Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Grandpa Ron on Getting Arrested, How YOU Helped Him Beat Cancer, & His New Outlook on Life

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

In today's episode Americas Grandpa, Grandpa Ron joins us to say how YOU helped him beat stage 4 Cancer, and his life after. He tells us stories of rolling golf carts, getting arrested, advice for finding a woman, and more. Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Get 15% off your order at https://www.huel.com with code WIDEOPEN15 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

Ken, do you have any control? Oh, yeah. It doesn't seem that way. If you keep scoring, don't win, it's your fault. That's what it is. Who do you think was a worst kid growing up? Me or CJ? Oh, well, I...

I ran there. I hit this tree. I'm like, I had all four wheels just like... How long am I going to be around, so I better enjoy what I see? For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery.

We just got sent some of these. You probably drink anything. Exactly. They're not bad. They're not good, though. No, but could you see yourself on the boat drinking six of these? It's actually got a lot more flavor than I wanted. It's kind of a one-and-done road beer type.

I can see Ryan drinking six of those on the boat. But why have six of those when you can have 12 of these? That's true. You've got a good point there. Nice is party cup in the game right there. Yeah. You don't drink anything in Ed. I haven't drank since August 31st.

Oh, you're better off. I haven't had caffeine either since September 1st. What was harder to get rid of? Caffeine. How long until we get you off those nuts? Sorry. Only a handful. Grandpa, what's the longest that you went without drinking beer?

Or alcohol? Just recently. I mean, since I had the cancer thing. Other than that, shit. Maybe a day, too. But when I had to get the cancer, I didn't have any alcohol for three or four weeks. I found out what's kind of... Three or four weeks.

That's got to be horrific. Wow. For a second, I thought that you were going to say a couple months. Oh, no. Well, you were speaking, I was like, no, I saw him every couple weeks and every single time I'd see you. You'd be like, let's get a drink. I'm always, you know, beer is better for you than pop. Than pop.

Told us that since I was. That's what me and CJ, yeah, grew up. That's not good for you. So it's either water, beer, or vodka, wine, whatever. Beer is easy. Well, thank you. There you go. There's your beer.

We can celebrate again. You guys didn't hear Grandpa Ron kick cancer's ass, buddy. Let's go. That was really great. That was really great. That happened. And you guys right there, that was wonderful. I was telling CJ down here, I went to a deal with Jake.

a couple weeks ago. My brother, so his other grandson. Okay. And with a pickup rally, what they do. And this gal walks up to me, he says, Grandpa, and says, yeah. She says, my grandma has cancer. She's the same age as you, 81, same time. And she was so depressed. And I finally, I got her, told her, I took her and showed her the videos that you did with

the C-boys and what you felt like. Just like that, she turned around and doing better. And it was the best thing I heard in a long time. time. I mean to hear that. How much do you think attitude plays a factor in it? Oh, 95%. Really? I think so. I mean, you know, I would have days when maybe I wasn't feeling that great. And then I would start reading some stuff you guys do and some comments coming back. And I thought, what the hell am I doing feeling down? These guys are great. I mean, people all over the world wishing me well, why do hell do I want to be down when they're thinking about me? And so that attitude, just like,

that would snap me out of it so uh and then really got into deep depression but a lot of people do yeah i mean no kidding yeah i mean you read a lot of the comments that we got back people would say my grand father or their mother or their whatever got depressed end up dying yeah and i guess i didn't realize that you guys maybe will know more about it than i did after you heard the stage four it's pretty bad well yours was really bad yeah and i didn't really really think it's so bad. I don't know. I mean, it didn't feel that great. And I got out of it, I guess. I feel pretty damn good now. Like I'm having a beer. Played a lot of golf this year, did some work. So it's a lot of attitude. In anything, though, you know, the attitude. Do they

tell you that when you're, like, going into your first treatments? Are they like, you know, keep a positive attitude or when it's like stage four like that, when it's so bad? Is it hard for the doctors to even like give you know give you any hope the doctor i had when he looked at said you know what it was he said well i how i can take care of this will give you a few more years to live five ten whatever if you do what i say oh yeah i'll do what you say but when you go into the uh get your infusions a lot of the people was such a now because this might hurt you not you may not feel well after you've had your shots why you're telling me this you know just Get me some stuff in case it does it.

And they did, but I never used it. But they'll warn you about the after effects, which I never had any. Really? Yeah, fortunately, I was really lucky on that. But I still got the pills they gave me and covered at home. Pain pills. And after those infusions I had, sometimes you feel nausey and dizzy. It never happened to me.

But you guys were always around just the hell to keep me farged up. You had to stay young with us, dragging you all around. I do, yeah. I'm serious. I talk about that all the time. I said, I've got grandkids and C-boys, of course. Keep me young. I mean, there's something to do.

What the hell? If you don't have that, you know, but your attitude, I'd say 95%. Wow. I mean, you can be sick, and you're sick, I guess. Well, what's hell you're going to do about it? Right.

I mean, your attitude is not going to make you difference. If you have cancer, you have it. Yeah. You know, so let's do what we can do with it. I had an occasion where a friend of mine who played golf with, his sister-in-law had cancer, and he saw the deal we did on WDY, and he tried to tell her about that,

and she won't listen, and she's got probably another month to live. What do you mean won't listen? She won't do anything. She just, well, give you an example. He told me one night he gets up, and she's living with him now and his wife, and she got up and made her,

had a waffle or toast or something and spilled syrup all over the floor, right? So next morning he comes down and she's capable of getting around. He comes down the next morning and he step in this syrup. And what the hell is this? And she said, well, I spilled syrup last day. Well, why didn't you clean it up? Well, I'm sick and I'm going to die. That's the kind of attitude she has.

So that's not going to cut it. I think being buddies with these two guys and your whole family, honestly, is really open my eyes to how much, like, attitude and manifesting, like, you know, whatever you want to call it. But what you look for, how much you head that direction, as opposed to looking towards the bad you head towards the bad. And, I mean, in many things, it's not like a good attitude can just pull you out of it in things like cancer and sickness and stuff like that.

But thankfully, it was good treatment and the right attitude you did. And we're out playing golf and doing fun things. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think just even it goes to tie with like anything like having a good attitude no matter what you're trying to accomplish or do in life it will help you do better. I'm not saying it's going to solve all your problems but like let's just say trying to do good in a sport like having a

good attitude going into it is going to make you just much more susceptible to learn and just you know evolve be better and all that but especially obviously obviously with stuff like what Grandpa was going through. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I think attitude is so bad. You guys all have great attitude. You do crazy stuff, which is great. And people that I talked to, I was telling CJ,

I went to the football game a couple weeks ago in the SU. The college game. Yeah, oh, yeah, we were getting tagged in that. Oh, yeah, all the time. Yeah. Oh, my. I saw you were there. I got tagged in about all her time.

Grandpa can't go anywhere anymore without getting pictures and hassled, Not hassled, but, yeah. You know what the good thing about that is, is that people walk up to me and you say, Grandpa, Ron, how are you feeling? I'm so glad you got over your cancer. I mean, and that's really good to hear from young people. They're concerned, you know, about cancer, of course, but you're feeling better. You're America's grandpa.

Yeah, 100%. My dad was in Alaska, fly fishing on this river up in the middle of nowhere. And there was one other guy or a couple other guys on the river. and like I think my dad was wearing a C-boys hat and the guy was like oh hey I watched see boys and my dad was like oh I'm Ben's dad and the first question he asked is how's grandpa Ron yeah no way yeah that's crazy yeah people are so concerned about I mean they and when we did that ringing the bell and that the comments you probably read the comments it came back but they're all over the world on Australia on the video or on WDA why

on the video so our local news network also picked up grandpa Ron's story you were just like the poster or like cancer awareness yeah i thought that was really cool too my idea when they wanted to do that i'm for it but if we can help somebody get to a better attitude and what the hell if you got cancer you got cancer so let's let's live with it and do what we can with it right they let you back into the country club after you want golfing with us oh heck yeah oh my god that was heaven doesn't even remember he doesn't remember he doesn't If it weren't for the clubs I bought, I say I wasn't there. Evan is convinced that he didn't meet me and CJ's aunt or your daughter.

He thinks we're messing with him. He thinks that we're still messing with him. No, I think I met them. I just don't believe we had dinner at the club. You sat right next to grandma. That's what's concerning. Oh, yeah. I'm sure we should have grandma.

She remembers vividly. You were telling some pretty aggressive stories for my grandmother, right? You're lucky she's used to, yeah. Yeah, she's used to worse, but... But let me tell you what she said. She said, she'd watch in the oven to his stuff. She said, on video, but he's really a nice guy. Seriously.

How about that? She must not have been thinking straight. She said, you're a real gentleman. Oh, what? Well, I said, what the hell you're talking about? That was happening? She said, I know. Well, she has been married to you for 40 years, so sure.

She is skewed. Maybe that wasn't a gentleman according to me. I don't know about that. But anyway, that was wild, though. Yeah, we went golfing. It would have been, like, July at this point. And it was less golfing, more drinking. Oh, man, we had fun.

It was just like, yeah, I think, you know, most of the crew is so bad at golfing. It was just like, what are we even doing here? And then Ken is just, every time, like, the cart would come by, we would just go, Rudy shots? Yeah. And before you knew it, we just did, like, 17 little fireball shooters. Oh, my.

You really like fireball, don't you? Is that your favorite shot? like it all what the hell that's what golf looks like for him every single day he golfs every day yeah that's just the same thing every he's what do you mean that was golf yeah yeah well we we don't drink that many fireballs every day i'm guarantee you that the only time was when jena and you and i my daughter and my wife played and oh and she got a uh yeah and eagle yeah yeah yeah yeah and you never had fireballs before right what no i hadn't i i've never had well i actually that was the first time i had ever drank too yeah and we said when you have a birdie you had to have

a fireball shot and i remember ben's what do you mean if we have a fireball you take it you have a shot well we had an eagle and a birdie so we had two shots yeah and then they just brought a bottle yeah that was a good start for us here's okay let me let me explain this too when when me and cj were growing up at grandpa rons he had a jug in the fridge that was it looked like orange juice but it was It was actually a screwdriver, so orange juice and vodka. It was a pre-made screw-made screw-driver. So, like, you'd come over and you'd be like, oh, hey, hey, yeah, I'm just pouring some orange juice, and you drink and be like, that's not orange juice.

Spicy orange juice. It's so efficient. I have a great story about that, and my brother taught me how to do that my older brother. When he was 10. Yeah, but anyway, my mom didn't drink, and neither did her sister. So my brother, my aunt lived in Milwaukee, so they're going to. And my brother is going to drive my mom and my aunt take her back to Milwaukee. So they get up early in the morning to get ready to go.

Well, they, same deal. They don't know the difference between screwdriver and orange juice. Neither one of them drink. Well, most people in a sane household probably doesn't have that free mix in the fridge. So both of those, my aunt and my mom drink and locked the screwdrivers don't know it. So they get ready to leave. They get in the car. They fell to sleep.

They stepped all the way from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. Who was driving? My brother. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. I didn't know where that was going. They were in the back seat, and they didn't understand why they were so tired. They were not in the bag.

Feeling loopy. Yeah. Oh, my. That's funny. He taught me how to do that. So, in fact, they taught me a lot of things. Are you still doing the pre-made screwdrivers in your, in your fridge? Once in a while.

Okay. I did it when Ben's sister was living with us, too, but I marked it to make sure she didn't get into it. Yeah, we weren't sure that you were going to be welcome back on the, on the, on the, country club after we left we were just like oh no no no in fact you guys are welcome anytime everybody loved it oh really oh the waiters and yeah he loved it yeah well they should have you guys got a hell of a tap it was pretty funny i have a bunch of buddies that are also members of the country club i got sent this picture this morning and they go you guys only gulfed once there this year but you made the yearly instagram picture yeah and here's evan with his arm around my aunt

That's my odds. He says he doesn't meet. I wasn't even there. It doesn't look like you're there based on the picture. Photoshop. His lights were on. Watermelon boy. Oh, no, you guys are welcome there.

You know, wow, we didn't do it. We had fun. That's all. Yeah, we did have fun. So, yeah, we were playing some, like, a bunch of different golf gambling games with, like, the rest of Grandpa's buddies. Dude, we sat at this table for probably, I'd say an hour.

Yeah, hour to an hour to an hour and a half trying to figure out who owed who money. And at the end of it. It was like, Grandpa Ron made $8. His other buddy made three, but he had to pay two of that to another guy. But he was in the whole $8 as well. So he made $6. And we walked away, like, after an hour and a half, like, you guys did all that for $12? Well, I watched Ken through $20 and I said we won.

Yeah, Ken threw $20 and just tell them to just fuck off. He was like, I will pay you guys $20 to stop. This math was just going in circles And did not add up And I was like, I just got to The way it looked like it was adding up Was in your favor You were the one doing the math

And you were the one who was like, okay, So you owe me $8, you owe me $5 And everyone's kind of like, well, what? You got it up with all the money. I was honest on that. You guys forgot to collect that's all. What's your saying? If you keep scoring, don't win, it's your fault.

That's what it is. That's true. And that's the same goes for cards. You only play cards, you know. Oh, that's why you want to come and be our blackjack dealer. I could do that. Yeah, I deal a lot of blackjack, actually, was for games to go. They have the casino parties kind of thing, and I did one two weeks ago.

So, in fact, his wife was your babysitter. Yeah. Well, he found out. Okay. Anyway, he told me, and then I saw him a week later, because I did two weeks in a row, and they were both of them. and he wanted me to say hello to you from his wife. I forget her name.

But anyway, hello. He watches. There you go. Thanks, Graves. He does watch you. He said, you weren't a pretty good kid. Pretty good. Pretty good.

But not the best. That's on par. What do you think was a worst kid growing up? Me or CJ? Oh, well, I. CJ, once in a while I would get, had a kind of a, and you guys heard this story a thousand times. We were building a house,

and we would stay at different places while I was being built. And when... How old was I before just to practice? How old was I in it? 16. I was 2 or 3? Well, it would be 19 or it would be 2,000. Okay, so I was born in 96, I was 4.

All right. Okay. So anyway, we're staying at... They hold this against me. They hold this against me. Like, I'm not kidding you. I can't escape this story. Tell the story.

Let's remember. Anyways, we stay at his house, an extra bedroom there, and he comes in an door. He's crying and screaming, no, they can't stay here, and he's crying and going to jump up and down. And his bummer's trying to control him. Now, he's four years old, right? You can't control him. Like old enough to know.

Old enough and he's going on and he's crying and screaming and hitting the floor and doing this. And finally his dad hauled the body thing threw him in the garage. I don't know. But anyways. Put him in the kennel. Yeah, but that was. I don't remember that for some reason. But anyway, I, I, who was the hardest?

I mean, you guys were always. all pretty good. You know, you always, you know, because I always played with you guys, so we did something, but I don't think anybody was really that hard. I don't know. What do you, I suppose you want to say that you were the best, right? I mean, I was hoping that you were going to say that. One thing about Ben, in fact, people are worried about him. He never cried. Oh, yeah. True story. They thought that I was deaf. Yeah. Really? Yeah, they got my ears checked twice. He would play on the floor by himself and crawl around. It comes 26 months, nine months or a year. Never cry. What the hell is wrong with that kid?

It was a happy kid. Why, you're not crying? Yeah. I can see, like, everybody's like, oh, he doesn't cry. What's wrong? I can see you, Ron, being like, I'll give him something to cry about. I'm running across the floor and he grabs my leg. I just face plant down.

Yeah, it's probably against a wall. No, no, never cried. Now he winds. Yeah, whatever. I think if we picked up anything from you, Grandpa, it's our sense of humor and some of our driving, actually, because I recall a story with you. Do you ever remember the game when, like, you'd be. riding with grandpa on let's say he was going from their house to our house make it

my house or your house and he'd say like i bet you i can make it there without without hitting like stopping without like stopping at a stop sign a red light and i remember like we'd be like cutting through gas stations to go around red light like we were just be like hopping curbs like zooming around and i thought it was amazing hell yeah and i remember one time this guy was getting arrested they had like a bunch of cops it was me grandma and grandpa and he's like oh you want to pull over and watch so we pulled over into the into the convenience start party line watch this guy get like taken down by the cops i was like watching out the windows that's evans like worst nightmare he'd be afraid that the cops

he's sick he's like get out of here get out of your grip what the fuck are you doing that's what he'd be saying every time he sees a cop he starts tweaking yeah there was a reason for that because i thought if j j would see that don't let that happened to you so yeah i mean it definitely helped it helped yeah not much but yeah yeah i did the right things you got to speeding tickets well that's a pretty good story not not recently but i've had a lot years ago well how many's a lot well i got speed tickets at speeding tickets in one week one time what two or by the same cop right and so i i'd fight them and and i got of course Well, I had an attorney.

I got an attorney, and this cop was a small-town cop, so the judge, an attorney made him look so bad because he was trying to judge how fast I was going, and he couldn't. What, they didn't have a radar? No, he did none of those. This is back in 1975. You guys weren't even boring.

Oh, so, yeah. How were they giving out speeding tickets? They would just kind of figure that, you know, like I remember him saying I was going, and it was, 100 miles an hour. And. What the hell were you driving that did 100 miles per hour? It was a 65 Thunderbird.

Okay. So we get to court and something with the distance and about a quarter of a mile I was doing this one. So my attorney asked this, it was a couple, well, how many feet in a mile? Well, he didn't know. So how in the hell can you say, no, a quarter of a mile, you know,

not how many feet of a mile is. So judge through that one out of court, thank God. Thanks. And then you were back there the next day for the one. Yeah. Well, then I had one, I didn't have a driver. Minneapolis. How'd you lose it to begin with?

Well, I had a few tickets. No DUIs or anything like that, though, because those days, they didn't bother you. But anyway. No, they'd take to go home. I remember I get picked up. I'd try and believe me. I know.

I remember one time I got picked up, I was like, I was in high school, I think. And it was like four in the morning or three in the morning. I get picked up by Annandale, Minnesota. I lived in Kimball, which was like seven miles away or whatever. But anyway, he picks me up, I show him my driver's license. I had a few beers. And he said, are you Ted's boy?

That's my dad. And I said, yeah. Well, my dad was kind of in politics. He said, if I ever catch you out here and getting this late, I'm telling your dad. Go home. Oh, I mean, nowadays try that. So you took the ditch. I went home.

Well, I was four in the morning. I had to go home. Are you able to tell the story about the golf cart when you piled it up? your neighbor's front of them on or no are we to leave that one there were not many years there were fireballs that day no there wasn't in fact it was a three-wheeler like you guys had last well okay they're dangerous and you can tell when you when you drive those three-wheeler they tip they tip easy yeah no shit yeah no shit so i had a few beers i'm going home and i in those days terrible combination i didn't live in the golf course when i kept my car at my daughter's house

because they lived on the golf course i'd drive it back to their house and i take this ground in his corner and I roll over in this guy's direct cop in his yard in a cop's front yard yeah yeah I rolled it card over and there's clubs flying all road he's trying to get that and the emcees yeah and I oh shit if he comes out I'm dead meat you know and I quick throw my clubs on tip the card back up I never got caught yeah that's too I know, right in his front yard. You know, how'd you turn, you were up in his yard driving, like, through his yard? With those three-wheelerers, it didn't take much.

Yeah. Well, yeah, but you should have been on the road or something. I was at one time. Yeah. Did I take the ditch? Every story. It's built into those three-wheelers. Take the ditch, which side, you know, which one?

But they didn't know, and I, they kept so easy. Yeah. Yeah, we know. Yeah, you guys know. Why the hell did they ever make three-wheeled golf carts? Yeah, that's the first one. It was cheaper to put new tires on. It's true.

You could turn pretty tight, obviously. Tight enough for it to tip. But there was another one, though. I don't know if you can tell that one. You put it in a pawn. Oh, yeah. You barreled into the front, then the cops got you, and then... Which one was that?

You went to... You were at jail. He was in a car. You were in a car, though, I think. And then you had to call, and you ended up getting out of it. Oh, yeah. So we talked your way out of it, per usual. Oh, my.

I don't know. We don't know that one. I'll tell that one. Oh, Jay, what happened. Couple beers It was a same thing Yeah I was out to country club On a Thursday night

Which is men's night Two glasses of wine right And that day It was in wintertime Because there was snow in the ground How were you playing golf for men's like that? He was just there just drinking He told grandma that he was playing golf

No one is no card I was playing cards We played cards In men's day On Thursday So but I got there late And I tried to catch up with the guy, drinking wine. That'll get you.

And I drove to Minneapolis, and I had a, that came from Minneapolis. How old are you, and you're still playing catch up? Your buddies are, how drunk are you? You're probably like a four right now. Oh, shit. Yeah, anyways, I tried to catch out. I drove home and I had a four-wheel vehicle. But I put it in two-wheel drive, because roads were good, right?

And from Minneapolis. So anyway, I go and I go directly to the country club, half some wine. And I come home and I go around the corner, and I step on it. Well, I forgot I didn't have a four-wheel drive. Were you trying to drift? No, I would just try and just go home. What did you step on around the corner, though? Well, I was just going to take off.

Like a little fish tail? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, drifted. Yeah. I ran in there. I hit this tree. So my car is stuck on the tree, right? Oh.

Like, it's stuck or it's broken. It was a small tree. Do you remember what kind of car you were driving? Yeah, Blazer. Okay. Anyway, I'm sitting there. I'm trying to. I'm trying to get out.

I get put it in four-wheel drive now. He's revving it. Do you see the curtains open? So all of the sudden. Ron again, he's in the front yard. Yeah. So all of a sudden. Honey, we really got to move away from the corner. All the lights come on in the house.

Oh, shit. I'm burning a drown. Like that. And I can't get so. Pretty soon. You're coming to a freaking cop. Shut off. Oh, shit.

No way. One of my neighbors called the cops. So I got a bitch. Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure which one. I'm kind of sure, but I don't know. I'm not there anymore. Anyway.

Go and teepee their house. Yeah, oh, I'd do more than that. But anyways, I said, I get out of the car, and a cop comes over, he said, yeah. I'll be out of here in a minute. I know. Well, I can't get out. So I get out, he checked me.

I said, I have to go to the bathroom. The lady's driveway that I was in. I just can use your, Bonnie is in him. Can I use your bathroom? Yeah. Nope. You're not using their bath, you're arrested. So they hauled my ass to jail, right?

No. I'm too divorced from my house. So I call my buddy up, who's the county commissioner. And I said, you've got to get me out of this. He was drinking, too. So he said, I got to find it because he was drinking with me at the club. And he said, I'll find somebody to get you come and pick you up. So, but he did call.

I didn't have to use any bail. And so the friend of us picked me up, my going on. Next day. I'm leaving for Las Vegas. We're going to a show, a clothing show. My frickin car got towed away, and I'm ready to get it.

And so I happen to have Bunny because I was going to Las Vegas, right? So we get a check in at the police station. I get a couple thousand bucks probably or $1,500 in my wallet. I got a DUI. So I get a hold of an attorney and that's, God. So he started checking around,

and so was my buddy. And he said, when was the last time he had checked, you know, for the, how good your fluid is that they check the chemical for DUI well they hadn't changed that for nine months well that could maybe not any good anymore they threw it out of court wow so the bottom line is good to have friends in high police oh man yeah but otherwise that's the last ticket I think I've had there you go you've been driving good since then so like to preface these are stories I've heard like through my life throughout my life like growing up like

Good stories like this. Obviously, Ben, too. Yeah. Just family dinners. I'm in North Minneapolis one. I was getting to that. I didn't have a driver's license that was suspended. And I have this guy with me.

The lights go on. I pull one in the corner. He says, Lee, get over. I'll take care of the fine and everything, but you take the ticket. Yeah, you get here and say you're driving. That kind of buddy, he is. Gets over and gets in the car, a cop comes over there and says, I don't see your license. I wasn't driving.

He was. Oh, what? Yeah. What the, what? That's what I said, you asshole. So then I kept postponing and postponing because I was fighting it. And finally, the cop had to come to court in Hennepin County. Now Hennepin County is not a fun jail, by the way.

You don't want to be there. You've been there. You've been there for a couple hours. Okay. That's enough. So anyway, the cop doesn't show up to testify. So they do that one out. Oh, wow.

So I've been lucky in a few of those. Interesting. I've been lucky in everything, Grandpa. Those are, you know, things that you've got to be careful of. You guys are young, so watch out. I think times are a little different now. Oh, yeah, shit. Now you be in jail for a month.

So probably, yeah. That's why we behave. Yeah, that's exactly why you behave. I can tell. But, yeah, that happens. You get older, you get more mild. Yeah, grandma doesn't think so, but that's the way it is. I just can't imagine what grandma's doing, like, when she gets the call, like,

sleeping. Yeah, I got my blazer stuck on a tree. Oh, yeah. The neighbor's lawn. All right, Marlis, I need you to go over. I think it's still there. They haven't towed it yet. I need you to try and get that bitch off the tree.

That kind of happened because she didn't know what happened, right? So I go to jail. They get me out. I go home, go in the house. And, no, it's like 10, 30, 11 o'clock by this time. She said, I didn't hear the garage door. I came in the front of it. Well, I really don't have a car.

So she didn't see the commotion just down the... No, no. I didn't see it. So I said my car spent and found, and I got picked up. Got my ass chewed a little bit, but I deserved it. Oh, yeah. I'm going to put it up with a lot, right? Oh, yeah.

Did you have to buy them your neighbor's a new tree? No, I didn't. God, I would have loved to have seen what that yard looked like. It's growing. It's all duggedy. I had all four wheels just saying, and I got down to the grass. Yeah. But I couldn't get off the tree.

They had a little reminder of you in the spring, huh? Oh, yeah, you're right. There was. Ron, you've gotten pretty, as Ben and CJ said, pretty lucky. You feel like you've been lucky later in life with finding a good lady that puts up with your shenanigans and keeps you in control. Yep. What advice would you give to Ken and other young gentlemen out there? And Gavin.

And Gavin? They're both sitting here. They're looking for a lady. They're looking out for love and all the other people listening. What advice would you give? Probably a lot different nowadays. because girls are a lot different, right? Okay.

I would say that if you're not around them and you miss them, you miss doing something with them, I mean, that's a good start. Good advice. That's actually really, I was thinking there was going to be something really aggressive to come out. No, I like that. That's really good advice.

You know, you think, gosh, I haven't seen, you know, Betty or Jane. God, we haven't gone out and she's so much fun. I like being with her. Let's do something. No matter what it is, let's do something together. and find it when you do stuff together, you find out that you enjoy it. If you're not really want to get in a relationship,

well, then it's like, well, yeah, see around. What if you want that, but they don't want it? Then what do you do? Probably find a different girl. So, so Grandpa Ron. Straightforward. Yeah. Yeah.

You've been married three times. You're on your fourth? Yeah. Sorry, divorced three times. You're on your fourth wife. I married my first wife twice. Right. Okay.

And now I only did that because of my daughter. What is one thing that you could also tell Ken and Gavin of the signs of a crazy woman to watch out for? That's pretty easy. I mean, it kind of years and I was married after my daughter's mother, I was my third marriage. I was a clinical psychologist, right? She was? Yeah, that was her profession.

Were you a patient? I became one. It was so regimented in what she's going to do at 5 o'clock. You can have a drink. Before that, you can't. I didn't That wasn't going to fly How the hell did you get to marriage

It was the shortest marriage ever Well, her dad was worth $20 million It was the start You were gold digging Well, not really She was a beautiful woman besides I didn't play golf for a year and a half When I was married to her

Wow What the hell were you doing If I was not playing a golf Really doesn't sound like me What the fuck were you doing? I don't know Actually, what were you doing? I don't remember

He was just blacked out. I was miserable. Not black. Yeah, I was just miserable kind of. Like, yeah, you know, and I was on the road during the week traveling at the time. But I get home and shit, this is like going into a prison cell darn near. Well, one time her daughter goes outside and takes a water hose and starts spraying inside the house through the window. Oh, you shouldn't do that again.

I mean, no discipline. I found that up. Except for with you. What would you have done to a garden hose in your living room? I'd go out and kick their ass. If it was back, if you would have caught Ben with the garden hose and the kick. Oh, well, he's the old he is. 14.

Oh, then he needs his ass kick. Yeah, I feel like some kids just never had their ass kicked growing up. Yeah. God, my dad used to fucking grab me by the ear. That was a, like. I don't get grabbed by the ear, dude. Like when he's yelling at me, grabs me by the ear, dude. I still have PTSD.

Really? Yeah, touch my ear. Oh, I know. Yeah. Well, I had five older brother. okay on a farm and so shit i mean i didn't have a chance really uh because one would kick my ass the other one would in fact i was thinking about that the other day growing up that i never my parents never lie and never swear what i'm trying to figure out i never lie but swearing

i wonder what happened to me there because i didn't i bet i was 14 or 15 before i never let my mother hear me swear yeah the floodgates just opened yeah kind of and but um but And my brother's picked on me, of course. We had boxy gloves. That's what I know. It got broken and knocked through a window. And you were the youngest? I had one younger, nine years younger than me.

And one brother was nine years older than me. So we'd have boxy gloves. So he said, I'll box on my knees. That really doesn't slow down his punch, right? No. He's still getting clock pretty good. I mean, that's the goddamn stupid I am. One time when my parents were gone for the weekend, which was very seldom,

we'd get in a, we'd fight in the house. He knocked me through our. window we have kind of a picture window in the house bang i go through this window like oh man so anyways that couldn't have been like you went through the window did you get like cut out no no no i didn't oh so you got like tossed through it i got hit like that and it went backwards like that right through but anyway if you tell mom and dad what happened you are in serious trouble so they made up a story there he had some friends over and they were wrestling around so my parents never knew about until years later you wonder why that window was

broken when you got home because your one son knocked me through it that's why that's what happened one time when i was riding dirt bikes with my brother i came over a hill he was coming down the hill and he hit me and it broke my foot and he told me don't tell mom and dad what actually happened tell him that you tipped over and you broke your foot so i did yeah i think i just told him like the truth a couple years ago yeah yeah he was just like i didn't hit you you tipped over i'm like oh shit okay i did yeah i had a pretty good life really growing up as a kid and a farm with five older brothers and whatever. And my dad was a pretty good farmer,

so we always had what we wanted. But, well, you guys took you guys there. Yeah, it's cool to see. Ben and I went to his farm that he grew up in, sold the house, still had the barn. You know, what was that, two years ago, two summers ago? About two years. Yeah, barn blew down now, but anyway.

Oh, yeah. It was on its last leg. Yeah, it was on its last leg. But we went in there, and it was cool. Yeah. It was really cool to see. You know, you were kind of giving us a tour. Like, I'd wake up and I'd come here and I'd, you know, get the eggs.

Yeah. And then Grandpa went up and knocked on the house. And I don't think the people, did they know that you grew up there? No. Yeah, he just goes up, knocks on the house. We were walking around this farm for a while. And then he just was like, like, they're home. We were going in the bar and doing all this stuff.

And I'm like, I kind of just assumed they knew who he was. And then he's like, I'm going to see if they have any eggs for sale. Goes up, knocks on the door. And she's like, uh, what's up? Hey, uh, yeah, I was just wondering if you guys had any eggs for sale. I'd love to buy some eggs. And she was like, uh, yeah. And she was like, they were selling eggs for you?

They'd be like, somebody that used to live at our shops or the farm over there. No, but they show up and they take a full tour around and we're just sitting there watching. There's a chicken coop at our farm and they used to have eggs. Imagine they're just, hey, do you have any eggs?

And Gavin just goes inside, grabs the eggs out of the fridge that we got at the grocery store. Yeah, yeah, here we go. Five bucks. The family that used to own our farm basically just built like kitty corner to where it is now.

Another side of the tree line. And they still have like six chickens that. run around that I'm assuming used to live in our chicken coop. They love the Chevy graveyard. Oh, yeah. So these chickens started wandering over. I think they just remembered, like, their old home. And we'll be out filming, and these chickens are just, like, wandering around.

And, yeah, I mean, I'm thinking about maybe just seeing if we can buy them from them so we can get some eggs. Get some eggs, well, you bet. Do you have any advice? Because I've been saying it for a while. So we call it the farm, because it used to be a farm. but it's not technically a farm right now. It's a content farm.

That's true. But I'm looking for like agricultural farm. What animals would you recommend we get? And then Ken will take care of them. Because like I just could see Ken up early in the morning milking the cattle. You can get any egg. Before you say an answer,

that's a bull. Ken, no, we know that you're going to be. Don't drink that milk. You might want to audit this, but I think if you're going to have animals around, Ken, don't have sheep. Man, did Ken get done dirty now? Keep them coming.

That's what you said to the cow. Yeah, I think we need at least like a mini horse over there. You know, something that's like kind of low maintenance. There's no way you're going to get me to ride a mini horse, Ben. I'm thinking like you would to ride a mini horse. We'd get normal horses for all of us and a mini horse for you. I know it would become a meme so quick. Like, I just know better.

How fucking funny. Everything in cowboy boots with a little hat on? Why is it a little hat? I don't know. Why is it a normal hat? It's a little boots. His little buckle. Yeah.

Get a little belt buckle. Do any of you guys ride horse at all? No, I don't fuck with horses. We have. Remember that time me, Ken and you did it? Yeah. I drive by that farm all the time now and I think about it. I had no control over that horse.

That horse was just going wherever it wanted and I was just there. Well, Horses go rogue. It's like the throttle sticking on a dirt bike. Like, it's a bad situation. Or not if you train them right, they don't. Yeah, but every once in a while, who's to say that they're not? Like the one horse that he's talking about and he couldn't stop when he pulled back on the rain.

A horse will bite the bit. That's the bit is what goes in the mouth like they'll bite it. So when you pull on it, they don't feel it here. Oh. So you can buy a special bridle that will make it something. They can't do that. They will go rogue if they can bite the bit. because you can't control them.

I ever been a horse guy? Like, did you ever have horses? You were riding them? Oh, yeah. Oh, I used to break horses. Really? Really? Like wild horses?

No, no, no. They weren't wild. They would be a horse, a colt was born. When they got a little older, I would start riding them. Really? Yeah. So would you guys use horses to, like, farm, like drag the plows and stuff? We did in some years because my, well, you guys, where we lived along the road there,

and we had cornfields. along the highway, and if my dad took horses and a two-roll corn planter, he could make every roll create this way, diagonal, or crossways. It would look perfect. Oh, he wanted it to look good. Yeah, and he would do it with horses. He could do that. So he could go straighter with a horse than he could with a track?

Yeah. Well, he used him. Book Club on Monday. Jim on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town of me. Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday.

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Yeah, you can't give them. overwork. You can't give them too much water at one time after they worked hard. But normally, you don't beat them up. Horses are pretty stable. Every time I'm driving out west, I'm always just reminded, like, this is really nice being in a car and not being on a horse and buggy. Yeah, I think the same thing.

That's how they found it. They were just going through fields, too. Did you ever think about going from city to city and a freaking stagecoach across the desert or something, the ride you would have and wooden wheels riding in the back of that for hours? Yeah, it's insane. It's so bumpy. We complain about the down road, bro.

In our Springer van, we're like, God, this road's getting bad. Yeah, dude, when you really think about it, just some wooden wheels on not even a road. Yeah, some gravel. I think about that every time I see the Amish, too. Amish, too. Amish do it. I'm just like somebody needs to just get them a car and tell them it's all right. We should surprise the Amish with a car for a video.

Imagine that thumbnail and title. Don't do a car. Do a pickup. They won't drive a car. I can be pretty fine to drive a pickup. Yeah, we get them in El Camino. Yeah. They won't know what to do with it.

Donked out El Camino with subs. We'll do yours, Zev. No, not that one. They won't drive a car. They'll drive pickups. Well, I didn't even know that. They will drive pickups. What are the people over there by Holly?

They're... Hutter rights. You see the pickups. They won't drive cars either. They do a little bit of technology, though. Like, the Amish don't. Don't they do the vans? They all load up in the van.

Yeah, I saw a van load of them last week. We're in their little straw hats. Yeah, right there. The Hooter right? Shout out to Peter Yoder. Ex Amish Mafia. guy who is a subscriber and we've met yeah he's probably listening shout out to peter and he has a sticker on the top of his Chevy that says ex-almish mafia yeah he used to be amish grandpa and uh he ran away

i think it was only like six months after he had ran away he met us in like 2021 because he had discovered watching youtube finding youtube and all these things and he was kind of nearby us and he found out we were doing a meetup so he came and he like starts talking to us and like told us the story and it was just crazy but then he came back one day out of the blue like we didn't exchange information he came and he gave us that hat to put on the podcast studio we should have filmed it but did he leave the huderoids i don't know if it was the hudorites i don't know where it was exactly but ken is right the hudorites have great technology i used to sell him a lot of stuff joe over at holly in that area there and i'd go into his office he's got his computer there

and he'd deal in cash he'd have quarter million dollars in a drawer and i said you know where is this Oh, well, you never get to it. You would get there and you would just become part of their culture. Yeah, yeah. They'd use you like a menu. Oh, yeah. Oh, they would just.

He's a little short for them, but. Yeah, but they'd probably make use of for them. Yeah, they'd find out that he could wheelie a horse. Well, what happens? He'd be putting on like halftime shows for their lunch. Actually, Evan, sometimes when these colonies get so large, like 150, 175 people, they have to break loose. Well, bring in outside.

They have to bring it outside. You don't do that. Need a, he wasn't looking for a stud? Here's Evan. My catch of an aerial disease, bud. Oh, no.

No, kidding. Kid, kidding. Bad joke. Yeah, they're clean, the clean people. DJ wasn't worried about them.

I'm worried about you. I was saying, Evan, yeah. They're the problem. Well, Evan, well,

yeah. No, they wouldn't let them in. They do a background. check. Evan gets a call. Yeah, a couple of her women have these problems. And Evan's like, thanks for letting me know. I'll go get checked. I can hold my doctor right now. Oh, my. Jesus. Well, you are a bad ass, aren't you, Evan? No. Do you think the Amish know, like, what's going on in, like, the country right now, or they just don't care? Like, do you think that the Amish, like,

so today is Tuesday, the election day? I don't know if the hood or ex vote or not, but they're not, they know what's going on in the world like they'll they can do so much on their own like for example people tile fields you know to drain drain tile well hell they they don't hire it done they go out and buy the machine and do it themselves and they deal in cash a lot of cash they'll go out and buy poor land and then they'll fix it up fix it up because they have the labor interesting labor is no problem for them obviously but they don't like they pay in taxes you know they're not are they exempt from taxes? Well, yeah, it's considered religion, church.

So I'm not sure how they, but I'm not sure on that, but it's considered a religion. So if they're not getting the news, though, you know, they're not getting fed. They're probably, like, keeping an eye on things and pretending they're not. You know, there's probably people in there that, like, have a TV in the back. They're radio. They're kind of, like, phony, or not phony, I don't know, they're just doing what they want and then, like, making sure the people underneath them are doing what they're supposed to. They do have radios.

I used to go after a lot, and I would have lunch with them. You know, they are kind of fly. I'd have lunch with Joe, and he's the kingpin, right? So we go in this hall. Well, he's a big guy. I mean, yeah. He's the man, whatever, and he controls all the money and all the spending and everything. Is he voted it?

No, it's kind of hereditary. I mean, he passed down, I think, because now I think he passed away and been out there for a while. And now I think his son is ahead of interest. But I used to go out there and I got to go almost a while his wife, do I wait to make cookies for me when I got there. I bet those were good cookies. Oh, they're great. But anyway, I'd have lunch there.

He'd take me, and he ringed them at noon. Everybody eats at noon. So he'd go in there, we're at the head table. Joe, and then maybe a couple guys on top, and he had me there. And all the food you can eat. But he said, Ron, you better have a glass of wine. Yeah, I'm doing business with them not going to say no, right? Right, yeah.

I have some wine, well, this chokery wine made out of 190 proof alcohol. Whoa. So I have a glass of that. Jesus Christ. I'm sitting there having eating all of a sudden. And everything is going, Ron, what's the matter with, I suppose? Oh, my, I mean, that's like drinking straight of alcohol. Yeah.

And I drank almost a glass full of it. You were drinking a little like it was Pino, greasio. Oh, yeah. Anyway, and, of course, he laughed about that, you know. But he was a smart guy. I mean, he run the computer and they'd go to auctions. And you could go out there maybe on a Monday and they'd have a John your tractor. Tires burned off of it and nothing left of it, right?

you go back a week later and that thing is like brand new because they bought it that way oh and they fix it up a week later it's like brand new they have an electrician shop a carpenter shop they make a beautiful cabinet and these guys can do anything we got to bring some of our stuff over there yeah yeah that'd be actually a really good idea gab can you throw on that hat for me for just to get the visual what if we sent gab in to learn a thing or two an apprenticeship i got a couple names out there for you guys i don't know grandpa if we want to be affiliated. Yeah, we might be better off just starting to try. No, they kind of

like me because I'd bullshit with them a little bit. Whatever, I give them good deals. What were you doing out there selling them? Or what kind of business were doing? I had to salvage stuff from Can Am trucking and we'd have truckloads of stuff that was delivered, but people wouldn't accept it. And

the manufacturer didn't want it, and the buyers didn't want it. And then Bob would charge them for storage. So all of a sudden it's ours, right? And I was selling it to them like a pallet of peanut butter, for example, be less than half price, or whatever it may be.

So I don't want to get, like, too political, but I'm curious what your take on this is, Grandpa. Oh, my. I don't want you to get too political either. Let me preface that. But being that today's election day, people watching this know, like,

who the new president is. I have seriously zero, zero inkling, like, what's going to happen or who it's going to be. But I'm curious, if you've ever, like, in your lifetime, seen like this much division between the, country. Never.

Between, like, Democrats or Republicans. It seems like it's like oil and water right now. Never. You know, the parties, let's go back and let's use Democrats, for example. Let's take the John F. Kennedy, 1960s or whatever, completely different party. Look at Robert Kennedy right now. He's doing a Republican, right? It seems to me that they do a lot of untruths and the press is brutal.

And I don't know why that is, the money there or whatever. back in the day when like the opposing candidate that you wanted to win would win you know you kind of just accept it and move on right like it's like oh the people chose what the people wanted right it was like a fair and honest election right so like on the wednesday after the tuesday of the election day you know would the country kind of just accept it as it is pretty much yeah because it's like well this is our president now you know we kind of like this is our guy but the technology is a lot different nowadays of course and people can do different things Spark people can. I mean, they really can. I'm not really a big Trump fan, but I like his policy, and I look what he does, and I look about what you are, you guys, and your kids. I mean, I'm looking at crime we have now, looking at the border that we have now, and inflation and things like that. And then you look at the other side, and they really don't have a way to stop that.

Policy aside, I'm just curious as to, like, how you've seen over the years, I mean, however many different presidents you've had in your lifetime, you know, how you've seen just, I guess, the effect of it on the world. Because, like, at the end of the day, how much is the president really going to affect, you know, our day-to-day lives? Not that much. But how much is, you know, the people that you're surrounded by, like, if, like, there's so much division. Yeah, that's true. You lose friends and people that speak to you.

But it just seems like there's, like, more of that. Like, there's more of, like, it's like a less of a group where it's like, oh, No, no, he likes Trump or, like, no, she likes Camilla. And, like, you, like, look at them in, like, such a different light. It's almost like the country is, like, being torn apart within for just trying to elect a leader, a new leader, but it's dividing us when we should all be united as one. It's technically us versus everyone else. But we're, we can't even get along ourselves. Well, they call each other names.

In my opinion, if Republicans, for example, weren't running Trump and had another person running for office right now. and you look at what's happening in the world would be a land side for the Republicans, a lands side. Yeah, I didn't necessarily think that was like the best move, but it's like it wasn't even close. I understand that. That's what you got.

You know, people don't like his personality. I find you have to like his personality. I mean, this might sound crazy because everyone knows who won, but like I just see like if Trump wins, like people that hate him are going, like you're going to just hear about it nonstop, nonstop, nonstop, nonstop.

And if Camel wins, people that love Trump are going to just be like, it was fake. It was rigged. It was that. So it's like, yeah, there's not going to be an ending. There's not going to be a solution. In my opinion, whoever wins, but say my candidate doesn't win any other person. Let's see what they do. And you got to live with it.

Either way, you got to get up the next day, no matter who gets elected. That's your president. And you got to keep doing what you got to do. Do what you got to do it. That's all you can do. It's literally all you can do. And again, it depends on, you know, you've got your Congress and you have your Senate. Yeah, I mean, most of the time it's a lock anyways.

But you got some programs that really go, because I'm older, go against what I believe in, like the transgender bullshit in prisons, for example. You know, and if you're transgender, that's fine. But why should the taxpayer have to pay for when somebody's in prison, right? I mean, that kind of thing. Really? I've never even heard of that. Well, yeah, that's Harris's deal.

If you're in prison, they should be allowed, if they want to be a transgender, they should be allowed to have the surgery. While you're in prison? While you're in prison. So then do they get switched? Yeah, whatever they are. No, no, no.

Do they get switched? They get switched to a woman. It wouldn't be a bad play, realistically, if you're in prison. Yeah, but I mean, stuff like that. Yeah. And you look at like. What good would go into an all women's prison be without my dick?

I don't know, but something tells me you'd want to find out. Go buy yourself a pack of dildos. You can have a good time. But, yeah, you know, some policies like that are something that beyond what I think. Be interesting to see what happens from a week from now. I hope it works out, you know.

That's the truth. Personally, I think a guy like J.D. Vans for Trump's running meat, I mean, this guy makes a lot of sense. He doesn't call people names, and he tells it like it, kind of like it is. And you get a guy like we have in Minnesota. Tim Walts. I hope you get in.

Now you see this. Hope you don't shoot me. But I mean, a guy like that, I mean, it's serious. I mean, it is. We'll see what happens. It is what it is, you know. Nobody works out. You know, if I have people who vote for Harris or friends or buddy,

and that's fine, you vote for who you want. I don't care. But some people don't see it that way. And that's what I think, yeah, well, Ben was getting at that. That's so crazy that the world's so torn right now. I mean, you have your opinion. You can do what you like. Can you remember a president?

like two running mates that had any kind of division as much as there is? Not this much. Has it been like a smooth like escalation to like where it is now or is it a little up and down? It may be up a little up and down. I mean there's, for example, I like Bill Clinton. I thought he was a good president and he was great for the... Because he was a dog or... No, no, yeah.

He was more than that. I mean, so he had a little fun on the side. Nothing wrong with that. Of course that. You should be president. You'd be a good one. Oh, my gosh. Holy shit.

But, yeah. And if I look at the Republican side and I look at George Bush second, he was weak, weak president. His dad was pretty good, you know, Jimmy Carter was bad. Ronald Reagan was good. The white ice dollar was terrible. But that's the way it is, you know, in those days. This year is really bad. Ev, if you could be president, dude, what would be like the first thing you change?

You could drive anything anywhere. On, like, dirt bikes? Yeah, like going down the highway. Whatever you got, you just, you know, maybe a little different way to pay for the roads. We don't got to buy tabs and license plates and all that. Focus. You know, just get a little more slack on that, the transportation side of things. And I think it would make this country a better place.

There you go. Yeah, there you go. For president, ride your dirt bike on the street. I know, have something to do with dirt bikes. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of standing up for quad guys, too. You know, I'm not leaving anyone out. Thanks, buddy.

You do dabbling quads from time to time. Inclusive. I would be a lot bigger on crime. But not like motor vehicle. Oh, no, no, no. I'm talking about it. You know, nowadays you can steal stuff. If it's under $900, they don't even prosecute you.

That's bullshit. I saw a post the other day that said, well, it was actually a photo of like a t-shirt. And it was priced at $900. And then next to it was like a wallet that was $900. And said everything in this store costs $900. And the discount is put onto the product when you rung up. So if you steal from this store without us wringing up the product, you're stealing at the value of $900,

which is, you know, grand theft. Genius. Great idea. It is sad that it even has to come to that, though. That'd be great for Micah's inconvenience store. Oh, yeah, that would be. The price isn't real. There's a discount applied at checkout.

You have no idea what it is. It just says 900. You have to know what the discount code is for it to apply. There we go. Now we're talking. What is Mike? I'm going to have a, Yeah, he's starting a store.

Where at? Somewhere, like, really inconvenient. Oh, yeah. It's a couple miles outside of town. Okay. Yeah, so we were thinking of, like, different things that Mike could do, like, at his inconvenience store. One would be, you know, like the parking lot would be,

would be, like, just a mile down the road. But there'd be a shuttle bus that, like, runs between the parking lot, but the shuttle bus would run every 30 minutes, but there's a 15-minute parking meter at the parking lot. So if you don't pay for it after 15 minutes, you get a parking ticket. Oh, my. All the boxes are backwards, so you can't see the labels of anything. You have to buy off the ingredients.

They don't accept cards. But they also don't give out change. Oh, my. What a deal that is. He only accepts pennies. The gas pumps actually have a hand crank on them. It'd be interesting to talk to him a year after he has it. Yeah, Mike's big on, like, starting businesses that don't work.

Well, retail business is tough. Yeah, well, I mean, his hot dog stand still doing really well. But he kind of took the foot off the gas with his skate park. He didn't even charge anyone to get in. It was free. He was doing it for the kids. Yeah, and then he just gave everyone a bunch of stuff. Yeah, he was just excited.

A bunch of money and skateboards. You guys get that buffed out, Ken? 75% of it taken out. So it's still there. Ken, I saw one of your employees today was running some sick South Park Healy's. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he bought some Healy's last week. Did you notice any increased productivity?

No. Was it a decrease? Both flat. I was going to say, just don't count the time that everyone probably had to take a test drive in the Healy's. Yeah. Other than that moment, it was. It was up. It was fine.

Is everyone test driving the Healy's? Nobody liked them. I drove over there this morning. I had to park a trailer and at about 8.57 a.m. I could hear the music outside of the building. Yeah. It was bumping, dude. It sounded like a nightclub.

They had the speaker really loud. Ken, do you have any control? Oh, yeah. It doesn't seem that way. I don't care about the ox cord, but... Do you feel like you're learning? Because these guys are a little bit younger than you. Do you feel like you're picking up their young person traits?

It is interesting, some of the music they listen to. How about the words that they say? Oh, they're not that young. I heard you guys listen to the Hock Tool podcast. Ironic that they put that on because they put it on just to torture people. The one guy puts it on just because the other guy hates it so bad. Is it bad? I keep seeing like talk to him memes.

It's so bad. Yeah, but I mean, everything I see, dude, on shorts, it's got like three million views. Take it for a listen. It's the worst thing you'll possibly listen to. What's worse? Bad Baby or Talk Tua.

Talk Tua. Have you heard about the Hock Tua girl? No. What is that all about? Hawk Tua. We pop it up. What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time? Oh, you got to give him that Hock, dude,

and spit on that thing. What do you think about that, grandpa? I don't know. Yeah. She became very famous after doing that. Yeah, like insanely famous. Yeah, if it worked, it works. It worked for her.

Yeah, there you go. There you go. Wild times. Grandpa, did you watch our reckless golfing video? Yes, I did. What did you think of that as a golfer? Well, I think probably I wouldn't want to get in your way while you guys are driving for number one. It's hard for me to say that because I've been with you guys in doing that stuff.

So, I mean, I know how it is kind of. I mean, you guys don't really wreck anything. I mean, as far as the golf course goes, you wreck your vehicle. your cars and shit, but sometimes you look at driving through a sand trap, for example, you know, is, you know, if you're a golf, oh, God, I don't know about that. Pretty bad golf etiquette, yeah. Yeah, you guys never drive on the greens. That's not a problem.

You know, other than that, I, you go in the water, hit a tree, roll over. Big deal, right? Yeah, it's like very little to no horse destruction. It's just all our own golf carts. Yeah, I was trying to hit the ball causes more destruction And the divvits were taking out. And with the bunkers, they run a tractor through it in the morning, fluff it back up. I understand that, but a lot of people don't.

I'm a golfer, but if I wasn't a golfer, geez, you know, because when you play, you rake it and you do this. We raked it. Oh, I know that. We always rakes the bunkers after. And let me tell you, that was a lot of raking after. It was. And then, Ben, even straightened up the weeds at one golf course.

That's true. Yeah, Chris, it's been. Leave it better than we found it. Yeah. When Gavin went in the pond, you know, when Evan pushed Gavin in the pond, yeah. Gavin actually took garbage out of the pond, too, because he was in there. So we were like, oh, grab the garbage while you're in there, Gavin.

Yeah, absolutely. We'll leave it better than we found it. But I'm the wrong person to probably ask that. But if I would try to be really, you know, impartial or whatever you want to call it, you know, driving the cart through the traps, you think you might maybe ruin the edge, you know. Yeah, it doesn't. No, I don't.

Yeah, but people think that. If you didn't know us, if you didn't know us and you just saw that video, you would think that's not cool. Yeah. I don't know about that. I would think maybe, well, I might. I don't know. It's fired up to go golf and have some fireballs.

I'm for that, yeah. Yeah, grandpa on fireballs and a three-wheel golf cart is causing way. You guys still have that three-wheeler? Yeah. Yeah. I can show you how to drive it. Oh, my. Man, we get you and Gavin together.

Who. Yeah, there you go. I can't see. that any well i can see it now in obstacle course grandpa teaching gavin how to drive the harley properly through it i cannot imagine that would end well no probably not i uh was talking with a guy and uh he was actually from the town where we where we did that at the course and he goes well you know what you just used all the parts of the course that i didn't want to use anyway good yeah he goes i don't want to be in the bunker i don't want to be off in the side he goes you know i'm trying

to be on the fairway in the green and goes i don't even know if you drove on the fairway the whole time. Well, yeah, that's true. I was like, I like that attitude on it. Yeah, yeah. We certainly didn't take too many divvits. That's true. No divvets.

Well, Ken may have when he played it more yet. Just a couple. That was him just trying to golf. I felt the divots, though. They weren't divvets and were beaver tails. When I played high school golf, I was on the driving range, and my golf coach came up to me and said, what the hell is wrong with you? You're digging your own grave.

That's how deep my divvits were. Oh, my. But I think on those. Golf video is more what you do with the equipment, with their carts and stuff. You know, you tip them over and running each other and going to water with them. That's no big deal. You know, I mean. What do you think of that 80 horsepower golf cart?

Oh, that's a dandy. Would you like that? Pretty nasty, huh? No, I don't think I'd like it. I'd like it, but I don't think I should have it. We were going to bring it over and we were going to, yeah, we were going to, like, do a, like, a prank on you of, like, putting you in it and then have an Evan rip off down the road. But we were like, ah, this probably won't be end up. It's so dangerous.

Long story short, you didn't trust me. Yeah. It also clearly is a sticky throttle, but... Yeah, we got to get that. Very dangerous. What, it would be fun someday, though. You guys come up and bring it up, and we'll be playing golf,

and we'll start passing everybody on the course. It's so funny. It's so amazing. That thing moves. It does, and it's, like, really well built. Like, it's actually... It's a little bent up. I don't even think we showed, actually,

what happened to it, but Evan hit Gavin. So we've got to get that fixed. Well, golf guys are built pretty well. Yeah, we know. Yeah, we felt... Yeah, you guys, you should be a... tester for some of these golf cart companies maybe oh yamaha hit us up easy go hit us up send us a fleet of them i do think it's it's debatably the most dangerous vehicle we have in our fleet you know you don't

think nothing bad can happen it's just a little golf cart you don't have any protection no and no no the roofs are not solid that they flip and then to be able to go 80 miles an hour and you get yourself into trouble awfully quick well yeah well that's unusual of course i mean there's not many of those around I hate to tell you, but... How many times in your life have you seen someone flip a golf cart on the golf course when it wasn't us or you coming home from the club?

Well, I've got it myself, but I saw a guy tip where we were on a side deal on one time, and that was just because he made a bad turn. It was nothing major. So it doesn't happen as often as we'd think. Like every time we go golfing, that's bound to happen. Well, you make it happen.

Golf course just have such a low center of gravity. Oh, they do. You really got to, you know, put yourself in a bad situation. Like our buddy Gavin did, he found out what it looked like flipping it. I'll tell you, you know, Harley Davidson used to make golf carts. Yeah, that's what we got.

Oh, okay. I had one of those. The three-wheel one. And I left it, my daughter borrowed it one night and left it at the club because they went to some out for some place to eat besides the club, whatever. Anyways, there was a wedding that night. The next morning I go to play golf, my cart is floating in number nine. No way?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Of course, the three-wheeler, you know, that comes up, that's up there like that. And there's a pair of shoes with it. So the pro is all worried that calls a wedding party, anybody missing? We got a pair of shoes and a golf cart out. They used to take the golf cart. It was setting by the deal. Anyway, we pulled it out, and that thing still ran.

There you go. Yeah. Why would Harley Davidson make golf carts? That does not seem like a Harley Davidson thing to do. Obviously, they don't make them anymore, but. Yeah, Columbia. Well, I bought a new Harley-Davidson. I read one I had.

Remember that red card I had, the four-wheeler? Harley-Davidson made four-wheel golf carts, too? Yeah, that was the last thing they made them when it was done. They would have probably stuck around if they made them. sound like Harleys. Yeah. You imagine a Harley power. They probably would have stuck around.

The loudest golf cart on the course. But it's really slow. Well, we've been thinking about maybe doing a Harley swap in our Harley three-wheel golf cart, but there's only one way that could end with Gavin driving it. The last thing he needs is more horsepower. Yeah. You should put straight pipes on that. We usually try to, like, keep the carts a little cute, you know.

We got to get away from the pro shop. We weren't, what, 50 yards from the pro shop. here's Ken right through the sand trap At least wait you get to pass the number one T. Remember that? Get past the number one T-box or number two T-box before. Yeah, King gets all horny. I suppose he does, yeah.

Yeah, you got to start early. You got to use the whole course. I'll give you credit for that, I'll tell you that. Wow. You know, kind of just to wrap everything up, you know, after beating cancer, Grandpa, I'm curious what your outlook on life is after going through something like that. If it gives you a new appreciation for things or if it, you know, makes you kind of feel like, you know, more things are more important than others

or if you wish you would have done other things. Like when you're in a stage like that, where's your mind at? That was one aspect of it. Like right now you look at death, for example, not a big deal probably. I mean, I have a lot of friends that I want to funeral today and you see, and you get older and it's going to happen. So you're not really afraid of it. You know, I mean, it could happen, but you're not really afraid of it.

And so I'm going to do what I'm going to do. and not worry about it. But I know it's there, and I'm not really afraid of it. Maybe 10 years ago I might have been afraid of it. But after that, I watch what goes on with people and your attitudes. I probably have more sympathy now for people than I did before. And more depth than what they're doing, you know, because shit, how long am I going to be around, so I better enjoy what I see?

Just the attitude is that it's just kind of different. I mean, I love to see you guys succeed. I mean, that's very important to me. I love to watch that. What I see happening nowadays that I like is wonderful. What I don't like, I just forget it. I'm going to argue about it. But what I see certain things, I like it, I like it.

And then you think, well, it's worth living for a while to see someone's this stuff happen, you know? It doesn't, it doesn't, you know. Maybe a shitty ass. attitude, but that's mine. Wow. A newfound appreciation on life. Yeah, yeah, really. You think about all the good things in people.

And I kind of found that out, again, getting back to all those comments we had about when I had cancer and prayers for Grandpa. Christ, I counted 3,500 of them on that one. Yeah, it's crazy. And you think, God, there's a bunch of good people yet in the world. Because both people have a bad attitude of what some people are. like, and how do you? The thing is, you just attract, like, everyone to you because of your attitude. It's so contagious, and that's why everyone just loves you. I mean, everywhere you go,

you're just like the star of the room or whatever you're, if you're in the video, you're the star of the video. And I think it just goes to your attitude because you just have a very positive, happy, outgoing attitude. And everyone wants to be around that. Yeah. Well, if you don't, you know, hate is a bad thing. What the hell? People are people, and you've got to live with it. So you're not going to change them in many cases. So if you don't like them, ignore them. But the people that you're out, enjoy it.

Something else that you do is, like, if you were in, like, a group of people and they were all saying something negative about, like, another person, you always, like, say something positive. There's something positive about everybody. Right. But, like, you, like, you, like, just don't really let the bad talk continue on. And you switch the conversation to something positive. I hope so.

But like I said, you guys have really been good to me. I mean, I'm inspired. I have new energy. And I can talk about doing stuff and what you guys are doing and whatever. And it gives you something to look forward to. Yeah. Something new. Something new.

Yeah. Something going on. What's going on now, whatever. It's not the old bullshit stuff that you want to forget about. and the negative stuff. I hate it, and negativity is bad thing. But what it's just saying about, you use less muscles to smile than you do to frown or something like that.

I don't know what the hell it is. Yeah, that's the thing, yeah. Yeah, that's really. Yeah, it's easier to smile than frown. Yeah, it is. Great to live by. You guys are crazy, so that's okay. Well, there we go.

All right. I know, you are. That's great. It's wonderful. And, you know, it's things I hear about you guys and everybody I talk to. I mean, it's just like, I don't care what age they, They just say, God, those are a bunch of nice guys. They're just good guys and just do crazy stuff.

And people are happy. I talk to people that have been watching your video since you started, for Christ's sakes. And that was like when I was at that ball game, I bet 20, 30 people said, I've been watching C-Boy since they started. Yeah, I always loved to do that. Yeah. So I said, well, great. Keep on watching.

Yeah. Go buy some merchandise. Yeah, great. Life wide open. Let's get some shirts, right? Yeah. Well, thanks for coming on again, Gramps. Well, he has fun.

I always love sitting down and chatting with you and sharing you with the rest of the world. You know, me and CJ have, you know, heard a lot of the stories, but they're still funny. There's so many more. So many more. But it's been fun to get to show the world, you know, introduce the world to you. If we can do anything positive, that's all we're here for. There we go. I love it, Grandpa.

Love you. The world's rooting for you, too. Yeah, they are. Gosh, yes. I've got some good stuff back. And I consider all the young people, you know, come up to you. Hey, I'm Grandpa. I'm glad you're doing. Beat cancer. How you're doing? You're doing well. Yeah, I'm doing fine. Thank you. I mean, kids 18 years old, 17 years old, you know.

Even the, we're in a restaurant. One of the gals there knew it was Grandpa Ron. And so before I left, she'd get her friends and they all come over three up and they want a picture taken. Oh, how are you doing with your cancer? I'm glad you're doing well. And these are four young gals that are working there. I mean, that's really nice to hear. You know, Chris, they stop. Everybody's got, you know, you're busy around. We're busy around now taking the picture.

You couldn't have to wait to be seated. I mean, it was fun. America's Grandpa. Yeah, well. All right. Well, thank you guys. We'll be back next week, Tuesday. Peace.

Peace.