Unsubscribe Podcast - 200 - Demo Matt's Last Episode ft. Demolition Ranch | Unsubscribe Podcast 200

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

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Off demo. We're all going to get canceled and Matt's going to have to come out of retirement like Fat Thor and save all of us. To the New York Times, the demolition is a cult. That's the note he's going to go out on. Yeah! Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous.

Donut, a dark, dope disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe. Hey, everyone. We just wanted to say a giant, giant thank you for 200 episodes. I know I haven't been there for all 200 episodes, but I'm genuinely privileged to have been here as long as I have. And frankly, I'm only here to just make sure that Eli doesn't cry this time. Don't do it.

Get back in there, Tia. It has been a privilege to be able to experience 200 episodes with y'all and to see where this started and where it is today. We're just truly blessed to have all you rallying behind us to make this possible from the live shows to each week. And then the thousands of DMS that we get daily. Thank you for everything you guys have provided for us. And we are so humbled and appreciative of it. When my best friends started this podcast out of Cody's kitchen, I never would have imagined it would have gotten here. And I'm just, like I said, privileged to be a part of it. And I'm so fucking thankful for all of you. And I'm looking forward to where it goes in the future. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

Keep doing amazing things. Enjoy this episode. It was a blast to have Matt on for one more time. And it's sad to know that we're going to shoot him after this is done. It's the hard part. That's why we're sad. It's like putting down the family dog. But you know what?

Somebody's going to do it. Thank you guys so much. Enjoy the episode. Wait, you just popped yours? Did you win a win? I got another one. I'm going to drink them all. It's fine.

That's very true. Okay. Ready? Oh, we'll pop it first, I guess. Three, two, one. This is demos last day. I'm going hard as fuck. We doing the damn thing?

Mm-hmm. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Doubletap, fat electrician, Demolition Ranch himself, Brandon Herrera, and myself, Donut Operator.

Thank you so much for being here. Rip headphones users. Ah, fuck off. Also, this is episode 200. This is episode 200? Is this really? Yeah, fuck yeah. Crazy.

Wait, plan that for you. We did put out 199? That's crazy. 199 is this week? Wait, Saturdays? Yes. really yeah yeah that's crazy wait Saturday's yes this is 200 thanks guys I mean we decided we want to push this 199 or 200 200 this 200 energy right now I fucking like it you're gonna get you're already drunk I'm already drunk I sip this no we're just really happy to have Demolition Ranch here today because

as you all know, he just announced his departure from YouTube. That means this is for sure my last unsubscribed podcast ever. We'll see. It's definitely the last. It might be the last one you agree to. I get drugged.

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We hit Bernie. We hit Bernie. We hit Bernie. We hit Bernie. We hit Bernie. We is a sad one for me. I know you got, I think for everyone. Yeah. I mean, I mean for everyone, because you've helped all of us so much, man, with your platform and we good, we absolutely love you for everything you've done for our community. That's awesome to hear. And I've had a lot of people reaching out with, you know, similar sentiments and it's, it's weird. weird it's it is like something we just kind of decided to do recently and it's very scary and sad and weird but like overall I'm pretty excited about it I'm pretty excited about moving to the next phase and not being worried about the next video anymore and that kind of thing number one yeah numbers I'm just not gonna care and the way you the way you said it really. Numbers or anything. Yeah, numbers. I'm just not going to care.

And the way you said it where you're like, man, I just really want to figure out who I am without YouTube. Yeah. I think that kind of hit all of us a little hard where it's like, fuck, man. I don't. Yeah. I don't even know. It's weird because, yeah, YouTube was me for like 15 years.

Like almost half of your life. So are you going to get into history or smoking meat? Those are your two options. I just actually started smoking meat. So it's you going to get into history or smoking meat? Those are your two options. I just actually started smoking meat, so it's probably going to be that. Oh, damn it. I lost another one. I'm going to get in that phase.

Smoking some meat is good. Yeah, I know. I don't know. I have no idea. I met a guy this morning. He just wanted to have coffee and sit down. He's a guy that retired. He said three years ago he retired, so he saw my video.

He's kind of an acquaintance I know. He sent me a text, and he's like, man, I'm proud of you. And if you want, I'd love to go sit with you and have coffee. So I went and had coffee with him, and he was kind of asking what my plan was. And I was like, I don't have a plan. I'm just going to kind of sit around and see what happens. He was like, that's perfect. He's like, that's what you need to do.

A plan will come to you. Stuff to do will come to you. Work will come to you. And you'll figure it out. Don't try to figure it out before it happens. Oh, my God. We're all going to get canceled. And Matt's going to have to come out of retirement like Fat Thor and save all of us.

It's going to be awesome. Yeah, that's true. I'm going to retire for a while until you guys need me again. We're like, do you need me? His video is like, I don't associate with them at'm just gonna come out of retirement to kick you Comes out of retirement on the side of you Know that they all got canceled. I'm back Let's go now. dude like uh a lot of us took a like just we looked up to you we don't need any more yeah

yeah a lot of our career was just looking up to you and and just looking at what you did and just going off the basis of what you were doing in your videos yeah i mean i did that to a bunch of other channels too like i i had so many idols on youtube because i love youtube i think it's so cool i loved i love the whole process of like growing the channel and there were so many channels that i like aspired to be like and so i kind of modeled little parts of my videos like them and and so yeah it's cool that I think I've done that for a lot of people too like you know because we all had like the FPS Russia's and stuff like that when we first started yep and I mean it's crazy I think we talked about it on the podcast the other day but just like the fact that FPS Russia at one point was like a top seven or eight YouTube channel on YouTube period yep

yeah it's like man the closest thing we have to that now is you. It's a cool end of a chapter, though. I'm proud of you, man. It's awesome. Thanks. I appreciate it. For your vlog channel specifically, you had Atwood. That's someone you looked up to. Yeah, for sure. That's awesome. I looked up to you for my vlog channel. You helped me out so much, man. Sorry, I'm just, this is sucking Matt's dick podcast now. I like, we got the title.

No, that's the Pepperbox version. Four guys suck off demo. We get some views. We get the couch photo. Yeah. But it's all of us. There's a demo standing behind us. Eight feet tall.

We couldn't do it. It's just a shadow of a dick, and it's just like the Willem Dafoe. Black and white. What was one of the determining factors? Like 2024, did you have a feeling, hey, leading up to this, I'm probably going to retire next year? No, not really. We kind of figured it would be eventually. You know, there's like, I don't know.

It's like I accomplished all the goals that I ever wanted to accomplish and then kept going for five years after that. You know, it's like, so it's just kind of like, why am I still doing this? But really, recently, it's kind of hit us that like our kids are all getting very old. And I'm realizing they're going to leave soon. And I'm just like, this is weird. And we have made all the money I need to make from YouTube. We don't need more money. We don't need more.

Hundreds of dollars. I've made hundreds. My bank account has hundreds of dollars. Hundreds of dollars. I don't need more fame. So I'm just like, I'm just going to take a break. And I'm not saying it's impossible that I won't come back in two, three, four years. In a podcast, let's say, with your friends, maybe.

It could happen. It's possible. Right now, I think it's not. I think I'm maybe done forever. But I just decided, yeah, I'm just going to cold turkey quit in a couple months, wind everything down, and then just stop. Which actually is weird that we set a couple months, and then we looked at it at it i was like oh that ends right on april 1st no one's ever gonna believe us that we're actually really funny i was like we said that at the end of uh

yeah this month really yeah two months it's like shit that's april 1st we just had a com a business convo about anything happening on april 1st yeah the worst'm going to make my last video on April 1st and people are going to be like wait a minute. Or reverse psychology it. Drop a video on April 1st saying I'm still doing YouTube. And then never upload again. That's what I said.

I changed my mind guys. I'm back baby. We'll be back tomorrow. We're going to take a one week break. We'll be back. And then just never come back and people are like I don't understand The meme of the kid waiting next to the door to like way to prank my dad when he comes home Guys I'll be right back. I go get some milk That's pretty good The gas station get some scratchers, I'll be back in five minutes.

That's how it should end. My gun tube dad never showed back up. He went to get some cigs. Was there any determining factor or was it just waking up one day and be like, yo, I just want to, you know what? I'm tired. Yeah. I mean, it's been, I would say it's been a couple years where I've been slowing down, you know, and being like, I'm not as driven to do this anymore as I used to be.

But yeah, as far as announcing it, no, it really was just like all of a sudden just kind of a realization that I don't really know why I'm here anymore, you know? And it's still fun. I think they call that depression. Yeah, I think it might be it too. Not in life in general. But it's still like fun for me, but I'm just not driven to do it anymore. And I want to find, I like being driven, you know? And I want to find what drives me now.

You want to be hungry. But I think, yeah, but I think I have to stop doing this completely to figure out what drives me now and so it's like it's that it's my family it's just wanting to also just be normal you know not be a social media person anymore to not worry about what's happening on instagram or twitter or any of those things i want to just like step away and just like and maybe just detox from it for a while and maybe i'll come back in two years and be like oh i feel refreshed you know but fuck no you won't you but i think i'll probably be done that is a hellscape i never want to yeah like i think i just want to be a normal guy yeah it's weird because it's also really fun to not be normal it's fun for companies to like send you places and you get to go do cool

things and that's so cool it's cool to go to shot show when like companies like pay your way and you get to go to a cool hotel and do all that kind of stuff. But yeah, like you, I've been to SHOT Show a ton. I don't want to go anymore. It's exhausting. I'll treat you like shit for free. That's what you're looking for. The first four you make is why you're back. What a friend.

That is a service I can provide. I feel like you've done that before, though, where you've kind of gotten into the car stuff. Where you're like, all right, I'm still doing the gun shit, but I want to find something else. Because you really do. People don't understand.

We are so jaded to guns now. Yeah. And I've been half-assing Demolition Ranch for five years. Sponsors love that. We still do it because it's still there's a an aspect that's really fun of course and i do still like guns i still like getting them but it was hard to think of videos every single week and so like my crew you know started hiring

people to help me and like i felt weird like i wasn't devoting everything to a whole video you know and so it's kind of weird like i feel like that's sort of half-assing it. Even though I still had people helping. The videos were better with people helping too. But it wasn't all me anymore. So I feel like that's kind of been me sort of slipping out of Demolition Ranch for a while. Where you still get a video. But it's not just me alone in the woods grinding out this video.

Me alone in the woods grinding. There's a certain magic that is lost after a while. That you just can't really get back. It's certain magic that is lost after a while that you just can't really get back it's been going down for me for a while where i'm just like yeah i just don't i'm not obsessed with it anymore like i was your heart's not eight years ago yeah but i don't know maybe you'll get i don't know because i i've i totally understand where you're coming from and like i it's awesome for you to just take a step back and you're like, I don't need this. And I want to watch my kids grow up.

I think that's commendable. But I also know how guys like us are wired. And I'm wondering if you're going to get bored. I am worried about that. My wife is worried about that. She's like, what are you going to do? You're going to need that release. You need that creative outlet.

If you're working 18 hours a day for 15 years, you think you're just going to shut it off for an extended period of time. Like I'm going to learn how to knit or something. I don't know. Demolition knitting. Can I just shit on people real quick? Sure. On your behalf.

Sure. People who say he doesn't add to the second amendment community, you're retarded. You're absolutely retarded he made guns fun for everyone get him he made the second amendment fun and to say he's never contributed to the 2a community you're retarded you're a dumb piece of shit it's not only that it's like he made it approachable to a degree that No offense, Brandon, but none of the rest of us do it. I mean, look at how I appear.

You with the jokes you make and everything else. Oh, this dude's legitimately just like a good family man dad. I talked to Coleon Noir about that because he's obviously very political about his 2A stuff. His videos are all political. And we were talking about the difference in what we both do. And it is something like i'm also not a super political person like i don't want to so we have brandon politics yeah i mean i look at it like combined arms yeah where it's like all right there's air support there's artillery

there's infantrymen it's like well he sucks hand to hand well that's cool i still need him to fucking well call down a fire on that even if you're one of those guys who is like, Demolition Ranch should have done more. I think that's where those... And it's, I think, a loud minority of people that think that I'm anti 2A because I didn't do more. Aren't they the loudest?

Even if you're the guy who says... It was a soft pitch. I knew somebody was going to take it. I didn't even hear that. Even if you are one of the guys...ches take on movie theaters cancel me i don't care uh if you think i should have done more like i just don't know how you couldn't step back and be like well it wasn't a net negative you know it's still a net positive you're still making gun content you're still making it easy access for someone who doesn't know anything about guns to not feel like, well, this guy's super political and all pro-gun and he's scary. I'm just like, no, I'm going to go out and shoot these things and it's going to be funny.

We talked about it on the PSR podcast where I'm like, man, you need the demo ranches, the John Wicks, the Call of Duties. That's the very beginning of the funnel. Because if you just hammer fist people with the Constitution, it's like, are you correct? Yes. But you need to get people hit like warm them up a little bit of foreplay before you just slap them with the cost are you saying demos the foreplay yeah it's just like it's also being like the infrastructure with how big you were like the things that other people were able to accomplish because you enabled them to like yeah last range day you probably don't even know this but there was like some pretty big people from youtube that showed up and i was like escorting them around range day and like within 20 minutes they'd never shot a gun in their life

and they had shot in pistols rifles machine guns and one of them was like i feel really safe this is not what i was expecting at all when i came here everybody is so nice and like everybody's being very professional and like safe with all these guns i'll be so pissed if as soon as i leave youtube it gets really easy for gun troopers $200 cpns everything plugs in i'm out of retirement the people that you're talking about i was talking to him too and i'm like you thought we were just a bunch of dumb fucking rednecks who like go out and just like bang bang bang bang bang yeah fun which fair half true and we're smart rednecks that go bang bang yeah we go bang bang this is dangerous but they were like you guys are so safe and like this was the best time we ever had

it's like yeah yeah that's what we do and you paved the way for that and like thanks can't appreciate you enough buddy i helped pay the way plenty of people helped pave the way there wasn't it's true but it didn't feel that way when i was standing on your range yeah those are scary hey brandon you ever wake up in your bed feeling like you just fought in a war? All clear? Yeah, what do you ask? You ever wake up and feel like you slept in a sauna? Yeah, I believe that's called night sweats.

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I just want to reiterate, none of this was in the script. I don't know why we started talking like Randy Savage. But listen, everyone here has a story with you. Like your first, the AR, and even then, it was like, you had me on the AR video to go against him. ARs versus AK guys versus AK guys. And that's how that circle started started did you say AR gays? it was a bit of a poignant slip

AR gays versus AK guys poignant slip I remember a bunch of people hitting me up saying like dude DemoRanch just stole your video it's cause I stole his video and I had the complete opposite take I was like fucking just starting out in youtube i maybe had like i don't know 30 000 40 000 subs and i was like fucking demo ranch just stole my video that's so cool

because like you mentioned me at the end of it everything i'm like i stole his video i gave him credit and then i invited him out to make a video so i felt like yeah it was a good trade i think we talked about that on the podcast that we just filmed yesterday. It was kind of fun just to see the early days of Bunker and just everything as you were still kind of kicking off a lot of the infrastructure that you've managed to build over the last, what, five, six years?

Yeah, it's been crazy. Yeah, the last six years have been a big change. I think Matt accidentally hooked me up the first time I was on Demolition Ranch. I don't know if he did it on purpose or not. Hooked you up? It was me and you and Admin all competing to win your LMA. Oh, yeah.

And I never got a free gun before in my entire life. And he's like, all right, here's the challenges. We've got to try to shoot guns while we're getting shocked. And I'm like, fuck, I got this. I don't like Sean, man. I've been shot plenty. I've been completely unfazed. I was like, there's no way i'm beating administrative results in

shooting it's not gonna happen like i'm all right but this is his job and then he's like we're getting shocked while we do it and i was like oh fuck i might win this and you did and man admin wanted that gun so bad you didn't you didn't seem to care. What gun was it? It was just an LMT. It was just a.308 LMT with a badass scope on it. I was like, I want this really bad. Aaron wanted it so bad. And he was actually kind of pissed at the end of the episode. He didn't get it.

And then we got to do jiu-jitsu together. For three seconds. I was like, what did you just put me in that's that's gonna be your title on a business card if we ever do those just like uh the fat electrician head pretzel maker yeah my my like my if you could if i could snip any three seconds from my entire youtube career it was when i went like this and me and matt shook hands before the match and okay go and Matt goes you're not even scared

it means he's done it once or twice I'm a purple belt and I was like cool I'm not any belt I don't even know what that means I would have been terrified at the slow hat reverse what did we tie you and I tied and so it was like whoever can win in wrestling can win and you're like I'm a purple belt and i was like well let's fucking go here we go i guess

you're gonna win geez the first time i came out we shot each other with uh dude that with less than lethal that was a good video what year was that geez i don't know 2018 19 we both looked like babies so maybe yeah yeah you just came down in texas where we just moved there he hadn't moved yet i hadn't moved yet he hit me up and he was like hey dude you want to come shoot less than lethal weapons at each other i said fuck yeah dude devilish ranch wants me to do that hell yeah i'm coming what was the one thing you didn't want to do again you're like i will not be pepper sprayed i think was your thing yeah that was one of the things but the the bolo the bolo was the bolo wrap that was the worst you shot with the Bolo wrap. It had these little like fish hooks that

would like fly around you and wrap you up and then hook into your skin. And it was the company was like, yeah, y'all can shoot each other with this, but don't be running while you do it. And we were like, Oh, that would've been so cool. Like shoot them and it wraps your legs up and knocks them over. But it's cause if you're doing that, would just rip your skin open yeah because it was a it was a 38 uh blank 38 that projected it right i don't remember was it yeah it was like a normal bolos just have balls at the end of town yeah so this is dude this is like a wire cord yeah kevlar line with fish hooks on the end of it it looks like that sounds as demo ranches it kind of looks it looks like a cell phone almost yeah it's it was like made for cops and so it's like it's a lesson lethal and you just shoot it and it'll wrap up arms or legs or whatever but it just goes

and like and then fish hooks go in your skin that's got to be horrible when you hit him in the neck and it just and it's like yeah you can't get them like they they hook in your skin like fish hooks they're in you and i mean we had to like pull them out of our skin you had to take pliers and get them out of my skin it's hard to cut and it's kevlar line and it's crazy yeah that was gnarly they were cool we had the taser guys there too yeah and the water cannon yeah oh the water cannon was gnarly there was nothing funner than having our friends like yeah i have these houses that are full of mold and we have to rip them down i was like can we can we do the meme shoot them can we do the meme for when the big

gun is for when the enemy's hiding behind my enemy's refrigerator and then we went out and did that fucking video shot a house yeah and then we went through all of them surprisingly a lot of lower calibers like nine millimeter was enough to go through one exterior wall a fridge and penetrate a human oh yeah so then everything else is just like i mean well of that video that you guys do together the it's that meme you know the meme like the desert eagle for when the burglar is hiding behind your neighbor's refrigerator? Yeah, it says, 50 cal for when the burglar is hiding behind the fridge in your neighbor's house. And it's supposed to be like it goes through everything, which bullets apparently do.

9 mil does that, actually. Full metal jacket. Yeah. Yeah. People don't realize walls are not thick. Full metal jacket. God, I read through the comments on that video. All the Europeans just shitting on American construction methods. Because they're not made out of stone. and full metal jacket god i read through the comments on that video all the europeans just

shitting on american construction methods because they're not made out of while they're sweating and 27 people die every time you guys have a heat wave because you can't install air conditioners morons side eye to show that was fucking aggressive jesus christ i watched that happen like jamie pull that shit back like that we just get done shooting through this house with seven different calibers of guns. And I was like, yeah. Good thing you guys shut the gas off. And Matt's like, oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, we did. We were shooting a different house out on that property. So I guess we should have learned. We were shooting a different house out there. And we hear. And we're like, should have learned. What an American statement. We were shooting a different house out there, and we hear pssh, pssh, pssh. And we're like, oh no. It smells like eggs.

We thought we hit a gas line. I was like, I didn't think there was gas in this house. And we start freaking out. Oh god, it was just a squatter. We realized it was just an air conditioner. There's like compressed gases in there. Freon? Yeah, like Freon. And it was hissing. I was like, oh my gosh, this house is about to explode crackheads do weird

shit when you shoot a man i don't know trust me i don't corner raccoon this is a gross bam oh no holy shit so uh moral of the story we've done a lot of crazy shit together the past i mean years yeah it's been it's been a long time that's crazy better part of a decade yeah when did you move here shit uh five years ago okay yeah yeah and but i was coming out here and hanging out yeah you've already been making videos for a couple years yeah could you stay with me you live you and john live with me for like two weeks yeah yeah i live with eli for a little i forgot about that yeah fuck yeah that was like, that was 2020. And you came like a year after that? A couple weeks.

Yeah, it was 2020. It was the big winter freeze. The snowpocalypse. The snowpocalypse here. You were there for that, remember? Oh, yeah. We were staying at our buddy's house. Yeah, and then Brian pulls up during the snowpocalypse in his truck.

He's like, what the hell? I moved my entire life life like my girlfriend at time everything like we moved across the country like texas where it's hot and uh we took a wrong turn because i was already like i was already spending months at a time in texas just hanging out with you guys or like doing work shit or whatever i'm like i'm just moving to san antonio and uh yeah what it we get to houston and the snow starts to fall. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Houston snow is crazy. That's insane.

You're right next to the ocean, the Gulf of America. The Gulf of America. Freezing. Well, he got here when no one had food. No one had power. There's no power. No restaurants were open. No grocery stores were open.

You're moving your entire life. You don't have a fridge. You don't have food. I think we went to a Buc-ee's and I'm just just like load up on everything calorie dense because it might be a minute yeah and you pulled up i don't know if we can keep this burning it's your choice but i just liked then you had a conversation for an hour about it's not safe to drive yeah somebody had wanted to go home and i was like i don't know how to explain this to you. I'm like,

we can't. That's not a option right now. He's just sliding down the road like this. He's like, is that good enough? Are we good? I like to shot him like, Brandon walked back to him and he's like, yeah, we're not. His first night in Texas, we're in a what, a two, three bedroom home

and there's probably what like 15 adults in there yeah because it was the only house that had power at the time because it was on the the hospital grid yep batty fetish what it was just like gutters no no no it was like just gutters i mean i made a pot roast for everyone. That was so fucking funny, man. That was like, it's like, oh, we're all going to eat each other. You guys are all sitting there like,

all right, who's going to be the first one to eat one of Batty's lizards? I look back and I was like, those were such good times. None of us knew what the fuck was going on, man. What's better than a well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue a well marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that was carefully selected by an instacart shopper and delivered to your door a well marbled ribeye you ordered without even leaving the kiddie pool

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Yeah, we bought this minivan. We painted it gold, and it turned out to just be the best running thing ever. Like,'t kill it we just kept making videos with it was like a hylux uh no yeah it was like a hylux yeah but yeah we made videos forever with it and then finally it was like kind of getting pretty beat up because we were just riding it into trees and you tied it to what we were in that like little reservoir we didn't tie it to anything we tied the steering wheel turned a little bit oh really and it was just doing circles we put a brick on the pedal and just let it go around in circles and

we ran back we're like the car's just and we're just like well let's just shoot different calibers and see what happens and that was that was the first time my son came down too because remember john was just like yeah like yeah just kill it well Well, Kentucky was there. And I can't remember if it was him or Batty. One of them two shot a 50 BMG incendiary at it. And then the van lit on fire. And we're like, oh, my gosh. If this thing burns all these trees. And we're like, we kind of have to stop the van now. So we were like, well, how do we put it out?

And I had this one little faucet, but no hose. So we just had buckets. And we'd fill it up and go dump buckets of water. Water's not great in putting out gasoline, by the way. So we're like trying. And we somehow did get it to go out. Yeah, that was the first time my son experienced Texas. He's like, this is what Matt does? These guys are crazy.

It's like, yeah, yeah, this is it. We just shoot the minivan going in circles. Pretty good introduction. Yeah, that sums up Demolition Ranch. Do you ever think about when your kids get out in the real world and they're just not surrounded by our group? My kids are not surrounded by our group. That's for the best.

I don't bring my kids around. He made his own wall around that. Have you guys ever hung out with my kids? Rarely. I've never even met his kids. I keep my kids far away from our group. I've only met merrill one time it's whenever i was like especially when i was coming to visit or anything like before i lived

here and we'd stay at the youtuber suite yes and uh just like waking up the next morning i'm like i'm used to like hanging out with all the the guys whatever like all this degenerate shit and then like walking into your kitchen as your kids are getting ready to go to school and there's pancakes out and whatnot. I'm like, I feel like a horrible. That's what was so hard about being like living this YouTube life is I'd have people come in and they'd spend the night because we had this little separate apartment. It was just, we really just bought that house. We thought it was cool. That was like an apartment in it.

So people could come in and make videos. But normal guys who don't have kids kids they stay up till three in the morning and i have to get up at six in the morning to like feed kids and take them to school and so it's like i would be like so worn out because i'm waking up so early and then like the people not not you guys in particular but some guys like wouldn't wake actually don't know probably wouldn't wake up until noon. That's for you. Noon.

I'll drink it. You're having one bush light with me before you retire. I'll do it. May I have a bush light? Oh, yeah. Yeah, but they wouldn't wake up until noon. We can't start making videos until 2. And then I've got to pick up kids from school at 4.30.

And I'm like, this is not working for our little day. But it's hard figuring out that stuff. Family life plus YouTube life. You can make it work it's just challenging it was like that in the political world too because it was like i had to like drive four hours to west texas to do events or whatever so i'm like i'm doing all the youtuber life but i still have to wake up at six o'clock in the morning to go start my day with a four-hour drive yeah like that was the juxtaposition of doing what we do and doing anything else a functional adult does is very

every difficult everybody wonders why i haven't moved to texas yet it's because it makes it really easy to not have to fight that battle have a normal home life last night at the bar i was like i gotta go guys i'm gonna go well i was like you guys stay in here. You missed some really funny shit. Bro, it got aggressive after you left. We almost got in a fight. With who? An 80s action movie villain. Literally, bear in mind, we stayed up till 3 in the morning the night prior watching both versions of Roadhouse. And then we almost got in a bar fight the next night.

I feel like that was completely not our fault. We were sitting there minding our own business. And a that apparently was 40 based on what she said and recently divorced that she said five more times came up and was hitting on some of us and uh you know we were polite or whatever and we're like yeah cool blah blah and she talked for like five ten minutes and then like standing over our table like standing over us while we're talking i was like oh vodka you guys they were offered by how did you know she offered to buy us vodka i was there oh for the first part you were there for the second part the first part was like yeah i was like oh vodka blah blah blah and i was like well i gotta use the restroom real quick and I went and fucking shit

because I had cheese and when I came back they weren't there I was like, no so she went and was like making out with some other dude that she went and found at the bar for a while, very aggressively like licking tongues at the bar

like they were getting kicked out of the bar, it was aggressive aggressive, and then as they were leaving together she stopped at our table again and was like saying hi again because you have three exits to make up your mind yeah was her phrasing and then uh the dude that she had left with has already walked out and he comes back in like two minutes later and he's got like a hawaiian shirt with like the bottom two buttons done like his whole chest is out and he's got one of those like colgate flosser picks in his mouth and he's chewing on it like a 1980s cool guy with a toothpick it's like you're coming with me or you're staying with these boys gin trout looks around like did that just we all did like just the sunglasses off like

not saying we're hot shit but this is a bold table to have that attitude with a less gross man any table of three grown men by yourself to walk up and be like these boys is insane you have this 250 pound gorilla. You're going to call him a boy? With Brandon and fucking Trowel sitting there. And poor guy also, he's like, I'm good, late at night. And then the girl's like, oh yeah, I forgot about you. I'm cursed at you.

I don't know how to say this, but this guy doesn't look like one of us. Like, he's just a very mid-skinny white guy. He looked like a 1980s a very mid skinny white guy we're just like he doesn't 1980s tough guy at a bar and we just got done watching roadhouse i was like and in the back of my mind was like all of us can post bail this isn't man i just wanted to go home

there's some mug shots that won't be good for my career and there's some that would and this is one that might be pretty cool i miss work for trump just saying he sold a lot of shirts man it's kind of my thing i just remember them being shit wrecked when they approached and then it didn't get better i didn't figure that like oh okay i'm out i'm sorry i don't know okay i dadded that one i i went home last night i was like you were out for that part yeah i was like i want to go see my son you guys went out and almost got into a fucking bar fight with a 1980s villain you would have been so pissed if we got in a bar fight without you i know that would have been horrible i was asleep by her drunk friend comes i've never seen a man so openly displaying his wedding ring

and i was like okay how are you sitting i was sitting like this with your wedding ring because she was like standing above me so i was like this listening to the conversation and her friend walks up like this guy's trying to show off his wedding ring. And I was like, no, but also yes. I'm just in a defensive posture because I don't know you and you're hovering over me. Because I'm uncomfortable and you're dressed like Han Solo in January. That is pretty funny. Don't talk shit about the white Whitney Houston. Oh my God.

She did say that. She was so drunk. She's like, after we just watched her make out with a dude at the bar, I recently got divorced. I went home at 9, 10, by the way. This all happened over the course of 30 more minutes. I shouldn't be doing this. I just got back from church, from worship,

and she's like, I go to a black church. They call me the White Whitney Houston, and I'm trying. I had to get up and go to the bathroom. I was laughing so hard. Guys, she's trying really hard. 30 more minutes. Damn! That should have stayed longer.

Sounds like you guys were not picking up what she was putting down. I don't think we wanted to pick up what she was putting down. NPC behavior, dude. What was the random encounters from GTA? What is strangers and freaks? Oh, fuck. What was the random encounters from GTA? What is strangers and freaks? Oh, fuck.

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I don't know about you. With Cody, it is. Did you ever have that thought process? Like, hey, I'm retiring. At any point before that, was it like, I'm going to hand it off to my kids? Me? Yeah. Were you ever in that thought process?

Oh, y'all are talking to me. Sorry, I was still thinking about the fight last night. You're talking about the roadhouse. I honestly don't know if I want my kids to do this. I don't know. But someone did ask me if I would ever sell the channel. And I was like, no, I don't think so. I mean, I guess everything is for sale.

200 million? Yeah, if it's a crazy amount. Yeah, I can't say that I would really stand strong on that. But there's a big sentimental part of it where it's like, I want it because it's a crazy million. Yeah. If it's a crazy amount, like I, yeah, I can't say that I would really stand strong on that, but like, there's a, a big sentimental part of it where it's like, I want it. Cause it's something I created. It was,

it was my baby for so long. Yeah. It's something that like I loved. And so I want it for me, but then it's also like, what if in 20 years, I want to be Hickok 45 on the internet, you know,

still making videos or what if I want to let one of my kids go ahead and take it over and have demolition ranch come back. If YouTube is still a thing in 20 years, you know still making videos or what if i want to let one of my kids go ahead and take it over and have demolition ranch come back if youtube is still a thing in 20 years you know or five years 10 years whatever it is you know it's an interesting perspective because like if you if one of your kids approached you let's say in like two three years yeah like they're a little older and said dad i want to do youtube what would your advice like what what's your take two three years is too soon there's they'll still they're not old enough yet but if they're in their 20s yeah if they're in their 20s and they want to do that like yeah go for it i don't care well i mean we're the first generation of youtubers dude and what do you do what do you do with that channel right and and like if youtube is still

a thing like we also would have the first like generate like multi-generational on youtube like someone yeah i mean now you have actors who their parents were actors you know the charlie charlie sheens you know and every business every business that you start especially a family business it is i've started this this is what i'm doing i'm gonna pass this off you take care of it this is the first one where it's like i don't fucking know because it is scary you're like i don't know if you want to yeah this is a lot when they're in their 20s i think it's great like they're old enough to make their own decisions and everything and so i i would be totally fine with that in in their 20s but yeah there's so many like martin

sheen charlie sheen like the scars the scars guards our guards and and yeah like that that's great you know their dads obviously helped them get there or whatever and so if that is how youtube is that is kind of cool and so i i kind of like it we all say like oh you know if youtube is still a thing like it blows my mind to think about it uh but like youtube currently is 20 years old yeah it's it's it's like my whole career i just watched your fucking face change entirely it's true though everyone looked yeah but it's it's it's something that like my whole career, I've thought, you know, especially I was a vet for the first, you know. Thank you for your service. Half of it, yeah.

Thank you for your service. We pass it off to you. But yeah, I was a veterinarian. I held on to that because I was like, well, YouTube is new. It may just disappear any day. So I don't want to count on that as my career. And so I did that for a long time until like I was making way more money on YouTube and I was like okay it's it's more fun it's more flexible I can do it whenever I feel like it and now it's way more

profitable so I guess I'm gonna do more YouTube than veterinary work and where was I going with this oh yeah so then we kept we kept using it as just YouTube may disappear at any time yeah like I knew like okay, two years from now, YouTube might not be here. But now that it's been going for 20 years, it's like, what if this is still here in 20 more years? What if YouTube is like a lifelong career, which it looks like it could be. I think it's the new Hollywood. I think it's replacing. Insane.

You still have the 15 minutes of fame. Because I don't think I'll be here in 10 years. Like, on YouTube, like, at the same place. Like, I don't think I got that in me. Like, I don't think that's a thing that any of us, like, 10 years from now, I'm like, I don't know. This is an expiration date. We just don't know what it is. You'll be a different person in 10 years. Like, you know, similar, but you're going to change in that amount of time.

And I don't know. It's weird. I don't know. People keep getting shot, so so i'm gonna be around forever well you got job security that's never done i mean your entire channel is watching assholes so like you got how many subscribers you get on vet ranch uh four million or something i'm i think yeah yeah i was doing good. Yeah, it was. YouTube is what killed that.

So YouTube made it to where blood, you know, if there's blood, you can't make money on it anymore. Yeah, even if you're taking care of a puppy or a kitten. And mine was not gratuitous blood. It was like, I'm showing how a surgery works. Because you even censored it, too. I tried censoring it, and really the censoring took away what i loved

about vet ranch which was i could take like my dad is a veterinarian and so i got to go in the clinic as a little kid and watch these crazy surgeries you know i'm sitting there at the edge of the table watching these crazy surgeries and i was like that was cool as a kid to see because not many kids get to see that kind of stuff and so i thought that ranch is cool because i can show kids across the world what it looks like to take out a bladder stone or what it looks like when a dog eats this and you have to cut its stomach open and pull it out. But then YouTube came through five years later and just made it to where you

can't make any money on it. It was like, those videos were really expensive and really hard to make. Cause you know, they took a month of me like following these dogs throughout their recovery or whatever. But because it's educational, you can still watch some gay dude near his asshole on on youtube can you watch that yes yeah it's a whole

thing well uh oh god don't do it do not straight up boobs are against the rules unless you're holding a baby and you claim it has anything to do with breastfeeding which is a whole nother level of disgusting because there's all these women like on instagram and youtube reels and everything where it's like taking advantage of the label promoting only fans while holding an infant and i was like that's have you seen the even i don't know if it's weird or not but where they have a fake baby the dolls yes what the hell what like not to get on my old now it's gonna be on y'all's algorithm too matt's sitting over here trying to show kids that like yeah blood is a thing yeah it's real

life dogs is a thing this is a thing that happens in your life real skills yeah real like like teaching young people like this is part of life and they fucked you. And we were doing, we were, it was all homeless dogs. So we were like net positive. We're helping out, you know, it's almost like charity work.

It was, I mean, I was getting paid for it. So it wasn't charity work for me, but like we're doing net, net positive stuff, which was really cool. And then they cut basically all funding for it. And it was like,

well, I can't spend a month working on these videos that I'm not going to make any money on it. Well, now I'm going to lose money on every one of them and so it was hard and just kind of took the took the the you know the fun of making them when i had i tried censoring and then it just you couldn't show anything and it was just i don't know they just felt lame and then i i wasn't making money on it would you ever go back to it like just as like a thing now you're retired you're like you're

going to go back to that is one of the options that i think may happen is go back and just be a regular veterinarian again, which is weird. A weird thing to think about. I'm going to have to get a hurt dog to get you back on unsub. Yes. I know what I have to do. I just don't know if I have the strength to do it. The opening episode is like, Doug, I'm sorry. We have to summon Matt.

And the screen goes black. It's like the meme with the black guy crying with the gun like jesus yeah that's on the table it's weird cool your family's still on like so as the practice right um yeah yeah my my sister-in-law like purchased the practice from me yeah oh okay yeah i knew you sold it i didn't know you sold it family that's cool yeah yeah so so that's actually like hey this might be what is the other one other than that one have you had any other options for yourself we're like oh this sounds like what i might do yeah um maybe i'll just become like a rancher just like have cattle and just no i really don't have any plans but like i might i might do nothing like that for a while like i'm just gonna like i

need to put up some fence i'm just gonna do old man shit for a while like i really i don't know bro matt's going hardcore yellowstone it's awesome i'm gonna sell all my vehicles and just ride a horse to town if you see the guy on the horse that's me dude i got my thousand videos in like can i come yellowstone with you yes okay i'll just be a rancher all my friends are yellow stooning yeah okay guy that just recently ran for office like you're not doing it too fuck you man that was a very poignant example so like in the show he won. So I guess like, I'll be honest. Like I didn't, I came in so late. I never really looked up to you as like the content creation side.

But like the cool part for me, it was one of the first times I ever came to town and we were talking and you were like, I flew in Friday night and I was flying out Monday morning and I was like, Hey, you want to get together? Do whatever. And you're like, Oh, sorry oh sorry man my weekends are for family yeah like that was super cool to me just like so like I look that's why I told you you want to do this podcast yesterday which was a Sunday and I said no I said I had stuff going on I didn't it was I was just hanging with family like smart like smart I love it so like I don't look up to you as a content creator, but I look up to you as like, okay, I got little tiny kids right now.

So it's like, how the fuck do I navigate doing this while also trying to be a good dad? He thinks you're a shit content creator. Yeah, no, you're content is dog shit, especially when I'm in it. But no, so the cool part to me like seeing how you manage that and then hearing that. So I guess, do you have any advice for it? Cause like I'm constantly struggling with like, I had a, like a rougher childhood than I think my kids are going to have.

So in the back of my brain, I'm like, how do I traumatize this kid enough? So he's funny and I'd want to hang out with them, but also he doesn't hate me. Yeah. I had a good childhood, like, you know, great parents who love me and supported me and everything. So I didn't have that, but, uh,, great parents who loved me and supported me and everything. So I didn't have that. But I still want to give that to my kids. And I think I think I have. I think, you know, as as a YouTuber, you have a lot of freedom to hang out with your kids

all the time. But what I started realizing is I also have a freedom. I also have the freedom to hang out with my kids more than I do. And so I just want to make sure like there's been times when I felt guilty about like, you know, for instance, my daughter's birthday is right around SHOT Show. I've literally missed the actual day of her birthday because it was SHOT Show. And I was like, this is the one thing that I got to do this year. And I feel guilty about that, even though we celebrate her birthday two days before or whatever, you know.

So that's the advice. Don't fuck my wife nine months from SHOT Show. That's the kind of stuff that I'm like, I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to have to like, be like, well, it's just two days before. It's not a big deal, you know? And I'm there for my kids all the time, but like, I want to be like to where they never can be like, yeah, dad missed my birthday every year because shot show was around that time, you know? time. But no, I'm not a perfect father at all, and I'm not aspiring to be a perfect father at all. But yeah, I don't know.

I think in a few years, I mean, I have seven and a half more years where my kids are in the house, and I'm like, I want to have no regrets this last seven and a half years that I literally did every single thing. I went to every single game, and I took them to school

every time they needed me to take him to school. That's my plan. I think a lot of people, Cody, you're feeling that too. When they hit 18, 19, 20, they hopefully will move out. You're going to see him maybe once a month, depending on how it gets less and less. And then that's the life part of it. Does John have his driver's license yet? No.

He's 15. Yeah, we're working on getting his learner's permit right now my wife's brother his son just turned 16 and i didn't realize this he said he didn't realize this whenever he turned 16 he was like he's gone way more than he used to be he's like i thought i thought we'd see him for like the next couple years and then he was going to move out he's like now that he has a driver's license like he goes to school in the morning on his own and then he comes home like you know they have a curfew or whatever on a weekday he has to be home by eight o'clock or whatever you know he's like we don't see him until

eight he hangs out with his friends he goes to basketball practice and he was like i feel like he's already half moved out at 16 years old and i'm like that's crazy like that's good because like you kind of want that yeah for sure you want them to start getting that independence and that freedom yeah well i'm trying to teach john right now. I'm terrified because I'm like, hey, dude, when you get out in the real world, you're not going to be around the demo ranch, the fucking fat electricians, the Eli, the Brandon Herrera, the Post Malone's, like all the people that we fucking we're around. That's not a normal. That's not a normal thing. You're not going to go out to eat every day. You're not buying your lunch.

Everyone's going to split the action. I take my check please thank you like you're like yeah we're not going out to brunch dude like it's and it's hard trying to impress on him like this is not a normal life we do this because you know we've we've scratched and we've worked our way up in the world the past like 10 years. That's shitty. Cause the kids don't see that. Cause that, that was the, what were we just talking about? Where I'm like, man,

I, I am so much more relaxed now than I ever was in my early life. I set my twenties on fire to get here. Yup. Yeah. And people don't see that, especially kids. So I can only imagine.

Yeah. Matt's working 18 hours a day. All of us, we're just working 18 hours a day trying to get this shit started. And we're at a comfortable place right now. But like, how do you tell a day, all of us, we're just working 18 hours a day trying to get this shit started. And we're at a comfortable place right now. But like, how do you tell a kid this is not normal life? Like, this is not what happened. He's just going to have culture shock when he finally moves out.

Yeah, he's going to have to get like roommates and, you know, live in an apartment. And like, yeah, it's wild. Eat ramen six days a week. Yep. You can't go out and eat every day. You can't go out and drink. And like, you're going to have to manage your money,

bubba. It's a shock. You're like, fuck dude. What the fuck is this? Life sucks. I'm moving back to dad. No,

that's what I'm telling you. The code doesn't work. Yeah. I'm like, dude, like I'm not gonna be here forever buddy i'm not gonna fucking pay for your meals or like your apartment or your car or any of this so yeah it's a weird life bud is that hard for you or are you like hey my kids are

pretty set up they're squared away um no my kids we have a very normal home life like we have i don't know if y'all know but we don't hang out with y'all ever dude we've hung out like twice as fast like bringing our kiddos over and i was like oh this is so nice and then we're leaving by like eight yeah that was so lovely we have a very normal like home life for the kids. We have a bunch of non-YouTube families, not because of you guys, but just because we want our kids. It's compartmentalized. There's two of them here. I'm not going to say which ones. The brown ones.

We were talking about it last night on the podcast with Clayton Vanessa and how they're like, every time you throw a house party and the YouTubers and the normal friends are invited,'re like the intermediary where the doctors are like how do i talk to all the guys with tattoos and drank too much it's like your birthday party i was just like i'm gonna invite everyone i know it was so good it was all my youtube friends and all of my church friends half the room is fucking sweater vests and glasses and the other half is doing shots from an AT-4 These are all the people I love in the world. I'm just gonna invite friggin everyone here It's gonna be awesome and it was I had the best time ever but it was there's two groups there It was the school dance was like the girls the boys are split up

but it was funny seeing like like JT was there and he like he found my my air force buddy and they just start talking about air force stuff the whole time like people started connecting those it was hilarious and i loved it i know talk about that nasdaq what caliber is that but yeah we uh we had an at4 rocket tube we put a beer bong in it and we called it the beer zooka and it was awesome i think all of us pulled from it yeah i mean i got like my accountant friends to take beer zookas you know like we had we had my my family doctor beer zooka and it was awesome the dichotomy of man like Like, what the fuck?

It felt like having split personalities. It's like Spartacus where all the wealthy Romans are throwing a party and they bring in the gladiators. It's like a sideshow. The workers are here. You can tell who's on YouTube because all those guys have sleeves. Hand tattoos are a good sign.

Not a lawyer. Hey. That's what I talked about. Getting neck tattoos or something. Just so you know, we're never going back to a real job. That was my commitment when I got these. I'm never going back exactly this is why i get hand

tattoos now i'm not doing that again i've become too confrontational never not work for myself ever again like that you just can't it was like worst case scenario i'm gonna open up my own electrician shop and i'm still gonna work for myself oddly enough when the power's out you don't care how many tattoos the guy has it shows up to turn the lights back on although i did see a guy in vegas who really made that commitment like uh harder than i've ever seen i passed him in the grocery store uh had fucking ss rooms tattooed on his neck like man that guy better be self-employed or he's just not employed he's a roofer works for the gas company he's a train engineer oh Cody everyone's like I'm going to pee

do you have to pee? I actually do have to pee you guys are going to be so lonely without me no we'll go pee too I'm drinking more than I usually do I had a water bottle before this and. I'm drinking more than I usually do. I was like, oh, I don't drink. I had a water bottle before this, and now I'm like, yeah, I got to pee.

Now we get asked the fun questions like, what was the worst moment in all of demo history? We talked about one, which I might be. That's probably what I'll bring up again. But your perspective is quite nice on the subject. Let's do it. Uh-oh. What is it is it oh we're going yeah it's already fucking rolling we don't hit pause yeah my uh i mean well i don't know maybe it just feels like the worst moment because it was the most recent but yeah it was the trump shooting on it yeah well i mean it really was like i don't want to be associated with this but for some

reason i'm associated with it. And so it's. Hey, that was my worst moment too. Why was that your worst moment? Because I had just taken a loan out against my house and spent a significant amount of money to buy into your company. And literally 36 hours later, I was like, oh no, I'm going to lose my house. Well, that was so my, so I, one of my like really good friends is an attorney And so we do all like our contracts through him and he calls me and he's like hey

I talked to one of my like big attorney friends and he was like You could get the yes the first thing is he said hey are all of your guns legal and I was like Yeah And he goes oh good good good good i was like why good good this is like the first call everything's happening you're like but yeah like my attorney friend calls me it was like two days later or something so it all like we have been watching yes why you pause yeah and he was like he was like yeah he said good and i was like why and he goes well because you're probably gonna get um they're gonna get a warrant and and come look through all your stuff.

And I'm like, why? And he's like, just because it's a big nation worldwide thing and they're going to want to make sure you don't have any involvement with it. I was like, because he wore my T-shirt. He's like, he's just saying they might. And I'm like, well, that's going to fucking suck. Just to preface the conversation, if you guys haven't seen it, we talked about it with Clinton Jenna last night. There was a person who shot at the sitting president and was wearing one of Matt's shirts.

The star of Beavis and Butthead. Yeah. Well, and he was wearing one of the shirts that, like our most popular shirt, the one I've worn the most, like a gray shirt that just says Demolition. Demolition. We have sold so many of the shirts that like our most popular shirt the one I've worn the most like a gray shirt that just says Demolition we have sold so many of that shirts so many of those shirts all you guys have had one of those shirts and like immediately after I think we all

did videos like in that shirt just out of solidarity like I mean and we like I was going over to one of my buddy's houses solidarity for you for the record just throwing that out there going over to one of my buddy's houses. Salary for you, for the record. Just throwing that out there. It's a great clip.

Sabotaging future Brandon. Politics, bring it out. Feel the need to clarify. I just like Brandon realizing. Oh, dang it. Well, that's going to get clipped out of context. No, I was going over to a guy's house that night just to hang out. And he was like, man, did you hear about this Trump shooting?

And I was like, no. And he tells me, yeah, some guy took a shot at Trump. And I was like, that's crazy. And that's all we knew. And then two hours later, my brother texts me. And he was like, have you seen this? And sends me a screenshot. He was the first one that let me know, Drew.

Drewski let you know? Yeah, Drewski. He was the first one that let me know. He sends me, he's like, have you seen this? And I was like, that's not real. Where'd you get that? Where'd you get that picture? And he's like, it's the one they're showing. And I look it up and I'm like, that is for sure one of my shirts.

I didn't believe it at first. Yeah, I was like, there's no way. That's insane. And it was insane. And it happened. And it's crazy. But yeah, it sucked. The news is talking about the guy's name and Trump and me.

And your militia. Yeah, my militia. The militia. This alt-right militia. Yeah, of course, the biggest 2A YouTubers in the world. This militia. Fuck journalists, man. We don't bully them enough.

They don't go to heaven. I did talk to the FBI. They did call like weeks later like it was like months later it was like two months later they called like they never did an investigation i never got a warrant they never looked through anything i think someone probably was like that doesn't make any sense that's stupid but the fbi did reach out just to like chat and they they said well you know like the guy was like looking through your videos like to learn how to like shoot guns and stuff.

And I went, wait, what? I was like, what do you mean? Do you know that? Because no one's ever told me that before. And she goes, well, no, I was just saying maybe that's what happened. I was like, so why did you say that? And she was like, I love you,

but of all the gun YouTubers, looking at how to shoot guns efficiently is not what I would go to your channel for. But that's what she said. And I was like, why did you say that? And she was like, uh, I don't know. I just thought maybe. I was like, did someone say that they found that out? I don't know. She was like, no, I'm not on the case. I have no idea.

And I was like, okay. What the fuck? In Brandon's... That's what they would wear if they watched your video. What did you say? I just wore a can of beans on my chest to stop around if they shot me. That's a demo, dude.

Watch the alarm. I would like to say we're all professional shooters here. In Brandon's video, how hard was it to recreate just shooting the ear? You had those leftist conspiracy theories where it was planned. He just wanted to get nicked in the ear or whatever. Insane.

Literally impossible. It's a hard shot. It's literally not possible to predict. Because you did it from 10 feet away and you had to do it, what, three times? Three times. Well, because you're talking about, like, MOA so it's like one inch at 100 yards. He was shooting at, like, 150 yards. No wind. The gun he was using. Wind, all these

variations. The gun he was using is, like, maybe, like, three MOA, two MOA. The dot he's using, 2 extra MOA. All these things on top of it. He's putting it on a sloped roof on a mag. He didn't have a tripod or anything, right? Those scary sloped roofs.

He's balancing on a mag while he's stressed because he knows people are yelling at him from the ground. I accidentally killed that poor dude in the audience but but stacking what you're saying it is so you got like a machine is precision shooting with that weapon that optic there's five inch variation and more single probably shot and that's being like gracious yeah if you were a a fucking computer like if you were a terminator level level shooter and doing like the

best possible no human uh no human error literally the air and the machinery and the physics is bigger than your head no it's an impossible shot to to fake which is it was just so stupid you get all these people that don't know jack shit about guns that start going on their soapbox and then you get people on twitter just clipping the slow-mo footage being like, a YouTuber proved that it was a fake shot. Yeah, and I was like, what the f***? Even that video, remember I said you should use a piece of ham

for the ear because people are going to see the ballistic gel ripping. That was one of my things I said during that video. They're going to see the ripple and be like, see, it's fake and sure as s***. Dipshits. Ear tissues, cartilage, completely different. Cartilage, a little bit different density than human skin.

You don't hate journalists enough. Yeah, dude, you get these fucking journalists who have never done any kind of shooting, which we saw from people we've had off the range before. Never done any type of shooting and they're like, no, it's fake. This is all fake. What was the part where they're like, no, it's fake. This is all fake.

Piece of shit. What was the part where you were like, oh, this is not going to be that bad? It was two weeks later, I think. I was actually pretty stressed for two weeks. I don't want to be associated with that. That sucks. You know, like someone died. Also, it was just like a bad deal all around.

But it was two weeks later, and everyone just forgot about it. Like everybody was really like, we had reporters coming to my house. We had reporters to your house. The second and third assassination really helped you out. We had someone come into our house. We had people calling like reporters, calling my phone and sending us messages and calling our work line and like all these people bugging us until i put out the video that literally just said yeah we we didn't know him i don't you know support this i never have a militia i've never talked to him we don't we don't want this and i was like he literally just bought a shirt online we like he didn't come to our store we shipped it it to him. And then everyone stopped talking to us, but they were still talking about us a little bit.

And then two weeks later, the world forgot about it, and they went on to the next thing. It was literally two weeks, and no one talked about it anymore. I don't know if I ever told you this. I had reporters that I knew, had people that I had coordinated with from the campaign that were calling me about that, getting comment and shit like that. Yeah. It was a media the reason yeah they were doing that because they had no information they wanted they were interested in me because they had no information it was like this is a guy he uh he was this old

here's his name and he was wearing a demolition ranch shirt so they were like that's our only lead we have to call matt you know like they had like really if you think about it we got no information on the guy we still don't know motive right i don't know if they ever came out with like why or why he did it incel looking headass i don't know yeah and so that was all they had and then they sorry was that i don't know he could have fucking touched grass and talked to women a little bit more and then he probably wouldn't have done that you know shinzo abe type shit on that shin Shinzo Abe grind set? Yeah. I loved all the memes that were like Shinzo curving the bullet. Shit like that.

It was just like, Donaldson, duck. I don't know. Come on. That's the problem. Oh, my soapbox. My dad's soapbox again. That's the problem with youth right now. What did Shinzo say? Touch grass,

fucking go out in the sunlight. Talk to girls in real life. Talk to girls. What'd they do? They killed him. Touch of grass, eat a ass. Shinzo! I'll be in. It's like, talk to real women, touch grass. And they're like, the Japanese youth was like,

it's easier to kill you they shot him we always say like two weeks on the internet and like just shut the fuck up for two weeks or do a really good message and you're like hey but yeah you don't you don't fucking talk about it like because i went through that a couple of years ago he did he did and then i got i got banned for it off twitch for really i don't remember that i think two weeks but what i did was not address it yeah i mean i never knew that you didn't i didn't do anything wrong so i'm not gonna apologize for my words and i stood i i texted i was like do not apologize just fucking two weeks is gonna be gone and... That's the shit that kills me, though, is people don't understand context matters.

Because you weren't saying it in the context of you were trying to put someone down, or it wasn't a hate crime. No. You were making a joke to a friend. That fucking matters to me. It was to my gay girlfriend. Yeah.

Sad. Notorious trans woman yeah hateful code the girl yeah the girl my best friend but in a clear

but in like a gay way yeah but no like like what you were saying dude when it comes down to it like just don't address it because the people that make the headlines

are just pieces of shit yeah we almost didn't like we thought do we need to do this i was like i feel like i just need to like at least tell people i don't know him i don't know anything about him he just bought a shirt you know it had to be a mixed bag seeing how many views that video got so quick yeah the cpms report he's like i'm gonna do a second video. What's weird is, yeah, it was definitely bad. We didn't want that. But then views are fun. I was like, yikes. I hope this never happens again.

Matt dabbled in the dark side of the forest. Lord, why do you give me this? I was like, this is the toughest battle to his strongest youtubers i don't like it but like look at me views that guy that's crazy we went ahead and never talked about it again but i was telling i think we were talking about it yesterday where like you just sent that message to all of our group chat. All the YouTubers, I guess, in this group. You sent the picture of the shirt and you're like, Chad, am I cooked?

I was cooked for a couple weeks and then everyone forgot about it. So it was perfect. You didn't do anything fucking wrong. I know. That's what it was. I was worried it would just kill everything. I don't know like i don't know i don't really know what i thought would happen like this the the uh the time sink if i had to like go through a fbi investigation would have sucked um and just the stress of that but i mean a president being shot

is a thing that hasn't happened in our lifetime right yeah like what is the rule book for that right yeah i had no idea what to worry about but i was worried about it and yeah it it turned out for me fine in the end it was just a weird a weird time well the other thing is like it's crazy if you were like some crazy person that was like anti-gun anti-trump blah blah blah it's like it would make more and you wanted to like make guns look bad And you got on the internet. Google biggest gun influencer. You're definitely one of the names that popped up.

So it would make sense to buy your shirt if you were trying to. Or if you're just trying to blend into a crowd of Trump people. There's so many things. I think I said it the other day. We don't know what's going through this kid's head other than 300 Win Mags. There's no way to know which by the way that gun is fucking awesome oh yeah i think there's some controversy that that wasn't the one that was actually used really it might have been like they said it might have been a swat sniper that was using 308 but the secret service 300 win mag is dope as fuck yeah which one which one did you buy to make that video with? It was a $15,000 gun. It better have been the one.

Which one did you buy first? Well, it was the Accuracy International one. And then I texted it to Eli. I was like, yeah, I just bought this to make it. Because I bought it from EuroOptic. And I'm like, oh, shit. Perfect. They've got that one in stock.

Awesome. And Eli's like, did you mean to buy the left-handed version? Oh, my God. The gun alone. Not the optic. It's like, did you mean to buy the left-handed version? Oh my god. The gun alone, not the optic. It's like $11,000. And how are you going to sell that? Luckily, Eurooptic, shout out, they have awesome

customer service. I was able to get them on the phone super quick, and they swapped out the order. I was lucky that you didn't realize that when you got it. That would have been rough. Or he's going over the gun this way speaking of bunker obligatory bunker's not going anywhere right true yes okay good this is actually an alphabet that would be really nice yeah i didn't think about that in the first video um that i like didn't address that it was

like so it's bunker gone too and i'm like oh no no hey bunker's fine everything's fine how many influencers do you guys have now if i can ask that 40 a little over 70 70 shit yeah it's cranking paving the way for everybody else the t-shirt company you started in your garage isn't that crazy genius yes it literally feels like the new avengers where you're like captain america walking off into the sunset you give your shield to a black guy and now you got all these other people that you're giving your shield to coleon that would be so fucking funny hit me up and then he gets on and says that captain amer doesn't represent America. That was so fucking stupid. Have you seen that?

The dude that's playing Captain America did an interview where he's like, yeah, I don't think that Captain America really represents America to me. That's Chris Evans? No, the guy replacing him, Anthony Mackie. There's a lot of things I think Captain America can represent, and I don't think America is one of them. I'm like, it's literally one of things I think Captain America can represent, and I don't think America's one of them. It's literally one of the two f***ing words. It's his last name.

He's Old Lady America's son. America, Captain. John C. America. Come on, dude. Those colors, they mean nothing? Everything? The shield? No. The outfit Come on, dude. Those colors, they mean nothing? Everything? The shield? The outfit? Alright, whatever. Whatever, homie. Bunker's sticking around. That's good.

No change there. It's going to keep getting bigger, I think. You were in the YouTube game for 15, 16 years? I actually looked this up. I started in 2007, which was 18 years ago. I was dinking around on it i was in eighth grade no big deal yeah i was i was in iraq i was i was in college

i was in seventh grade eli i was getting shot at i did a one-on-one interview with eli just about me or whatever and i was like yeah i have like i have like two associates degrees or whatever i had no idea you had a college education i was like it's an associate's degree it's not that it's not that big of a two-year i didn't even graduate high school it's a huge deal and i was like you should go back to ged's ged classes but pull up in your mclaren that would be fucking hilarious i'm just resuming an old save just like eli pulls up to community college to take entrepreneurship in this McLaren. A glowing orange legendary item. Dude, we talked about it

for a while, just doing the ASVABs between the group. I still want to do that. I'm game. What does ASVAB stand for? Whatever. Vocational, whatever the fuck. It's an IQ test slash SAT to figure out what job you take in the military.

Yeah, to get into the military. And so we talked about all of us should take the ASVAB and just see what their scores are at now. You're going to be great. What is it? Is it testing over like stuff you learned in school or just like how you know, it's of stuff.

Yeah. It's like, it's like a mix of like an SAT test and like a general iq test so like when i took mine i remember there being like diagrams of like pulleys and levers and it would be like if we turned pulley a what would be the outcome of the lever at c or whatever it's like aptitude yeah it's like i think there's even questions in there about like and i've never taken it but like i've heard like shit like the difference between like phillips and flathead screwdrivers yeah and like general life shit for for us it's easy as shit but then a lot of eli pulls up in his mclaren to take it i leave the

podcast to go become a part of the patriot missile program so 17 or 18 years oh yeah we got way off that i know i love it yeah i started just dinking around 18 years ago um what was your first video it's it's like me and i had a 95 corvette and me and my college buddies would take our cars to the drag strip and just like drive around or we did some drifting at this little elementary school across the street from my house it's really cool you didn't watch his video where he talks about all this yeah and so it was like that was literally just shitty videos we didn't terrible my face wasn't on it i didn't talk it was just someone filmed my car as i did a drag and that was it those are my videos there's terrible like i was just uploading for my friends to see was was your your big like the thing that blew you up was it

the shotgun shell thing it was a bunch of little. Also, if you would have watched my video, you would know. Yeah, I don't watch your show. Thanks, dude. Also, you guys are wearing the exact same thing right now. I just backed you up, man. I know, but I just noticed again. Pearl Snap green shirt. At least it's not the same

brand. We do that occasionally. We don't coordinate it. This was Saturday? Oh my gosh. How do y'all do that occasionally we don't coordinate it it was a bunch of this was saturday oh my gosh how do y'all do that intuition well i feel like would it be more gay to text you and be like green shirt today the amount of times you text me where you're just like uh by the way i'm wearing green i'm like that's cool never mind uh but no we had we had a bunch of little videos that went viral like over the years and so everyone would just knock me up another level basically because the

one that got me on you when it was like i think it was like 2008 2009 it was the shotgun show yes what are some of the other ones though so the the one before that was was a baby deer playing with my family's dog. We called it Dog vs. Deer. And my sister, my brother. Very 2007 YouTube title. Yes, that's all you had to title things back then. My brother found this baby deer. Not clickbait, gone sexual. Emotional.

My brother brought this baby deer home. My little sister raised it, bottle fed it, raised it with our family dog. They just played all the time. She recorded it one time. Super cute. I i was like let me put that on my youtube channel i put it on there it went viral it went on ellen generous it went on uh really anderson cooper it went on like mainstream tv all the gays loved it yes which was crazy back then to get on mainstream tv and so we got you know a lot of views from that. And that was the first time I ever made money on YouTube. I was like, this is crazy.

How much money? We have the same story then. That video made me $3,000 total. Which at that time. It made $700 in one night. Like literally I woke. I was making cents every, like, because back then AdSense was like update in the morning. So every time I woke up at 6 o'clock to go to vet school, I would see how much money I made.

And it would say like 13 cents, 16 cents. It was always just cents. And then I put that video up, and then one day I wake up, and it says $793. I'm like, what the shit? I was like, there's no way. So anyway, over a few years, I made like $3,000 total. But yeah, I kept making videos.

And then a couple years later, I made custom homemade shotgun shells just for fun and it went viral and like the big gun YouTube channels at the time I rec veteran and Funker 530 like they reposted it and like shared it which was crazy to me and then I had another viral video and then another viral video and just like every time I would just bump up a level and get a new wave of subscribers. And I know and love Eric from Ivy, but it's very,

very funny for, for you to be talking about him. Like all the big, big guys, you of all people. Yeah. But he was, he was so much bigger than me.

Like I remember bunker and Eric and military arms channel and those were Richard, Richard Ryan. Like, yeah, they were all huge and I was tiny. I remember the first time 22 Plinkster

invited me to Tennessee. That was the first person I ever collabed with. It was 22 Plinkster. I started talking with him and he was like, yeah, come up. I was like, okay. I took my first YouTube paid trip. I paid for it, but I was like, I'm paying for a work trip. This is cool.

I went to Tennessee and he got hickok to come up too which hickok was giant both in stature and in youtube views and yeah he's like a fucking transformer when you stand next to him yeah so like i'm sitting there it's five he's like seven foot no he's like he's like six eight i think same height as you yeah same as me his son is a foot a foot uh inch tall he's like 6'8", I think. Same height as you. Yeah, same as me. His son is a foot inch taller. He's like 6'9", which is what I am. You can see them on a crowd. Like if you're at a YouTube range day kind of thing. Big dudes. But yeah, I'm sitting there eating pizza with 22 Plinkster in his house,

and someone just walks in the door, and he hadn't told me that Hickok was coming over. I was like, Hickok is here. And I had like 60,000 subscribers at this time. Who's that bending under the doorway? Yeah. So that was really cool for me to see these big guys that, you know, Hickok is here. And I had like 60,000 subscribers at this time. Who's that bending under the door? Yeah. So it was,

it was really cool for me to see these big guys that, you know, later we passed up, but like, I remember them all when they were huge and I, I just looked up to him. No shit. Yeah. Cause I remember when you came on the corridor shoot,

you were even excited. Cause Freddie was there. Yeah. Yeah. It was one of those channels that I watched a ton. Yeah. If you're an OG YouTuber, like Freddie was, it was so cool to see you know sam and nico and all those guys that i'd watched forever yep and they used one frame of your face and i was in there for a second

i was there all day to get my four seconds yeah what yeah what was this what was the reloads oh three reloaded three tactical reloads three yeah this is so funny to me because i'm two What? What was this? What was the... Reloads. Oh, Reloads 3. Reloaded 3. Tactical Reloads 3, yeah. This is so funny to me because I'm two degrees removed because they look up to you and I looked up to them and Cody was the first one that I ever collabed with on YouTube when he brought me on on subs. It's a different era now, you know? I'm watching my dad talk about my grandpa.

Damn it! I'll tell your grandpa I knew it. It's a very incestuous community now that I'll tell it to you. It's a very incestuous community now that I think about it. I'm watching dad and grandpa right now. It's very exciting to me. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. So heavy. I'm on my deathbed right now.

And you're the kid coming in. You're just like, grandpa's weird. I don't want to be here. I want to go play Game Boy. I'm going to die already getting a game boy die already get a selfie i'm gonna haunt you on episode 300 no they're telling all these stories i've never heard before and i'm like oh fucking grandpa was way cooler than i thought he was grandpa used to be cool like my dad's cool to me but he learned all that shit from grandpa awesome he's who convinced you to do long form cody thank you decision that like i think you've ever you've ever made do you know why you have 45 minute

fat electrician videos 100 because it was your first trip down i think uh no it was a while later that he really talked me into doing long form. I'll never forget just how it all started. Just Cody hit me up on Instagram. I was like, hey, friend. I was like, hey, what's up? And he goes, you want to come on my podcast? Sure.

And that was it. And now I'm here. So it's kind of crazy for me. But I remember having that. We had that conversation over at the wing joint. I don't remember where the fuck that, like, when that was. You guys bullied me into doing long form content. A hundred percent.

And then now the main YouTube channel I watch is you. Yep. Fat Files. Like, I love your main channel, but Fat Files is so good. Like, listening about Costco and, like, Chick-fil-a and all this shit it's so good firearms direct club i didn't think anybody would yeah also pepper box exclusive i did a whole video on firearms direct club some crazy person got involved yeah and what's crazy is i haven't watched any of those fat files i i don't know what my grandson's doing i don't care

this is just youtube generation sitting at this table but do you remember the first thing you said when like you were pushing back on the fucking uh the long form no i knew who's gonna watch me that long this is true isn't that crazy well it's weird because like the only so it was like cody bullying me for like a couple of months about it like a couple of trips down to unsub when i was still just a guest and then that was like in the back of my mind the whole time and then we went and my wife gave birth to my second son cash and i was like fuck i don't have a video plan like i don't have my little three to five minute video with a joke every four seconds planned out and i don't have time to do it.

Cause I've just like been helping my wife who just gave birth the entire time. Like she's so needy. And I was like, I like so selfish. She was like, you know, you're there for like a couple of days when your wife gives birth or whatever, like a day or two after, like before and after the fact. And I was like sitting there and whenever I wasn't like helping, I was like looking up shit on a Cassius clay, the guy that we like named my kid after i was learning more i was like oh this guy's dope so i was like fuck it i'm just gonna try a long form video where i go over this

guy's whole life and we'll see if it goes and it was like my best performing video ever brilliant dude the cassius clay video is awesome man and then i was like oh oh i should do that more i i would listen to any video you made on any topic and i think we tested that yesterday i think i gave you an idea and you were just like oh tell me more i was like i'll watch the video when you make a fucking eight hour breakdown of that company that's so funny i'd like there's been comments in my youtube like you know i don't read all the guy i try to but there's so goddamn many but you know you always open up studio and you can see like the top 10 most recent comments or whatever i've just seen

so many videos where i could literally watch this guy talk about paint drying for some reason yeah and i was like all right well i guess when are you doing something right what are you gonna do delta guy which one fucking nerd the nerd dude uh billy waugh no famous glasses every uh oh my uh mike vining he's on the list he's on the short list i'm gonna like dig into next after i'm working on a big billy waugh video and then after that it would probably be him oh yeah billy waugh was like og delta boy back in the day he like wanted to be a paratrooper during World War II, but he was like 12. So they wouldn't let him join. So he like joined for the Korean War when he was 17 and like ended up becoming a Delta guy by like sheer chance.

How do you find info on these people? Like a lot of them have written books or there's books written about them and like there's declassified documents by this point. But like this guy had forbidden knowledge, which means he has to read. Yeah. It's horrible but he uh he he was operational for 50 plus years and like his he started in korea and his final mission was tracking down osama bin laden in the middle east when he was in his 70s also known as uh what they knew him at the time was CIA asset Tim Osmond. That's an inside joke. I don't even get it. A few are on the outside. I know it.

It happened. We're three levels deep into the conspiracies thing. That's not an introductory level conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy when it's objectively true. This is also true. 50 or 60? How many years was he? Over 50 years he was operational, but he was operational into his 70s i did four he has an interview in his he has an

interview he passed away last year but he has an interview uh from two or three years ago where he's well into the twilight of his life and i forget who did the interview it was a fairly big person and he was literally talking about he tracked down osama bin laden on several occasions and on one of them he was in the room with osama bin laden but he didn't have a weapon on him and he like talks about in detail in his 90s as a 90 year old man talking about back in the day when he was 70 being like god debating debating with himself on if he was going to try to kill osama bin laden with a pencil because it's all he had and he was heavily considering it kills him with a pencil the towers fall anyway wow brandon hussein over here

congratulations on your nine nams. I'm just trying to make Nick laugh at this point is all. This is the same dude that caught the jackal. Yeah, so he caught the jackal. And if you don't know, the jackal was a... There are movies about him. The jackal is legitimately probably the closest living embodiment to a Bond villain that we've had ever. And like he was in, I think he was in Egypt and he just like went down to one of the markets in Egypt and like, that's the jackal and like called up his contacts. And then he like, like scouted and spied on the dude and figured out like, oh, this guy goes to the doctor every week for some injectable medicine that he needs and they like staged the whole thing where like the

doctor's office got cleared out and cia operatives went in and were the doctors and the nurses and his medicine that he got injected with knocked him out and he just woke up on a plane in handcuffs on his way to france really awkward when you just fucking roofie a random egyptian guy who looks like the jackal i don't know what you're talking about i'm a carpenter the guy was like in the jackal from 1975 or the 70s was an active assassin doing like high-profile missions which is more insane like no one could catch this dude and then humboldt just ran they were looking for him for years and he just like bumped into him in the egyptian market synchronicity bud bad bad for one yeah

what was your favorite moments and your entire career of YouTube? You have to have a couple of them. Yeah, I have a bunch. It's fun when videos go viral. Like, I remember when Custom Homemade Shotgun Shells took off. Like, that was crazy. That was when, like, the Dog vs. Deer, I didn't try to make that one take off. That one just, like, surprised me.

I was like, what the heck is this? And it was fun. But, like, then I tried Demolition Ranch demolition ranch i was trying to like make gun content and like it took off and gun channel started sharing it and i like that was when i finally broke into the world where it's like gun people that i watch are sharing this video and that was like super cool but then yeah there were other highs along the way like when we don't and i bent barrels and like that video was like really neat it took off donut didn't bend them i bent them and he just came for the video this bear hands but it was like little

things like that like whenever like we first collab with all you guys it's always fun like meeting y'all and doing something and the internet you know loves it they're like i've been watching both you guys forever and it's so cool to see y'all come together so yeah there's there's been a bunch of like highs like that where we make a video that just takes off and the comments i'll tell you you're awesome it feels so good i love the alternative to where people are like dude i love your content you should collab with demo ranch it's like yeah we should do the ninth time we should do it sometime what was your like top of these days trout will meet cody top three favorite moments of the last 15 years. YouTube related.

YouTube related. Oberst was cool. That was a cool one. He's a cool guy. Yeah, he's super fun. I mean, like, that is what's cool about YouTube is you get to meet all these people that you've watched on video and you get to figure out which ones are real and which ones are putting on. Oberst is one of the realest dudes ever.

Like, that's just who he is. Who are some of the ones who are putting on? You're the realest dudes ever. Like that's just who he is. He's just, who are some of the ones who were putting on your retirement? I'm not going to say it. Not going to say it. Uh, but I know the one, well, it's hard.

It's hard to do because like, you've been around and met so many cool ass people. It's hard to nail down just like a certain, like two or three. Yeah. Well, we've gotten to do cool stuff that normal people don't get to do, you know,

get invited to cool things and getting flown all over the place and like got to fly on a private jet with guns, which was cool one time. Like that kind of stuff is like so insane to me. And so that was, those are some cool moments where I just felt like, man, this doesn't make any sense.

I don't know how I'm making money doing this. Um, and that's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Imposter syndrome. 100%. I private jets real quick.

Imposter syndrome. I feel like I've had that like my whole career. Like, I hope no one figures out that I'm actually a normal guy. Like, like, yeah, I'm,

I have all these subscribers. I hope they don't realize that I'm just a normal guy and they're all going to be like, Oh, this guy's actually kind of lame. I think we've all battled with that at some point. Yeah, unless you're a total narcissist. We're all just a little bit of a narcissist, but varying degrees.

I don't know. It's just like grown up, poor as shit, and then just suddenly you're hanging out with all the cool people we get to hang out with every day. You're going to experience a little bit of imposter syndrome. Even in DC the other day for the inauguration like i walk into like a party i was invited to and i get flashbanged the first people i'm dead serious the first humans i see are like charlie kirk the speaker of the house like three senators and i'm just like i am in

the wrong room yeah like how'd i get here this makes no fucking sense. Never felt that before. Mine was Salt Lake City the first time I went out with you guys for the Zydex event. I was like, hey, did you want to go to the club with Chuck Liddell with us? I was like, yeah. It's like the guy from Chuck Liddell. The Iceman? Egg science commercials I watched on Spike TV. Yeah, I do, actually. That was me last year when Chuck liddell came to my property uh

junior dos santos was there um goldberg was the same one because like undertaker was there i was like these guys are all just standing on my land at this big thing we did this is insane dude i went up i've i've like i've never walked up at one of those events because I don't want to be lame asking for autographs. And the only time I've asked for an autograph and a picture from somebody was Undertaker. I walked up. You were on my backpack for like seven years. It's really cool to see you. And in person, he's based as hell.

He's cool as fuck. All those guys are Goldbergs. Again, Bill is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. But all the same age, kind of, like within a decade. And he's been a giant part of probably most of our lives. You're like, fucking Goldberg. And he's so fucking nice. Call me Bill, please.

Yeah, Goldberg. Well, it's like being around people like that. What did he do? He played for Georgia, and then he played like professional football and then he got into got into doing the wrestling thing then he was a longest yard yeah we yeah we make silly YouTube videos so just being around dudes like that and he was Jewish Santa yeah he was Jewish Santa well it's just like being around dudes like that it's like holy what did I do right yeah it doesn't feel like that's how we should be, but they're all normal.

That's what I've learned, too, is everyone's normal. Everyone is a person. What? I don't know. Everyone's normal? Okay, how about not everyone's normal? Everyone is a human being. Yeah.

Except for communists. No one's special. That's what I meant by that. 90% of the actors, YouTubers, whatever, you get that 10% that you're just like, dude, that guy's a fucking animal. What the fuck? Yep. That's what I meant by that. 90% of the actors, YouTubers, whatever, you get that 10% that you're just like, dude, that guy's a f***ing animal. What the f***? Yep, that's true. Eli, tell us.

Come on. You gotta have a celebrity you met, and you're like, this person's f***ing weird. Crazy. Yeah. Like a crazy person. Because you were in the game long before we were, because you did the History Channel show.

You did all your stuff before. You ever met anyone? Arnold was the only one. But super nice, too. Schwarzenegger? Yeah. But meeting him was the weirdest. I didn't even know that ever happened.

Yeah, I didn't know that one either. Okay. What? Chase, pull it up. That photo's that way. Oh, fuck you. That was me moving to LA and within three months like hey you're gonna vfx supervise on a commercial cool sounds good boom show up reading script and it's for a british company

i'm like oh okay what is it okay there's a fucking lizard of some kind or something like got it got it and arnold schwarzeneg just like oh it's just going to vfx like arnold or something like that and then arnold rolls up like walks up to the director is like yo what like we have actually arnold arnold he's like oh yeah that's that is part of this so you're just gonna be uh talk to him like blah blah cool did my job the entire day gotta watch how hollywood interacted with a dude to that level and then gotta see a completely different like you look like my housekeeper you mow my yards no that's a little bit more threatening if you know the story of his housekeeper but it was like they don't even have a they have standards they have everything and then

a stylist on set for specifically him on that scene to trim his hair proper i was like you gotta do a black face for bodybuilders just right and then walking up and i was like hey man can i get a his security got along with they were all soldiers like previous so got along with them and then i was like hey can i ask him for a photo at the end of the day because no one that's a big no-no a lot of times he's like oh yeah actually yeah fucking do it bro went and say hey man i straight up got nervous on that was like hey can i have a photo he's like yeah come here bro look what you do with the troops they snapped it for me and went about my business cool wild wild but uh normal i i don't know i got lucky i got surrounded by a great group of dudes for who i've met and for the most part

not too many shit my i think i think mine's nico for sure because like i was off the internet for like 10 years straight like doing a lot of shit and call it yeah and like when i first got on tiktok like nico was by far and away the biggest military content creator on tiktok so he was like massive and then we met him in salt lake city and you guys were there. And I was like on edge about it. I was like, I don't think I'm going to like Nico Ortiz. Like, we're not going to get along.

He's not going to like me, whatever, whatever. And like, I remember the, I remember the second I fell in love with Nico Ortiz. Cause like, I remember there was a bunch of college frat kids at the pool table and you

had already went and set your quarters down to play next. And which is like the international symbol for like i have next and they were trying to cut you in line and cody was like fairly aggressive cody was sitting there stewing we were gonna get in a fight about the potential of these college kids cutting him in line and nico was also not stewing but like he was very alert and i walked up to nico i was like what's going on he goes oh i think cody's about to get in a fight and if that happens i'm double leg drop kicking that guy first and i was like i fucking love nico it was because like in his content i was like man

i wasn't sure i was gonna get along with him i was like man i don't know like it seems like his personality like based on his personality online i'm like like, man, I don't know if we're going to vibe. And he's like the nicest human who has ever lived. And I literally he was one of those guys where I felt embarrassed that I thought I wouldn't like Sam. You prejudged Sam. We invited him on the first charity stream. He did. He killed on the charity stream.

He raised the second most, I think. And again, it was I did not know about the tiktok shit so i just went off invite him off of twitch was like 150 live viewership and then his youtube was at like 50 000 text him on ig is like hey man bob love what you're doing here hit me up he's like well hey i don't get my number out call this number instead it's my i was like who the fuck this dude he has like 150 viewers and then i got on the phone we're talking he's like so what's your main thing he's like tiktok i was like oh what are you on tiktok he's like three million i was like i'm so sorry bro i was way off now this explains a lot more came down raised the second most amount of money for veterans and just a good dude he had a blast i was like okay this is a homie for

life no nico ortiz is like such a solid fucking guy and dude he's crazy on the internet but like you guys seriously follow him nico ortiz awesome and he'll he'll tell it to you like it is too where he's like he's not worried about your feelings where he's just like oh yeah like i was worried i fucked this up he's like well you did you know like but that's cool we got it we got it we're good we're gonna work past that he's like but you did it up uh well he called me and brandon one day and he's like you want to go to the bare knuckle fight up in uh no it was the jake paul fight was it the jake paul i think it was jake paul which one uh i went to one of those yeah we went it was the jake paul fight was it the jake paul i think it was jake paul which one uh i went to one of those yeah we went it was the one we saw in ohio yeah yeah it was in dallas i think i don't

remember where it was i don't know nico nico's awesome though he invited himself to this fight and it was like good tickets i can't remember if it was nico or jake that was telling me the story about hanging out with chuck liddell in las vegas where like they're like you don't understand chuck liddell owns las vegas and like i don't know how much of this i can like say so i'm gonna censor like the casino name but he's like chuck was driving and we went to behind xyz casino and he pulled up to shrubs like a wall of shrubs by the sidewalk but the sidewalk had a cut out and he called a phone number and then the fucking shrubs opened and he's like and then he drove his car up in and it's like a cul-de-sac of mansions hidden behind xyz casino and we hung out in this house a little bit with some people.

I don't know who they are. And then Chuck's like, let's go to this casino. And they walked through. Every security guard knew who he was and just like nodded and opened velvet ropes. And then we went on the roof and a helicopter picked us up

and took us to a different casino. Jesus Christ. I don't know. Maybe we all just got lucky with the people we surround ourselves with, but we do know some cool people that are so down to earth. Chuck is one of those guys who's just like, he's probably the chillest legit celebrity I've ever met.

Oh, for sure. He doesn't give a fuck, dude. No, he's awesome. He's rad. There's some stories in Key West I can't tell you guys right now. I can't tell him, I guess. I can't tell half my Chuck stories, dude. But he's so fucking nice.

The imposter syndrome when you're just like, I cannot believe this is happening right now. Majority of our life now. I'm here for this. You go into dial-up mode. You're like, I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating. He's the one that kept me out of the

fucking fight that one night. He went up and told the college kids. He's like, this is Cody's table. Weird. Weird they gave up on that one. Weird it was Cody's table. Also, kind of mad.

I mean, just throw it out there. If I got in a bar fight with chuck liddell that would be bucket list i think we said that because we were all chatting because this was like an ordeal that happened over the course of 10 minutes it's like we're all just like having side conversations with like all right well we're about to throw down and you're like yeah but we're about to throw down with chuck liddell like that's pretty fucking cool actually i'm gonna win chuck walks up to cody he's like cody it's your table cody's like they called you gay well even just like so like i was very new at the

time when we went to salt lake city like that was my first outing literally other than coming to unsub which at the time was in batty's dining room or living room or whatever the fuck and like we were at that restaurant and chuck's like i got a buddy that owns a nightclub you guys want to go like well yes we go and like this nightclub is packed and then like eight security guards literally do this and just compact to the crowd and cordoned off this little area like for us with some couches and like put red velvet ropes up and i was was like, this is wild. And then like people start coming back from the kitchen, holding coffee tables. And the coffee tables were covered with like appetizers and booze,

like just pre-poured shots and beers and just like setting them by the table. And I was like, what the fuck is happening right now? It's crazy. Yeah. Chuck Liddell being somewhere just makes the restaurant owner, the bar owner so excited because Chuck Liddell

is there. Everything's free for Chuck because he makes all the other dudes want to come hang out at that bar. This is wild. You have that level of getting... Chuck, I couldn't even imagine Tom Cruise could call. He could call any restaurant. Mom, Pop, whatever. He's like,

Tom Cruise wants to eat here right now. They're like, definitely. Also could call any restaurant, mom, pop, whatever. He's like, hey, Tom Cruise wants to eat here right now. They're like, definitely. Heading in right. Also, specifically with Chuck, all of the bouncers know who he is for obvious reasons. Yeah, they all watch that. So they just think it's cool just to them. Yeah. When we did the range day after party at that bar.

All the bouncers want to get in a bar fight with Chuck Liddell also. I'm on Chuck Liddell and the staff's team. I get home team advantage anywhere I go with Chuck Liddell also. I like Chuck Liddell and the staff's team. I get home team advantage anywhere I go with Chuck. Which was basically after the range day. What was one of the craziest SHOT Show experiences? I think all of us have. That's probably our most

wild experiences. I walked through some casinos with Chuck Liddell. That was weird. Actually, on the floor of SHOT donald trump donald trump jr was there and i went with him and so we had all the secret service guys around us it was just me and a couple guys and donald trump jr and i'm just like i didn't really know him i was just following him through we were all going to the same place and we walked through a whole shot show to go to zach brown's booth and i was like this is the weirdest shit ever like i have secret service walking around like they were around me so that i could go with donald trump jr to zach

brown's booth and i was like what is happening right now this is so weird it feels like mad libs yeah just this doesn't make sense like yeah you're adding all those weird things in we had uh clint was there we're having this event not not event it was a like a lock-in at bunker we were like let's all go to the bunker just the boys we're all gonna just drink and hang out a lock-in like it's church it is that like well i don't know i don't know yeah we weren't that now we have had lock-ins we're just like we just spend that let's all get drunk read scripture and make t-shirts we get drunk and bring air mattresses to bunker, and we just party until it's late,

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We put lights all over my five ton. We drove through Christmas parade and then we're like, hey, everyone just come back. We're going to party at Bunker. So we're hanging out at Bunker and JT texts me and he's like, Hey, uh, Zach Osborne wants your number or something.

And I'm like, cool. I mean, Jack Osborne wants your number. So I'm like, cool. So I started talking to Jack Osborne. He's like, Hey, it's my dad, Ozzy Osborne's birthday. And he like, I thought it'd be cool if you'd say happy birthday. I was like, Oh my God. Like Ozzy Osborne wants like needs a birthday.

Congratulations from me. And so we were like, well, let's do this big. And I have the 510. We're at the bunker. And I was like, Clint, what do we have here that we could smash? And Clint's like, well, we got a couple pallets of water. And I was like, pile it up. Let's go.

And so we're in the parking lot. And I boosted launch this giant 20,000-pound truck through this giant pile of water bottles and it goes everywhere and i'm like happy birthday ozzy love you man and we send that off and then like 10 minutes later ozzy osbourne sends us a video message back and he was like demolition ranch i love your show like i thought it was gonna, how did you get this number? But he sends us this video and he says, he goes, thank you, he's a little old and a little spacey, but he's like, thank you for the birthday, congratulations. And he's like, I love your show, Demolition.

And like, me and Clint and all of the Bunker Bros are there, we're just like, yeah! It was like the coolest thing ever. And then we just partied hard the rest of the night it was crazy train on 11 yeah it was so cool and like it looked like i was like the best thing that ever happened we just partied so hard the rest of the night it's like that kind of stuff is all i needed to just feel like on top of the world like That's all I listened to in high school. It was like Black Sabbath. Let's go. That's fucking wild.

It was so cool. I'm going to show my grandkids that video someday. What are we doing? Who's that? No, I never posted it. I've never talked about it online. That one was for me. That's kind of cool. But now that I'm quitting, everyone can have it.

Jake, pull it yeah no that was that was one that was like just a personal one that i thought was so cool that's awesome i didn't even know about that no i yeah i've literally never showed anybody how was that like seeing that it was crazy we still say happy birthday congratulations yeah that's where he laughed so hard happy birthday congratulations it. Happy birthday. Congratulations. Demolition. Demolition. I love your show.

It's my kind of show. It was crazy. Being in this world, you realize how y'all can't go anywhere without being recognized, right? And in the grand scheme of fame fame you're not that famous right like it's still just a small youtube thing but then freaking the guy who invented heavy metal music the prince of darkness the prince of darkness the bat fighter that ran over a pallet full of water like that's a cool freaking experience like i'll send it to y'all it was fun the closer you get to the top the smaller the world gets and it's really creepy yeah that's wild that is the first i'm like but imagine how guys like brad pitt feel oh yeah like can he ever go to olive garden

can he go anywhere i was telling someone out this this week i actually used brad pitt because he's like he's one of the most popular dudes ever. I was like, yeah, I get noticed a lot. You guys get noticed a lot when you're out in the real world. Can you imagine what a top-tier A-list celeb gets noticed? But then I was like, what if you're Shaquille O'Neal? You're a top-tier guy, but also you just look different. You're giant.

You're going to get noticed anyway because who's that seven-foot person over there? And you're like, oh, it's freaking Shaq. He's worldwide renowned, and he just looks different than the average person. That guy can never go anywhere. Yeah. You can't have a normal night. He didn't go to that fucking gun buyback. Oh, I forgot about that.

Yeah. His own gun buyback, right? We all went to Dallas because it was Shaq's gun buyback. We're just like, where the fuck's Shaq? It's nice and warm, not rainy and cold the entire time. We're just getting pissed on the whole time it's cold that was that that was a core memory though i enjoyed that with you boys that was fun the better shack but would have been better if you hear eli's just like where's my giant black man sounds like an eli thing if you guys didn't see that video that was that was a fun one it's on brandon's channel we'll do two of those

buybacks we did one in san antonio because we're crashing gun buybacks trying to like buy guns from people and then uh like the first one went really good in san antonio and then we went to dallas to do another one because the video did so fucking well and it was the one that shack sponsored and we're all just like dallas dallas dallas and then we, and it was just like 30 degrees and pouring rain. Like misting, misting rain. And the cops kick y'all out pretty quick too, right? Y'all can't stay there. So it's all of us just walking around, just freezing our asses off trying to buy guns.

It made for some good stories. We didn't buy, I don't think we bought shit that way. No, but we did get to talk to a bunch of people who did and got some good prices on shit. The most crazy part was the pre- 86. There was one Uzi, right? That was in San Antonio. San Antonio one was crazy. The Uzi? A transferable

Uzi. New in the box, still in the styrofoam. They were giving it away at a gun buyback? A machine gun. For $100. Did they sell it? It was an authority, right? Yeah.

She was like, this is in my husband's closet. But she actually sold it. For like $100. For $100. To the police. Can they take a transferable machine gun without paperwork? They can take anything they want. Crazy. Legally, I don't need it.

What's that? $30,000? $30,000? Minimum? On a good day? I have one. I have one that I actually what's that $30,000 minimum on a good day I have one I have one that I bought

7 years ago and I paid $15,000 for it but it's a junky one it's not like a name brand one we shot that in Dallas

when we flew yeah you were there with the helicopter oh yeah shit the triarch you guys did a drive by with a plane

yes remember because it didn't run very well no I just remember Oh, yeah, shit, the Triarch. You guys did a drive-by with a plane? Yes. Remember? Because it didn't run very well. No, I just remember outside the gas station with the propane tanks. Yeah, smoking. Oh, gosh. That sounds like we had a full-on boozy. We're talking about the helicopter event.

Brandon, you were there, or not there for the propane? I was there. I wasn't there for the propane. I was there for the... Who was smoking on top of the propane tank? Alex Zedra, Leon Lush. It was Lush? I think it was Leon. It was probably Leon. Yeah, because we're all... Do you know this? This is the first time

I know. Trust me. Leon Lush would be smoking on top of a propane tank. This was the first ever time we really met that. Really? Yeah. It was a triarch helicopter shooting event. Do they still make guns? I rode up with you.

I don't know. Are they still around? We rode up together. We did? Remember? I don't remember, obviously. Oh, no, that's right. Yes.

I was like, oh, you're back. It's because I was on the way, and I drove to your house. I was like, man, I should have not drove to your house because it was on the way. I went the opposite way. That was probably the first time we really hung out a ton. And I bet I was like, oh, it's going to suck being in the car with this guy for so long.

But you're obviously very easy to talk to. I was very starstruck that one. Cause I think it was one of our first times like really hanging out, hanging out. I had never met you before. And like, I'm like Eli's older has been in the industry for like longer than i have so i'm just like i don't know what i'm doing here that's a perfect example of something that we got to do

just because we're youtubers we got to just for free get in helicopters and shoot guns out of them like i've never done that before that was crazy oh that was the first time you talked about snapping puppies necks did i do that what no, that was the first time. That's where the joke comes from, where you said, I've killed so many puppets. And a Denny's or something. I remember that. That's probably true, yeah. Yeah. That's the note he's going to go out on.

Giddy up. But yeah, we're all staying at like a hotel next to this gas station. And we go up to the gas station. And I can't remember who it was was smoking next to the propane tank. Was it Leon? 100% Leon. He was like smoking cigarettes next to the propane tank and we're like wouldn't it be funny if that blew up

and we all just died and what they find I took this a little bit to realize what he was ashing in and then when it clicked we're like huh. He's ashing in a propane tank? Dude it was the the little cage that you have next to the oh god yeah someone was just like that's propane and we're all like and it's also like 11 12 at night and we're and we're the dark and he's cigarettes behind us seven we're in the dark there's no life sicker he was wearing the baby mask remember yeah for some reason they had these like life-size

baby masks in the i don't remember that at all in the gas station so we're like if this blew up they're gonna find a fucking baby mask on a grown man uh that was a that was a wild time holy and none of us had pants on it was crazy yeah dude we were just dicks out that was this awesome that was the same trip that uh we missed our flight because i did like an impromptu fan meetup that night in fort worth and me and delance had to i i was so broke at the time i literally couldn't afford to change my flight i just it fucked up So we like the only thing that my debit card could physically run was the deposit for a rental car. And so me and the Lance drove 20 goddamn hours home. Yeah.

Because we could only afford one day. Between us, we could afford a one day rental and just enough gas between our two cards. Yeah. Cannonball run. We cannonball run it because we, it would, the card would decline the next day. There was not enough money for a second day. There was a lot of, just for people, it is taking those risks where you're like, fuck, I got to. Because in your head, it's still, it's like, options?

I'm grinding. That was 18? That was six years ago, man. That's crazy. Yeah. Fuck. Six years ago, I was too broke for a plane ticket. God, I forgot about that.

When I was grinding, I wanted to buy an FN FS2000. I thought, that is a cool gun. I want one of those. I think it'll do good on YouTube. It was $1,600. I found a guy in Austin. I was currently in College Station. It's like a two-hour drive.

So I was like, I'm going to drive over there and buy this gun. I talked the guy down to $1,600. And as I was driving, I had an old pickup at the time. And I was like, if this truck breaks down, I was going to spend all of my money on this FS2000. And I was like, if this truck breaks down, I can't buy the FS2000 anymore. Demolition Ranch could have been over before it ever started. If that truck would have broke down on the way.

Cause I would have been like, now I got to get a tow truck. There goes a thousand dollars. And I'm going to just head back home and not have a gun. And I would have no gun to start the channel with and start making videos with. That's a terrifying part. Like every other,

have you had any of that? I'd have to think about it. Not off the top of my head he's been rich forever silver spoon kid yeah no in the dream life i came into this a little bit different like i i had like mine started when i had already had one kid so like i had a kid he was like four months old and then i tore my pack and was off work and i couldn't be an electrician so i was like delivering door dash in a sling trying to make money and then like years before you remember that guy brought me some food one time that guy brought me my groceries you were still on a ring cam nightmare rotation you get your fucking door dash and you open the door like

today we're gonna talk about today you're micro dosing wikipedia no it's like i did that so like i was very like i worked way longer than i probably could have as a full-time electrician like running jobs and then it finally like came to a head when me and my boss who i'm still like great friends with i stopped buying bullshit with him all the time but he like pulled me in his office like you gotta work this weekend i was like i can't i gotta make youtube videos and he's like you're gonna have to decide if you want to be a youtube guy or an electrician guy and i was like so frustrated if you're gonna put me in that ultimatum i have to go with whichever one pays me more and he was like so confident he's like i'm gonna assume that would be me and I go you'd be wrong and he goes I guess

I'll see you on Monday all right sounds good and then I worked for like six more months so first thing I asked you Nick what you do yeah yeah Cody picked me up from the airport my first episode I had no idea I was just like trying to text you guys like I just landed at the airport what do I do I don't even have an address to u you guys. I just landed at the airport. What do I do? I don't even have an address to Uber to or anything. Cody was the first person to text me back. Picks me up in his Raptor like 20 minutes later after I've been standing out front of the airport.

I hop in. No f***ing idea who Cody is. I hadn't watched your content yet. It was just like my fans berated me in the comments section. You need to go on the Unsub podcast. Was I even on that episode? No. Because you weren't a host yet yeah it was the og unsub hosts and me and i was only on a third of the episodes yeah cody picks me up in his raptor and there's just that awkward 15 seconds it feels like forever

and cody's like so what do you do and I was like I'm an electrician he goes fuck I'm retarded yeah Clint asked you that right first tour of the bunker it's like so what did you do before you two he just looked at me and went I was an electrician Jenna did something similar. We're talking about,

I was talking with Jenna about Kentucky Ballistics and she goes, where's he from? I was like, I'm so stupid. So many people have done that before. They're just like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Kentucky Ballistics. He's in Texas, right? Like, hmm.

Sometimes. Maybe. I'll give you a hint where he really lives dude Matt thank you so much for everything you've done

for the entire community been an amazing episode you don't even have to plug yourself this time which is yeah fucking weird unsubscribe bitches

to celebrate I don't care what are we doing we have you a shot of fireball we have to do one too yeah we're all shots of fireball I don't know I think this we doing? We have you a shot of Fireball. We have to do one, too. Yeah, we're all shots of Fireball. I don't know.

I think this is leftover from... What do you want to shoot, Matt? Excuse me, Clint and Vanessa. I don't. I want to drive home today. Oh, okay. I'll buy you the Uber. You're fine.

See? Then I have to come back and get my truck. For the $300. I'll buy you the second Uber. I was going to say, I was like... That's true. All right. Do we want to do a shot? I feel like we have to.

I feel like we have to. It's episode 200. That's true. Man, that's great. And Eli said, I think off camera, that I was on episode 100. And you'll be on episode 300. Lord willing. I won't. We just do the expensive shit. It's going to happen.

Pendleton? Oh, this is good shit. Oh, it's going to happen. Pendleton? Oh, this is good shit. We're shooting probably shooting something that shouldn't be shot, but whatever. Very rare on the blog. That is not enough. A leprechaun made that. We also have leprechaun branding

on the show. Shell, to what degree do you guys believe in leprechauns over there what do you mean Eli those are fucking double man pours those are baby shots you have to pour four

divide it up Eli come on wait why are you doing four not five oh you're doing fireball aren't you oh no I'm going to do that. He's like, I don't want fucking Fireball. I want to be cool like all the boys. Your obsession with Fireball has always been entertaining to me.

Fireball's good, dude. Oh, fuck you, dude. We're the master. You definitely were an Aggie. Hey, Fireball, hit me up and sponsor me. Oh, wait, I'm quitting. Don't do it. Offer him $10 million.

Sponsor the Sanders. I know all day I've wanted to be like, what's your next move? Oh, wait. Oh, wait. What do you got cooking on the channel? My family. That close?

That's close. Let's hand him out. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Man, it's been a good ride, boys. i'm glad you're a part of it end of an era buddy this is weird right so weird this is a weird ass feeling for real i'm sad i

feel like you're dying but you still live 20 minutes down the road yeah this is it's crazy i feel kind of like that too dude thank you so much for everything you've given youtube community us like every we've been in each one of them each one of us has been in a video so thank you so much for that exposing us to your community and vice versa you've just been what you've done for the community yeah dude a true pleasure to work with with everything you've done like from the bottom all our hearts thank you so goddamn much eli said community well yeah it genuinely though it's it's been a privilege to know you yeah thank you man thanks boys that was like the titanic thing with musicians, you know? That was really smooth. Holy shit. It's been a privilege playing with you tonight.

Thank you so much. We'll go down with the shit. I love we say shit like that. Seriously, we'll still hang out. I still want to hang out. Something tells me you've got a lot more free time coming up. We live 20 minutes from each other. We're like, we'll never see you again.

The camera pans dark and a gunshot goes off. I don't know, dude. End of an era, man. It's weird. Pretty weird. I'm excited to see what you guys do, though. Tear it up, boys. Tear it up. We'll leave it to the next generation. This guy? Our grandson?

I'm trying. Cody, close us out. I'm sad. I know. This is an actual hard one. This is a weird feeling. This is'm sad. I know. It's sad. It's like the hardest thing. I'm like, this is an actual hard one. This is a weird feeling. I don't want to end it. This is the saddest I've been on fucking the podcast. I was like, oh, this sucks.

Thank you guys for joining the Unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Doubletap, Nick Fed Electrician, Demolition Ranch, Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut Operator. Thank you so much for being here wait oh no i thought we were about to wrestle i know i was like oh no what are we doing with the gauntlet we've assembled the infinity slurs go ahead we have to collect them all no you got a Don it and we've collected them for you you get to dawn it and do the snap and out your career only only me and Brandon disappear you put it on and then who's on the plane as they say do not go quietly into the good night

yeah i might as well create some drama before i leave right let's get on the news again just say your favorite letter really loudly with like seven periods after it and close it out i love you all love you guys We just feel okay You don't know my name We just feel okay We'll see you again.