Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Cleetus McFarland, Westin Champlin, & Heavy D x CboysTV

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

In today's episode we have a triple threat, Heavy D (AKA Dave Sparks), Cleetus & Westen Champlin join us for 2 hours full of laughs, never heard before stories, and insightful advice for people no matter your age. Heavy D Tells us about being sued over 50 times, Cleetus talks about just how expensive it is to produce his events, Westen's Real life Tony Stark Hero, Pioneering industries, meeting your heroes, and how to deal with failure. Enjoy! Download the Zocdoc app for free at https://www.zocdoc.com/wideopen Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All the people who watch our YouTube channels, listen to this podcast. I have zero ability to calculate risk. What do you want to do? I imagine my kids will be sending them back, yeah. See why dad is broke. In the first minute of flying a helicopter, there's no way I could have controlled it and not crashed in the first minute. 2016-19, where I was seeing a new lawsuit on my desk once a month.

For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. This is weird. Yeah. Oh, this is not, this is your first podcast? Yeah, I've never been on one.

Oh, dude, what an honor. It's so great talking to hearing yourself. Is this how Joe Rogan feels? Yeah, every, yeah. Say Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Yeah, bald and wisdomy. You get on and you start talking about it. Aliens. Have you guys heard of the cornbread mafia? No. Like, seriously, I think it's a thing.

Because, like, why is every long John Silver still in business, but no one's over there? It's a good question. Because they think it's a money laundered for the cornbread mafia. That's a thing. That's like an actual, like, thing. What's the cornbread mafia? Sure. Well, I think it's like a thing of everyone thinks there's like a cornbread mafia that they made a lot of money selling, you know, a certain, like, what's a, it's not grass, but it's something like that, you know? and they dump all their money into Lawn John Silvers. Are we getting into conspiracies already? What are you talking about? No, seriously, this is the thing.

No, I'm curious. What's been going on with Long John Silver? And George's email is. And by the way, you can say drugs. Wait, you can say drugs? Yeah. Okay, so they sell drugs, right? And they take the money from the drugs.

They put it into Long John Silver's. George, what do you know about the Cornbread Mafia? Because he just brought that up and that's your email, right? I thought you made that up. Dude, he looks like a, what do they call it, like a capital? or something or the cornbread bomb you look at him look at him oh he is he'll come sit down with us you just

uncover something no George is real antsy right now he walking back and forth the cornbread mafia is a homegrown syndicates coat of silence and the biggest marijuana bust in history oh yeah okay the biggest marijuana bust in history how many times do you think it was tons yeah 12

okay well Monster Max weighs 15 tons so I'm going to guess that they sold a monster max where the weed that's a lot 182 182 tons 100 you know like 10 CDLs to move all that

yeah how much volume is that not 3604 here but think about the logistics if you was doing it legally 80,000 pounds is how many tons is that I didn't pass math 80,000 pounds is 40 tons 40 tons so

two and a half truck loads five truck loads each truck can gross 40 to 50,000 pounds yeah but it depends on the volume like the size per weight, you know. That's true. How much, like, room does that take up?

Does that fit in, like, a 53-foot van? Anyway. All right. All right, guys. This is, this is definitely probably the coolest podcast that we've ever filmed. We are currently in Utah. We got invited to a snowed-in weekend at this cabin. You can kind of see it in the background of the cameras right now by our good friend Dave,

Heavy D. You guys know him on YouTube. And you might recognize the other guy sitting over here, West. and Champlin. Hello. And then the guy over here, Cletus McFarland. What's up?

Quite the crew of sitting here. Yeah, we got a good crew. I've heard that it's the... Wow on this couch. Seriously. And to think that it isn't everyone here. Yeah, no.

There's a way more down there. There's definitely some heavy hitters. And what's cool about this is, I don't know if you guys see this on your channel, but we get it a lot. You should collab with C-boys. You should do something with Weston. You should do like, you know, all the fans want something to happen.

But at the same time, it can't be forced. It's got to be organic and natural. because you see forced collabs and it's like you guys were scratching the bottom of the barrel coming up that idea with us it's just like hey we're doing something really cool and so i knew we wanted to collab but for me i was like that's wait till we do something awesome no this made sense and uh honestly dude we are honored to be invited to this group like thank you for uh letting us be a part of this um because it is so cool we watch youtube we're fans of you guys um and everyone downstairs so it's really cool to just be able to be in the same room and and uh make videos and honestly Honestly, just shoot the shit with everyone. Cleetus and I were talking a little bit ago, running around in the snow cap. And we're like, it's so cool to meet the other personalities on YouTube and have them be cooler than you expected.

Because you always, I don't know what it is about YouTube, but there's this thing where successful YouTubers have imaginary beef with other YouTubers. And they don't even know why. The fans kind of create it and fuel it. So you don't know what's expecting people. When you meet them, you're like, we could have grown up together.

I could be a C boy. Yeah, we were like, we were like, Why did we not hang out with them sooner? We'll take you in, bro. We will take you in so fast. But will the town of cornbread? Cornbread? Oh, man, the town of Cormoran, I don't know if they'd be ready for you, but we'll take you in, bro.

When you meet these dudes and you find out that they are cooler than you expected, not duchess, you know, there's no imaginary beef. We all have similar interests. It's content just flows naturally. You don't have to plan anything. Nothing was really planned. We just kind of go out and do our thing. It's just naturally. falls it's easy i think the coolest part about this weekend is seeing the the process that everyone

has to make these videos we thought that we were a mess but it's so nice to see that everyone is just struggling to just get through whatever's going on because everything breaks everything goes wrong we're just trying to make these videos and it seems like most the time the world is not on our side so it's nice to see that you guys kind of have the same process i kind of feel attacked here Yeah, I mean, naturally, just everything has to break. Yeah. Everything does break. Yeah.

So you brought your Ford Ranger Monster trucks. Well, let's not talk about it. Yeah, how did that go? You know, I might as well just built the thing here. Might as well. Like, you did. You did. I got here the first day.

It didn't work. Loaded on the trailer, took to town, took it to a shop, put a starter on it, fixed a fuel weeks, all kinds of stuff. Still, I mean, it worked, I guess. But it kind of, we're not going to talk about it. It's not great. But it made it a long way. it got stuck. And the thing is, is I'm just, like, natural. I'm good for recovery videos

because, like, I just got stuck like 14 times a day. I saw Dave snatching the Ranger with the Jeep. It's harder than I've ever seen a vehicle get snatched. He was, like, mad at it. He's like, this freaking ranger. You kept it in park the whole time. I'd look back, and I'm pulling you backwards, and your wheels are turning forward. And Roman, Roman just gives up. I saw Roman trying to warn you a couple times, and he's just like, oh, whatever. Listen, we just snatched in the park. Dude, honestly, I take back what I said about everyone because you haven't had anything go wrong because all of your stuff is so dialed.

Everything that you have going on, dude, is so dialed. I don't know about that, but I've got a good team. You have a great team. I like a break one of his thing. Even I had a really proud dad moment, like in the shop a week or so ago, and we were building Cleetus and Sandrail. Because originally we were like, we were going to throw tracks on it, right? Just whatever.

Just we throw tracks on everything. but we never throw them on for the purpose of actually doing anything crazy we just go up in the mountain, do a video, bring him down. With Cletus is, we knew that he was going to push the car hard so I just told my guys like, hey, just adapt to these tracks and they were a set of K&M tracks and Timbersled skis. Dude, let my guys out of for a couple of days

and came back and I was like, dude, these are full-blown race parts. Yeah, they killed it. I was so proud of them. And it held up until I drove. Yeah, I think you may have the most destructive tally for the weekend? 1,000%. Yeah, I break everything.

I mean, let's not even get into that. That's a whole podcast. We get into the Dave Sparks annual tally up on damage to vehicles. It's incredible. It is. It really is. Yeah, you back it up. He's been saying that.

And then you just continue to back it up. But it's not with your stuff, which is amazing. It's like everything that you have keeps just working flawlessly. It's weird. It goes back to stuff being dialed, right? It's not operator error. It's just the stuff's got to be dialed. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I don't know about that. Hopton Cleaves and Sandman. The railroad seemed like it was working real good for a long time. I tell you, I did the exact same here. That rev limiter. Oh, God, it sounded good, though. I don't think we were hitting a limiter. I think we were hitting the, we were getting super lean.

That was 100% of the rev limiter. You were hitting? Longstop? Yeah, that's just a rip on. I felt like it hit early. I felt like the car was missing a little bit. There's all sorts of problems with that car. There's no one of course.

Well, I mean, it's a sand. It's a sand rail. We're in the mountain. He's going to call it ugly. He's like, I don't like the color. It's ugly. Dude, he's running like junk. That's why the tracks ripped off.

If it was running better, it wouldn't have done that. I was driving the, uh, the Hellcat Jeep on tracks. Yeah. Eight tracks. Yep. I'll be honest, dude. I was mobbing that thing. That thing everybody was.

Hold on. Run. Jump over the couch. We're kind of blocking the way. I'm sorry. Jump over the couch. We are rearranged a living room. There we go.

Yeah. But that thing was incredible. I've never driven. I have driven everything there is to drive in the snow. Nothing compares to that Jeep. And it just kept going. Like I wasn't concerned about it getting stuck. Nope.

And it never overheats. Like AMW 4x4 is the company that does that. They're building my Jeep right now. They're doing the demon engine with the big whipple blower. So I think it dinoed like 1,100 horse or 1,200 horse or something like that. So this one that we're driving has 700 is just kind of a stock Hellcat motor. Probably a polling some tunes. But anyways, AMW.

Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. We just got snowed in. For those of you that are just listening, Don't you fucking dare. You've got to be. I will unsubscribe to C-Boys right now.

That wasn't all right. Was that our idea? Was that heaven? Who did that? No, I saw Roman. I saw Roman, dude. Get up here. Hey, which one's his bedroom?

Get up here, you boomer. Oh, no. Isn't that his bedroom over there? Go throw in his bed. Gonna make a mess. Yeah, yeah. Should we be concerned about the electricity on the floor? No, I say we just get rid of it.

Everybody just kicked their feet out. Yeah, this is going to be wet socks. Get that coat back up here. You're good. Damn, you're Roman. Oh, Haley, you were in on it. You filmed it? You dirty.

A little. We actually, maybe you should grab a bucket and get rid of it. I'm so good. I'd have to agree. That's a significant amount of snow. We explained to the listeners, right? I'd say that's above average. I don't know if we did, but yeah.

For those of you that we're listening, they just got, the middle couch got snow dumped all over. Dave Garrett and Ryan. There's snow everywhere right now. There's a solid 12 inches of snow on the floor. No, I have a question, though. Out of all the vehicles, let's go around. Everybody give me your favorite, and why?

Starting with you. I'd say my favorite is the bus. I'm not trying to pump your tires. I know you just asked, but I climbed up inside. You know, it was a whole feat to do that in itself. And the PRP seats and the sound system and everything and the fact that it didn't break, that's my favorite. Yeah.

Oh, show. Thank you. How about you, Weston? 19992 Ford Ranger Flames. No, you can't go wrong with Florida Ranger. I'll be honest, that Jeep, I love, like, I, just things with Hellcatch just tickle my heart the right way, and I just love it. And I got to be honest, I did hit Hans with it earlier, and I'm not going to tell you about that. But that thing is absolutely epic.

I love that thing so much. It's got so much power. And it's just like, we used it, like, probably 10 times to recover the Ranger today. The whole thing is it has usable power. It's got a good range. There's no, like you're not afraid to get it in any situation because you know it's got the response and all the power. Hey, that's what a 6.2 liter hammy I'll do for, you know?

It's a machine, dude. They kill it. You just lean into it, go whee, it just winds itself away. He just whining. You couldn't hear anything but the wine. I love that there's two sides of Hellcat culture. Like, there's two different sides of the worlds that like Hellcats, and I love how you hold it down.

There's the Atlanta crowd and there's a Kansas crowd. And the Kansas crowd. Dude, it's sexy Red. Sexy Red loves Hellcats. You should do something. She doesn't have a song. Who's that? Oh.

You don't know who sexy red is? I'm not. She has a shame. I don't like sexy red. I'm not going to show him. Dude, CJ would be so fired up. Is this something my girlfriend could get mad about or what? Yeah.

I don't know if she's going to be too worried about sexy red. It's a hitter of a song. Hellcat, S.R.T. I mean, it really. Really. I'll tell you what. You know what's the coolest thing? Like, for a long time, I did a lot of stuff.

And I never really leave my town that often, right? So, like, I can live in a town of 12,000. So everybody already knows who I am before. like i did youtube or anything and then i leave i'm like wait am i fucking famous what's what's going on right now because everybody's walking up to me like buckies and texas and stuff and this guy like he is six yeah it's buckies you know yeah this guy's like six foot six dreads walks up dude dude you that motherfucker what the hell cat ain't you oh that he felt so good give me a big bear hug and like hell yeah yeah that's cool so yeah i don't know it was just weird because like i

started like doing videos like right around covid thing like covid happened so everybody was staying at home nobody's going anywhere You've only been doing it for that long. I don't know, like 2020. I don't know. Like three years, like three going on four years. Yeah. Yeah, dude, you had like a really fast blow up.

Dude. Yeah, you killed it. It ain't me. I had a really good team behind me. My brother is like, it is you, dude. Like, I mean, the team helps, obviously. But, like, you just, you just have that personality that, like, everyone is attracted. You're a lot of, you know, I always say that.

I wink at you. Yeah. Why do you wink? That's made it weird. Yeah. No, people just. Love that personality. That's the thing is, like, when we first started doing YouTube, my brother's like,

don't ever try to pretend to be somebody else because it's hard to remember how to somebody else is be yourself. And I'm like, well, what happens if myself ain't funny? It's like, well, then, you know, it just happens. The right side is that's one thing you don't have to worry about. Yeah, yeah, I'm funny looking. I'll be all right. Dave, I feel like you've been famous for as long as I can remember.

Yeah, we've had a ride, man. We actually, I don't know if you guys even know this. Most people don't know that we started on YouTube. That's how we got our start 2013. And then it was discovered. We had the bathroom prank. We uploaded like three videos.

The second or the third was the bathroom prank. That's one went viral. What's the bathroom prank? We had a buddy who was in the bathroom and we had a super smoky diesel pickup and we opened the bathroom window because he was in there taking it out and backed the truck up with a garden or like a big five, six inch flexible hose. Pumped it in the window and then just hammered down. It smoked him out.

So like he was black for days. I couldn't get it off. Jay Leno saw it, had us down on the show, and then we went down, and then the rest of this history of the discovery. So we only got to go maybe five or six videos deep on YouTube before we had to shift all of our attention to Diesel Brothers in 2015. We didn't have any regular content, and the channel wasn't really even anything. My Heavy D Sparks channel didn't, I don't know if it existed or if it had like two followers or whatever, but in October 2020 is when we started doing YouTube. Oh, man. Can you imagine if you would have just stuck with it at like 2013 and not on the TV? You know, I think about that a lot, and the TV show took us down the road that I loved.

There was a lot of really fun stuff, but I also didn't like it enough to keep doing it, which is why I went back to YouTube. But it was a good because it really helped us polish our skills on camera because you have to. You're repeating yourself over and over again. That was my biggest issue when we came back to YouTube was I was doing the TV show guy thing. And I still do, but I try to dial it back because I found that YouTube doesn't want anything planned, prepared, polished. They want what's going to happen next. I hope the guy filming doesn't even know you know what I mean like that's that's the way that I found our viewers like it so it's just worked better that way to be able to start in TV and move back to this because now we can polish up our ads everything can be dialed in that way but yeah we've been kind of on the radar since 2013 so you guys have killed 10 years it's done really really well thanks

like the thing is like I remember you like started posting videos I'm like oh that's cool and then like I didn't pay attention for like two weeks and I'll pay attention again I'm like oh damn yeah You're getting after it, boy. Yeah, we got, once we got, I didn't want to do YouTube again until I could be consistent. So we had a ton of opportunities to do a video here, video there. And I was just like, no, I'm not worth it. Because if I do something, I got to be all in, 100%. So when we finally had to go all in, it was kind of like a middle finger to discovery because I went to them first because they wanted to keep doing Diesel Brothers forever. And I just got tired of building trucks on the TV show.

It's the worst. And so I was like, hey, these are other things that we do, recoveries. And it's still Diesel Brothers stuff and same vibe, same people. were just out of the shop doing other stuff. They're like, nope, I'm not going to work. We don't want to do it. It doesn't work to stick with trucks. And so I was just like,

oh, they didn't think it was going to work. I don't know if they didn't think it was going to work. Discovery is terrified to make any decisions because they have their box that they have to follow. It's like a format, right? This, this, this, this drama, high payoff, high stakes, blah, blah, every episode has to be the same. And to break away from that,

I think individually, all the people at Discovery know, but collectively, they can't make a decision to save their lives. And everybody's so afraid of getting fired. because it just happens in that industry. Yeah, you go cast one bad show or you let a show get canceled earlier or whatever, you're gone. Yeah. And so people are just too afraid to make decisions. Dude, we had this guy come in and basically made us a pilot episode and like pitched it to like discovery, the science network, all these different networks.

We worked down the list for discovery. Yeah. But anyway, so we have been doing YouTube for a couple of years there, like maybe three years at that point. So, I mean, nothing like big, maybe at a couple hundred thousand subscribers, but enough for, like, people to know what our personality was. And then we filmed the TV show and, you know, they just kind of script things and they tell you what to say. And it pretty soon turns into not your true personality. Not at all. And after, like, the pilot was, like, filmed and edited, we were watching it back and we were like, this isn't us at all.

And people are going to know that it's not us, you know, versus you going from TV to YouTube. You know, but I think it'd be much harder to go from YouTube to TV because it's two completely different styles. Yeah, it's going from YouTube to TV, luckily we didn't have enough time to get real situated on YouTube. We were just kind of, dude, back in 2012, 2013, nobody really knew what going viral was and nobody knew how to do it for sure. So we didn't get too ingrained in that because if we had, because we were already super reluctant to do the TV show. I told Discovery, no, for six months. Like, no, not the intro. we thought it was the guy at the mall with the card you know the talent scout hey i'll make you

famous i'll make you a model we thought it was like that like just a scam said no forever and then finally they came in and said all right we guarantee you eight episodes at a minimum like we're not just going to do a pilot and then leave you guys hanging because we had to invest quite a bit that's what people don't realize anybody who does a tv show their business becomes a tv show it's no longer the house decorators the house flippers the truck builders it's a tv studio yeah these small businesses have to put in a ton of money because discovery doesn't pay very well at all we started off at $3,000 an episode for our first season. Really? Um, and the contract said you only get a 5% annual bump. That's what they put in there. But when the time comes to

actually renew contracts and they go to give that 5% bump and if the show was successful, you just say, I'm good. I don't want to do it anymore. And then they're like, okay, what's your price? And so we did that every season. I got my my rate up to, I think it was like 30 grand an episode for a while, um, which was decent. But the problem is you can only, we were only able to film eight episodes a year. So, because it just takes so long to build these trucks. How long did it take to film one episode? Way too long.

Originally, they had planned on filming an episode every three to five days, found out it takes us about six weeks to do one episode. You have to build a truck? Yeah, you have to build a truck. And trucks, you can't build it faster than you can build it. We were already hauling ass. And our quality in the first couple seasons was dog shit because we're just rushing to get stuff done. Every truck that we built in the first three seasons, we brought back into the shop

and rebuilt. Touch back up. the fact, yeah. So it's a TV was fun. I'm glad we did it. I wouldn't do it again. That's not true. Sorry, we have a spinoff that we're working on, but it's with a difference. It's with Netflix. We have control. I think that you really like pioneered an industry though, you know, and I think a lot of YouTubers right now have, have you to thank for doing a lot of that too. That's awesome. I appreciate that. I would never view it that way, but I'm always the guy that was looking up towards other people that paved the way for me. And I'm now getting to that point of my life where

I can kind of see both directions because I can see the progress. I can see how far I've come. Time gives you results no matter what. Whether they're good or bad, time doesn't lie. So I look back at the last 10 years and I'm pretty proud of it. There's a lot of things I wish I could have done differently and I probably would have. But for the most part, we got out really lucky. Most TV people don't make it out alive.

They go bankrupt and the show gets canceled or ran into the ground. We made it out alive and thriving. We're way happier on YouTube, way happier. And we've grown like crazy. We've got the best freaking viewers and followers. And my, I was so traumatized being stuck building trucks that I didn't want to get stuck in that, you know, no niche again. So we went to YouTube, I made it very obvious that my content was going to be. It was not that, yeah.

All over the place. And you guys have seen it. It's literally one day we're buying an abandoned storage unit. Next day we're recovering a dead body. Yeah. Next day we're, I mean, dude, it's just, it's just real. Yeah. I thought it was interesting when you came to YouTube full swing.

Yeah. You had like helicopters, insane trucks. So it was like all of our YouTube channel started from like one vehicle. And like we work on that. And like that was like our content. And you came in full swing because obviously you're already established. You know, you're and you already knew the recipe. So that was kind of a strange thing to watch.

Like you just came in full swing. And I see like there's rich guys who try and do this. Like rich guys, they like have the best coolest cars toys ever. They're like, I'm going to start a YouTube channel. just never works but here comes Dave Sparks like you knew the recipe you had the toys and yours worked yeah I mean I remember the first snow trip what was that four months after you started yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah it was huh yeah yeah that's wild yeah it's just new to YouTube it was fun and it still is fun I love it it's like we were doing last night we're like

staring at thumbnails trying to figure out what's going to get more eyes like it has such an immediate payoff it also has a terrible downside you guys know nine's out of tens 10 out of 10 videos that's like a, yeah, that's a kicking the dick. Listen, I got, that's a bad system. I don't like that because, you know, it just gives you depression. You got to call your therapy. I like, oh, God. It does, 100%.

But then it gets to number one. They have the little, like, the little confetti. Oh, yeah. It makes it feel so good, dude. Yeah, but, like, that makes the number tens, you know, hurt that much more. I got to sit. Imagine if the number 10 was this, like, a little sad face. Yeah.

People watching, they rank. I'm going to see what mine is because I sat down last night and I got thumbnail advice from Roman Atwood, Dave Sparks, the C-Boys and Whistling Diesel, and Weston all at the same time. I mean, when you get that opportunity. Oh, dude. I wish CJ's not here right now, but he would love that. Yeah.

So basically on YouTube, there's a thing where in the amount of time since you post your video, it tells you how it's competing against your last 10 and my jumping to sandrail number two out of 10. Good. You boys helped me with that. Yeah, it's probably because you could see very clearly what was going on in the thumbnail. Yeah, I mean, you had some good advice. Yeah.

I'm three out of ten, so I'm doing good. And I just not realize I haven't uploaded in 29 days. Oh, God, dude. That's normal for me. Consistency's not my thing. The last video we posted is the Lamborghini on Frozen Lake. That thing was cool. What were we looking at?

I seen the thumbnail of it. That's our number. Four out of ten. Four out of ten, not bad. Oh, hell yeah. We're three out of ten on the bus video. Look at that. We're all in the top five.

Yeah, we're on trending yesterday, too. And we had another three out of ten. What you trend? I saw it at 17. Somebody said it went higher, but I didn't see. Westland was number one on trending yesterday. You know what? I got the first.

I've been number two on trending like a bunch of times. Are you, are you jerking someone over at this? YouTube. What? You for sure are. What? Are you jerking someone at YouTube? Oh, I wish.

But you're always on trending. Literally every video. You know, like, every video we post. in 23 gone trending. Like every one of them except for like two or three. Does trending do anything anymore? I don't know. That was my next question. No, it used to. It gives you a lot of impressions.

It gives you a lot of impressions. But you know, but that might hurt you. Yeah, because your click-through rate's going to go down because you don't know if it's going to be people that are really like. Dude, this is such a YouTuber right now. But all the people that watch are YouTube channels, listen to this podcast. This is, yeah, this is. When I used to be obsessed with my real-time views, like, constantly watching them. And when I would hit trending, I would get at least like a 20% bump in viewers instantly on the video but now i don't think that exists you know i don't watch real-time views so i don't know like i just kind of look at the

analytics after you know five days or whatever i'll be honest my brother watches it way more than i do he's like the behind the scenes man he this is really bad to say i've never uploaded a youtube video like he's always uploaded every youtube video that's good you have so kind of cool if it makes you feel better what's your channel at now most of you guys 3.3772 yeah that's awesome What are you at, Dave? I just hit 3.5. What are you doing? You're still giving a helicopter away at 10?

Yeah. It's so crazy. I remember when you said he came out swinging. Or you go, I remember that. The first thing, I go, holy shit. So cool. I remember that. Yeah, dude.

What are you going to do when they walk into your hangar and go, I want your black. No, no, no. I'm going to say, here's the helicopter and that's the one you get. It's so, well, bro. And then Cleet's giving away a helicopter for the next race. Wait, is that secret? Oh, is that supposed to. No.

Well, when's this going to be out? Is that secret? Not this Tuesday, next Tuesday. Oh, yeah, you're good. Oh, I was getting ready to say that. I'm like, oh, I don't know what this is going to close. Yeah, the prize for the Freedom 500 is a helicopter.

Oh, man. You know, that makes me so sad that I'm not going to be there. Like, I, like, you text me and you're like, yeah. And with the prize is a helicopter, I'm like, oh, God. Can you fly helicopter? No. Dave and I are the only two pilots in the whole racing field. So who, if anyone but him or I wins it, like, they're just going to have to.

Can I keep it at your house or your house and then just fly with you? Yep, come park it out here. If I want to fly or if I want to buy a helicopter, which I do after hanging out with you guys, dude. Is that like a thing? I'm just so fired up just to be an aviator? Yeah, you guys just like fire me up in general. But like helicopters are at the top of my list of things that I want right now. Dude, watching how capable all of you are to operate kind of anything, you'd be able to get your, if you had a helicopter, you could get your license in three weeks.

Really? Easy. I got my stuff all signed off in three days. Oh, no shit. Yeah. So, but if I had a helicopter, I could fly it technically with you being a pilot. Like, you're flying it and then I could fly with. Well, you could fly a helicopter easy, though.

Like, if you won the Freedom 500, you just have to have a CFI, like a certified flight instructor, go with you. And then they, every hour you're flying with a CFI counts towards your 40 hours minimum you have to have to take the test to get your license. So let's not talk like a license or anything. Let's just talk like practical application. I got in a helicopter. Yeah. What do you think the likelihood I get that thing off the ground safely? Zero percent.

I know what the collective is. I know how the rudder works. I know all that. I've played flight simulator. No, yeah. You'd get it off the ground. You'd be back on the ground in about six seconds. Not the way you want it to be.

It's insane because I honestly feel, you know, I'm not trying to be cocky. Like, I've just operated so many different things in my life. And I feel like I've got a really good handle on things. I could not control like I can honestly say in the first minute of flying a helicopter there's no way I could have controlled it and not crashed in the first minute.

Is it just like that sensitive? It is. It plays tricks on your brain. Yeah, it's so hard to keep everything coordinated. Depending on the model, they have a lag in response. So when you put a control input in, it could be almost like two seconds

like some of the bell stuff. Like they're so slow. Or like the B.O.105 and then all of a sudden you look that direction and it's going that way. Well, can you explain, like, what was the thing where when you're taking off from the ground? The air is pushing on the ground. So your controls are opposite in certain helicopters.

You're flying a frisbee. You're not flying the cockpit of the helicopter. So when you see the cabin of the helicopter, that is a ball hanging from a pendulum. It's literally just hanging from the rotor disc. So picture you're throwing a frisbee, tie a string to the bottom of it and let it hang a tennis ball from it. That's what you're flying. So really, you're tilting the rotor disc, and that's why it's such a different experience. And that's why it's so, as the pendulum swings, you think you're swinging.

So you go to bring it back. And all that does is just accentuate. It makes it worse. We could let you try. I mean, we could let you try. Listen, when I win the Freedom 500. There's dual controls in a helicopter, right? Like, we could get in the helicopter that's the prize for the Freedom 500 next week.

And you guys could try. It's very humbly. After seeing Ben try to fly your RC plane, I ain't getting anywhere near that. I mean, can we change it like a Cessna? I feel like I'd get a session. Oh, you could try and fly the cup. I've flown a Cessna. I flew a Cessna when I was like 13.

When you're on your own, like, Oh, it's a single C. No, no, no. Like, I'd be in there, but like when, if I was fully off the controls and said to all you, you would really be, it'd get sketched. Yeah, let's not do that. So would you say your experience flying planes

before helicopters, did that correlate at all? Like R.C. stuff? No, no, no. This is so good at R.C. I was helicopter, then the airplane. Okay, okay, okay. You got your helicopter license first?

He wasn't one of the fixed wing guys first. I want to get my pilot license for a plane. I think that would be awesome, but I really don't know what I would do with a plane or where I would go with a plane. You'd fly it. I would. But with a helicopter, dude, I would. Long John Silver.

Take it from my house to the shop, and I would take it from our shop to the farm, and then I would go to the sea store and landed in. I would just pop around, bro. If you win the Freedom 500. Come on down to the premium 500. Available in Braynton, Florida. I'm so here to see what the winner does with it. Like, are they going to fly it everywhere?

They're going to sell it out. They're going to strap it to the ceiling of their barn, pair it up. Imagine Cody wins it. No, I was cracking up when you said, you're like, oh, I'm bummed. I'm not going to be there. And I'm like, I'm bummed that we all suck at racing. Yeah, that's the worst part. He's like, I know I'm not.

I suck at racing, too, so it's fine. Wait, how did I do for my first time out there at the LaMollants? I pulled a Rockford in the middle of race. I was so proud. and it looks so lame in the live stream. I remember blowing by you. And I was like, that boy's scared. That was somebody else in my car.

I remember that too. You were getting lapped. You were very scared. Well, you know, my seat broke off. Yeah, dude, so did Ken's. You and Ken's. That was a new seat bracket design. You know what?

I won't give you any grief about that. I won't give you any grief about that, but the seat kind of broke off. And it would have been great if the passenger seat would have been in there because I could have put my hand up against it, But then I'm like, well, that wouldn't have been very safe. That's passenger seat still in it. Well, I've seen, like, how you guys prep your cars now versus you guys would go, like, beyond of what is needed.

Probably not what's needed, but you guys go above and beyond to make him safe. Dude, I spend that entire damn race like this with my hand on the passenger seat. Hey, listen. Just trying to hold myself on the law, dude. One year design flaw. We're all just roast. Honestly, at least you guys didn't pull off the track. Ken's seat broke and he pulled off the track twice.

Twice. What's broken? Well, he was on a cone one time. He pulled off and then his seat broke and he pulled off another one. But Haley Deegan was his, his co-racer. And she was actually, like, she's a racer. Like, she's competitive. And she was like, what are you doing?

Like, she was, like, mad. Like, rightfully so. Yeah, understand. It's like, get your ass back out there. Yeah, dude. There's an El Camino on the line right now. Ken's like, I'm tired. I did 1,500 laps in one day and that was.

As practice? We did, like, We tried to do a Mr. Beast video and did, uh, like, we did laughs for 24 hours straight. And, uh, it was really not good. Terrible. Really? What, what did you feel after that?

It was absolutely miserable. Like I, torture. Mr. B says that his videos get really hard. I can't imagine how hard those get. Yeah. The commitment that dude has to his content is insane.

I think the, the last one when he was buried alive for seven days. Bro. Like that's seven days. That's crazy. We spent 24 hours in an igloo, like, for a challenge. Like, that was our Mr. Beast video. Dude, we had, we had Wi-Fi in there.

We had the UFC fights going. We had a keg of beer. It was legit. It couldn't have much more set up. Yeah. The only thing we didn't have was our phones. Dude, you guys went on vacation. You're like, let's film a video.

Yo, that shit sucks. Like, we had luxury camping, and we were like, this is terrible. We should have got a GoPro and set it up as soon as we got here. So, like, we spent 72 hours on top of a mountain in Utah. Every YouTuber gets, like, a wild hair every, like, year. Like, you know what? It's time to step it up. I'm going, Mr. B-style, like, scrolls through his video.

I was like, all right, this is what I'm doing. I could do this one. I was, like, 24 hours laps. This is going to be cake, dude. It sucked. Didn't it do well on YouTube, though? I don't think it did very good now. I mean, I think it did average.

I think that's almost the thing is, like, people are like, no, you guys stay in your lane. without going into Mr. Beast Lane, even though it works so well for him. I did like the thumbnail, like, really done up. You got the best of all of us, bro. You got it so dialed. You got your iPhone. You got George on iPhone,

and you're just running it, bro. Listen, iPhones are kind of just like, they're just too good. You guys do have some pretty serious productions going on. Yeah, Dave. Yeah, Dave gets after. I mean, we got big cameras. We run around big cameras all the time.

You know, GoPro, Sony's, all kinds of stuff, Gimbals, FX3s, drones, all that stuff. And then sometimes I'm still like, well, you know, all right, everything else is dead. So here we go. Well, they do work good. We have so many people hit us up and they're like, I want to be a YouTuber. What kind of camera should I buy? We're like, dude, that is the most annoying thing.

It's like, you have a phone. Pull it out and then maybe see if you still want to be a YouTuber after you make a video. I think the thing is, like, everybody walks up and it's like, I want to be a YouTube. I go, dude, go do it. And then, like, people will be like, well, I don't know. I'm like, well, could you do a YouTube about? Like, we start going down and then like, yeah, but I, I'm like, well, okay. You don't really want to do that, but everyone wants to be a YouTuber till it's time to edit.

Yeah, editing. Well, yeah. Editing is tough. Editing is, I think, makes or breaks a video. Dude, no, I don't know a single person that likes editing, but it's a crucial part of making a good video. I don't think people enjoy editing. I think people enjoy the satisfaction of a good result at the end of editing. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's the feeling when you post it. Dude, isn't that? nice that like we have our whole whole life's document like our kids if they like we die they're like I can watch my dad's basically like majority of his life that's crazy that was like kind of the selling point for us when we started it was like well at least we'll have a video of whatever our weekend was I imagine my kids will be sending back yeah see why dad was broke he really loved rangers

He really loved that. Oh, yeah. He blew that motor up, blew that truck up. Caught that one on fire. Yeah, I'll see why he was real broke. Couldn't say child support. So you are a father. You as well, do you ever worry about, you know, like every dad gets his payback, right?

When his kid grows up and they start doing all the things that you did, do you worry about that because you have no excuses. When your child takes his first car and gets caught drifting somewhere. I mean, you could say they do it on my track. He's just going to criticize his technique. I'd say right now my kid's going to be a phenomenal driver Oh for sure Don't come after his kid Oh but yeah like I'm just saying like the one time

I'm gonna encourage him to do all that stuff at the track Yeah I don't know but I'm saying like when they get in trouble Or they like wreck something that they weren't supposed to You know probably not gonna be a ton I can say Yeah that's what I mean you don't have any real No leg to stand on there Yeah no leg to stand on there

Yeah so one thing I'm living what you just said the whole watching your kids do crazy shit and drive you crazy um kids are the best and they're also the worst the thing about kids though is each kid's different i got three my oldest is a girl and the two boys you'll see different parts of yourself and your kids and the way they behave and there's really proud moments but then you'll find there's times where you just can't stand your kid you just wish he was somebody else's kid like you cannot stand your kids because they just get real rotten sometimes like sometimes sugar you know lack of sleep whatever kids get shitty um i've been and you'll catch yourself just like oh i hate you i'm so mad of this and then

i caught myself one day i'm like oh shit all the things that he's doing right now that i hate are all the things that i do that other people hate about me so i see my bad behaviors in him too and you're just like oh it's actually good because it's a little bit of a mirror and you can help them to not go down the path that you went like if you're if you have a certain personality trade or whatever it is that didn't work for you and didn't work socially you can help them with that but It's a double-edged sword because you can want your kids to make mistakes. So it's this fine balance of, like, my youngest son is like identical to me. He's a riot.

But he's... Big old, too. Yeah, he's in his way. Four years old, beggared. He's so stubborn and bullheaded, though, that he can't play with anybody at recess. Nobody wants to play with him because they all invite him to do stuff, but he doesn't want to play with their playing. He's just got his mind set on doing something else.

And so all I'm hearing as the dad is like, oh, my kid's not getting anybody playing with him at recess. Like, this is terrible. I don't want to be traumatized. You don't want to stay. step in, well, what happens when you step in? Then you solve the problem for them and they don't learn how to solve problems. So these kids have to, you're like, got to let them get bumped and bruised. And so when they make these mistakes, go back to your question, I like it. It proves that he's not a dud. Like, there's a lot of kids out there that have no desire to be mischievous.

And I don't understand that because you have to be. Mischiff as a kid is just extended creativity because they're not malicious. They're not being malicious at all. They're just trying to figure out how stuff works. So I want my kids to figure out how stuff works as risky and dangerously as possible right before they get, like, super hurt. So I want to stop it there. It's a fine balance on, man.

It's not easy, but I can't wait for you guys to see your kids and see the things in them that you're like, oh, shit. Hey, you got that from me. I have that even with my dad, dude. Yeah, we get like the reverse side of that. Things that, you know, I, you know, talk shit about my dad to my mom because we were late on that and then and then the boys are telling me that I do

the same thing and then I go that's not that bad that my dad does that and I'm like I'm like maybe I was just being hard on them you'll see it dude and it's uh it's so weird when you get to my age I'm uh 38 39 uh like I said you're looking both directions now as as a as a kid growing up you're just looking at what's next forward forward forward getting older as you start to get older, then you have that opportunity to look back because now you've got these miniature hues that are running around. It's a weird perspective shift. I like it. I like it a lot because I never understood why somebody was wise. Like, why do you go to somebody for advice? Like, an older person. Why are they wise? Why do they, why does their advice matter? I'm starting to feel

a little bit more wise. Like, I have knowledge and I have experience. That's wisdom, right? And it's a cool feeling because now you have all this experience under your belt. If you want to go do something, by Black Hawk, you've got all this momentum and it just happens. Like, things happen so much quicker. Like, real wealth and real prosperity happens in your late 40s. So many kids get so caught up on being rich in their 20s and 30s. It's like, slow down. Enjoy these years.

Build that momentum. Get that experience. You don't want to look back, guys, and wish that you would have done something differently or wish that you would have been something differently. Do that now. Do that now. because now's the time to have those experiences. Later on is when the wealth just comes naturally

because you've let yourself live. You've met people. You made relationships. You've learned skills, all these different things. Now's the time to do that. Don't worry about getting rich. It comes easier with age?

1,000%. It comes easier because you've done the same thing over and over and over again. It's repetition. It's muscle memory. You know it works. Yeah. Do you know what works? And you know yourself better.

In your 20s and even in my early 30s, I didn't know myself very. well. I had a relationship with myself, and I was kind of like an acquaintance with myself, if that makes any sense. But as you start to get a little bit older, you start allowing yourself to like look inside and figure out like the good, the bad, the ugly. You pry up all those things that you kind of may be buried over the years, just dumb stuff, and you deal with it. And dude, it's, it's powerful feeling. That's where a lot of peace comes from. It's a lot of peace in in being able to actually confront the demons of your past, because we all have them. It's

dumb little things, dude, the dumbest little things will bury themselves inside of us and then we carry them around for years and they start to like fester and you don't know what they are and they manifest themselves as like bipolar or, you know, depression or whatever it is. People get all these like psychological disorders when really it's just something they didn't deal with from their past. They just buried it and they're trying to keep it from knocking down the door, but it's coming. Those problems always come. If you ignore them, you can't. It just eventually comes to you and you'll live so much of your life having run from something that wasn't even that big of a deal if you just turn around and faced it.

Have you found that like most of your big wins come after like your big losses and you can appreciate them a lot more? I don't count my losses at all. I don't even, I couldn't tell you the last time I failed. It was probably 20 minutes ago, but I don't keep track of it. And the reason for that is because I think that's partly I was born that way, just kind of wired that way to be able to be constantly glasses. half full. My glass is like overflowing all the time. It's never been half empty. And that's just

the way that I view things. So it's, um, it's interesting as you get older because I talk like I'm a 50 year old man. I'm not that old, but I just have noticed over this last year or so, this kind of pivotal moment where you start to, you start to, it's crazy as you start to understand your parents way better. So wait until you get that age because then you're going to be like, oh, I know my dad. My dad did that. I know my mom. Like you start to understand what they were going to going through and you realize that they were just humans like us doing the best they could yeah and so many of us let our relationship with our parents whether they're good or bad usually bad just scar us for life and it's like your parents unless your parents were like actually terribly abusive they were doing the

best they could and so when when you talk about like raising your kids obviously you're extremely successful and you have wealth um and you didn't come from any of that right no so so is that going to be hard for you to you know you want to instill these values obviously that that you had to learn without just setting them up or it's one of the hardest things that i have to deal with in my life keeping my my kids grounded and giving them a sense of reality they go to school after you know spring break or something and talking to kids about what did you do i went here i went there didn't went down we went to the lake and my kids like yeah we flew the helicopter to lake powell and they're just like talking it's normal and i don't even think they're bragging i think they're just

saying what they did. Yes, what they're used to. And so reality is totally different for these kids than it was for me. So it is extremely hard, and you're constantly doubling back trying to figure out, like, did I solve too much of the problem for them? Did I make their path too easy? What do I got to do moving forward to let them trip and fall a little bit? It sucks.

Honestly, that's the worst part of becoming successful is your kids potentially never learning any work ethic. I always wanted to try to pretend to be broke. I got drive around my like you know I know so many billionaires that drive a 97 F250 yeah I do a lot of different business and you meet these these guys that are worth so much money and that you would never guess it you would think that they're a 70,000 a year my my uncle was like that like you know he drove around the junkies pickup and he had like thousands of acres land all the stuff and you'd pull and everybody felt sorry for him because his truck always broke down

and everybody was always pulling him home and then he's like you pull into his driveway though but there's two brand new trucks sitting in the barn behind the truck. And then you're like, well, Donnie wants to drive one in them. I never understood why rich people did that until I started making a little bit of money myself. And now I know. Yeah. You're the biggest freaking target in the world, dude. During 2016 to 2019, where I was seeing a new lawsuit on my desk once a month from different people.

And the most frivolous garbage bullshit lawsuits, but I'm a target. They see me on TV doing all those crazy stuff and money's flowing on my ears. And so they want some of them. it. And when you're target like that, it's so, dude, suing somebody is so dirty. It's so dirty because you can, you can sue somebody and not have any reason to sue them, like no valid case, and you can still sue them and make their life hard enough that they just settle and pay you out. It is, dude, I have no respect for people. I've never filed a single lawsuit against anybody and I've sued, I've been sued no less than 50 times. Oh my gosh. That's insane. Yeah. It's

It's just insane. You can't set a precedent that you just pay them off because then everybody else will fall. No. You can't. And that's the, so we, I don't settle. Well, I've had to settle a couple times here and there. But it's actually frustrating because it gets easier just to settle because dude lawsuits are they can dig up your entire life. And they're a mental dream that you sent 10 years ago.

Like they are, it's the worst use of time and energy. So that's why people settle. Wow. It's worth it. You're buying your time back. Yeah. Because it's a mental drink. You're being blackmailed basically with your time for nothing.

Dude, it's frustrating. Wow. Yeah. People ask us all the time why, a little changed subject here, but people ask us all the time why we stay in Minnesota. You are in Kansas. That's right. Sunfire State Banking.

Dude, I think you might have less to do there than we have to do. What are you talking about? I heard you downstairs talking very highly about Kansas. Oh, Kansas is epic. We can jump hay bales. We can count sunfires? What else can we do? Fort Rangers.

A lot of air strips. You know, but when people ask, you know, why do you? you stay because at this point you could go anywhere why do you why do you stay there i might move eventually i don't know i just got my compound there so i got 52 acres of things i can play around with that i absolutely love and it's just like the perfect place and i stayed there a long time because of family you know that my whole family was there but recently i've had like i've had a lot of my family die so there's not really much reason to stay there so i'm just like but i still got my place there and like i love my place i'm like well i don't know one day i might like i look a real game because like the

thing is, it's like, you know what sucks? Is it sucks that you can't make content for like three months out of the year because it's too damn cold. Yeah, that's what we run into. Yeah, see him. He's nod in his head because he used to live in Omaha. He knows the struggle. Oh, dude.

Windows down, middle of December. Yeah. January. Can't beat it. It's the best. Yeah, Cleet. I mean, you got it down there. Oh.

Your compound. I wish, what's holding you guys back. Come on down. You got room next door? For the winter. Come for the winter. Yeah, no, we want to. I could find you some.

places no problem i was just down there last week we uh we bought a car in florida and it was like super nice at 65 degrees or staying there and b and bs and it's beautiful when we go down to daytona beach i was swimming in the ocean it's cold but i was there yeah and then i come up here and i'm like swimming through snow and i'm not doing so well you like that ocean better yeah the ocean is a little easier it's a little better i'll be honest but you know yeah florida is like a and i feel lied to The first time I ever came to Florida was to go to one of your races, and I fly in, I get a Chrysler, Pacific at the airport, and I get out there, and just the roads are so nice, it's so beautiful and it's nice everywhere. I'm like, I thought this place was a shanthole. Everybody lied to me. This place is nice as hell down here. That's what they say to keep you in town, dude. Oh, Florida, you don't want to go to fucking Florida. You know what's fucking funny is we drive down there and we drive by this waffle house that's like on the exit to the Freedom Factory or something.

down in that area someplace. I got food poisoning from that one. Well, listen here. I'll tell you what. We get to the race and we're back in the pits and we're talking to a bunch of people and somebody from Florida, I think they work for you. He was like, that place is sketchy. And I drove by there a little bit later as I was going back to my hotel.

I'm like, that's a nicest fucking Waffle House. I don't see you. You've seen sketch. You've seen the one on the north side of Oklahoma City, south side of Memphis? Them ones are sketchy. He's shooting tonight. I'm pretty sure every Waffle House has had some kind of world star.

our brawl break out in one or two points. I love Waffle House so much. It's just such, I love it so much. And then at the time, my videographer was riding with me and he hates it. Hates Waffle House. And we're driving on one. Waffle House is great. Look.

And then we drive by this Waffle House in Florida while we were there for a Mollets. And there was a drug deal going on out front. And he's like, look at that. I'm like, that's live entertainment, dude. What are you going down for, dude? We want to get a place somewhere else, too, and obviously Florida would be sweet. We got to make it happen. That'd be so sweet.

But honestly, we say all the time, Salt Lake City is so awesome, too. It is. Because you're like two hours or four hours away from, like, everything. You have Moab. You have desert. You have mountains. You have the salt flats. You have Lake Powell.

What's crazy is we decided to settle in the worst part of the state. Salt Lake is the least pretty part of the entire state. Everywhere else is insane. Because you can go to Red Rock Country, two hour south. You can be here in the high pines at 9,000, 10,000 feet in an hour. I can be to 9,000. I live at 5,500 feet. I can be to 9,500 feet mountain top right in my backyard in 20 minutes.

So you're right. It is a rad spot. It's frustrating, though, because where we settled here, is in the Mormons and us Utah pioneers. My family runs deep in, like, the heritage of Utah. So I've got, like, I've got deep roots here. But the settlers settled in this area that was just on the west side of those mountains there, or here. And it's like the foothills.

And then it's the Great Salt Lake. So it's a tiny stretch of land that basically 90% of the population lives in. So living in that is frustrating. So I'm looking to actually move in here pretty soon on to the other side of the mountain to get some space. Because it's just real estate's going crazy here. and I just need a little bit of elbow room. You ever want to know how to, like, find if somebody's from Utah to see how they talk about Salt Lake City?

Because they all, like, every one of them, I had a flight attendant here is like, oh, yeah, the Great Salt Lake. I'm like, you're from Utah. Like, and I think that's just a Utah thing. Everybody's like, the Great Salt Lake. People are very proud of where they're from. No, like, it's just like, I've never heard anyone ever say the Great Salt Lake. It's like Salt Lake City, blah, blah, whatever.

But then you get here, everybody's like, the Great Salt Lake. It's because it's taking up all of our space. Why is this damn, this damn late. that's drying up that's sitting literally in the most prime real estate and it's i haven't seen it yet yeah there's not much to see right now it's low oh well that's all right yeah i hear it's salty it is salty yeah the salt content somehow is going down every year i think it's because they mine magnesium stuff out of it um but 10 15 years ago you could lay on your back and it doesn't matter with your big boy little doesn't matter lay on your back and you just sit there and bob like a bobber

they don't have to tread water or anything but now it's it's going down a little bit so you can't do that Quite as much. It's a lazy lake until you get a boat on it, and then they get these 10-foot rollers. It is terrifying. I've had worse conditions on the Great Salt Lake than I have on the ocean. Really? That's wild.

No alligators. No gators, no living life whatsoever except for brine shrimp. It's the world's largest supply of brine shrimp. Brine shrimp? Yeah, there's basically this microscopic bug. Don't they smell awful or something? They smell terrible. It's fish food.

That's what 90% of the world's fish food comes from is the Great Salt Lake. It's brine shrimp. And it smells like rotten too. What percentage of the Salt Lake City is Mormon? I don't know what the percentage is now. I think I used to know growing up. But if I had to get, it's changed a lot because over the last 15 years, a lot of tech companies moved here,

so a lot of California's a lot of people coming in. Call it 20 years ago, I would say 85%. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's a high number. It's probably, if you live in a neighborhood, at least one of your neighbors is going to be LDS. and it's pretty rare that they're not. Like, it's, if there's a 300 houses in a neighborhood,

maybe five or 10 of them are members of the church. And so it's, it's funny because you just, you grow up just thinking everybody's Mormon. Yeah. I treat everybody like they're Mormon. And it's nothing crazy. Like, you guys have seen how, what Mormons are about.

We're not what everybody thinks we are. Dude, some of the greatest people I know are Mormon. Mm-hmm. They just, like, the values that you guys have and the pureness, you could say, at least where we're at is, you know, I don't know a single person, really, that doesn't drink alcohol. And everyone here has such a great time without alcohol. And it makes you kind of...

It's so refreshing. Yeah, it makes you going to be like, oh, wow, you don't need a drink to have a good time. It's 66%. 66%. I'm, you know, that's not like the core belief... No, I mean, that's the thing is that Mormon beliefs are very simple, guys. It's all stuff that we as just trying to be. a good person do anyways so whether you're a Mormon or not do you want to kill somebody no i mean

sometimes we feel like it but you're gonna kill anybody no are you gonna lie cheat steal rob um use drugs it's all the stuff that we're told not to do as kids the alcohol thing um is a big one and it's it's a big no no and i've seen firsthand why it destroys people yeah it just destroys people yeah it's really hard for a lot of people to drink responsibly my father-in-law is an alcoholic and watching him it's just so sad because he just literally is disintegrating his body. It's just poison. So that's a, it's a, it's a rule that I agree with, um, across the board. Uh, really, honestly, we don't have any doctrine that I don't think any of you guys wouldn't agree with. Right. It's all basic, just be good person. Yeah. And it's a really strong

family values. So we, growing up in the church are, are big on family, big on family history, finding out who, like, what our lineage is, where we came from and respecting the past, um, and learning from And then also, you know, Mormons generally have more kids than most people. It's, I think the average, probably four or five kids in each house. You go out of states like one or two. I think the craziest thing about Mormons is I haven't met an unsuccessful Mormon. It's like every single Mormon that I have met has their own business or is a go-getter in some-former fashion. Well, I'll tell you why.

It's because right as soon as you finish high school, And you're getting rid of it into the real world. Instead, you go to the church, you hand over everything, your phone, everything, girlfriend, get rid of it all and say, all right, I'm going to go serve other people for two years. So you get sent on a mission. I got sent to Bolivia and Brazil. I didn't know anything. Dude, when I opened my mission call and saw Bolivia, I thought it was like in Europe, like Bulgaria. I didn't know where it was.

So, but you get sent into this place where you have known nothing about anything, especially if you're going to a different country, we've got to learn new language. And you just have to embrace this culture. And so missionaries learn really good work ethic. And work ethic translates into success in the real world. Like, it's a parent. There's probably more Mormon billionaires than any of the religion besides maybe Jews. There's a lot of rich. How long did you go to Brazil?

Two years. So I was in Bolivia. So your family or? No. So when I was a missionary, dude, you leave home and you can call your mom and your family on Christmas. You can write a letter home one day a week. So I talked to my family.

family twice in two years and that still holds like no they changed they changed it over the when when covid hit it changed the whole missionary program oh um you could never ever ever ever be by yourself two years i was never alone you're you have to be with inside of your companion really wow do you pick your companion nope it's all chosen for you oh dude did you have a cool companion i've had the best companions and i've had the worst companions i had dude my my trainer the guy who uh when you get to the mission it's an older veteran missionary who trains you the area and teaches you everything. My trainer was a 20, no, no, no.

A 23-year-old Peruvian kid who was going home the next month. And a lot of the Peruvians and the South American mission went on a mission because you don't get paid to on a mission. You pay to do it. But their quality of life was better as a missionary than it was at home because the church was paying for a nice apartment and stuff like that. So you'll see some of them out there that are just there for the free ride and his kid was there for the free ride.

So it sucked. So I had to learn a new language. I have to learn how to be away from my family and not have any contact with other humans and be stuck with this guy 24-7. It was rough. Yeah, but then my next companion was one of my best friends to this day. In fact, Hans, who works for me, my assistant,

his brother was my companion on the mission. That's how we know each other. Do you think that a lot of Mormons after they serve go into door-to-door sales? It's huge. It's one of the biggest industries. When I was, I would say nine out of my 10 buddies, if I had 100 friends, 90 of them went out and did.

door-to-door sales. Pest control? Yeah, pest control and alarms. Alarms. Apex, well, Apex is now Vivint. That, I'd say, 80% of the sales guys worked for them. And then there's a bunch of others that, like, I have a friend who started a really successful pest control company because he did door-to-door sales. Yeah. And he's still kicking ass with it. Oh, dude, I'd imagine you get back and you're like, y'all, just keep doing this, Benzian, all the info on Mormons right now. Ryan, Ryan, I'll give you this.

I've heard this whole soak up the soaking up the knowledge thing many, many times. And I agree with it. It's cool. But Ben is obsessed with the culture. I'm extremely interested in the Mormon. You have a Mormon vibe, I'll tell you that.

Considering, uh, you do. I'm not. Honestly, I'm not. And I'll tell, like, I'm not looking to become a Mormon. But I respect the religion and the culture and the work ethic so much. Because what you have a family and kids? religion is going to become more important to you. And it's just a natural thing that happens

because you want to make sure that you are being the best thing you can for your kids as far as raising them. And you also want to make sure that they have roots outside of... So religious roots are cool because they're deep. They're really deep and they keep you anchored. People who don't have those kind of have shallow roots. That's kind of a general statement, but I have found that in general people who don't have religious beliefs

kind of have those shallow roots and anything comes along and just blows them away and they just can't they they they can't hold a job they can't stay um in a relationship like when you have these deep religious beliefs it requires faith to believe in something that you can't see in order to be able to have faith bro that's not easy expecting something to happen that you don't know if it's going to happen but you just believe 1,000% that's going to happen like that's not always easy but that's faith that's that's the core of religious beliefs So like I said, you guys all have Mormon vibes because all we are is just, just like you guys. We just like to work hard.

We try to be honest. And we like to, you know, the big thing for our church is service. So the culture of serving other people. So if you look at my content, most of it is we're doing service or somebody. Like the recoveries, we don't get paid for any of those. We just go do it. You're just like, you got to be losing money on so many of those recoveries. We lose a lot of money.

But, bro, it is so reward. Uh, so rewarding. It's, it's honestly, without it, I would be a very sad person, I think. Well, bro, the amount of times that we have been in a pickle and it's just like, dude, your back is up against the wall and you're like, I don't need, I literally do not have any options right now. And the fact that you are a lot of people's like last resort of like, well, we could always call heavy D. You nailed it, dude. And you show up. I wish to get their shit out every time. We're usually the last call. It is amazing.

Yeah. Like, it's honestly so amazing. I buried a bulldozer one time. I'm like, God, I wish I VD was closer. We thrive on a dude.

Honestly, it's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done because it's problem solving. Real life problem solving with giant toys and you're just bonging things around until it works. I get really excited about it. I get really excited about it. And you love that snow cat. And I love the snow cat. I love that snow cat.

We are usually the last call. I love that snow cat. I have a thing for snow cats. You are so grabbed up about that thing. I was telling somebody to the story yesterday. When I got home for my mission, it was right during the recession, and I really wanted to get a job, kind of doing anything because there was no jobs out there. So I saw a resort grumer position pop up at the local ski resort.

I was like, hell yeah, I'm the guy for this. So I go on there, fill out the application. I lie and say that I've got experience doing this and that and all these different things. I don't get the job. They tell me just flat out of that I'm not qualified. And I was, like, devastated for like 30 seconds. And then I was like, nah, fuck that. I'm going to get my own snow cat.

Yeah. And that's honestly the way that my whole life has kind of happened. It's like, for that snow. If something, yeah. Bro, I was telling you that too. When I was a little kid, I said, if I win the lottery one day, I was, you know, I thought that's how you got rich, win the lottery, I'm buying a snowcat. Because I love snowmobiling, and I love snowmobiling on groomed trails.

And I'm like, yo, I'm buying a snowcat. I'm going to groom the trails. I can ride up perfect. There's, like, three snow cats at a shop. Several snow cats at a shop, too. I'm a... It's a stash. I do.

I think you made it, then. There you go. Yeah. What more do you want? Yeah, that's the ultimate sign of success right there. Multiple snow cats. Hey, how many employees do you have? It fluctuates all the time.

We're going through a bunch of changes in our company now because we're closing down the Disapparedier side because of a lawsuit. And it's just, I got tired of it. But at our peak, we had like 100. Right now, we probably got 40. I think people forget that you like pioneered the whole giveaway Oh yeah you buy our merch

You get entered for this giveaway Like you were the You know how that happened In 2013 2012 I started the Facebook page to sell trucks I was hoping to sell more trucks to a bigger audience Me and Dave And yeah diesel sellers

And then we started posting videos and stuff To try to get more attention And the pages all went viral super quick And we're like hell yeah But what do we do? Like, Facebook wasn't monetizing. We weren't monetizing much on YouTube or anything. We're like, how don't we make money on this?

And then I saw a comment one day. Kids like, hey, you should give, you should raffle off a truck. And I was like, that's it. Really amazing how many good, good comments there are. Yeah, they're great. That's a great idea. I was stealing that. Dude, it pioneered an industry.

Like, for the last 10 years, vehicle sweepstakes have been huge. Yeah. Who is that guy? Who commented that? I don't know. I think it was a kid. You don't want him to find out because he's going to. Yeah, oh yeah, dude, it'll be another lawsuit.

No, yeah, it was, so I called a buddy of mine, a mentor, good, good friend of mine, the guy that I worked for before him in Mission, owner, Rockwell Watches. I was like, hey, Rich, I want to give away a truck, but it's illegal to do a raffle for profit. So what did I do? He's like, just sell something. I was like, well, what do I sell? I don't want to go. I don't have any money to buy anything.

And he's like, sell wristbands. So I ordered a bunch of silicone wristbands from China, and they said diesel power, and that was our first entry for our first giveaway. Oh, it was like the Livestrong. just like those, yep. And then we started adding, like, a new shirt every couple of weeks, like stuff was selling and, like, going crazy. And our first giveaway, we gave away a 2013 RAM. And we did 475 grand in total revenue.

And we were like, holy sure. We are, we are, and that's wristbands. That's just wristbands and stickers. Dude, it was so many wristbands. How much? How much are you doing wristbands for? 25 bucks. Okay.

Because it was five, every five dollars is an inch. Okay. I got it. I got a 2013 rammed home. I better get back you later real quick. Dude, Weston starts selling wristbands. Hey, guys, come on over to Westluxcake.com. It worked.

The problem is now that there's a lot of trash in the industry, a lot of people that do it. Dude, it's so saturated. It's saturated. It doesn't work like it used to. If you have a good audience who loves what you do like Cletus does, it's going to work forever because his fans just love what he does. And so he doesn't have to do advertising. But we used to make, dude, we were spending,

we were spending a million dollars a month on, on advertising on Snapchat and Instagram and stuff. So, I mean, it had to be still making money, but at what point does just not make sense? That scale started right here. If we were spending a million, we were making $10 million that month. And it was awesome. And then as the algorithm kept changing,

it started getting to like, we had to spend a million to make $1.1. It's not going to work. So I just got tired of selling T-shirts. We got so tired of it. So I'm not an apparel. I love the apparel, but I don't have the passion to have my own. apparel company because it's really hard to do a good apparel company like these pants are done by a guy um an ex uh he's a veteran and he's like a crossfitter and so he took everything from the

tactical world and everything from the crossfit world and blended him together and went and made this like proprietary fabric dude that's so hard so expensive so time consuming i was gonna ask you what kind of pants those are bro cargo pants cargo pants born primitive huge shout out to two people here born primitive um check them out like the best clothing i've ever had and or Origin, a company owned by Jaka Willick and a bunch of other veterans. Dude, shout out. Origin is legit. You don't make shitty merch.

You get shoutouts on podcast. It's all very high quality. And Origin is actually the only denim manufacturer in the entire United States. Because everybody else went to overseas. Wow. These veterans went out and bought an old, freaking, like, 1880s wool mill and started making their own denim, and they've just been killing it. A lot of cool companies, like Black Rifle. Oh, yeah.

One of my best buddies. friends that company that's uh again those guys just freaking get it done yeah they're so disciplined they're like the lDS missionaries times a thousand because they spent all that time shout out to black rifle shout out to black rifle dude just got to kind of piss you off though that like everyone's doing these giveaways now and like that was kind of it did at first i was just like so upset because the the first coffee cats of a of our business model were close friends of mine and it was super frustrated what year did you do your first one 2013 April oh my gosh started in april 2013 and it August, 2013, and we've given away like 120 trucks now.

Can I ask what your guys' biggest, like, giveaway was? Black Friday, 2020, I think. We did like $15 million in like three or four days. Holy cool. Yeah, we were doing, we were... What vehicle was it? Oh, I couldn't even tell you. Black Friday was, oh, I think it was, we did three classics.

We did the Bronco, the Ram Charger, and the Blazer, and it killed it. Wow, that's crazy. But you know what our most significant? successful, most profitable giveaways have ever been, always, always, always semi-trucks. Really? By a landsl. That's kind of your market. Yeah.

And truckers, truckers spend money differently than online guys like us. It's been different money. You got me into giveaways. Yeah. Pretty much right when we met and right before this cabin trip, the first time we ever did it was the first time I did a giveaway. Because you were like, you were like, bro, you got to do it. So that was eight, nine years after you started doing giveaways. So it frustrated me at first when I watched people copy us,

but then we realized that it was going to happen regardless. So then we started, we put on a clinic to teach people how to do it. In 2019, I put the other thing called the Heavy Academy. And it was just basically like a business mastermind to teach people how to do giveaways. And we killed it. We did two of them and made a ton of money, made a bunch of really successful business owners, a ton of money because they went out and did giveaways. I've had a lot of people tell me that that changed their life.

Well, that's got to be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm big on that, but I won't do anything unless I feel 100% right about it. And it got the point where I felt a little slimy like we were doing the get rich quick thing. And I just couldn't do it. I can't force myself to do something like that. So I had to back away. Well, the thing I like about giveaways, the way that you set out the platform is it's not like you're throwing money at something and hoping you win. Like you're just, you're buying something for the same price.

It would normally be like, at least in, I think most of our circumstances, we don't raise our prices on our merchandise. training. It's the same as it is all year around. It's just during this period of time, there's also an added incentive of a car. The problem is we trained our customers to only shop when giveaway show. You've done a better job out of keeping steady sales, but we were doing giveaway, giveaway, giveaway back to back because they were working so well that everybody just waited. And then and then we started doing like first of the giveaway, huge spike flash giveaway on the first two days and then the last two days and people learned that so they'd wait and spend their money in the last couple of days your consumers track what you do yeah um and we weren't we weren't

fulfilling the customer service very well on the on the t-shirt we tried we had a huge warehouse that's where most of my overhead was um and it's that much volume's really hard yeah doing that much volume dude and so we kind of got a bad name for customer service because we just couldn't keep up especially when the tv show was airing or just flowing in um but i got tired of apparel and i decided to dump that and we're revamping some of our business models and growing. So that's crazy. You did something that I think every YouTuber is like really, really jealous of. And that's one, the Freedom Factory and you're able to host these events.

Like we always sit down and we're like, man, how could we like recreate something that makes sense for us or like host an event or like, you know, put on something that be so cool to like bring the fans together and it makes sense because it's like it's our style. I don't know. I don't know if you could ever recreate something as good as you've got, dude. And then you have the fucking paperfuse, dude. As soon as I found out you were pay-per-viewed it, too, I was like, God damn, dude. I want to say one more thing about that, too. So that was like Greg Godfrey, who was also Mormon, who was from Utah.

He was when we were sitting in a yurt in the middle of nowhere, and he's telling us, he's like, you guys got to do live events. When we did live events, we crushed it. And I'm like, what does that even look like for us? us like what what are we going to do yeah we're like dude we're going to entertain people like i don't know how all while that was happening you're i mean doing it under our feet and you're just doing it it's incredible you little weasel yeah we were totally going to do that i thought you guys were going to do it so i was like yeah i get that done it's a top shelf operation though

too when you go down there it is so dialed in oh yeah i appreciate that like cleedison cars was like really really cool indeed makes me happy to hear that you guys see it that way Yeah, and I'm not trying to suck you guys' dick right now, you know? What? If that's what it seems like. I got like four layers. Yeah. No, I'm just about, I'm leaving.

No, I'm just, uh, I'm just giving you guys your flowers. I was promised some fallacious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'd love to help you guys do it. But, um, well, you, you did offer out the, yeah, like, you mentioned the paper view. You guys, like, I have that. I would, I would love that.

Honestly, C-boys, you guys have, you guys have a unique opportunity right now to fill in the nitro circus gap. Nitro's just Evan just jumping something really far. It doesn't have to be crazy, though. Nitro already did everything crazy that could ever be done. You need to do something unique and relatable. It has to be something that, dude, freaking chainsaw races, something like that, semi-truck races. You do some brainstorming.

You can put together something that keep it as generic as possible so that everybody can participate, like those Spartan races and stuff like that. Putting on an event is so much harder than anybody could ever imagine. Glad you know that. Logistically, It is an absolute freaking nightmare. And the fact that you just do it back to back to back and keep pulling them off, I don't know how you do it.

It was miserable until I got the best group of guys ever to help me do it. But they can be brutal. They can be brutally hard and have very small returns sometimes. Really? And it's just a battle. Why? Because the margins are just so fine or you got to sell enough for it to make sense. Some of these tracks, like, you know, Bristol isn't amazing.

but, like, that track costs a fortune to rent. How much? Can you tell us? I mean, I'd have to look at the last one, but I don't know if I can say, but it's okay. It's, okay. Because I'm curious, too, like everyone's, I've always wondered, like, man, what? Is it like F-1-50, or is it, like, new F-150 or is it, like, new, like, diesel jetta? Oh, no. Diesel jetta's, like, 14 grand.

It's like a decent helicopter. Yeah. Decent helicopters. Yeah. Like a Robinson? It's a decent helicopter. Well, I don't think a Robinson's a decent one of them. I'll leave it at a decent helicopter.

My goodness. Well, but they're also opening up a world-class facility with a name like Bristol. Exactly. So there's a reason you pay for it. You know, I've never been there. I never done anything about it. I'm like, I'm like, Bristol, I know. I know the name.

We're in Bristol, baby. Yeah. Like that has pulled to it. Yeah, 100%. But you know what's cool is having the Freedom Factory has solidified. Like, that carries a name now. Do people, like, would dream to be able to do. drive around that track that first video that came out oh my goodness in the thumbnail where you're

in the helicopter it's like in the yeah god yeah that was that's been a crazy deal and now it's like it's just like set up an operation there's actually an event going on right now well what what's going on there's a race going on tonight were they racing on mars what uh they're they're just doing like some circle track race and crown vig stuff but they had a cars and coffee this morning it's just like that's how you got a well-oiled machine down there just working it's wild dude i don't know if this is a true stat at all but i feel like you brought back racing people people say that to me and like i don't feel like i uh like it brought it back because it never went away but um i feel like we uh we allowed a fresh new take to be kind of like opened up and seen by a lot

of people like that racing i don't know it did have a kind of a dark look like we'll say it i'm not you're definitely not we'll say it for you definitely not got you from me i just i just wanted to show people how fun it is and like it purely happened just because i was having so much fun you made it super relatable because anybody can go buy a two thousand dollar crown vick i honestly have more fun in the crown vick than like almost anything i love crown vicks i'll tell you what my smart car i love that thing. I drive that. It's the, it's the, that's the thing. That's the thing. Oh, smart cars ripped. I got, like, I got a lot of cool cars. You know, like, I drive around, like a smart car and, like, I got a black and white Chevy Tahoe. I bought for $1,100. There was an old

police car. I drive that all around town. How annoying is the transmission on the smart cars, though? Dude, they're the worst. Oh, they're the worst. I know. I bang mine off a rock. Dude, Brian Scotto has a great line that driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car at all. Because, like, When you're driving a smart car, your balls and walls, you feel like a race car, you're Mario Andretti, 42 miles an hour. Yeah, you're not going to jail like he would be in the hellcat. No, no, then I get my hellcat. I'm like, oh, what?

Yeah, what 160? That's weird. I have a lot of cars that's just, I ruined because they're so fast. Isn't it? That's the problem with them, right? Because like all, like, this is the thing I run into them all my hellcats. I'm like, all right, let's put on an E90. All right, put big injectors in it. All right, let's do this.

We'll do that. Pull out the inner core, do this, ice tank. And I'm like, well, I can't go to McDonald's anymore. You know the thing is that, you know, that's with drag racing too, is like, you ever think, even when I got into it, because I never really did drag racing before YouTube, like, I, you know, I messed around, like, you know, out of the country, like country kids did, but, like, nothing else like that. It's really intimidating. Like, it's, like, if you know nothing about it, you're just stepping into it, whatever.

Like, it's, like, it's intimidating because you're like, not really sure where to start, like, what to do. Like, you're just kind of, yeah. Try doing that with monster trucks. Monster truck drag racing? What about just monster trucks in general? You did monster I forgot about that.

Dude, how crazy is driving those things? It's the best. So we had an awesome deal. Monster Jam. We partnered up with them. They love the Brodozer. And so we built the diesel Brodozer.

And dude, that truck was a completely different animal than anything else out there. Those methanol trucks are, they're hard to drive because they're just all over the place. They're just snappy. The Brodozer was 10,000 times harder to drive

than, Like, rookie, or veteran veteran drivers, like Tom Mints, Anderson boys, Dennis Anderson, they've all driven the rotos and there's like, how do you do that? How do you even compete? It's a Dermax compounds, Wagler. Really? But, dude, it's the, like, it's snappy for a diesel, but it's not a methanol truck. So basically, anytime I'd hit an obstacle, I'd have to basically build two, two seconds of

recoil or boost into the system and see what was going to happen. Because that's my inertia, my momentum. Everything in Monster Jam is about momentum and inertia. It's how fast you can keep your run going and you just keep that momentum going. If you stop, you lose out of momentum. With the diesel, I can't keep momentum when I think about needing to keep it. So if I'm slowing down, my brain says hit the gas and I hit the gas and a methanol truck goes, diesel, I'm sitting there. So I'm having, like, I would drive in a way that I didn't even understood.

Yeah, I couldn't predict it. So I would like, I was experimenting the whole time. So I'd get in it and dude, it would freaking build boost And then all of a sudden it hit the same obstacles The Methanol trucks hit, but it would hit it with probably five times the force and it would just do the wildest shit But when I would flip over and land upside down and then when your tire grabs and it flips you back over Where that breaks most of the methanol trucks because they're on the throttle and it just snaps it Yeah

My truck had like a built-in shock absorber because of the turbo lag So you go And then it would re then the turbo would spool and it would just go freaking banana but it would do it a gradual way so it wouldn't snap parts. So I had some of the most insane recoveries in Monster Jam. I think I know what you're saying right now. Like I think I understand, but I'm also trying to

wrap my mind around all of it because Monster Trucks just in general blow my mind. It's the coolest thing you'll ever do. I feel the craziest thing, dude. You're kind of a wrecking ball. I am. So I would love to see a live show if you're just destroying. You guys would have loved the live shows. I don't

say this to brag, but the live shows that we competed in, like burn down the house. I'm telling you fans rushing the floor in Texas, what's that? El Paso? Might be El Paso. I have a really strong Mexican following because I

see Spanish and love Mexican people. Bro, just the entire stadium flooded with Mexican people to come down and say I'd hate me and Dave. It's the best, dude. I could see Weston doing that. I can just hear your voice in it. Oh, hell yeah. Motherfuck me, I said you know I was upside down.

Hell is a good time. I'm upside down. Some of the most pain I've ever been in was from Monster Trots. It's got to hurt, right? Bro, my first backflip, I went to go hit the wall. And the Methanol Trucks, they hit it rolling at about 15, 20, and then they just go, crack the throttle right before it, and it'll give them their blow pop.

Well, I have to hit it two seconds early and wait for my boost to build. I freaking hit it just like maybe a half a second too early. I built boost and climbed the ramp. Oh, my God. a flipping ramp launched like 40, 50 feet in the air and came to a complete perfect stop upside down and boom.

Cage first. Bro cage first. But you don't, you don't think about is your feet. My feet wrapped up around the steering wheel into the roll cage. I was like a freaking, like cheesy Gordita crunch. Just all folded up, dude. And my feet dude, it was, that was rough. I jumped

on like 10, maybe maybe 6 feet in the air to flat on the burnout pad. and about snapping my neck because they have like 300 PSI in the shocks and they're real stiff and you have to run a certain pressure in the tires too regulation

but that truck was amazing dude it allowed diesel Dave to do a consecutive backflip so he went up and came up short and he was coming to stuff his nose just grab the throttle I don't think he meant to I think he was just it boosted and the truck goes and does a double backflip

and the dude the stadium lot lost their damn minds. Where is that truck now? So that's really frustrating. COVID came around. They canceled the shows. And,

well, let me get to your answer first. It's, I think it's at Feld headquarters and down by you. But they can't use the license anymore because I own the Brodos or license. And so I revoked the license from them after COVID because it wasn't a great partnership as far as them fulfilling them in the bargain with licensing. And then that kind of ended the relationship-ish.

I'll, there's a chance I might build another truck and go back though. I go back as an independent though and just, because dude showing up and just being able to get in the truck, wreck it and fly home. Just hit the big ones maybe. That's what we were doing. When I was running for Monster Jam, we would only hit the big, big shows.

That was another frustrating thing. You get really excited. And the reason I brought this up is because racing in Monster Trucks is really competitive. There's some really fast guys out there. And it is, it's full-blown racing. Dude, you've got to be significantly better driver than the guy next to you. because it comes down to like tens of seconds and I would get so excited

I'd go in I do shoot two shows in a row get momentum do well be kicking ass in racing and then we get pulled from the circuit for six months because there wasn't any big shows for the summer and so you get just dropped in right when you're getting comfortable

you get pulled out and in and out but it was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done and I loved it because I took my family with me every show we just flew to it was always in Florida in the winter which is the best for the family to get away

but I think we'll come back and if I do, it's going to be, it's going to be in David and I will have doing trucks. Do you, do you guys do anything right now where you're, like, in a competition? Um, because, like, we, like, we're drag racing all the time, so we're always, like, competing against people.

Do you guys do any stuff like that? You know, not really. Like, oddly enough, the only time that we, like, race and anything's on the line is for your events. Yeah, we're like, all right, we got to figure out who's racing. Um, yeah, or today. You'd love racing, dude. We, we're not, like, huge.

racers, but when we're hanging out with you, we're like, everything's a race. I love racing. I'm not being intimidated. I love beating people. So, like, all I'm doing out. But, yeah, no shit. You know what I first come down on your race? The day next to me. I'm like, I'm the worst at racing. I like, I don't know. I kind of just like

going on and having fun. Yeah. I think if it gets too competitive, it's not really that fun for me. But then it gets, then when it gets like, all right. And then here's like you put. And then here's what happens and then it gets really competitive and my fuck i want to fucking win so god and i get like to like the biggest like competitive thing i've ever done is like roadkill nights up in pontiac is the thing dodge puts on and um i've been there like a couple years and i like last year i went and there

did this thing where it's a six-speed car like thing you know and we built i built like a 15 hundred horsepower big old fat full interior 4200 pound street car with six-speed in it piled weights on the back of it piled sandbags in the trunk yeah you know did all the shit. Didn't know what I was doing. But God dang, I could row gears. That's the only thing I had going for me is I could get the fuckassum gears. And nobody else could shift that well. So, like, I was beating cars over 1,700 pounds lighter with, you know, 15 wides on the back, you know, a lot of rubber on the ground somehow. And I pulled out and I got a trophy. And I'm like, so I still, I still look at the trophy. My boy, dude. That's what I'm talking about.

Dude. So this is like, yeah, I bet you want another one. I'll put up a trophy next time we were The thing is, is I sit there and it, it was so fucking, it was so fun. It was so, it was live for those trophies. I know. And I was, I was rolling out of that event. And like, I love hearing those. I was rolling out of that event. And like, there's four link drag racing cars, like just full like back half cars there, right? He was feeding them. Yeah. And I, I post this thing on Instagram of me rocking the radio with the AC on rolling out of there. We're like, yeah. After, just holding the trophy in my lap. Oh, my God, yeah, we're good.

You won, you won, like, Freedom 500 one year, didn't you? Hey, they won it. Okay, so, yeah, when you won it last year, when you won it last year, I saw that, you posted it. I finally won. I was like, dude, fuck this guy. I was like, I was like, it's not getting holes to win your own thing. He just puts on the most kick-ass event. He invites everyone out just to beat him.

I won two races in three years. and there's four races a year. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that's not too many to be fishy, right? I agree. The first one we ever did. I don't know.

What am I supposed to do? Sit out? I think it's just suspicious that. So I tell everyone, like, I'm racing. The first ever Freedom 500, we did a thing. It was COVID, so we did like this crazy stupid thing where we all had to walk up one by one and choose, like, our car. And I let everyone choose.

I took the last car I was left and I won. Oh. So whatever. You won the first ever won. Yeah, I won the first ever. But, like, even the cars now, like, if anybody wants my car, they can have it. Yeah, I want it. I'll take whatever car in the field because...

That's fair. Mine is probably the shittiest one. I've raced mine in, like, freaking ten races now. So... Oh, it's been that... He's got them trick-flow heads on it. I'm telling you. He got four-valor...

I do feel a little guilty. Like, I can tell you right now, I'm not going to take the helicopter. But I will win and give it to the second place person at the Freedom 500 because Is that because you just don't like it that much? No, it's because I'm not going to hype up a sick, like last year, I hyped up a sick prize and I did, I was like, all right, I'm taking it. But like this one's so sick, I want one of my friends to have it. I would love to see somebody like.

Wait, what kind is it? It's a huge 300. So like, you know, MD, like the helicopters are really likely to call a duty looking one. it's like their OG helicopter But that was like started by Howard Hughes Right it's like a Howard Hughes It's huge Yeah Howard Hughes

Yeah That guy was a guy was a G I fucking love Howard here this guy Talking about Howard Hughes Oh I know everything about Howard Hughes Howard Hughes Howard Hughes is like big in Wichita Whichtall was Air Capital

The world Everybody talked about Howard Hughes I was watching It's a huge It's a huge 269 But they call them 300 I have this like portrait In my office

And it's of him standing in front of the H1 race You're looking like a pimp in a long coat and he is just that guy figured you guys not know who this is Howard Hughes was like the real life Tony start

this guy figured shit out yeah just some stuff that you just can't even wrap your head around he figured it out and he was making me like musicals and movies at the same time 100% movie stars made number one movies he got put in ICU and reinvented

the hospital bed made the modern hospital bed that won't give you bed sores like this guy was smart, like super smart. Yo, I love that you have a picture of him hanging up in your office. It's an epic phone. He's your ski jobs.

The thing is, well, and then they always talk about, like, the Japanese stole the design from the H-1 to, like, make the zero or whatever, but, like, the H-1 racer was, like, one of the fastest airplanes for a while was, like, 725 horsepower or something like that. It was crazy. I love that. You know that. Oh, dude, I love...

Not just knows it, but you're passionate about that. I love aircraft. I love, like, Howard Hughes. Like, I'm right really into that. like the Hercules, I want to go so bad and see the Hercules. And when anybody calls the spruce goose, I just get mad. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's how much called? Listener. I watched a movie.

I read the dogman, no, I'm not going to say that word, but anyway, I can't say documentary. All right. What's, how do you say? Documentary. Documentary. I can't say documentary. Yeah, dude, you should meet my buddy, CJ.

But no. No, yeah, he was a G. He was like the inspiration for like Tony Stark from, like, I feel so lame. I really like Tony Stork. I love Tony Stark. That's what's been so fun about this trip. You find out like all these people that you love and watch and hang out with.

And then you just figure out that they're obsessed for some guy that you never even heard. Like it's so cool. It's like the all the snowmobile and all that stuff is so fun. But honestly chilling in the cabin at night is like the best. It's so cool hanging out with everybody. Yeah, that's what my favorite part is that. My favorite part is that, I mean, it's, it's, think how rare it is that you go into a house or a cabin or whatever, and there's not a TV in the living room. Yeah.

And we're not working. And there's not a TV in here, and we all just conversate. And it's a beautiful thing. But, yeah, I mean, circling way back to what you first said, like, we just like everyone who watches YouTube, hope that you guys, it's just this underlying thing that I hope there's cool off cameras. They are on camera. And it is, is the case. sure for everyone here in this case yeah there are some yeah you're right roast them you're right never meet your heroes you know i have i've had to them moments and i'm you know i'm

not going to say what it is i'm not going to say who it is obviously but i'm just like oh i can tell you who the number one guy my hero was he absolutely exceeded my expectations and it's became more of my hero and that's Travis i was going to say Hampton, Pestrana. Yeah, dude. That dude lives up to what he is and what you see on TV and overshoots it by a mile. He's a legend. He never stops.

Dude, he's always going, going, going. Man, I've seen him, but I've never, like, actually had a conversation with him. Like, I've met him, but I've never had him. He's just the best. You know, we've posted a couple things, like, showing just, like, where we're at or who all we're with. And it was your, you posted a story last night, like, just of everyone hanging out in the living room. and we i just reposted it on our story dude we got flooded with so many responses of like yo i am so fired up right now like all my favorite YouTubers in one room this is so

awesome it was pretty surreal looking around if we pulled this off the conversations yeah they would we all we all be these guys are idiots not a lot of like real productivity going on you know but we hey the creative juices were flowing you know oh yeah i say it all the time I say, like, you know, we obviously get along with certain people because of just, like, common interest. But, like, it seems like majority of the time is just, like, the inner degenerate. And we love hanging out with other degenerates. Dude, it's so fun. Yeah, yeah, it's just, like, people that don't take it too serious or they, you know, they're not afraid to, like, laugh at themselves or, um, make light of a situation.

And it's just so fun. times when I was here, I'm like, dude, it's so awesome that everybody is just like, I'm just like scared showing up and saying something dumb because I always say something dumb. And I'm like, oh, everybody else saying something dumb. Ah, we're good. Everybody else is just like, oh, yeah, that's great. The cabin's gotten louder as the weekend has progressed, which has been fun.

Everybody's just getting comfy. Yeah. Like, this is just the best annual trip. I love this trip. Yeah, you guys, I'd like to extend the invite for next year. Dude, it's like an annual tradition for us. Yeah, I'm going to have to bring some works better. Oh, you have to be invited.

to come because I've just been I've just been invited. I don't know if I've ever been invited. Cleet's got the just the open invite. Actually last year it's just you and me right? That'd be such a different vibe just to do it. There's other people but him and I were the only they're just talking helicopters the whole there was like kind of a

gap year and like everyone I don't know it was just like you and I somebody else was here I can't remember who it was but yeah it's always been a good trip and it just keeps getting better every year. It's like what are we going to do to top this year next year? Yeah next year. I've been thinking about that too man like how do you what what vehicles

oh we have a snow race i brought a black hawk a school bus on tracks monster max was here we did a sandrail on tracks we did the air we did every brand of shirp and fat truck you can think of we did a bullet bike on like dude what else is there to do bullet bike you guys keep calling yeah there was a dude i never okay i never

like that i like that bullet bike what do you call them just like a crotch rocket dude you know we need to set up for next year he's a zip line from the bow. Oh, hell, yeah. You'd be going about 400 on that. Let's do it. Evan was eyeing up. I'll put that down.

So there's a hill right, right on this side of the wall, and it's steep enough to carry enough speed on skis. If we built a jump off the deck, you could air the gap underneath off the deck and then land on the hill. Yeah, two years ago, we built a step up right here where you first go off the hill. We built a huge step up for a timber sled backflip, and Ethan Roberts was here doing. But he couldn't get any traction on the hill So it wasn't a great spot

A zip line Hot air balloon Oh yeah I don't know I have been one Be too low intensity for you guys It would be It's my hell

Unless I'm piloting it Even then I You're just up there Just floating around with the wind I fucking hate the wind You know what's impressive I was I was in one And dude we took off

And they're like The winery That was on the balloon Is the one we landed at Like it was intent We landed 15 feet away from the other balloon that took off next to us. It was impressive.

So I don't know how they did it. It was weird after. Yeah, that's like New Mexico when they have that extravaganza where they launch all the balloons. Yeah. I was accidentally there. Like I was just driving my Humvee across the country. No, literally I was there to pick up my twin turbo TRX

and I got up one morning. I'm like, what the fuck is all that shit in the sky? And then next thing I know, there's just people just like catching balloons on the freeways and like in people's backyard. They're just like going all over the place. There's no way that's not a shit show. Oh, it is. Oh, it's a massive shit show.

You guys see there's a clip on Instagram. A hot air balloon gets drug away in the windstorm. And he like wipes out a car, knocks out a family, flies away, hits the power line. Power line breaks, like, catches his thing on fire. And then he comes back down, bounces off the ground just enough to get thrown out and get his leg caught in the rope. And then it takes off again. Bro's hanging by one leg as the hot air balloon drifts off. After being electrocuted and wiping.

on a family. It was the most chaotic video I've ever seen in my life. So I think you're not really on game for the hot airborne. I'm in. Oh, okay. I have zero ability to calculate risk. What do you want to do? What about some sort of like survival challenge? I thought about that. But that takes days. I thought about us trying to sleep in an igloo tonight or something like that, but that sounds hard. What about a triathlon, but with vehicles? Or how about what if we just did this? What if we just came and had a good time? Yeah, I don't think we have to change a single thing. I'm sure all of us are quietly going to be building some competition against each other.

But we can all just pretend like it's not happening. We just pretend like it's not happening. You know what if we brought it like a trophy? I'm going to do the snowed in 500. We're going to do a race. We're going to do an oval track over in the field. Fire me up. 500 laps.

I'll get some fiber optic grain up here. Brown mix on studded tires. Oh, that would be sick. Bro, a lake race on the ice. That would be wild. Count me in. Wait, ain't there a lake just like over there? That's huge.

Does it? Does it please? You guys want to go on the lake? Yeah, you guys should all just come to Cormoron. Is it like a thing enough to drive on? Bro, I could. We drove a wreck around a couple days ago. You drove a wreck around a couple days ago?

Okay, we had to do recovery. So the shoreline right now is only like two or three hundred yards off the shore is frozen, but you can drive around the edges. Sometimes the whole lake freezes and it gets crystal clear. You guys ever see a video of a guy that goes underneath the ice and he's swimming and he tries to find the hole back up and he can't? And you can just see him crystal clear under the glass like trying. That was my buddy right here at Bar-Lay.

what oh no that was that real like he was 100% real yep he got he got so disoriented and his ice bros he couldn't see the hole was he barely he barely made it out alive like he was he was trapped under there i think the video's like 60 seconds long or something he was swimming and at one point he panics and he's in fairly shallow water so you see him put his feet on the ground and he puts his back against it and pushes and you can see nothing happens and he keeps on swimming and his girlfriend is like up top like trying to freaking out it was rough i just got scared thinking about it's all my good buddies he dude this kid has gone viral probably five times you probably know the videos ever seen the kid to jump off the um cruise ship with a GoPro yeah that's him ever see the original video of

the kid who was wake surfing and then acted like he's going by himself and and then fell off and the boat runs away yeah that was him oh my gosh dude this guy's a genius dude and nobody knows him does he do social media or he yeah but he just dude he's he just has shit luck the pages don't tag him and all this all of his shit's like licensed to juke and stuff and nobody knows him it's so funny i would give him shit for it all the time he doesn't really care because he's not trying to do social media but he has done the wildest shit and never gets credit that's the worst when you see like one of your videos posted reposted on ticot and it's got so many views and there's no credit This guy, Keaton, already posted.

Oh, God. Bobba Gross. Let's give a shout out to the muscle for posting all of our content for the whole weekend before we all posted it. Guys, go follow him, see everything we're going to do. I love how that's just an understanding that we all have, though. And why do we let it fly? It was just because it's Keaton, I guess. I've had the conversations with him.

He's just, that's Keaton. He's bigger than all of us. Yeah, I'm not telling him what to do. Yeah, I don't know what to do either. Yeah, I've tried to, you know, be as, hey, are you cool if we're, like, filming right now? Because, like, you know, everyone kind of wants to just not just be, like, bombarded and, like, filmed when you're not knowing. And I, I hate being that guy.

No. No. I didn't get sent to the speed film. I didn't get sent to the speed film at all. But I'm so, yeah, we've got some stuff for you guys to sign afterwards. No, we're so used to just, like, hanging out with, like, our crew. And, like, very rare does. like somebody new come in, so I was trying to be, like,

respectful of, like, other people that, you know, might not always want to just be, like, blasted on camera. But, we didn't, we didn't finish the favorite vehicles. We made it to Weston. Yeah, yeah, we kind of got, I had the best want to tell you. Hey, you got to side track, bro. Yeah, what's yours? Wait, no, you got to say yours.

I can't. It's hard. Yeah, you can. Uh, the snow cat, the Jeep, the Black Hawk. Okay. Okay, how about this? How about you pick one that's not yours? Uh, it's no real.

That's no roads, bitching. That thing was magical. I wish everybody had a chance of driving. I wanted to, but something happened before we could. You sabotage me. I tried so hard to be on my best behavior, too. You guys missed a real adventure last time, last year on this trip. Didn't you get a, like, a rip saw stuck?

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, that's not the least one we're talking about. We had some aircraft damage. It's the only video. Well, I'm allowed to show the video at your funeral, right? You showed up my funeral. Okay. So it's.

vaulted up nobody's ever going to see this there's one copy of it in my hands one copy in dave's hands and as long as you haven't sent it to anyone no never it exists nowhere else we can talk about it it was an incident that's all we can if dave if dave allows i could show it after this but i will show you guys off camera and it costs a lot uh cost a lot of money in fixing something yeah we're not even worried mistakes were made mistakes were made they weren't even mistakes that we had a we had a fluke distributor wire pop off and that led to a whole whole chain of just guess

that's a big deal it's funny how that happens yeah yeah let's move on yeah anyway what was your favorite vehicle I hate to do it's Jeep I mean I know it's it's just so next level

that you you can't even compete with it the snow rail was awesome to it just unfortunately it had a short ride in the snow rail so bad yeah it looked really snowy that was a nice thing with the Jeep you sat at the heated seats were on dude the radio was playing dialed it's great

And it was dragging your ass through the snow today. Listen. It was pretty impressive. Yeah, I'm sorry that nobody said the Ranger Weston. That's all right. It's not my favorite here. I brought it. You know what?

A preparation I did, I got back from Florida. And literally, I'm sitting there. And I got back at like 5 o'clock that night. And I'm like, well, yeah, I ought to go. So I call my brother. I'm like, well, you know, I'll just fly out there. And he's like, well, when we take something? I'm like, we don't have anything to take.

We don't have anything that'll go. Like, they'll work out there. and I'm just like casually walking by the Ranger that I haven't started in three months or done anything with. I'm like, if you start, you're going. I throw it in my feet. They're all trembling.

I threw a battery in that thing and I'm like, and I loaded on the trailer, chained it down, all to here. See you later. I'm curious what you guys that brought trucks on tires were thinking bringing them to a mountain. Oh, I really didn't care. I didn't care if it worked.

Like, I, like, the thing is, I was just out here to have a good time. Just want to show up with something. Yeah, like, I just fucking, like, the thing is, like, I'm like, you know, I just can't show up with a no, like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, show and go up to golf and went to the putter, you know, you got a driver, you know, you got have some, something to play with. It was a good potluck selection. So I think the thing is, like, at the end of the day, I'm like, I know it's not like that's not where this thing's supposed to live. It's not supposed to be out here in four feet of snow. And it's also, it wasn't really ready to go on an adventure. But it's like, uh, if you're ready for an adventure, you know, that thing belongs at a Van Halen concert.

You want it. It would get down at a Van Halen concert, wouldn't it? Yeah. I was loving your early morning, uh, tuning sessions. Yeah. Red bombs. Hey, ow, wow. You know what? It ran so bad.

And the thing is, I put the snipe, I put a holly sniper on it. I couldn't figure out why. And I never tested fuel pressure. It takes like 55 or 60 to make it run. Turns out I had the regulator set at 30. thing ran like a garbage but I set it on up there I got it running good enough

to make it overheat there we go damn that's pretty good let's let's be gone it was it the loudest one here it was yeah it wasn't the power most fire flow

it got stuck the most but it was the loudest one here she made some noise oh she's a noise making machine pleader what about you I'm going dude I got to go with the timber sled

the 450s the timber sled I was riding oh yeah you're ripping that thing I love that thing I mean, I know it's not like one of the YouTuber cars, but I just love that thing. I hate the front end feeling of Timber Sheds. I love those things.

I hate that hard, dull feeling. And then I also want to say that my second favorite vehicle was the inner tube because I got to see Dave built the most ridiculous slide that's from the top of the mountain. It's more of a death shoot. It's terrifying. And he literally forced us to go down. I mean, there was no saying.

I have video proof, yeah. And I saw George fly through the air in land hair first. Like the top of his head contact the ground. His neck has to flex to a 90 degree angle to absorb the rest of his body, pile driving it down on top of it. It looked even better from the heated seats of the Jeep. That was some good old fashioned fun right there. Not a camera in sight.

It was dark out and just a good old living. Yeah, that was cool. And your favorite? Oh, dude. I mean, the Jeep was probably the most fun because I was, like, actually mobbing it. The snow cat was really cool. I've never driven a snow cat, so that was, like, you know, a dream. My thing was also, like, brand new.

Yeah. So fresh. It doesn't get better than that. And I mean, dude, just watching, like, Whistlin's Monster Max with the jet engine was like, dude, my eyes were playing tricks on me. Yeah. But after watching it, I was like, yeah, of course there should be a jet engine on. on the back of a monster truck. I was like,

I can't imagine a monster truck without a ton of over and have one. Right. Yeah, I was like, it just did you go hand in hand. And then the Lambo that showed us. The off-road Lambeau, dude,

that, yeah, he didn't get around very good, but I was like, hey, dude, A for effort for coming. Oh, yeah, we stole your Jeep and went

and recovered a Porsche, by the way. Oh, you did? Yeah, we did a heavy D recover video. Oh, yeah. I was to towing that Lambo out, and I accidentally snatched it kind of hard. Oh, did you?

Well, we snatched the Porsche kind of hard, too. And then I hit Hans with the track of the Jeep with the track of the They knock him down. Well, no, no. He was in a razor and I was in the Jeep and I hit him. Oh, you hit the razor. Yeah. And he's like, that's fine. Hit that. I'm like, okay. But I already hit it. I just rubbed it a little bit. I'm sorry. Yeah. There was a moment where down in like the meadow, you had the Blackhawk, the bus on tracks, whistling, Monster Max. The two, the Lambo and the Porsche were sitting there. It was crazy. You had the sandrail that was broken, but it was still there. You know,

And then R1 sitting there. And then Weston coming, and like flying through, like, kept going. Like, you did like four hot laps back and forth, back and forth. But he wanted me to crush that camera. So I was just coming up like, and the thing is the only way that thing works is momentum. Momentum is your friend.

You know this big, like big field out here in the front by the gate, like on the way in? We, uh, I figured out if I get up on top of that hill, I'd get enough momentum. I get across there. And we got flying. across there and I mean I'm on top

and I just got this thing pinned and I can't find anything else the steering wheel the gear shift nothing but I got my foot all the way on the gas pedal we hit these ruts in the middle of that field the whole fucking ranger left the ground the whole thing leaf springs and ruts

in the snow and it was like and start doing this violent bouncing and like after that I'm like oh god my back hurts so bad and then I keep trying to get in out of that tall thing. I'm like, oh, okay,

I'm kind of over this thing. Is that technically just a mud truck? I don't know what it is. Is that what it is? You know what it's funny? I don't think anything's about this been shown yet, but I technically,

I thought it was road legal because it's got windshield wipers. It's got headlights, tail lights. That's what you need. I thought it was road legal's hell, you know? Yeah.

But these guys, these guys from Australia stopped by our shop and they're like, let's go to lunch. I'm like, fuck yeah, what's more American

than fucking, you know, going to lunch. Lunch and a, Ford Ranger, dude, going Ford Ranger with fucking flames on it on 49s, you know? These Australians are like, oh, my God, dude. Yeah, they'd be like, this would be a felony in Australia. And I fire it up and we take it to town and go to lunch, right?

And then we get out of the place we went to lunch. I'm like, you know, I probably have to take it back. I'm like, ah, that's not fucking very American. So I take it right down Main Street in Winfield. I turn the corner, and I see a state troopers in there. My gosh, not good. And he pulls over, and he just walks up there, pissed as hell. And I know who he is.

his name's Bob. I'm like, hey, Bob, what's up? Show him on. Hey, Bob, what's up? I don't worry. I shout him out of my video, too. And he walks up there. He's like, Weston, what in the, oh, fuck, are you doing?

Oh, man. Oh, brother. He called my first name and everything. And he's like, how far is the trailer? Like, what do you mean? He's like, how far is the trailer? Where's the trailer out? I'm like, to have my shop.

He's like, you drove this thing all the way down. Yeah? He's like, well, I suggest you call somebody to get the trailer. I'm on impound it. So there's like, and then. The Australian guy said in the pageant seat's like, hey,

can you arrest me for a photo on Instagram? Not now. No, so like, he gets out, handcuffs him, sits them on the curb,

we get a bunch of photos for Instagram. And then somebody comes and gets the trailer and then the Ranger won't start because the cooling, the charging system didn't work then either, just like it didn't work today. So we hook it real close to my TRX, pulling both onto the trailer at the same time,

don't tie anything down to go back to the shop. Nice. Sitting there and like all the guys that work for me is like, you know, Bob's going to be more mad about this. I'm like, yeah. Got to make it happen. Bob,

I love you. I'm sending you a Christmas card. I told you I would then. I will do it. And then they posted on Kansas Highway Patrol Facebook page. Really? They took a photo of it and said. They're trying to get some clicks.

Yeah, they took a photo of it and said, you know, we pulled this over today for unsafe motor or like something. But I wasn't being unsafe. We built this, this RC four-wheeler where I had this RC four-wheeler built for us by the way I love those dudes Oh yeah they built you that gold wing

Yes Yeah super nice guys We had this four-wheeler and And we're just driving it around And we don't have many places to drive it right So we're like getting on the road And we're driving it over to our track Which is close

500 yards away from our shop Right little stint And anyway I kind of lose track where this thing is at We're in the truck I'm driving it And I'm talking to the boys. Well, I forget that this thing is like a full-grown four-wheeler. Full-grown.

Yeah. He grew up so quick. Next thing I know it, it hits like our local Wi-Fi and internet provider box. And it hits the box and it breaks the post off. And we're like, ah, damn it, run down there. Try and put it back together. But I have like a contact over. I like the place of like a guy that always comes to my house.

So I call him and I was like, hey, man, can you just come and make sure that this thing didn't just take out the power for the entire. street down below and he's like yeah i'll come and i'll come and make sure everything's all right so he comes over checks it out he was like yeah there's nothing in this box you're good we'll just fix it in the spring next day i got a call from the local sheriff's office hey yeah we're just uh calling to check and see um what's your plan is with that box that you hit and i go well first of all i didn't hit anything the four-wheeler i was not on that four-wheeler it's a drone it was an unmaned four-wheeler.

And then I was like, dude, what narks, man? They just, they just ratted on me that quick. They didn't come and ask, like, what we're going to do about it. But that's our recent run-in with the sheriff's office. But, you know, they were cool about it. And I was like, yeah, man, we'll get it fixed and everything. You know what's funny is I bought my Humvee in California. And I had a tag for it, but it kept falling off.

So I just threw it in the RV that was following us, you know? So every time as we're driving it across the country, every time we would see a cop, my videographer would pick up and start recording. And I wouldn't really think too much about it. I'm driving Humbley. I'm just awful. This is awful. This is sucks. They're terrible vehicles. It's terrible, fucking vehicles.

I still have mine. It's great. It's great to look at it. It looks so cool. But it's awful to drive. Anyway, every time we pass a cop like a hundred times all the way back to Kansas, he turns on the camera, hits record, nothing happens. Nobody pulls us over. And then we get like three miles away from Winfield. like five state troopers are sitting next to the road and he turns it on he's like i know

this is going to be the time drive right past him nobody pulls him and bob let you through too bob you know bob was asleep bob don't work nice shit it was nighttime bob was asleep but you know the thing is is uh bob is bob is uh bob is fair but bob is a long he's a long dick of justice of the town you know he makes sure that things are he is very fair but he is very like you are going to keep my road safe damn it you know what i mean so i can't can't get Bob too much grief. But anyway, we get all the way back. He gets, my videographer gets in his car.

It's perfectly legal Jeep gets pulled over two blocks away from a missing tag. Like, the Humvee has no taillights, no turn signals. It has headlights, no tag. And like, we drive it like 1,500 miles across the country, never get pulled over. He gets pulled over for a tag light two minutes later. It's funny. About how it goes. Yeah, good stuff.

I once drove a bus from Salt Lake City to Costa Rica with a fake, uh, fake temp tag. Wasn't it that bus? It was this bus's brother. Okay. I about got him at the same time. But yeah, I did. I have not driven with a license plate for probably 15 years. I don't, I'm a dealer, so I'm always moving back and forth between different vehicles. I just don't ever get anything licensed. So 2012, we buy this bus, and our goal is to drive it to Panama, and we're going to try to do a whole trip in like 10 days. It's really hard to get an unregistered vehicle into a foreign country, especially when it's a commercial vehicle. Makes sense.

So they get all them stolen ones on her. Well, we found a way to get the bus in. You basically just have to wait, and the border customs lady has to tell you no, enough times that she feels like she's doing her job, and then you just offer her money, and then she takes it. I was stuck at the border,

three days of the Mexico border, two days at the Guatemala border, a day of the Belize border. So it got lower. By the time you get to Chile, you just like, roll up there. You paint. Come on in!

Hazel Christo on the side of your bus, and you say you're a church, and you're fine. Okay. But don't try to take one on your name. You know, there you go, Wes. And next day you drive a Humphi across. I put a church on it. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Yeah, there we go.

I think the thing is, I think everybody's seen me driving by. It's like, I feel sorry for that, man. I'm going to pull him over. That sounds like a lot of paperwork. I think the thing about pulling a guy like you over, though, is like you're going to make jokes with them, and they're going to laugh and you're going to laugh. I got, bend you over, spake you a couple of times.

They were my favorite ones. Bro, have you guys ever seen this YouTube channel where the guy buys the mini jeep and goes to Moab? Yeah. Yes. That guy has the most underrated channel.

It's the best channel on YouTube, in my opinion. I've seen the first video of that when it had 12,000 views. Yeah. And I'm like, that shit's good. What video is it?

He bought a like a go-car Jeep. Drove it really far. He drove it. He shipped it to Utah and drove it to from, Top of Utah to Moab. And it was insane. He took a really fucked up route that took a thousand miles.

That dude is so underrated. And he blipped. I don't remember. You look up Moab. It's like C-90 adventures. I want a shout out of YouTube channel too. That's underrated. This guy, Nathan Carr,

who have you guys seen that guy who does like burnouts and drive-thrues at McDonald's in that? What? And that regular cab Silverado. Let me see. Is this a thing? Bro. This kid, oh, he had the U-Haul that he welded the diff in and was drifting in.

Oh, yeah. bro this kid i've been watching his videos because he did some savage stuff and he just made this like seven minute long apology video and it's like don't do what i do on these streets it was it was pretty funny but see 90 adventures see 90 adventures it's one of the most entertaining pages of ever found all right if we're giving shout out this guy need subscribers dude uh ed gun leachie he shoots squirrels with this like super high powered airsoft rifles and he's just got like

scope cams dude it's it's so good I think I'm also Peter's outdoors I think I'm more on the truck truck McDonald's kind of thing everyone's got a shout out one one YouTube channel

before we extending the olive branch and then we're resting and champ one too dude I love it dude shout out to all of your guys YouTube channels thanks for coming on our podcast and taking the time

I think we're like over two hours yeah we told you guys like maybe just 30 minutes So we really, I knew that was a lot. I knew it was a lot, too. Yeah, we knew it was a lot. We thought we were like 20 minutes, you, like, you cool to jump on them.

Well, the good thing is, is that it was going so well. We enjoyed talking to you guys so much that we just did the whole thing with you guys. So the question is, how many bleeps are going to be in it? None. Zero. Actually, I don't know. We might actually have to start you with that. I'll talk you about that, though.

Yeah. I think we might be getting throttled. Throttled? Yeah. Oh, well. Dave needs to get back to a snow cat, guys. Dude. That whole place out there's not ungrroomed.

Come on, you can fall behind. Hey, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for coming on the podcast. We love you. And we'll see you in the next one. Oh yeah, brother.

Beep. Mm-hmm. Woo-hmm.