Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Cleetus McFarland's Near Death Experience Flying, Dangers of Drag Racing, & His Key to Success

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

Today we are joined by Youtube and Racing star Cleetus Mcfarland. We chat about what it takes to put on insane events at the Freedom Factory. His obsession with Hate it or Love it by 50 cent, The insane highs and lows of having Kids. Maturity, and its role in flying, and seeking out positivity instead of hate. Cleetus has become one of our good friends in the last year or so and we hope you enjoy what its like spending time with our group. Cleetus's socials Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CleetusM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garrett_1320video/?hl=en Store: https://www.cleetusmcfarland.com/ Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Book an appointment at https://www.zocdoc.com/wideopen Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off of your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code WIDEOPEN at shopmando.com! #mandopod #ad Get 20% off your first order at https://www.liquidiv.com with code 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

Some people bring the show. Some people come to win. I can see why, yeah, you keep inviting us back. The amount of recklessness watching you guys all try and drift at the same time. The giveaway just did bad because no one liked the truck. Man. I don't think I've ever told this story online, by the way. The helicopter is sitting there ready.

Ready. Because it's so life or death if something goes wrong. 831. One minute late. No way. That's not bad for us, dude. That's really good. Are we going?

we good i mean like that's a miracle for me the first thing he said was just tell your boys not to be too late today oh and then you said the earlier the better and that stressed me out no this is perfect this is great well cleetus macfarlane thank you for having us brother hell yeah thanks for having me on i'm pumped we're actually sitting in cletis's hangar right now on his compound so thanks for one having us to your compound and your hanger but two having us to the race tonight dude i'm excited i you know i was just telling you guys I cannot believe you guys come and bring the whole crew. That's an operation.

So thank you so much for coming. Yeah, man, we're rolling deep. How many guys we got right now? Like in the Airbnb, it's always tough when you get to the Airbnb and we got like 10 guys because we're always like, who gets what, Roman, where's everyone staying? Who has to stay with each other? Nobody wants to sleep together and with Evan.

So it's always like a race to figure out who's where. Dude, he was sleeping in the garage last night. It was a pretty dope garage. Yeah, I mean, it's like, It's got a nice couch and stuff, but the problem with Evan is he really likes egg salad. So if you know where I'm going with that. Yeah, no, George is, like, terrible to sleep with, too. And they're kind of alike.

Man, I don't know about that, dude. I mean, George snores like, you might as well have this airplane running in your room with you if you sleep with George. Yeah, that's always tough. Well, we know you got a busy day. That's why you wanted to start. It's going to be a cranker. So, like, what does that like when you're putting on an event for all? all these people come in, you got the pay-per-view, and then you got to corral, what, 40 different

racers and influencers? Well, I can tell you this, it used to be the most stressful thing in my life. Like, by far, these race days, this race, and then the Freedom 500, like, the most amount of stress I've ever experienced in my life was, like, the COVID, the first one. I would dread these weeks, but you do them because they're, not only are they successful, they're a blast. Now they're not stressful because I have Josh and Ryan, those two guys who run the track. holy smokes now i'm like i'm not even stressed like to do this on the day of the race is unheard of

for me but they're so good my employees are so good i can do it how'd you find them well josh the head guy for the racetracks i hosted a track cleanup day like a month after i bought the freedom factory the dude showed up with his entire lawn crew you own a lawn company not like charging me or anything it was just a volunteer day so there was like random people just helping clean up the weeds because every crack in the track had weeds up to here shows up with an actual commercial lawn company mowers all the equipment real employees and just stayed for two days straight and knocked out a ton of work and then he just kind of hung out like came to all the events and I was like dude this guy is like so committed to making the track great for no reason

one day I were standing there I was like do you want a job like would you work here and he told me he has a successful business I said how you know what would it take he came up with a number and I said done if you poached him if you want to do it I poached him from his own job yeah shut down his own business wow he shut it down he oh he owned the business that's pretty crazy he must have definitely seen you know the potential in where he was going to dude he sold his trucks found other jobs for his employees he probably was like where do I want to mow lawns at a racetrack and like manage this whole racetrack and be cooler in whatever Lakewood ranch we're in yeah I mean I don't know what

that was like for him but he has two kids and a wife and he made a big change in his life that puts more pressure on you too though to like make it work i never was scared to have that pressure but i know he was worried about it like going to work for a YouTuber as you guys know doesn't sound like the most promising thing because YouTubers are one incredibly unstable like just inherently because they're like we're like squirrels but too like how do you tell your wife like hey i'm gonna I'm gonna shut down the company to go work for a YouTuber that's probably pretty scary but he did it, and he's the greatest, greatest guy. How many guys you got around here? I think the Freedom Factory right now, damn, I know there's like 25 people in the group chat. So that's full time. That's a full

operation. That's between Freedom Plus, Freedom Factory, and the race shop. And that's just those full-time employees. And then merch is probably like 30. Oh, wow. Dang. Right now. It's always cool to see the, the back end operations of other YouTube channels, you know, because a lot of times people watching, you know, might just think it's just you and George and the boys at the shop, right? But, like, little do they know there's so much more that goes into the back end. And merch is, like, probably 10 full time and then 20 temps. Like, when it's busy, it's a lot of temps. Yeah, we've actually, with our operations and our merch guys, you know,

we've taken a lot of advice from just what you've done with your operation and how you've set them up and really appreciate that. Oh, I wish we could help more. We're in. You're the man. You're not like, you're not one of those guys. that has the mentality of like there's a scarcity to uh competition competition and and viewership and like you know merch success like since we met you you've wanted nothing but success

for us and i think that that says a lot because we've met other YouTubers that think the complete opposite oh yeah we all know but you know I can just give you a quick thing like the guy Kyle Loftis who brought me up started my career his theory was like bring everybody up with you and like When I wanted to start my channel, it was never like, oh, I want 20% to help you. You were like, I was like his top guy for social media. And he was never like, hold on, whoa, what's this cleatist thing about? He started it. I mean, he's the one who helped me start.

He was always like, let me help you. That's from 1320? Yeah, Kyle Loftus. He's like, let me help you. He helped me the whole way. Never a hesitation. Is that why you still have 1320 as your Instagram username? Yeah.

Like you still kind of just pay homage to it? Yeah, it's just where I came from and like, that mentality i use it every day that's just how i learned to be around people and like care for people is like just help everybody and it actually just works out way better in life than worrying about so much yeah competition like yeah rising tides rise rises all boats why do you think that a lot of youtubeers or creators or just business people in general don't think that way i think they're just scared you know they're just scared of what other people could potentially take from them i do understand that mentality if you have a lot of obligations, high overhead, something like that, you might be real worried

about what someone could take from you, but it's like a lack of confidence in yourself, maybe. Right. That's probably it. The lifespan of your said channel might be shortened because someone else is doing better. I think that's also why, you know, you can get 40 people to show up and support you on these races. And it's definitely not just like they're just supporting you and put money in their pocket. They have something to gain by showing up and making content too. But it's still insane that all you guy like guys like you take four or five days out of their schedule to come do this i think it's insane 40 40 drivers will be here tonight from all walks of life and motorsport i'll still never understand that how i'm lucky enough to get you guys dude like insane list too like yeah really big

names how do you go about getting them yeah when i was racing my mom was like who are you racing against i was like oh well nascar drivers action sports legends like celebrities just everybody yeah she's like and you yeah it really doesn't make sense i think to put like the most tangible things down. It's the car costs you nothing. You know, you don't have any setup required, no obligation on time. You don't have to promote. There's zero requirements besides arriving and racing. And, you know, as us YouTubers and other guys, like, we don't want any obligations. We hate that. At least I do. And so for you to just show up, do whatever you want in the car, and then walk away. It's kind of nice. So I think that's true. That's a good point. It's not like

we're texting you guys like, hey, can you promote? remote freedom plus it's literally just a if you mention it great if not like we're just happy to have your name on the driver's list so that works out good and you know now it's grown to a level of viewership that I think uh some of the racers who are just actual racers they're allowed to say to their sponsor like hey I'm I'm gonna lead this race and it's legit enough and it has more exposure than I'd say 98% of other races so it's like their their brands love it so it works out good for them that's how we get the big dog racers like the NASCAR guys and So I think that those are probably the reasons they show up.

It's really cool because obviously the streaming is gigantic. But every time we mention that we're going to the Freedom Factory, someone in the airport go, hey, me too. From all over three different airports we're in, people are coming from like around the country. I'm sure there's some guy from Australia coming over here for this thing. Oh, 100%. Yeah.

Like people come from all over and that they aren't. And they aren't like people that probably attend every weekend race. They're like, I'm going to Cletus's race because it's cool. I bet half the people here, well, I'd say a third of the, people here this weekend have never been to a track in their life this will be their first time on a track like it's it's kind of like uh disney on ice of racing that it is like you know oh i'm going to the track yeah you don't really like skating but you like disney yeah are you disney or you just you know the whole show like you don't you don't have to like ice skating to go to disney

on ice with your kid and and think it's just a cool show so like all these wives and stuff that'll come with these guys who are just hardcore car guys they'll be like just the best track experience I've ever had because the bathrooms are clean and it's not just a race. Yeah, it's like, there's going to be like RC planes flying. There's going to be parachute jumpers from the Golden Knights. Monster truck. Bro, I'm telling you the fireworks we bought for this are heavy. Wait. Topped your birthday though, because that was, that was insane. Way bigger. We had four like safety sections for that one. There's nine. What do you mean safety sections? Like you can't go in areas like launching zones yeah hell yeah i think it's five and now there's nine i know there's already

nine yeah one thing to mention is it is much more than just a race like it's experience and the last time we're here for your birthday yep for freedom 500 just blew my mind yeah over and over and over well you had a helicopter on the line well i mean that that that was just one of many things oh yeah wait the winner got a helicopter dude here's the deal after this you guys need to go home and train somebody. There's a sick prize for the April race. Bro, we're so fucked. We need to get Evan like on track.

On the simulator. What do you think the key is to winning one of these races? Because it seems like it's normally not the like NASCAR guys even. It's like this race. How's that I keep winning? I went back and watched the J.H footage. Oh, did you? Oh, damn, Mike.

I didn't know you've been training. I mean, that's about all I did. But dude, he was lasered last race. First and only race he's ever won, though. Yeah, really? Exactly. So it's like other people, you could study other people, too. He's just a big redneck.

I don't know how. Man, I know a big redneck and I can tell you this much. He ain't going to win the race. I don't know how he won. So what do you think the key is? Well, the key for this one is, you know how it's, you guys know about the kidney being layout, right? You know that the race goes down.

Yeah. It's the best. A lot of crashes. Ken took out like three barrels outside. That's so entertaining. Dude, he was the most entertaining racer on the track. I know. Sometimes, see, that's the thing.

Some people bring the show, some people come. come to win. I can see why, yeah, you keep inviting us back. Yeah, yeah, because it ain't for the competition aspect of it. Well, I love the C-boys, but if you can protect the car, who's driving first? We got to figure that out. I haven't figured it out yet. I'm probably the most... Who can't run faster. I can... These are awful, dude. I can't bend by a little bit. Dude, but yeah, but I'm going to break the car more than likely. Whoever's going to protect the car needs to go first. You can't win in the first half. I saw you kind of cook me up in your prediction video. I mean, it was hilarious. It's nothing personal. It's nothing personal. And then you,

You just go in on me for five minutes. I've been meaning to. Ben and Micah, my boys are not drivers. Dude, Ben, I saw him hit that tree. I knew you're about to say that. I mean, Ben hit a tree and said it was his braids. The treat's been there all the last 30 years. All right, where are they going?

This is no personal offense, you know what I mean? Yeah, no. The C-boys, great guys. Let's talk about the brakes. But holy shit, they do not know how to drive. I mean, it's the truth. It's just facts. It's just facts.

No offense. No, no. No, no. Talk about those brakes. Because I was actually reviewing the footage. It appears though the wheels were locked up. I'll tell you the problem. Yeah.

I'll tell you the back wheels were. I'll tell you problem. And Ben gets out of the car goes, that e-break didn't work. I'm like, you didn't even pull it. It didn't work at the beginning. So I come in. I go to initiate it. it. The e-break doesn't lock them up. And then I black out and panic from there.

So it didn't put me sideways. And I was like, in my brain, it goes, I was supposed to be sideways at this point. What do I do? Dude, I love that video. By the way, my household, me and Rip are big C-boys fans. Rip. I think I've sent you guys all videos. Appreciate that. My son watches. Like, I think a lot of parents do this. We tried to like limit screen time for our kids. But also when the little guy won't eat like kids just won't eat like those would be like today i'm just not gonna eat it really rattles the mom because they're like you have to eat honey you know we throw on sea boys dude he loves it so much you can just like feed him the whole time no way this is stuff you guys will learn when your parents but what's youtube channel to put on to we go we it's guaranteed

sea boys for us that's awesome the 2020s of 2023 see boys video where it opens up and evan crashes the dirt bike into the frozen lake oh yep like if you show that to rip he's just like oh man got him in peace he's in and then we're just feeding the guy that's funny i actually heard somebody else was telling us the other day that their little one just watches that video of evan going through the ice on repeat like that can't be that kid gonna be okay that can't be good for the young brain a little bit of brain rot i got an email about that but it was specifically hot dogs they're like yep i just show show them the video of you with your hot dog stand and then i feed him

hot dogs because it's the only thing you'll eat it's bizarre feeding america toddlers don't make a lot of sense no well i don't want to skip over this break situation i thought we're done i thought we're done so we're big fans so when we watched this video it was so funny like i'm glad literally i'm glad that i'm glad that me hitting a tree in our hoonicorn was funny it wasn't just that it was like when i got my racetrack i'm out there no helmets bombing around just being an idiot And I'm watching, I'm like, these guys are being complete idiots with no helmets on. So stupid. I'm not trying to back on your guys driving too much, but like the amount of recklessness

watching you guys all try and drift at the same time. And then we got trees everywhere. A couple of you, you know, you guys can drift, but like the separation's crazy. And then Ben is just, I'm watching him like, oh, no, I already seen the title and thumbnail. So I'm like just watching him like, oh, my. My gosh, he's got no helmet on. He's just yanking the break, and then it's her in the tree. Tough break.

Yeah, tough break. You're going to have that. But I've never claimed to be a wheelman. I've never claimed to be a wheelman, dude. So going into this race, I'm like, the previous C-boys that have raced in it set in insanely low bar. You're good. And that, too, it's like everyone that sees me out there is just like, holy shit, which wall is he going to hit? Well, the Crown Vicks are easier to drive than what you were trying to do on the day you were drifting.

The corn is half-crown. That is. Super hard to drive. But yeah, it was half-crown Vick. So that's not good for me. Be familiar. Oh, that's true. That's true.

But it's just that car is off probably harder to drift than a typical drift car. You have a trees, no helmet, like all that was just, it was hilarious to me. And then I watched you guys all learn the lesson at the same time, like, oh, damn. And I did the same thing. I spun out at Lambo that a guy let me drive. drive right here in turn three no helmets went within inches of the wall at like hauling and i'm like damn that was the moment it all clicked and i saw that happen to you guys and i i had to back on you a little bit because you pulled the brakes card out well yeah obviously what else was i going to do

yeah you got to do something yeah it was like just can't wait all of it yeah that tree dude can't believe it was there for 20 years that's the thing though ben is what the other drivers are going to be scared of is that you're just a complete wild card they don't know what you're going to do Yeah, I don't even know what I'm going to do A couple people have shown up and won on their first race, so Brian Deegan. Oh, yeah. It's a big difference between Brian Deegan and Ben.

I don't know, dude. Well, it could be, man. Might be your night. Might be your night. If I win boys, we say this every time, but we're getting a private jet. We're going straight to Vegas. Oh, my God. We're betting the company.

100%. Let's go. I'm actually going there. I'm going on Monday. You guys can just come with. I'm going to sol a lot. All right. All right.

Fuck it will come with, I guess. I think you'll be. be all right and i will tell you this your car and qualifying damn like i should i should double check but i'm pretty sure your car like we run them off 15 laps like you do have to go to set in the bar for you you have the best car you have oh man dude because last time i'm pretty sure that we've been getting we've been getting some lemons i don't think so yeah you're right we might be the problem how much money in crown vix do you have i don't know i heard there's 140 on property oh my god 140 crown vicks that's what i heard where do you keep them they're all back there oh my god what the crown vig

grave dude don't let evan see that that's his dream one day he wants to have just like every vehicle that he's ever broken lined up in one spot but we don't we don't have a big enough spot to put them there's a ton back there you should walk back there at some point have you driven up the prices on crown vicks like there's no way you find a crown vick on facebook marketplace around i don't know dude there's a million that's called the panther chassis there's over a million of them So between all the Grand Marquis and the Marauder and all of them, I'm sure for P-71, like police car, Crown Vix, there's got to be 300,000, 400,000 of them.

I don't know the number. There ain't no way if I only have 140, I've driven up the price. They're just such a good vehicle price. Don't people try and drive up the price on you if they find out that you're buying? Yeah, dude, freaking local auction, then jacking me. Really? Yeah. I have to secretly buy them now.

Like they weren't, they weren't sell them to you, or they were just like making them outrageous prices. Dude, this dirt bag auction company, I was buying Crown Vicks online. Normally I would go in person, but it was so busy I was buying them online. So I bid on like 20 in one day. And I just set the price at like fourth,

you know how you can set the high bid? And then when someone bids, it just automatically goes $100 above them. I set the price at like $4,000 for all 20 of them. Guess how much all 20 of them sold for? $4,000, $4,000. $4,000 even. Oh, they made it to my max bid and stopped.

Yeah, but, like, that's really suspicious over 20 cars. Essentially, they bid it up. And a guy called me, he goes, did you set all your max bids at something? He goes, yeah, someone ran all your cars to the max bid. And they were different. They were like, actually, it was like $3,800. And then, like, 2011, I'd go, like, $4,400. And so in one auction, I got smoked.

And, uh, a dough. Yeah, they got me bad because I was buying up like $2,500 to $3,000. And, uh, they just screwed me. Yeah, we kind of have the same situation. on a much less scale but with R6s just because we've been buying so many R6s. You see us coming? People know they're like, all right, they need it. Buying stuff as a YouTuber.

They see you pull up and they know you. It's not a great negotiating tactic. Yeah. Yeah, it's really bad, especially when they see Mike because they know this guy's money, Mike. You know, he ain't going to negotiate either. He might even pay him more. He might even pay him more. I've seen him do that.

He's leaving with it. It's bad. And trying to sell stuff is not good either. Impossible. I don't know if we've ever. ever sold anything. Selling stuff as a YouTuber just sucks. Yeah. Because you don't know if someone's going to start a YouTube channel based off of what you sold them and like you're just going to have to deal with that for months coming. Like I'm terrified to sell anything because sometimes we do

hack job stuff under the skirt. Really? If we have to, like if I got to get a car out to go race, there might be something a little sketch going on like, you know, what rewelding a control arm bracket to the frame rail. And then someone comes along and is like, he just does garbage work on. this car and I'm always just worried about that see I was going to compare your collection everything seems to run ours really nothing works anymore after a video I think they're actually the same style collection oh really yeah most of myself broke too fix it use it leave it broke until you need it next yeah we'll use it and then it's just like put away and left to die yeah you forget about it because you got to just keep going to the next it's on to the next thing yeah it's kind of a bad

it is terrible habit it's like not cleaning up your mess yeah it's the hardest part because having fun with it is easy but I saw your many TRX dude. Ah man, that hurt to see it go. Tough break, dude. 30 G's. It looked real fun. When it works. To do that just to do the single cab. I killed the motor in it. Yeah, he blew it up. 30,000 our health and murder. I killed it in the dunes. Just being an idiot. Yeah, the dunes eat up motors, man. We figured that out. We brought two snowmobiles there. Who would have thought those would have blown up? What would have thought? That's crazy. Honestly, I was a little surprised, though. Did you ever figure out

like why it did that? No, I haven't even messed with it. It's just sitting there. We were in the corner. Yeah, project for another day. The second motor's blown up? The elephant motor. They just killed it. Well, you said you still got the original hellcat motor to put in it back in if we have to. Man, we would have slapped that hellcat motor in something like the next day that didn't need a helcat motor. I think it might just be a supercharger.

We'll see. Do you think if it was a Raptor R would have made it? A mini Raptor R? I think of what it comes down to is the air filtration. So we had sand go through the engine. Yeah, you're going to have that in the sand dunes. It's crazy, dude. That's what we were saying, too.

We're like, how the hell did we get sand in the motor? Yeah, you know, we're just kind of idiots. So you were given that mini TRX away. Yeah. And I remember when we were hanging out in Glamis last year, you were telling us that you were having that TRX built. And then when you dropped it, you were kind of getting cooked. I got cooked. Yeah, so I remember you saying that you hate when people hate so much that you went out

and you bought a $100,000 TRX to have as the second option if people wanted that, which the winner ended up taking us. but you don't like getting hate i mean i'm really yeah well some people like freaking jake paul and whistling diesel like those two examples like they they kind of let it they love kind of riding the hate i hate when my comment section is like just not positive yeah like when it gets real toxic and they're like you're an idiot you know i usually take that into account i'm like okay maybe i am maybe i did make a bad call here so i'm willing to fix it plus you know the giveaway just did bad because no one the truck.

Man. So I was like, I gotta do something here. To save this promotion. And, uh, just like double it up. Which, yeah, I guess in my opinion,

like watching from the outside was probably the most notable giveaway because of that move. It actually overall highest performing giveaway ever. Really? So entertaining. All of it. Yeah. I think it was down probably 60% in the start.

And then it came back to be the best one ever. Dude, it was just funny that the whole thing was over a mini TRX. Like when you just look at every time I'd look. look at it. I would just laugh. I'd see you promote it. I would just chuckle. Maybe a bad call. Maybe a bad call, dude. People were, uh, like, they just hated it. They hated it so much. Like, you took a perfectly good $90,000 truck and cut the doors off and now it looks stupid. I'm like, damn, I didn't think about that. It took like a year. I remember last year you were

talking about it. It took forever. Which sucks. You're probably pretty excited to debut. It done, spent about 20 grand to shorten it. the right way because I wanted to be super legit and then the dude like missed on the paint job and it just snowballed bad. I get what you're saying though how you do listen to the comments of like you know if there's an overwhelming amount of criticism you do take that into account of like oh I you know I don't know everything and these people are here to keep me in check right and I think that if you're a creator that just completely disregards that and you're like no my followers are stupid and they don't know. I know better. I think you're just delusional in that

aspect. But I think there's like a fine line of like giving people what they think that they want versus maybe what they need. Or not what they need. But then's giving them the content they need. Not that they want. There's two ways also like the content a whistling makes, for example, it brings hate, which brings more views. The things that I'm referring to specifically like pay-per-view or giveaway, people are spending money on it. So if you then screw up, if you sell people bad t-shirts, obviously that's bad business. If you advertise a pay-per-view, they spend $10 on it,

and then it's just awful in the stream cuts and the website crashes, you will receive a roasting like you've never had in your life. you can't play around in those situations you have to own it immediately refund you know where necessary and make some major changes because if you do it twice in a row like for the same reason you're pretty much toast and i think in the merch world too like if you you guys do a good job with your merch but some of these YouTubers dude just burn the bridge with their customers like six months later they ship out their limited edition hoodies and they're just garbage yeah we talk about that all the time I mean, for the last like probably two years or I'd say a year, we've been just like experimenting

or like trying to come up with a product or another way that we can bring some value. But like every time we're like, okay, if we do this, we need to do it right and perfect because like we can't, you don't, you only have so many shots really at like, hey, like I'm bringing this and you guys can and can buy it. If they buy it and it's shitty, your take two, you're going to have much less of a pool and then obviously take three you're probably out of there but you're toast yeah you're you're you struck out but yeah so on the content side you can do it you can screw up and they'll come back but when they're paying money you got to treat them right yeah let's just uh all about how you fix the problem let's talk

about drag racing yeah you have came a long way and and that's not just coming from me that's coming from uh you know some of the old timers i'm around that watch you they're they're like dude he's he's he's big time in it now when it comes to drag drag racing. Let me tell you something, dude. I have a car that I'm setting up for you, for really anyone to drive, and it was almost done for this, but whenever you're down here next, I, like, wanted to let a couple of you guys make a rip on this thing. We'll put that, like, tentatively out there, but we're doing some passes, boys. Sounds like a bad idea, bro. It's going to be sick. You're going to love it. And you just have to go straight. Oh, yeah, no trees. No trees. Okay. Except for that one at the

beginning, but, you know. And we'll make sure the brakes are dialed. We'll make sure those brakes. They work. Parachute. Hold on. But drag. But drag. But drag. Rag racing, yeah, dude, it's a great sport. You just got to try it out a little bit. You'd probably love it. You'd probably get hooked. I think I would love it. I mean, I've been ridden in a few, but, so like what, I mean, as of recent, like, what, you're, you're in the fives? Yeah, I went to 580 at 250 last week.

What does that feel like? That's nuts. Brother, it's fast. I mean, from zero to 250 in five seconds, it is fast. It's stupid. But you're talking 0 to 60 and like, I think it's 0.8. What? What?

Like, what does your body feel like? You feel the, you just black out. You feel the parachutes more than anything, but she's ripped. You kind of feel the, I guess, reverse Gs of the parachutes more than the- Yeah, the parachutes actually hit harder than the car. Like, it just boom. Yeah. So, like.

It's a lot of freezing. Does anything feel fast after that? Like, you hop in a other cars feel slow. I'm sure. Like, you hop in the supra. What does this have? Like, 1,300 horsepower? Yeah, probably.

like what is that like driving just a Subaru nowadays it actually helps you because when you're in a really fast car and your brain gets to that level because now I can drive the five second car and I understand it as we're traveling down the track I understand the feelings of okay the tires are off the ground or they're on the ground or they're just touching or I'm going left or right like you get you catch up with it then you get in the slower car it's the second slower and like I'm like fully locked in every part of the car so it actually helps you i think because you go you slow down it's i think i know what you're saying kind of on a much smaller scale say you're driving a 450 dirt bike on the track it's probably a little more bike than like i can handle then i go down to my 110 right and like i'm on

then i can just like i'm wide open through the berms like you're ripping totally different it's actually more fun driving a a slow car fast than driving a really fast car fast it's just i think the Supra's, like, the fastest car I've ever been in, honestly, and it's your street car. Yeah, that thing's turd. I mean, it's fast, but it's, like, doesn't even hold a flame to what this other stuff does. Would you ever do a nitro car? So I don't fit in top fuel dragsters unless it was a custom chassis. And, like, I don't think the risk to reward exists.

Because it's too fast. What do they go, 330? Yeah, something like that. 330 mile an hour? I know they're going to 330 here. That is a good question, though. Like, you're climbing the ladder of, you know, you're in. The 10s, the nines, exactly.

So that is what I was wondering. Like, top fuel just seems like you got to make it your life, I guess. That's a big risk. Like, you're going 330 mile an hour. If that puppy blows over or whatever, you're going for the ride of your life. Yeah, I can't even wrap my mind around that. They keep a helicopter here when they run them. Like, the helicopter is sitting there ready.

Ready. Because it's so life or death if something goes wrong. That kind of scares me. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, I feel like there's no, like, easy crash in that. like no matter what at that speed yeah like if your parachutes don't come out or something like only a few things have to go around you blow a tire i don't know dude i don't know that's a good question i don't know when we'll stop but it might be there but we might be close and that's what that doesn't mean necessarily stop i mean there's so much fun to be had in the you know in the fives yeah i mean just the fives yeah i'd be willing to run a top fuel car to the eighth and then i'm sure if i ran it to the eighth i'd feel comfortable enough to go to the quarter but

Damn. Yeah, that's crazy, bro. Three seconds to go a thousand feet. Do they have like, like if your parachute doesn't go, there's no way. Did they even have brakes on it? Yeah, they do. They do. But you're going off the track.

You're going off the end at probably 130, I would think, is what you could get down to. If your parachute doesn't go. Yeah. Which is crazy because that's about twice the legal limit on this interstate. So yeah, going twice in there. I mean, there ain't really a crumple zone. Like that thing, depending on what you hit, you're just going to take the brunt. of it. It's not going to slow you down. I don't know. Have you seen that? I've seen

Parish. Yeah, actually, just this last weekend where I was racing Eagle, it's one of the cars in my class, parachutes just ripped right off it. Dude, through the shoes, both came off, immediately rolled and slid on its roof like more than a quarter mile. Jeez, geez, dude. Yeah, it's good. It's one of those things, man. He was good. You don't really think about, I guess, if you're doing it, you do, but like to the general public of how many people race in it versus how many people probably get injured or die. Like, the percentage it's got to be insane right it's got to be pretty high like higher than most sports drag racing's really good because for the most part your inertia remains in one direction and can't be stopped

immediately you know what i mean unless you go over the wall there's nothing that can stop you so your inertia doesn't have an immediate change you know what i mean like no trees yeah there's no trees in drifting i think they have probably more high impact hits than most drag race racers. But if you blow over, you know, which is like if you're doing a power wheelie and you get up in the higher 150, like maybe closer to 200 and you fly. Yeah. And you go off over the walls and find something that can stop all your inertia. That's where people really get hurt. Or fires. You know, if you're going 250 and a fire breaks out, you can't get stopped for another 20 seconds. That's where your suit, like my suit is 20 layers. It's supposed to be able to survive those 20

seconds while I get the car hopefully stopped or it slides to a stop or whatever. Is your wife like get worried? Well, I mean, we're talking about this in the worst case scenario. True. No, I know, but even when you're doing, you know, five seconds. I think she gets nervous. But we have the best equipment, so that helps. I think she's pretty comfortable with it now.

We've been drag racing for a long time. And I think she gets worried when I'm racing those real short wheel base cars that are crazy. They're like, you know, there's a lot of idiots with fast cars. cars too that's something you got to account for what we know you freaking pull into this guy that you know crash last weekend that sucks oh like up against him you're looking at them dude people will crash and then fix their car in the staging lanes that's what ben's got going for him tonight people are going to be scared they are going to be scared to you just drive aggressive dude i see that sea boys driving around be like damn let him pass let him pass what if his brakes go

out who knows what he'll do like i saw guys this last weekend crash fix their car in the pits and then be right back on the staging lanes and i'm like damn i don't want to race him yeah because that's a patch job like you're throwing it together yeah maybe oh yeah no i mean they do it it it's just a little sketch uh got a question for you what's up with you and the song love it or hate oh hate it's a great song i just when i turn that song on it hits so damn hard yeah i listen to it on the way to work listen to it this morning that's a really so hate or love it on the dogs on top the best part about that answer is that you it wasn't some premeditated all okay so the reason i use that song you're just like i just love it dude i posted it a couple times someone was like pick a new song and i said

you know what hate or love it i love this i'm posting this for the rest of my life is my do you know how many times you've posted it no you've posted it 103 times the main audio Just on Cletus McFarland, not on all the other ones, not on stories. That's pretty good. Just main audio on the thing. I would have thought it was more. Yeah, that makes sense when you say not counting stories. Only rising.

I'm trying to get 50 cents come race. Yes. That'd be sick. You could have them perform or something. How hard for your birthday, gosh. That's how you're on repeat. It's just one song just to keep it cheap. What if we got him for the Freedom 500?

I wonder what his fee is. I wonder if someone could. reach out to his team. He'd probably do it for a discount just to be here. A lot of people are into it now. Yeah, you're boosting his charts. I think I've had a few people unfollow because of it. But hey, you're a love, dude. Yeah. The dogs on top. I mean, yeah, the comments are pretty funny, though. Like, judging by what she said earlier in the podcast, I would have thought that you would have switched because there is so many people that are just like, dude, seriously, stop. Yeah. See, that's something I don't care about that opinion because, like,

I, you know, I guess it goes back to the thing. It's like, It's a free Instagram account. It's not that deep. I'm playing the song. Hey or love it, dude. I don't want to blow up your spot, but like I bought the rights to chill bill. So I was wondering if you did that with hated or love it. Like you bought some of the streaming rights for it and now you're like pushing it out there.

Nah, dude, I'm just, I'm just playing it because I hate it or love it. If I could buy it, make a little coin of it. You just own like 0.1% of it. Basically it goes public. I didn't even think of that. Yeah. genius genius now I'll keep rocking it probably till

I die well I'll tell you this much every time I hear the song I think of you yeah good so 100% you got that going imagine they ban it or something I'd be so sad actually I mean you were the first one to tell me that like back when I would edit a little bit of the videos I would try to use I mean I'll just admit it

like I just use not good songs and I would try to use a different song every single time and then CJ was like, dude, so what we're trying to do is, like, if you use a good song, kind of not every single music. But yeah, like, if we find our song and like use it over and over, then people recognize it. And then I was like, yeah, you do have a point. And then it's, there's a hundred percent truth to that. Like Danny Duncan has his transition song and that's kind of, you use that as an example.

And you guys have. And you just know. Yeah. And you guys have done a great job of that. So I think using the same song over and over goes way farther than using a different song every time. My viewers rage if I change my time laugh song. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. Dude, you got to have one of the most, like, loyal fan bases on YouTube for how much you post and how it's always like over a million views. I definitely am so lucky. Like, I have, like, the easiest audience to work with of all time, I think. Like, they're very responsive. They're cool. They're not, like, insane.

Like, if I meet someone at the grocery store, it's a great experience. It's not like, uh, it's not like, I've, you know, I know what some people, deal with. I don't have stalkers. I mean, I've had a couple crazy people that have come to my house, but I don't have, like, crazy people that'll, like, interrupt my dinner to tell me to hate me, you know? I'm sure there's some people to have that. Imagine me in politics, like, how much people can hate you over an idea. Yeah. I'm sure we share quite a lot. Yeah, we, ours is the same experience, honestly. But, uh, yeah, no, it's just, it's just crazy watching your work ethic. I feel like we work really hard, but if there's another person that works hard on us, it's you for sure.

I appreciate. I know you guys work really hard. And actually, that's something I want to talk about. Why do you guys only post once a week? Why can't we up those numbers? Dude, they're going to love hearing you say that. What the hell are we doing here? How many?

Five guys. You sound just like them. Six guys making these videos. Are you working for the option? Where's the content? Where is the content? Well, I mean, look at the content. Look at the content.

It's great. Every Thursday, it's just jam-packed and it's as high quality as we can while still keeping it consistent. I mean, we're filming up until Wednesday to make Thursday happen. Then we edit it in one day. God damn it. Maybe we don't have a good answer for you. I'm pissed about it.

One day when we have a... I'll just say this, dude, it's hard enough to do one a week for us, honestly. We literally couldn't. I mean, we were uploading in the airport last night. We were editing at the airport on the plane. So talk me through a week here. What time do you guys get to the shop? Well, I mean, yeah, we'll get to the shop.

If you're Micah, noon. I don't know. Nine. If it's a Monday, if it's a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Keep going. We'll film on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays. A lot of Saturdays lately. We got to corral the crew, you know, so we might start filming at 10, 11.

And then we're also working on projects. You know, usually when we do a project, it's not like we put some in one video and then some in the next. Like, it's like one project is one video, right? And some projects take two months. So we'll film a bit for that project that we got going on. And then we'll film a podcast. And then we'll film another bit for another video that we got going on. And then we'll sit down and we'll edit the video on Thursday.

So CJ and I'll show up at like 6, 7 a.m. And then and Dalton will edit all day on Thursday. Like 7 to 8, 7 to 9. So it's like a 13, 14 hour. It's just a lot of footage because, I mean, you were mentioning the 5, 6. guys but like when you're just running the camera you have so many people talking so then it's like you have so many jokes you kind of got to sift through and and you try and keep it consistent moving forward at least that's what we do but a lot of it like ben said is is like we're working on projects

that are a month or two out and you're filming you're picking up so like oftentimes we're working on like three four videos at one time yeah but uh and then you got of course like calls and shit and whatever else but we could up our numbers we used to do two a week and we just found that we could make a better video by just doing one a week everyone does have a different strategy yeah not saying you have to post more than once a week dude i i just feel like nobody posts more than you though like if you look at us compared to most other YouTubers posting consistently once a week in terms of like big bigger YouTubers most people aren't doing it I know so like you are an anomaly you really are and I mean I've watched you work.

You show up. You're just on it, dude. And you have such a good crew. It's like everything's ready to go. Yeah, yeah, that's huge. Employees is probably the number one thing to make you be able to post a lot. But every YouTube channel has a different strategy. And if once a week maximizes your guy's ability to reach your audience, then so be it.

Yeah, I mean, we just focus on the one video. We make it as good as possible that just has been working for us. And honestly, the biggest thing is we're just trying to. indicate burnout too like with all of us you might not believe it but like we're all like strong dude like very rarely do we work less than six days a week seven days a lot of weeks also evan lives four hours away and he's got a whole other life right so we got to keep that in mind too of of his time and when he's at the shop so you know there's just a lot of different moving parts that we you know try and juggle and that's just kind of what we found works for us

I'm definitely not trying to criticize you guys. I just, you know. No, no. Putting us on the hot seat, bro. I'm wondering. I just want to know. So, like, do you even take a day off ever? All the time.

Really? How do you ever have time to take a day off? I mean, we have great employees, too, but. I have, you know, here's the thing. Now I try to edit, you know, when I'm at work, or I just edit when everyone's asleep. So that just solves that problem. So you just don't sleep? Well, I mean, in all reality, it's like how much sleep do you need?

A couple hours is good. If you're getting six a night, that's pretty solid. I mean, I think Elon sleeps like five hours. That's true. If you got to sacrifice some sleep, that's how I get back ahead. Because I'm just willing to do that. Yeah, like what you said about my guys get stuff ready, and that's crucial. It really doesn't matter how much you post.

I guess if you've analyzed this is going to be the most watch time for the channel, period, then that makes sense. You don't have to post. You might lose money by posting twice a week. Well, our videos cost a shit ton of money, and nothing's, worth anything at the end of it. So it's like, like everything's totaled out. It's on fire. I do think about that. You can't sell it. But something I think about a lot, which goes back to you, is like you have two kids. And eventually, like, I'm going to have kids. These guys will have kids. How much is having kids change the way that you operate in terms of a business? Obviously

has changed your personal life. But like, all right, I'll tell you this. So like the first four months of having a kid, your first kid, it will take you and your wife to rock bottom. Just because of the situation of losing all your sleep, you will lose it because you're going to be so strung out about keeping the thing alive. Long term, as long as you can set your wife up correctly to have like help, like we have grandmas that help a lot and you can get her that free time to like spend time with you, it can not affect your work life too much. And you definitely have to sacrifice work life first to be with mom and baby because, you know, there was certainly a point where I didn't prioritize them enough. That doesn't help anything. And like the baby just multiplies all your

issues. So if you have, for say, a drinking problem, the baby is going to take whatever your issue in life is and multiply it by 2,000 percent. Because that's what they do. They just make your life complicated because of the loss of sleep and what it does to your wife and things like that. So what I would encourage you to do is get to your point where you're not strung out and the businesses ran really well and you can rely on those trustworthy employees then have a baby and it's really it's a great process. But no matter what, you're going to hit rock bottom at some point because of loss of sleep or any outlying issue you may have in your life. Like that's what babies do. I think it's actually designed part of the process is they're so difficult to raise.

We in particular, I think, had a tough baby, our first one rip. For some reason, they just don't want to sleep or they don't want to eat. What it does to your wife is unbelievable because their mom brain is, I have to keep this baby alive and I love it so much. They won't prioritize anything but the baby and you're trying to prioritize other stuff and then it's just like, boom, it's crazy. once you get through those difficult times like right now i know the kids are set i don't stress about it at all the whole day certainly is a process to get to that point it's great advice yeah sorry we're

quiet on this one we got nothing yeah i'm just thinking i'm just like i mean i've seen uh maddie just like you know yeah obviously she's always around and and she's got the kids with and she's an awesome mom i don't know if it was your mom or her mom but they came up to us and and told us last time we're yeah rip loves watching the vids I don't know whose mom it was, but. Well, it was either of them. But, like, grandmas are absolute key. I mean, obviously some people don't have the luxury of having a grandma,

but, like, you got to find someone that really cares for the kids to help the mom, especially with two. And I will tell you guys this, whether it's the helicopter, the freaking, the coolest thing you've always wanted in your life, it will not hold a flame to the words, dad-da. When your kid says dad-da, there's nothing that tough. touches it. Not the greatest frickin Starg-powered Ferrari

with wings you've ever seen in your life. The first six months, it's like this little baby. You're like, okay, I get it. I'm a dad. When you walk home and that little guy says, Daddy! Nothing touches it. Were you scared to have kids? It was scary when we found out we were pregnant,

then we were excited, and then when we went to the hospital, it was pretty scary. We waited too long, so Maddie was in labor in the car. Oh. not awesome and then she was like really in hardcore labor during check-in and they're like dude the valet guy's yelling at me just take it no dude the valet guy you can't park here i'm in our ta-ho i was gonna ask what car did you take we're in the tahoe and we got all our stuff right like you you packed for this so you just load that stuff

and then you go dude mattie's like screaming the valet guy i'm trying to get her stuff because it's crucial we have her stuff. You know, she has spent weeks organizing this stuff. I'm not going to let. The ballet guy jumps in the Tahoe and just starts moving it. He's like, I'll park it, worry about your wife. Brother, let me get my bag in her phone. You know, me and the valet guy are beefing. Maddie's screaming. And then they... Rips coming. Yeah, Rips on his way. They take your wife into a room. Well, this is this particular hospital and they ask your wife, are you like, safe? I don't know why. It's probably people beat their wives or whatever and they you know people who are addicted to drugs or children trafficking i have no idea but they take your wife and they want to ask them if they're safe

they also want them to sign some paperwork and stuff and mattie's like screaming through all this so that experience for us was just not good from the moment the labor started that was all really scary until the baby was out and alive and then we're like now it's amazing again it's got to be one of those things too where you're when you're going into it you don't know what to do you don't know what to expect this is your first time you're like oh my wife's pregnant where do I go it is or how's that worked or do you you call ahead you tour the hospital prior so you know I've never but it is the most incredible experience of your life to see your child come to life from your wife that made it it's nuts it's the most like uh what is it's it's the most like uh what is it

Like, see, it's euphoric. It's also, like, it takes you to, like, you're just, you feel like in, you're like, you're like animals. Like, you know, this is real life stuff. No, no, nothing else matters. Like, your wife made this baby and here it is. So I'm not trying to bore you guys. No, right.

I can't wait for you to all to experience it. Dude, I can't wait to see Rip run around this freedom factory, dude. When he's older. Yeah, he's, he rips now. I don't know the last time he saw him, but that dude. dude is on it really how old is he now too just turned two on uh Wednesday yeah he'll be uh he'll be bombing around with his little helicopter just living his life he'll be here yeah are you gonna get him a helicopter flies it yeah i mean he's got it he has a toy helicopter that he's he'll be rocking

today i'd be shocked if he didn't have it on him but uh loves riding in the helicopter him and i cruising it together he rides up front by himself now no mom that's awesome like some kids get a first car when they turn 16 he's getting a helicopter oh dude he a little two-seater i don't think i'm gonna let him fly a solo for a long time but he lives for that thing do you have to be 16 to get your helicopter license or your pilot license like how's that work yeah i'm pretty sure it's 16 i think you can solo at 14 but you can't ride with path you can't take passengers as a solo pilot until you're 16 it's kind of like having your farm permit right yeah exactly same deal when i turned 15 i couldn't figure out how to get to school because I was outside of a district and my parents didn't know what to do.

Should have just got a helicopter. There you go. Imagine. But this dude used to drive himself to school with no license. Well, yeah. Tell that story. It might be incriminating me now. Yeah, they're going to get you now.

Yeah, dude. His parents let them do it. No, I lived outside of where any school buses went. My parents worked 50 minutes the opposite direction. And, you know, they worked nine to. six and so yeah i would just drive with my permit you had a farmer's permit no oh it was completely illegal drivers just a normal driver's permit and i would drive to my buddy's house and then hop in with my buddy that lived outside of town a little bit yeah and then we would ride to school together

yeah i did that for a while yeah we had farmers permits in nebraska so i drove to middle school you could drive at 14 is that crazy school like when you meet a 14 year old now that has oh my god Is that wild? Yeah, is that dangerous? You know, you start to understand, like, young people so much more when you have kids. And they're into the same stuff as you, so it's just so fun. Like, Riff only loves helicopters because I love them. If Evan has a kid, it's going to love dirt bikes.

That's how I feel like having Dalton around. I learned so much about young people. They just share the world with somebody. They love what you love. That is awesome. Yeah, it's still the coolest thing that you take them up in the helicopter. I mean, like, Evan, he's a grown man, and he can't do that stuff. It's even flying, though, for Evan.

and just flying in a commercial plane. Oh, really? I mean, yesterday it was a nightmare for him, but it was even a nightmare for us because he's so nervous, he starts, you know, drinking a little bit. We had three different planes. We had to hop on. Dude, we felt bad for the whole plane.

This guy is yelling, not like in a mean way, but he was just happy. Hey, CJ, we should, and he's also deaf in one ear, so he's already a little loud. Oh, my God. I thought Ken was going to strangle the guy. And then Mike had to sit next to him. We hop off the plane.

And Mike just goes, I have a headache. well Evan said that he had eight or ten drinks and they were all doubles and then Ken added to the point that when you're in the air it's it's like one drink equals three yeah the oxygen's lower yeah so so Evan they're hitting a little harder Evan had 60 drinks no I don't know if those numbers are accurate but he's pretty proud of it as you can tell yeah we need to break you out yeah Ken did strangle him a little bit actually pop I yeah I didn't know have my flash on so you can only just imagine what happened in the dark. But Ken got two hands on his neck and wiggled him around. He did. It looked like Homer Simpson and Bart. But you really

pissed him off when you took your skateboard out in the Airbnb and you were insisting on skateboarding on the hardwood floors in our Airbnb. So my boy was tore up. No, he was just acting normal. But yeah, he was drunk too. Okay. But it is funny though, because like you're really only a year or two older than most of us. You don't necessarily feel older, but you're just so much. more mature than us. I don't know if that's true. I feel like you are. I mean, I think that you guys might catch me in a certain environment.

I mean, like in Glamis, when we were all having a blast together, it's like we're all I mean, I think you guys are certainly more mature than you think. Like, you guys are running a freaking massively successful company. You're very legit. We're almost like professionally immature. Like, our job is to stay immature. That's good. And, but like, like, don't, don't slip up and start, like, acting serious, you know.

It's so balanced. Because you got to be serious and then you also got to be loose. That's why it's great to have Evan and mix in characters because they are loose. I mean, if you don't have the maturity, it's like all the cards will come crashing down. Yeah. The balance. Dude, I think that you're in a lot of situations, too, where you got to be mature. Like, when you're flying that helicopter, dude, like, I watched the video when you were in North Carolina and you were doing all the rescue.

missions with the helicopter and you were delivering the water and like you were landing on the sketchiest landing pads in roads that were broken up people's yards and you were giving them a rides back like the whole time i watched it i was just like man cletus is one outstanding guy but two so dialed dude like you were so laser focused and i was just i put myself in that situation and i was like god i don't know if i could do that i don't know if i could put that many people's lives in the in the back seat too not cletus and that puppy like it's Garrett and I'm like you have to understand like that thing will a yard tail if it touches a stick you know what I mean so it's like there's just zero room for air and you learn a lot of that when you start flying them you guys

been around enough to see people like some people hot dog them pretty hard like they tear it up like they'll do some sketchy stuff I'd imagine a lot of like the buddy that like our only other friend that has a helicopter? Well, I think Dave definitely pushes it. But, you know, I think there are some guys out at the cabin with the other helicopters who are ripping. And, like, some guys just are willing to push it pretty far in a helicopter. And it depends on the helicopter you have.

If you have a really good one, like a Black Hawk, which is one of the best ever, you can push it. Because that puppy would get you out of most everything. I'm talking about these cheaper helicopters that I know you guys have. seen and been around. Those things, you don't have really any room for air. It's like... Because you're operating at the limit. You're already operating them at their max weight and horsepower. And it's like at that point, if anything goes wrong, everyone's toast. And the pilot on board sometimes doesn't take that as serious as I would. So it's like anything. You have to

set your own limits. Mine are pretty strict in the aircraft because they are a death trap if they're treated incorrectly. Is it true that a helicopter is as safe? not safer than an airplane? Airplane's safer. Okay, because people always have the argument like, no, you can hover down to the ground, but like in my mind, I'm like, dude, I just picture a brick falling out of the air. Yeah, it can for sure land no engines. We could go do it right now. Oh, good. Yeah, I saw your testing video. I still am good. I mean, I can do it 10 out of 10 times. It's great confidence. If we were all in that thing and that engine died, I can tell you that if just the engine failed and there was a field underneath us, I feel 100% confidence.

I would land it and the helicopter would be completely okay. Oh, wow. We just need the engine replaced. So where do things go wrong when you're in like sketchy environments, but you can't land in a field like in the mountains? When I say like I could save it, yeah, perfect scenario. We're flying at 500 feet, 100 knots straight. The engine fails.

I got it. When you're hovering 50 feet off the ground above a bunch of trees with a small landing, you know, zone underneath it and the engine fails, that's outside the profile in which you can save it. there's a velocity chart and basically you have to be going a certain speed at certain altitudes to successfully auto rotate are we going to die no maybe break our backs have you had any sketchy situations i blew a rear main seal and an r44 which is like uh you know the robinson's yeah it evacuated all the oil and when i landed the oil light came on uh so that one wasn't too bad

i did fly in fog one time see this fog layer right here this is just overcast if we popped in that thing and flew up 300 feet. It would be perfect blue skies on top. I was at my house and it was broken, which is where there's gaps in it and it was perfect blue sky. So I kind of popped up and I'm like, oh, like, well, I got to go north. It's going to meet up with Travis Estrada. And as I went north now, I'm on top of the clouds and they're starting to not be broken. So they're more, they're tighter together. I'd only have my license for maybe six months. As I'm going more and more north, I can still see the ground through these gaps. I called the guy ahead, which was where I was going. in about 30 minutes north, I said, hey, can you see this guy? And he said, yeah, I can see

this guy. Should never have trusted that. If you go and stand straight underneath this and look up, you'll be able to see some blue. And people like just took that as, oh, you can see the sky, whatever. So I just keep flying north, keep flying north. Now I can like barely see the ground. Well, I'm like, oh, well, he says it's good up ahead. So it's called VFR on top. So I'm still VFR. I can see everything. Visual flight rules. I'm on top. It's all good. Get to the destination, it is the exact same as what was below me. Like, you can't see the ground now. Flying a helicopter in the clouds is really difficult. It's like closing your eyes and standing on a bowling ball. You know, like if you guys all went in there, I said, close your eyes. I could put

the helicopter in basically like a 90 degree bank really softly. And then you'd open your eyes and not have realized we shifted into that position. So unless you are really good at reading the instruments, you shouldn't be flying the clouds. And to fly in the clouds in a helicopter, you have to have an instrument certified helicopter you have to be an instrument proficient pilot and it has autopilots it has a lot of equipment required to do that so anyway now i'm above the clouds i said oh shit i got to go south i'm going back i get back it's socked in we have about 30 minutes of fuel now and we fly to the nearest airport i've got a really good friend of mine that i trust with me not a pilot but i said hey like i'm going to line us up with the runway this helicopter by the way

has zero equipment for fly instrument and now i have instrument ratings as a helicopter pilot? This point, I had none of that. So an approach allows you, it tells you on the dash a guided line to follow. And it brings you down really gently and in line with the runway to a minimum altitude of like 200 feet. So if you follow it on the gauges, it'll bring you all the way to the end of the runway. That's how planes and helicopters can fly in bad weather. So anyway, I have none of that equipment. All I have is my phone, which has a app on it. That was my GPS at the time. Great. So I get to the airport.

I decide we have to go in and try and land here because of our fuel reserve. I line up. We fly in at like 800 we go in and I'm watching the attitude indicator and just slowly going down like you're shooting an approach. We get down to like 150 feet on the gauge

still can't see the ground. It is like the thicket fog. I have a picture of it from the day it happened. So I fly back out and it felt like we were in the fog for any eternity. Is everyone in there tweaking? No one's saying a word. Is it? It's pretty quiet. Everyone knows what's like going down. It's my wife and then my two friends and me. I had told Chad, my buddy, I said, tell me when you see the ground. You know, like you look down. I have to stare at the dash. I'm locked in on this dash. We fly back in and dude, we're in there for it. It felt so long. And I'm

flying. I'm making a descent at 200 feet a minute, which is like really slow. Yeah. And he just screams out i see the ground i look down we're over the top of a forest missed the airport by over a mile what i'm telling you brother you can't see anything so disorient and i literally like instinctively i pulled back and i pulled in all the power and droop to the rotor which is when you pull so much power and when you're heavy in a cheap helicopter this rotor speeds slows down a I don't think I've ever told this story on line, by the way. And this buzzer goes up. It's like, it's a horn.

Oh, man. And, you know, instinctively, I lowered the collective, which is what you're supposed to do. And I kept flying on top of the treetops. And I found a hole. And I went in and landed and, uh, waded out the fog. You guys were just silent. Dude, we were in the middle of a forest. And then like 30 minutes later, a redneck walks up and all camo with a rifle.

I saw y'all need any help. Some helicopter fuel. But brother, it was terrifying. So you took back off on reserve and then went dip to the airport? Yeah, so we were a mile from the airport, luckily. In some guys field, who knows where. That's scary. Yeah, they say everybody at some point will, like, scare themselves with weather.

And I did that, and I can tell you that I have never touched weather like that in a helicopter ever again. And you deal with crazy weather around here. Yeah, fog and stuff. I won't touch it. Dude, I always think about, like, when you're buzzing above the cloud, like what you kind of described it like you ever just see like another helicopter and you're just like wave at them do you really just like you get up there just a bunch of helicopters it's like just driving down the road oh it's yeah for sure sometimes you'll get with a guy and fly with him for like an hour

you're just taking a detour cruising around and like there's uh there's channels for helicopters so like if i'd see the manty county sheriff is flying like i'll just jump on and talk to him for a little bit and say what's up yeah like you just cruise like all the new stuff like we have traffic so we can see where everybody's at in this area and so you kind of just see somebody you can say what's up and it's pretty insane that's so awesome you said that you kind of treat your helicopter like a like an uber around here like you'll take it to lunch yeah take it out to dinner you and mad you will just pop around florida like yeah dude i think that's like the biggest flex i think the sea boys need one dude ben's got to be the pilot probably right i want one so bad bro like i said

earlier, like getting yourself just so dialed. Yeah, you got to be dialed. Like, I don't have an alter ego that's smarter than I am. Like, you can always, you can always, he's been. Dude, I'm just always been. When you do the training, like, if you get into it and you start to love it, you'll just take it seriously, naturally, I think. There's only a few outliers who, like, just are savages with them. Like, you'll just naturally realize the seriousness of the situation. I want to go up with you i want to go up real bad experience it i would love you to try and fly it so it's one of the most difficult things you'll ever do is try and hover helicopter what did you compare it to i mean it's like standing on a bowling ball but it's just it's so weird to fly them because it's like imagine you're like

hung by a string but you have to stay under that string and so you have to give input to the top of the string yeah it's hard to wrap my mind around like what what you know driving anything would be comparable to that nothing and i've always thought like i'm pretty good at jumping and stuff, me being able to drive. I'm sure we all are. Like, you can get in almost anything, right? A skid, steer, a backhoe, whatever, and drive it probably with almost no training. It's the one thing I've ever not been able to get into. And it took me a lot, like a while to be able to hover. A couple training sessions. Did you buy your own and then figure out how to fly? I went and flew a couple lessons and then I bought an R44, the Robinson that I was telling

the story about, and trained in that and got my license and then sold it and upgraded. Because like they're just horsepower limited and a lot of water in Florida kind of scares me to be in like a piston engine deal in the sky. So I think one reason that so many people love you is because you're very relatable. You know, when they watch you, they feel like you're kind of just, you know, one of the boys. And obviously as your channel's grown, you know, you became more and more successful and you can afford things like these helicopters or the planes or boat behind us. But how do you manage to you know grow your success but continue to stay grounded and stay that that guy that people you know tune back to every single week you know that's really nice you to say i try to like

stay humble and like connected with the people just like you guys do and like the money spending thing is definitely it's a hard thing to do because like i personally want the helicopter but i also don't want to be unrelatable. So say I didn't buy the helicopter because I want to stay relatable. I don't know. I have a hard time just like, what am I supposed to do? Put the money in the bank and like hide it. I don't think that's what they want. I think they watch because they want to see cool stuff. I don't know necessarily if a helicopter is like what they want to do. The views are pretty good. So I think people are excited about that, for example. It's something I battle with like how do you buy this cool stuff but also stay relatable? I don't know.

I think you've done a really good job at it, especially with buying this, helicopter and then showing the like restoration process of it but you also last time we were hanging out you were like yeah I'm buying this airport and I'm gonna you know build my dream home on the airport and I'm going back and forth whether I want to show that or not and I told you just like you know as a friend but as a fan I think that it's so much cooler to see somebody that you watch and support and look up to you know living like the life that a lot of people dream of right so it's like I think that you do it in a taste way of showing it where it's not it's not braggy it's not in your face but it's like people want to see you win it's all harder you're not you're not a douche too and i think it's just so cool where i was like bro you have to show building the most insane house because that's what everyone in your position would also do on that so bad i i ended up just posting a video asking them if they thought it was something they'd want to see and it was overwhelming yes but like i don't i don't get off on the feeling of like showing off like sometimes i feel guilty posting pictures of the helicopter because i

don't want to like brag about it but i love that thing so i genuinely care so like i think that thing is the coolest thing in the world and um i love sharing that with people so like i really want to post a picture but i also don't want to get people the wrong idea that like it's all i care about and i really just like to have fun and do it with cool toys so i guess if people can get down on that that's why they stick around but some people i'm sure have left because of all the money spending but what am i supposed to do not spend it like you guys are giving us this money by viewing our channels and being a part of it like i want to burn it to keep you entertain yeah you're giving back i mean and if they left because of that they were never true fans but luckily for you

you're not rolling into the dealership buying a brand new helicopter and you're not rolling up to your house saying yep everyone built it my house is done like you were digging the concrete like that was fun to see and it's same for this this was a journey to get to uh so it certainly helps brought your viewers to feel like they're connected to it too because they're like my favorite youtube about a helicopter and then brought it back to life and now i love it but you know what i mean like that feeling of it doesn't yeah it's not a great feeling to just be like oh i'm gonna drop all this like flexing isn't really that's definitely not your thing i hate that feeling of flexing yeah like i used to have a Nissan gtr and like just posting like a picture that i felt like i was flexing which

like realistically like a pickup cost as much as a gtr but like people perceive it as a supercar so yeah that's what i'm trying to say yeah yeah no i know exactly what you're saying i posted a a picture of your other helicopter that you have on my story and there was a response that said the forbidden helicopter yeah or like the secret helicopter i was like oh people yeah people don't know about his other one that one i don't show particularly because of uh people tracking where we're at it's just nice to be able to arrive somewhere and it's never a thing like if i go anywhere in that one it it really is a thing it'd be like putting clita stickers all over mattie's car you know yeah and i just kept it on the dL for the honestly the reason of like not flexing and and

consuela has her own story so she's just i love showing her off she's the coolest thing i think i own and it's just different bobby in my what what time are we at guys just out of curiosity Probably right there. Rap, we should wrap. I know you got a busy day. Yeah, dude. We all do. Crazy busy.

You're much, much more busy. And you guys have the greatest guest of all time coming. Yeah. We do. The greatest human being. I think I personally have ever met in my life. Yeah. Travis Pastrana.

TP199. Dude, it's like without Travis Pastrana, I don't even know if we'd be doing what we go. Yeah, and probably same for you even. Like, such an inspiration. just growing up watching him the single biggest inspiration for me and to get into motorsports and he's the exact same person you think he is but better in person yeah so kind how many people can say that about like he is i'd say the same about you though yeah when people ask i always say that you're like the nicest YouTuber i've met so that's nice to you but Travis like if we told

him to like get on the stark farg right now and like we'd make like a jump and do a backflip He'd probably do it. Yeah, I'm going to have to ask him about these electric bikes, what he thinks. But, well, sweet, we'll be taking both these Starks home at the end of the race. We'll have some more for the fleet. We'll probably put them in like a snowmobile or something. There you go. Great.

Well, thanks, Kalidas. Thank you, guys. Appreciate your brother. It was an honor to be on here. All right. See you later. See you later, brother. See ya.