Unsubscribe Podcast - 195 - Insane EMT Stories ft. EMTBadge502 & Leon Lush | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 195

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

Tiktok EMT  @Badge502  & our boy  @LeonLush  are here for post range day shenanigans! VEGAS LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://thegundies.com/product/the-2025-gundie-awards/ Watch this episode ad-free and uncensored on Pepperbox! https://www.pepperbox.tv/ WATCH THE AFTERSHOW & BTS ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/UnsubscribePodcast ------------------------------ UNSUB MERCH: https://www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/unsubscribe-podcast BUY US A DRINK! https://paypal.me/UnsubscribePodcast FREE TO USE MEDIA (Please tag Unsubscribe Podcast) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uppmQHMGf8uI2OuOatp932e3S2VGy0PE?usp=sharing ------------------------------ FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Eli_Doubletap https://www.instagram.com/eli_doubletap/ https://www.twitch.tv/Eli_Doubletap https://x.com/Eli_Doubletap https://www.youtube.com/c/EliDoubletap Brandon Herrera https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonHerrera https://x.com/TheAKGuy https://www.instagram.com/realbrandonherrera Donut Operator https://www.youtube.com/@DonutOperator https://x.com/DonutOperator https://www.instagram.com/donutoperator The Fat Electrician https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician https://thefatelectrician.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the_fat_electrician https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fat_electrician ------------------------------ unsubscribe pod podcast episode ep unsub funny comedy military army comedian texas podcasts #podcast #comedy #funnypodcast Chapters 00:00:00 - Introduction to the Podcast 00:02:12 - EMT Stories 00:12:14 - Live Show Experiences 00:14:03 - Building an Audience Online 00:17:20 - Buffalo Sports Fan Traditions 00:19:20 - Audience Reactions at Live Shows 00:21:10 - Meet and Greet Experiences 00:26:50 - Becoming an EMT Journey 00:29:20 - First Week as an EMT 00:31:20 - Accident Details and Reactions 00:33:30 - Crisis Counseling Aftermath 00:38:50 - Transitioning to YouTube Content 00:41:00 - Navigating Home Loan Challenges 00:44:20 - Humorous Anecdotes About Life 00:46:30 - Starting TikTok After Surgery 00:48:35 - Analytics and Content Strategy 00:50:45 - The Impact of Cadence on Content 00:54:30 - Storytelling in Content Creation 00:59:50 - Understanding Audience Engagement 01:02:45 - The Brain Worm Phenomenon 01:04:47 - Understanding Parasites and Their Effects 01:06:31 - The Dangers of Brain-Eating Amoebas 01:08:30 - Hilarious Live Show Stories 01:11:31 - Crazy Eyeball-Eating Stories 01:15:31 - Crazy Mailbox Incident 01:20:28 - Service to Others Philosophy 01:24:31 - Transitioning Careers 01:27:21 - Finding Your Audience Online 01:29:34 - Content Creation Challenges 01:32:43 - Walmart Controversy Explained 01:35:00 - Charity and Community Contributions 01:39:21 - Engaging with Viewers' Messages 01:44:20 - Influencer Dynamics in Marketing 01:46:20 - YouTube Executives at Range Day 01:48:05 - Shooting Full Auto for the First Time 01:57:00 - New Army Light Machine Gun Overview 01:59:25 - Pepperbox Membership Benefits 02:02:20 - Unexpected Encounter with Kevin 02:04:20 - Flight Shenanigans and Stories 02:08:00 - Final Thoughts and Farewell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Come. That was awesome. I asked him if he had allergies. He's like, I don't know. Got allergies? Lead? I have a massive pee hole. I'm convinced that there are people that intrinsically are dying to be arrested for no reason. Oh, nobody knows this secret? Okay, never mind.

Nobody knows that secret. Hey, are you upset you missed out on the live show tour? Well, don't be, because we still have one show left to do. Brandon, where is that show at? Beautiful, Las Vegas. During what week? During the week of SHOT Show. So this will be our last show of the tour on January 20th at the Venetian Theater,

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us out. Oh yeah, we got it. Ready? You're so embarrassing. Um... Mango! Okay, everyone knows how this works. Tangerine. Three, two, one. I was a second behind. Embarrassing. Oh, so good.

Yeah, that's nice. That is not bad. Still not Cody. Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming to the Unsubscribed Podcast. I'm joined here today by Mr. Eli Double Tap, our old friend, Mr. Leon Lush, and our new friend, Mr. Anthony, a.k.a. EMT Badge 502.

Yes. Nailed it. It's 502 or 592. By the time I get to EMT B-A-D, it auto fills, okay? I'm sorry. Allow it. You know what's a good username? Let me add some

numbers in there. It's classic like an on twitter where it's like user 578-674-5632 do i think i'm getting shadow banned no on every other platform it's just badge 502 but somebody on instagram decided they needed that so that's just the luck i drew you know 502 is my actual badge number i couldn't get away from has anybody ever asked for your badge number like they asked for cops quite literally yeah have they 100 i want to hear the story uh we go to houses obviously all the time and uh every so often it doesn't matter how nice you are how

courteous you are to people you know sometimes you get that person who just doesn't love you and you just step back let the other emts handle it and they're like i want your badge number i want your name i want your dad's name i want your next door neighbors and leave me alone how dare you come and try and help me yeah you called me yeah i'm not jealous of this is we got two amazing individuals uh both now are doing what you're you're expanding into different content now you're like hey let's let's figure out like hey let's break down cop videos let's have some people being stupid let's also do the family stuff very very polite right. This very, very polite

way of saying, let's exploit my wife's innocence on the internet. I'm glad you said it, because she would have been like, well, Nick said it, not me. Yeah, we do a little bit of everything. I mean, I've been in the game for a while. Had the ups and downs. Typical rollercoaster of being a YouTuber.

But she was courteous enough to, at my behest in like 2018, be like, honey, why don't you just sit down with me and see what happens, do what I do, and we'll do it together. And she's a very like not online person, doesn't like cameras, blah, blah, blah.

But fast forward five, six years, she's got a little niche audience that loves her. You know, she's very, she's much more comfortable on camera. So we sit down and shoot the shit and it's kind of that relationship um like the squabble the banter between us i think that people like and then uh yeah as far as what i do i'm just throwing pickles like i've said this before throwing pickles at the fridge seeing what sticks you know i'm just trying new shit i i watch i actually actually watched quite a few of your videos and there's nothing funnier than when your wife asks you a question and I can just see your brain start calculating.

You like hit pause on the video and you're like, I need to explain like a level nine meme to somebody that has no internet history background. Yeah. Yeah. It started when we killed this gorilla in 2016 and then there was the... Dude, the best moment, and I'll never forget it. I still give a shit to this day. It was like right at the height of like Marvel supremacy. Like, what was it? Infinity War, Endgame had just come out.

And it was like Thanos was the most popular bad guy of all time. And we're sitting down and we're doing a video. And a Thanos meme comes up. And she's like, who's that? Here we go. And I was just like, excuse me? Who's Thanos? She's like's like, who's that? Here we go. And I was just like, excuse me? Who's Thanos? She's like, yeah, who's Thanos?

And so ever since that day. I was like, snap. I pulled out the fucking power glove. It's not working. I was like, so I absolutely annihilated her on camera and it was very fun. And I was like, yeah, this could work. This could do this. This could do this.

It's that bully. And so like five years later to this day, I'm like, oh, we're going to have a Thanos moment right now, aren't we? Yeah. Bullying is love.

Love is bullying. Yeah. She's just that type of like normie Instagram bitch. That's just like, ooh, my fun little like recipes. And like, here's this fun thing.

And I'm on like X, like watching people get murdered and like doing all this dumb shit, like going down rabbit holes. And then we get together for a couple hours a week and watch it together. And I'm like, oh yeah, I've seen this a million times. She's like, what's this? I'm like, I don't have the time to explain it to you. So we're just going to move on to the next one.

So it's a fun dynamic that works between the two of us. And as corny as it might sound, it's like having done it for like five or six years now, it's cool as a married guy to like have an excuse to sit down and kind of like banter with your chick for a couple hours a week in a way that's like a business. But also in a way that like you're doing it because it makes money. But also there's been some really cool organic moments that have come from it, which has been really cool looking back. You get like it is. Nick, you start incorporating your wife i incorporate sav and those are those things where you it strengthens

your relationship because i think when you're really solidified in like a family relationship like and it shows on camera everyone's happy yeah and then others like oh man that's dope i want that yeah it's like just have fun with yeah yeah i bring my wife on to bond not for money laundering and tax evasion that's why my wife's on so we can bond i don't see two big bags of money my wife no that definitely certainly not i don't exploit her in every single thumbnail possible she went on uh on unsub she went on stage and the audience like went fucking nuts just watching because she's in all my ads she'd delete me she's walked out set it and the audience like Just walking cuz she's in all my ads should delete me she's walked out set at the whole crowd

Yeah Can you wear that low cut shirt that you love? Use her down. Oh, holy shit. That's my favorite story. I don't know if we're allowed to talk about it. I'll ask her later. We can cut it out. I'll let you know. My wife does not do it. My wife has half a margarita at the Mexican restaurant at lunch and she's like,

my arms feel heavy. I love you, but this is why you're the dd like i'm not not drinking so you can have half a margarita trash yeah like yeah anyway so we go out this is the san diego show and everything's going great she does her little delete me bit she goes out in the crowd bye love you go watch me perform whatever uh i come back out after the show to find my wife in the crowd and my wife is on fucking jupiter i'm like what the fuck is going on here oh hannah ate the entire chocolate bar uh-oh yeah uh okay how much is an entire chocolate bar? She wasn't feeling it, by the way. You know.

But it wasn't just a chocolate bar. It's not doing anything. You want to take a guess on how much a chocolate bar was? Never done this. She doesn't do any weed at all. 100 milligrams? Yeah. I was going to say about 100.

Out the gate. Thanks for playing, dude. If I do 10, I'm legless and I'm a big guy. I was like, oh, God. get out of here she was she was paranoid it was aggressive it feels like you're dying for several hours it's a horrible experience she was in a crowd with 1100 people that all knew who she was and they all wanted to come up and talk to her that's just, like... I walked up, I was like, you good? I was like, can you go eat and lay down? And she, like... She just starts ascending into heaven.

I was like, she looks mad. She's like, I'm not buying your dinner. I have questions. Does she normally do that? Not a thing. So who convinced her to eat the chocolate bar? She wanted to have, like, a little tiny bit like five milligrams sure and then like a little sliver at some point like it was broken into five milligram increments like it was like

a kit kat and like the only edible they could buy apparently was 100 milligrams altogether and they were gonna like i don't know save it share it whatever the fuck and her brother who does you know do edibles and stuff and he turned around and she was like yeah she just ate the whole thing because she said it wasn't working yeah now it's definitely fucking working that is the way that is the roller coaster that people get on it's like ah man it's been 10 minutes i don't think 20 minutes this isn't working oh christ kylo ren calm down. The good news is that's a mistake you typically only make once. I guarantee it. I've been to multiple of those houses. I've had one guy just sitting on the curb

just freaking out. I'm like, what's going on? He's like, my heart's racing. Did you do something different today? He's like, I ate this edible. I was like, there it is. Yep. I don't know., I ate this edible. And I was like, there it is. Yep. There it is. How much did you eat?

I was like, I don't know. Now they're strong. I ate the entire edible. They're strong, but they're also, so, you know,

depending on where you buy them from, like they sell them 20 milligrams, 100 milligrams, you get the gummies, the chocolates, whatever food choice you want. But the beauty of it now, like as it's become so mainstream,

is you can really have a reasonable idea of how many milligrams you're having, so you can dose it correctly I'm thinking back to like when I was in high school I just said my buddy Zach who was like dealing cocaine okay how many do I have he's like I don't couple literally it's literally brownies like I don't even even even make it into butter it was just like nuggets of wheat in the brownies he's not good at mixing so I eat two

of course same thing this is like back when edibles weren't as mainstream and it was probably one of my first experiences I smoked off and on through high school so I eat two brownies and same thing I'm like this isn't working I'm drinking a fucking I'm drinking like a Zima or something at the time so I eat like brownies and same thing I'm like oh this isn't working I'm like drinking a fucking I'm drinking like a Zima

or something at the time I don't even know so I eat like two more brownies and then you know fast forward three hours and I'm literally like plastered on the tile kitchen floor

like this just like spinning for six hours I'm in danger dude it is we had one of my buddies and that summed up

the time of my life the best night I've ever had there's my one buddy he eats them. And then he's like, oh, once I was like, oh, no, I'm good. I was like, what?

What's that? What does that bottle say on the dosage? He's like, oh, they're 400 milligrams per cube. I was like, excuse me? Huh?

Take care. Why? Why? He's like, well, there's 10,000 milligrams in this box. I'm like, like a bullion cube?

You're making a still or something? Why the fuck would you have 400 milligrams in a cube cube you're supposed to drop those into a cauldron you just eat these yeah he's just upper decadent five thousand milligrams an hour right now i'm six a day. What's the problem? I think I call it like, it's called the all spark.

The all spark. Oh my God, dude. People are crashing on five milligrams. This guy's eating the Tesseract. Yeah. What are you doing? Oh man. It was a good time though.

It was a good time. Mr. Leon got to join us at the Boston show. Yes. Yeah, Boston was amazing. Yeah, that was... Yeah. They were both there. They were both there.

But fuck, I keep thinking Atlanta. I don't know why. We didn't know that either of us were there until we met here. It was wild. Down at the Range Day today. But the Boston show was unreal. Unreal. I had a beautiful time.

I didn't have anything to compare it to, obviously, versus other shows. But from my perspective, the crowd energy was good. I was very happy as someone who takes pride in coming from New England, the Boston area. Obviously, they're big into sports. And I was like, this is like a sports team vibes, dude. Your fans are ravenous. They were ridiculous. After everything, every joke, people, fucking USA chants, like the whole nine.

They actually liked you guys. We got a video of 1,100 people yelling, fuck communism and chanting USA. It was awesome. Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill. Yeah, the energy was palpable. It was a really good time.

Yeah, you can't fake that. You can't fake that. You either have that or you don't have that. It was wild because we've discussed it before like getting everyone wanting to do them because that when the small shows it is like it is hard to be like hey we're doing a tour and no one wants to be on stage we talk behind cameras not behind totally the microphone and then it is like hey we're we have to put in work and uh we gotta make these seat cells and then we have to expand but you have to start at the bottom and you're just like resetting.

You're like, oh, okay, we got to sell out these. Okay, now we're here. Now we got to sell out these. Okay, now big venues, bigger. Brick by brick, as they say, you know? This brick by brick. I'd be really curious to hear like a comedian, like an actual legit comedian's interpretation of like,

oh, you guys have done five live shows and then sold out the wilbur theater dicks yeah like you think it's like it's just new media though it's because you've like think of how many hours and how much of the time you've spent grinding to build an audience through digital medium which is the best so you have now the luxury of selling out these awesome venues because of all the work you've done leading into that like through what we're doing here at this table just see that that iceberg you know where it's like you it's not like you're like so like the podcast has been grinding at podcast open mics you know

what I mean on the podcast version to kill Tony for 30 seconds at a time all right guys we have 60 seconds. Say something funny. Let's get it. Go. He's like, show guys. Carmen is here. And now they're showing off the Wilbur Theater in Boston. Yeah, yeah. That's how it went. He's exactly what it is. All I'm saying is thank God for the internet. Triple Decker Theater is freaking amazing.

That's the other thing. People are always like, oh, are you nervous going out there? I was like, I was slightly nervous the first time. It's not like we're comedians. We have to go out there and win over the crowd. Everybody already likes us. You can't bomb. If your joke falls flat, there's four other dudes to catch it

and throw it back up and hit it. Absurdly easy. You guys have that type of chemistry with each other where you can just play off each other so perfectly. That was the interesting part to me as someone who's watched a lot of stand-up. It's like communal stand-up, really, but you're sitting down. It's sit-down. It's sit-down.

Everyone puts that. It's communal sit-down. It's the same idea. It's bits. It's jokes. Yeah. Dude, what is wild is the Boston show compared to the Buffaloes. Different set.

Completely different. Completely, yeah. Because we just like, ugh. It just started going into a new direction. is wild is like the boston show compared to the buffaloes different completely really completely yeah because we just like uh like it just started going into a new direction and it was like okay i chokeslam rich through a table yeah literally i'm sitting here i'm like i wonder what the boston show is gonna be different like than the buffalo show and then i click on like the uh the story on instagram all of a sudden i just see up through a table i was like oh okay yeah that makes sense left-handed that's what that you left-handed left-handed because we talked about it like four months prior and I completely forgot about it because like Bill's mafia it's like a tradition

yeah so right pecs torn I can't lift shit up yeah and I was like I like he starts pulling out the chair tables I was like oh shit we're still doing this cool and I like turn to look back nobody has any clue what's going on. I'm like Happening riches grab the table throws it on chair going on and then it's like the entire slant he's like going through the show notes he's like where is this and then i like i'm like that's not scripted by the way i have none of us knew that was about to happen the funniest part is because i posted it and the amount of people in the comment section that were like wow dude in the american flag shirt did it dirty he didn't even sell the move like people are mad that he's like making wrestling look fake because he popped right back up. He didn't sit there and act like his kidneys were in agony for 45 minutes. People are legitimately upset about it.

Rich proved that wrestling is fake all by himself. I love that. I have to imagine that was Rich's idea, right? Oh, yeah. 100%. As a New England born and bred sports fan, Buffalo is a big competitor to the Patriots. They're crazy. They're known for their table slamsams right so like every football season yeah

buffalo fans are psychotic so like every football season every weekend there's clips on twitter of people getting like life-changing injuries because they're tailgating and i'm talking like off of a roof through like a flaming table and they just like half the time they miss the table and just lay it on the fucking ground and it's just a bunch of drunk retards everywhere and it's like sunday and that's literally what buffalo sports is known for it's like them just like trying to outdo each other with who can do the craziest table slam and as a new england fan i just love sitting back and watching people essentially like ruin their back for the rest of their lives over a fucking cheeky Twitter video. It's the best.

I'm never going to win a Super Bowl. I'd probably feel better about it if I was paralyzed. Now I have an excuse to watch every Buffalo game. The ER is just sitting there. It's like, huh, it's like 3 o'clock. Guys, get ready. You know it's coming sooner or later. It's fucking...

Five ambulances roll up. Yep, there it is. Yeah, I was going to say, if you were up in Buffalo, you'd be getting calls like that all the time. Absolutely. For the 24-year-old male injury to the shoulder, back, neck. What happened? Up, up, table. I will say it was the funniest thing.

Weirdest thing. When it's like Buffalo, it's like racism. I look at Brian, I'm like, we need to leave. They're like, chanting. I'm like, what? This is getting oddly strange. And they'm like, we need to leave. They're like, chanting. I'm like, what? This is getting oddly strange. This is a show. And they're like, we were used to the stomping thing.

Like, everyone cheers the stomping. I've never seen that at a live show before until that. And it is the entire, like. Yeah, that's cool. So they just get going with both feet? Yeah, and it is rumpus. It's like thunder. And you're like, what? How was that from the front, Dave?

When you hear that, it's like the place is going to fall down. It was literally like an earthquake. You start getting a little plaster coming out of the ceiling, trickling down. It was like an old church from 1803. It was crazy. It was like they had a boiler.

We bounced. The green room had the original boiler the whole point with the chopped off gas lines yeah yeah nuts but it was a hot dude w and me like ben are uh like he's watched people like some of the best sets and he's like i have never seen an audience react like that yeah he's like oh you're the one where i broke the building come and a thousand people cheering like that and everyone's getting shit wrecked yeah beyond belief we sold out all the alcohol at every venue we went to i believe that so that's the best part because that's where they make most of their money so they're gonna be begging you to come back like if you're doing like a violin recital and it's like three people are drinking like

Chardonnay and the whole crowd, they're like, fuck this, dude. This sucks. Like sure, ticket sales are cool. But if you can like f*** the bar, you can come anytime you want. That's what we got told. They've seen us on tour and they're like, hey, you're not coming here? Whatever you need. Yeah.

100%. We double stocked all the liquor. And unlike some venues, Boston wasn't afraid of the audience it's also true yeah the boston that all those shows just like i i'm super super happy we recorded the boston boston yeah i can't wait to see that yeah i'm stoked to see that we had so like four cinema cameras yeah with five cinema cameras plus backup roamers. Do you have an ETA when that's going to come out? I think two weeks.

Nice. On Pepperbox? Yeah. Hell yeah. I didn't even know that it was getting recorded. I was in line for the meet and greet. And I'm just kind of leaning there. Now that I'm picturing what it looked like,

I felt like it was one of those leaning against the high school building with your foot up type of moments. And I'm leaning up against the railing. I'm just kind of looking off in the distance just kind of taking in the environment and i was like kind of snap myself back out i look forward there's just a camera panning across me it's like well that's great yeah it's gonna be perfect freaking caught me hey you were getting recognized a bunch while you were there i was getting recognized a bunch that was a bunch of pictures that was a heck of a heck of a time i was it's not my own element you know i've got

recognized at hospitals or emt events and stuff like that, but walking in there and like, as soon as I walked in the building, there was just a circle of circle of folks that were there for the meet and greet. And I just walked in there like, do I know you? I'm like, I don't, I don't, are you, are you a paramedic? I'm like, Oh, I'm an EMT. He's like, are you on TikTok? I'm like, I am on TikTok. And it just, it just started from there. And that it didn't end until

we left the bar across the street. I'm glad our audience needs to be told not to shove stuff up their ass. Are you the guy that recommends not putting things in your ass? Because I don't like that advice. They're like how dare you try to dictate what goes in my ass. How dare you. I mean we gotta ask what's the weirdest thing you've had to pull out of somebody's

ass. So I've only I didn't pull it out. As an EMT I try really hard not to ask, what's the weirdest thing you've had to pull out of somebody's ass? So I've only, I've only, well, I've never, I didn't pull it out. As an EMT, I try really hard not to put anything or take anything out. Don't sneeze, you'll break the light bulb. What happened? So, I mean, the story that ended up happening was when I was on a pay department. So I ended up going on a call and it's, when I do these rants, it's always like, When I do these rants, they're serious about how it happens so like it's

always like some stupid three o'clock in the morning just junk that happens and what ended up happening was it was a three o'clock in the morning call and uh we get dispatched for a 19 year old male who uh has an injury to the or an impaled object injury to the abdomen so i'm like oh this is great. This guy fell on a pair of scissors, fell on a knife, cooking down, like, what? This could be anything. We get over there, and he's just sitting there on his couch, kind of, pardon

the pun, but cocked to one side. And he's just looking at me with these doe eyes. I'm like, hey, buddy, my name's Anthony. What's going on? He's like, you're not bleeding? What's going on? He just hands me a suave bottle. A suave shampoo

bottle. And I'm just like, why doesn't it have a lid on it? Why doesn't it have a lid on it? And he's just looking at me like, understood. Okay. Okay, we're going to get through this. All right. I asked him how it happened. He's like, I was in the shower.

He's like, I sat down on it, and i was trying to have some fun and thing came off and now it's you know sealed like a time lock at the bank it is not coming out so yeah i was like well we're in this now is this like now is this like one of the like the pump top lotion straight up screw top suave bottle. Yeah, so, you know. When the top just went boop. Yeah, the top just unscrewed and just, and that was it. So we ended up transporting him. And with the burden of knowledge of how that's coming out, it's not a fun image. It's exactly like just what you think it is.

They're going to spread it and they're going to go in there and they're going to get it. Get the forceps out. Yeah, exactly right. You may as well just get the jaws of life. I feel like there's a real basic level IQ test. It's like if you're going to drill something into your ass, absolutely prerequisite is to make sure there's no detachable parts in the market. One would think.

So that's kind of like, are you below or above 100 IQ? It's like below, swab bottle, cap comes off of my colon. It's a bad day. It's a bad day all right yeah it's like you might have your life broken you know like 20 minutes before that he's like he's like he sees a buzzfeed article like a buzzfeed article about prostate massage and he's like this could be something i could make one out of lego maybe the shampoo bottle with a very easily removable cap will work. Exactly.

I fell out. Yeah, everybody falls on a three-foot statue of Barbra Streisand in their bathroom. That's just how it works. Next thing you know, you sneeze and Anthony's standing over you like this. How many times have you heard in that situation with like, I fell? Yeah, that's the answer. I fell and the shampoo bottle, untwisted itself,

and wound up in my ass. The big answer you'll get is, I didn't expect that to happen. I just want to sit there. It's one of those things. The new thing on the internet is, we listen, we don't judge. But my answer to them is just always, what did you think was going to happen?

I just want to know. How did you think this was going to go? Oh, I judge. Looking at him with those big doe eyes, like, oh no no he's gonna talk about me on tiktok truck month is on at chevrolet get zero percent financing for up to 72 months on a 2025 silverado 1500 custom blackout or custom trail boss with custom trail bosses available class exclusive duramax three liter diesel engine and z71 off-road package with a 2-inch factory suspension lift,

you get both on-road confidence and off-road capability. Dirt road ahead? Let's go! Truck month is awesome! Ask your Chevrolet dealer for details. Yeah, you're probably at that point now. You can comment there. Can I get a selfie?

I'm a huge fan. This is really a full set. This is so sorry I didn't listen. Did you do this because you know I'd a selfie? I'm a huge fan. This is really a full set. This is so sorry to listen to you. Did you do this because you know I'd show up? This is why I say don't meet me like this. I literally do not want to meet you like this. Yikes, dude. How long have you been doing TikTok?

TikTok, I think I started in like 2021. And I was just making like, you know, it's just like everybody else starts out. Just making goofy stuff to pass the time, have a good time and just put stuff out there that made me laugh. If it didn't make somebody else laugh, it made me laugh. And that was something. And then one day I made a video and it was just this weird, like, I guess the best way to describe it's like the serpentine looking kinetic thing that was going like this.

And I was like, that is phallic. I'm just like, I don't know. So it just, the whole video was just this serpentine thing going and uh i just cut right to me just real fast it was like a hard zoom and i was just like no no and that just detonated one of my friends sent me a message and they were like you need to go on your tick tock right now because that is exploding and i'm sitting there like okay well my previous video hit like 16 people so uh i guess the new one's probably gonna hit like 100 people it's exploding so i looked at it was like 300 000 after like three hours what was the phallic thing what are we talking about it was like this weird like

gold colored kinetic spiraled sculpture that was just doing this that was in someone's ass no no no we're just sitting on a table it's like okay i see what you say yeah mean, listen, I haven't seen that thing in a long time, so who knows where it ended up. In great places. You know, like, after you tell somebody no so many times, it's like, but my body's telling me yes. So how long have you been an EMT? So I've officially been an EMT for just a little over four years. Okay. I'm a relatively newer EMT.

What did you do before that? I have done everything on the surface. I was a range safety officer at a firearms range. I was in the restaurant business for 10, 11 years. I was a food manager

for the Job Corps program, if anybody's familiar with the Job Corps program, which is a really cool program the government does for underprivileged or second or third chance individuals. It's a really good program and I ended up being the food manager over there. Just everything under

the sun. I installed pools, just everything. And then finally, I got out of the restaurant business, got out of the Job Corps business, and decided I needed to do something a little bit more of value, at least in my own mind, something a little more of value. And my mom, my mom always had this sign that was above our couch. And not that my mom's a huge Muhammad Ali fan, so I have no idea why this was even there, but I guess it's something that she believed in. It just said, service to others is the rent that we pay for our room here on earth. And it's something that just always stuck with me. It's something that I put on whenever anybody would ask me for what my favorite quote is, it was always that. So when I finally settled in on what I thought I wanted to do, I messaged one of my friends.

I'm like, hey, how do I get involved in EMS? It's something I really think I want to do, but it seems like such a difficult thing to get involved in. He's like, go down to the department and say hi. I'm like, oh, well, you run a hard bargain there, but I think you can do that. Praise God. We need warm bodies. Yeah, they're looking painful. Yeah.

And that was pretty much it. I went down there and I probed for about six or seven months. And they're like, do you want to go to EMT school? Do you feel comfortable? Do you feel confident? I'm like, I feel good. My trainers were amazing. And I went to EMT school.

And then as soon as EMT school started, people started getting coffee sneezes. And two weeks later, COVID hit. So I became an EMT right in the heart of COVID. They shut school down. It became remote. It took me twice as long just to get through school because I couldn't do practicals. We couldn't meet in person to do hands-on stuff. So I finished EMT school book-wise and test-wise.

But then I had to go back and do all the hands-on physical stuff and pass that, which went well. And then you still have to take the national. In New Jersey, we take a national test in order to get your New Jersey EMT certification. So I went ahead and I had to sit that. That was two weeks later. So I finally passed that. And after that, I was done. And yeah, then that's when the crazy stuff started happening.

I was still working yeah then that's when the crazy stuff started happening I still working out the the gun range and in my first week of being an EMT somebody decided that they needed to take a 357 Magnum and take it to this underneath their chin and we he survived that we were able to get him yeah I was a first call so it was I wasn't? It wasn't even in my town. I happened to be on the retail desk. And the way the place looks, you have the retail desk. There's an area where people come in and pay for their membership or their range time and all that stuff. And just on the opposite side, you've got the glass wall, and there's what was the 25-yard range.

Wait, he showed up to the range and did it? Exactly right, he did. This's like a range owned gun this was a range owned gun that yeah and we have we have special rules we had special rules like if you're you're not allowed to go in there and rent a firearm by yourself that's that was a main rule and he wasn't by himself he was with his girlfriend and uh he was basically yeah he was it was insane so i was in the retail account babe do i have the game for you we have these uh we have new pieces in so we can communicate with everybody and um all you see is we have there's protocol okay something bad happens right so you see these pro i just see the range starting to clear out the privacy curtains just get cut down i'm just like and there was there was a guy next to me who wasn't was already an emt for a

little while just so happened and he just started he was a guy next to me who wasn't, was already an EMT for a little while. It just so happened. And he just started. Yeah. Just started at the range. I've been at the range for about a year. Sorry. When you say EMT, like EMT B or paramedic? EMT B.

We were both, both EMT Bs. What is B? B is basic, intermediate and paramedic. Oh, gotcha. So it's like, hey, this is like trauma. Exactly. Level of, yeah. The level of, like of like your strength your depth

of protocol and different things that you can do so i looked and i see the curtains cut and then he has no idea what's going on because he's literally brand new and i just tapped him i'm like we got to go we got to go you got to go we jumped the counter which is glass so it's probably not the smartest thing and uh we run into the range while everybody's running out and i look down and one of the main owners of the uh of the building at that time was holding this guy. And he basically, when we watched the video back, he was doing what was called fly fishing. So he was taking the gun and go, boom, boom, type of stuff like that. And finally, you just see him look and just boom.

It was an accident? Oh, it was not an accident. Oh, okay. He was trying to like, oh, I'm going to trick it and tell this is is what i'm doing so when i go like this exactly no one can catch on what he did was he raised he raised his head like this when he did it so instead of it going like this it went out like this and just took out like the side of us it was it was a bad scene it was really bad oh yeah and um i'm like i said i'm a week into this i this is like the level of trauma that i had seen before that was like little johnny with the skin knee you know yeah yeah and uh we basically just we gathered him up we did the best that we could

to stop the bleed and uh just did everything that we were supposed to do um the town ems showed up dumped him on the stretcher we can cooked it and booked it um the other guy and myself we took the ride and we went over to one of the two the two really good level one trauma centers in in jersey and uh we got him there i actually i was actually able to get almost conversation out of him i asked we went over to one of the two, the two really good level one trauma centers in, in Jersey. And, we got them there. I actually, I was actually able to get almost conversation out of him.

I asked him if he had allergies. He's like, but, but we got, we got stuff out of him. And then the, the guy, and then the medics were just like, a little bit.

And you just see the medic, you know, pushed a little plunger and that was it the kid took took hold and that was it knocked him out and then we got to uh got to the center now to put into uh to paint a picture for you i'm wearing a a red rso shirt and khaki pants by the time i left i was wearing a red khaki shirt or a red shirt and red pants so we get back in there now everybody's back at the range and the range is obviously shut down.

The mayor's there. It's freaking nuts. And we walk back in. You know that slow-mo vision of the astronauts walking down the gangway? That's what it felt like. Like the hero shot? Yeah, exactly.

We walk in and just eyes just panning. I'm like, okay, you don't have to look at me like this. That's cool. And we go into the, I guess it's sort of like a classroom where all the employees were gathered and it turns out that one of the guys who works there, his girlfriend is a crisis counselor. So we walk in. Now, everybody had already been in there. We're sitting there. We walk in. We get in the back and

she goes, hey, hey, you guys are the ones that went to the hospital, right? I'm like, yeah, yeah. And they're like, she's like, are you okay? Do you need anything? Yeah, no, we're good, man. That was wild.

We're just like, we can handle that. It's fine. If you can handle that, you can handle anything. Jumping into the new profession head first. That's it, man.

There was no, there was no leeway. You're just, it was just jumping in. Man, COVID is crazy. Yeah, you would like maybe like a broken arm stellar not like a failed showy attempt safe to say all i can think is like you're so lucky it

was emtbs there because if it was a bunch of fresh army medics they would have cut your throat tried to shove a big pen down it just like you breathe like totally unjustified but they would have done it i mean i didn't have a pen the problem was i didn't have a pen nasal pharyngeal down the hole well the thing is like med army medics don't do trachs army medics do do crikes crikes so yeah yeah a crike sever severs your vocal cords if they have to get oxygen in there assuming yeah so like if you like if you like get your face blown up you can't breathe through your mouth like a normal hospital does a trach. Right. Which goes through.

Well, no. There's different soft spots in your neck. There's a higher one where you can do a trach, but your epiglottis is in the way, so it's a lot harder to hit. So the Army is like, just go through the lower one. That's a crike. It'll sever their vocal cords, but we'll fix them later. Just get air in them now.

Look at you knowing stuff nerd nasal pharyngeals were you've had one i'm assuming oh yeah you have to know myself yeah i knew i had like a big dude yeah and it was an army one and it was like that 2000 it was 2007 when i got that because they were like hey if you do this you can go on leave earlier from Iraq I was like 100% 100% and then it was just like did I lube it? it's going to my nose?

yeah I was ready to do so much more I'm getting a massive b-hole the leaks out I'm being a beast. I'm being a beast. I'm a beast. That's a b-hole. The league's out. Can you do me a favor? I'm going to piss so fast. He's like, do you have another one?

Yeah. Can you just skip the lube for me? I'll be fine, yeah. They hung that over your head. Like, who wants to volunteer to get faced up by a rubber tube? Yep. To go on the lead oh and I got a standing up it was down like a climb filter

it was like got it come here and you fucking slammed it down holy shit this sucks dick people don't want to stay in the army you're not going to see your family until I fuck you it is not a good feeling the one that I did on myself was tiny.

Like, there's, think it. I had a giant one, like nothing but pressure. Yeah. It feels like something is ripping your entire sinus cavity

all the way down to the back of your throat. It's this big, you know? And then you're like, fucking this. Yeah, like you're supposed to be able to measure it. And I was like, no.

Your aid bag is supposed to have lube in it for that. But like, they always tell you. What's the army say? Army, go. If you don't have lube in it for that. But like they always tell you. What's the army say? Army, go. If you don't have lube, use whatever you got. Spin is wet.

Spin is wet. One dude in a drill with an actual person, though, forgot to restock his aid bag. Just shoves it in their nose before they can do anything. That person is so fucking gross. That's that good old street EMS. There's literally so many people I watch who are like, No, no, no. I'll do it.

No, no, no. At least use my own spit. Sorry, man. He would walk around during training exercises. He's like, he needs one. And I was just like, if I was like that, I was like, this motherfucker better just walk over me. Please do. Okay, it's good. And then he's just calling people that are dead it's like he's hurt he needs one he needs one and the medics are just like giving nasal pharyngeals down and we're doing like the the

army big ones pinky size yeah like size fits none six games do it with an ncd nature's lube dude watching those guys medic school with cell phone we used to play horse with ivs let's go we're doing his feet all right now do it in the vein in their forehead like all kinds of stupid shit i remember the first time i saw somebody have to do uh an ej line i'm just like oh god okay yeah all right this All right, this is going to be messy. I gave one to, God, what is this? Oh, my God, why am I not remembering Leroy Jenkins? And I know it sounds like that. It's actually Leroy Jenkins. Like the Warcraft?

He has the exact same name. Yeah, same name, randomly. But he's like, oh, you're good. We've been drinking. He's like, just give me one here. Just give me one. I was like, what? He's like, no, you're fine. You're fine like just give me one here this is just give me one why he's like no you're fine you're fine here here walk it and walk it and i'm like terrifying your buddies i don't know i still have his blood in my living room yeah

that was like for practice what was the yeah it was for tuesday we're hung over it's fine yeah everyone bonus ivs it's it's practical hours it's almost people being people yeah do you like tiktok ig route are you getting into youtube next so yeah right now i mean youtube is basically just take this content put it on youtube uh but yeah we're going to be going into an expanded format and you know trying to trying to test the waters and see how well we do over on long-form YouTube content. We've been talking to the guys about it. So I'm excited about it.

So are you still an EMTB? I am, yeah. Okay, are you going to work towards paramedic or are you going to let us talk you out of it to just be a YouTuber full-time? We got Ethan to quit his job after like 19 years or however long you've been doing it. I'm still trying to quit it's okay i i saw i literally went and i saw his heart get corrupted it was beautiful you just felt it just you just felt it it was funny because i got tagged in his youtube video where he's like

i made a decision and he talks about how he's gonna try to get out of the army now and every all the comment section was like, fat electrician won. Wow, he really rolled over. Ow, my arm. Let me tell you, it was a really, really hard job. I'm very proud of myself. A normal man absolutely could not

convince somebody that being a YouTuber that gets to do whatever the fuck he wants 24-7 is a way better job than the fucking army. It was a Herculean effort, really. I just don't want to be cold anymore. I'm so tired of standing in a people box at 5 in the morning

making sure other grown men dress the same as me. Okay? Fuck. It gets way harder when you're YouTube successful, too. That's my favorite. It's like, I don't have to be here but I do time in the military he hits me up and he's like dude I'm trying to buy a house and they don't they don't like that I make money on the internet it's like the

one downside of this job trying to explain to the bank you're not a drug dealer. So this 60 grand, where did you say it came from? Listen, Mike, you're not going to believe this. But just look at my analytics. If I look right here, Google says

I'm wealthy. Have I ever told you the story of how I got my house, like the loan for my house i could not get a fucking loan to get it to get a house see you go to the bank and you're like here's like my banking at my w to like all my shit and they're like you don't have a w2 i was like well no i i work for myself or whatever and they're like but here's like all my bank records here's my income like i i can afford this house like it's not it's not a problem they're like well you don't have a W-2.

We really don't like that. I was like, I mean, cool, but I have enough for a down payment. I can definitely pay. I have a wife and kids. I'm not going to fucking put myself in a situation where we're going to be homeless. It's fine. And they're like, nope. So I went to every bank in town, finally found one.

But they were super weirded out about it. The original loan officer was like, cool, completely understand. Very simple. Like you make a video ads play, you get paid for it. You sell some t-shirts. Makes sense. Right. Not super complicated.

And then they're like, we have to take it to this loan committee, which is like, I don't know, elder dinosaurs that are like in charge of all the money on the planet. Apparently. Yeah, exactly. Skyscraper. elder dinosaurs that are like in charge of all the money on the planet apparently skyscrapers yeah it's just like a board of nancy pelosi's that you know aren't cheating the stock yeah and so i had to like go go before them if you will as two men and a woman and they're like you know explain it and i was like i make videos people watch videos ads play during videos i get paid for ads i also sell t-shirts fucking pretty straightforward and the two dudes were like cool i get it that's fine it's literally the same business model as tv yeah wonderful yeah the woman was just not having it she was i don't understand i was like okay i'll say it's slower i guess it's literally it's tv you know how commercials play that's how tv networks make

money she's like right no i get it but like what does your wife do and like that's become my new pet peeve of the past two years because he had a i get asked it a lot like whenever you're like oh what do you do it's like i make videos on the internet and they're like who's making money yeah it's like oh cool you sure you do buddy you sit at home all day eating cheetos in your underwear playing video games while your wife the surgeon makes all the money streaming yeah i do do that so at this point it's like already become a pet peeve of mine and i've developed the perfect answer and it just came out without thinking of it. So she's like, so what does your wife do? And I go, me.

Two dudes lost their shit. I got the house. It was good. Needless to say, loan secured. My wife loves that joke. Loan secured. It's not funny. Don't laugh.

That's going to be some like post8 housing bubble regulations they made, right? Because if it was 2007, you can walk in and be like, yeah, I've been unemployed for six years. I'm $35,000 in debt. They're like, here's a million bucks. Yeah, pretty much. But I got an idea for a business. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You sound like a good candidate for a really expensive home you'd want to be able to pay back. What's the house hunting meme? Like that house hunting show where it's like, oh, I work part time as a substitute teacher and he collects butterflies. Our budget's $2.7 million for our dream home. With the home TV. It's that TV, home TV. Yeah.

Speaking of jokes my wife's my wife loves i text her i was like hey i'm sorry i told the joke about you getting high at the live show she responds and i quote oh god did you make me sound like a total loser like how i can't handle drinking a margarita that's how we got into it honestly yeah it literally was the segue into the segment oh my god how did you know that we can edit that out

babe we know each other almost like you're married yeah that was so good I would never I would never do that editor

edit so here's a story my wife's a ripping lightweight dude can't even drink half a margarita she once opened a bottle of Tito's and I had to carry her out of the building Ripping lightweight, dude. Can't even drink half a margarita. And immediately, we're blind. She once opened a bottle of Cheetos.

I had to carry her out of the building. Dude, your big journey into YouTube, what do you think? Dude, for anyone that doesn't know it, short form to long form is a beast to conquer. It is. Oh, and short form, completely different pace structure where you're like, when you see long form, you're like, I need to hop into there. It's a transition worth making. Yeah, but it's just extremely difficult to do.

Nick, of course, did it within like six months. Yeah, Nick was like, we're like, do long form. He's like, okay. Nick's a bit of an anomaly. Yeah, not a good reference. Yeah. No, judge yourself on that scale, actually. You can't do it, Nick did. You're a fucking stupid.

Where do you rank on the Nick social media scale? Oh, do long form? Sure. Now I'm cranking millions of views a month in four fucking weeks. With zero to Nick. Hey, look, I started a secondary channel, also millions of views. Just so you know. I didn't even want the views look. I started a secondary channel. Also millions of views. Just so you know. I didn't even want the views. I didn't even want them.

But here they are. What am I supposed to do? I had forgotten that you started as short form Instagram guy or was it TikTok? TikTok. Do you want to hate me? No. I love you for it. I can make you hate me.

No, I already do. And you're going to make it worse. Yeah. me hey no i already do and i you're gonna make it worse yeah um so i i like i got hurt and was my wife kept sending me links for tiktoks you have to like open it to the internet browser and so i was like fuck it i'm gonna make tiktoks sitting high on percocet after surgery and just like swiping all day eventually like got off percocet like i i'll be honest i think i could be funnier than most of these people i made one video 12.6 million views first video you ever ever made my first video was 12.6 views typical online experience for anyone looking to get into the space that's usually all it takes is one

tiktok and then trapped in the 12 million views yeah yeah so i've heard the story time and time again next thing i get people next thing you know you're telling the female bankers to go fuck themselves give me a loan for my house well what do you do exactly well i made one tiktok video one time and now i want to buy one million dollars i figure the easiest way for me to get a long form content is just to hijack nick's channel i'm the asshole that like walks in next to the person that's been gambling eight hours a day for 20 years. Just one pull. Jackpot. Wow.

Then you take it and you put it down on the roulette table and 10 exit and then you leave. The long form roulette table. Exactly. This gambling thing is easy. I got real fucking lucky. It was that and then well i don't know you were like i don't know if i could do it that long and then now he's

doing an hour long video yeah videos have gotten a bit extensive yeah they're they're aggressive they're a great watch they're a great watch but like i just remember you know i remember the the minute and a half long videos and i remember the the 10 minute videos and I remember the 40 minute videos. It's crazy how that happens. The longer. You're like, okay. The longer the better. These platforms like people that stay on these platforms.

If you can be interesting for 40 minutes, which you... Does it? I hate to admit it, but you do a pretty good job of... Yeah. YouTube's usually like, yeah, we like this guy.

It's like listening to your dad recant war stories. But it's also like, you have that level like the other day, it is that tism that makes you successful. When you break down certain stuff where it is the stuff a lot of people would gloss over with analytics or things like that.

If you don't track your analytics and see what works versus what doesn't, you're going to fail. It's like, hey, guess what? I talk at this speed. Oh, yeah. Nobody knows the secret. Okay oh yeah oh yeah nobody knows the secret okay never mind fuck you nobody knows that secret 92 tell me i'm gonna cut it out after tell them about 92 beats yeah you've researched cadence of speaking yeah that's awesome you can get this out at 92 beats per minute do you have a metronome going when you talk

uh no but i listen to it while i'm reading this is gonna make me so angry i'm so fucking hard right now that's the level of analytics i need in my life better with a sign came to my house and he's like why do you have a yamaha metronome on your off next to your bookshelf i was like well cuz and he goes do you play an instrument i go no he's like why i go i speak at 92 beats per minute and he just goes you're a fucking psychopath yeah yeah yeah mama mia i could only get so erect and well no zach goes he goes i forget which country music star he said it was but he goes are you familiar with like so and so and i was like i mean yeah i've heard of him he goes and how he ruined country music and he said it was, but he goes, are you familiar with like so-and-so? And I was like, I mean, yeah,

I've heard of him. He goes, and how he ruined country music. And I go, no, why? And he goes, all the songs he makes are at 92 beats per minute.

And it's, or all these, all the songs that he makes are at a certain like beats per minute. And basically he figured out that if you sing and have your music at night, this beats per minute thing, you were guaranteed to be billboard top 100. Even if your song fucking sucks, just because people naturally like that cadence pleasing yeah it's 92 beats per minute that's what i speak at and he goes you're fucking insane like i was like i love

the number one secret the music industry doesn't want you to know alexa add metronome to shopping yeah well fun fact if you buy a metronome it's like 40 60 50 92 100 120 it's like nice round numbers and then 92. is that really like a so that's a thing obviously no 92 beats per minute is like a well-known thing in the music industry like it's people love it it's not reinventing the wheel i always say look what works and you can just humans are very simple creatures at the end of the day and you get to break it down that's why mr we were talking about mr beast even like how he breaks down human interaction or retention beats and learning all these things it's like that was a new one i was like huh yeah i know i'm doing good i throw eli off i mean i'm sitting next to some of the biggest analytic nerds on the planet right now.

Nerd? If you can trip up this motherfucker, you know you're stumbling on something like out of the archaic mines of Mordor, dude. Yeah, literally. This is either weapons-grade success or completely fucking retarded. There's no middle ground. When does fast grocery delivery through Instacart matter most? When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard.

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and then like people i don't have my views i hear the clicks people don't even listen to the words they're just in their head like it's so easy it's fucking nice I like to listen to all of their podcasts just straight through and everything just flows so good I can't figure out why what's happening it's like frames per second

30 is what the average individual is why the podcast 60 is weird unless you're watching sports 24 is when you're conditioned to movies. But you have to separate them because the audience won't know what is going on. They don't know what's going on, but they know it doesn't feel right. Yeah. And they're so fast. I'm uncomfortable.

Cinema 24, like you said. Yeah. It's so weird. It's like these things that are standards that have been so kind of just become so normalized now in our consumption of media or audio, whatever it is, that once you kind of hit that new standard, if you try to stray from that, or you can make creative decisions that are cool, but there is some weird element of just you have to do what people are comfortable with like 80% of the way and then be cute with

the 20% because otherwise you're just going to be like, fuck this, this feels weird, I'm out. Deviation is either desire or death, man. It's going to be amazing. You're going to come up with something great or you know what? You had a good run. Get out. Remember when you used to be good

and then you released that one video that was completely different and then that's it, you're done. Adapt and overcome. That's it. That is a hard thing. That's what everyone's yeah come i love watching everyone's like growing up in social media now seeing what as you're doing

it's like oh this is not working okay let's pivot here let's do this fuck this is nope that doesn't work anymore history is just a go-to nick crushes it it. When you're that dude, I will say the one thing when everyone's showing up at the event and 90% are Nick's shirts, I'm like, son of a damn. And it's also thank you, everyone that walks up and you're like yeah, it is because

we do pick on them and they're like, Nick, you're my favorite. And when it's like four people and they're like, you're my favorite, you're my favorite. And when it's like four people and they're like, you're my favorite, you're like, damn. Damn. I don't know if you saw, but I'm standing right here. You probably missed it.

That's my fault. I'll wear brighter shoes next time. Who's your second favorite? Matt. Damn it. Haven't even thought about that really, to be honest. Yeah, I'm here for Nick. Who's your first favorite?

Nick. Who's your second? Matt from Demo. I hope your seats suck. Thank I'm here for Nick. Who's your first favorite? Nick. Who's your second? Matt from Demo. I hope your seats suck! Thanks for coming. When Eli's like, who wants to hear Nick tell a history story? And there's like cheering. Today we're talking about

and it's from like the rowdiest crowd on the planet to everybody's just like pin drop. Just dead quiet. That's exactly what happens. It's insane what it was insane and you did like i think on boston he did like maybe three or four three or four i was doing quite a bit it was just yeah they were responding well to it i mean you're listen there's you're a good storyteller obviously and that like as everybody knows being a good storyteller is like the one skill that's

tough to replicate if you're good at that you can capitalize on that 92 beats very clear yeah 92 ppm storyteller everyone knows that history you know war done strategic genius of looking at military history be like you know what this needs more dick jokes yes full-time job right there boom career doing the yeoman's work what if instead of having a history teacher and a tie on the history channel some dude with no sleeves and a fucking camo hat said dick jokes in between all the important facts fucking perfect stars nail people love it yeah it's exactly what people wanted apparently scroll scroll scroll nobody's doing this i got this... Now you're doing a police breakdown. You're doing people being drunk, idiot retards. Yeah.

Doing everything. There's no shortage of just content online coming up every week of people doing really stupid shit online. So I have a series called Brain Worms, which is where it's like kind of a culmination after a couple weeks. It's like, all right, let's look through the last two to three weeks and see what fucking moron got caught on camera being absolutely retarded. I think she was a Mexican girl at the airport. Airports are like... Dude, that girl just parked... She wrecked her Tesla and then didn't want to give her information.

They were trying to be so kind. So nice. So patient. Like 30 minutes of patience. I'm convinced that there are people that intrinsically are dying to be arrested for no reason. Like some of these body cams I watch and they have every opportunity to be like, oh, that sucks. I fucked up.

Here's my information. Good to see you. I'll be on my way. And it's just like every opportunity they have to be a super or like something. I'm like, what are you doing? Like all you have to do is say like three sentences and you get to go home go to bed and like you got written a 50 citation and instead you're screaming like a goat in the back of a squad car right now cuffed up

and pissing your fucking pants and then getting throttled at the hospital then to the police like what are we doing it's like this kind of masochism in our society where there's this weird uh these people that just can't envision complying with any sort of authority because they've been so brainwashed into thinking like they bad me right good so it's just like i'm watching this i'm like say three words thank you officer on your way you're fine like and instead you're you're now facing like three felony charges resisting arrest and it's like believe it or not this could have gone easier yeah it could have and i just watch these things and i say at the beginning of my videos like you know welcome to brainwurps thanks for watching where we gather here today to watch people being

absolute retards because it makes us feel moderately or moderately better about our own lives because you like you spend any time online and you're like, my life's not that bad, honestly. I know I've got problems, but I don't got this kind of problems. I don't have these problems. This is some fucked up shit these people are doing. It's like, these people exist, which is the... It is...

Dude, this girl, holy shit. I've never seen the officer in 45 minutes of trying to give her a break. It's like, ma'am... She's super patient. And she's like, my ID and then the car, no, this is my car. And he's like, ma'am, talking on the phone and she's just an asshole. He's like, fuck you.

And he's like, okay. Hey, can you come get her? Ma'am, you can't say that. Yes, you can go back in the car. You're not supposed to. You get one chance. Okay, we're going to count down and yet, nothing. Just utter disregard. She's on her phone ignoring them, telling them

to fuck off the whole nine. I mean, there's definitely a level of ignorance to it. I think some of them are young. Obviously, there's booze and whatever drugs involved, which exacerbates any situation ever. Always helps. I always say, I'm the I'm doing, like, I'm the guy watching this, like,

drinking whiskey being like, look at these drunk assholes as I'm, like, drinking in my office, like, making fun of the drunk assholes getting drunk myself. But there's, like, a level of, I don't know how to put it. Like, there's people, there's good drinkers and people that just shouldn't drink ever. Right? You know? And there's just kind of, like, a very hard line. And a lot of times. Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows that just shouldn't drink ever. There's kind of like a very hard line. A lot of times.

Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows that. You guys fucking know. No hangout profiles. Yeah. And some people, they just hit a certain point. It doesn't have to be a lot where they just become so aggressively resistant to any sort of reasonable solution to an easy problem. Switch flicks and it's over he just like you

you saying it with alcohols like just gave me the idea do you think stupid people are just perpetually drunk the entire their entire lives some of the apps some of them yes we're just operating at a higher level and we have to dumb ourselves down to have fun and they're stuck being stupid they get angry about it. That's why they can't handle dealing with, like, cops or any stressful situation. Some of the best times. You're perpetually fucking 80% lit your entire life because you're an idiot? I think there's probably a level to that.

Yeah, probably. But there is a level of, like, they just – I'm always watching these being like i'm a very pragmatic like point a to point b all right here's the situation you're in it sucks what's the easiest way to get to the best resolution from here to there all right it's three steps it's not that hard like you have to face the consequences of where you're at right now but there's an easy way to get to the best resolution from here and i just think that's like a level that like some people just don't

understand how to have that sort of foresight into situations. And that's never been more apparent when you watch people going through arrests or whatever it might be situations, high stress situations. Some people really don't deal well. No, I know. I,

I never, we've talked even with some of the guys that go on high stress situations. Like, you have different parts of your life and how you measure stress. I handle stress pretty decently. Like, I'm like, my rules are like, am I getting shot at? No. Cool. We can make this work.

Yeah. Like, literally. It takes a lot to get me to that level. I'm like, oh, shit. Here I have to react. But then I see other people where it is like... Small things. I am getting pulled over for a speeding ticket.

And this is... And now I'm a racist. Now I'm a felon. It's a $100 ticket. You should be like, oh, sorry. Thanks. See you later. I proved that.

Sorry. 20 second interaction. 20 second interaction. You're on to go to your aunt's house to eat baklava. Whatever the fuck you're doing. I don't care. Do we have baklava? And now you're in jail overnight and you're a felon.

Because you have zero emotional control. And that's what I always say. It's like being able to have a handle on your emotions and how you let those affect your behavior is basically a superpower. That's true. Have a decent handle on your emotions and not letting them affect your outward actions, like you can think about it, you can feel it,

but you're self-aware about how it's making you feel. And before doing that thing you want to do, rationalizing it and thinking about it logically before you act, superpower. You can do anything. Literally. You can do absolutely anything.

You were like, I handle stress pretty well. And I realized like, I've known you for like three years now. We're, I think episode 56 was our first pod. We've done hundreds of podcasts together. Yeah. Two hours a piece, hundreds of hours of bullshitting, hundreds of hours after the scenes bullshitting.

And I've seen Eli run at two modes the entire time. Literally Eli's had two moves the entire time I've known him it's 80% right here working or I'm tired I need to go to bed that's literally Eli's two whole fucking moves I met both of them yesterday yesterday Eli it's 1.30

do you want to go to IHOP with me I'm old I have to go to bed that's literally what he's writing he's like I don't want to sleep I could but have you ever slept once before love you guys sleeping's great it takes a whole level to get me to that next point

it's like anger switch flip or anything it's instant like your mood is everything and alcohol and drugs murder time so have we considered suing RFK for trademark infringement with brain worms

brain worms we haven't I think we should so the brain worms so the brain worms branding I started years ago I don't know where probably like 2020 I knew about it I did my don't know where probably like 2020 it was like I knew about it I did my first one

in 2020 during the pandemic when the world really just ultimately shit the bed on a macro scale and there was just videos of like

all of the most ridiculous encounters of people with masking and all this going on and I just I was recording a video live

and I was like this motherfucker has brain worms or something and then that just became a thing and here we are four years later RFK all of a sudden has brain worms I was like, this motherfucker has brain worms or something. And then that just became a thing. And here we are four years later. RFK all of a sudden has brain worms.

I'm like, you son of a bitch. I would like royalties first of all. I'm just saying that's rude. That's what I mean. It's rude. But no, I actually looked it up afterwards because I was like, that's probably a thing. And I searched brain worms on Google. And it's, I guess, before whatever RFK had, it was a disease that affects deer or something.

It's like a parasite that can affect deer. But it was very niche, basically. And I was like, all right, this is cool. So I own the domain. I have a little bit of merch, but I haven't done much with it because I'm lazy and old. But there's potential. It's okay. I got a company.

We'll help you out. I don't know the brain worm shit. You know anyone that makes merch? No, I don't. Do you make any merch at all? I can probably help you. No, that brain worm thing, though. So it's deer and moose so like yes okay yeah so like i'm in uh north iowa so there will be like there's no moose in north iowa but like once in a while there will be a fucking moose and it's like all over the news

because there's these brain worms get inside a moose and they go crazy make them migrate south and do crazy shit that's like the only time a moose will ever make it that far south down to iowa's it's got this brain parasite that makes it fucking they're like completely goes against their instincts yeah oh yeah there's a parasite that makes moose just straight go for a stroll yeah legit straight south south yeah parasites are horrifying it's like moose rabies yeah there's the one that like makes the crickets jump into the water because the parasite can only replicate in water how nuts is that forces the fucking cricket to drown itself have you ever done any content on parasites i have not because in having this conversation i'm

thinking like i've seen little tidbits of like how parasites work where they like go into the host and like take over the neural functions it's unbelievably horrifying but incredibly interesting it's wild like that would make a pretty good nature is terrible toxoplasmosis horrifies me toxoplasmosis the cat poop worms

that get in your brain like yeah that's scary stuff that's why pregnant women very real that's why pregnant women aren't supposed to be around fucking cats is cat poop has a worm in it that can infect humans and it gets in your fucking brain and makes you like the smell of cat piss and this is like they think this is where the crazy cat lady archetype comes from is like oh you have worms in your brain from cats that make you like the smell of cat piss and being surrounded by cats.

It's wild. It's not super super fucking cats. Cat piss does not smell good. Alright, she doesn't have it yet. Show, do you have extensive knowledge of the... She's over there with like a fucking flask. What's the name of that smell?

That's terrible. This is new terrible. Also, he was like, I love cat piss. He's like, there's nine balls only. You guys get this too.

I did a double take. I was like, wait, no. Are you tired or is it brain worms? The show's always asking to clean up the litter box.

I never could figure it out. Highlight of my day. Is Chris crossing that brain-eating anema that happens down in the south? It kills a couple people a year. Oh, it happens all over the country. In Minnesota, there's a bunch of brain-eating anemas. No, there's a real brain-eating anema. It's fucking horrifying.

Where do you get it? Like water or something? Like stagnant water. So you can go swimming in a pond and it goes into your nasal cavity. It's actually really fucking scary. There's a lot of 17-year-old kids that go to

fucking summer camp. They're like, oh, you've got a brain eating amoeba that we can't cure. Enjoy slowly going mentally disabled until you die over the course of the next three months. It's fucking terrifying shit terrifying wow yeah i never heard of that time to stay inside play video games yeah stay away from the stagnant ponds i guess that's saying dude it's that's scary shit i'm going to india and also that's why i go in the ocean i'm an ocean guy something that'll interest you when you start doing long form but interest you right now i think you told

me this and i had no idea so you can't say the c word on youtube obviously that's a bunch of yeah so like you get in trouble you get i said it on this podcast i'm sorry censor it out please but that's what reminded me of it is like we're gonna have to bleep that out later yeah which it's fine we'll catch it it's no big deal but uh i think it was eli that told me that there's a way around if you're australian or irish or you're from a culture where that is not an offensive term and you just casually use it, you're a hundred percent allowed to say it on YouTube. So like literally we can have show or Dave come up here as Irish,

Ireland citizens, not American citizens. They could say it. And allegedly it would be completely monetized. No issue whatsoever. So if you could just come up here and drop 17 C-bombs. There we go. Oh, dude.

You got to say it with the accent. With Buffalo, you said, right? Yeah. We're like, where's our little Irish girl? And she walks up. It's like, say it. Yeah. And then the microphone on the car is like, ah!

Love it. Do you think you'd get away with it if I just spoke the entire time on the podcast with an Australian accent? Do you guys think you'd get away with it if I just spoke the entire time on the podcast with an Australian accent. Do you guys think you'd get away with it? We could try. We all sound like a How Ridiculous episode. How good. Like, are we going to risk it? We're still censoring that.

All right. So, live show. You guys got to see the donkey story from our friend Zach. Oh, the donkey story. Did you like it yeah that was ridiculous it is he is refined that it is straight up a like s tier comedy bit that he has it refined down to a great bit and you could tell that story just sitting at a desk just face to face and it would be insane and it would be hilarious seeing that in person inconsolable it's it's

literally his burt kreischer the machine story it's so it's one of those ones where like yeah you could have heard the story five times you're like i'm down to hear it again though just on the off chance you remember a little tidbit that you didn't last time i heard it so especially with you guys reenacting that's what i'm like oh my god i was obviously familiar with the story like i'd seen the story the story when he first did it on the show. And then like it going, getting a lot of traction on Twitter and whatever else. And so after he did it, because it was early on in the show, he came up and sat next to me and joined me. And I was like, having just saw it, I was like, dude, that was so funny.

He was like, oh, dude, really? He's like, oh, I appreciate that. He's like, I have no idea. I was like, dude, that was like, it felt like that's something you've been doing your whole life in the physical adding the physical comedy piece to it with rich being the donkey and the fucking like the wall of the ages like whatever you guys are doing it's the like this is like this is the golden leg kick that was it was the brilliance of alcohol and nick being like we should reenact this by my nashville one to nashville two enough

drinks had been drunk it's like let's reenact it so that actually was that like the second or third time that it happened that was the second time we never so zach lives in nashville so he was just naturally like he was going to be there regardless yeah oh fuck it we'll bring up on street tell the donkey story people love it they've probably heard it but i mean it's and did you reenact it in nashville no so in nashville we did two shows back to back it was a terrible that was a fucking what you call a learning experience so like we did so it's like vip we meet 75 to 100 people shake hands take pictures everybody's great go do our show go. We had like 45 minutes to eat, piss, pretend we weren't shit-faced,

and then go back, do VIP again, meet another 75 to 100 people. And honestly, 25 of them were probably at the last show. We had people buying double tickets. Just like two of these comes with you. I made sure to run up to them after the second show, and the second show was way more aggressive. So we're fucking hammered.

Yeah. We act like literally none of us remember the second show at all. Lazy. And apparently the second show is when we decided to reenact the donkey part. Because we told the story twice. So silver linings then. And now you're like, wow, okay. Good.

We're keeping that part. Yeah. No, that, good. We're keeping that part of it. Yeah. No, that was ridiculous. The reason I bring it up is because like everybody, you know, Zach deployed in the military. He's got his donkey story. We all have that one crazy hallmark moment story from our career. What's your donkey story?

My donkey story. Okay. Yeah. I got a donkey story. I've, I probably have a couple, but I'll give the most recent one good I've uh I've almost delivered a baby I got to the house we got to the house too late and she was already delivered and actually what's really cool is actually got to meet the baby a couple years later which is actually really cool that's awesome and then I got to deliver a baby which was

actually amazing which apparently is in my department is even just insane which is just I don't think it's happened I think I might be one of the first or maybe the second to do it but I I got dispatched. I actually made a video about this and it sounded completely ridiculous. And the reason I made a video about it is because it sounded completely ridiculous. I got dispatched to a house. It was in a different town. We got a mutual aid call and the call was for a 42 year old male who was apparently attempting to eat mailboxes. Eat mailboxes. Rusty mailboxes.

Eat rusty mailboxes after taking one or several illicit substances. Medics dispatched. All right. So we get to the house. The funniest part is eating a mailbox is a felony, by the way. So we pull up to the house. It is. We pull up to the house. The funniest part is eating a mailbox is a felony, by the way. We pull up to the house. It is.

We pull up to the house. He's eating a mailbox. That's a legal dog. We pull up to the house, and there's a guy who's out. Literally, it's got to be the only actual physical standing mailbox in town. And he's got his face on the fucking mailbox. And we get there, and I'm like, buddy, what's going on? They're saying that you're trying to eat mailboxes. And he looks at me with the straightest face, like the absolute deadpan straightest face.

And he's like, I'm not trying to eat a mailbox. I'm just licking it. And I was like, oh, yeah, no, that's way better. Yeah, 100%. This is good. We're fine. Everything's fine. We're just licking mailboxes.

Like, was it winter and it was cold and metal? No, he was just strung. He was gone. I couldn no he was just strong he was gone i couldn't even tell you what he took um but yeah he's just sitting there just licking mailboxes and i'm like the fucking tootsie pop owls over there how many minutes does it take i mean he's gonna wear right through this thing dude when we went to uh the german place and we were walking the history remember that one guy that was a nurse or doctor? He was telling that one story about

the homeless dude or the crazy guy that ate his eyeball. And then when the guy was like, Where the fuck was I? Was I drunk? Did you miss this? It was a dude ate his eyeball and he's like, you wanted to see inside his stomach.

That's how you did it. He wanted to see inside his stomach. That's how you did it. He wanted to see inside his stomach. Brandon, it did not register. Brandon was like, oh. I was like, Brandon, I don't think you're... He ate his eyeball because he wanted to see inside. He was like, oh my god.

I got Bluetooth eyeballs. They don't need to be on water. And he was like, okay, what do you see? it's dark that bar across I was like what story right now that's about what it looks like. You're not wrong. Wild, dude. I was like,

well, that's crazy right there. He made his eyeball to see inside his stomach and was asked, what do you see? He's like, it's dark. You didn't bring a flashlight, dude? What's wrong with you?

You messed up. Imagine that. You're like, let me see. What does it smell like? Does he mentally stand up? What does it smell like? Is he mentally stable? What does it smell like? Hold on. Smells like shit.

It's very irony. I'm just impressed he could still see after he took his eye out. Yeah, right? It's pretty impressive. A lot of light out here. This one's very dark in there, though. A lot of stomach acid. This burns.

There's that candy bar. I was like what the fuck and watching Brandon like process when I said it was like he ate his eye to see it he's like oh my god what the there it is sorry where were we

what about you what is your like fucking hold on I want to finish this story oh yeah so he's sitting there he's licking mailboxes and the officers are like, yeah, this is just how we found him. There wasn't even a call. We were driving down the street and this guy was licking a mailbox or eating a mailbox. And I was just like, okay, well,

let's go to the hospital. We got to take care of him. You don't lose your empathy. You don't lose your sympathy. You make sure you take care of everybody. Everybody, every time. So we're like all right bud so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna take a trip we're gonna go to the hospital he looks at me and he goes if you fucking touch me i'm gonna kill you and i was like good my empathy's up i'll see you

later i'm like guys if you could just uh you're gonna you're gonna have to take the ride with us on this one you're gonna you're gonna take the cops yeah you're gonna have to take a ride with us on this one he's like oh okay he's like nah i'm just going to the fucking he just goes in the ambulance sits on the bench like this real real angry like just sitting like this i'm like i'm like it's two o'clock in the morning i'm inconveniencing you like what are we doing here so we end up taking him to the hospital and he jumps off the stretches the hospital we go to all the time right so i'm constantly there they know they know me by face they know me by ambulance they know me by schedule and I'm just like all right we're gonna go he jumps out the ambulance runs directly into the ER smashes face-first

into the doors that don't open up unless you get buzzed in I'm just like that look I'm not even getting paid for this like I am a volunteer like they need to raise my volunteer salary from nothing to something after this and it's just like I'm like I hop gift card or something like give me give me some love a volunteer. They need to raise my volunteer salary from nothing to something after this. It's just like... It's like an IHOP gift card or something. Give me some love here. All I get is a freaking brand new hat every two years. I can't live like this.

You're a volunteer still, right? I have a per diem EMS job. My career job is I'm a 911 dispatcher for a police department. That's my career. I just happen to pick up a per diem EMS job as well, but I've been a volunteer since been volunteer since i started you're a low-key fucking psychopath yeah i'm gonna be an emt during covid in 2020 volunteer yeah they've offered salaries multiple times they have they have like no i don't get my specific departments offered me the a paid department spot paid work

during the day volleys work at night. You got to quit social media, though. Yeah, I'm kidding. Honestly, that's basically what it would have been. Really? What it would have meant to you. Yeah. They were not what you would call thrilled about it.

But the place I record now does not mind. They love it. Dude, you get individuals like Rich being angry, cops being in the military still, and then a Buffalo pd is the most ridiculous thing and you're like bro you do not need to be a either of those you don't need to find on the youtubes yeah i didn't realize you were a volunteer this entire time yeah i've never and i won't uh i've told my department all many times because you know you your volunteer contract

is contract is based on you know they sent me to emt school so i i owe them right so because you know you your volunteer contract is contract is based on you know they sent me to emt school so i i owe them right so i you know i'm basically paying back my emt school through a certain amount of time paid it back so i have so after after three but thing done um dude at the range good that amount of ptsd i just imagine him in emt school like so people aren't supposed to shove stuff up their ass and he's like bro i'm gonna be so rich this is that light somebody write that down but yeah that's that's pretty much what uh what it was i i asked up his mind i called this you know what this is turning into a job interview, actually.

I'll tell you what. Me and my friend group, and I can guarantee you that I can swing this and make this happen. We'll pay for you to go to paramedic school. Finish it out. I don't know if I would do that. Then you have to come.

You have to move to Texas or fly in here. Twice. For the camera. Twice. Back to back. That's the hard to Texas or fly in here. Twice for the camera. Twice back to back. That's the hard part. See, we always call it to the back to back we get together. It's a wager. I told you I could only get so erect. We'll pay for you to go to paramedic school.

Okay. You have to come and your new job is exclusively to be gun tubes paramedic and you just have to be at all the range days working i gotta tell you that would break my heart if i had to just hang out with you guys all the time i'm surrounded by people that you know aren't shoving stuff up their ass you know to be clear it doesn't happen that often but you know when it happens your first one there i pushed the other crew he only flies it but yeah and i i told my department i'm like i'll i'll stay volley here until i until i physically cannot do it anymore it's i was telling the guys that um when i was growing up my mom who's i don't know where she got this phrase from.

It's a Muhammad Ali quote, so I have no idea where she would have even gotten it from. She wasn't by any stretch of the imagination a sports fan or a boxing fan. But above her couch was one of those big fancy signs, you know, like those live, laugh, love signs. This one said, service to others is the rent that we pay for our room here on earth. And that was something that just kind of stuck with me. You know, the kids at school, or not the kids, but like the teacher at school asking what your favorite quote is. And I'm like, that was my quote. So when I finally decided that I wanted to do something a little bit bigger than myself, I figured that was the way to do it.

So it's about the service, not the paycheck, obviously. A hundred percent. Yeah. And it's a really cool feeling. That's commendable. Many times it's not a lot of people that have that frame of mind. A lot of times. You told that story right at the beginning.

Exact same quote. Exact same quote. Exact same memory. I was like, cool, I get to double check the quote now. I had it pulled up. I love it. I was like, oh, she had two Mahama quotes above the couch. I was like, oh, fuck. I'm either really, really drunk

or I just had a stroke. I was really worried I got a a stroke. I was really worried I got a TBI. I immediately went to like... Everyone's looking in horror. You're surrounded by dudes that have been to TBI. What's in this?

That's why I stay volley. I definitely don't want to... I told you this was a 100 milligram fucking THC drink, right? You told me not to eat it. Me, Eli, and the rest of the the other brandon and cody have this perpetual nightmare that any moment we're gonna wake up in a fucking mental

institution next to each other and straight check like there it is shit like we all of this been a it's all fever dream we did the gang episode and the episode was sponsored by by magic mind and we did the magic mind shot we're like man i feel funny and then we all wake up in the mental institution when you when you told the same story it has like an episode of lost when you told the same story back to back in the same episode i was like i immediately went to the matrix with like the bricked out windows and the cat walking by i was like oh fuck this is it agent sm Agent Smith just like walking on the rainy sidewalk. Ethan's a six foot four tall guy in scrubs. It tells me I can't do that anymore. I need to calm down before he injects me with something to make me tired.

This is horrible. Why isn't no one sticking me with stuff? Show and Dave are nurses. They take care of us. They're just wheeling us around. Big gloves. Huge syringes. they're just wheeling us around and there's like big gloves huge syringes fucking king trout's the warden

that's why he lives upstairs he's actually just watching us we think we're letting him live in our house but actually that's what the cameras are for he's actually just watching you they're just walking us to different rooms our live shows

you're in Boston now one person every time Or they're just walking us to different rooms. There are live shows. You're in Boston now. One person every time. Is this Boston? Yeah. Cody's just going to run by himself in the corner. Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody.

Hey, everybody. Nick's just sitting in an opposite room. Say it all the time. Say it all the time. Say it all the time. Say it all. He's just making shit up about World War II. just sitting in the opposite room. I was right about the title. I was right about the title. It's just making shit up about World War II and he really doesn't like Karl Marx. Nick needs the helmet again.

He's smashing the wall. You guys laugh. I'm still horrified of this being a reality. Two and a half years ago I was an electrician at work. You're just going to enjoy the dream before you wake up. That's all. I guess. Everyone's had that moment where like, I don't dream a lot, but like there's been a very,

like a handful of times in my life where I've had the sweetest, coolest dream ever. And you wake up and you're just like, fuck, that was awesome. That was a good one. Can we play that back? Mother fucker, I can't believe. I wish I could just go back to sleep and go back into that. And that could be what this is, just a very long version of that. Oh, that'd be the worst.

God damn it. I could think of just waking up. Please let this be real. No, no, no. Everyone, like, for the audience members, it is understanding. Like, everyone, like, Nick was an electrician. I did from infantry to a lot of manual labor weird being mexican and roofing and everything else and while doing that it was like

hey i'm going to do videos and tell i didn't know it was i never thought it was like oh there's going to be a career path and podcasting i will let you know justin anyone has this idea it's like well you like you set out to do pocket the fuck i did i was like i want to do movies vfx i want to shoot i want to write comedy sketches millions of views like and i got that dialed in and this is a very much a like this is like the opposite of vfx yeah this is no what the fuck why did that one work yeah why isn't that but it is pivoting it's like hey it is working so let's continue down that path but do it again do the amount of blood sweat and tears you're putting in on the back end while doing the normal job is what people do not appreciate well yeah

everyone it looks like so much fun like from nick to like all you it's like oh they just have fun dude finding out like volunteers like wild but it is no idea no volunteers still to this day that's awesome yeah i won't uh i can't honestly see myself giving it up it's just something that aside from the fact that i love the guys in my department you know it's just it's a great department um and it just feels good you know it's something that just genuinely just makes you feel good you know it's a great community yeah well that's crazy because life's only about money and success yeah you should never do anything that actually makes you know why should you do it thank you that's our next shirt

hey this is morally sound it makes me feel good at a soul level but it's not making me money fuck that flip table walk out done yeah done. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing in your head. That's it. Sometimes you just gotta... It keeps me grounded. It is wild seeing all of it because on the back side it is that the amount of people

that are like, it's too saturated. I can never go. It is, hey, the level of detail of like, I'm speaking like that. Oh, I am testing different stuff until I see it's work. Hey, this. Oh, that worked. Now that is what I'm going to do.

And that is the key to the success that people miss. It is like, what works? Why did it work? How do I continue and how do I expand on that? And now, oh, success. Also while doing a nine to five a lot of the time and having a family. I wish I had a 9 to 5. I'm always surprised.

I spend a lot of time on the internet, as all of you do and most of you watching, I'm sure, do. And my job for what, almost seven, eight years now has been to be the guy that's seeing what's going on on the internet, make content. So I feel pretty plugged in, right? As opposed to my wife, who's just very ephemeral, not plugged in. But to this day, still, I'll randomly happen upon this account that has 24 million subscribers or followers and has this insane audience. And I'm like, the second you think that it's saturated

or there's like, oh, that's already been done. No, no, no. Like for every new person that is like trying to do something or like find an audience, it is a big fucking world out there. All you need to do is capture like 0.002% of like your country's population to make it into something that's sustainable. It's true. So you just have to like put it into perspective and like think about the scale. And like I just was doing a video the other week with my wife and there was like the team put together a clip from this like Russian Instagrammer. It was like really funny videos and they were good. And he had like 23 million followers. And I'm like, dude, I spend my life scouring the internet for content.

And I've never knew this motherfucker existed. And he's captured a country worth of people like someone on the other side of the world. So all that's to say, there's just like, there's always going to be an audience, like whether it's something you're passionate about or you want to like try, like you just have to try things really is what it comes down to.

And you can get into saturated markets. You can get into saturated markets. Well yeah, it's a proven model that works, right? That's the thing. Obviously something, somebody's watching it. And if someone will watch you do whatever, cooking videos, you know, someone will watch somebody else do cooking videos yeah like there's been people that have done history content right or but they weren't fat and abrasive like a fat electrician

handsome and svelte yeah take that back so like uh steven and gabby uh stay aku he's been on the podcast he's fucking great check him out he's awesome but like uh me and him came up on tiktok at like the same time and we both do history but we have very different personalities and like catch different like vibes from history and tell it a different way and like the amount of people that'll accuse both ways like i've been accused of being a knock off stay aku and he's been accused of being a knockoff fat electrician and it's like oh i bet you guys don't like each other because you're competing it's like by all means tell the exact same story slightly different in your own style all day i'm sure some people love you and hate me and vice versa and it's all gonna work out like nobody gives a shit yeah on that note like i'll do it when you're into like commentary like what's going on in

youtube stuff over the years i've done it if there's like a trending thing that happens and it's like all obviously all the commentary youtubers like jumping to talk about it and it's the same idea it's like you don't always have to be the first one like certainly you can build a business model around being quick and that works or my business model has always been i'm just going to talk about this thing in a way that feels good to me. I'm always late. Like, I'm like the guy that's like a week after it happens. And it's like kind of out of the news cycle.

But like, I'm just old. And that's how I operate. But I always get people in the comments like, oh, I saw this so-and-so's video about it. But I was excited to see your take. Right? And that's really what it is. It's like you're just talking about the same thing that everyone knows about. They can watch the news.

And they can get a take. They just want to see what you have to say about it. Cause they've kind of built a relationship with you for hours and longer. Even if they, even if this is their first time seeing a video, that could be an opportunity. That could be like the zero to one moment where they're like, Hey, I like the way this guy covered this versus the three videos I've already watched about it. And now you have a new person that appreciates your shit. It's like, that's why I love your content. the amount of times I've heard news and be like wow

You know what? I really need I need the opinion of a Six foot tall blonde haired white guy with blue eyes with a loving wife and family to tell me exactly what I should feel You find that you're very relatable right now. Thank you. I've always wondered what this opinion would be like if it came from somebody more attractive than me, actually. You're about to learn how you're supposed to feel about this very divided topic. He just laughed. Tony 2012 video. Jesus Christ.

I forgot that was a thing. He takes his time. Tony 2012. You just did. He's working on the wrong Nixon right now. What a pull. You guys are never going to really believe this shit that happened in Africa recently.

A decade ago. I thought I was pulling deep with Harambe. You pull out Kony 2012. Holy shit. I was like, you to just drop one. Oh my god. That's almost at the point where it should be a history video.

Oh my god. Awesome. Do you find that your audience do you have like die hard followers that actually snitch on other creators? Or like, listen man, I don't know if you know this but somebody's doing your stuff. I get that all the time in my comments hey look man or like in their video walmart buy that one out somebody else somebody else gave the medical advice not to shove a shampoo yeah they're onto your game there's there's videos that people

will be like they'll hold up objects and just be like shaking their head and the whole common thread is yo this this uh person's stealing your stuff dude you need to you need to figure this out it was a fan we gave him a shout out already but it was the individual it's like hey is this did you sell this design to walmart or whatever i was like what i was like that's definitely not walmart.com that is walmart.com oh my god put it in the group i was like hey this and then you have like everything next like hold up don't let me type something out for you guys to tweet cody we have and i quote we have the 11th most followed person on twitter let him say this and then we all retweet it and then we've been trending on Twitter for like 36 hours.

Oh, shit. If you go on Twitter and hit searches like Walmart accused of allegations of stealing a shirt used for autism charity. Oh, yeah. Oh, they wrote news articles. Yeah, no. We've been trending for like 36 hours.

Walmart faces allegations over unauthorized t-shirt sales. Several social media users, including notable content creators like Donut Operator and The Fat Electrician have accused Walmart of selling a t-shirt design without permission. The design in question was originally used to raise funds for autism research. Oh, what? Wow, Walmart.

How dare you? 24 hours. That is what was... I was on my flight, I think, when I saw this tweet initially. And while the Post expressed strong disapproval, there's a mention that the shirt might be sold through a third-party vendor on Walmart's platform, though direct evidence of Walmart's involvement in the design theft is not

confirmed. Don't care. You're making money. It's on your platform. I'm confirming right now that it's Walmart. Lawsuit complete. $4.2 million. Source, trust me, bro. Look, I, like, is... If you want to sell my stuff, it's crazy. My entire goal is the actual... It's literally just copy-paste. Yeah, it's crazy. It is. It's literally just copy-paste.

There's not many born to math with copy-paste. And Thomas the Train. I saw a lot of merch. You can find a ton of bootlegs. You can find bootlegs, but it was like, this is the opportunity that I can bully a blue chip stock company into donating millions of dollars to autism research, I'm going to fucking try.

When did you see something like that? We never took a dime from that shirt. That is 100% yours. That's not a good look on them. And then it's like... So does Walmart allow third-party resellers on their site? It's just like Amazon.

It's like third-party sellers can go on, butmart's not like checking for ip and copyright of course not it's like which is that's bullshit out of the gate you know what i mean like if i let somebody on the fat electrician youtube channel and they went on and said a bunch of like super racist stuff like i would totally like that's my response it's my you know what i mean like so they should be responsible for that to some degree and i'm gonna try to bully them to make them pay a bunch of money towards autism research statement from walmart right now yeah 100 that says a lot about you guys you know so it didn't go to you guys it went to charity that says a lot about you guys yeah what what was the total numbers for veterans that we did this year and we still are waiting it's like a hundred it's over 110 000

if i remember at minimum last month for veterans charities for that shirt we sold yeah yeah just writing all your beautiful amazing community salute that's fucking great dude we just get to write those massive checks which is one of the dopest thing well the funniest thing is when you because like you're the guy that actually writes the checks and like picks the charities and everything we're just you know the idiots that come up with the shirt designs and sell them but like but like just hearing you tell the story of like all the charities being like oh what what do you want in return and you're like help i fucking do your job and they're just blown away about it like yeah dude dude and you cannot stress it it is those phone calls or it is even calling the audit chair non-profits hold a lot of

y'all get your shit together you're like i do see a level i was like we made 57 million last year 50 million went towards salaries and marketing yeah like and you're like what the so finding those really good ones whether veteran community and or autistic community you have to do the research yeah but when you're calling them to tell it's like hey hey i'm gonna donate and they're like thank you oh my god thank you so much awesome fuck yeah so uh where do i go they're like on the website and it'll be really easy it's uh i'll send you a link or here type it in yeah okay they're like what are you thinking i was like ah for you i think we're doing 50k for you guys and like oh holy shit let me pass you through to a case manager real quick you're meeting the owner

of the company they're calling to like why and why level of blown away because that is one thing they could not rationalize is like we're just doing it with like no ass i don't need anything back this isn't about i don't want to be on the board like fucking take the money do your job do your fucking away we're on to the next thing and they're just like but why what's the catch the level of yeah it was mind-blowing to see that reaction where everyone was like it's honestly kind of scary yeah no i would agree with that you don't need any it shouldn't be a why that like the purpose of charity should have no why attached yeah like it's like the definition of doing something charitable it's just it's just a good thing for the sake of it being a good thing to do

without any sort of getting something out of it or ulterior no and you're telling me i was like oh man like our community made this possible. We just want to fucking, we sold shirts. All the profits went to this. Now we get a ride to check to y'all. I also imagine that kind of speaks to people that they deal with a lot where it's like,

Hey, we're going to give you this, but also we need that. Like there's probably some, even in the nonprofit communities where it's like, yeah, like we have this money and we need to burn and do this, but like,

we need you to do this for us, which I think just defeats the whole purpose of charitable giving. Sometimes it's good to just do a good thing. Above my mom's couch. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.

Rules of three, my friend. That's the perfect fucking joke, right? Oh, man. Nice I know an all-timer special my grandfather was very close to them yeah the only thing that would have made it better above my mom's couch was this mike tyson quote play it back play it back it's spinal. It's spinal. My back. Oh, mercy. Like, we do this thing. Obviously, I'm on a much different, for those of you who don't know, I don't know if you can imagine this, but I'm on a moderately smaller level than these guys.

For now. For now. But it is. It's important to do things like this. The one big thing that I got for a while was, like, it's impossible to get conversation with me. like people jump into your dms and by the by the way if you want to see some unhinged dms the badge 502 dms full of phallic objects and fucking dick pics is ridiculous the amount of times like would this fit your ass literally literally i do history

the amount of times i get messages like hey my uncle has a really cool story you should cover it so i can't imagine how many... Bro, my uncle shoved this up his ass. You should do that. But we do this thing where I came up with this little idea where it was just like, okay, so you guys want to have... You guys want to be able to get your message to me. I get it. So when I was growing up...

I'm not doing the thing yet. When I was growing up, we used to get these cards sent to the house. It was just a really cool thing. We used to hang up cards all over the house. And it was from family and some friends it was really neat like holiday birthday holiday christmas cards holiday cards all those things and uh they had this quote in it and uh what we did was i was like after a while you know the family gets older my mom you know she's obviously older and uh it just doesn't happen anymore so i came up with this idea and i was just like you know what i miss getting these cards i miss hanging them up all over the house i'm like you know

so here's what we're gonna do mom for muhammad ali wrote you a card at this point she'd believe it but uh i was like you know for everyone who sends us here badge 502 a christmas card i'm gonna make a donation to the food bank that's in the town that i grew up in i'm like you know that just seems like something cool i think that's a nice thing to do and i was expecting like five or six cards whatever god we ended up getting fucked up yeah we ended up getting like 400 cards which I'm like, you know, that just seems like something cool. I think that's a nice thing to do. And I was expecting like five or six cards or whatever. God, you fucked up. Yeah, we ended up getting like 400 cards, which isn't insane. But, you know, I was able to make a $400 donation to the local food bank.

But the mistake was I said, and if you send us a card, I'm going to read them out on live. Business rules still apply. Yeah. Yeah. Where do we eat? What is it? I mean, we could do that. If you guys want to send a, if you guys want to send B batch 502 a christmas card you're absolutely welcome to christmas cards in

march christmas cards in march it'll be nutty welcome but we uh we do fuck him over please yeah we do it for for christmas and i do it for this the last one we did was for easter so i ended up doing the the donation for for the easter um and uh yeah pO. Box 775 in Belleville, New Jersey. If you guys want to send one out, we're going to make a donation. One more time. P.O. Box 775 in Belleville, New Jersey. And how much do you donate every time you get one?

So last time it was a buck. If it's more, I'll donate more. I have no problem. Listen, it's all TikTok money. I can't wait for you to be homeless. I don't care. I just met you and i've said this already this podcast but like your balls are either enormous or you're fucking retarded so i just so happen to have enormous balls and both and retarded yeah just too wholesome for the i feel like 30 of the unsub audience is just ignited into flames. It's worth it.

Not to put too fine a point on it. I have my career. I work hard. And I have the money that I need to survive and take care of my family, which is important. 400,000 cards is my expectation. I want to see him homeless by next year. I'm not going to lie to you. I want to see him homeless by next year. I'm not going to lie to you. I want to ruin him.

If I get an unsub level of cards, the dollar level is going to drop. I'm not going to lie. It might turn into a Nikola card. You're still allowed to read for me. This motherfucker is going to be living in a box. I don't want to have to eat stale bologna sandwiches for nine months just to survive.

By the time unsub gets done with it, you're going to be living in a box and then Zach is going to come up, cut one of the walls of your house off and make a sign to hold up above his head. I'm happy to help out those who need the help, but listen, I'm not trying to freaking give...

I'm over here. I used to have a cushion of $8,900. Now I'm giving blowjobs for sandwiches. I'm not trying to do this. I have my career. I have my money. I'm comfortable.

TikTok pays me whatever. Instagram pays me whatever. YouTube pays me more than yet. I'm glad you issued that challenge to the internet right before TikTok's about to get deleted on January 19th. Yeah, seriously. But if you guys want to get me to 100,000 on YouTube, I'll make it super worth it for that. I just want to hear the call from the post office.

It's like, is this Anthony? Yeah, sir, we're going to have to shut down your P.O. box. We have 16 mail trucks over here. He's got an affiliate program with USPS for selling stamps. Which is funny because on threads, I roast the post office religiously

all 17 people on threads hit the post office now thanks to you it's 16 now so it's got banned probably we're going back to just real quick they uh it made me pop in my head because we're gonna have uh chris on or they've been on at this point we don't know um tomorrow but it is like you have those individuals like covid she went from nobody to 70 million subscribers if you guys want to get 70 million subscribers to australia because we didn't know that number to that degree like sav she was the one that's like holy shit shit. Calvin Criss. I was like, oh, cool. And then you're like, holy sh. I was standing in line and I'm just like, I'm not in line anymore. We're just going to go.

We're just going to. Two Australias is watching you. You're like, ah, well. I'm just going to go ahead. Two Australias. The funny part is. I measure my audience in Australias. The funny part about.

I'm like.05 Australias right now. I'm working about like point i'm like 0.05 australians right now i'm working on it yeah i'm like just sydney yeah the funny the funny part about uh call me chris is she's super cool in person but like when when we're talking to like vendors and stuff for arranged it when they're when cody and brandon are talking to vendors and stuff arranged they're like oh the total subscriber count amongst all the influencers that are gonna be there is like 150 million subscribers it's like don't ask the breakdown because fucking a third of it's call me chris she is america walking and big dicking everybody she walked in and i was like well i'm not here

she's just super bye everybody couldn't happen to a better girl man like just cutting hair and that happened you're like damn yeah she earned it you know she's done what happened two years you know it's really crazy i imagine after the first 200 million you stop counting like 201 million that's cool yeah once you go from eight to nine figs that's probably a lot a lot of difference now you're just measuring by hundreds of millions yeah i remember my first million she's funny because she she's been to all the range days hasn't she yeah and the first the first range day i don't think she'd ever fired a gun it was pretty uncomfortable for that yeah and now she's like put it on the technical her and caleb were just like two peas in a pod she's like i'm gonna shoot this but can i

can i shoot this next i was like oh yeah yeah get after it we had uh so like uh when you reach a certain point on uh youtube you get uh like a rep like a direct contact with YouTube, basically just trying to keep you out of trouble. You know, like at a certain point you're making YouTube money and just behooves everybody involved to be like, Hey, here's the lines, try to color inside of them. And if you step out, we'll let you know exactly what you did. So like YouTube does a really good job at very helpful, kind of helping you out.

And, uh, we had, uh, we had our, some of our youtube reps show up today just you know hanging out but they brought out some other youtube executives and they were all great but the the higher ranking youtube executives were like born bred raised in california never shot a gun never fired a gun never been around a gun and i went out there with and you know our our reps are like army guys. They're kind of like the, I don't want to say controlled opposition, but like definitely the, hey, I was in the military. I understand.

Here's what's actually safe. Here's what's actually safe. They're like advocates inside the mothership for us, basically. And they're probably just the most welcoming people. I don't know if you guys don't know this. Gun people are the best people. They are the best people in the world.

I've grown up around them. I've worked at gun people are the best people. I are the best people in the world. I've grown up around them. I've worked at them. Gun people are the best people. I know. Look at the World Wars, how they worked out. Anyways, so we got these high-level YouTube executives. They're like, we've never fired a gun. We're not sure we want to.

I was like, I know exactly where I'm taking you. Took them straight over to Brandon's boys. And like, Brandon's boys are straight autistic. You could give them any gun that's ever been manufactured at any point. And they can tell you, I'm not shitting you probably the year it was made, the factory it came out of and what country, like the country of origin,

all of it. And I was like, Hey, riding loves them. Hook these guys up with the MP40, which is the best machine gun on the planet. Just nine mil.'s it's full auto buttery smooth though yeah like you can pull the trigger on a semi auto faster

and like just watching watching that go okay what what do i have to do okay we'll put put the butt stock in your shoulder hold the gun like this don't put your finger where the bolt reciprocates okay and then just pull the trigger. And then they just fucking magged up. This is a lot of fun. And I was like, yes! Ladies and gentlemen, we understand each other. We understand each other.

It really is just the best. I've shot guns thousands of times. I've never shot full auto. So I walked in. Classic New Jersey guns thousands of times. I've never shot full auto. So I walked in and I Classic New Jersey. Yeah, exactly. If you don't know, New Jersey loves gun owners. They love us.

You have a lot of freedoms. All the freedoms. In fact, now they let us have them. But yeah, you go there and I'm like, yeah, listen, I've never shot full auto. And listen, I spend time with these these guys it was the guys from over uh was it denver um denver bullets yeah hanging out with these guys and they're like hey i remember you from yesterday step in have you ever shot full auto no i've never never shot full auto okay check this out

here's what we're gonna do we're gonna do it like this and just you just go through the motions what'd you shoot oh i shot everything. I shot that entire table. What was the funnest? I'd probably say the most fun was probably the Vector only because I genuinely just always wanted to rip one. They shoot kind of quick. They shoot real fast. The second you pull the trigger,

that mag is empty. Cyclic brake is... Again, when you say cyclic brake, it makes a huge difference on also being manageable. Like MP40 and everything, super low cyclic brake. Yeah, low cyclic brake. You're like, even your Tommy guns are about like 600 to maybe 800 max, but it's like, dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.

So you can walk it in. You can walk it out a little bit. Then you hit like 1,800 rounds per minute in cyclic brake, and it is... It's walking you. Yeah. Same round, 45. I'm sitting there and I'm just like,

he's like, you got to get behind this one. I was like, all right, no problem. He's like, no, more behind it. I'm like, what? I'm like deep into my lean. I'm like in it. 45. Down. It screwed me up. I was like, oh, okay.

So we're just standing up now. Okay, that's cool. We're going to just do that. Shout out to the Denver Bullets guy too because I shot some really fun guns at that station today too. And there was a bunch of people. You could tell like there's obviously like a lot of different skill levels, people that are super familiar with these weapons and people that are like kind of getting it the first time. So it's really fun to see all of that come to fruition but the guy who was kind of he was running the the show there um i don't know his name but you get some of the newer people like they get a lot on their hand

mr john denver bolt mr john denver bolts i think that was his name you'd have like there'd be like a person and people were like you know full auto you have an automatic machine gun in your hand they're just like You got the point he's like these are we First fire he said you dump these mags you shoot it like a machine gun. I was like I like this He's like he looked at me Yeah, I creeped a couple on my first one but He's like oh cool. I thought you're like a man yesterday it turns out you just this is how you do this yeah i was like gotcha the funny thing is like all the people

that have like never shot a gun before and then they're showing up to range day with like literally every rare gun from brandon's collection from world war ii to like mini guns mounted on teslas and shit and it's like you guys are going from like zero to a hundred you don't fully like you've never played football and now you're starting in the super bowl like is what this amounts to pretty much like they don't really grasp it and when one of the youtube reps she like mag dumped and she like oh my god that was a lot of fun i go yeah it was like 30 in ammo and she's like starts laughing you're really funny oh that that wasn't a joke no you're not joking that's really good like it is like oh it's 150 rounds okay that is 300 and you're like yeah also also it's illegal

to do that in your state yeah i was walking i was walking by the the the first bar i'm like all the way you know all the way when you first walk in and you just hear that the minigun is obnoxious did an 810 just fly by like what the hell was that yeah it's the minigun on the other side the minigun going off it's like i can take my weird piece rumble dude i can take my ear pro out and have a conversation 50 yards away from the firing line now and the minigun goes off. I'm like, fuck. Yeah, I messed up. I should have not done that.

Watching, we fired those blanks and then we tried to fire them. So there's, we have the handheld one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have a backpack, yeah. So we have videos of us shooting blanks. Blanks don't have that recoil. Sure. But it's like, and it is like just you just stand

and then when we were trying to do the we tried seven six two variant of a minigun like handheld and i have videos of trying this just to just launch yourself across the world no dude it is more guns go like this blah Bah, bah, bah. Yeah. Many guns go downwards and right. So we're like, okay. Everyone ready? Yeah, that makes sense.

And then people are lining up here. And you know what I'm like? Actually, behind me. And it was like, brr. And we'd stop right here. Because it was like immediately. It was just down. But it was still like instantly 30 rounds of.

In one touch. In one touch. Yeah, yeah. And then like the 30 rounds of in one in one touch yeah yeah and then like the recoil though it was like oh yeah we can't hold cake we cannot do full auto recoil on that uh micah like i think my favorite like shorter clip of him have you seen the video when they were uh doing 86 um no not 86 it the new SIG squad automatic firing weapon. The new LNG. This is .338, not

LePoult, but a.338 Norma. This is a very large... I don't even know what that is. This is a little smaller than this. Big-ass bullet. .338 Norma is got to be terrifying. But,

the entire concept behind this machine gun was like, the enemy's probably wearing body armor, but we don't care. That was the whole concept. But there's this video of I'm assuming some SF guy or something that Grantham was able to get a hold of.

This dude looks like a refrigerator with ears. Just a fucking unit of a man wearing body armor. You know somebody's huge when they're wearing body armor and they make the body armor look so awesome. You're fucking body armored.

It looks thin. I can see your pecs through that. Can somebody use my suit of armor the body armor is for my heart i have a heart plate not a chest plate like he's like a bra but it's three selves together like i love micah but like he definitely kind of looks like a hipster. Not a intimidating dude in persona, but he's a bigger guy. He's taller than me, and he's probably just as broad. He's a big dude,

and he's firing and trying to walk forward while firing, and he can't do it. And he's like, give me another try. Give me another try. And he tries to get it. He's like, I physically can't step forward while firing this machine gun in this

army dude just marching with this machine gun mag dumping it's fucking horrifying that's and a good very very large rounds and to watch that dude like walk forward and walk like like he's like walking to the shoulder. Shoulder mount. Okay. No, my God. Like, okay. Normal shoulder. Yeah.

Not like hip fire. Like shoulder mounted. Just walking. Aiming and firing is like that dude is fucking horrifying. Oh, my favorite clip. That is a lot of hate being thrown down that range. Go on. So much hate.

You're like, ooh, God. Look, I'm thinking about it. This, God. How cool is a magazine? This is a drum. Again, I cannot. It's an LMG, so it's got how many rounds? Fucking hundred rounds. Yeah, a hundred rounds. That's just heavy.

It's huge. Oh, yeah, that's the 8-6. That's a big boy round. And that's tiny. That'll ruin your day.'s the 8-6. Like, that's a big boy round. And that's tiny. That'll ruin your day. I shoulder mounted the 50 cal and sent the round and I was like, boof! And I did that at the range

that I worked at, so I'm like, I kind of know what to expect. And then, doof! You know, it goes off and you're like, ha, yeah, it feels good. I can't imagine freaking trying to walk with it. Are you kidding me? One is fine. Multiple, back to back, back to back. What kind of rate does this thing have kind of like exponentially builds on itself i mean it's for suppressing fire it's got enough of a rate to convince people to stay the down yeah it's got enough to make uh standing up just a general bad idea yeah i mean it's you probably

don't want to do that and who made who gun you said? It was the new SIG. SIG basically got all the contracts to do the new army pistols, the new rifle, and the new LMG, the light machine gun. So this is what was supposed to replace the SAW. So the SAW shoots 5.56, a normal AR-15 M4 round. And the bigger rounds they're moving to are basically designed for um near peer combat essentially they're planning to fight enemies that have body armor yeah it's more or less suggestive it so i mean it was impressive to what i mean it would be i mean it'd be rough to walk forward while aiming with a saw i can't imagine doing it with

the new fucking LMG caliber. That's nuts. That's an insane amount of power. It's an insane amount of power to be the person trying to walk it. Like, forget that. I don't have that kind of strength in me. I'm too old for that. Dumping bullets. This guy, this is, having his

subsonic AP round is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I love it. Is that what that is? They're making subsonic AP rounds. That means it's traveling usually when you hear 5-7 you can go through body armor. It is because it is reaching supersonic speed at like 2700

feet per second. And you're like, okay. It's clicking. Now we found a way around it and it's slow, quiet. Kevin's such a psychopath. No, it'll pierce Micah's bra. Killing people with body armor is cool, but have you tried to do it quietly? The only sound you hear is the armor shredding.

Oh, like Dave gets it. Dave's like, that's subsonic AP rounds. What? Dave, have you ever been broken down how 6.8 blackout works? 8.6. 8.6, sorry. Have you ever been broken down how 6.8 blackout works? 8.6. 8.6, sorry. Have you ever been told that? I'm just trying to think, is there another round other than that one Russian round, like

SP5, SP6, that was like subsonic armor penetrating? They've never had. No, it's never had it. Q invented it. So like that round. Yeah. That's not the AP round. So this is the bullet, what it does on impact.

It looks destructive yeah hey stop yeah okay yeah no problem i can see how that might you know in the long run be an issue um so like kevin q his guys are out there like hunting big like water buffaloes and shit with a subsonic round which is insane i know for the pepper box tap and then see you later like you just no tap just one time this is for pepper hey uh people that are on the youtube on the pepper box you get some really cool stuff on the pepper box side like we're working with q now and they're giving us every quarter to give away a boom box and whatever q weapon we want for the pepper box stuff they're like as long as you're a member you just entered for a free q gun which they're

not cheap oh well thank you i talked with uh jake and i'm i don't know this is 100 sure yet but i think the concept that we're going with for how we're giving away the guns is you automatically get one entry if you're a pepperbox member but for every month that you're consecutively a pepperbox member you get an additional entry. So if we do this for two years and you've been here since the beginning, you automatically get 24 entries. So it's kind of an incentive to just stick around, hang out. You're going to get more entries to win these guns, and it's going to be awesome. I actually prepaid for 11 years.

I've been part of Pepperbox since 2010 the crazy part with a Q-gun if you paid for Pepperbox for 11 years and you won a Q-gun you'd still come out net positive on the subscription to Pepperbox they're not cheap it's not an exaggeration they're so fucking good

and Kevin was so he had such a good time and he was like here we'll do this I was like oh okay homie i was like well love you but like thank you so much it's wild how fast guns get expensive it's it's phenomenal those are starting at 4400 the atlanta the atlanta airport yeah it is the base model the atlanta airport terrified me i was like okay this is definitely a simulation that's a terrifying airport we were at the atlanta airport terrified me i was like okay this is definitely a simulation that's a terrifying airport we're at the atlanta airport like hungover did you take the show we're flying from atlanta to boston and we're we got through security like we've had issues with security the entire time because like brandon's getting pulled no brandon's getting pulled to

the side because he's got too much metal in his bag because of all the fucking war metals i'm getting in trouble because I can't raise my arm above my head for the scanner because I had surgery. It's a fucking nightmare. Eli's got gigantic toys that are Berserker collectibles and he's not letting security open them because it'll ruin the

resale value. Horrible shit. That's a good reason. They pass it through and they're like, okay, sir, we're going to come. I was like the f**k you are i was like no no no you don't touch nothing yeah i'm just like yeah but i don't think so how are you supposed to scan it through the f**king x-ray machine yeah they're like sir we're cutting in as like you're giving me a lot of f**king money if you're cutting that you're not cutting that what do you

mean i was like that devalues that immediately sir i was like do not cut the tape do not look at the tape touch dude it was the whole thing but go on so like we're just like we get through that and we're sitting at the bar waiting for our flight to you know show up because everything was kind of delayed because it was like snowing and on the east coast at that point in time and we're sitting, we're, we're drinking and we're like, story. Our life. I remember looking at somebody walking by and I was like,

man, that guy looks like Kevin. And they're like, yeah, that guy does look like Kevin is like, that guy's wearing an aim point shirt. Oh shit. That's Kevin.

Like we just ran into Kevin from Q in the airport. Randomly. I was like, in Atlanta. Oh, that's right. He was on our same flight to boston and we were all sitting next to each other on the flight drinking the entire time i was like there's no way this is i was gonna say that he just came in from africa he literally

just landed in africa and also next to you guys as well yeah yeah all right percent oh 100 we were all rose rose 17 a b and c dude nick walks around the cop angler cop stands up he's like just not oh my god are you the bad electrician you are the yeah it was super funny until two random people from the plane asked for pictures yeah my favorite one i'm sitting next to nick and a dude goes like this can i get a picture and he's like yeah and he goes like he aims can I get a picture? And he's like, yeah. And he goes like, he aims at us. I was like, yeah, they love it when you just take a picture of them. He's just like, you're like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like,

I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like,

I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, I like, Did you take your tank top off for me? I was just sitting there laughing. I was dying. I was like, take a picture with him. I was like, it looks way better to your friends. Would you say I met them? That's so hard. And you just see them on a plane. You're just like, thanks, man.

It was nice to my friends. It was nice. It was good that he unbuckled his belt, but he unzipped his fly. So it was a little strange. I can't quite think I wanted this. Okay. belt but he unzipped his fly so it's just like the guy wanted this okay so i was i was like the primary push i think to get business class for the flights and i can tell you the exact moment i did it because like brandon and cody refused to board a plane until they're like paging you like until they're saying your fucking name over the loudspeakers they're not leaving the bar last

boarding call yeah like legit a hundred percent that's those two to a t and i'm just like i'm along for the fucking ride you know what i mean so we're drinking and so by the time we were flying southwest on our first tour and i like southwest there's no seating assignments right so we're the last ones to board and it's a sold-out flight so there's four seats left for the four fucking hosts and it's me brandon cody and eli three normal sized humans me in a sleeveless shirt with a lot of body hair going on 250 fucking pounds and i'm the first one in line then every seat available is obviously the middle seat you know of course and i just nightmare i scan and i pick the the one with

the two smallest women just the most yeah exactly i was like excuse me ma'am can i sit in between you and they're like really nice and cody very loudly that the whole plane could hear it goes you gotta sit next to the fat fuck oh cody you are just the height of too much room. That's when I sat next to a fucking stem this year. Oh, no. That was also terrible.

Was that the one? Yes. I managed to sit next to the veteran heroes that have never done anything. They have the leather shirt on. They've got the stories, though. I'm sitting on the right side of the

plane in between two smaller women and he is one row back on the left side of the plane in between two large men that are well past their prime, no offense, and Eli, I'm like overhearing this conversation

because they're having it volume 10 for no fucking reason these two and then the guy across the seat i get to listen to i get to sit there and i'm like looking over the plane like this for there's a 45 minute flight i was like this for 37 minutes of it laughing my ass off as eli's got his hood up and his earphones on and there's three dudes having a very vivid conversation of how they know how they know how to gut a man alive with a fucking pocket knife and a fishing lure and how many times did the marines tell teach him i't even know. He knows how to cut a man from stem to stern with a pocket knife. And I know how to fuck. This dude's got a beard bigger than me.

16 different ways. And he stood up with his leather vest cut off sleeveless. He's like, man. Eli's sitting over here in between them just like, oh, my God. With a purple heart. Somebody that's been shot in a firefight. I'm dying. Oh my god.

I want to commit war crimes right now. It's never a war crime the first time. I was, I was just, dude, the stiffness tears are and I look at Nick's like, I see this. I was just like, I hate my fucking life right now.

Like, why? Next to me? Who would have thought the day would have ended like this? You get to the point, you've heard the story four times. And then you're like, can you tell me about that time that you cut someone with a fishing knife in the steer? Oh, I'd love to. And then you go back into the story again. So there's Muhammad Ali.

Yeah. Punch me in the face. Next time you come on, why don't you just go ahead and bring that picture with us and put it up on the wall. I might be able to find it, honestly. You let me know. We'll hang it up. We've been at it for two hours. also have a range range day party after party to attend so uh we better get to that

oh it's right now we got to drink even more so fucking buckle up but uh thank you for coming to the unsubscribed podcast i have been joined here today by my co-host mr eli double tap our old friend mr leon lush our newest friend Mr. Anthony aka EMTBadge502 on all the social medias or Badge502 on everything except for Instagram because I'm really good at remembering. Also his mom has this Muhammad Ali picture.

And I am Nick the Fat Electrician. Thank you so much for coming to unsubscribe. I will see you guys later. Quack bang out. Bye bye. Fuck you. subscribe i will see you guys later quack bang out bye-bye You know my name. Please be my name. You know my name.