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Episode Date: January 18, 2026

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Podcast I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap Ethan Bernard Brandon Herrera myself Donald Operator Thank you so much for being here You did. Yesterday I was like, what do I call you? As long as you don't mess up my last name, I was like, what is your last name?

Now I am wrong. Bernard. Not Bernard. Not why I would have fucked that up. No, it's crazy. It's even phones when you type in my last name, most of them auto correct it. It's ridiculous.

Yeah, I've got no excuse. I've seen your name spelled like eight times in the last 24 hours. I just wouldn't have picked it on or picked up on it. Didn't learn this until a couple years ago, but apparently Bernard is English and Bernard is French. I'm so sorry. I know it's like, we. Now, our homie, you've been a, you reached out to Cody first.

This is ages ago when you just started your journey. 2023. Yep. Oh, shit. This is really. Did I reach out to you or did you reach out? I reached out to you. Okay.

The first interaction we had was you did one of your playing AMAs. Okay. spring of 23. I remember this. This was in the middle of my five-year period of struggling with my weight. So this was like two years in. I had lost about 100 pounds and I tweeted at you on the plane. I was like, hey, I used to weigh this much.

I currently weigh this much. And if I reach my weight goal, I'd love to come to a range day. And you were like, hell yeah, let's do it. Nice. That was the first interaction we had. That was like almost, that was like freaking almost three years ago now. Yeah, that was a minute. and you've lost 260 pounds so far

219 So I was 660 at my heaviest And as of right before getting on the plane I was like 440.5 Oh damn dude you lost me That's wild to think about Yeah Yeah but the timeline was a little interesting man

Because like 2020 2020 2020 is when I started trying to lose the weight But over the course of four or five years, I lost 100 pounds and gained it back like four times. What would you attribute that to? Like, why, if you were already making like the life-changing decisions to like, to lose 100 pounds, because that's no small feat. Yeah.

Losing 100 pounds is fucking crazy. Yeah. But like, how do you think that you got sucked back in and like just? Every time something happened in my life that was hard for me, I didn't have the mental resilience to not let it, like, make me go back to what I was doing. Right. So like I had, you know, I would go throughout the year, something bad would happen. And then instead of just like continuing to move forward, I would just fall back into my old ways.

You know, there were a couple things. Like my friendship with Danny went through a rough spot. I got depressed, gained the weight back. My dog died. You know, that was one of my closest companions for 14 years. She ate a mushroom and ate. No shit. Literally, just like out of the blue.

And it's so weird because when I was in those reasons, relapses subconsciously, I knew what I was doing. Like, I told Eli, like, I think I literally ordered pizza the day my dog died. I just, like, without skipping a beat, I went straight back into that old fat man shit that I used to do. I started doing really unhealthy shit again, and I stopped weighing in. Yeah. So that's when I could tell internally, like, you're going down the wrong path. It's funny.

Well, maybe funny is not the right word, but just the fact that you say that you, like, relapse, like treating it like a drug addiction. It is an addiction. It is absolutely an addiction. Yeah. I've come to, I had to come to turns with that last year. Because even, like, with the social media stuff that's happened, those pages grew so fast. And there's so many people watching the journey now.

But even with that determination and that, like, amount of support that I have, I still sometimes find myself struggling with, like, really dumb-ass food stuff, like cravings or, like, wanting to eat stuff that I shouldn't and struggling to stay within a certain calorie count and stuff. Do you find it easier because there are so many eyeballs on you? Like you're like, it's like an accountability thing.

Really? Oh, no. I started the pages for that purpose, but then I quickly realized for the sake of my mental health, using social media for accountability is a horrible idea for me. Because I'll, even most of my comments are positive. Like, it's a stark contrast from back when I was in the streaming space, you know. But even with that insane amount of positivity, my mind will find. to the negative and like focus on it. So if I have a way in that didn't go as I expected or something,

I'll see the negative and I'll just be like really, it'll just be really bad. So I've recently put people in place in my life to kind of act as accountability for specific things. Like I have a guy that I literally send like my fitness pal screenshots to. Yeah. It's like, hey, this is what I had. This is what my calories are. You know, so I have the accountability, but I don't feel like, I don't like to use the social media as that because that just wrecked my mental. It's hard. Like, I have training clients and I remember one client wouldn't stick to it, but my fitness pal is the one thing. I'd make all my clients get and be like, hey, I need this updated.

And then once a week I went to see it and then we'll go through everything and I'll be able to tell if you follow it or not just based off when you weigh in. And then my client, Wes would never like miss meals, eat. too much snack. You go, well, next time, blah next time. And then I was just tired of it. I was like, dude, I'm going to fire you as a client. I just don't give a shit anymore and you're not worth the time. You make me look bad. Not worth it, homie.

So you need to either fix this or get to fuck out and that's it. That dude got so pissed at me. He did not miss a single. Oh, it pissed him. It let a fire under him. Yeah, because he wanted to prove me wrong. Dude, if that's what it takes, dude. He hit,

first time you ever went under 200 decade and he was just stuck at like 230 to 250 got under 200199 he's like yeah he's excited and he looks at me he's like I'm not gonna allow I was super mad at you I was like I noticed you would not talk to me but like I was just running you through exercise

but your weight you just knock out those weights like it was just coming off every week I was like dude look at you though like you hit your goal it just took me being a dick and holding you accountable spite's a hell of a drug I say let the hate flow through you you just do it just do it says

As he's next to you, you little piece of shit. He's just out, you look out your blinds. He's just like doing curls in your front yard. But it happens. I'm glad you found that accountability. Is anyone else in friends or family, do they ever be like, hey, what are you doing? Like when I'm doing something bad? I think, yeah, I think so.

But I've been pretty dialed in lately. like because I do it's actually it's kind of weird man like I had a lot of times last year where I struggled right but then even when I'm having these periods where I'm not going off course and I'm staying on track I have like residual guilt from the days that I did that makes it so I have a hard time even like being happy that I did the right thing because I'll still feel bad about having done wrong in the past I know that's I mean it doesn't make sense but it's also kind of stupid

I mean well I mean I think everybody would empathize with that when you apply it to literally anything else yeah I've fucked up in the past I still feel bad about it you know yep it's hard to move forward that's like that breakthrough of trying to move forward or moving on it's just okay

I have taken accountability for that I will now do better and I'm trying to not repeat the same mistakes and not do better this time that's always the goal that's just figuring it out and the best way to do that. Now, what is your overall goal for weight loss total?

Oh, this has changed a lot. So initially, like, I'm pretty tall, so, like, my main goal was to just get under 300 pounds. Last year, my doctor told me, when I have the skin removed, it's going to weigh between, like, 50 and 70. The skin itself? Holy shit. Because, you know, I'm a big-ass guy. You know, I'm tall and I was super fat. Do you get to keep it?

No. I don't know. You're gonna make a f***in lamp Like this is Texas chainsaw mass So do you like Sprying out on one of those boards From Doctor Who did Like fight club

We'll scrape the fat off and make soap out of it And then sell it Unsub soap Oh Unsub soap see we're Ethan's soap company Yeah We can

We can I'm sure if you found the right doctor You could fight You could make one of those really fucked up products that has Like every piece of this Is made with part of Ethan's Old skin

Every piece of the buffalo What is this shadow box up? That's Ethan's skin. I got to give you points for the Doctor Who reference, by the way. I did get that. That's so good. Moistrize me. It's back before the CGI was decent.

Yeah. Dude, that is wild. 50 to 70. Well, that's the thing, though, because now I think about 300. I'm like, there's no way I get down to 300 before skin surgery. because that would mean I would be like 240 I honestly guys I don't know

it'll be a long time before I wait 240 I don't even that's not even like anywhere near my goal you know well you're also like a big dude like not just like size wise I'm like height you are a tall motherfucker wide shoulders and tall yeah so so I think post skin surgery

honestly if I stayed between like 250 and 270 I'd be happy like my goal main weight loss goal is to get under 300, but I don't know what the timeline on that looks like, because the surgeries, too, with how much I have to lose, it's going to be split up into like four or five.

How much are they, like, how much is skin surgery? I didn't, I wasn't sure if it's like in a single. I think it's a lot. Like 10 to 20 grand, one of the guys that I know is doing, he has a go fund me for his final one, and his goal is like 30. So if he's had like four or five,

so, like this is like his fourth or fifth, I think. So I didn't realize they did multiple. I thought it was... Well, that's the thing. Like, when you have as much to remove as I'm going to, I think it's just a bit too much of a shock on your body to have it all done it once. Because the recovery for those things is not easy. You have, like, the wounds leaking and, like, it's just shit all over.

You're removing 70 pounds from a human body. Yeah. You're going to have some... Well, that's the... It's going to be really weird, man. I think they literally do, like, the face and, like, the arms. Like, I've already got... the freaking bat wings dude like they do the arms they do chest separate they do

the arms separate they do belly separate then legs and back and all that are all like different procedures technically makes sense so that is uh what I'm going to refer to as the skin removal saga it's gonna be honestly I think it's going to be the most viral but it's also going to be the hardest part I've said we'll see if we keep this or whatever guys but that's the one thing i dm'd or text you about it's like we want to help with that even covering some of that bill for skin removal i really appreciate that would yeah that's too easy i was like especially with what you're going through it motivates the f***ed out of everyone out there and us and then you put in the work not a month of work not two months or three months you put it

yeah at two years and you're a shining example too of the fact that like all these people that you know might be saying in their own head like hey i'm passing you're passing you're a the point of no return, there's no coming back, there's this, this, this, fuck you. Yeah, you're not too far gone. Yeah. Because I know a lot of people get that way in their head and there's probably plenty of people watching

that have just already given up. You're like, oh, I'll never be there. It's like, no, there's never a point of no return. Yeah. Tell you dad. Well, I was, dude, I was... We'll tell your dad. Yeah, that's a pretty good point in don't return.

I've been in some pretty nasty places, man. I've been at that point where I didn't care if I lived or died, right? But like, you know, in 20... Yeah. No, you know, speaking, sidebar. He didn't say it. It's fine. Yeah. Throw back my way, why don't? I was thinking about the edit, the way that was going down.

And I'm like, oh, at least I wasn't in frame. Thanks, Cody. Speaking of veterans, by the way, I did a collab with Zach when I was at his house. He had me hold up a sign. and I just said keep going forward. And then a bunch of the comments were like, I didn't know you were a veteran. I'm like, no, not.

I didn't take time to respond to us. I think Zach was doing it. Yeah. He is. He is. Yeah. Zach is including you in the forced valor saga. Yeah.

No, no, no, no. Dude, that is amazing. Okay, so we would love to cover a portion or help with that when you do hit that point. of your goal because that means you put in the work. That's an extra 140 pounds to go, essentially. Yeah, so I think once I lose another 100, I'm going to be getting at that point

where I'm going to start consulting with people, you know? Because like coming out, because when if I'm 340, you know, minus 50 to 70, that puts me under 300. I don't know if I'll be at the correct body fat percentage or where they want me to be for it. But I'm just so curious. I have so many questions because that's not something I've ever explored before is like the skin.

removal. Yeah. Like, is that something that, like, not to get, like, crazy personal with it or anything, but, like, the, like, stretch marks and things like that, do those, like, do they have a way of, like, fixing that? I don't think that ever really goes away. I think they just kind of make your, you, uh, normal shaped. Well, so they just kind of cut you up to make you normal shaped.

It's crazy. Have you, have you, have you, have you, have you, have you, what they're going to do is, so they'll literally have me. This all got, this gone. They just cut that entire. They will take a marker and they will draw a dotted line of, like, exactly where they're going to cut, and then they will just cut it up and sew it. You know, every time, I think, like, medicine has advanced so far.

We do some crazy, like, middle ages shit like that. Just like, I don't know, sharpie it up and slice it off. Yep. It's like you see those videos, the people like, the surgeons correcting, like, you know, a car accident, like somebody's got something like a hip displaced and they sit there with a chisel. They're putting a rod in someone's thigh. No, the range of the medical stuff.

Sletchammer and just fucking. Yeah. The range is crazy. because they have some surgeons who use like the robots and they're good like super like microscopic precision and then you have other surgeries that are just like you know sludge hammer drawing drawing on people with a sharpie oh medicare yeah yeah i'm very short well grandma here's the video he's an 80 pound sludge hammer missed once uh that's why they gave sorry about your balls that's why we're calling you grandma now oh no

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That's why we gave you a bunch of fent before the operation. Dude, my grandma, OMA, she had a surgery at one point that was, you know, like fairly invasive. She was getting her like hip fixed or something like that. And they legitimately gave her fentanyl before the operation. And she had an entire day where she was speaking to people, like, perfectly, like, you know, cogent and everything, talking to people, didn't remember any of it. That's just scary. I've never been put under for anything. And I really don't want to.

Did you, Cody, have you been put under ever? Got my wisdom teeth taken out. That's the only time. It's like, count down. Yeah, you fall. You're in the air awake instantly. You have a weird dreamer. two, then you're just awake.

It feels like you just went like that. Oh, dude. Like, when you say dream, like, like a normal, like you go to sleep dream, like, kind of like you're sleeping eight hours or like you just. It felt like a couple seconds and then you pop awake. That's the best way to explain it. You're out and then open when I had my colonoscopy and the mouth one.

And what? You got spit roasted by your doctor. Oh, yeah. Oh, 100%. The doctors, when they came in, they're like, we do this. I was like, you're using the same tube. You're like, no. I'm like, I'm fucking with your guys.

I know. And it was mask or the shot, whatever, and they pushed it in. And then it was waking up and that's that violent wake up. You have the wake up immediately? Yeah, there is no. What? Like, it feels, joked out. Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much. Dude, I've never, I've never experienced it like that. Like, even when I remember my tonsil surgery, I remember explicitly. having like dreams and stuff while I was out. Mine was. And like there was a long period of time between going under and then like waking up.

No, dude. I was I was out. I, for like two seconds, I was snowboarding. And then I was weird. And I had a snowboarder since I was like 16. And then I was back up. Wow.

I felt like two seconds. And you grab the mask, put it back on. That was a sick ride. That's just hit the nurse. Grab the mask. Nurse almost got punched by me because they did the real, they violently wake you up too. Did they read your file?

They were like, oh man, I wish Sapsav was like, oh, she was like, wake up, it's time to wake up Mr. Kavis and I were like,

but, and I went like that. Don't remember. And he was like aimed at her. And I was like, did my butthole go on O.F? I don't know why I said that. That's what you said.

That's what you said. It's because they were recording everything in their hands. me the papers and I'm just like uh-huh uh-huh yeah looking around and then I finally came to what was going on and I had papers on and I look what the fuck's going on right now they're like okay you got everything I'm like you sal what and she's like you're good I was like okay cool yep 100% at Medcan we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health from the big milestones to the quiet winds that's why our annual health assessment offers a physician-led full body checkup that provides

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And he's just like playing the same song with like he was like practicing and it got like progressively slower until he just stopped and was like asleep. Like keys held down. He's like, okay, buddy, time to go to bed. Come on, Phantom with the opera. That's funny. Yeah. It's so fast.

It's a wild feeling. dreams or any of that. Yeah. But yeah, so you'll have to go through that. Waking up with just a portion of your meat gone, that's going to be. That's a really weird way to say. Holy shit.

You're not wrong, though. Here's what's crazy, though, because you'll still have the same muscle memory. So I imagine, like, let's say you've just lost 10 pounds off your right arm. You go to grab something, you just like, it's just way lighter. Like, you're not expecting it. Dude, I couldn't even imagine waking up and then with 70 pounds, 50 to 70 pounds. Well, that's not all at once. But still like 20 pounds fast?

Yeah. Yeah. That is a chunk. It's going to be weird. That's the, like I said, though, like when I said it's going to be the most viral but also the most frustrating. Like I can't imagine the mental part of that. Because at that point, right, like when I'm at the point where I'm ready to have it done, I will have lost like over 300 pounds.

Yeah. And to have gone through all that just to be like visually a melted ice cream cone, you know, like you just got shit. Like that, I feel like that's going to be rough. And I feel like not being able to have it all done at once is also like I know for my health I shouldn't. Yeah. But like just having to still live with that after putting in the work for soul. long, I think that's going to be hard, man. But look at it this way. How old are you? 26. So you had

24 years of accumulation and then you're going to have a few years of that going away. And in that scope, if you look at it like that, it's like, oh shit, this is only like less than 10%. Yeah, my underlying goal, honestly, is to just be able to live a normal life in my 30s. Because, I mean, realistically, like, you just granted the way to look at it, I would think, or one of them. And I'm sure you've thought all of this through before. I mean, but, you know, your future children just got 25 more years with their dad. Yeah. Like, losing that much weight. Like, that's absurd. Like, congratulations, truly. Yeah. I appreciate that, man. Actually, speaking of future children, man, like 2025, in January, I was back up to 624 pounds. It was like the fourth or fifth, I think fourth time that I gained all the

weight back. And I had a realization, man. I literally had the thought, hop into my head on January 6th of 25. And it was like... Exactly a year ago. Yeah. Oh, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Literally one year ago today. No shit. I thought, if I fail this journey, I'm not just failing myself. I'm also putting the lives of my future wife and kids in jeopardy. Because like, you know, people can say what they want about religion, but I've always 100% believed it when the Bible says that God will give you the desires of your heart. And ever since I was a kid, I've had the desire to start a family. So as soon as I, I don't know why I didn't think like that before, but as soon as that thought came into my head, dude, 2025 was the first year and the five years

that I've been trying to get it off that I kept a big chunk off. Yeah. It was a, it gave me a level of determination that I had never had. Like, I still struggled, but I never, but I never, never once backslid. Like, I never gained weight last year. Yeah. I mean, it seems like it's been very consistent, at least since I've been keeping track of it. Like, it seems, and you'll have, you know, different days of your way-ins. Some plateaus and stuff. Yeah. And that's to be expected. And, like, I think you do a good job, too, when you're explaining, when you're doing your way-ins. You're like, I expected this. I was hydrating a lot more. I was doing this because of these exercises, like, not all weight is fat. Yeah. And there is the difference. Like, that's, and a lot of

people maybe if they're not familiar, like they don't really know that. That's water weight. We have eight pounds for a single gallon. The water is freaking ridiculous. Man, I have a thing called lymphedema in my lower body. And it's literally like my body just holds onto water like it's no one's freaking business. So if I have a day where I don't wrap my legs and I eat high sodium, I was telling Eli, I could easily go up like 11 pounds the next day. No shit. Just if I drink water and I don't wrap my legs properly, I can gain 10 pounds of the day if I wanted to. And I know that's not fat.

You know what I mean? It's not physically possible. So, like, even after this trip, dude, like, my weekly weigh-ins are on Friday, and I'm going to get back after traveling, and there's probably going to be some water weight. And that's what I'm going to say in the way-in, you know? Like, that's hard for me. Because, like, I know I shouldn't care what the comments say. And I talked to a lot with this about Eli yesterday, but I am someone who, I just,

want to know what people are saying. So I always read into it and I read way too much of it. That's normal. Like that's human, I think. But, you know, I know that I'm losing weight, but when the scale and that stupid number is like the only number in this space that people actually judge you off of. Which is big because they haven't put in the work or understand it. That's why anyone that worth their salt will say, don't look at the fucking scale, look at the size of the, like your body's going to change so much.

Four shirt sizes in the last year and a half. Pants. What about pants sizes? Oh, I've gone from like a 60 something to like a 54. Like, fucking that is the stuff that matters. It's why I wait, as you said, oh my God, I can drink in a single day with water retention 11 pounds. That's why it's like it's a bad measurement. It's good that you're tracking yourself and you're doing it, but anyone worth their salt will be like, who cares? Well, actually, I'm happy I started weighing in every day. Yeah. Which kind of sucks, but at the same time, seeing the data is good, especially this week because if I am, if I do happen to be up a couple pounds on Friday, I can go, hey, look at where I was at right before I left. You know, that's three and a half pounds lower than I was last week.

Because you get the full data set, because it's going to go up and down. It's just like a stock market. The graph is ridiculous. What's the average? And then what we did, last night you had sushi, like we went to the sushi. place. Yes. So a niggiri, just super clean, easy food. And then today you had what chicken? Where I don't even know what you had? Oh, I just had a breakfast bowl at the lunch place. Yeah. So what is it just like scrambled eggs? I calculated like eggs,

sausage to to the highest calorie bacon slices I could find on the app because those were big slices bacon. It's thick. The hash browns, the Brussels sprouts, and then I did what my nutritionist taught me. And I just added an extra ounce and a half of fat onto the tracking because I'm sure that it's all cooked in a bunch of stuff. Yeah. So came on to like 1,200 calories, but. So I have to go like at restaurants like that. I have to specifically ask them like, okay, eggs, no oil, no bullshit.

You ordered one like chicken and avocado today or something? Yeah. There's like, I'm like, no oil, no bullshit. Because I don't, because all those restaurants add so much just lard and fat and whatever else. That's the terrible stuff. And then for even praising him even more, he was pacing and that we thought. he was nervous or something.

Yeah, right before the podcast. No, I was actually, I'm not excited for this. It was like, hey, you good? I think Connor was like, hey, you good? He's like, I'm getting my steps in. It's just walking back in Boykin's, it's like, oh, fuck, yeah, that is awesome. And you got a box today for the first time ever. That was fun. Yeah.

That was a good time. I put me in my place, dude. Like, stuff. That is so, it's like, it's fun, but I'm like, oh, my God. Like, that'll really show you how fat you are if you try something like that. Well, cardio. It's hot. Yeah.

Any sort of fighting period is very good for humbling yourself. We just worked on a one, too, and jabbing for three minutes straight. And you're like, oh, this sucks. I'm like, mm-hmm. Yeah, dude. That three-minute round, my heart was beating out of my freaking chest. And he sparring a little bit, too? We got some sparring and light sparring.

And then me and Brandon did a little heavier sparring. We still did light sparring, but that was a blast. That was fun. As I said, you did the best you've ever done in a sparring session. I was like, homie is throwing fists at me. I like it. Still, I mean, it's a great reminder too. Like I said, it's great for humbling yourself of how fast the cardio goes.

Because me and you have been in the boxing gym in a couple months. And so, like, that fight cardio goes away so fast. Yeah. It's aggressive. At three-minute round starts feeling like a 30-minute. That second round, me and you did about like halfway through. I'm like, I started just running away. I can't, man.

Evasive maneuvers. I've made this joke before but it's like the the stamina bar has gone to zero when it's starting to chip away at HP I'm just like oh no, fuck I'm like put your hands up

keep your hands up and he's like throwing punches in slow motion I know that looked like stop recording the contrast between like the bag work

and the sparring was wild yes like actually having to think about defense is crazy. Because, like, I was, I was trying to just get the form with the punches right. Yeah. And then we start, you know, he starts doing his, like, super, super light baby sparring with me. And I was like, oh, shit.

It was ridiculous, man. This ain't fun. It's totally different when there's somebody there hitting you back. Oh, yeah. And I think we've, I'm sure we've told this story. But the first time that I told Eli, I was taking a fight, he's like, come to my house right now. You sparred today. Yeah.

Went to his house. And he just, the only thing he's, he just, the only thing he. through his jabs. He just one minute of just being jabbed in the fucking head. He's like, get around my fist. And he just kept jabbing me in the fucking face. And like

after like 30 seconds, I'm like, all right, Eli, I'm done. How do I, how do I get around that? This isn't fun anymore. I'm just getting hit in the head. It's just the Mortal Kombat sweep over and over and over. This is stupid. Stop using that. Huh? Yeah, stop using that move.

It's jab, jab, jab, jab. But it is good thing. Even you trying it. A lot of people get nervous getting in the ring because it is sparring is terrifying if you've never done it. Yeah. And then you don't know if they're going to swing for the fences or not. And that's what I was like, don't worry.

We're not, not blast it. You don't even have a mouthpiece. I'll like touch your head if I can show you where I'm going to hit you. But just keep your hands up. Keep moving. Yeah. Funny people who aren't mean-spirited. Like everybody's just trying to learn, you know.

Yeah, I appreciate the scalability of it. You know, like the way you did it with me today was probably perfect. You got you burnt a lot of calories You did brown after round You were like Okay I'm just watching the sweat start to like Just the sweat stain

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After you purchase, they're going to ask you, where'd you hear about us? Tell them on sub or we'll fucking kill you. Mr. Cody, how you been, dog? Ah, super duper, man. What are you been working on right now? I'm still just doing my streams, man. I didn't do shit last week.

It turns out when you get past 30, when you do that whole crazy partying thing on New Year's Eve, it takes like three or four days to get to recover from that. A little longer to recharge. Yeah, a little bit. So I don't think we did much of anything last week. But yeah, just started back to streaming. I wanted to box with you guys, but I really got to get some stream time in this week because I didn't do shit last week.

The stream's still like doing good? B-W-S doing real good, man. I had a thousand concurrent viewers on Twitch this morning, then like 800 on kick. So I had about 2,000 people in there. That's awesome, man. Watching dumb people drink and get arrested. 100 on kick and 1,000 on Twitch? 800 on kick and 1,000.

on Twitch and you made way more on cake. Yeah, you make a little bit more from viewership, yeah. Turns out when you don't have to pay Lord Bezos you're doing... Yeah, right. Pay him half of your fucking. Oh, man, that's awesome. And then we had the

president get stolen. Yeah, that was cool. We have so much shit we haven't been everyone talking about it. It's like, yeah, there's a whole kidnapping in the middle of the night and waking up and be like, eh? We have a text from Brandon's like, well, I think we're at war? Or you did?

Yeah, because, yeah, show text, the group chat in the middle of the night. Because it was like 3.30 a.m. I rolled over and I'm just like, oh, fuck. And I see her text. She's like, I think we're at war. And it's the video of like the Apaches like shooting at the anti-aircraft, like blowing up the anti-aircraft defenses. And I saw the text like 20 minutes later because I just rolled over and like opened it.

And I'm like, no, I think it's done. And I sent back like that we captured the president of Venezuela. 35 minutes. on ground, wasn't it? I think it was less. That's wild. Yeah. No U.S. casualties, either.

No, and they had that new weapon system. Ethan talked about that, but it was like their new weapon system and then the S-300s. Yeah. I think that's what they're called. And they had 5,000 new systems in place. And all I seen,

it was like, well, those didn't work because they're flying very low in helicopters. Like, what were they? and Chinooks, I'm assuming? I think we had Apaches and maybe, I don't know, Black Hawk, Chinook, something like that. Yeah, there's a couple different ones. It was whoa. Yeah, dude.

The 160th, you know, there were ones flying in nods. And then they blew, you know how they kicked it off? Hmm. Yeah. They blew up the museum that houses Hugo Chavez's grave. Oh, that's how they started it. I believe that. Oh, I've been told that.

No, that's a, yep, that's all. In my mind, I feel like they. Extracted and they're like you guys want to do something else real quick. It's gonna be funny. That's what we do it was a question mark that popped up. They're like oh shit So I accept extra XP. I wonder if that was a sanctioned military target or the pilot just did a funny That's one hell of a choice to make on your own. Yeah It's one of those things. I You can say what you will about like oh well we shouldn't have done it because X Y and Z you know, these different things. And like, not all of those are necessarily invalid. There's an

argument to be made. It's a hard one. But you, what you cannot say is that it is not impressive. You cannot say that it is not impressive that the United States S-ranked an entire fucking country. Like, the biggest oil producer in the entire world that had the backing of Russia, China, you know, all these different world powers, giving them anti-aircraft missiles, whatever. We go in, we destroy their entire anti-aircraft defense system. swoop their president while the entire world is asleep. All of us found out about it in the morning. It took us like fucking two hours, whatever it was.

Yeah, maybe less. Like a Lord, like, I think someone said, you could have started a Lord of the Rings movie and walked out and be like, what happened? Yeah, that's what I said. Like, if you started the finale of Stranger Things, by the time you were done, we were out of Venezuela with the president. I read somewhere on a couple of these military Twitters.

I hope it's true because it sounds super cool that at an undisclosed location somewhere in the United States, they had built his palace with the exact materials that the palace is made of, including the safe room that he has, so that the Delta guys and all the cag dudes could go in and figure out how to get in the quickest, grab him and get out. Because we had people on the inside. Yeah, that's, yeah.

I guarantee that was, because I know they did that for the Osama raid. They reconstructed what they thought the layout was, and then they would just run it, run it, run it. all right I'm throwing a Hail Mary here but this is very funny we start talking shit about like a world leader

or something like getting into a shit fit whether it's China Russia Cuba Columbia you know 10 buck two whoever all of a sudden we just leak intel to them

that somewhere in Arizona we built a repro of their house and we were doing Delta raids on that repro of their house just so you know maybe you should stop talking shit I mean think of how many dictators woke up that next day and were like uh-oh because that is the so they have 27 to 29

million people and then they were ranked 50th out of the 145 countries and military power and we s-ranked them without a single casualties zero zero casualties on our side that's wild to be able to do as a military power and it's one of those it's like oh well u.s or china like they're neck and neck it's like i don't think you know how much we spend on military budget and we love to fight for some reason. They love going to war. Really good at it at this point in U.S. history. And that is a perfect example, how good we are at. And that's the other part too. It's, you know, if you look at the comparison, because I don't like being involved in foreign entanglements. I don't think we should be the world's police. There's a lot of things that I disagree with in having an invasive foreign policy.

At the same time, if we're going to do it, instead of a 20-year-forever war where we kill a million civilians, we have thousands of American soldiers dead and we're dicking around for trillions of dollars, in and out in two hours, captured the king, I'm down. Like, if that's the way we're going to do it, I think it's vastly superior to what we've been doing. That is pretty crazy. I don't think it's war that. That's the one thing. It's like, it doesn't, I don't consider that war that is just a movie. you like you're in you're out there was no casualties on our side and it is the the hard one because it is as you were saying a well we overstepped our balance but then it is what what's a bound on

something bad do you just sit back north korea we don't do anything with that there's slavery like generational slavery concentration camps everything nothing happens so what's the line you just sit back and do nothing the entire time or is that one where it's like hey this is a dictator. Other people in the past was like, oh, we got to do something. I think it's not even just the human rights thing because like there's not, again, not to get too into the politics of it, but the argument on one side is that it's not just that they were a socialist dictatorship, but also the fact that when they took power, they seized tens of billions of dollars worth of American assets, things that American companies paid money for to put

there to be able to allow them to use their oil to the extent that they are. We invested there, and as soon as they took power, they seized those. So they stole from Americans. And so like, all right, well, that's a, you're going to do that on top of talking shit and saying like, oh, we're going to retaliate. We're going to do this. It's like, well, maybe learn your place. No, you're not going to learn your place? Okay. Okay. Did you do anything on that one? I haven't done anything on it. No. I mean, we were in the skit. We did, we did that skit. That was pretty funny. I was like, I haven't got a

I just watched the intro though, because I think you clip just the intro of it. Oh yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, this is dumb. That was one. We had the idea that night. We're like, all right, this is pretty funny. We're knocking this out. We're knocking this. Ethan's like, I can't. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about this. I've been very conservative on the way I don't speak about anything like this. So I'm not opposed to talking about it, but I'm just like, you know. It's a hard one. Not pissing people off for no reason.

Yeah. You know, this time around, because I was different back when I was a streamer, but this time around, I'm just kind of like... The more people that my videos reach, the more people it helps, and the better I do. So I just try to stay in my lane. You know, even my faith, I'm pretty tactful in how I speak about it. Yeah, because I don't want to alien any anyone. And there's a difference between rejecting your faith and also like just not choosing to be,

you know, very aggressively outspoken about it. That's the thing, man, because like I give God glory for everything that's happening in my life. And I'm not afraid to say that, but I will never like shove people, shove Jesus or scripture down people's throats. Yeah. Because that's when you like, if you're like, if you guys are going to go to hell, if you don't accept Jesus as your savior, that is like the dumbest possible way. Yeah.

To convince people that that's something that they. should pursue. I mean, you don't want to picket military funerals. So I'm like, you know, I find this stuff interesting. That whole Venezuela thing was wild, but I just like, I don't know what to say about it. Yeah, because like there's a lot of my wheelhouse, dude. Because your message really does like inspire people. No matter, you know, it doesn't matter what walk of life you come from, laugh, right, you know, what, what have you. Your message is really, really fucking cool. It's wild, man. It's can make a difference in your life. And then when they lose that weight and for guys,

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wearing puka shell necklaces all of a sudden. Oh man. Now you actually are sponsored by Jocko and you work with that in the military space because I consider him. Oh yeah. They're very heavily ingrained in that. And it was actually really cool. That was before you blew up. You like.

No, I was going to say that raid on Visuala was sponsored by Jocko too. Oh, yeah. You were talking about that earlier. The origin hoodie, dude. It's legendary. marketing win of the century. I swear to God, I thought that was photoshopped when I saw it. Like, for those of you who missed it, when they captured Maduro and brought him back to the States, someone, I don't even think Jocko knows who it is, someone in the military put him in a pre-release

blue origin USA hoodie. And they posted that photo, I thought it was fake. I thought it was fake. And then Jock posted the photo on Instagram and he's like, I can't wait to meet the Patriot who put Maduro in this hoodie I'm like that I was sick The question is how they get one How do they get a pre-release? He's an I guarantee

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With the guy's hand. Yeah. Make sure they could see the origin logo. As we said, he's like, he's like, no, no, no, thumbs closer together. Logo out. I want to see the first few of those photos because he definitely got that was a couple of photos to get to that one. I just want to see the Apple, like the iPhone live photo version. of that.

Oh yeah. Just slapped the back of his head. No, I thought that was really cool, though. I don't know how the hell they pulled that off. But when Jocko made his post about he's like, we have like partners and friends in all branches of the military. And I can't wait to meet the Patriot who put him in this. And it's just like, what are the freaking odds, dude?

I wonder if he did that as like kind of like throwing flares like, oh, I had nothing to do with this. Can't wait to meet the Patriot. who knew about this one? That'd be wild to have that, though. Not an accusation, that's a joke. He said it. Brandon, what kind of shirt is that?

I'm glad you asked, Eli, this is a poncho. Brandon and I actually wear poncho so much. We constantly end up wearing the same nice poncho shirt. Good thing nobody's ever pointed that out before. Now, if you guys have ever seen one of our live shows or this podcast in general, you'll see Brandon and I wearing these incredibly comfortable great-looking shirts all the time. Finn, pull it up with pictures. They're literally always wearing the same shirt.

I got turned on a poncho like a year ago. I've been wearing them ever since. I personally prefer... I think this is the Westerns. It's got the pearl snaps because it's hot in Texas and I like something breathable. Who's the thing I find really cool? Brandon, do the glasses trick. So ponchos have this neat little thing in the pocket where you just take your glasses.

No, the other one. Be more specific. Let's get the shit about it. that all right oh watch everyone so if you got fat fingers and you smudge your glasses all the time the bottom of the shirt actually acts it has like a micro fiber so you can clean your glasses I make him clean my phones he does I like the hidden little pocket on the breast wait what right over here got a little zipper pocket I didn't even know about that one is that where you hold Cody's heart

and his drugs things you might need to know poncho has put a lot of thought and detail into each one of their shirts Oh, holy sh- They're soft. They're really soft. Yo, what? That's my one, like, thing is fucking fabric sensitivity. I don't wear uncomfortable shirts. This is comfy as f***. That's where we wear them all the time.

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So, like, I used to be a full-time Twitch partner back in my heyday. Dude, he was getting, like, 1,200 viewers. I have 1,000 viewers on Twitch in the Valoran category. On the Ballarat? Yeah. God, I fucking hate that game now. But, but I, you know, I say that. Like, I had years of experience of, like, on-camera.

talking, having a good time. Like, I've always felt at home on camera. I first say, you seem very comfortable. I love it, dude. I enter like a flow state when I have a camera in front of me. Yeah. So, you know, I had that experience and then I was hospitalized. I don't want to really get into that again. I've talked a lot about it this week, but I was hospitalized for 60 days. But, dude, I lost everything in that hospitalization. But, you know, I spent, so I spent a few years at home after the hospital recovering and just being miserable. If you don't mind just for the sake of the people who don't know about it. Like, if you don't mind talking about, what were you hospitalized for?

Yeah. So I was hospitalized for 60 days in 2021 from mainly COVID. But when I got COVID, I also got a bacterial pneumonia on my lungs. So it is a hundred percent God that I'm still here, man. Like I was on a ventilator for 10 days. Oh, shit. So you're talking at a time where 99% of COVID patients who were put on the vent died. A 600 pound dude lived.

It was crazy. Not to get too into it, I just figured. No, it's fine. I know. I probably shouldn't have skipped over it as quickly as I did. I almost died. Fast forward. Yeah.

And I can imagine why that's not fun to talk about it. I came off the ventilator with a stage four pressure wound and a nerve. of injury that fucked up the entire right side of my body. So I came off there in significantly worse health than I was before going on to it. Well, I think the crazy part for that story is you had 1,200 viewers. It was like one of your best streams. You just got partnered and then you just fell off the face of the planet, literally. But he doesn't remember two days.

I don't remember two weeks. You should have streamed it? He got his partner. Apparently he did. He got the partnership. He got partnered. Made it. And then I bought partnered, posted the screenshot of the email and then I fell off the face of the planet.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know how to do you stream. You leave the stream for a week. Your viewership just plummets. Yeah. So I can imagine being gone for as long as you were. Like how many days until you woke up though? It was like two days, three days?

Oh, no. No, it was dude. It was, I don't remember the three. days prior to the hospital or the like 11 days on the event. So it was almost two weeks. Because you were at home and I remember the evening getting the partner email and tweeting it out. And then that's the last thing I remember before waking up in the ICU two weeks later. Dude, oh, you're a fresh partner too. Damn. Yep. Dude, like I would, Cody knows if you have done Twitch, especially at that time 2020, 2020, 2021. 21, yeah. It is. And then you have to be active. There is.

No time off for streaming. That's why it's one of the roughest career choices because you cannot take vacations. There is just zero. You are working six days a week minimum and no time off. Or you will kill your viewership. Especially trying to make partner too. You're having to stream like almost every single day. Oh yeah.

I was in that 50 to 100 viewer area applying over and over and over for like a year. Same. Before getting it. And then you did the thing. and then it was your mom, dad, that called? Oh, yeah, dude. So, like, I was apparently just, like, sitting on the couch. My oxygen was so low that I was, like, semi-unresponsive.

So I think they just called 911. But, you know, I was so big at the time. I mean, I'm still big, but I was so fat at the time. They literally had, I think the fire department got me out of the house. Yeah, that's right. Because we had one of those bi-levels, so you actually have to go up the stairs to get into the house. So they brought in, like, a freaking machine, brought me down the stairs,

got me onto the ambulance. then the whole hospital thing happened. Damn, and then now with that, that too, like, because it took two days for your parents to be like, oh shit, because you said you were still doing stuff, you just don't remember it? Yeah, I was just sitting at home, apparently. Like, I was literally, I was eating and, like,

I was just sitting at home, like, sleeping all day in. Autopilot. I don't remember any of it. Damn. I mean, to be fair, I think a part of that is the meds that they put you on on the vent. They probably give you some crazy shit when you get put on the ventilator.

So I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of like memory loss component to that. That's still wild. God, I fix the AC and now it's actually chilling in here because that's why I had you heard. I was surprised. I've been roasting this last day. Dude, well, I went up, I was like, man, it's fucking hot right now. I need to go. That's what that.

Upstairs, I was getting this compressor and I was blowing out the AC pipes. And now I'm like, oh, it's cold as fucking. It works. I'm like, damn. Damn. Dude, that's still wild to go through that is just... And we'd talked about it, but it is that the hardest part was you were at the top, and you just got part and you did a 1,200 viewers?

Yeah, like 1,300 viewers, because it was a part of one of those crater events where Riot gave us early access to one of the new maps. Oh, yeah. So I was one of like 10 people streaming the new map at the time. You know, Valerant was freaking popping back then. And then, yeah. And over a thousand viewers, too, that's really good money. Bro, that's wild.

Yeah, dude, I was, I was a moron back then. Like, I was only focused on the gaming. I didn't have any sort of business mind. I was literally renting an office to stream, but I was still like, I had no merch, I had no sponsors. I wasn't doing anything. I was making like six or seven grand on Twitch that point, though. Only for a few months, because it popped off after I created TikTok, but.

Yeah, that whole time my life was crazy, but it's crazy because that experience I had from that streaming, you know, when I got back up to 624 and I started losing the weight again, last May, I decided that I was thinking, like contemplating, making videos again and getting back into that space, and I wasn't sure about it. And I had a dinner with a couple friends of mine from church, and they convinced me to do it. And dude, like the first week, it was like 10 million views and 17,000 followers on Instagram. And I was like, holy shit. Like I knew from the past, like with everything that I had done prior on socials, I was like, all right, I know what to do with this. So I took that momentum and I just freaking ran. You know, but the Jocko partnership, dude, like I made a video to them a week in when I was at 17,000 followers. And I was like, hey, I've been using your guys' products.

I want to work with you. And I sent him a DM. And I'm like, I made like this whole two paragraphs. But I'm like, if you guys work with me, you will make money. Yeah. That's what I said. They didn't respond. Yeah.

They didn't respond initially. But then a week later, I made a video using their creatine or something. And then they followed me back and I got a DM. And I was at 40,000 followers the first time I had a meeting with the team. And two weeks later, when I signed the contract, I was at 100,000. Yeah, that's a good. I'd be like, we should sign him now. That's not a bad growth trajectory.

I would think. It's ridiculous, man. Like I think last year, we had three, like over 700 million real views. And then over 1.3 million new followers across socials. It was a super awesome hearing. Oh, the one thing. you did was you were cutting everything. Even when you were streaming, you were cutting everything into clips, real socials. Oh, yeah. And you do it all yourself. Yeah, when I was streaming,

I literally, like, I had the stream deck set up and I had a little program in OBS that automatically cropped it to like the TikTok format. Oh, no shit. So I would just like press a button and it would save it. I would just post like four or five times a day on TikTok. But I started a TikTok in 2021 and it went from zero to 100,000 in two months. that's how my stream grew. But I didn't expect the conversion because I see a lot of creators on TikTok that have a lot of followers

but don't have a lot of Twitch viewers. Yeah. But whatever it was about those clips, man, it was getting people to come over. TikTok's one of those weird platforms where like followers don't matter. It seems like where it's like you've got like

somebody who's got a million subscribers on YouTube and like you see the views and everything. You're like, okay, cool. Like I understand. TikTok's like, oh, I have 40 billion followers. And it's like, yeah, hey, well, you know, promote this t-shirt. You get four sales.

Like, it's just, it's so much drive-by viewership, I think. Mm-hmm. That, and it sounds like I'm just shitting on the platform because I don't like it. I don't like it either. They still owe me money. We all are very old when it cut. We don't use TikTok show.

We thank God we have show and staff that can figure that show. The lamb in. The lamb in, no TikTok. Yeah, the whammon. The biggest thing that drives me crazy is the amount of, and I think it's like a Gen Z female thing for the most part. Not even, maybe not even Gen Z, like millennial,

but just how many people get their news from TikTok? Oh, I found this out from TikTok or this from TikTok. So some random guy with an iPhone in his kitchen, which like I understand, like that's how a lot of us get a lot of our information nowadays, but you at least vet the source. Some of these people just like open gullet, absorb rando's information.

Because this shit is just, some of the shit that I've heard, like, oh, I saw it on TikTok. It's retarded. Yeah. Genuinely retarded. The sovereign citizen thing is picking back up because there's a lot of people going around TikTok saying you don't have to get out of your car for police, which, of course,

the case law, Pennsylvania versus MIMs says you have to get out of your car. And there's people like sovereign citizens own there teaching people on TikTok. You don't have to have a license plate. This is common. You're not in commerce. You're just traveling and like all that shit that sovereign citizens say. This is my vessel. Yeah.

Stuff you can literally just. check. Just Google it. Google it. Yeah. And then like, no, and then you get to watch them try to film them owning a police officer or a judge, whatever. Oh, yeah. If you actually, no.

They usually cut right before the window gets broken. Yeah. Which, I mean, they're making me tons of money. It's awesome. You love So for the first half of that video, you go to TikTok. For the second half, you go to Cody's chair. There's been a lot of instances.

is within the past year that I'm loving. And it's an old school police thing where they grab the top of the window because people will crack it and they'll just pull the window out. Have you ever seen that? Oh yeah. It's fucking awesome, man. There's been so many videos coming out lately of that. It's like, yes, another window pull.

This is awesome. It's not that hard. And it's not like you do. And I hate you get hate for it. It's like a bootlicker. I'm like, homie will call out bad police action any day of the week. And it's not, no, he does. And it's like, I assure you.

Squirrel cop is a great fucking video on that. Like any of the bad ones where you're like, this is no. So you don't shit on it. There's several bad shoots that you've gotten shit for. Like that just you're like, oh, why aren't you back in the cops? It's like, well, no, you just do what you think is right. God forbid. It's a crazy concept nowadays.

And then that is the problem with it. It is you try to hold the people accountable for it. And then now you're reacting to it. But both sides. Also, just fucking, hey, here, my license. I've been pulled over with a shi ton of guns and I am not a dude that looks like

I would draw a gun on me like walking around a corner and seeing a bunch of guns I'd be like I've had guns drawn on me for that it's not great typically you've been called boy oh yeah straight up on multiple occasions

and I usually I instigate it because I like got pulled over doing like 20 over or whatever the fuck it was and I've got machine guns in the back so understandably Like, I could see where this is problematic. Yeah. But the thing that always gets me about those is the,

the passive aggressiveness of you get pulled over. Like, normally it's you're swerving, you're drunk, you're speeding like crazy in all these, like, different like body cam videos. And they only roll down their window like an inch. Yeah. It's like the most passive aggressive shit you could do to a cop ever. Like as a police officer,

if I were a cop that would just annoy the shit of me right out of the game. Yeah. Yeah, it's not the nicest thing. All you got to do is be courteous and you usually get a warning. Dude, that's what I pull no matter what, the first thing I do,

roll down all windows, put my hands on the steering wheel and then turn the lights on. So when they approach, it's like, oh, Homeboy's doing everything in his power to show. It's like, hey, dude, like, we're good. Like, here, look away. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, especially if I have gone.

guns in the back, whatever it is, like make this as peaceful as possible. You should do, it's like you're lucky I didn't run. Yeah, that would be very funny. I would actually laugh at the police officer, but like, you're getting a warning for that one. I like that. Have you ever woke up and felt like your mattress punched you in your sleep? I still think it was my wife, but yeah. Eli, do you have the mattress?

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Oh, you're a-hast.com. I got pulled over. Speaking of that, I got pulled over by a Georgia, I think it was a Georgia state trooper, like fucking three o'clock in the morning. I was traveling like state to state. And I was probably, I was speeding. There's nobody on the fucking highway. Got pulled by a cop. Pull over. Roll down all my windows and I'm like 10 and two on the steering wheel, because I do have a gun, because I always have a gun. He comes to the driver's side window. And I was like, hey, you know, how's it going, sir? I'm like, how's it going, officer?

Just so you know, like, I do have a gun. I'm carrying appendix. It's on my front, right side, whatever. He's like, yeah, he's an older guy. He's like, I figured you were, sir. Like, oh, the way you have your hands glued to the steering wheel, I figured you had to have had a gun. He pulled the traditional cop line.

Well, I'll tell you, I'll catch you a deal. You don't touch yours. I won't touch mine. Yes, sir. That sounds very fair. It's super simple. Just do that. I know I had a shirt over a gun.

He's like, can you get your driver? I was like, I would get my insurance and everything, but there was a gun in that seat. I will let you grab that first if you're okay with that. And he's like, yeah, okay, thank you. Lifts a shirt, grabs a gun. Can't figure out to clear it because the safety's on. and he's like I was like you

and he's like can you I was like yeah I took the gun cleared it for I handed it to he's like I have to run this to make sure it's not stolen I don't think you do

as a cop you don't have to that sounds really weird yeah I did have a bunch of guns in the back and then because it was covered and I didn't have my concealed Texas

that'll do it yeah and he pointed out that's why back before he had constitutional carry and I had a lot of respect he's like hey just so you know next time put it in a glove compartment, then you can't get in trouble

for concealed carry. He's like, because it was here with a shirt over it, that's concealed. And if it was a dickhead cop, he's like, you would have got a felony for that. I was like, dude, thank you so much for that. Yeah. I appreciate it. Glove compartment, glove box, an extension of your home at that point in some states. And that's like, don't quote me in all states.

If you're in Illinois, don't try it. Don't try it. It's a good rule of thumb for a lot of stuff in that state. Yeah. But super thankful. all that unfolded that way. But I did when he's like, run the security.

I was like, I mean, you can, but the serial number on that gun is literally my name. Like what? It's like, it's a custom built one that has- Eli 69-4-20. Yep. See, he knew it. Called it. Came back.

He was like, handed everything. He was like, hey, yeah, just slow down next time. If you're good to go, don't put the gun in the actual. glove compartment or center council yeah and then or at least before yeah constitutional carry now in Texas

because like a lot of times I'll you know take off and put it in the glove compartment or something when you're reaching for your license to hand it right you pull it out super quick the wallet shirt you have to get your wallet to the officer faster

you get out of the car and sprint at him pulling your wallet out so you save him time you know he doesn't have to yeah unsub tips it's good advice too Make sure you get that wallet real quick. Officer. You don't want to waste the officer time.

He's had a hard day. Cops are really busy. Don't waste the cops time, dude. The way I normally do it is, you know, because a lot of times I keep like my registration and insurance and everything in center console with usually a gun if I've like taken it off because, you know, if you're driving a long ways, you don't want to keep a fucking gun in your waistband.

I normally just like ask the cop what they would prefer. just like oh can I see your you know registration like my registration is in my glove compartment I also have a handgun in there like my carry gun um you know I'm I'm an ffl all this sort of sort of stuff is what I'll say how would you like to proceed do you still want me to get it how do you how do you want to do this and usually if you put the ball back in their court they're super comfortable yeah yeah of course that's what it's a female cop she'll just shoot you yeah that that will happen joking that was a joke I was a joke I I remember, I'm sure we told this story on the podcast before,

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she goes back to her car to go like run my stuff I'm like whatever fair enough if you're like I think I'm just gonna get out of the car sprint to the tree line and then put my hands over my head and see what she does I just love to

you're just causing chaos I'm just like actively sweating I'm like please don't do it it's just gonna be a very simple interaction sober Cody drunk Cody it's like the wild car We're like, I don't know if he's joking.

You buckle him in. He unbuckles himself. I'm like, no, no, no, put that back. Were you ruining my phone, Brandon? This is bullshit. It's like rolling a 20, 20-sided dice. Like, oh, well, let's see how this goes. Not it's 20.

No, there's a lot. Anarchy. you roll below a five. I need to find new best friend. Welcome to the podcast. Oh, dude, I'm having a great time, man. I'm not nearly as well-versed as you guys are on any of this stuff. So I'm just here for the ride, dude.

We're all just here for the ride, man. Just laughs and having a good time. Damn it, I was going to please. What was the one thing that hit my brain and then disappeared? What was it? Fitness Challenge numbers? No. Something else.

I'm still curious about those results. So is the subreditor. Well, that's what we're doing on this. That's this episode. Yeah. Oh, okay. Cool. We're doing the announcement for everything at the beginning of this one.

So it'll be slated right the beginning because we figured this would be the perfect send off for that. It's like, hey, look, we have you on. We want to do all the announcements. Motivate everyone. Be like, hey, and then also being able to talk to you and then those individuals, Hey, if you want to know if you want to not, here you go, but also watch the episode. They get more motivated because a lot of people have stayed on track months afterwards.

And you get a few post about them saying, like, I kept the journey going, who else did? And then all the responses for that. Which that was always the goal. Like that's fucking awesome. See people like not just for like a quick little stint for social media, but people actually make making life changes. Like that's super inspiring to see. It's hard. Yeah.

Like, it is not easy to actually put in the effort. You're down 30 pounds? Yeah. Yeah, I was 207 to 177. Dude, where show? Did show disappear? Show's gone. Oh, she's upstairs.

Like, show has a lot. I was like, what the fuck? Even this morning, it was like, what the fuck? Like, I don't know how much she's lost. She looks fantastic. She's crushing it. Her and Dave are killing it. And they're just going to gym.

Eating right. Eating right's the hardest part. You've discussed that. Oh, yeah. This sucks. But it's not that bad. It sucks how much of it is all food. That's the most frustrating part about it.

Like I talk about this quite often. Like I'm in a position with how big I am that there's no amount of effort that I could put in on any given day to wake up tomorrow and not have to deal with this body. That sucks, dude. Even if I fasted. you know like even if you deprived yourself of all food I would still wake up tomorrow a 400 plus pound guy and I did still have to deal with all the negative repercussions of being that size and then when you're like I don't know I think a lot of big people deal with the food addiction whether they've accepted it or not you know so when you deal with that constantly too it sucks so much worse when you realize that

the diet and like the calorie deficit is literally like 90% of weight loss And the crazier part, too, that we were talking about a little earlier, if you're okay to talk about is the fact that you said, like, you don't even drink. Like, you don't drink and you don't, like, you don't drink soda. Right. Like, I've met a lot of people. I didn't grow up on soda and I never, yeah, like, this is probably like the eighth drink I've ever had. And this is probably the strongest one ever had, you know. Five percent. Yeah. So. Well, because, yeah, the crazy part being, like, I know a lot of people that have really struggled with weight, but, like, like, you know, Like, these are also guys, like, they got really big. But I also, like, I have unironically seen people that are like a very large size drinking out of a two liter of Mountain Dew. Like, as if it is a personal soda. It's like, oh, yeah, well, no shit. Like, that's so much sugar, it's so many calories.

But for you, it was no alcohol, no soda, none of that, just food alone. Yeah. And you know the crazy thing, dude? I was 660 pounds of my heaviest and I was never diabetic. No shit. that's wild to me. Like even to think about that, that's freaking nuts. God, you need to be...

Pre-diabetic at my worst. You need to meet our friend Jay Wolf, if you want, a mammoth of a man. It's a big boy. Yeah, the biggest of boy. Kindest, human. Seven-foot plus. Wow. How tall is he seven-two now?

I think he's seven-two. He's seven-two now, like as if he's a growing boy still? I don't know, man. You never know. He might. He is. Because he's six, is he 600? he's 500 or 480

and he is a big but he is also like when you go to hugging we have a photo of him lifting rich up like a baby on stage like he's like this Rich is not a small man no it's like just this the dude's just so big

he is on a fitness journey too we want him to go like super into it because he would be seven foot two yeah dude well see my personal goal is just to kidnap Jay Wolf and put him on a mixture of Ozimic

and Tren, like Tren acetate. Oh shit. And just like kind of like Bain, just have it like just going into his traps and just turn him into a monster because that man has the body to be a super villain. I thought you were going to go with a fat man camp route. No. No, no, I want to turn him into a menace.

Eat Klan, Tren, hard. Anavar give up. If you do that. The simple. Like it's funny The monster of a human You will be bane He will break all our backs

Because Jay Wolf is like The nicest human you'll ever talk to But well maybe not after like A hoarse dose of trend But we'll see We'll see Because imagine like your size And you're like oh man

Like this is now 7 foot 2 Yeah That's nuts And big And we had Uber's pull up And they would just Yeah Turn around

We can't. So we'd always have to get like a minivan and then it's like, oh, thank God. Even some of those. Like even in Nashville. I think one of them just said like, no, sorry. Like we can't. Wow. Bit Boy.

Amazing dude too. Amazing man. Amazing. Also our security when we have him around because no one fucks with him. Hasn't he talked about moving down to San Antonio? Mm-hmm. Oh, that's going to be rad. He's a good dude.

You have to meet him. Yeah. Yeah. Shot. Whatever it is. Brandon, why do you get? keep sending me money through cash app with it saying just deck work. Wait, is that not you doing all my yard work?

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brand. Visit cash app.com slash legal slash podcast for full disclosure. So what is your overall goals? Once you hit your weight goal for skin reduction and then you hit your actual personal goal, what's next? Is it getting as strong as fuck athlete? Like, what is the overall idea for it? I don't really care that much, men. Like my main goal is to just be able to see what a normal life is like. Because I've never had that.

I was 200 pounds by the age of 9. So I've been tall and super. fat my whole life and I've never known what it's like to be normal and that's pretty much what I'm aiming for 200 pounds by the age of nine yeah how tall were you back then no idea so like but I was always like sign by a few inches the tallest kid in class yeah so damn your teachers ever try to get you into football constantly oh yeah yeah that whole teenage years every freaking day someone would come up to me like you play football We got an idea for you.

I played tennis in metal school. No shit. Yeah. Really? No shit. I was still thinking of like football, you being the super offensive linemen. Yeah. Honestly.

Brushing. Kids just plowing through them, dude. Nine years aren't stopping you at 200 pounds. There's offense. A line of bodies. There's defense, offense. offense, punishment. Just a path of the kid.

No, I probably could have just been a wrecking ball. Yeah. At that point. I think that's why they were trying to recruit you. Yeah. Just crushed nine-year-olds leading to the quarterback. Oh, we're just replacing them so fast. When?

Okay, so do you have any, you did boxing, you did that? And you're saying, oh, I don't care. Is there any, like, strength goals that you're trying to hit? Oh, dude. I don't know. I've talked to you about this earlier this week. Like, the gym has been hard for me lately. Like, for the past couple months.

I've mentally, the gym has felt more like a chore than it has felt like something I actually wanted to do. And when you get to that spot with working out, it's bad. Like when you get to the point where it's like something that you feel like you have to do as opposed to something that you want to do, it's rough. As that impacted how often you go? Oh, dude, I haven't been in a month. It was just horrible. But, you know, at the same time, I was like thinking back to like when I was losing weight the fastest and what was the most sustainable for me. And it was just getting the 10,000 steps a day and eating correctly. So I don't want to give up the gym. That wasn't like the plan to just stop going. But like with the holidays and traveling and stuff. Yeah. You know, I look back

at the calendar. Now it's like the beginning of December is the last time me and Danny were there. And I mean, realistically for weight loss, um, lifting weights, like, especially for men, like is not the way to do it. Like lifting weights is good to like build your frame and like build muscle, which every guy wants. That's obviously the goal. But it's shockingly low when you look at, compare it to other things like calorie burn per hour. Oh, yeah.

You don't do it for the calorie burn. And it's like, some people make the argument. They're like, oh, well, if you replace the muscle or you replace the fat with muscle, it'll burn calories more. But like, a lot of people don't understand this, but fat burns calories too. Like, I don't know that sounds stupid, but it does. Like there's a reason I burn as many calories as I do. It's because of how big I am.

Just having to carry around the weight. Yeah. Like the literal, like the mass will just like make you burn more. If I'm walking around with 200 extra pounds, that's like squatting weight and workout, that's going to, I'm, yeah. That's a workout, motherfucker. Not to be too crass about it, but like you're basically always rucking. Oh, for sure. If you think about it.

Yeah, one of the guys I met in Orlando is like, you're basically, every time you get up or do anything. your resistance training. Like, yeah, I guess it sounds stupid, but he's not wrong, you know. A hundred percent. That's, it's... But, you know, I would, I wouldn't mind, like, continuing to push the weights and eventually doing, like, maybe just strongman stuff for fun. I would never, ever care less about doing any of it, even semi-professionally.

I'm going to throw... Danny, what, make him go to the gym. When you don't want... So both of you... will have that problem where it's like, I don't want to go to the gym. He actually has his own gym schedule now. He's just doing his own thing. Make him go.

Make him go. Fucking. Yeah. I'm actually convincing him not to go. No, don't do that. Fucking drag him. That's horrible. Me and Brandon, like I text Brandon.

I'm like, hey, you want a gym? One of gym. And there's a lot of times that I wouldn't have gone. I'm just like, oh, fuck, yeah, sure. Now the day after New Year's, I text Brandon. He's like, no, I am her. tomorrow. I text him that day. He's like, not going to lie, I drank again. Yeah. I need another day. Not going to lie. I recovered from New Year's too well.

It's like, okay, I'll go to the gym. I'm not getting out. But other than that, we normally keep ourselves in check pretty well. Just like, all right, gym tomorrow? Yep. Go do it. Just force him. Well, so like the mental aspect of it, man, like you got to realize, like with the nerve injury and everything, like I told you earlier at the boxing gym, like I am a 440 pound man who benches 125. And like I told you in the boxing gym, and again, tell me if there's anything that's too personal here. But like, no, it's all fine.

The doctors told you that like you would never be able to have that mobility again. Yeah. So you were supposed to be able to bench zero pounds for the rest of your life. So small victories, 125 pounds when the doctors told you that was impossible. It's fucking incredible. Yeah, they, yeah, the nerve stuff is so stupid because they're so uncertain about it. They're like, we can't tell you if you'll ever be able to lift your arm again. Yeah.

And injuries are scary. Brandon got to watch my bench just fucking deteriorate for a month and I've never had the idas like a minuscule tear on my shoulder but when I was struggling to do push-ups all of a sudden

I was like that's weird I can't do push-ups and 135 pounds was a lot to me and that was a drop of like 150 pounds from my normal I was like dude I literally failed 135 in Philly

I did a fifth Philly trip with my trainer and the Jocko team. And on the final day, we tried to push like the plates for the first time, like 45 on each side. And I just could not do it. Like I did like five reps of 125, which was a PR for me. But 135, dude, that's like my cutoff, which feel, you know, feels crazy. I know this is all in my head, but like I feel really weird going into the gym as the

fat guy to begin with, right? Let alone the fat guy who is bringing his little phone and on a tripod. And then let alone the also being as big as I am and also like lifting as little as I do. But like I know it's all it's all like I know none of that should matter. It's all in my head. Because I was just in low like you'll for me it is watching somebody like that you do that. That motivates the f*** out of me because I don't think what a dumb shit. I think that dude's trying.

Hell yes. You don't look at that and you think, gross. You know, like you see somebody big in the gym. That's how I look at myself a lot, though. So, like, I do kind of look at it like that, but I know that's all me. But you're worried about what other people think. And I can honestly tell you that, like, in the gym,

these are all people that have taken a step to better themselves because they are there. And at least I know me and, like, a lot of the people that I know, like, our mindset when we get there is, you see somebody like that. and you're like, fuck yeah. That guy got off the couch. Like that guy's taking steps.

He's doing shit. Like that's cool. Like I think that that's, again, it's motivating. That's all it is. And that's what you should go. And especially with that mindset, like you're beating yourself up. Instead, when you go to the gym and you're doing that, think of, oh, one person, one idiot might think that. I guarantee everyone else is thinking, holy shit, that is dope.

If that one guy who's like, look at that piece of shit, if that guy voiced that, he would get the fuck bullied out of him by everybody in that gym. Because that's like that's like the one thing you don't do. And if somebody's trying to better themselves to put them down for that, fuck you. You get to see that now on social media. It's like anyone that tries to bully an individual getting in shape, they might be big. They might be overweight fat, whatever it is. But they're in the gym doing it, and then you see, like, girls are guys. I'm like, look at this.

And you get to see those girls. That's when old Joey Swole swoops in. Oh, yeah. A fool out of everyone. I love that shit. Yep. Because as everyone says, it is motivating. You have to have that mindset of going in and be like, I'm doing this for myself.

But also, anyone that's watching or somebody that's hesitant of going into the gym or self-aware or embarrassed, they're going to. self-conscious. Yeah, self-conscious. Yeah. Like, self-conscious, yeah. I was like,

self-conscious, it is what you're saying, it is you are that motivating factor. Because then they get a look at you and be like, oh, he's doing it. Okay,

I'll go do the same thing. Even like, I've been to like some of the, like the steroid kind of gyms where I like walk in. I don't belong. I'm just a guy who's just like, Gold's gym. Regular,

like I try to be like fairly athletic, you know, build decent muscle bass, just normal guy. And then like I've walked into those, like the, the gym me and clean used to go to was like one of those where they had

photos on the wall of people that won Mr. Olympia. Oh yeah, yeah. Bodybuilding gym. They're giant and intimidating people and they're the kindest fucking people you'll ever talk to. Yeah. They're just like, oh, you made it in the gym. Congrats. Step one. Yeah. Let's like, no matter

what you're lifting. Like they're just so like uplifting. They're just cool. That's a trend. Yeah. By the way, I got a dealer. It's like, no, no, no. Whoa. Whoa. Oh, it's about it there, buddy. What's your number? Yeah.

At least that's always been my experience. No, I appreciate that, man. And it was, honestly, it was never the people in person that I was worried about. It was always just the bullshit online. But that's like, like, I've taught your guys' freaking ears off about that this week. That's just something I know I shouldn't have affect me as much as it has. but in the past, I was really just like... We were talking, so I...

I was just really in bad spaces because of that stuff, man. It's a fun part about mental health is you don't get to choose it. And I told him, I was like, dude, okay, how many positive comments? He's like, 500. And how many negative? He's like, 20.

I was like, brother, you are sifting through those mountains of positive comments. You're like, look what he said. Like, yeah, but those... That's a whole. Look how many people said the opposite of that. Yeah. profile picture.

Yeah. Opinion disregarding. A lot of the time it's just blank. It's ridiculous. You know, somebody, it was actually administrative results. Aaron, he gave me some really profound advice that I've tried to follow and failed more often than not. Don't pull out. No, that's Grant though.

Yeah. Holy fuck. I love you, Mike. Beat me with a better punchline. And now that's his first impression of me. But he gave me really good advice about, you know, positive comments versus negative comments. Because, you know, we see thousands of positive comments.

And then just it's the couple of negative that you see that just like really stick with you. Especially if there's a grain of truth to it, even if they're being an asshole. Dude, that was not to get, not to interrupt you, but like, holy shit. last year when some of the negative comments started saying what I was thinking. Yeah. Bro, that's when it like really hurts. That's when it hurts. Yeah.

100%. But the one thing Aaron told me that like really stuck with me and like said, not been the best steward of this advice. But if you're going to engage with comments at all, because, you know, all of us are like inclined to respond like, no-uh to the negative comments. Yeah. He said, try to at least respond to as many positive comments as you do negative. because if you're just responding to negative comments, you're just putting negative energy out there.

You're encouraging user behavior. Like, you're encouraging people to say negative stuff. Try to engage to positive comments. And like, man, I've tried to do that because that's just such a healthy rule. Yeah, that's good. Point to me. I just don't give a shit.

That's why I like, I just fire up to. Dude, I love, I literally, I do not check anything. The one. the Stranger Things. Stranger things, I woke up and I was like, oh, that's a lot of things. That was a good video. I was like, or the views.

I was like, what the fuck? Why is it at $4 million? 3.9 million? I was like, I'm not reading that. Honey? Yeah. I was like, I'm not reading that. That's a lot.

I'll read the top ones and I'll be like, thank you. Or the bikini. Because I find that hilarious. I'm like, Grock, put us in bikinis. I just seen the hose just having a hayday. I stole past that as fast as I could, dude. Me too. And I was in it.

Holy shit. I just seen everyone. I was like, why is this the thing? Oh, that's actually hilarious. Pentagon photo. Gronk put us in bikinis. Eli is the drive-by shooter of Twitter. And then Cody's like,

Eli, what are you doing? That was my favorite reply. They just all look f***ax, though. I like that part. That was pretty cool. Dude, you guys have veins and Nick was the smallest. Play four bodybuilder. Never mind.

Isaac Brian. It's hard. I think the negative comments. Cody probably is the best advice. I mean, you get positive and negative. I got a lot of negative. Yeah,

you get death threats and it's wild. But you stay so positive. You just don't give a shit on that stuff. You get a lot of negative comments, but I've only ever seen, you get negative comments, but I've only ever seen positive interactions in person too. Yeah.

Yeah. These are all just. Oh, I'm the same. I don't even read comments anymore, to be honest with you. I'll read like the top three or four, say hello, and then that's it. I'll just turn my phone off. It's bad for your mental health, man. Yeah.

When I started like sort of streaming and YouTube and all that stuff, I was obsessed with fucking every single negative comment. And it drove me crazy. And I knew it was just bad for me. So I'll read the top couple. Say, hey, done. Yeah. Yeah.

And then go for people on Twitter. There you got. Yeah. You're good at that. I'm not reading those negative bullies ton of bully Governor Tim Walts I'm not stuck in here with them

They're stuck in here with me brother The president called you retarded I'm about to call you worse Love Yeah you think that words bad Wait till you find out some of my favorites right? It's so good.

Someone just called me the best white people slur I've ever heard right before we got on this podcast. Oh, was it because of the last episode? No, no. I was just making fun of someone, but... And you do, you know? It was a racially motivated post.

It was one of those comments for someone was like, they would have shot that guy if he was black. And I'm like, no, they wouldn't. And someone said, shut up cum skin I can't be mad at that that's awesome you just reshare it

retweet you can retweet that well because the reason I say that is the last episode we put out was uh or at least at time of recording was the one with uh bar none and so the whole episode was like trying to seek the best white slur I forgot so I think you finally found it yeah yeah

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Wikipedia Add it Add it to the list Oh we got to get Jake back On Such a good episode Everyone's like Man Cody

Talked They were like I think you talked more in that one episode Than all of unsub Because he was He was like Yes

He riled you up. Me and him also had a couple of drinks in us. I think we all were doing a little bit of happy drinking that night. Well, two of us were. Oh, yeah, that was fun. It was a good one. It was me and Eli trying to keep it on the rails.

You guys were just feeding off each other. And then we went out to eat afterwards. And you were like, he didn't remember going to eat. And he was asking you the same questions over and over. Yeah, it was just like, so where are you from again? That happened five times over the course of dinner. And he's like, Brandon also does it really well.

You don't know they're drunk. Yeah, I'm decently good at it depending. Of what? Like hiding when you are? Yeah. Or? Well, no, I just,

well, also part of it is like pacing. Like, I just, I don't enjoy being drunk. Like, I don't enjoy the sensation. Like,

I'll have a couple drinks, like, knock the edge off. I genuinely do not enjoy, like, the sensation of being hammered. It's not fun to me. Like just, like, I get nauseous.

Just the emotion, I just, you know, not a big fan. So just, it's about pacing. And then when you get hangovers, when you get older, fucking the worst thing, Cote hangovers when you're like 38? Yeah, like I said, after New Year's out, it took me like four days to recover. Dude, it is. Like, I've had three drinks. I'm like, I've got to drink so much water now.

Yeah. It's very bad for my soul right here. Yeah, I don't know. Honestly, I don't think I've ever been drunk. Like, I think maybe two or three of these. is the most I've ever had in one sitting, but I'm also ginormous. I know your weight doesn't directly equate to how much you can take. It has a lot to do with it. But I know it means a lot. Yeah. You might not drink much, but it is. It does correlate very heavily with it. Well, that's what I was

going to say. Like, I've had maybe three of those seagrams that I mentioned earlier. That was like the most alcohol that were consumed at one time and I never, I didn't really feel much. I had an old mentor when I was back in college. He was like a gunsmithing mentor who was a partial Native American and I'm dead fucking serious I I knew that like Native American blood like you kind of had like a sensitivity to alcohol like that's you know a historic thing what so they're like more susceptible to becoming drunk oh yeah okay because they don't have that you know resistance to it or I don't know I'm necessarily I think is it's designed to break it down in their liver or how it's broken down is different it's like opposite of the Irish

yep exactly but they have that it's I I I I thought it was, you know, it's one of those things where like, oh, I thought like a Native American might be like 10, 20 percent more susceptible. I, at one point, I had brought like a six pack of, I was young. It was like angry orchard, which nowadays I'm like, oh, my God, so much sugar. I couldn't, I couldn't finish one today, but like, you know, brought over a six pack, just, you know, fucking around after hours. He had one of them. And he was like confined to the chair, can't speak English, piss your pants drunk.

And I've never seen anything like it before or since. Wow. That's wild. Yeah, he legit. And it was over quick, too. It was like 10 minutes. 10 minutes. He was just like, I'm about being myself.

Like, that's sort of like just completely fucking blasted. I've never experienced anything like that. Like, that's, wow. There was the one guy I do not remind him. He streamed. And he told me, he told us. and then his like everyone knew but I didn't believe it at first it's like oh I can't get drunk it was I was like what no that's not possible he's like no like literally how my body breaks

it down it just I cannot get drunk it just whatever gets you drunk or intoxicated it flushes it out I do not and then sure shit we streamed and he streamed drinking he's like tell me when to do shots I will open a brand new bottle it's not going to do anything like half a bottle nothing. He's like, no, I don't drink because of this. I cannot get drunk. So he's got the pic dose where he's just like, oh yeah, it'll just do direct HP damage and absolutely no side effects. Yeah, it'll go through your whole caloric intake and just not, just none of the benefits. Oh, oh, oh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, congratulations. You hurt your liver, got 3,000 calories and got no benefit out of it. I was like, fuck. Now, you're, you are a gamer. Oh, yeah. We have, we, we, we

have multiple. So you do first-person shooters, which is everyone's wheelhouse. Cody does first-person shooters, and you do like... I'm doing World of Warcraft right now, dude. I'm hardcore into it. You're... Are you playing vanilla or like new updated shit? Yeah, the classic.

The classic vanilla. Are you doing on hardcore classic? No, no. I tried it and it stressed me out so bad. Dude, on a any, on a soft rate, you're like, blah, it's fine. I'm a... Dead. Done.

Character's done. off on. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's, you know, dozens of hours that just completely evaluated.

Dozens. That is days. Yeah. This is like... How do you have the time? That's why I don't play hardcore. I'm making them at night, dude.

I wouldn't start a hardcore one, dude. How many days would it take to get a level 50 and OG, like vanilla wow? Like, or level cap 60? Yeah. It'll take you at least two weeks.

If you're like dungeon boosts, if you're speed running it. But if you take your time and do quest, it could take it a month. And that is branded. If you die, it's all gone. Oh yeah, no, I know. That's why it's fucking insane to me

that this is fun to people. I got a dude to level like 25 on hardcore, and I was just stressed all the time. It's like I'm not even enjoying this shit anymore. It's just like life. Yeah, pretty much. I would not like a tank. I've made it 30 years and I'm just stressed

and I can die tomorrow. Yeah. This isn't even fun anymore. I can't even start a new save. Dude, I would never be tank. Yeah. Playing with randoms? You know how to heal?

Bro, you don't know how to heal. Oh, one bad pull. One bad pull and your team's gone. Like, that's how, when you're doing instances, if you have a bad team that no one knows shit, if you have one bad team in a bad pool, that is everyone. You have your own guild, right?

Yeah. Yeah. It's on the, okay, yeah, I'm going to shout it out real quick. It's on the 21st Anniversary server. It's the Knight Slayer Room, a horde, of course, Alliance is gay. And it's called the Geneva Suggestion. So named after the unsub tour. So if anyone wants to join, that's where it's at.

Our boy, Fadar. That is the most random friendship. That's pretty random, yeah. This is a guy I knew from World Warcraft, or sorry, EverQuest, then World Warcraft, Fires a heaven F-O-H guild board from 2001 and then

he knows Cody Yeah he ran in each other and wow and he joined my guild and he's like Oh I know Eli 25 years ago

Yeah And he's like he was in He's a very good MMO player Oh dude he's incredible I did you do the mental math I'm like how old was Eli 25 years ago

Unfortunately he's still old 15 at that point 16 And according to Jeffrey it Never mind I was the legal age For him But he's like That dude a monster player

Because they played back in the EQ days Which was the most unforgiving fucking game Especially when you played MMOs That was if you died Now it's not hardcore Character loss But if you died and EverQuest back in 99 to 2002.

You lost half a bubble. Half a bubble, you are looking at 20 hours in game of grinding. Oh, fuck off. You die one time. That sounds disgusting. Bad players did not make it to level 50 and then level 60. Like, there was no one bad that made it that far in the game because there is that reality check.

It's like, uh-huh. Yeah. And you could de-level. You could. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That game was fucking. Riddle, dude.

No maps, no nothing. Quest, you had to type in shit and then hope it worked. There was no, like, you know how video games have like the exclamation point or the question mark? That did not exist at this time. It was word of mouth. Vendors, oxen houses didn't exist. You had to trade with players and barter. Like, you, everyone created their own zone of where they meet up to barter or trade.

I was going to say, could you bully players like PVP wise? Like, trade me this for this or I will fucking kill you. and enter save. If you are in PVP servers, there was different ways. Or if you're just a shabag like a lot of us. You'd be like, hey, new players, dude, we troll the fuck out new players. You'd be like, hey, how do I trade? I'd be like, dude, you need money?

And I'd be like, yeah, because they'd beg online. They'd beg and shout all. Like, dude, where are you? Yeah, I got money for you here. Come here. And they're like, how do I trade? It's like, oh, I got some good money for you here. I need to hit slash T or slash P.

Slash T. Slash C. slash C and my name type that in and then we'll get, I can trade you. I'm like, oh, okay, that makes sense. Slash C type of names like they challenge you to a duel. Slash D, dual, that is. And it's like they challenge you to a duel and you hit yes and you go

and kill them and their body is there and all their stuff stays on their corpse until they walk back out to it. Because I remember you, I think you were telling me where they had this thing where like you could own sheep or like whatever that would just like walk out on the map. On which one? This would be different. I don't remember which game it was. you were telling me

you could just own livestock that would be something that you could just hunt in the game maybe it wasn't you maybe it was clean that's probably a clean but like you could just they would bully new players

that way because like veteran players could not engage like newbie players unless the newbie players engage them first but they could like own livestock animals or whatever

and just let them loose you can do that and you can fuck with people in hardcore wow if you're a hunter I think that's my you tame a beast that looks like something in that area, and then you get your pet and you walk it out there

and let them the new people doing a quest, they'll think like, oh, that bear over there is part of this quest, and they'll attack your pet, and then you just stomp them out. I think it was me and clean that we're talking about that. It might have been, yeah. That's messed up, dude. You're trolling and OG EverQuest also you could, there was Oasis Island,

and it is where everyone from 10 to 20 would level up. You'd level up on the orcs. And then for whatever reason, they had this little island in the middle with a portal. And then the level 46 spectres, which could one shot for anything. Like level 50s, max level, you do not fuck with spectres. If you did Invisible and you ran by, you could collect all four of them. And then you run any J boots because you can't outrun anything unless you have boots that come later in the game. You just grab them.

And then they would follow you until you zone out. So they just follow you have four level of 46 specters that can one shot anything and then you just take him to Ork on the newbie island and they will kill anything in the way to get to you. So they will one shot everything because it wasn't oh, I can only attack this individual because they hit me. It was I'm pissed. I'm chasing that guy. I'm killing everything along the way though. And so you just have a line of death. So you're just bringing Death Claw Valley into New Vegas.

Yeah, every time. And they couldn't see you because you're invisible. So they were like, who you thought trade specters to always? It's going to be, eh. That means, just Zonnell come back in, and then on the way back, they'd kill everything. So you were just an asshole.

Yeah, I mean, it was 99, 2001. I was 15. I was living my best life. What games, so what kind of games are you into? Oh, man, when I was streaming, I was doing all shooters, like pretty much. Like, I enjoy single player games. That's all I've been playing lately.

Like I, this past year, holy shit, guys. I used to play like 60 hours of games a week. I do like five or six now. Like I'm really not great with time management. So like my schedule isn't technically busy, but I am always busy. Right. So, you know, I've been a couple single player games. Thankfully, Expedition came out before all the social media stuff happened.

So I was just sitting on my ass. So you played it back in the day. So yeah, I played it the day it came out. I picked up my copy. And I did not pick up another game until I 100% of that. Oh, shit. I got into it after Eli bullied me into getting into it. And it was best decision.

It's a game worth convincing people to play. I'll go back and try it, man. Cody, my favorite thing was like, oh, yeah, I ran in that sideblock. You can't beat. I'm going to come back. And I was like, oh, you can beat him. It just you can play it per. He's like, you can beat that.

But yeah, you have to play it perfect. So you could just choose to move past it. It was like the guy in the first area, I think. The mime? No. No. Fuck the mimes. Fuck the mimes.

Yeah. Hate them. It was after they've landed on the island and happiness happened. Was it the scuba guy? The guy with the underwater mask? I can't remember. It was like a big green monster, wasn't it? On the right?

It was like in the first area. Oh, like in the overworld. Starry. Yeah, before the overworld, before you even hit the overworld, There was that one side. If you go under, you can fight everything and actually win. It's like trading.

He is the only one that will one shot you no matter fucking what. And you have to be perfect on timing. Otherwise, I loved the combat in that, like being forced to learn when to dodge and Perry and stuff was like. This is most texts I have from Brandon is when we were playing. I remember that one boss, because I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about.

because I immediately, because they're optional. Yeah. Because I just remember like walking straight past him, like seeing him. I'm like, that dude looks scary as fucking. And just kept moving. Yeah? Did not ever have to fight him. I went back later and like one shot him just out of principle.

Yeah. Yeah, no. I mean, I love the fact that you get to choose who you fight. Mm-hmm. For the most part, anyway. Such a good game, co. You got it. I'll give it another try.

No, you absolutely should. You guys still talk about it. And this was months ago. it came out what like last March or something it's not like that one friend that's like oh we should play this game you should definitely give them $20 and like you play it for one night and never play it again it's not one of those no you don't I was like Brandon does not like turnbase or JRP's and I was like dude

you will still love the shit out of this because this is not turn base combat this made it fun for the first time ever in turn base combat this is a fucking blast the story is worth it alone what I like I like a lot about it too is like, I'm not a big term-based combat fan either, but the fact that the exploration and stuff was still you literally controlling a character. So you still got to like explore these worlds and enjoy the level design of like a traditional third person game on top of their insane combat system. I just realized it's kind of like Pokemon in 3D. You're walking around a world and you just get to choose. Which is funny. Yeah, it's funny because I've always like before this

I've always told people the only good turn-based game is Pokemon. It's the only turn-based game I've ever enjoyed except for a few of the file fantasies. You know, I'm so excited for you to try. I will. I will. You know what? I'll actually do it tonight. Oh, dude, it's so freaking good.

Once you get into it, there is a reason it just broke every record for like winning every award is when you play it. It swept the gaming awards for $10 million, like indie game. And then people were shitting. I was like, well, oh, it was AI generated. And they're like, well, no, it was one, like, ass asset was. Yeah, it was like one small asset that was. And then that's the way they were shooting. It's like, that's the only reason in one game of the year.

And you're like, no, f*** cards. It's because it was a good fucking game. Yeah. That writing was fantastic. The characters were fantastic. The music. I give two fucks about music. Oh, dude.

It wasn't even English. And it was still, like, so powerful, man. Not to give away any spoilers, but I didn't. realize that if you actually, if you know French, so many of the words that they use, like the gomage and different things like that and different things that are said in the music itself, give away the plot to the game. Oh, no, for sure. Very early.

I listened to a singer who did a translated version of one of the songs. And it was wild. If you were in France playing this game, you were like hammer-fisted with the plot before, like. Well, the main song, I didn't realize they were singing. They were just saying Claire Obscure the entire time with the other words. I was like, oh, they're just saying the name of this game. I'm stupid.

Well, I think this is true. I saw, like, Claire Obscure is apparently French for like light and dark, which is so cool. It's like so badass to think about when you think about the game. But I saw an article recently that one of their game directors was like, we're not planning on upping the production of the next one. Like they're just going back to what they did. They're just kind of like going back in their hole and doing what they did and doing it again. I'm very excited for what the second one might do. We talked about this.

I just don't want to give any spoilers to people who haven't played the game yet because it's worth playing. Yeah. Oh, I know. Oh, if it goes to the other storyline, I'm like, oh, dude. Well, that's the thing with that universe, because the next title will be a clear obscure game. Whatever they do, it's going to be ridiculous. Everything possible. And I loved the name voice actor that won.

And once it took off, he didn't know his character name. He didn't know the game. He was like, I went in and acted. He was like, that was it. It was like one day. Yeah. And then he's like, people were running up and be like, oh, my God, Gustav. I think it was Gustav.

Yeah. And he's like, Charlie Cox, the guy who played Daredevil, voiced Gustav. And then when someone asked him about an interview, he was like, what? He had no clue. and then he started winning video game awards for best actor and he was like, what the fuck is it? Yeah, I think Myel's voice actress won

Best Performance at the game awards. Dude, Cody, you're going to say, we'll put you in a group chat. I haven't played it since release and I only got to that first starting area, so I'll go back and replay everything. It won't make you feel very good. I'm surprised that the game didn't capture you

because I feel like most people who, like, just right off the get-go, that game just like crats. It depends. The first half hour. Yeah. Like the intro, the intro, I was like, holy shit. False Paris.

Yeah. That whole, yeah. Did you hear how far show it? Shows? She's already in like, halfway through J. Yeah, halfway through Act 2. I was like, holy shit, you're like. Because she, at brunch or lunch today, she was like,

Elon playing Expedition 33. I was like, get your fuck out of you. What? Yeah. Let's fucking go. How far are you? This far. How long she been playing it?

We said how far and she goes deep. Yeah. all that meaning are like, wait a minute, what does that mean? What do you know? Yeah. It's a journey. Oh, shit, man. Have fun with it.

I can't even remember the last game that I remember as fondly as that. Like, I have a few, like, my top three of all time, like, Eldon Ring and Breath of the Wild and stuff. But, like, that game is ridiculous. I feel like this game studio needs to be paying us for how much we've talked about it. But, like, they don't for the record, but I feel like they should because for fuck's sake, Like I can't remember the last time we've advocated this this hard for something. Oh, dude, it's ridiculous. I bought, I got my physical copy day one.

I bought the collector's edition, the limited edition, and the Amazon limited edition, and I'm just keeping them sealed. Yeah. I'm not even opening them, dude. I ordered the fricking vinals. Oh, my God. And I don't even own a record player. That man pulling Eli on that.

I was obsessed with that shit, dude. I was like, you know, in my mind, like, a piece of art like that, regardless of the whether it's a game, does not come around very all. Trust me, I know. Fucking Eli immediately, like earlier this F1 season,

he's like, buy a max for step and rookie card. This grade, do this, this, this. It was like,

trust me. And it's already fucking like, I'm like, trust me, this will go really far. That's one game looking at him. I was like,

I'm trying to find all the exact same one you just listed because they shot up in price. I didn't even buy on to resell. I just bought them because I like, collecting that shit.

Yeah. You know. They shot up in price. Oh, I'm sure. Motherfucker. Dude, and then what? I think, I mean, that was a,

covered a damn near everything for an episode. We got after show, if we want to do an after show. Yeah, well, I mean, is there anything that you'd like to talk about? Yeah. Like, like, while you got the floor. Oh, I don't know, man.

I just think this, this journey is just so freaking nuts, man. It's like, understatement of the year, man. You know, I can't even comprehend it looking back on last year, dude. Like, you guys got to realize, like, I was in a place where I didn't even know why God kept me alive after the hospital, you know, like, because I had like hit it off on Twitch and I was enjoying my life for the first time and I was starting to lose weight and all that got taken away.

And I spent a few years not even knowing why I was here. And then that happened last May. it all started happening and I was like holy shit like I've had like for the first time and since 2021 I feel like I'm actually on the path that I'm supposed to be on

and that's wild feeling it's a good feeling I'm sure especially knowing the impact it has you know because like we're at a point now man like I get recognized everywhere it's ridiculous like on the street gas stations like Target Walmart

GameStop. Like it's like actually ridiculous. But when I get to meet some of those people and then they not only, some of them tell me about their own journeys, but then to also hear like firsthand the impact that the videos that I've created have had. Dude. It's like priceless. Not to get too sappy about it.

But if you think about it, like what we were talking about a little bit earlier, like the amount of sacrifice that you've done personally and just, you know, hey, I'm going to make these personal sacrifice. to make sure that I get healthier and I lose all this weight and everything. Yeah. And you've given 20, 25 years to your future children. Extrapolate that out into all the people

that you've inspired to do stuff like this. Yeah. And you've granted hundreds, if not thousands of years to other people who've been inspired by your journey to do the same thing. Yeah. That's a crazy thought. And, you know, that I think it's something to be proud of.

Yeah. I appreciate that, man. That's what I always, some people get mad at me from one of my taglines, but like one of my taglines is like when I do something difficult, I'm at the end of the video, I'll go like, like, if I can do something like that at my size, imagine what you can do. And then they're like, yeah, but we don't do social media full time. And I'm like, you don't need to. You don't need to. You didn't need to do that to like hit your step goal or do what I just did in the gym, you know? I need followers to walk down the road.

Like, what the fuck? So, but no, like, that's, that's, how do you expect me to walk down my screen? I don't have a following. That's what you took away from this? Yeah, like, listen, like, I, I, I, I, views don't help. Views don't help that stuff. Make it harder. Like I said, like, even last, yeah, the pressures, dude, sometimes the pressure makes it harder,

but, like, even last year, like, I, even when I was in, like, my peak of, like, the amount of support I was getting in stuff, I still struggle with shit. Like, it's not, it's not, like a bandaid. It's not just going to fix it, you know? But I think that that is like one of the main messages that I love being able to entertain and motivate people at the same time. And like, if I can come back from 660 pounds not knowing why I'm alive to living a life worth living, you know, the guy who has like 10 or 20 pounds to lose.

He's got it, bro. He's easy. And what's your excuse at that point? It's like, hmm? Yeah. Easy. Any words of words. wisdom or tips for anyone beginning of the journey.

A couple of things. This first one's a hot take, right? Not everyone needs to share it. Because I see a lot of people, even from my page who like started their own journeys and started sharing it. And dude, I honestly believe I would have lost more weight last year if I hadn't started that page. Because I was,

I was losing weight faster before I started. social media. And I know I made a lot of healthy changes from it because I got a trainer. I started going to the gym. I started eating more because I was starving myself for the first five months of last year. But there was so much, like for me personally, because I talked to you guys about how much I let all that impact me. There was so much stress.

So much stress, dude. Like I was literally like for the last six months of last year, I was a freaking ball of stress. I know that if I had just sat on my ass and stayed. in that crazy deficit I was in. I was eating like 1,500 calories a day. It was stupid. I lost 120 pounds in the first five months of last year.

It was ridiculous. But if I had stayed on my ass starving myself, I probably would have lost more than I did. So not to say that that's what people should be doing, but I know for a fact that the stress from social media has negatively affected my journey. It hasn't stopped it. like I've had a few plateaus.

I've continued moving in the right direction. But that's the one thing. Like people need to weigh if they, because, you know, a lot of people who start social media, they got to ask themselves why they want to start it, right? But like people.

People probably should. Yeah. People need to weigh whether it's worth sharing and if they're capable of sharing in a way that they're not going to do what I did and then they don't let it impact the journey itself. Because the journey itself and their life and their future matters more than the page in a lot of cases. So I know that that's a bit of a hot take and, you know, but I think it's,

I think it's important for people to consider because I see a lot of people who will like start their journey and then start posting and then they'll get some negative comments and then they'll just like, you know, crash out and way worse than what they were thinking. Social media is not the easiest life. I mean, like, you're going to get hate or you're going to get positivity. Some people are fine with the hate and they thrive off of it. And then some people, it is you want that pot. You want to put out positivity.

And you're expecting that's all you're going to get back. And then when you do get hate, then you will internalize it. I was at a couple points last year where like I didn't want to upload. Like I was just so over it. I was so sick of the internet, man. I was so sick of the internet. But I knew at that point how many people it had impacted. And that's why I didn't stop.

Yeah. But I think that's an important thing for people to consider. Because if they are capable of doing it, sharing it, and not letting the internet get in the way of their journey, hell yeah. Let's go, dude. Because there's a lot. There's some really cool people in the weight loss space online that are on like crazy journeys that are just freaking killing it. and what other tips would you give if you have any other ones?

The other thing, and I said this on say hi yesterday too, but like, man, if someone has a significant change that they want to make in their life, instead of just knowing that and convincing themselves that they need to make the change, they need to make the decision and actually flip the switch to change. Because until I had that epiphany realization, whatever you want to call it last January, I obviously didn't have that decision made, and I didn't have, like, the determination that I needed to get to where I needed to be. Because that was, like, my fourth time getting back up over 600. And I feel like there's a lot of people, excuse me, that have a, there's like a dopamine reflex with talking about the thing you're going to do instead of doing it. You know, I think there's a lot of people that fall in love with that, like, well, I'm going to go do this. And then I tell you about it.

And you're like, that's awesome, man. You're like, cool, I got the dopamine of achieving the task even though I didn't do it. So even though I'm on the journey, oh, oh, that's so cool. I'm glad you're doing it. I'm like, okay, I got the dopamine. I don't need the actual results. Yeah. I feel like that's kind of tapping.

No, absolutely. Dude, one of the hardest things for me, and I don't think I actually struggle with this, but I try to be very, very aware about it. I don't want to fall into complacency. Yeah. Because, like, that's one of the most interesting dynamics of my journey with how big it is. like just the sheer amount of weight is I've lost over 200 pounds, but I have a hard time even celebrating that because I have another 200 to lose.

So I can like, I have to find a balance of like obviously you have to celebrate milestones like that because it's freaking nuts. 200 pounds is a lot of freaking weight, dude. You're halfway there. And it's that hard part. But I also don't want to let myself be like, oh yeah, I've lost 200 pounds. I did it. I'm not done

Most people can't lift the weight you've lost Yeah I can't yet That's You know That's a crazy milestone man Yeah You've hit the halfway mark Which is again

It can be motivating as fuck That is yeah I never thought about it like that A road dude a road march That's the turnaround point You're at the turnaround point You've made the walk out Now you're making the walk back

To your goal Like I feel Being sure I I hate a road marching. It was the worst thing in the world because I can't step out. I don't have long strides. My buddy's habit, fuck you.

He's like 6'4. He's like, why can you keep up? I'm like, dog, you're 6'4. Your one step is like three of mine. And then I have weight on my back. So once I got to that turnaround point, six miles, if I'm doing a 12 mile, I'm like, cool. Now I just got to get back.

It doesn't matter how fast. I got to this six miles fast, especially for EIB. It's like I ran. I just jogged the entire time. I was the second run at the turnaround point. And then I was the slowest motherfucker back because I paste it. I was like, I'm going to be garbage on the way back.

But I will hit it and I'll be within that three hour window. Sure, two hours and 51 minutes. I'm at crossing the finish line. I was like, uh, sitting down. You're at, you're walking back now.

You already hit the halfway mark. Now it's just fucking staying focused. Yeah, take her home. That's the, yeah, that was kind of cool this year. Like, this is the lowest I've been since before high school. So like I said, like last year, it was the first year in this whole time that I've been struggling with my weight as an adult that I've actually kept a lot of it off. So it's very interesting going about it now because I've never been at this point. So it's kind of a new territory in a way, but it's really good.

If you fuck this up, we will bully you. How about that? Oh, you should bully the f***ing out. If I'm not under 400 by the time you guys see me next, so you don't need to fucking slap. This is a threat. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Any other last?

Aggressive support. Exactly. I love aggressive support. No, I'm good, brother. Whatever you guys. Where does everyone find you at, brother? Yeah, so I just started a new YouTube channel, literally today. It's YouTube.com slash the Ethan Bernard show.

because I couldn't transfer my original username. Oof. So, Ethan Bernard show, the Ethan Barnar show is good, good, fucking good. Yeah. I think it's going to be good. I think it's kind of cool, too,

having the YouTube channel, the Ethan Bernard show, and then having all the other socials, just the name. Yeah. Because then the long form is kind of the show. You know, it's not going to be like a talk show or anything.

Tebbs for short. Then TikTok and Facebook are Ethan Bernard live. Everyone hates me. my joke. P-E-B-S. Yeah, I don't know a lot bad, dude. And on that note,

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