Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Grandpa Ron on Bowling Prank, Funny Stories of Ben & CJ, and Picking Up Chicks
Episode Date: April 25, 2023In today's podcast we have LEGEND Grandpa Ron, and with the gift of the gab we laugh along hearing stories of him picking up chicks in South Dakota, his brother marrying his ex-wife, and how he's reco...vering after his bowling accident. Thanks to our sponsors! Use code WIDEOPEN for $20 off your first SeatGeek order. https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/WIDEOPEN Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/wideopen. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! 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
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Throw the headphones on, see if you like them, and if you don't.
It just kind of almost locks you in.
You hear me?
Yeah, I can hear you real well.
Okay, so basically just try and be close to the mic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, about that.
Okay.
All right.
Talk to me now.
Hey, grandpa, how's it going?
Maybe a little bit lower in that?
Turn him down a little bit.
You might have better hearing than me.
Got that.
I can hear you, I think.
Pretty good?
Yeah, I can hear you.
Is it too loud?
No, pretty pretty.
Yeah.
I'm okay.
Grandpa, do you want to drink or something?
I'm sitting over there, I thought I'd better not drink while I'm talking.
I might fall off the chair or something, but bring it over.
I'll have one with you.
Oh, good, good.
That'd be great.
Should I not show this?
No, no, no, no, you're good.
I don't want people to think I drink.
Yeah, that'd be a shock.
Yeah, we're going to hide that.
We don't want that to happen.
All right, this one has been requested by a lot of people.
ever since the very first time that we had you on camera grandpa
and it was when CJ smashed your TV
Oh yeah, I remember that
But people have been asking to have you on the podcast
Since that moment
So I'm glad that we could finally make this happen
But it was two years ago
Two years ago? Yeah
Been that long, okay
If you guys haven't seen our last video
We took our grandpa Ron bowling
And he might have had a little bit of a slip accident
I'm not going to make the tour.
Let's put it that way.
A bowling tour?
I don't think so.
I'm not quite good enough for that yet.
I don't know how many injuries there are in bowling.
Luckily, you don't seem to be injured, but I mean, you damn well could have been.
You know, when you have a head with nothing in it, it really can't get hurt that bad.
There was a lot of concerned people, obviously, in the comments, but I got reached out to
by just a bunch of friends being like, yo, is your grandpa okay?
and thankfully you are but a bunch of people have been wondering so we wanted to have you on the
podcast to show that you're still kicking it and still doing all right and then also just
sit down and shoot the shit with you what's okay I mean people never thought it was really
okay no matter what I do so it's one of the but yeah I'm fine it took a little bounce there
on the alley but I didn't realize it was that slippery to be honest
And, in fact, somebody asked me if it was planned.
I planned on hitting that alley, it's sliding on my chest forward all the way to the pins.
But when I threw the ball, it kind of threw me off balance.
I wanted my back.
It was amazing how off the cuff you were going, though.
I mean, even with, you know, the back and forth rifts between you and C.J., like, you know, going into it,
we were just like, all right, here's kind of what we're going to do.
but you know just feel it out and and just uh you know do whatever you think it's funny and then
you go and do that shit which honestly would have been hilarious if you wouldn't have ate shit
but imagine if he would have successfully gone halfway down and thrown the ball as soon as you
went walking out there you can see me go oh fuck grandpa grandpa because i legit knew what i was like does he
what i didn't know what you were thinking i assumed you know it's slippery being that you know
You've been through 80 years of life, you think you would know a bowling alley is slippery.
Yeah.
Yeah, you want to put this.
Okay.
But yeah, no, it was pretty amazing how good you were at off the cuff just doing that.
And just going in it, you weren't even scared or anything.
Like, I was telling Ben is like, dude, I mean, we're pretty committed to this lifestyle of, like, doing stuff like that sometimes.
And you were just basically like, yeah.
sure I'll do it and you just went in guns ablaze it and just did perfect you could be an
actor I've been told that not a good one that's the only problem you're a great actor yeah well
you'd be your own stunt man too well I don't know about that one I could do I do my own stunts I do my own stunts is
right and I see how long that was last but oh yeah it was fun with you guys I you know I enjoy it
you're a hit you're a hit well I know about that you gotta see every comment is about you
in the common section.
Yeah, well, that's fine.
He's humble.
Normally he's bought me in a post office with a picture up.
Have you seen this man?
Have you been looking for this guy?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Used to be husbands,
we're always looking for me sometimes,
but that's years and years ago.
That doesn't happen anymore.
So I've been married to the same gal for 40 years.
Yeah, our grandma.
Yeah, for the grandma.
You know, if I could write a book,
I could do 40 years of turmoil.
and then 40 years maybe a little turmoil went more fun but chaos the first 40 years
we could have a lot of fun boys we do have a lot of fun so what do you like what's the main
difference between the first 40 to the second 40 because you're 80 years old well you know my first
40 you always want you try and do stuff that that nobody's doing or you want to be successful
And in school, my buddy and myself, he was in eighth grade, he got the car.
No driver of Eisen, but his mother let him have the car.
So he'd pick me up.
And my parents kind of wondered, God, the kid's kind of young to be having a car.
But, you know, I did my work at a farm.
I lived on the farm.
I got my work, you know, done, and we'd go out.
We didn't get any trouble.
I mean, two things.
You never steal and you don't lie.
That was always instilled them.
But we'd go out and have some fun.
I just had such a hard time believing you weren't getting in trouble.
Well, we got in trouble, but not serious trouble where, you know,
we'd go steal or something or we would do something that would damage.
We made damage a few things.
If you ain't stealing and you ain't lying, you ain't getting in trouble.
That's what he's listening.
I mean, we used to do, like, kind of our goal was to have a girlfriend in every town.
Oh, I got a buddy like that.
Probably you.
But anyway, could Frank had a car, and we were always in sports.
So you got to know a lot of people.
And the girls in our own school really didn't like us that much.
Why?
Well, because we'd always, because everybody's going steady, it's bullshit, you know,
where you, yeah, being in a relationship?
Well, you hang your, they want to take your letterman's jacket
and hang it in their locker, that kind of shit, you know.
But it's kind of tough when your letterman's jacket is with the girl in the town over.
Yeah, it wouldn't do that.
No, you wouldn't do that?
Never, you were, only a couple times you date them.
Okay.
And so, like we'd have a prom.
and you'd bring a gal from, I remember telling Fat Grammy,
and they were talking about that.
And my junior primary, I brought a girl from Litchfield, which was 20 miles.
And then homecoming, I brought a gal from Belgrade, which was 30 miles.
And then I brought, I was a senior about a gal from Buffalo, which is 35 miles.
Always had, you know, we never brought the dates.
How were you meeting these chicks back in the day?
We travel around, because we played sports.
So you just drive around in the day?
the car and just there's one right there's a girl how that could work because we like during the
winter especially when you go to a game you'd have the the b squad for example in basketball they're
playing so you're kind of you're kind of free so what you do you look for the cheerleaders on the
other team and they know yeah and they know that you're playing on so they talk to you on the varsity
yeah you were riding the pine but no no we were waiting for the other team to get done oh
Oh, I see.
I see.
And so we had time, and so, and we get to the older girls because they weren't cheering for the B team.
They were for the A team.
And that's how you can get a lot of them.
And we said, well, we're going to come to your town and maybe you could have coke or something.
Coca-Cola, not Coke, but.
Of course.
Yeah, or maybe a beer, it depends how old they were.
But, yeah, so that's kind of how you met all these gals.
Did you keep in touch with them over the phone?
Because, like, now, if you meet a girl, there's Snapchat, stuff like.
that but you you would have had like a landline you would have had to call the girl you got to call
the dad oh no none of that not at that because uh we had a phone we always had a phone but in our area
i think maybe maybe 20 people on the phone and everything outside of that was always long distance
and in those days my mom would never let me call long distance unless it was really important i mean
just to me call up us for some gal yeah oh no way yeah those in different area codes yeah yeah well
Yeah, so you never get to do that.
So you just, we drive, you know, whatever we had to do, but only once or twice.
And you call it.
So you're, that's enough of that person.
So your buddy in eighth grade gets the car, no license, but you and him just hit the road and just start cleaning up on chick.
We had fun.
So you felt like you had like the upper hand on everyone else?
Well, we.
Okay.
Yeah, and my parents, you know, they didn't say much about, except my buddy, who had, who was in eighth grade.
I went in the car when he was a sophomore, he knocked.
He knocks up this chick.
Oh, no.
You're a wingman.
Yeah.
So you had to go solo then.
Well, well, my mom says, you know, maybe, what are you doing?
Yeah, what are you doing?
Well, not doing that.
Of course, no.
So he kind of made things, you know, by then I had my driver's legends as well in the
sophomore.
Hey, look, man.
I'm going solo.
Yeah.
Yeah, well.
So did you start getting, like, quite the rap around, around the surrounding areas?
Oh, I don't know if I did that.
I mean, I knew a lot of people.
Like a guy is standing there, and he sees you and your buddy roll up,
and it's like, yo, where's my chick?
Where's my chick?
They were probably looking for him.
They're going to go punch his lights out.
Yeah, that was sometimes they tried to do that to get out of time.
Did you get in a lot of fights back then?
Not really.
No?
Not a fighter.
There's a theory.
It's easier to make love than more.
so right
did that with all the chicks down
yeah true
I love it
you know
fighting was
my brother's fought
but I'm not me
but a lot of times
when guys are out fighting
your girlfriend are available
they're over there
you're talking
hey how's it going
yeah so
but that's kind of how those younger years
went and then you know
I got married
pretty young
20
I was 20
and the gal I married
was a school teacher actually
she was older than me
so wait your school teacher no Wanda oh my first wife no she wasn't she was okay she was teaching yeah
okay but she taught at the school where i graduated from so her teacher friends were a lot of those were
my teachers so it was awkward to go to a teacher's party and here i'm 20 years old and here's my old
teachers and her because you were causing chaos i'm sure well well there were all faculty members and
at the party, and here's a 20-year-old punk, married to one of us.
You know, unbelievable.
So we left town.
I mean, we went to a different area.
It chased them out of town.
No, it went to Wisconsin.
She taught in Wisconsin down by La Crosch.
You had to go to a different state where they didn't know you?
Well, I don't know about that.
Didn't have to you, but he did.
It helped, probably.
You know, you ever heard the saying they got the gift of the jab?
Gap.
Gap. Sorry, gift of the gab.
Gift of the gab.
I have no idea.
I've never heard that before.
So, like, it's just like being able to shoot the shit, always having a comeback, always just, you know, being funny, basically.
And you have that to the, like, I'd say you have a 10 out of 10.
Maybe I'd say actually 11 out of 10 score in the gift of the gab.
See, I don't know if I'm a firm believer in that so much.
I think more is if you just have, if you're comfortable and talking to people, or maybe that's what it did.
Yeah. Have you always been like that, though?
Pretty much.
Yeah.
So you didn't have to learn it.
I could get some vibrations off people.
Yeah.
If they were bad, get the hell out of it.
Yeah, yeah.
You mentioned it a little bit before, but when you saw the person being a cigarette salesman,
you knew that you wanted to become a salesman.
Yeah, I thought that would be a good job, yeah?
So did you see, like, you know, the person out selling cigarettes, but they're out bullshitting with people?
And you're like, hey, I have that characteristic.
I could be a good salesman or what?
like clicked well it just looked like a good thing to do so talking to people and just selling
them yeah yeah yeah and i always could pretty much could do that i mean but i see i had like five
older brothers and they'd bring their friends home many times and i did bullshit with me and you get
talk to anybody you know whatever it's going to be what about the humor aspect of it like
where did you get the the quick wit and the comebacks and the humor side of it because you
You can talk to anyone, but how do you become a bullshitter?
Everybody can do that, I think, but some of people are afraid to say anything.
But basically, I think people, you know, you'll know people that will bullshit with you
that probably wouldn't bullshit with anybody else, right, because they're comfortable with you.
And that's kind of how it gets.
I mean, after a couple of things, you're comfortable, so you say, you're fat, you're ugly or whatever,
and get away with in my in my golf group and we call you name in fact our wives say if we called
each other that we'd never talk to each other you know and that's how you know your good friends
yeah because that's like oh yeah oh yeah well yeah the guys weren't in each other shit you wouldn't
talk to each other probably but but it's just it's kind of like you kind of learn that maybe
a little bit that you're comfortable with with people and
nobody's any better than anybody else you know uh treat everybody equal and give everyone the same
amount of shit and give everyone some more than others some some some are some people are just
made to give shit dude i didn't know that uh i didn't know that certain families just don't act
that kind of way because i thought it was pretty normal to go to a family christmas and like
your your grandpa is telling you how fat you got but then you're also
telling him how old he's looking and shit and like constantly just like you know
making jokes towards each other but um and then greta started hanging around our family
and uh after we went to natalie's graduation last week we're in the car ride back and she's like
i just um i just can't believe like some of the things that your like family says to each other
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flavored iced coffee and delivery but that really makes for a close knit yeah and entertaining and
entertaining so entertaining i remember being around your guys's family going like whoa this is so fun it
feels like you get all your cousins together and it's really cool because i wasn't blessed with many cousins
my age they were all younger way older and once i saw your guys's family dynamic i was like man that's
something that's something special and as i've gotten older now i can b s with my aunt and uncles a little
better because we're i'm older and age but it is unique what you guys have like there's not many
families like that for sure do you think we can bring ryan to our christmas eve to my house
i don't know if he'd be able to handle it at my house at christmas eve it's um my wife i'm
And then their grandpa Dave is there with his girlfriend.
Who's my grandma's ex-husband?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So technically he's like, I don't know what you would call it because you've been married
to our grandma since before we were born, but like in theory we're not blood.
Which is so funny because, God, you guys, I feel like you guys are two apples right off
the tree.
Like, you know, you have so many similar characteristics.
I mean, you think about, though, he's always been our grandpa.
So, like, he did raise us.
He kind of, I can see you guys picked up mannerisms.
And then my brother is there.
who married my ex-wife at Christmas time.
Yeah, it's like, what?
Yeah, you got my grandma's ex-husband with his girlfriend,
and then his ex-wife married to his brother.
Wow.
Christmas Eve, yeah.
Yeah, and everyone plays cards and talks shit, and it's fun.
Yeah.
We drink wine and beer and whatever else.
Once in a while we have a surprise, I don't know what it would be,
but we'd maybe have one at Christmas Eve.
But anyway, yeah, that's kind of.
What is that?
I don't know what that means.
Well, yeah.
I didn't realize how weird that family dynamic is until a couple of years ago.
I was explaining it to a friend or someone.
And I was like, yeah, it's actually pretty funny, though,
because, like, my grandpa's ex-wife is there,
and then my grandma's ex-husband is there.
And then actually my grandpa's ex-wife is married to his brother.
And, yeah, but it all works.
Like, it all works.
And they're just like, what?
Hold on, no.
Your grandpa's brother is married to the ex-wife,
which I still think is really funny because I just like,
I'm trying to picture what that would be like of you and her,
like getting divorced and then you find out that your brother is married to,
like getting.
Yeah, were you mad?
Hitching up with it.
No, but I've already asked you this before.
No, but I did hear something this morning or last morning, I think,
when I talked to my niece, she, you should visit with her sometime.
Klua and a lot of stuff.
She said, her mom just died here a couple months ago, and she said, one of the things
my mom always told me is she remembers you talking to me is when Ken, my brother, married
my wife, I said, what in the fuck is wrong with him?
And she, her mother is 92 and she could still remember the day I said that, which was a good
point at the time.
And then after he married her, I would say.
I'm glad he's married to her instead of me.
So that was, that was...
Yeah, that's what you always would say.
I was just happy that he was married her instead of me.
They'd always ask me, you know, what's that like?
I mean, senior brother with, you know, you're fine with me.
I mean, at least it's not me.
So, but, yeah.
But, you know, getting back to relationships like that,
I found out that my mom's mother died when my mom was three.
so her dad
ended up marrying
my dad's sister
whose husband died in the war
so that we kind of started a long time ago
doing this
wow yeah so actually my dad's
sister was my grandma
oh my gosh kind of you know
wow yeah and
I didn't really realize that growing up
I was younger but now you know the later years
we're all together yeah yeah that was
crazy in those days i mean
glad they were looking everybody knew everybody
and weren't blood related but
one person's spouse passed away
and the other one was getting so they got together
that's uh
that's how it goes that's how it goes
you're to make love them more right yeah yeah exactly
you know talking about uh these guys
growing up uh ben
i lived on a golf course
and ben and sam and natalie
would always come up there and we'd go out in a golf course today
Oh, I wanted to drive the golf cart, of course.
Well, Ben was the youngest, so they always beat the shit out of him.
They wouldn't let him drive.
And now I think about that, you know, it's probably a good thing because I see how he drives today.
I wouldn't have a golf cart left probably.
Yeah, they'd have been toasted.
I was thinking about that.
You look out the window and I'm jumping it off the T-box.
Yeah, right.
I mean, yeah.
Have you watched our reckless golfing videos?
Yeah, yes, I have.
You got to do that.
Do you want to come with on next one?
Maybe.
Oh, actually, hold on.
You'll get your own cart.
You just stay off the.
side you got to stay out of the game i don't know if we can trust him with that i do i know we
gave him strict instructions not to hurt any i know i didn't tell him not to hurt himself though
in bowling that is where we messed up yeah that one kind of slipped between the lines i got to cut in my
finger christ i mean that's i was telling these guys uh ran you know i get five older brothers
have run my farm they used to throw me under a bull and it's gonna kick what and and um and we
had boxing gloves you know and i'm five oldest i could the shit kicked out of me all the time
So that was no big deal.
You know, you are a tough bastard.
You know that?
You know how fucked up anyone else?
Even everyone sitting at this table would be taking a fall like that?
I'd be complaining about it for a week.
CJ, CJ,
he would have been a bad deal.
You have to know how to land.
What are you talking about?
You had no time to brace you.
I remember going down.
God, I felt like it was flying for a minute.
You were?
Okay.
I remember.
Going back to the golf cart stuff as kids,
I remember one time you were driving the golf cart
and we had like, I don't know, four or five of us crammed in that thing.
And I was on the end.
And there was like nothing to really hold on to.
And you were ripping it around.
And we were on the cart path.
And you took like a hard turn and basically everyone just kind of slid.
And I just got booted off the side.
And I just like tumbled and got all skinned up.
And I was like, like, I think I might have been crying.
And then all of you guys pulled up on the golf cart laughing.
Yeah, I was worried about that.
Oh, yeah, well, yeah.
And then I hopped on, I think, and you guys didn't really care until we got home.
Then Grandma was like, oh, are you okay?
Yeah, my niece was telling me another story because, you know,
she sees some of the shit that happened.
But she said, when her and her sister alike, that'd be eight or nine,
and I had a 60 Chevy convertible.
And so I decided I'll take them.
They were at our house, and I said, I'll take you the town by a cone of ice cream or something.
So I do.
and I put them in the back seat
and then I'm driving
so I'm going 90 miles
and her ice cream flies off
with their cone
and one was in the front
one was in the back ice cream all over hell
and they told their mother about that
I thought her mother
mother she'll never ride
with your uncle Ron
and they never have
I mean that was a death ill
well they don't have to but I mean
oh gosh you know what we used to do
do you remember when you'd be driving
us somewhere and you go hey i bet you i can make it the entire way home without stopping yeah so so
that's across town and that's yeah yeah yeah so we'd be driving you know 20 minutes across town busy
stop lights everything like that so we'd see like a red light uh you know quarter mile up and he would
he would start slowing down in traffic he'd be holding the traffic just so you can go and tell
it turns green and then you can go again same with like stop signs and all that or if
or if you're, like, actually getting in traffic, but...
We get it, I think we did it.
Oh, we didn't do it.
And then we would...
And then if you would fail, we'd be like,
oh, I told you, you couldn't do it.
Or if you'd make it, you'd be like, gotcha, fucker.
He'd be, like, one mile per hour just creeping until the light would change.
It would be cars behind you.
I remember one time when I was riding with you, grandpa, it was me, you, and grandma.
And there was a guy at the grocery...
We were driving past a grocery store, and this guy was getting arrested,
and you pulled over and we watched.
Like we pulled over parked and watched
Like oh you want to watch
And we pulled up
Oh yeah
Those people take
Most grandparents take them like the zoo
They're like don't turn the other way
Oh yeah that's cool watch
We pulled in
Yeah learn not to get arrested
That's yeah
That's true
Yeah that's the underlying message
Not the entertainment factor
Yeah
I think you were laughing doing it
Yeah
Yeah. I've got some great experience with all these guys, all my grandkids, so a lot of people.
But you got to, you know, your live wide open is a perfect, you know, that's what you got to do.
Absolutely.
You know, and help people do things and whatever.
I always say it, but like I really hope that by the time I'm your age, I've lived a life like you and I'm still like, like, have energy like you.
Maybe I shouldn't say lived a life like you, but just had a very.
fun life like you like that's what you've had so you can tell you hit his head and hockey can't you
by the way you're in such good you're in good condition and like you just that you can do a lot of
stuff that most people 10 years younger and you can't even do well that's your fault
I mean well seriously like your parents both are chiropractors have taken great care of me
obviously next morning after I hit my head I get phone calls get your ass over the claim and do
this and do that so they take good care of me did they say you were out of shape when they
fixed you up no my neck was a little bit screwed up he just kept complaining about his finger
which i'm on i'm just like i'm happy that that's like broken yeah yeah just a little jammed up
yeah well jason put a laser on it and he said if it hurts that laser it's broken i said just cut
for christ's sake everybody gets that but anyway so that that helps keep obviously keep safe
you're healthy and you kind of watch what you eat you know i don't really you do i don't eat
a lot of greasy foods that's good and i've never smoked ever cigarette what about vape no i'd
never do that they didn't have vapes back then no and they had dope marijuana but i'm afraid
if i would have tried it i would have liked it so i stayed away from it right you know i can't
believe you never smoke cigarettes either what was the reasoning behind that because growing up i'd imagine
It was extremely common.
It's like how vapes are now.
My mom never smoked.
And my older brother, three or four of them did, I guess.
And my dad did, my earliest, I don't remember him smoking it.
And whenever my brother would bring an older brother,
bring a girlfriend home or something,
and my mom said, she smokes.
It was like she put something in my mind that it's really bad, you know?
She never did.
And I was in sports.
So we had training, drank beer, but it worked that off.
You've been drinking beer your whole life
Good lunch
When did you start drinking beer
Oh I don't know
You know we used to have
On a farm
We had thrashing days
You know
Where you'd harvest
And thrash me
And crews would come in
And when we'd do that
We had a milk cooler
You guys went in that milk house
And my dad would buy two or three cases
A beer and throw it in there
So it would stay cold
And people would come in and have a beer
Before they'd go back out
So I'm maybe
I don't know
13 14
You guys sneak it
and grab a beer.
Yeah, yeah.
Didn't have too many, you know, but I would have it, you know, good for you, better than
Coca-Cola.
That's another thing you've always told me, is drinking a beer is better for you than a pop.
Well, yeah, if you're old enough.
Well, not old enough, but old enough, damn.
Don't take any of this as advice.
It's just what the way I was told it.
Well, yeah, so.
Where do you get this energy from, though, Grandpa?
I mean, I don't take drugs.
I don't even have a doctor, so I, yeah.
But I try and eat right pretty much if I can.
And I don't eat eggs every day.
And I don't eat a lot of fatty foods.
And I don't drink a lot.
I don't drink pop with the sugar and stuff like that.
How much of a difference do you think just being social makes?
And like getting out and talking to people, but more along the lines are just doing something.
Oh, 100%.
I mean, if you can have social, you can bullshit with somebody and go out.
Well, look at people you know that don't do that.
they get up and they can barely walk
and they limp or whatever
their back bent over
their nose is touching their toes
basically
they don't socialize
you know
in fact I was telling her grandma
yesterday we should go out dancing
some night you know
and I could still do that
she's a little
laxing that maybe
but I could do that
and I think you could do a lot of things
but I have the energy to do that
and it's because you got to socialize
of people you got to talk to people
You guys do that all the time.
That's what you know, but you have friends probably your age that are not social or not friends.
Definitely do.
And what do they like?
I mean, they're duds probably.
Mm-hmm.
Not to knock that.
I don't know.
Some people are just have it or they don't, though, you know?
Well.
You have a knack for just like when you walk into a room, you just like being funny, you're talking loud.
People just like immediately kind of like you.
And then like just the whole vibe of the room and the positivity of, you know, just everything gets.
elevated and yeah everyone else has more fun whether they're even not talking around you i mean
you have to have good feelings towards everyone basically you should have you know like you know the other
night we did at the pool the three gals setting on the table there i didn't all that happened i was
laughing they're pretty good looking chase yeah well i was talking to them okay you know they were
and i said we're having some fun here and and so it's pretty soon they're asking questions
and they're talking to all it was because we're nice to them you know yeah
It's a good point.
You walk in energy, the way you talk to people.
Yeah.
If you're smiling when you're talking to, you know, and you're just, yeah, you can just tell.
I feel like almost everyone has that innate.
You can tell if someone means well.
You know, obviously you've got to be careful because there's plenty of people who are snakes.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But ultimately, in like, most cases, you can kind of tell.
Yeah, I kind of ended up, you know, when I was traveled in the clothing business,
that all my clients or customers basically clients,
I guess we're friends of mine and a lot of them I would stay at their house
at night sometimes come over and wait dinner and you stay here uh because I get along with
them um treat them fair you know don't cheat anybody so but yeah that you are correct on that
social is so important and that's why I worry about nowadays the kids working on computers
oh yeah like for for work and then school yeah and school you got to have part of
social life you're going to turn out to be a machine basically you know uh so yeah yeah yeah
that's scary would you go door to door doing sales i did that i did that when went to i still
fuller brush at one time i feel like that's where you've got to like really refine your social
skills because every every door to door salesman or person who did door to door sales actually kind of
has very similar i i did fuller brush and you got are you familiar with fuller brush at all no
Before a brush, you'd sell spray cleaners or room deodorants,
and they'd sell brushes, you know, fingernail brushes, scrub brushes, toilet brushes,
cleaners, and you'd have your case, and you'd always have these little leaders.
You'd not going to worry to give them a, what I mean by leader, a sample or something.
But when I went to work, these guys, I was in the St. Paul, they put me in the frickin' slums,
or the low-income areas.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Were you worried walking around?
No, I was worried.
the hood or nothing?
No, I wasn't worried at all.
But they didn't have the money to spend as a paired to the...
They thought they did.
So they give me these orders, shit, I'm writing these orders, you know.
Well, then I have to deliver them a week later.
I go back, none of them have any money.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
But some of the places I can go in, they stunk so bad.
So I'd open my case up, and I'd always have these room deodorants, and I'd spray them
above my head.
So I'm talking while this is settling down, and as soon as I would go, I'd go, I'd
grab another one.
I'm worried about my head,
and so I can talk to them without choking.
But some of these places,
I remember this one place I walked into,
I never forget, I was going to walk in.
Lady left me, she must have weighed 300 pounds.
Ugly, no teeth, you know, whatever.
I walk in, and at the refrigerator,
he's got a broom handle holding the refrigerator door shut.
And in those days, they had milk bottles, you know,
and there was empty milk bottles sitting there that weren't washed out.
Oh, yeah.
And the side of the refrigerator was just dirt.
The house went dirty.
Stunks the bag, I don't understand it.
You want to get out.
Well, those people, no, no, stick around.
Let's see what you got, what you have.
I got a appointment.
I got to go.
I mean, some of the places, what a lesson to be learned.
But if you can go door to door, a lot of people are so full of brush
have been done okay afterwards, because if you can go door to door
and talk to those people and stand that,
you can almost do anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It takes courage.
Or I don't know any better.
I mean, I'd say the courage came in handy with the blind bowling.
Well, yeah, but that's some of the sales stuff, yeah.
And then you get to some places in corporate where everybody thinks they're on a pedestal.
It's a privilege for me to try and sell me something.
Screw you.
But once you got past someone,
those buyers they were great yeah if you had a good product but uh that's kind of sales work you know
but oh this this is a good one i forgot to tell you guys about this it's easter time and i'm going to
watertown south dakota that way i'm going to watertown to call on the customer there
and i used to have a deal underneath my seat you never heard of this one and it was like a little
flapper and it would say uh how about a drink which like a cup of coffee
or whatever it may be.
So I see this gal driving this, maybe a 60,
five-bust thing, whatever, and I wheel up and I go, good-looking gal.
So I walk up, I pull my sign up, and I hold it like this.
No fucking way.
You had a sign to hold out the window?
And I kept it underneath the seat.
And I could meet somebody.
Wait, was this just you or this was like a thing?
This one, me.
Okay, that was my deal.
That's how you'd pick them up.
Well, it would be how you'd meet them.
Okay, yeah.
So anyway, I have a sign, and I bring it up, and I put it next to the wind.
and she looks at me like what sign was it she said how about a drink it's like two in the
afternoon and so we get to the stop sign and she's right behind me so I get out of my car
and I walk over I said you see my sign would you like to stop for a drink and she said sure
so we go to a place called the pheasant inn which is a restaurant bar in Watertown this is like
2 2.30 we drink gimlets for those gimlets with your vodka with a little rose of lime juice
and you drink too many you'll know it okay so anyways
and we go in this bar and she's drinking gilmast with me
well she's on her way to bel fush you know where that's it that's borders the
Wyoming border across the state yep so we're drinking about 5 30 maybe and so she's
heading out there because on Easter she was the teacher at sherburne minnesota
and she was got her parents were out in belfush and her brother and she was going to go
visit them for Easter
So, okay.
She said, why don't you come with me?
I said, I can't work.
And she says, oh, I'll bring you back.
I can't.
I'm working.
She's like, now we're sending apart.
So anyways, we get in her car, and we have to drive across.
I said, okay, I ride along.
So we get in her car.
It's a five-hour drive.
Find her brother.
It's like one in the morning, whatever.
I'm tired.
And so piss around at night with whatever.
Next morning, I got to go back to Watertown.
I'm five hours away
So I said
You don't have to give me a ride pack
I'll try and catch a bus and no buses
Fly back and no planes
I said well I guess you do it
So she had to give me a ride
All the way back to Watertown
So I screwed up two days every vacation
Just because of your sign
My sign worked pretty good too
In the morning you could go
How about coffee
And then you'd go in the restaurant and have coffee
How many times would that
Work but then you find out that
they're married never asked that because i'd imagine you know if you're having a conversation with
someone but that one's just like you see someone you're like want to go on a date well if we're driving
down the road i mean and and and like south dakota especially out in the middle of nowhere by
themselves they're probably yeah true yeah makes sense yeah i mean you said you i mean you wouldn't do
that you saw some lady with two kids in the back seat you didn't you don't want to deal with them
no you said you had the kid's going to do you pissed off some husbands though yeah really
Yeah, yeah, well, when I lived in Kenyon, with my buddy, we were single, both of us, and I get a letter in the mail from this guy, and they were not getting along anyway, but I was, I'd be going out with his wife, I put it that way.
And anyway, I get a letter in the mail, it's from her husband.
A letter.
Yeah, how in hell do you get my address?
How in hell does he know who I am?
And in there, he's dead and to kill me.
I'm going to kill you when I'm coming to your house and kill you.
It's just concerning because he wrote a letter to your house,
so he definitely knows where you live.
He knows where I live, yeah, and it's only about 80 miles from where he lives.
So my buddies, I live with it.
I mean, they had fun with that.
Schmitty, strange car just pulled in the drain.
Yeah.
I mean, what do I do?
What do I do?
My upstairs window?
Because there's only one door out of the house and then it wouldn't be.
But they did that a number of times on me, but finally that's settled down.
You never did come?
that when I was there
I hope but he got over it
they were getting divorced anyway so it wasn't
that was the only run in
no no I didn't that
I had one in Fargoe actually
that was long
in many years
50 years ago
and this guy I go to her place
I'm taking a shower in the morning
door knocks somebody knocks
how door and opens it up
it's a guy
and I'm naked
Take him to shy.
I was going to be vulnerable.
Well, I'm going to take a bar for a soul person in all.
I'm going to wrap on his eyes and whatever I have to do.
You had a plan.
I did have a little, a bit of a plan.
Rub it in his eyes and then just punch him?
Well, yeah, I mean, I'm not a fighter, but I'll rub soap in his eyes.
Well, he can't.
That hurts, you know.
Yeah, right, right.
So, but I don't want, so I said, and he said, that's my girl, right?
I didn't realize she was married.
as you're using his bar of soap to wash your nuts.
No, no, no, he didn't do that.
And he said, well, we're not.
That was my girlfriend.
Oh, I said, well, that's different.
But then they go in the bedroom and argue,
all my clothes are in the bedroom.
So I got to go in there and get my pants and my shoes.
That was an awkward moment.
Talk about it.
And I got the hell out of there.
I told I'm not coming back to your house.
You can see me.
You have to come out.
Yeah.
I'm not going to.
Well, you know, you get some interesting experiences when you can free and do whatever you want, kind of.
Sounds like it.
So that was the first party.
Well, one time my brother and I and two other guys would go to NASA, we're in the Bahamas.
Bahamas?
Yep.
And it was my birthday, actually, March 7th, and we go to a playboy club at that time.
It was fairly new there.
They had those in the Bahamas?
The first one they built there.
Do they still have those?
I don't know if they do or not.
There's no way.
I feel like they've kind of gone.
Yeah. Meet this gal from
her and her friend
from Louisville, Kentucky.
So we can't, well, we spend
a couple days. We have all, I'll get together, we have fun.
So they want us to come back to
Louisville with him, my brother and myself.
Okay.
What the hell? We're no hurry. So we do.
We get back to Louisville and a
Lema picks us up at the airport.
It was her butler.
Oh, my.
So we go back to their house.
Man, it was on the river, a nice home.
God damn, this is all right.
That was one of my brother was fool around with.
And her husband had passed away, but he owned all those, like, carpet ranches.
You know, that kind of carpet store?
Carpet world?
Stuff like that.
It was a home decorate.
He owned around the whole country he owned.
Wow.
Yeah.
And then she also owned a country western bar in Louisville, and she owned the radio station.
jeez
yeah so anyway
but she had never gone in her bedroom
and since her husband died
so that bedroom
that overlooked the river
so I got that bedroom
and morning
so he gets it
yeah I don't care
yeah so I pushed the button
behind me
and you're made would come up
bring me orange juice
oh wow
yeah because the other galas
are first but anyway
we're supposed to go back
to the Kentucky Derby
and in the clothing business
you get your lines that would break
like for fall or winter well that would have been my fall line which is a big time of the year
for me to be on selling and when you get your line you're put you get your ass on the road
i was going to say that it seems like in a lot of these stories it's been that you've taken
advantage of an opportunity and you're just like yeah no the other stuff i got to do that i can
do later i'm going to take advantage of this opportunity now it's really cool like i admire that
yeah you set your life up so you can kind of just do whatever you want well it turns out that
this gal's booth that she had or a box was next to the governor.
Okay.
So I'm thinking, okay, I get my line that particular week to go back to work.
And I think I go to that fucking Kentucky Derby or I go down there and I'm setting up in their box.
And my guys, my bosses from Texas, look at the, because there you watch, it's a Kentucky Derby,
sees me setting up in a box.
Why isn't that asshole on the road selling goods like he's supposed to?
to be, so I didn't go.
Oh, wow.
I didn't go.
And that's the other reason I didn't go.
Because I want to jeopardize my job, and I get thinking about that, you know.
I mean, he's in Minnesota, and now he just got his line because they know when they ship
all my samples.
And now it's Saturday he's down in Louisville, Kentucky up to Derby.
He's not working.
Some close to the governor.
Yeah, you couldn't have said it was hobnob.
Well, because I thought they were, when they run the camera, they only show the governor.
Yeah, of course, you'd be right in the side.
Right on the side and they would see.
Just talking shit, drinking a beer.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And I, oh, shit, it's not worth it.
Is that wrong?
Yeah, I'd say I didn't go.
Grandpa, you did.
Ryan kind of mentioned it, but everything that you're saying is basically you just saying yes
and then just figuring the rest out afterwards.
Like, have you always kind of just been like, fuck it, let's do it?
Yeah.
It doesn't get me in any serious trouble or anything and don't hurt anybody.
Yeah, I'm game for a lot of stuff.
The only question, hey, we got a prank.
Do I have to get naked?
No, all right, I'm in.
You were in before you heard the prank.
Well, yeah, I do appreciate that.
I don't know if it's the times that's a little different.
I feel like now you're so easily connected.
Like your boss would be calling you on Friday and go,
hey, how is sales?
You don't get that day or two of leeway when you're.
They're tracking the truck, everything.
Exactly.
And I feel like life moves maybe a little bit fast.
I don't know, but I really can admire that you're just like, yeah, I went to the Bahamas,
I took the time to do this, I took the time to drive five hours across the state of
South Dakota with some chick, like stuff like that, I don't think people just do now.
Maybe because the world doesn't set up, maybe girls wouldn't pull over if he pulled, held up a sign
and said, want to get a drink.
Maybe they're smarter nowadays.
But I mean, it's just so cool and it shows you can learn by saying yes to experiences and stuff
like that.
Like you almost never regret saying yes to something,
which is maybe a bit too much of a blanket statement.
Oh, I said yes a couple times when I got married.
I shouldn't have it.
I mean, that's one maybe I should have.
But we said, no, I'm walking out of here.
Well, it worked out for you and grandma.
She's almost sitting here like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have said yes to that.
Oh, yeah.
I always give her shit about that.
Oh, man.
But she's a great lady.
So I mean, she's managed to put up with you.
For, what, 40 years?
Yeah, she's wonderful.
So that's perfect.
I do find it so funny because grandma is, like, one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Yeah, she is.
And I just think it's so funny that you two ended up together.
Not saying that you're not, but I just picture her opposites.
More of like a, just like a, you know, she's a little bit quieter, but just like clean cut, sweet lady.
And then you got you coming in.
Kind of like you and Greta.
Yeah, very similar.
Very similar.
I don't know if I say this,
but what it probably happens because of her previous marriage.
I mean,
living the way that what they did.
I mean,
like that was kind of a down the road,
middle of the road,
probably kind of thing.
Right.
And finally,
no,
do I want this anymore?
You were in the ditch.
You're driving in the ditch.
They were down the middle of the road.
You were going across the ditch.
Then you were popping back up,
hitting the other side.
Jumping approaches.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So the other night, it was probably 11 or so.
And we were down in Minneapolis.
Everyone wanted to go to bed, but me and CJ and Grandpa Ron wanted to go to the casino.
And Ken, Ken was our driver.
He was very eager.
Ken was game.
And we were talking about going to the casino.
But it ended up getting vetoed.
but I think we still got to do something like that.
You guys love that casino down there.
Well, we just need a little bit of help on the gambling aspect.
I don't know if you're any help,
but I think we need to switch something up.
We need some good luck.
Well, yeah, yeah.
But, you know, I was thinking,
why haven't in my back of my head?
The part that got hit.
We got hit, yeah, right here.
You guys should do a casino night here sometime.
us, you know, the games to go, we do those.
Uh-huh.
And we set up maybe six blackjack tables or roulette table.
Oh, that'd be fantastic.
A big wheel.
You have to, you know, look, we can do that.
The money part of it, we got to play money, $100 bills.
I don't think you'd be allowed to.
Oh, we can't do real money?
Well, but here's how we can do that.
You do that, and you would have to get chips.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
But, or, and you get money.
to start with and everybody have to buy play money and let's say everybody spends a hundred bucks
and they get X amount or whatever they get and then they play with chips and then at the end of
the night you take your chips in and it's worth X amount of dollars and chips and then you have
your prizes you can bid on or whatever however you want to do it but I don't think I think from what
I watched a movie on it as long as the house doesn't take a cut it's not a casino
Okay, all right.
We should totally do that.
There's tons of people in this area that would totally pull up.
If we had blackjack roulette.
And it'd be so good for your ATM.
Oh, my gosh.
I'd keep my ATM plumped full.
I'd probably swap from one.
And I would have the dealers and I'd have people because I work with them all the time.
You know, I deal blackjack all the time and games to go.
So we got tables.
We got roulette, two roulette tables.
We got a spinning wheel.
I can't believe you have a big wheel.
Kevin loves big wheel.
We spin it.
Yeah.
We got that.
And then we have one called a horse race thing.
That's fine.
We'll get them other games too probably.
But you could maybe seven or eight or ten games together in comedy quite a few people.
I don't know if you've got enough room in your parking lot for everybody.
But we can build one here.
What's like your go-to gambling game?
I'm by myself.
Probably blackjack.
Yeah.
Do you think you have the best odds?
The video poker, I think I mentioned to you.
before we played video that is your best odds except for the guys who really know how to play
craps i still don't understand that game at all if you're really a good crap player you can
you'll win because you know what you know you can cover your bet you're smart enough to know
how to cover your bets yeah i'm not smart enough to do that i'm just a crap player
i'm just a crap player all around you know that's true then i can't no i just i just can't
play i'm like crappy i'm bad he is i am shitty player i'm a shitty gambler
Are you?
Yeah.
Maybe we've seen the game sometime.
But, yeah, but no, if you learn how to play crafts,
I mean, really don't know how to do the odds.
I had some friends that were really good at it.
They'd fly them to Vegas all the time to play.
I was telling these guys, you know,
they had this one friend that he would run money through the front desk at the hotel.
So they think he's spending all this money there.
Did he take it out?
And he'd just keep having more money.
He'd gamble, but he wouldn't lose it.
But they don't know that.
But they think because he's running $5,000, $10,000,
$5,000,000 through the check, through the front desk,
that he's gambling a lot of money in their casino.
Therefore, they'd get, they'd comp his room, fly him in.
Wow, I wonder if they still do that.
Because they've got the player cards, so you can track what you put in,
but I still don't know, it might be.
Yeah, I don't.
Let's say he doesn't use his player card all the time.
it just plays, you know.
Yeah.
I don't know if he still does.
I don't think he still does that.
I don't know if I'd have the self-control.
If I've got money coming in, if I was walking,
just put it in the safe.
He'd end up being like, let's put it on black.
Yeah.
And then it'd be gone.
But I had a good friend who was a, actually,
he sold his paper company in San Jose, California,
and just became, had the money just to play sports.
He could be booking.
Sports bet.
Yeah, he wasn't a book he could be, but he wasn't.
I mean, he's just for himself, and he'd have his budget for baseball, football.
And then he wanted to be, he was a professional gambler.
So some of the offshore gambling at that time, he wasn't had a professional gambler.
So he ran it through my computer.
So I would see all the bets he's doing, you know.
And so some days he'd bet 12,000 and lose nine.
20, he went 40, and it was really fun to watch that.
No kidding.
Yeah, and when I go to Vegas to visit him, we'd go to the, when he'd make his bets,
we'd bounce all around town at 6 in the morning to find out where there's a half a point
difference in a spread, because that's a big deal, because he bet.
And when he played blackjack, he had to bet $100 at a time to keep his card going,
and they'd get at the MGM, and he got all his comps, and they'd go out there, and Mr. Bennett,
how are you tonight and have dinner and all the wine you want it and free food i don't know how much
they do that he's passed away how they're much of doing that anymore but uh i think they do
do they we have a buddy who gets all of his stuff comped yeah and he goes down he'll either win real
big or lose big yeah but one or the other but yeah i wonder so like steve will do it is uh
always at the casino red rocks casino and they're like
taking really good care of them and doing all this stuff for him.
But I'm,
I just wonder if he is positive or negative,
because if he's positive,
why would they do it?
There's no way.
Well, also, but he is promoting them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I'd imagine that they have similar treatment to other people
that are just big gamblers.
They must just be taking the risk on like,
this person's an addict.
They're going to keep doing it.
And we're eventually going to win.
Yeah, they should come in a room.
I'm a consistent loser.
They don't need to.
They know you'll come back either way.
The house is a winner.
It's tough.
Always.
Yeah, it's hard.
Yeah, every time.
Yeah.
If you're like that, you know, I'm telling these guys, you're a gambler.
It's the time I was in the Bahamas.
I go to the casino, and our dealer is stoned.
Okay.
Hell.
Anyway, playing blackjack, and nobody breaks, and he pays everybody every time almost.
Go around, you have break.
you pay you this is a hell of a deal you know people are lined up and one guy wanted to buy my
a seat he got me 500 bucks for it so he wanted to get people behind us watching and you don't
you're not losing and my buddies keep taking my money you know because I'm winning and kind of like
man now I have it I'll spend it oh I suppose you got to shift it off the table and get it away they kept
taking it no I think because you're so lickered up oh yeah so anyway they changed dealers went out
another story because although the pit boss came over one time and looked at him and he said
sleepy sleepy sleepy wiki wiki they're all british there so because he got the eye in the sky
yeah they know guys i couldn't believe it so anyways his other guy comes back shit you know
i don't any money left i lost it what i had so i go home next morning they come in there
they take it it's $2,800 on my bed that i had one that they took amazing
Yeah, those are some true friends.
No kidding.
My brother and, you know.
I would have tried to double it.
And then I would have been like, my brother won, he won, I lost it.
Well, I'd be like, what are you talking about?
And you'd be like, perfect, doesn't remember.
We went back the next night and he's still working.
He wasn't stolen this time, but he was still had a job.
And it was amazing.
People lining up to hop on that table.
Yeah, not that, not the next night, but amazing how he still had a job.
No kidding.
I mean, I never had seen that before.
Yeah, but anyway, getting it, think about a casino and that.
I think we got it, just for fun.
I don't think we could put it on YouTube, but it'd just be fun.
Oh, just be fun.
People would love it around here.
We have a lot of friends that like to gamble.
And you might have a site on auction at the end.
You want to give away some stuff.
You guys give away all the shit.
Maybe like a t-shirt or something.
Yeah, that, yeah, motorcycle car or whatever.
A case of beer.
Blown up R6.
Yeah.
But anyway, you guys, I think you guys like to gamble.
That's a lot of it.
fun yeah no that would be fun you got any stories about these hooligans when they were kids anything
they did you know yeah i got one one one about uh some jay over here we were building a house
this has been in 2000 building a new house so we didn't have a we sold our old one we didn't have
a place to live grandma and i so we'd bounce around we stayed at ben's parents lake home for a while
gonna stay at kim and jeff's parents so we could stay there so we stay there and i and i in
spare bedroom here comes cj yeah you can't stay here and he's crying and he's shaking he's in
he's about four maybe five you can't stay i think i might have even been younger he was 15 16 they
really hold this against me well he does yeah you come here i can't you guys and great grandma
she doesn't know what to say it i well i should i said poor grandma took it personally you or you
Anyway
One time my grandma bought me underwear
For my birthday
And I was so embarrassed I cried
I'm hoping she forgot it
Because what she got you smalls
No she got me like freaking SpongeBob underpants
I was like 12
So it was just like right in that age
And you sold friends over your birthday party
Cried like a baby
Man
That had to have been a rough look
It was probably a rough look
You get underwear and then I cried
What an idiot dude
I was probably young in that eight
I don't know
I think you gave me a case of beer
it on my 12th birthday.
I did.
Really?
I don't think so.
Because I did.
Did you imagine?
Well, I might have given you one beer on your 13th birthday, but I don't know that in case.
I'm not going to give you a case of beer.
I'll drink it myself.
I think that was about the age that whenever we would start coming over, you started offering us
beer.
Yeah.
Only one, right?
That's all that's all that given.
It was more of a setup, though.
It was trying to see if you'd take it.
Yeah.
But if you said, yes, you could tell their parents.
But yeah, yeah, that was one of the stories about CJ.
I love, they hold it over me.
Yeah, yeah, we do.
They bring that story up all the time.
It's hard to say this, but Ben was really always a good kid.
I mean, no way.
That one?
Yeah, he was.
He was, I remember shit when he'd crawl around.
He never cried.
He cries now a lot, probably, but he never cried.
He was just always a good kid.
Just, you know, and Nick, this never cried.
You know, he was just, you probably was afraid to get the shit kicked out of him by his older brother and her sister.
I don't know.
But he never cried.
He was a good, yeah.
Pumping my tires.
Thank you, grandpa.
Well, you didn't.
I mean, you didn't.
You were a little kid that just always laugh, crawl around and flooring.
Yeah, they actually tested if I was deaf because they thought I couldn't hear because I, like, I guess wouldn't cry.
Really?
Yeah, I don't know.
Right, Dad?
How long did I go without crying?
Like years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're amazing.
Yeah.
Years.
Yeah.
That's unbelievable.
Yeah.
Of course, I had a chance to watch CJ play hockey a lot.
Of course, when he played hockey, his cheeks would look like two red roses.
Yeah.
I probably got red cheeks right now, though.
Well, yeah, it could be.
But I watched him get some hat tricks many times.
Oh.
Wow.
You're going to say get lit up.
Well, that's you.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
I appreciate the hat trick stuff.
You were getting hatties?
Yeah.
Were you a goal score?
Lotcher score.
Lotter scoring.
Lotter scoring.
Yeah, he won more meddles from shit for that.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
You can't say that on your own.
Well, you did.
Thank God.
Someone finally recognized it.
Who's the one that?
Who's the guy that had where you did it behind your back?
Who did that?
Sidney Crosby.
Or when I did it when I was young, I went, I skated behind the net,
and I had a bunch of wax on my stick.
So I picked the puck up and put it behind him and made it like behind the goal.
Yeah, wasn't that a pretty big deal too?
Didn't you get like brought up varsity because of that or something?
No, I was like younger.
But yeah, no.
We didn't have on video though.
That shit would have gone sports center.
That was a Sidney Crosby shot.
He's the guy, only guy that could.
It was the University of Michigan goal.
That's, I think, who originally did it in like college hockey, like in the 90.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Behind your back.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
You've always been so involved in our life, though.
Like, I mean, you came to every sporting event, any kind of, like, school thing.
We'd be hanging out.
Now you're filming YouTube videos and podcasts with us.
It's like, really, I mean, yeah, thank you for that.
It's been great.
It's been a lot of fun.
Well, I'm safe today.
I got my chiropractor here, though.
Don't try any shit with me today.
Grandpa, we don't have to try anything with you.
You'll just hurt yourself.
Thank God.
He's going to help you when you fall down the stairs.
I know, that's what I said.
I'm glad I'm going to get here.
That's, yeah.
He keeps me healthy for Christ's sakes.
That's good.
Hopefully, uh,
grandma lets you continue to hang out with us.
And, uh, I mean,
and the rest of the family.
I do get a,
we did get a little backlash after that one, but, um,
you did for more?
Well,
they just weren't,
I mean,
not too pumped.
Yeah,
they just weren't too stoked on,
on,
on, uh,
I guess us enabling it.
he's older than me he should be telling me what to do
no no like I said what my niece saw that
she thought it was great so what the hell you know
well we appreciate you and we're glad that you're okay
yeah so am I
but we do we do have to keep doing more
more video bits or something
we could do something a little more dangerous
what did you have I didn't know
I didn't either I didn't either
We could maybe try trap shooting and I'm in the wrong end of a gun or something like that.
I think you're looking too into like the danger factors.
Oh, no.
I just so you guys have fun and do some videos.
We could do a bunch more pranks.
We could maybe have Ben pull up in his Lamborghini or something and then you,
and like he's like maybe like bragging about to some guy and then you pull him in my car.
Yeah.
Like spank him or something in public.
Can I take the car then too?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's my car.
I can you catch my car, I want it.
Sure.
Yeah.
No, we'll do some other stuff.
Whatever guys want.
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thank you guys
thanks for coming on grandpa
oh yeah that's fun
we love you
oh you guys are great
yeah
so even have cold beer here
that's good
yeah