wondering how they trained it. I'm just saying like, I feel like if you, if we were like, yeah, like I bought an eagle, even if you bought one for 20 grand. You're interested, aren't you, I'm buying an eagle? Yeah, yeah, sure.

And then you know what, Mike, if you want to have a house, it could be an eagle. If the neighbors saw me with an eagle, they'd probably be like, yeah, this dude's like training an eagle, so you need to go. And I'd probably get arrested. Really? Yeah. You got an arcs for neighbors? I don't know. I'm just saying.

If someone saw me... Bice's new neighborhood isn't buffing out so... Obviously, like, killing an eagle, but if you like... Yeah, no shit. If you saw someone, like, fiddling around with an eagle, you'd probably be like, I don't know what this guy's doing, but, like, he's got a bald eagle.

I'm just picturing you in your front yard wearing your overalls playing a fiddle, and there's an eagle dancing. That sounds epic. Fiddling around. Imagine your neighbors are like, oh, Micah, he's up to something today, and you put a telephone pole in the ground

with a big eagle's nest. I think my neighbors are so confused by me already they would word would just spread yes i guess ben's got an eagle yeah one day you pull up in a lamo the next the ambulance is taking you out man this guy's always up to yeah it's always something yeah it's always something with that guy i love confusing the neighbors like quite literally the never let them know your next move it's a great meme well they never do you know no it's like i pull up in the ram pull up in the bronco pull up in the bmw pull up in the sube pull up in the minotruck.

Dude, your neighbor comes up to you and goes, hey, man, I just got to let you know your girls having different guys. And you're like, no, no. And you like break down. You're like, what was he driving? He pulled up in a red raptor. Evan drives a red raptor. Oh, shit.

Evan does too. I was thinking of Dave. Jake's dad? Yeah. Yeah. All right, we're going to end it, bro. Oh. Well, thanks for making it to this point in the podcast.

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