Life Wide Open with CboysTV - How Two Mechanics Helped CboysTV Reach 1 Billion Views

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

In today's episode 2 very special guests join us. "The Wrenches" AKA Brian "Big Wrench" and Gavin. Our two full time mechanics who have brought so many of our craziest ideas to life, mostly on ridiculous timelines. They are such an integral part to our team, and so much fun to have around the shop. They talk about their backgrounds, what they did before CboysTv, what it's like working here now, and much more. Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off of your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code WIDEOPEN at https:/www.shopmando.com! #mandopod #ad 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

Big Range is not my dad. Yeah. Oh, that's actually, yeah. You didn't know what YouTube was until about three years ago. That was actually probably the only design flaw that you've had, Big Ridge, is how narrow it was my design flaw. You just need this one last shot. And that's what's going to do it in.

Maybe we should have a weld off. Oh. The timelines here is probably one of the most stressful thing. Hey, Ben, Ben, you're my friend. Ben, Ben, you're my friend. You're the best. Don't been there's ever been. Ben, you're my friend.

Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Pretty good song. Thanks for having me. Hey, Big Ranch, I got some good news. Oh, boy. He just broke the mic. Have you ever fixed a mic before? I have not fixed the mic.

I'm sure you could figure it out. What the heck did I just do? You literally just broke the mic. Dude, I've been breaking so much stuff lately. Not even on purpose. Most things aren't on purpose, but like, really barely even on film. Just because big wrenches here doesn't mean you can start breaking stuff during the podcast, Ben. It looks like you're messing with a throttle.

You pissed some people off with how you broke that e-bike. Dude, Ben just didn't want to ride this week. So he was like, okay, I'm going out to ride. I don't want to rip the throttle off. Piss people off. Were they actually? Yeah, there are some comments. About what?

They were mad that you broke the throttle. They're like, Ben, going ahead, breaking everything. Yeah, it's okay when Evan does it. It's a problem when I do it. It's cool when Evan does it. Problem when I do it. No, I was going to say the good news is the twin turbo kit for the Hoonicorn just got here. Today?

Yeah, so if you want to get going on it by next Thursday. It'll be right on now. It's a good Friday project. Well, guys, welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. We have a special guest. Two special guests. We have Gavin coming on as well. But we have Big Wrench.

One of the wrenches coming on the podcast today because, I mean, he's just got plenty of good stuff to tell. and you guys have been asking for a long time. Highly requested, Big Ranch. Well, that's exciting to hear. Yeah, man. Is there a way it can turn us down a little? Yeah, too loud? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Ken, can you turn that down? Ken ain't here. I'm surprised that you would want yours turn down. Well, who sits here normally? Like, somebody needs their hearing check, maybe. Oh, Evan does sit there sometimes. So he is definitely one ear. Yeah.

You'd think your hearing, Brian, would be worse. I actually took a hearing test one of those online things. And it was good? Yeah, it's, I'm at, like, a few. 54-year-old, which I'm not 54, so. Wait, an online hearing test? Yeah, like you put your phone up to it, and when you can't hear the noise anymore, you're supposed to tap it and it stops, and then it gives you, like, an age of what your

hearing's at. Oh, wow, that's really interesting. I always think about your hearing, same with Gavin's, with all the loud noises. It's not good, and I don't take care of it. It's crazy. There's a lot of things that I should probably do that. Gavin actually does because he's younger than I am, and, like, was brought up that way. Yeah, what is that called?

they call it like the like OSHA's got a name for it but it's when you're like wearing your safety glasses and you have hearing protection Evan said it the other day because Evan used to be in the labor union PPE PPE personal protection equipment stuff didn't exist that much when I was growing up I mean I wear glasses so I'm good oh yeah you're good you don't need safety glasses on the safety squints you're good to go dude that's what they say well big wrench did you ever think that you'd be sitting on a podcast ah no not how long ago did we meet you've been working on our pieces of junk for a long time i was on my way back here today i think it's been four years really of working on our junk yeah on and off i think

it was even before that it could have been mike's mic's coming but whenever you guys bought those two race sleds from lavali that's right you built the cans for it yeah so that would have been like 2018 so that was even before tiny yeah definitely wasn't as uh as you know as much as it is now No, it was just sporadic. Yep. And so we had a mutual friend, Rob. Yep. And Rob and I were working at the same place.

And Rob's like, hey, these guys, this bought these things from La Valle. You want to come. They want cans built for them. Oh, sure, whatever. And I think we got a hold of, Mike is the one that got a hold. Yeah, yep. I knew Jake a little bit. Isn't it amazing how, like, things just evolve and turn into it?

The funniest thing is, is like, Jake's dad and myself are, he's older than I am, but, like, we went to the same parties in high school. really yeah man that's a story probably for another day i'm sure you got money on here for that yeah was just a little guy then but i still remember the very first time that mike ever like came back from like working with you i can just picture it knowing you and knowing mike and you guys will agree here when you hear this mike goes yeah i got this guy right outside of holly building my snowmobile can and i was like out really outside of holly that where you know there's not that many like kind of fabricator mechanics like i guess yeah you know that are

doing like little one-off projects like that and he was like yeah actually like just down the road from like my mom's house and so I told him I was like yeah I uh I just grew up down the road from here and he was like nice and I was like I was like oh okay and then I was I still remember that being like I can just picture Mike like talking about nothing and going nowhere and you just being like what is this what is this kid talking about right now I can imagine he came to you and was like, yeah, we got this YouTube channel and we make snowmobile content and things like that, but just explaining it in like the worst way. And you'd be like, okay, you want a can for this then or what? Yeah. Well, and it happened to be that I was already making cans for

other projects. So it kind of worked out. Yeah. So like let's get in kind of the backstory of your wrenching and how it's evolved because you basically started off doing you were a professional snow cross mechanic yeah correct would that be the title yep and i mean basically still are still are yeah how many years have you been doing that then i started doing that in 1997 97 god damn for yamaah uh pleris oh for i i did engine development and some chassis stuff at pleris uh where when i came went out of tech school so you went right into snowmobiles yeah when you were okay snowmobiles and then morphed into the engine development on watercraft side of it, four players also.

So you get out of school, you start wrenching on, on somemobiles, snowmobiles right away, or like watercrafts and then snowmobiles? Yeah, we graduated in the spring, and I went in as a test driver, but they, when they hired me, but it was springtime. So, like, I ended up working on the assembly line all summer. Wait, so they hired you to ride sleds? Like, yeah, like, I test drove the first year. Okay, so what's test driving?

Like, you ride and you like, because you understand the engineering side of it, so you understand why things work or don't. Yeah. So, like back then there was a hundred test riders at place. Like, it's a lot different now. There was five of you in a group, and you went out and rode every day. Wow. That you could ride.

Pretty good job. We did about 200 to 300 miles a day. And it sounds like it's a really sweet job until it's 25 below. Yeah. And you got to go put in 300 miles. Yeah. Maybe we should get you on a sled. I don't know.

In all the years, have you even ridden anything here or driven any of the contraptions you've made? Ah, not on purpose. Banshee, I think. Oh, yeah, you wrote the Banshee a little bit. And I've owned like five of them things. So, oh, yeah. No, that is something, though. Every time you build it, I mean, not anymore,

but we used to be like, you want to ride it? And you'd be like, oh, I'm good. I'm good. Every once in a while I'll see Evan finagels you onto one of the machines here and there. Scootsky. Scootsky. What I thought was interesting, if you've always been in the snowmobile world, is like, you've said that you didn't want to, like, teach your son how to ride snowmobile

or, like, get him into that because, like, you have, like, like, lived and breathed snowmobiling for what 25 years 27 years now almost so at the end of after the end of wrenching on it you're just like I don't even want to see one of these things yeah and that it's kind of wrecked me really like I don't even own a snowmobile I mean you guys have been in my house wheel I have a boat that's boat that's it and a jet ski that a tree almost fell on why because you don't want to you don't want to work on them yeah I mean and one thing you don't want to work on it and another thing is I've been doing like the development stuff of it it for so long.

Like, when I ride something, all I think about is, well, this could be better, this could be better, this could be better. Really? So it takes the excitement out of it? Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Almost all of it. I mean, I'm sure there's guys that are in my position that are the same way.

Like, I don't know. Like, the development guys are this. I know a lot of them are the same way. Like, you ride something and all you do is pick it apart the whole time. And that's everything. Even outside of snowmobiles, like, you ride a dirt bike and you're like, man, I wish four-wheeler. Really? Yeah.

That's really interesting. So it kind of wrecks you a little bit. man, you got to just have a real hard time than when you do ride one of our vehicles of, like, this is so bad. Well, the problem is, it's like, I built it or Gavin built it. And it's like, you have enough time to do this and it's not going to work very well, but it's going to get the job done. Yeah, I was going to say the difference between our stuff is it's not meant to be perfect.

It's like, it's just not going to be perfect because it's probably not supposed to be a thing. Yeah, but, yeah, I mean, it's crazy how. Not that it couldn't be, but. Yeah, you guys just don't have. And a lot of our things are, you know, you guys understand as the wrenches of like what we're trying to accomplish and what it needs to do where the time really adds up is like the nitty gritty details of things. And like a lot of times you just brush right over them so we can get it done and then get the video posted because like at the end of the day, the most important thing is that we just keep churning and burning. Yeah. So like making these contraptions like 100% perfect.

really needed. It's more of like a novelty item where it's like good enough to get by. And that's quite frankly why a lot of them break. And Evan gets kind of the short end of the stick there of like, man, you just break everything. But like a lot of them just aren't meant to go much more than like one video's worth. And it's so funny when you reflect back on on how many things that we have built or you guys have built and we have filmed videos on. Like 95% of them break at the end of the video where it's like down to 45 minutes of use will be its lifespan yeah and we know that and we're just like okay with it that's why we have a shot full of broken toys now and the biggest thing and we say this in racing too the biggest thing is when ben's really good for it like we

just need this one last shot and that's what's going to do it in like every single time like every single time i racer like we did the same thing this winter he's like i just going to go make one more one more motto and that motto is when the thing spears the track and he goes head over heels and springs his aim. You know, stuff like that. Yeah. That's always one more time. That's why you always say two more time, skip the laps.

So saying one more shot or another, it's all the same across the board. Yeah, I was going to say the other thing is like, we're not trying to really reinvent the wheel with these inventions or these builds. It's not like we were like, this will be way better than a normal four wheeler. You know, it was more, it's more so like, I wonder what it would be like, you know. And there's like the cold, hard truth about when you make it too nice, too perfect, you don't don't want to rip it. You don't want, you know, like, you don't want to break it, of course, but you don't even want to rip it too hard because it's too nice. My old instructor and a lot

of guys that in the R&D shops that I've worked at, they're like, don't fall in love with the project. Yeah. No, that's what they tell you. Yeah. And then Evan comes walking in and you're like, no. Isn't it? I think it's, uh, it's really interesting though. Like you compared to other, you know, mechanics and fabricators is you, what really sets you apart is how much experience you have. like you've worked on obviously snowmobiles but you can work on cars you can work on trucks you can work on choppers motorcycle like anything you can yeah it's you know your way around and i've had a ton of different types of jobs like that and even like growing up in high school like we built derby cars and just wrecked our own stuff just like what you guys do you know but like yeah from

i worked at a chopper shop i worked in fargo redline snowmobiles at one time and then a bunch of investors bought it i got hired another guy got hired and we built dune buggie. Oh, I remember those. Yeah, those were crazy. I helped develop it. And then I went on my own, started my own welding shop, and then they hired me to build all the suspension components for them.

I always love when we start working on a project, you know, whether it be turning some type of vehicle into a dune buggy or the chopper was the most surprising one when you're like, oh, I hate working on these things. We're like, what do you mean you hate working on? We just got it. You're like, no, I've had a lot of experience with these. I used to build them. Yeah.

So, like, the chopper shop that I worked for, like, they worked to deal out with the Vikings, and, like, one of my jobs was to bring that chopper down, and Ragnar drove it on the field every home. The Minnesota Vikings, yeah. So I remember you tell me about that. So his job was to make sure, you know, they'd get the chopper down to, you know, the Minnesota Vikings Stadium on Sunday. And he'd make sure that I was going to start run and all that because it's a chopper. You never know.

You never know. So, like, I was, you know, he's making sure it's going to run. for the game so they can do the hot lap on the field how often was it like the last minute things would go wrong and then you got to you're crawling underneath it and you're like trying to figure out choppers you don't have to crawl underneath but they're notorious for like the really big bore engines like they just spit the starters out like that so like i literally had one in a backpack always because you never know dude that's like all live tv so they're like we got to go but it's like you know things like that and you're just like so experienced and seasoned

Where it's like, that's because I'm old. It's just because you've done so much. Like you've been, you've been in so many different industries. And, yeah, like Ryan said, like every single time that we start working on a new project, you tell us about, like, a job that you used to had that you used to work on. And it's like every single time that something breaks, I'm like, well, Big Ranch will fix it. Yeah.

And you always do. It's crazy. It's actually unbelievable. And you can, like, fab it up and you go, oh, if you go down to this shop over here, they'll have what we need and then I'll call this guy and he's going to do this for us and like you just know how to make it happen so quick which is that's just as important as knowing how to build something it's like knowing people who to call where to get materials and that comes with experience and age and I mean a lot of my friends that I went to high school

with are like do the same kind of stuff that that I do not to the level that maybe I do it but did you first what's I've ever heard big wrench is vehicle resume is actually nuts. I mean, yeah. Who else has one like this? There's a guys that like know way more about certain things than I do, but maybe not so much about everything. Well, you're a Swiss Army knife of fabricators.

And it's, yeah, it's dumb. So when you went to school, you know, and you're getting started out, you're, you know, a mechanic, you know how to do all these things. You're doing all these different jobs. Did you ever think it would lead to being on a YouTube channel doing what you're doing?

You didn't know what YouTube was. was until about three years ago. That's, yeah, what did you think of, of us when we first came into your life of, obviously we explained kind of when Mike was doing it, but the first time that you really had worked on one of our projects was Tiny, right? Yeah, what did we have you do for Tiny the first time? No, that was two second, but we dropped the transmission? Yeah, was it the transmission out of it?

No, because you guys blew the motor up right for the motor. Oh, was it? Yeah, and then we motor swapped it. Yeah, it blew up when it was silver. Then you pay in it. green right was it green after i don't know it's hard to remember one time ago but i remember you had it sitting in your shop for a while you had to look at that ugly thing well and i was doing like other jobs too so that's what i wanted to rewind back on that a little bit like i remember when i

somehow got in contact with you to build snowmobile exhaust yeah yeah through rub to build snowmobile exhaust for our raceleds for jake and i's race leads because they didn't make them and then you're like yeah that's that should be pretty easy and then you're like here's your cans and I'm like this guy just built a can from scratch this is awesome yeah and it works and it works it worked great and then and I'm like and then he was just like building someone

some stairs out of metal like you had like that project on and then shortly after that yeah we reached out to you to the motor swap and I'm like too what is this guy? What is this guy? Yeah so what were your thoughts though as far as like what are these fucking idiots doing

what were you thinking a little bit but I get it like it's not my generation but you see stuff like that like even my kids are like yeah i'm not that they're going to grow up and be YouTubers but they're like yeah it's like a legitimate thing yeah i was i'm open to a lot of things that i mean right even when you ask me like can this be done well yeah anything can be done yeah you do always say that i think that's an interesting thing that probably is the reason that both of you guys got your jobs is when ben or all of us would come and go, can you make this crazy thing?

Like, let's go putting Ken's Bronco up on a pole. Anyone with a good brain would be like, I don't even want to be involved in that. And we go, can you get it done in a week. And you go, yeah, anything can be done. That is always your answer to whatever project we have. Anything can be done. That was the probably most stressful thing that I have done here.

The Bronco? Yeah. Why? Because I didn't want the thing. You didn't want to. And we are legit breathing down his neck of like watching each weld be made of like all right big wrench are you done yet my 10 is going to be here in 45 minutes my favorite fact is big ranch was up on the lift welding the pole like

the hold the stabilizations on the pole as the bronco is being lifted in the air we were really down to the wire we were like big wrench how close how many sides is it welded on right now and he goes three and we go fuck it it's fine with a 1-10 welder in a 30-1-hour wind. Yeah, up on the freaking lift. Oh, my God. It should have been welded off on all four, and we just called it good at three.

The morning before, when I was measuring up the platform to raise it up there, I was like, Ben, this isn't a good idea. I didn't watch you build it, but the platform was truly impressive. I'm like, how is this going to work? I kind of rolled up, I don't know what I was doing, but I rolled up and you guys are like, Brian, built all of it. it's going to work and then it really did you know like you drive the bronco onto the platform and then it lifted it up i'm like wow hey and those welds are still holding to today i know i know i drive by

it every morning and i'm like goddase i know it's actually kind of like it would be so much funnier if they broke at this point it would hummer pontoon would just come crumbling down i loki wanted to blow off i know i just think it would be so funny we were just going to like set the pole in the dirt a buddy of mine is a concrete guy he's like that's not going to work yeah And then one of your other buddies had that pole. Yeah. The pipe, we got a project going right now. I don't want to say what is going on because we've got a mole somewhere.

And we got people stealing our ideas. That's another story. That too. We've got a project going right now. And the entire thing has been sourced from Big Wrenches Buddies. And there's like five different pieces that all had to come together. And they're all a different buddy. It's actually incredible.

So shout out Big Wrenches. Here's one funny thing. The one buddy that. this morning when I went to pick up the final puzzle piece. He knows that I work for you guys. He's like, hey, isn't he buddies with Cletus? Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, I've never met him, but he's like,

well, I got a buddy that races with him all the time down there. Goes to his place all the time. Oh, we got buddies. He's a buddy. Just small world. Yeah. The wrenching community is a tight-knit group. So do people come up to you, like on the streets now?

Do they recognize you or like when you're going out? Does people come up and ask you stuff like that? Yeah, or like my kids as friends. Yeah. You know, my kids are teenagers, so it's, a lot of them are, like, interested in it and, like, obviously want merch or whatever. Yeah. My son's a little bit on the shy side, I would say.

So he's kind of more like, I don't really want to talk about you and what you do. Yeah, he just keeps you quiet. Which is fine. Yeah, good kid. He's packing merch right now. Yeah, good kid. He's kind of a chip off the old block because that's why we asked, like, what did you think of us in the beginning?

Because, like, until you spent a lot of time with you, you're kind of a man of few words. So like when we would have the tiny project going or another project that we had you do was when we blew up that brand new Polaris snowmobile. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's kind of a funny story. So this was like, yeah, you guys say we, but I mean, you guys say it's hard to say because we all. I didn't say it was you. So basically, I'll tell the story now because enough times passed. So it was like our first, was it our first snowmobile we had ever been given? The first year the 850. Yeah, so we get this brand new snowmobile and like everyone's riding the thing and we're going riding for the day. And I don't even think I had ridden it yet. I hadn't ridden

it once. I think maybe you guys, I don't know who was riding it before, but someone was riding it before. They bring it in. Then I hop on it. We go riding like few miles down the road and the thing just seizes up. He blows up. It's got like 85 miles. Yeah, blows up. I'm, I don't fucking, I'm just riding the thing. Like I'm just, I'm not doing anything crazy. And basically, it ran out of oil or something like that. We didn't put oil in it. I don't do it. I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, ran out of oil.

And everyone got mad at me, but the thing is, like, the oil light would have came on. Dude, the oil light never came on. Yeah, because, like, you guys wouldn't have just handed it to me and been like, hop on it and ride it. So, oil light never came on. So anyways, we have this brand new snowmobile that we got gifted. And back then we didn't have excess cash. Yeah, we didn't have excess cash show. And, like, we can't ask these guys.

like, hey, we just ran your sled out of oil that you just gave us, you know, because that's a pretty bad look. So then... Can we get another one? So Big Wrench came in and did a motor rebuild on it and then we were back in action. Yeah, that was like your first project cars. You had to be like, God, these guys are fucking idiots.

They just ran the sled out of oil. Like, they didn't put oil in it. And that is the stupidest thing that could happen. Like thing as like a motorhead. The light didn't come on. It truly never did come on. The issue with that is like it was a community sled, so nobody took ownership of it. Yeah.

Nobody thought to check anything on it and light never came up. But yeah. Circling way back, you had said that DeBronco on the pole was by far your most stressful project or was your most stressful project. Yeah, probably like because of the money and. Well, and like I didn't know if it was going to hold or not. There was no way to test it. Like obviously I'm not going to say, no, it's not going to hold. Like, yeah.

50, 50 chance. Well, little do we know it's still up there, dude. You got to play the average. Yeah, true. I want to do more. I've seen comments. Yes, yes. We just have like 10 vehicles.

Yes. I don't know, yeah, I don't want to make it like, I don't want to overdo it or whatever. Or maybe that's Cheeto or silly. But like, I think there's certain builds that we have that won't see another driving day. Some of them are kind of just for looks. I wouldn't mind like a fake Lamborghini up there, but the fake Lamborghinis are so good. So, yeah, I was just going to say, like,

I backed that four-wheel, four-by-four Lamborghini out of the storage shed. That thing might as well go on the pole. You think so? Oh, really? I mean, it's pretty, they're just, they're fake Lamborghini. I'm not saying, shouldn't. I think if Gavre, I got to spend, like, a few days

fastening stuff down, it might be all right. It might be enough to stay on the pole. The entire body. It might get one more video. It was a good rig. It just, it shook apart after. Moab and the other sand whoops we did. But I remember when you first came on,

you were like, I mean, I don't need to be on camera or anything. We're like, well, be easier, you know, if we could have you on camera. Like, do you mind? You're like, no, I don't care. I'll be on camera. And now it's like, you know, it just kind of slowly evolves into people recognizing you out on the street. I think back to just like times before we had you and Gavin here, when it was just you,

I can't believe that we were able to accomplish as much as we were with just you. And then without you, I can't believe that we were even able to function with, like, doing anything. But it was just like, it was a different time of our YouTube career where I think we were forced to just think different. And, you know, we didn't have like the leg of creativity of builds to lean on. And, you know, it's been like a huge blessing for one, just like our creative capabilities. of like what we can build now because we have you you too overall like i think our channel is so much better because of what we can build and uh it's just like no doubt now you know now now we are like so much uh that's awesome to hear farther along plus like you five guys are are like when you

when we sit in these like the planning meetings and stuff it's like crazy what one one little comment can spurs into like a whole bill yeah yeah usually And like, like, I can't think of that myself. Like, one person is, it's tough for one person to think of something like that. Like, it takes a group of guys to do that. It is. And people ask that all the time. Like, how do you guys come up with your ideas?

And I'm like, honestly, we are so good at knowing what's going to do well on YouTube and what people will click on at this point. Like, you just take one thing and then you just twist a little bit and then you add one thing to it. And then you go into the vault of like, all right, what does work before? What vehicles do we have? What can we combine? Who can we surprise? it with and like i don't know we've just gotten so good at that over the years of like training your brain how to how to creatively think and uh it is fun having like you guys are part of our creative

meetings now where we're just like coming up with the most abstract ideas and now it's like we have so many ideas and so many different builds and so many different motor swaps and so many different just contraptions that we could build a lot of them take more than like a week two weeks three weeks four weeks some of them take like eight weeks 12 weeks and then it's just like well it's not worth tying you guys up so like ideally you know we we find another set of of you guys and we just continue to add to the team but then we got to have more space to build it and then we got to it there's just like so many different factors to it but I mean for the little bit that I know of what you guys do I mean I can't do what you guys do and

whatever we can't do what you do yeah yeah and so it takes all of us but to to figure out like how to package that type of video like You know, I've read some of the comments on some of the videos. They're like, oh, we need a, we need to see like a more involved build, you know, video type of thing. But like, how do you do that with the schedule that you guys already have? It's, it's crazy. Yeah, that's something that a lot of people don't realize, too, is like, we're filming three videos at once. Because these, these builds take so much time, you know, you can't just, like, solely focus on one thing and be nice if he could, but it's not possible.

So it's like managing all these different things and having. you know getting the shots for the build and it's like how intricate do we want to go because we're trying to apply to the masses we're trying to have the masses be entertained and like I think maybe 30% of our audience is like motor head gear head where they'd even understand if what you guys were explaining what you're doing you know and then the other 70% would almost just check out yeah so it's like you got to stay broad enough with it which I think we've done a good job it's not like it's a learning channel right that too I think the key word you said there was packaged like the way that you know we do all this and then package it into the video like

that was that's really cool that you you know that just from being on the inside i mean i you just you know from day to day and and seeing how everything rolls and that's what people don't understand on the outside like why didn't it go why didn't you do this why don't you show that it's just like sometimes it's just the overall packaging of it and there's so many little factors into just running this from doing this idea meeting like you're like you're talking about someone says one little comment and then this person said something and then it just evolves into this thing like sometimes people like who came up with that idea and it's like i don't even know like we were all just in there and then it was just like all of a sudden we were plan on doing this and it just like evolves some say

evolves some say spiral yeah spiral but it's crazy yes and sometimes it's literally like a late night text that you're just firing out there because you're like i i don't even know if this is anything or like the idea gets said and then it changes because of it's like okay well how do we actually make this happen or whatever but uh no that's that's cool that you pick up on that as well yeah i always tell people when it was like when you first came on everyone's like how how is because you were like our first hire and how is it with big wrench i'm like dude big wrench makes our dreams come true that's what our ideas are our dreams in a sense and then now it's big wrench and gavin make our dreams come true because we do we have a lot of good

ideas and uh and they come to fruition it's like You want to do them all like this week. Yeah. That's the hard part. It's hard for me, and I'm sure it's hard for Gavin, too. Like, there's seven things on that list that I'd rather do than what I'm doing this week. Well, you'll know you'll get to it eventually. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. Before we get too deep in this, I want to get Gavin on here since now we're kind of talking about how crucial is to have more members of the team.

So, Gabby, you come in here. I'll go back in Ken's spot since he's on vacation these weeks. Yeah, yeah. So he's in Mekinos. I got a question for both of you guys here. So obviously we have you doing such obscure jobs, you know, like everything you're doing, like, who the frick is doing that kind of stuff? Like, are you still constantly learning just from...

Oh, definitely. Like, I strive to learn something new every day. I'm sure you guys probably are because, I mean, who else, you, like, for these things you're doing, you can't just be like, oh, let me look it up on the internet or let me call this person. Like, no one else has done most of the things. And it's whether you learned something that is of value or you learned something. thing that hey don't do that again yeah yeah that type of same also value yeah what do you think

like the worst most stressful part wrenching for us is our timelines timeline yeah timeline yeah timeline's ridiculous yeah not knowing what's coming up next like well it can change every hour what a lot of people don't see is like yeah we have a we have a build but there's 15 other things that you get pulled every day plus you get that build done i would say weekly like there's the long term build like you're kind of talking about whether it's one or two or three or four weeks and then daily you're being pulled for something whether it's something real quick and small or whether it's like hey this week's video needs something that you are crucial for and you get pulled for the whole day for that what were you working on when i called you about

the triple bike cyber truck okay so all right so good example so which we only got four days to do so that was fucked let me explain this timeline out ken buys his cyber truck and we filmed the first part of the cyber truck video with it. We thought it was great, but we wanted to do something with it entertaining enough to title it around Ken buying a cyber truck and not just have it like as like a B bit in like the back end of a video. We were like, if we make this more entertaining and do something with it, build it out, we can make this into more of a video bit. So we're like, okay, what could we do? What could we do? Evan goes, buy me a normal Chevy and I'll prove that Ken's cyber truck isn't better than a 90s model Chevy.

And I was like, okay, that's a pretty good idea. Well, what if we made the Chevy then look like a cyber truck? So then it was funnier of what you were doing with the Chevy. And it wasn't just you big dick and in a Chevy, right? And I just, I'll stop you there really quick. These two's worst nightmare is when Ben's brain starts hamster wheeling. Literally. Yeah, at midnight.

Literally. In the meantime, Gavin is working on the mini truck turbo build. And the clutch was just screwed in it. Oh, God, that was a nightmare too. But so I'm thinking, all right, what is Gavin doing? What's Big Wrench doing? I go, okay, I'm going to call Big Ranch and pitch him this idea and see what his reaction to it is.

And then that'll just let me know if it's possible or not. And if it sounds somewhat possible, I'm going to push for it. I call Big Ranch. I go, hey, what are you doing? I'm working on this or that, which is what you, you know, for the video next week. I go, okay, sweet. Do you think that building a cyber truck by next Thursday is possible? And it's Wednesday at this point.

And normally I would be like, we need one more bit for tomorrow's video. Can we do it in one day? So I felt like asking for a week was pretty good. And you're like, yeah, yeah, I mean. Get a truck coming now. That's usually what I say. Yeah, if he goes, yeah, if you have a truck here tomorrow, then we can start on it and it might be possible.

That was Wednesday. Truck gets there on Thursday. You guys start on it on Friday. Memorial Day weekend takes Monday off. So then you only had Tuesday, Wednesday. So, like, started it on Friday. I think we started it on Thursday because I think it had it completely torn out. Started on Thursday.

Ken sees it. We tell him it's a boat. He buys it. I don't care what he says. And then you guys have Monday, Tuesday, or Tuesday, Wednesday to finish making it look like a cyber truck. While you were doing that, go, hey, Big Ranch, do you think that you could take the tandem pit bike and put a third pit bike on it and you're like dude i'm working on this cyber truck for next week's video and i go yeah but that's next week's video can you do that for this week for this week and

that was on wednesday you're like okay yeah i guess well this is what really made me happy as i go how long do you think it'll take and you go a couple hours and that's like let's go that's what we like to hear and then sure enough you had it done in two hours three hours it was actually incredible and then you guys finish up the cyber truck Wednesday at 5 o'clock we film it for three hours ends up breaking by 730 actually insane how fast Evan worked on that one and then it was just like that was the end of the week and then we started fresh on Friday yeah it's like that every week though no that was like the last two videos that we filmed so yeah it's a revolving gauntlet I'd say yeah over and over again yeah you guys handle you guys handle it really well I do gotta say that

I feel like you guys felt bad for us after that whole episode because, like, there was really no build in this last video. We did. Yeah, they backed off. We actually did. And we had to, like, sit down and be like, all right. We're working the wrenches way too hard on this one. Yeah.

We were like, all right. Okay, this timeline was actually pretty, pretty crazy. And you know it was crazy when big wrench is like, you guys are actually fucking nuts for this one. Usually, usually you just kind of do it. But that one was like, this is crazy. Yeah. Which I mean, if we're able to, I always hope to give you guys those days. Like, I know for like you two or like merch shop for me or any podcast day for you

or you two when you're editing videos, it's like on a Friday, sometimes duty calls, but like if you had to like get up on a Friday and edit another video all day, you'd be like, fudge! But yeah, try to give those breaks. But man, most of the time it's pretty cut through. Well, that's like, like I have a lot of guys that ask me questions of like how, you know, my age guys are like, what do you do? Yeah. So you explain it to them and it's like, it's kind of nice though because like they

added on Thursdays. So like Thursday's kind of our day. Like we can put the wrenches back. Yeah, I was going to say that Thursday after the cyber truck was nice like for probably two hours. It was like we're just kind of cleaning up. Then I kind of got bored actually. Yeah, yeah. What are we doing next? I remember one time we were talking about, you know, oh, this guy could maybe maybe help or whatever. And you chimed in. It was another mechanic. be like he's just a parts swapper he's just parts swapping and like you two are like he's just part swapping like a motor like swapping like swapping like swapping like that's there's technicians and there's parts changers yeah i mean that's that's yeah the matter of fact but uh so obviously you guys

are much more than a parts changer i'd even go as far to say that you obviously don't have engineering degrees but you do you could be an engineer like i say that all the time like dude these guys are so good. We'll be sitting here and saying this and that and then be, well, I would probably want to do it this way. It's that way, you know, it doesn't do this and that. And it's amazing. I was going to be an engineer until I got to pre-calc. And then I said, fuck that. I'm not doing this. And that clearly benefited you as well. Like, it's so much more than just fabricating parts or being a mechanic. It's so much more than that. And that's where it actually gets tough and is also exciting. Like when you guys, when we need something done, you know, like, I

wasn't expecting like the side cars even to have suspension and you know we went to the drawing board a few times with it or you guys did I guess but like that was sick that it did and like stuff like that yeah well even Gavin I spent a lot of time on on that part of it and once you start looking at it it's like well it almost has to have suspension otherwise it wouldn't have worked right yeah so yeah I think we weren't going to do suspension and then just decided to and yeah it would have been way easier not to but it wouldn't have worked yeah I think you guys just understand like you know how to skirt the boundaries of what needs to be done but also like we've done so many things that sometimes work and sometimes don't and then when they don't work we're just like

struggling to like make it entertaining so you kind of know what like what we need for the entertainment factor which which is really good but it's getting easier not easy by no means but but it's getting easier to to figure out what that needs to be you know I think back to like getting better every every week is like that's pretty self-explanet as we face these different things. It's like, no, it's amazing. You guys are seriously getting better every week. Like with the farm,

we're still working on getting you guys the tools that allow you to, you know, do that. Oh, if we had this tool here, you know, it's not, it wouldn't be a one-time use thing. We'd use it every week. And if it makes it easier, then that can help everyone out.

I've never had a lot of them tools either. Right. And you get used to building the same stuff with less. You still make it work. Yeah. So, like, you're almost not more creative, but more like, you use your mind more, like, how can I do this without the tool that I need to do it with? You guys are like cavemen with some of, especially before we moved into the farm.

Yeah, when we were wrenching here. Yeah, we're working out of here. Dude, it was like nothing. There's rocks. We literally just had, like, wrenches and hammers and screwdrivers and screwdrivers. That's pretty much. There's a propane torch, but usually never had an end on it. Yeah, I started on sexy red, and I'm like, I'm going to take the next couple hours,

I'm going to go to my house and, get all my equipment and bring here because I can't do it without that. Yeah, we're still working on equipping the farm with the proper tools, you know, and it's been nice getting to like the size that we are being comped for a lot of them. But like then you're kind of working with a bunch of corporate companies that, and then it just takes a little bit more time. So we're trying to get everything equipped. But that was a large reason of why we built the, built the farm so we could have more projects

going, you know, ideally have a project going here and there. And then, but that would be the dream world. But then we're also pulling you guys like here when they're supposed to be there and then they're over over here. But, dude, Brian's still working on the current project at his house. Yeah. Or at his shop. Yeah, literally.

Now we started working at Big Ranch's place because sometimes we need to keep secrets. Yeah, because we've got a mole somewhere. So it wasn't for the moles. We'd be fine. We need a third secret filming location now that like nobody knows about it. I can tell you what I don't need is another group chat. I can't even figure out like Yeah you're kind of slipping up on it a couple times

Last week I did I'm like Because me and CJ and Big Ranch are Are in one specifically for this project That Big Ranch is working on And it was late at night too Yeah Big Ranch on Wine Wednesday You already know that's my wife's full You already know that group chats

Finna stay active Well yeah I mean we're gonna have to We're gonna have to start kind of like Honestly Big Ranch we might just have to start leasing your barn from you. Yeah, that'd be fine, too. He's like, I love that. We do that.

First day in, Ken puts in security cameras. This is our property now. The secret location, the bat cave. Yeah. So, Gavin, welcome on the pod. Sorry, we didn't really give you a proper interest. I was bummed about that. Kind of snuck in here.

But, yeah, welcome, brother. You've been with us for nine months? Eight months, eight months. Eight months. The story of how Gavin ended up on the team is actually really, really interesting. So for the past two years, I would occasionally get a DM from Gavin saying, hey, I live local to you and I used to build exhaust so I could build an exhaust for your Lamborghini. And I was like, who's this guy that lives local and could, I was like, you can just build me. You can just build me an exhaust for my Lambo.

And it kind of, it didn't really go much farther than that. But I was like, okay, well, yeah, I'll keep you in mind if we ever have like a project that we, that we, that we, that we. need. And then we did 100 people mow my lawn. We put out this form of like, hey, sign up for this video that we're filming. And Gavin was one of the applicants. And we selected them to come and be one of the lawnmowers. So, you know, we're talking to everyone afterwards. And he goes, hey, I'm the guy that keeps messaging you about building you a-bugging you over and over again. A Lamborghini exhaust. And I'm like, oh, dude, yeah, no way. And I'm like, okay, so you could actually do that? You were like, yeah, I could do like a bunch of different things.

That was just kind of like my foot in the door, right? Meanwhile, Big Wrench is working on the come and swap Ford Ranger. So, like, he was away from us for like two months just working on that. Working over in the cave. Yeah, back on the farm before it was the farm. Honestly, we were just like trying to figure out what to do because, you know, we'd been doing like these builds. And then we had to kind of just go back to the old style of filming with like,

where we had like really no wrenches to. like lean on for these projects so we're like hey we actually do need you really bad right now let me get your number so i get your number and that was on saturday we sit down in this meeting we come up with a bunch of ideas and we're like well big ranch can't do them who can do them and go let me call this guy that that we met at the lawnmowing meetup i call you i go what are you doing this week you're like uh working my job yeah pretty busy but could you take some days off and and come and help us with this project so gavin shows up We tell them what we're doing, and it was the six-foot-tall pit bike and the tandem pit bike.

And we were like, yeah, can you help us build it? And you were like, yeah, I mean, I can try. And you built them. And by Wednesday, we had the pit bikes done and you crushed the build. And behind the scenes, we're like, all right, if he successfully does this in our timeline, we're going to hire him on the spot. Yeah, I didn't really know that. I mean, we didn't want to tell you. We didn't want to, like, tell you like, hey, if you do this good, we're going to hire you.

and then like ends up not being good and we're like yeah man see you know and you got it done in time and uh on the last or on that wednesday i was like hey bro yeah you want to come and work for us full time both those rigs still work to this day and then you were like yeah i would love to but like i have to like finish my other job for the next couple days i was like okay can you start on monday you were like okay i can start on monday give me Thursday and friday to close up my loose ends my boy got pressed yeah i was i was self-employed so it kind of worked out. I could kind of sponge things around.

Yes, this is a great opportunity. I do have to button some other stuff up and then you buttoned it up real fast. I did work pretty hard last. And then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's one thing to put your two weeks in. It's another thing to be like, all right, here's what's going to happen with my business. What did happen? You know, it's kind of a seasonal business except for I do snow removal in the winter,

so I just didn't sign any of those contracts. It's like property management. So I was interested in the fall stuff, like wrapped everything up. It all took all the docs out, did all the, like the, the yard cleanups and then close close up shot unfortunately you have to find somebody else the thing with you gab is you undersold yourself heavy like we have people come up to us all the time and say oh i can do this i can do that and you know we've given them shots or whatever it was there and like oftentimes they fail honestly and you were just like you undersold yourself like yeah i could i can make some

exhaust for you you know i'll make exhaust and we're like that sounds great but like how many things do we really need an exhaust for it. That's not originally what you said to me, but I still agree that you undersold yourself. I think the thing about you though, Gab, that we learned real quick, which obviously, you know, we are stoked about your talent of what you could build, but you were just a grinder. And like, the biggest thing for us is like, you know, our crazy deadlines and our wild ideas. But like, you know, we work 24-7. And it's hard to have an employee that you hire on because we don't expect that from from anyone that we're like hiring on you know you guys are salary but like a lot of times it's more than 40 hours a week and you know we don't expect

you to do more than 40 hours a week but you do and that's like the biggest thing like we couldn't ask that of you but you're just a grinder bro and that's why you fit the team so well like but super skilled too i think you worked like every single weekend for the first like three months and it got to the point where I was like, bro, you don't have, you do not have to work on the weekends. You're just like, no, I'm just like, I like work in and, and I appreciate the opportunity. And I, and we're like, dude, we appreciate that too. You know, like that goes, that goes really far. That's kind of what I'm used to, though.

I mean, I've owned a couple different businesses over the years and that's, that's the way you have to do it when you own the business. You keep working and then did some agriculture stuff too, and it's the same, same story there. You just, you work every day until the job's done. So it's, unfortunately for you. The job is never done. Never done. That's what I was impressed, too.

It was like, so when you first started, there was the excitement of being with the crew. And the biggest thing is Gavin's a good guy. So we get along really well with him. Like, you know, we're hanging out after work. And I was like, I wonder how long he's going to, like, hang out till 9 or 10 or 11 every night or almost every night. Like, we enjoyed it.

I'm like, I'm just like, how long is that going to last? And then it almost went the other way, like, where you still stayed till that. time, but you almost started working longer. Whether we're hanging or working, you're here. Granted it out. That is the cool part, too, is, you know, like, everyone that we've added to the team is like, you know, they just become one of our friends.

And, you know, you're coming with out on Sprinter Van Nights when we're going out, out on the boat. And Big Ranch, you're always invited, too, but you never seem to show up or want to come. Because, like, you're always like, I'm hanging out with my family. Yeah, I've got a wife and three kids at home. I have a little bit of a different situation. Oh, I got to go to my son's baseball game. I was like, I'm just kidding.

It's okay, too. On the way here, it was the same deal. They're like, hey, let's do the pot. Yeah, what did you have going on? I had to bring you lie to baseball. So, actually, that brings up a good point. Big Ridge is not my dad. Oh, that's actually, yeah, my other son.

I wanted to clear the air on this now that we have you both here there. We started. What ended up kind of becoming a dirty rumor, Ben's bad joke. I think it was just a joke, and it just, I mean, it made sense. But the way you, the way you, the way you put it out there, it was, it was casual. And it was like one of, one of, a handful of trolls that were completely uncleared up. I cleared it up in a later video, but what was done was done. Yeah, once you get it going, it's tough to clear something like that.

But I think it was too far. But in that video, you just kind of nonchalantly were like, oh, yeah. It was believable. By the way, it was actually not big. didn't like your wife's like sister or aunt or cousin was just my wife's cousin this was probably a month after the fact she texts my wife and she's like does brian have something to say to the family like she thought he just had this kid out there that he like was just ignoring after all these years she was talking to her mom which my my wife's aunt and she's like i didn't know brian had a older

child they just never mentioned that's brought around i was born the year after for you graduated high school, so it would be one of those situations. It could line up. But it is not. It's not. Yeah, everybody. He's not my dad.

Yeah. And then that kind of goes to the next thing. Big wrench came on before Gavin. Not that we're asserting that he is a better renter than you, but he just got the name Big Wrench because it's kind of like, that's funny. You're like, hey, go get the big wrench because like we're just a bunch of little wrenches around here. And then, you know, you come in and you're kind of the second wrench.

And we're just like, well, what do we call? Little wrench, like just as a joke and then it kind of caught on. But you don't seem to like Little Ranch. I'm not a big band of that one. You don't want to be known as Little Wrench? I really would rather not. Yeah, I mean, understandably. I mean, Big Ranch definitely has gotten, got the better end of the deal on that one.

Yeah, there hasn't been any Little Ranch merch yet. I wonder why. No, do you think. Do you think you got to, like, try and try and, like, sell some kind of mystery behind it. because you're a single guy, so maybe, like, when you're out at the bars, like, if you were actually going by a little wrench, like, you know, people could come up and you'd be like, that's what they say, but, you know, I mean, you'd have to just find out for yourself. Yeah, I can play that.

I think it would work. I think it would work. There'd be, like, some mystery behind it. Like, you know, I got to find out if it's true or not. My wife's going to, my wife's going to shoot me, but there is times, like, like, Wednesday after filming, it's like, I'm going home, but, man, if I was another 10 years younger, I probably wouldn't be going home Just be running around with us, yeah

Yeah, you and Evan Wait, wait, I was going to say If you could, sorry, if you could get If you can hang with us, you'll be good As long as you don't get tied up with that Evan guy Well, and that happened a couple of times last summer Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Evan would say that and he's like, yo, me and Big Runch

shut down the bar last night I'm like, dude, you are such a bad influence. I'm like, you corrupted Big Ranch? I'd go home and I'd be like, yeah, Evan, He didn't have nobody to eat with. Nobody to hang out for him. Felt bad for the little guy. My wife's going to watch this now and she's going to be like.

She's going to know. You're not going to be able to stay late anymore. I always wondered if you told her like, oh, the boys just got me grinding on this project. Meanwhile, you're drinking, just chilling. We've been married long enough where she knows all my tricks. No, Evan always told me he was in a good way.

He was just genuinely excited. You go, yeah, so last night, me and Big Wrench, drinking tony's till midnight midnight good time i'm not getting tattoos or nothing exactly Gavin you were close though right i was gonna do it and then uh i bailed it the last minute as far as the tattoos go

yes i was fully jotted down on his thigh shaved and ever we did a couple of revisions with a sharpie yes we even kind of scribbled off the parts that looked whack and then went for it you like walked around the pool table for three minutes and we're like i'll just hold off and then i'm like that's all good it'll be sick when you

get it later, and you're like, I'll let you know. I think Gavin's, another Tony. Yeah, Gavin's too dialed of a person to have a half-ass tattoo or something not completely perfect that's going to be permanent on him, which... That's fair. I mean, I completely... Yeah, at least for the first one.

It makes complete sense to me. I still think you've got to do it, Siege. You know, I think what you guys got is sick. Like, it's a perfect number, but if all of us are out on the boat and then we have some other people hanging with us that, you know, Maybe aren't our first group of friends.

They're going to be like, these guys are, it's pretty cultish, you know. Like, all of you got the same tattoo in the same spot. You all wear such a boy band. You're wearing short enough shorts to even show me on the boat. But I feel like on the boat, your pant leg comes up whatever. Just in general, even like right now, like my, my shorts probably high enough. And I mean, I wear a life wide open hat, life wide open shirt, life wide open fucking swim trunks, life wide open socks.

Pretty soon it's like, we're like, we're like. Lifewide opened out. Yeah, that's true. Not going to lie, I'd probably have to kick my own ass if I did that. Yeah. How much would you regret that one waking up? Probably quite a bit.

Really? Do you have any tattoos, Brian? I don't. My wife does. When we were in Vegas with our Grandpa Ron, we were trying to get a tattoo. We wanted him to do it well. Me, CJ, and Grandpa Ron.

And he was the one that wouldn't do it. A tattoo of you guys? Oh, no, no, no. We were like, no. No, I told him. I was like, I'll get Grandpa Ron tattooed on me. Yeah. If you get Ben and.

CJ tattooed, and he wouldn't do it. And I was like, no offense, Grandpa, but like, I kind of got more to lose. Very surprised by that. Yeah, and his reasoning was like, well, if I got you two, I'd have to get all eight grandchildren. And I was like, fuck it, get all eight. I think he didn't want to do it when the other kids weren't there.

Your other grandchildren aren't YouTubers. Yeah, but they'd be stoked. Like, Grandpa Ron, like, sends them, but it's just like a photo of his leg and it's got their name on it. He didn't want to do it. Having a grandpa Ron tattoos is way cooler than having a Ben and CJ tattoo. That's very true.

I don't blame them one bit for not wanting it. I don't think a bad in CJ. I regret this one. I'm having a red and stimpy tattoo. So lame, dude. So lame. That is. It kind of is the same idea as when we all had our nipple piercings and we took

them out before we went to Florida. Like what? We're going to have all six of us walking around on the beach with our nipples pierce rolling in a group, you know. It's kind of the same. The nipple piercine, I'd say, is a little more apparent, but, uh, I would say, I will say the nipple piercing was weird, and I'm glad I missed out on that. Yeah, I was going to say, you guys kind of got,

got in after that phase. Yeah, gosh, that had to hurt, didn't it? Oh, it's terrible. Was that nipple piercing worse than the tattoo? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what Evan, Evan said the niple piercing, like, the tattoo was not even close to the nipple piercing. The, I guess if somebody was like, you're either doing this or you're doing this, I'd probably get a tattoo. Really? The nice thing about the nipple piercings, you can take it out. So, yeah, I was going to say, let's say two, three months from now, I hate the tattoo. Then I'm going to be like, I wish it was a piercing.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but a tattoo is way cool than a nipple piercing. If I had a tattoo, I'd be like, cool. But if you're walking around with his nipple pierce, I'd be like, I don't know about that guy, man. Honestly, I was one day. Should you get a hot dog tattoo, Mike? Yeah, definitely.

That's next. That would actually be fitting. We can do that on the other leg if you want. I don't want to. No, let's do it. Just like a very, like, simplistic hot dog drawing. Can you imagine? It clearly looked the same.

I get a brot tattoo And I'm like It's a broad It's not a hot dog It's a broad It looks the same to me bro I'm like can you not see the thickness I like when that was brought up to last time

And he gets so heated about it Every time Very defensive Well it's like I do agree though Yeah yeah It's like accusing someone There's a big difference

Yeah but he likes hot dogs He just covers it up with Who told you that Mike I've seen you eat so many hot dogs You can't even say That you don't like Take a picture every time I eat a hot dogs over the next year?

I don't have enough storage on my phone, bro. Dude, what do you want me to do? Follow you around all day? I can't do that. You got more storage? No, I'm not going to follow you around. I already seen you. I got so much stuff to do, Mike.

I can't just follow you around and record every meal you eat. I just remember, like, when I first started noticing. If I eat so many, you can take a picture every time you see me do it. And then you can post them next year. If somebody didn't eat an absurd amount of hot dogs, they wouldn't get defensive. What? I don't know why you're embarrassed. There's nothing wrong with eating hot dogs, Mike.

Because I love eating pizza, and I tell every, they go, what's your favorite food? I go, pizza, hands down, pizza. Oh, you're lying there. Because you're in the closet about eating hot dogs, Mike. You can't tell me that somebody that doesn't eat a bunch of hot dogs wouldn't be this defensive. If we could just bring some proof into it, like. When I first started noticing how many hot dogs Mike ate, it was in the college house when he started just putting them into mac and cheese even those were all brots they were literally all brots

all brats all right i'm all right mics out i'm just kidding mics out i wanted to ask you guys what your favorite build has been and what your least favorite build has been least favorites a way harder question okay all right let me let me just go through a couple of them i feel like i know gavin's just based on his time spent on it maybe maybe my favorite yeah your favorite Well, yeah, that's easy. Sexy Red. No question. The turbo mini-trial.

That's your least favorite? No, that's my favorite. By far, yeah. Is it because you spent the most amount of time on it? It was probably one of your first big builds, too. It was, yeah, it was the first big one. And, yeah. Never forget your first big build.

What was like the first real project that we had you work on, Brian? It was a shitterker, wasn't it? If you consider that a big build. Yeah, that was up front for sure. Did we do that before the pontoon? Yeah, I would say. When we hired you on, we did the 450 shifter cart. Oh, yeah.

We did the shitter card. I don't know what was up with the shifter card phase that we were in. Oh, with the R6, you finished the R6. That was his first project because that's what I was hitting you up about. Oh, that's right. I just got it running in the end. You did the exhaust. I did the exhaust at my shop.

I finally got in touch with him and he was talking about how that's what you were doing. Yeah, that's right. Oh, and then right after the shitter cart, you did the Hummer Ponto. Yeah. The Hummer Pontoon was like one of those Pitch it, see if it's possible. Okay, it's possible. Now how fast can you do it?

Now cut that in half. Yeah. And then that's what we were. Well, isn't the funniest thing about that thing is, it's like, I don't know how, like, it was just a wing and a prayer that that thing even floated the way it did. Like to not have water coming to cab because that was what I was worried about. Like, I didn't get the pontoons down low enough or the truck up high enough for the water not to flood the cab.

And it's literally perfect. The water's like three. Three inches below the door loaded up with people. It's perfect. You couldn't plan it that good. I'd like to say that was just me thinking about it, but it was just dumb luck. Well, I think you just probably just put them down close to the ground about as close as you could. Well, that was the biggest factor of that thing was to keep it up off, high enough off the ground to drive it.

Yeah, that one is like actually really, really impressive how well it worked for how heavy that thing was. Yeah. Like it's like a 10,000 pound. I was trying to do the math on it and as Googling crap. That's where the lack of the engineering degrees. show. Yeah. Well, that's what she got these things for.

Right. Yeah, because we were sitting, I remember we were sitting in the junkyard right next to the shop here, and we were looking at the Hummer, and we go, okay, do you think we could do this with two pontoons? And we're doing the math of, you know, the buoyancy of each pontoon. And we're like, I don't think so. Probably could, but probably wouldn't be a good idea.

And we're like, then how do you do four? How do you have the flip downs? Yeah. All right. So after that, then it was the skutskis. That was pretty fun. It was, it sucked. The size of fiber.

than the fiber glass. It sucked cutting them apart because it was 95 degrees at a couple days. Yeah, pop up the picture of Big Ranch walking around in his hazmat suit. It looked like breaking bad. And then following that one, it was the front flip mini truck,

the roll bar over it. That one was tough because we needed a tube roller. Right, because you had to notch it. Well, I notch some of it and then like at my buddy's place. He has this huge plate roller and we were rolling him in it. Well, it just flattens the tubo

because it's not a tube roller, but it got the job done. Got the job done, broke my neck. Yeah. I wish he would actually probably said not to do that one. And that's what we were talking about. After it was all done, I'm like, man, that's going to be a violent hit. I think everyone was saying.

I 100% take responsibility for that one. We should have taken another day and put like Fox floats up front or something like that. Probably should have. Following that one up, we did the 100 foot rail. That was probably my biggest, like, nothing's terrible. Yeah. That was actually probably the only design flaw. that you've had, Big Wrench, is how narrow you, my design flow.

It's how narrow you put the tabs. Well, yeah, that all comes down to, like, we're running it on Wednesday. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I mean, it always comes back to it being our fault because you guys, you guys do always consult before you do something. And 90% of the problems are always like, time restraints.

Because we're like, just run it. But the, uh, the, the 100 foot rail that might crash the raise, the brand new race, razor on totaled the razor out but and and to date has never been hit again i know well and and gabin chopped it down i lowered it like never got used again but it's still like it's pretty scary yeah i wouldn't do it honestly uh you know how evan talks about losing sleep over like not doing hell's gate or whatever i do lose sleep over that but not in the way that i want to do it again i just hated everything about well not actually doing it i hated all the aftermath and the thought process i had after i did it Even the approach jump was not right.

That's what, like, the approach jump threw me off more than the tabs ever did. Kind of jumped you onto the rail. And the tabs would have worked if the approach jump would have been higher and you drove down onto it. But yeah, just like, which is kind of how it is now. Like, yeah. I wish, I wish I could take you guys along for like that aftermath of like after it happened. Everyone was just like, oh, dude, we like, you know, we bit off too much. Like, how stupid.

But you don't know until you know. You know, you don't know until. If it would have worked to everyone, I'd be like, yeah, what a great idea. Exactly. And it wasn't like, again, like, if I wad myself up or if anyone does just like trying to jump the razor or a dirt bike or anything, that shit happens. But like, that was like intentionally a stunt. And then the stunt went wrong. And we're all like, what the fuck?

Yep. Let's see here. Oh, six foot tall pit bike. That's when Gav came in then. And then... I didn't like that one. And then following that one up was the coming swap ranger. Ranger.

Because that one took like three months. How long did that take? I think it was six weeks. Oh, six weeks. Okay, way less time than three months. I thought it took longer than that, but yeah. I think it was six weeks. Six weeks?

I worked on it with you for about two. And that's when we were just about finished up with it. Because it wasn't snow on the ground or nothing anymore. You know what's also tough about these? We do the same thing. Sometimes even when you guys are editing, you're looking for a video to call back to, and you're like, what video was that? That's a problem.

we'll probably always have because our videos have so much more than what's just in the thumbnail. We're probably missing like the filler bits. You're just looking at the thumbnail but like if we were to go through

each video you go oh that's when we pulled you for a day to do this. And we pulled you for a day to do this. But yeah, which is I love. Like there's so much more than...

The OG Miata was kind of fun. Like well you didn't do much to it. I just welded their diff in it. Yeah, but you guys rallied that thing. Like it was crazy how long that thing laughed. Like I didn't expect it to last at the date. It is actually insane.

And it's still, like, incredible. It's still good in it. You just said it was kind of fun. So do you think it's fun working here? Oh, yeah. I mean, you've worked so many different spots. Yeah, I've always liked to work someplace. You either don't know what you're doing the next day or like it doesn't matter if you know what you're doing the next day because you know it's going to be interesting and you know it's going to be fun.

And you're working with a group of guys that you all, everybody gets along for the most part. Like, I mean, obviously everybody gets a little chippy after spending that many hours with each other for, that long but is this your favorite favorite job big wrench favorite job that you've ever had be honest uh it ranks up there like is it my number one favorite that'd be pretty tough to put that label on it but it's up in the top two three because you've definitely worked some cool places i mean with the race teams and all this yeah like they're x games yeah racing is like something different like if it's in your blood it's in your blood and it's really tough to get it out of your system like i i went four years and had nothing to do

with snow wheels whatsoever. Like when we moved back home from Minneapolis, didn't even keep up with the circuit, didn't know who was in the circuit. And then you just get pulled back into it and it's like pretty soon the semi is coming and dropping off snowmills at your shop. And your wife's like, when did we start racing again?

Like, I don't know. I promise I didn't try. I love the racing side of it because there's, you always have to be on your toes and like you can't spend too much time on a certain thing just like you can't hear. It's almost like racing here, except you don't have to go out and, like, win every weekend. Racing, you can't let up because somebody will pass you up real quick.

And if you, if you're not excelling or learning something new every time you're on a track, like you're going backwards. Right. I take that mentality with here, too, like you should learn something every day, like I said. And if you learn something every day, like the next day is going to be better because you've learned that yesterday. Now you're going to learn something else today. Word from the wise. I'm glad that what's more stressful, racing mechanic or working here? The timelines here is probably one of the most stressful things.

Man. And it's not because you guys put stress on us to get it done, but like you want to get it done. Like everybody wants. That is an interesting take. Gavin and I probably put us. Yeah, it's everybody watching myself. Yeah. Because I want to get it done for you guys to go do what you do.

And then the fans have something to. Yeah, it all just boils down to this ridiculous schedule. And sometimes I feel bad. Like, I don't remember even the last time I've actually went and, like, we finished a project and I went and watched you film it. Just because you're torn between having to go home and eat supper with your family or hang out. Like, I know it's going to be good because of what you guys do. So I can watch it.

When you guys are able to, we do really enjoy. That is my favorite part of the job too. When you're done with the build, it's fun having you along to go watch and watch. watching it. See how it works. And then nine times out of 10, you end up wrenching on it that very same moment. But yeah, it's fun having you guys.

Sometimes it's like, this isn't going to work, so I'm going home. You do kind of just sneak out of there. That's what he did with the cyber truck. He's like, yeah, you guys have fun. I'm like, hold on pig wretch. What if it doesn't work?

I was there when we started filming and I'm like, okay, it's like we were halfway through and I'm like, I got to go home. And, like, I got literally shut the door and Ben calls. Yeah. You're like, can you come back? It's nice that you live so close. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I'm glad that you guys have fun working here because that's one thing. Like, whoever we add to the team, obviously you got to be good. But we also got to feel like they fit in well around here. Got to mesh with everybody. We like them as, like, a person. We like spending time with them because, like, you want to keep that culture of just, like, how it is around here. You spend way too much time as a group in this shop or at the farm shop to not get along with each other. And if it throws off like the vibe, then if the vibe's off for filming, then it's just.

And the video doesn't turn out of the game. It's just not good. Just not good. For sure. You know. I'd say it's like a 50-50 thing. Like you got to be, you got a 50% get along and 50% be good as far as that goes. Like you really do.

That brings up a good question. Like you guys fit our group so well, even though we are all. all different in our own ways. If you guys were going to add another young Patawan or an apprentice to the team, what would you look for in a guy like that or girl? Like what skills would they need? Like where do you feel like the most valuable asset in a person other than of course getting along and messing with the team? I mean, I'm older. So being the age that I'm at, like they, you need to to be able to take direction and like, and listen and learn. Everybody, everybody knows certain things. But like when you come into a group like this and

there's already guys here like like we've know we know how it runs and how it like don't come in thinking that oh i'm going to be able to do this and this and this and these guys don't know how to do this and it's like yeah we've probably already done that once or twice before listen to the humility to do yeah kind of what what is that and i mean and i would ask myself of the same thing like if they have if they bring something new to the table like don't think that you've done that before like are you know better. I try to listen to everybody's ideas. Like, I'm not the end-all, be-all of any of it. Yeah, I mean, we'd like to, you know, add another wrench to the team, big wrench, little wrench, mini-wrench. Crescent Ranch. Yeah. Yeah, man, I don't know. We're going to run out of names.

Monkey wrench. It'd be good to get a guy that just, like, can just jump from, maybe Gavin's got a project he's working on, and I have one that I'm working on, and you have a guy that can jump from in between. Give an extra hand for each of us for whatever we're doing. Or like if you guys have to, for next week's build, like, hey, we need to go get a bunch of this and a bunch of that, you can send that guy to get it. But he also has to know enough to like be helpful, like where to go to get that type of stuff.

Right. Because if you have to hold his hand the whole time he's gone doing it, it's not worth it. It's not worth it. Well, if there's any local people or if you guys know anybody that you think would be good, definitely open to that idea. That'd be great. I agree. I mean, just, it's like, the more you add to the team, the better it operates, it seems like, you know.

Maybe you guys do like a mechanic internship for the summertime from a tech from the tech school. That's an option too. I was thinking, what if we did like a wrench off? We're like, you know, it's like a series. You know, we got five wrenches and we got a timeline that some might deem ridiculous. Yeah. It's kind of like what I was saying. Big wrench calls it going to work on Monday.

Yeah. But and then and then we have like a. a series of like you know last wrench standing no absolutely it's kind of like hell's kitchen type of thing yeah yeah yeah actually it'd actually be really good that could be a good good little who's going to be uh the the the who's the name main chef guy oh gordon rams comes out and the swears that'd be probably you or gab one of you two would come in i don't know if you'd be able to swear i don't know if gavin could but i think you probably do it better than big grins i don't know if i could see you yelling at a guy and i don't think i'd have

start drinking Morgan or so. Yeah, you gotta be a mean man to be a Gordon Ramsey spin off there. Yeah, I guess I don't know if I could be that mean, but I mean, I do have the background of having employees and getting into work. Yeah, I mean, I like that idea just because then it, like I was kind of saying about Gavin is people say what they can do and but oftentimes don't live up to what they're saying, whereas Gavin was almost like he was very humble with what he was saying he could do and then outlive that. Like, he overperformed way over our expectations. So it's like...

The text back and forth from me and Ben before you guys hired me, like the last thing I said is like, there's only so much I can say. You just got to let me come show you what I can do. I think that is the best way to find someone on the team. And you look at Dalton, like he came and he wasn't just like a person on the team. He was like doing some cinematic stuff for us. And then we're like, this guy's good.

And let's do that. So, I mean, if you guys know anybody, we'd love to test it out. And I like that. I like that idea of having the time. to test somebody out. Yeah. You never know in an interview. You really don't.

You really don't. You really full of bullshit. Talking out their ass. Yeah. Well, and even on their end of it, like, it's going to be tough for anybody just to jump into this. And that's like, like, I hand it to Gavin. Like, you had really no idea what to expect and what the timelines kind of were and stuff

like that. And he jumped right in, like, handled it. Built the six foot pit bike in two days. Handled there. Handled my biz. When you ask somebody, if you can, this is what we need to have done, can you do it? And he's like, yeah, I can do that. And he does it.

And he does it. yeah that's the best god you gotta cringe at some of like the well like being the welders that you guys are when you see like other people being like yeah i'm a fabricator and then you see their welds is that one of those things might be a fabricator but you're not a welder more of a grinder than he is a welder i love grinder and paint welder i ain't sometimes i'll find on facebook like it'll be like a page that's just like the best welds in the world that's the i'm pretty sure gabin and i both been working on something and it's like go time like we You still supposed to have been done two hours ago,

and I'm like, I'm more of a grinder today again. Welds look like bird shit, but it's going to make a video. Is that just like a welder thing, though, like that you just, if you post, I'm not joking, like, you post the best weld that you may think that you've ever put down in your life and people are still like. Well, somebody will pick it apart. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's easier to pick apart other people's stuff than it is to do your own.

I guess most, most welders, all they do is weld all day. So then it's like, well, then they have something to pick apart. God, that seems like it would be hard welding all day. I've done it, like here and there, like never over and over again every day. I couldn't do it. It sounds pretty. I could not do it. Just staring at an arc all day.

Yeah, you're like your perception of God. It's going to be hard on your eyes. Another, this is probably just because I'm old, but like when I take weld now, I can't, I have to take my glasses off because I can't focus on it. Really? Kind of stinks, but. Big Red. Maybe we should have a weld off. Oh.

I get the razor blades though We don't need you guys going against each other I mean like no Keep the emotions out of it But it would be fun for a video bit Just to like do a weld off Like have only redefined How would this?

If I'm having a weld off It's only with razor blades What does that even mean? What does that mean? We can do that Just a one and done thing How about pop cans? How do you do that?

Yeah but see You're really good at aluminum welding You ever seen the edges of a razor blade Like the handheld ones You scrape decals with Yeah Weld them two together. Oh, and that's like kind of like a flex.

It's pretty tough to do. I remember when the sides of pop cans would be tough to do. That would be tough. Everybody says, oh, you can weld pop cans together while you take the bottom of this is pretty thick. Yeah. Like weld it together this way. Yeah, I don't know if I could do that. There was a little stint when Ben wanted to be a welder.

I made a couple of our. Yeah, you welded the fenders on the Ranger. No. No, we did not. No, I think we just moved. We bought those from Jack just. supply car. I don't even know. Yeah, smart car. It was during the smart car. Remember, we got this harbor freight welder. Yeah. We were putting a lift kit on the smart car.

We even had to call Brian over to come help us. That's right. Yeah. Fix some shit on it and put it on. And it was right when we moved in, it was like our first winter here. But yeah, I just remember you were trying to do your thing. That welder that's downstairs. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a flux core. That's when I learned to give it up. We were working with what we, what we could. Some thing is, you're tying one hand behind your back just welding with that. problem. Big Ranch, have you gotten in any Facebook fights lately? Not in the last week. He's been too busy. So Big Ranch is like, as we said, super reserved. He's a keyboard warrior. The dude is yeah, he's a keyboard warrior and he's just a hothead on Facebook. What's up with that? That's right.

That must be my outlet. Let your steam off. Yeah. With like with who? I don't know if it's a hot head. It's kind of fun. Well, yeah, you're like you're a baiter. Yeah, I kind of do it to get a ride. out of people. Yeah. You're a troll. Don't get too good at it because you'll become a master. I am not to that level. Dude,

yeah, you know Jake Sherbroke, cheese that guy loves. I mean, he's just like, I don't know what to do today. I'm just going to go rip some people on Facebook and then. Well,

back when he was on, he's not on Facebook that much anymore, but I used to jump in on dog piling on something. Jesus. Are you ever worried that you're ever going to meet one of your, no, culprits? Big Ranch knows out of fight.

or one of your victims, that's just said. He'd kick him in the knee. That's the first thing you do. Yeah, I know. I've heard him say that a few times. Someone pressed them. The bigger they are, the harder they are.

The harder they are. The harder they fall. Kick them in the knee, huh? Yeah, it is crazy. Have you done that? Maybe. Really? Kick them in the front of the knee.

Just in a couple of fights before. In the pits on the racetrack. I don't fight for the fun of it. Yeah. Oh, a racetrack fight? Well, that's some different defense tactics. That's a great defense. Yeah, it's great.

Some people just like to fight. Like, they'll go out and just pick a fight. Yeah. Just for something to do. Like, that's what they love to do. Like, me and Rich ran into a guy like that the other night. Really? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, you just wanted to fight as soon as we got there. Really? What was he doing? He's just talking shit. As soon as we got there, he's like, what was he saying? Oh, he's talking shit about the C-boys. Like, I don't give a fuck about the C-boys. You guys are put your ass.

And it was just, you and Rich? Well, Rich said something to him, and then he, yeah. Then he fucking went off the rest of the night. And none of, no one else was with you guys? Oh, Ev was there. I had a buddy of mine, a good friend of mine, and his philosophy's the same as mine. Like, when I get into a fight,

it's one or two punches either way, and it's usually done. Wow. Like, either I'm going to win or I'm going to lose. You've gotten in a racetrack fight, though, like in the pits, mechanic to mechanic? A couple years ago, working for the team that we used to work for, we just about gotten a pit fight with the trailer next to us.

Really? What was the cause? I know. Park too close. It was like a, Sorry. Some say, I didn't even see it. It was a non-track dealer with one of our riders and one of their riders

and kind of a dirty corner, like cross jumping and stuff like that, which is in any motocross or any motorsport, you don't do that type of thing, you know, ripped the whole front of the sled off of one of our race sleds. And one of the other mechanics just had like the front end of the snow wheel and just like slammed it down in front of their trailer. And then it was game on for about 15 minutes there for a while. No fists were thrown, but it got de-estated before that happened, yeah. But you would have hopped in.

Well, if I had to. Would it had to. Yeah. Taking people in the knees. Yeah. All of them are laying on the ground. My knee. I'm like, my knee. And I wasn't really a part of it.

I was with everybody. But a buddy of mine got married and we had a bachelor party. You guys know where the Falls is? Oh. No. When you go tubing down the otter tail? Oh, yeah. We got in a roundup with like 10 guys there.

So the day started off. We all got on this bus that other buddy of ours owned, went to Wildflower. I think we made it three holes before they kicked us out of there. You guys were reckless golfing. Yeah. So then we all pile back on the bus and it's like, let's go tubing. So we rented the tubes, but we had our own bus And we didn't even care about going tubing

So we just went straight to the falls There's actually a road that you can take to get there But you have to cross privately. Really? We may or may not have like busted the whole gate open with the bus And like drove right back there. Yo, you guys were driving the bus. Yeah.

Okay. Sat there and we were drinking, having fun. These guys came flown down the river. Didn't know, didn't have no clue who they were We weren't even from around here or nothing. And they started John back and forth with a couple of our guys and pretty soon he's coming up on the bank and one of our guys takes a full can of the beer and chucks it at the guy and it bounces off of his head oh my gosh

and the guy's like who to hell through that we're like oh boy oh shit i don't know if we got the best of them or they got the best of us but i remember going to church the next day and a guy that you guys know his face was swelled up shut really black eyes we had a doctor there that stitched us up that night at one of my friend's house you guys got beat up i didn't how many knees if you had to get how many knees did you kick i i was i was still sober enough where i kind of they were swimming down the bank like i was more like standing behind my big friend swinging over his shoulder these dudes were like sneak attack in the knees boom boom from an underwater kicking them yeah they were big have you you got an hockey fights a couple yeah i was a little bit of an

If you could call it that. Oh, really? They would send Gavin in. Yeah, a little guy would come and beat somebody up for hitting the goalie or whatever, you know. You were little? Well, I was about this size.

I wouldn't say I'm big. They would, they wouldn't say you in? No, I'd send myself in. Make it your mission. Were you, would you shave your head back then? Because you'd be pretty mean. Even when he was like seventh grade. A bald 12 year old.

Yeah, yeah. You're like, soft, a high school shaved head with a beard. Just beating people up out on the ice. He's savage. Anybody check this guy's ID real quick. Can we just laugh about when I gave that homeless lady a ride on the... Yeah, bro.

That shit was funny. So funny. I didn't really... Like, basically this homeless gal who is tweaking. You know, she's a nice lady. She's yelling at us. I was like, give me a ride. I want to ride on one of them things.

And I was like, you want to ride or you want to drive? And this is kind of before we started filming. She's like, I want to drive it. And I was like, no way. I'm not letting you get on this e-bike. Like, no way. And then basically she starts coming over, sees the cameras, and starts, like, really, yeah. Get that camera out of my face.

Get that shit on my face right now. Like, seriously, I'll mess you up right now. Like, get that out of my face. No filming me. And she's just all riled up. And then I'm just like, well, you still want a ride? And then, like, as that pans out, she's like, sure. And we get on and ride away after she's like, after she's like legit trying to, like, knock the cameras out of there.

Yeah, she was going off after Dalton. And she was about to tee off. off on Dole it was just gold It was gold So Mike gives her a ride And then she was like thank you And Mike goes like That was pretty fun wasn't

And she goes no it wasn't And she hops off and then she hops off And then she hops off and looks at Dalton And he goes I fuck you you little bitch And so it's like keying off on him It was crazy Camera and everything like he wouldn't let it go

And like he like had to grab her wrist And like he was like yeah I grabbed her wrist And pressed on her pressure points So she let up What do you know that thing That says of Kung Fu Yeah I don't

I just get a kick out of, like, just... That's something I would have never thought. It's like, I'm just going to grab her pressure point so she'll release, you know? I got a fucking yanking out. Don't's been in a camera, a cameraman altercation before. That's what was the best part when you were, you were like, why were you like letting her get so close? And Dalton was like, I wasn't scared. It's so...

As Evan is like, boy, boy, yeah. Everyone was like, I want to get out of here. I want to get out of here. In general, Evan, that's so interesting to me. I hate to talk about this when he's... gone, but he's just like, seriously, let's dip, let's dip, let's leave, let's get out of downtown. You was so scared of that about that. And then I'm just like, he's actually scared or do you think he's like, I don't want to get jammed out?

I don't want to get jammed out. Probably that more so. Because if shit goes down, I mean, I would think Evan would be like a little Tasmanian devil usually. No, you're right though. Like he didn't want to get jammed up. What do you mean? Like he would just be fucking just everyone up. Yeah, in the end, the dust would settle and he'd just be standing there and everybody be on. Yeah, that's true. He's built like a. He's not much of a fighter. Oh, you mean like a fight?

I've been quite a few fights. Really? Before our time, yeah. He's a pretty big hot head. He's got some stories. I won't tell him. He's a pretty big fighter. I'd say like three times.

I'm pretty sure. He's a type. Real fighters that get into bar fights every weekend are like, that's pussy numbers. You're a real fighter. Yeah, every Friday and Saturday night, I head out and I get myself into a fight. Like training.

I don't think he's looking for a fight, but he probably has ended a few. zone yeah but yeah no it was just it was too funny like I was I didn't realize how funny was at the time and then you guys were like that was really funny and then everyone was like dude when Micah just took off with you want a ride yeah after she was and then I was perplexed too three blocks and just dumped her off I should have honestly I should have left her away from us but yeah brought her right back to the action I said she was all mad she was so mad and then um she's like don't be filming me blah and I'm like you came to us you still want

ride though that was funny that was a total mic a move yeah the characters that you'll run into downtown the characters that are on are uh just like that we work with every day now it's like the group is getting bigger and bigger and it's so fun like kind of learning like just little funny things about each and every person like dalton's guys things like like big wrench like how i was like you kick him in the knee like i've heard him say that before you know like like there's just things you get to know a person and like it's just so funny you know and just like not in like like I'm laughing at you but it's just like there's so many everyone's got like their own funny little things about them and it's it's fun getting to you know learn learn those things

the most interesting one that I would like to if you were going to go and get wild just like he seems like he would fly out of hand he does get wild oh yeah one time he did one time he flew up the animal I have to bring that up when he's on the pocket remember when he was yelling bro yeah we were all mad and he got mad and started like we We were all on the same team, but Justin was, like, giving them the beans so hard that the rest of us, like, kind of step back and we're like, oh, man, like, chill. Like, we were going after that. But that's a story for another day.

But I've gotten a normal little bit since he started working for us for you guys again. But he looks like he'd be a lot of fun. Oh, he is. He is. He's hilarious, dude. It's a great guy. That's why he's on here, you know. Something I thought was really funny that made me think of this is when you were like,

yeah getting to like kind of know everyone in the group but there was one the other day that I didn't even know about and it's when Dalton goes yeah he's got a fake chain to Evan and that just struck a chord with him and he was like hey fuck you Dalton you're your ugly ass blue truck and then that struck a chord with Dalton no it was the vice versa though because he said something about Dalton's ugly truck and then Dalton just responded behind the camera he's got a fake change that's what i thought was funny like he defended himself a few minutes later i don't know what you guys had going on that day because like i came over i think i came to pick up eli from work and it was like there was some tension yeah even just even just he came over for a second and a little bit

and goes oh host out was working like the rap there was a lot of tension that day and i was like i'm going home now it's just funny that you noticed it because like that day in particular Big Ranch is I'm going back to the farm Even I like And he goes I didn't know I couldn't have an opinion And we're like Nobody fucking asked you for your opinion

On a hundred things Since we've been talking here Evan That's where we have a problem You can give your opinion when asked And then I think that's when Ryan was like Why can't we why are we all gotta be like this Why can't we just freaking get this thing done I'm sick of everybody just bickering

And Evan goes And that's when Evan goes didn't know you couldn't bitch anymore He was like God damn Evan's over there You can't bitch if you want The tension was going

Every witch way that Yeah but it was all just It was light Like everyone was just I thought it was light Yeah I was chuckling And it's just

You get it thrown a back a little bit Because it's rarely ever even like that Yeah Like everybody gets along so well That we were Big Rinch walks in at the thick At the thick of it Well we were getting pressed

for time and also we didn't have much footage and there was rain there was a lot of factors and it was Wednesday night Ken was trying to move his pallets yeah Ken's trying to move his palettes yeah Ken's trying to move his pallets there was just you know it's tough and you know I'd say there's only one one thing that keeps getting circled back to as the problem it's our schedule that we have put on ourselves it's insane but we're a prisoner of our own schedule but it's necessary it keeps you going it is it's necessary and you have to have a schedule otherwise like when is yeah you'd be like oh what do you mean like we'll do it tomorrow you got the next day you know it's just like anything yeah like i said last week i got bored

when we had a day half a day off yeah it's like it's like gosh i'm gonna have to mown if we don't start getting some ideas going here on our shitty toro and then and then you actually will get evan to throw hands if you start doing that well guys very good i uh i'd love to keep talking but i feel like you yeah probably have some you probably got to get home for dinner big rent actually it's my father-in-law's birthday party okay well We'll let you get going on. You keep talking then. It's always something.

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