How Two Mechanics Helped CboysTV Reach 1 Billion Views
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BigRenge is not my dad. Oh, that's actually, yeah. You didn't know what YouTube was until about three years ago. That was actually probably the only design flaw that you've had, BigRenge, is how narrow you... I don't know if it was my design flaw. You just need this one last shot, and that's what's going to do it in late. Maybe we should have a weld-off. Oh. The timelines here is probably one of the most stressful.

Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Pretty good song. Hey, Big Wrench, I got some good news. Oh, boy.

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

You pissed some people off with how you broke that e-bike. Dude, Ben just didn't want to ride this week. So he was like, okay, I'm going out to ride. I don't want to. Rip the throttle off. Pissed people off. Were they actually? Yeah, there were some comments. About what? They were mad that you broke the throttle. They were like, Ben, go ahead, break and everything. Yeah, it's okay when Evan does it. It's a problem when I do it. It's cool when Evan does it. Problem when I do it. Yeah.

No, I was going to say the good news is the twin turbo kit for the Hoonicorn just got here. Today? Yeah, so if you want to get going on it by next Thursday. It's a good Friday project. Well, guys, welcome back to the LifeWide Open podcast. We have a special guest. Two special guests. We have Gavin coming on as well, but we have Big Wrench.

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

Ken ain't here. I'm surprised that you would want yours turned down. Well, who sits here normally? Like somebody needs their hearing checked, maybe. Oh, Evan does sit there sometimes. So he is deaf in one ear. You'd think your hearing, Brian, would be worse. I actually took a hearing test, one of those online things. And it was good? Yeah, it's...

I'm at like a 54-year-old, which I'm not 54, so. Wait, an online hearing test? Yeah, like you put your phone up to it, and when you can't hear the noise anymore, you're supposed to tap it, and it stops, and then it gives you like an age of what your hearing's at. Oh, wow, that's really interesting. I always think about your hearing, same with Gavin's, with all the loud noises. It's not good, and I don't take care of it, so.

It's crazy. There's a lot of things that I should probably do that Gavin actually does because he's younger than I am and was brought up that way. Yeah, what is that called? They call it like OSHA's got a name for it, but it's when you're wearing your safety glasses and you have hearing protection. Evan said it the other day because Evan used to be in the labor union.

PPE. PPE, personal protection equipment. Stuff didn't exist that much when I was growing up. I mean, I wear glasses, so I'm good. Oh, yeah, you're good. You don't need safety glasses. You're on the safety squints, and you're good to go, dude. That's what they say. Well, Big Wrench, did you ever think that you'd be sitting on a podcast? Oh.

How long ago did we meet? You've been working on our pieces of junk for a long time. I was on my way back here today. I think it's been four years. Really? Of working on our junk. Yeah. On and off. I think it was even before that. It could have been. Mike's coming, but whenever you guys bought those two race sleds from Lavallee. That's right. You built the cans for it. Yeah. So that would have been like 2018. So that was even before Tiny. Yeah.

Yeah. Definitely wasn't as, you know, as much as it is now. That's for sure. No, it was just sporadic. Yep. And so we had a mutual friend, Rob. Yep. And Rob and I were working at the same place. And Rob's like, hey, these guys just bought these things from LaValle. You want to come? They want cans and billboards.

Oh, sure. Whatever. And I think we got a hold of, uh, Mike is the one that got a hold of. Yeah. Yep. Yep. I knew Jake a little bit. Isn't it amazing how like things just evolve, evolve and turn into it? The funniest thing is, is like Jake's dad and myself are, he's older than I am, but like we went to the same parties and I

Really? Yeah. Man, that's a story probably for another day. I'm sure you got a paper on here for that. I was just a little guy then, but... I still remember the very first time that Mike ever came back from working with you. I can just picture it, knowing you and knowing Mike. And you guys will agree here when you hear this.

Mike goes, yeah, I got this guy right outside of Holly building my snowmobile can. And I was like, oh, really? Outside of Holly? That where? You know, there's not that many like kind of fabricator mechanics like I guess. Yeah. You know, that are like doing like little one off projects like that. And he was like, yeah, actually, like just down the road from like my mom's house. And so I told him I was like, yeah, I just grew up down the road from here. And he was like, nice. Yeah.

And I was like, oh, okay. And then I still remember that being like, I can just picture Mike talking about nothing and going nowhere and you just being like, what is this kid talking about right now? I can imagine he came to you and was like, yeah, we got this YouTube channel and we make snowmobile content and things like that, but just explaining it in the worst way possible.

and you'd be like okay you want a can for this then or what yeah well and it happened to be that I was already making cans for other projects so it kind of worked out yeah so like let's get in kind of the backstory of uh your wrenching and how it's evolved because because you basically started off doing you were a professional snow cross mechanic yeah correct yeah that'd be the title yep and I mean

I mean, basically kind of currently are. Still are. Yeah. How many years have you been doing that then? I started doing that in 1997. 97. God damn. For Yamaha? Polaris. Oh, for Polaris. I did engine development and some chassis stuff at Polaris when I went out of tech school. So you went right into snowmobiles. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. When you were, okay. Snowmobiles and then morphed into engine development on watercraft side of it for players also. So you get out of school, you start wrenching on, on snowmobiles, snowmobiles right away or like watercrafts and then snowmobiles. We graduated in the spring and I went in as a test driver, but they, when they hired me, but it was springtime.

So like I ended up working on the assembly line all summer. Wait, so they hired you to ride sleds? Yeah, like I test drove the first year. Okay, so what's test driving? Like you ride and you, because you understand the engineering side of it, so you understand why things work or don't? Yeah, so like back then there was a hundred test riders at Plummers. Like it's a lot different now.

There was five of you in a group, and you went out and rode every day. Wow. Pretty good job. We did about 200 to 300 miles a day. And it sounds like it's a really sweet job until it's 25 below. Yeah. And you got to go put in 300 miles. Yeah. Shit, maybe we should get you on a sled. I don't know. In all the years, have you even ridden anything here or driven any of the contraptions you've made? Ah, not on purpose. The Banshee, I think. Oh, yeah. You rode the Banshee a little bit. And I've owned like five of them things, so...

No, that is something though. Every time you build it, I mean, not anymore, but we used to be like, you want to ride it? And you'd be like, I'm good. I'm good. Every once in a while, I'll see Evan finagles you onto one of the machines here and there, but yeah. Scootski. Scootski. Yeah. What I thought was interesting, if you've always been in the snowmobile world is like you,

You've said that you didn't want to teach your son how to ride a snowmobile or get him into that because you have lived and breathed snowmobiling for, what, 25 years, 27 years now? Almost 30. So at the end of wrenching on it, you're just like, I don't even want to see one of these things. Yeah, and it's kind of wrecked me, really. I don't even own a snowmobile. You guys have been in my house. I have a boat. That's it. And a jet ski that a tree almost fell on. Yeah.

Why? Because you don't want to work on them? Yeah. I mean, one thing, you don't want to work on it. And another thing is I've been doing the development stuff of it for so long. When I ride something, all I think about is, well, this could be better, this could be better, this could be better. Really? You take all the excitement out of it? Yeah, kind of. Almost all of it? I mean, I'm sure there's guys that are in my position that are the same way. I don't know. The development guys, I know a lot of them are the same way. You ride something, and all you do is pick it apart the whole time.

whole time and that's everything even outside of snowmobiles like you ride a dirt bike and you're like man i wish four-wheeler really yeah that's really interesting so it kind of wrecks you a little bit man i gotta just have a real hard time then when you do ride one of our vehicles like this is so bad well the problem is is like i built it or gavin and it's like we you have enough time to do this and it's not going to work very well but it's going to get the job done

Yeah. I was going to say the difference between our stuff is it's not meant to be perfect. It's like, it's, it's just not going to be perfect because it's probably not supposed to be a thing. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I mean, it's crazy how, not that it couldn't be, but yeah, you guys just don't have the, and a lot of our, a lot of our things are, you know, you guys understand as the wrenches of like what we're trying to accomplish and what it needs to do where the time really adds up is like the nitty gritty details of things. And like a lot of times,

A lot of times you just brush right over them so we can get it done and then get the video posted. Cause like at the end of the day, the most important thing is that we just keep churning and burning. Yeah. So like making these contraptions like a hundred percent perfect is

not really needed. It's more of like a novelty item where it's like good enough to get by. And that's quite frankly why a lot of them break and Evan gets kind of the short end of the stick there of like, man, you just break everything. But like a lot of them just aren't meant to go much more than like one video's worth. And it's so funny when you reflect back on

on how many things that we have built or you guys have built and we have filmed videos on like 95% of them break at the end of the video where it's like down to 45 minutes of use will be its lifespan. Yeah. And we know that. And we're just like, okay with it. That's why we have a shop full of broken toys now. And the biggest thing, and we say this in racing too, the biggest thing is when Ben's really good for it. Like we just need this one last shot.

And that's, what's going to do it in like every single time, every single time I race or like we did the same thing this winter. He's like, I just going to go make one more, one more moto. And that moto is when the thing spears the track and he goes head over heels and springs his ankle, you know, stuff like that. Yeah. That's why you always say two more times, skip the laps. One more shot or another. It's all the same across the board. Yeah. I was going to say the other thing is like, we're not trying to really reinvent the wheel with these, uh,

inventions or these builds it's not like we were like this will be way better than a normal four-wheeler you know it was more it's more so like i wonder what would it would what it would be like you know and there's like the cold hard truth about when you make it too nice too perfect you don't want to rip it you don't want yeah you know like you don't want to break it of course but you don't even want to rip it too hard because it's too nice my old instructor and a lot of guys that in the r&d shops that i've worked at they're like don't fall in love with the project yeah

No, that's what they tell you. Yeah. And then Evan comes walking in and you're like, no. Isn't it? I think it's a, it's really interesting though. Like you compared to other, you know, mechanics and fabricators is you, what really sets you apart is how much experience you have. Like you've worked on obviously snowmobiles, but you can work on cars, you can work on trucks, you can work on choppers.

motorcycle like anything you can yeah it's you know your way around and i've had a ton of different types of jobs like that and even like growing up in high school like we built derby cars and just wrecked our own stuff just like what you guys do you know but like yeah from i worked at a chopper shop i worked in fargo redline snowmobiles at one time and then a bunch of investors bought it i got hired another guy got hired and we built dune buggy

Oh, I remember those. Yeah, those were crazy. I helped develop it, and then I went on my own, started my own welding shop, and then they hired me to build all the suspension components. I always love when we start working on a project, whether it be turning some type of V6

into a dune buggy or the chopper was the most surprising one when you're like, oh, I hate working on these things. We're like, what do you mean you hate working on them? We just got it. You're like, no, I've had a lot of experience with these. I used to build them. Yeah. So like the, the chopper shop that I worked for, like they were,

Worked to deal out with the Vikings And like One of my jobs Was to bring that Chopper down And Ragnar drove it on the field Every home game The Minnesota Vikings Yeah So I remember you telling me about that So his job was to make sure You know Like they'd get the chopper Down to You know The Minnesota Vikings stadium On Sunday And he Metrodome at that time And he'd make sure That it was going to start Run and all that Because it's a chopper Right

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

Always. Cause you never know. That's like all live TV. So they're like, we got to go. But it's like, you know, things like that. And you're just like, so experienced and seasoned where it's like, that's cause I'm old. It's just cause you've done so much. Like you've been, you've been in so many different industries and yeah. Like Ryan, Ryan said, like every single time that we start working on a new project, you tell us about like a, a,

a job that you used to have that you used to work on. And, uh, it's like every single time that something breaks, I'm like, well,

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

that I do. Not to the level that maybe I do it, but... What's the first flex I've ever heard, dude? Big Wrench's vehicle resume is actually nuts. Who else has one like this? There's guys that know way more about certain things than I do, but maybe not so much

about everything. Well, you're a Swiss army knife of fabricators. And it's, yeah, it's, it's dumb. So when you went to school, you know, and you're getting started out, you're, you're, you know, a mechanic, you know how to do all these things. You're doing all these different jobs. Did you ever think it would lead to being on a YouTube channel doing what you're doing? You didn't know what YouTube was till about three years ago. That's,

What did you think of us when we first came into your life? Obviously, we explained kind of when Mike was doing it, but the first time that you really had worked on one of our projects was Tiny, right? Yeah, what did we have you do for Tiny the first time? New motor. No, that was second, but we dropped the... Yeah, was it the transmission out of it? No, because you guys blew the motor up. We went right for the motor swap. Oh, was it? Yeah, and then we motor swapped it. Yeah, it blew up when it was silver. Then you painted it green.

Right. Was it green after? I don't know. It's hard to remember. It was a long time ago. But I remember you had it sitting in your shop for a while. You had to look at that ugly thing. Well, and I was doing like other jobs too. But that's what I wanted to rewind back on that a little bit. Like I remember when I somehow got in contact with you to build. Through Rob. Yeah, yeah, yeah, through Rob.

To build snowmobile exhaust for our race sleds, for Jake and I's race sleds because they didn't make them. And then you built them. And you're like, yeah, that should be pretty easy. And then you're like, here's your cans. And I'm like, dude, this guy just built a can from scratch. This is awesome. Yeah. And it works. And it works. It worked great. And then he was just like building someone some stairs out of metal. You had that project going. And then shortly after that,

yeah, we reached out to you to do the motor swap and I'm like, dude, what is this guy? Yeah, so what were your thoughts though as far as like, what are these fucking idiots doing? What were you thinking? A little bit, but I get it. Like, it's not my generation, but you see stuff like that. Like, even my kids are like, yeah, I'm going to, not that they're going to grow up and be YouTubers, but they're like, yeah, it's like a legitimate thing. So I was, I'm open to a lot of things. I mean, right.

Even when you ask me, can this be done? Well, yeah, anything can be done. Yeah, you do always say that. I think that's an interesting thing that probably is the reason that both of you guys got your jobs is when Ben or all of us would come and go, can you make...

crazy thing like let's go put in Ken's Bronco up on a pole anyone with a good brain would be like I don't even want to be involved in that we go can you get it done in a week and you go yeah anything can be done that is always your answer to whatever project we have anything can be done that was the probably most stressful thing that I have done here the Bronco yeah why because I didn't want the thing you didn't want the

And we are legit breathing down his neck of like watching each weld be made of like, all right, Big Ranch, are you done yet? Ken is going to be here in 45 minutes. My favorite fact is Big Ranch was up on the lift welding the whole, the stabilizations on the pole as the Bronco was being lifted in the air. We were really down to the wire. We were like...

Big Ridge, how close, how many sides is it welded on right now? And he goes, three. And we go, fuck it. It's fine. With a 110 welder in a 31-hour wind. Yeah, up on the freaking lift. Oh, my God. It should have been welded off on all four, and we just called it good at three. The morning before when I was measuring up the...

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

I know. It's actually kind of like it would be so much funnier if they broke at this point. It would. Because the Hummer pontoon would just come crumbling down. I low-key want it to blow off. I know. I just think it would be so funny. We were just going to set the pole in the dirt. A buddy of mine is a concrete guy. He's like, that's not going to work. Yeah. And then one of your other buddies had that pole. Yeah. Dude, the pipe. We got a project going right now. I don't want to say what is going on because we got a mole. So.

And we got people stealing our ideas. That's another story. That too. We've got a project going right now and the entire thing has been sourced from Big Wrench's buddies. And there's like five different pieces that all had to come together and they're all a different buddy. It's actually incredible. So shout out Big Wrench's buddies. Here's one funny thing. The one buddy this morning when I went to pick up the final puzzle piece, he knows that I work for you guys. He's like, hey, isn't he buddies with Cletus? Yeah.

yeah and i'm like yeah i've like i've never met him but he's like well i got a buddy that races with him all the time down there goes to his place all the time oh we got buddies a buddy just small world yeah the wrenching community is is a tight-knit group so do people come up to you like on the streets now do they recognize you or or like when you're going out does people come up and ask you stuff like that or yeah or like my kids as friends yeah you know my my kids are teenagers so it's

a lot of them are like interested in it and like obviously want merch or whatever. My son's a little bit on the shy side, I would say. So he's kind of more like, I don't really want to talk about you and what you do. And yeah, he just keeps it quiet, which is fine. Yeah. Good kid. He's packing merch right now. Yeah. Good kid. He's kind of a chip off the old block. Cause that, that's why we ask like, what'd you think of us in the beginning? Cause like until you spent a lot of time with you, you're kind of a man of few words. Yeah. So like when we would have the tiny project going or like,

Another project that we had you do was when we blew up that brand new Polaris snowmobile. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of a funny story. So this was like, yeah, you guys say we, but... No, you said we. Or...

I mean, you guys say it was me. It's hard to say because we all. I didn't say it was you. So basically, I'll tell the story now because enough time has passed. So it was like our first. Was it our first snowmobile we had ever been given? The first year of the 850. Yeah. So we get this brand new snowmobile and like everyone's riding the thing and we're going riding for the day.

And I don't even think I had ridden it yet. I hadn't ridden it once. I think maybe you guys, I don't know who was riding it before, but someone was riding it before. They bring it in. Then I hop on it. We go riding like few miles down the road and the thing just seizes up. He's got like 85 miles. Yeah. Blows up. I'm, I don't fucking know. I was just riding the thing. Like I'm just, I'm not doing anything crazy.

and basically it ran out of oil or something like that we didn't put oil in it i'm pretty sure that's what it was yeah yeah it ran out of oil and everyone got mad at me but the thing is like the oil light would have came on dude the oil light never came on yeah yeah because like you guys wouldn't just handed it to me and been like hop on it and ride it so oil light never came on so anyways we have this brand new snowmobile that we got gifted and back then we didn't have

It was much more stressful. Yeah, we didn't have excess cash. And we can't ask these guys, like, hey, we just ran your sled out of oil that you just gave us. Yeah. You know, because that's a pretty bad look. Can we get another one? So Big Wrench came in and did a motor rebuild on it.

And then we were back in action. Yeah, that was like your first project. Yeah. So you had to be like, these guys are fucking idiots. They just ran this sled out of oil. Like, they didn't put oil in it. That is the stupidest thing that could happen. The toughest thing as like a motorhead. The light didn't come on. It truly never did come on. The issue with that is like it was a community sled, so nobody took ownership of it. Nobody thought to check anything on it. And...

Light never came on, but yeah. Circling way back, you had said that the Bronco on the pole was by far your most stressful project or was your most stressful project. Yeah, probably. Because of the money. Well, I didn't know if it was going to hold or not. There was no way to test it. Obviously, I'm not going to say, no, it's not going to hold. Yeah. 50-50 chance. Yeah.

Well, little do we know, it's still up there, dude. You got to play the average. Yeah, true. I want to do more. I've seen comments. Yes, yes. We just have like 10 vehicles. I don't want to make it like... I don't want to overdo it or whatever. Maybe that's Cheeto or silly, but I think there's certain builds that we have that...

won't see another driving day. Some of them are kind of just for looks. I wouldn't mind like a fake Lamborghini up there, but fake Lamborghinis are so good. So yeah, I was just going to say like, I backed that four wheel four by four Lamborghini out of the storage shed. That thing might as well go on the pole. Yeah.

You think so? Oh, really? I mean, it's pretty... Really? They're fake Lamborghinis. I'm not saying you shouldn't. I think if Gav or I got to spend a few days fastening stuff down, it might be all right. It might be enough to stay on the pole. The entire body? Or you might get one more video out of it. It was a good rig. It was. It shook apart after Moab and the other...

sand whoops we did but I remember when you first came on you were like I mean I don't need to be on camera or anything well be easier if we could have you on camera do you mind? No I don't care I'll be on camera and now it's like it just kind of slowly evolves into

people recognizing you out on the street. I think back to just like times before we had you and Gavin here, when it was just you. I can't believe that we were able to accomplish as much as we were with just you. And then without you, I can't believe that we were even able to function with like doing anything. But it was just like, it was a different time of our YouTube career where I think we were forced to just think.

think different and you know we didn't have like the leg of of uh creativity of builds to lean on and you know it's been like a huge blessing for one just like

creative capabilities of like what we can build now because we have you you too overall like I think our channel is so much better because of what we can build and it's just like no doubt now you know yeah now we are like so much that's awesome to hear farther along plus we were before you five guys are are like

When we sit in these, like, the planning meetings and stuff, it's, like, crazy what one little comment sparks into, like, a whole bill. Yeah. Usually, like, I can't think of that myself. Like, one person's, it's tough for one person to think of something like that. Like, it takes a group of guys to do that.

It is. And people ask that all the time. Like, how do you guys come up with your ideas? And I'm like, honestly, we are so good at knowing what's going to do well on YouTube and what people will click on at this point. Like you just take one thing and then you just twist a little bit and then you add one thing to it and then you go into the vault of like, all right, what has worked before? What vehicles do we have? What can we combine? Who can we surprise it with? And like, I don't know, we've just gotten so good at

at that over the years of like training your brain how to creatively think. And it is fun having like you guys a part of our creative meetings now where we're just like coming up with the most abstract ideas. And now it's like we have so many ideas and so many different builds and so many different motor swaps and so many different just contraptions that we could build. A lot of them take more than like a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. Some of them take like eight weeks, 12 weeks.

And then it's just like, well, it's not worth tying you guys up. So, like, ideally, you know, we find another set of you guys and we just continue to add to the team. But then we've got to have more space to build it. And then we've got to – there's just, like, so many different factors to it. But – I mean, for the little bit that I know of what you guys do, I mean –

I can't do what you guys do and whatever, but yeah. And so it takes all of us, but to, to figure out like how to package that type of video, like, you know, I've read some of the comments on some of the videos. They're like, Oh, we need a, we need to see like a more involved build, you know, video type of thing. But like, how do you do that?

with the schedule that you guys already have. It's crazy. Yeah, that's something that a lot of people don't realize too is like we're filming three videos at once because these builds take so much time. You know, you can't just like solely focus on one thing. It'd be nice if you could, but it's not...

possible so it's like managing all these different things and having you know getting the shots for the build and it's like how intricate do we want to go because we're trying to apply to the masses yeah we're trying to have the masses be entertained and like i think maybe 30 percent of our audience is like motorhead gearhead where they'd even understand if what you guys were explaining what you're doing you know and then the other 70 percent would almost just check out

Yeah. So it's like, you got to stay broad enough with it, which I think we've done a good job. It's not like it's a learning channel. Right. That too. I think the key word you said there was package. Like the way that, you know, we do all this and then package it into the video. Like that was, that's really cool that you, you know, that just from being on the inside, I mean, you just, you know, from day to day and, and seeing how everything rolls. And that's what people don't understand on the outside. Like, why didn't it go? Why didn't you do this? Why don't you show that? It's just like, sometimes it,

It's just the overall packaging of it. There's so many little factors into just running this from doing this idea meeting like you're talking about. Someone says one little comment and then this person says something and then it just evolves into this thing. Sometimes people are like, who came up with that idea? And it's like, I don't know.

don't even know. We were all just in there and then it was just like, all of a sudden we were planning on doing this and it just evolved. Some say evolved, some say spiral. It is crazy, yes. And sometimes it's literally like a late night text that

That you're just firing out there because you're like, I don't even know if this is anything. Or like the idea gets said and then it changes because it's like, okay, well, how do we actually make this happen or whatever? But no, that's cool that you pick up on that as well. Yeah, I always tell people when, it was like when you first came on, everyone's like,

how, how is, cause you were like our first hire and how is it with big wrench? I'm like, dude, big wrench makes our dreams come true. That's what our ideas are. Our dreams in a sense. And then now it's big wrench and Gavin make our dreams come true because we do, we have a lot of good ideas and, uh, and they come to fruition. It's like, you want to do them all like this week. Yeah. Yeah. That,

That's the hard part. It's hard for me, and I'm sure it's hard for Gavin, too. There's seven things on that list that I'd rather do than what I'm doing this week. Well, you'll know you'll get to it eventually. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. Before we get too deep in this, I want to get Gavin on here since now we're kind of talking about how crucial it is to have more members of the team. So, Gavin, you come in here. I'll go back in Ken's spot.

since he's on vacation these weeks. Yeah. Yeah. So he's in Mykonos. I got a question for both of you guys here. So obviously we have you doing such obscure jobs, you know, like everything you're doing, like who the frick is, is, is doing that kind of stuff. Like, are you still constantly learning just for definitely like, I, like I strive to learn something new every day.

I'm sure you guys probably are. Cause I mean, who else you like for these things you're doing, you can't just be like, Oh, let me look it up on the internet or let me call this person. Like no one else has done. And it's whether you learned something that is a value or you learn something that, Hey, don't do that again. Yeah. That type of thing. Also value. Yeah.

What do you think like the worst, most stressful part wrenching for us is our, our timeline timeline. Yeah. Timeline's ridiculous. Yeah. Not knowing what's coming up next. Like, well, it can change every hour. What a lot of people don't see is like, yeah, we have a, we have a build, but there's,

other things that you get pulled every day plus you get that build done. I would say weekly, like there's the long-term build like you're kind of talking about whether it's one or two or three or four weeks and then daily you're being pulled for something whether it's something real quick and small or whether it's like, hey, this week's video needs something that...

you are crucial for and you get pulled for the whole day for that. What were you working on when I called you about the triple bike? Cybertruck. Okay, so, all right. So, good example. Which we only got four days to do. So, that was fucked. Let me explain this timeline out. Ken buys his Cybertruck and we filmed the first part of the Cybertruck video with it. We thought it was great, but we weren't

We wanted to do something with it entertaining enough to title it around Ken buying a Cybertruck and not just have it as a B-bit in the back end of a video. We were like, if we make this...

more entertaining and do something with it, build it out. We can make this into more of a video bit. So we're like, okay, what could we do? What could we do? Evan goes, buy me a normal Chevy and I'll, I'll prove that Ken's cyber truck isn't better than a nineties model Chevy. And I was like, okay,

okay, that's a pretty good idea. Well, what if we made the Chevy then look like a cyber truck? So then it was funnier of what you were doing with the Chevy. And it wasn't just you big dicking in a Chevy, right? And I just, I'll stop you there really quick. These two's worst nightmare is when Ben's brain starts hamster wheeling. Literally. Yeah. Literally. In the meantime, Gavin is working on the mini truck turbo build and the clutch was just screwed in it. Oh God, that was a nightmare too. But, uh,

So I'm thinking, all right, what is Gavin doing? What's Big Wrench doing? I go, okay, I'm going to call Big Wrench and pitch him this idea and see what his reaction to it is. And then that'll let me know if it's possible or not. And if it sounds somewhat possible, I'm going to push for it. I call Big Wrench. I go, hey, what are you doing?

Oh, I'm working on this or that, which is what you, you know, for the video next week. I go, okay, sweet. Do you think that building a cyber truck by next Thursday is possible? And it's Wednesday at this point. And normally I would be like, we need one more bit for tomorrow's video. Can we do it in one day? So I felt like asking for a week was pretty good. And you're like, yeah, yeah. I mean, get a truck coming now. That's usually what I say.

Yeah. If he goes, yeah, if you have a truck here tomorrow, then we can start on it and it might be possible. That was Wednesday. Truck is there on Thursday. You guys start on it on Friday. Memorial Day weekend takes Monday off. So then you only had Tuesday, Wednesday. So like started it on Friday. I think we started on Thursday because I had it completely started on Thursday. Ken sees it. We tell him it's a boat. He buys it. I don't care what he says. And then you

You guys have Monday, Tuesday, or Tuesday, Wednesday to finish making it look like a Cybertruck. While you were doing that, go, hey, Big Ranch, do you think that you could take the tandem pit bike and put a third pit bike on it? And you're like, dude, I'm working on this Cybertruck for next week's video. And I go, yeah, but that's next week's video. Can you do that...

For this week. Today, for this week. And that was on Wednesday. And you're like, okay, yeah, I guess. Well, this is what really made me happy. I go, how long do you think it'll take? And you go, a couple hours. And that's like, let's go. That's what we like to hear. And then sure enough, you had it done in two hours, three hours. It was actually incredible. It was. And then you guys finish up the Cybertruck Wednesday.

Wednesday at five o'clock, we film it for three hours, ends up breaking by seven 30, actually insane how fast Evan worked on that one. And then it was just like, that was the end of the week. And then we started fresh on Friday. Yeah. It's like that every week though. No, that was like the last two videos that we filmed. So yeah, it's a revolving gauntlet. I'd say. Yeah. Over and over again. Yeah.

Yeah, you guys handle it really well. I do got to say that. I feel like you guys felt bad for us after that whole episode because there was really no build in this last episode.

We did. Yeah, they backed off real quick. We actually did, and we had to sit down and be like, all right, we're working the wrenches way too hard on this one. We were like, all right, okay, this timeline was actually pretty crazy. And you know what's crazy when big wrenches, like, you guys are actually fucking nuts for this one. Usually you just kind of do it, but that one was like, this is crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. Which I mean, if we're able to, I always hope to give you guys those days. Like I know for like YouTube or like merch shop for me or any podcast day for you or YouTube when you're editing videos, it's like,

On a Friday, sometimes duty calls, but, like, if you had to, like, get up on a Friday and edit another video all day, you'd be like, fudge. But, yeah, try to give those breaks. But, man, most of the time it's pretty cutthroat. Well, that's like, like, I have a lot of guys that ask me questions of, like, how, you know, my age guys are like, what did you do? Yeah. So you explain it to them, and it's like, it's kind of nice, though, because, like, they edit on Thursdays, so, like, Thursday's kind of our day, like, we can put the wrenches back. Yeah.

I was going to say that Thursday after the Cybertruck was nice, like for probably two hours, it was like, we're just kind of cleaning up. Then I kind of got bored actually. What are we doing next? I remember one time we were talking about,

you know, oh, this guy could maybe help or whatever. And you chimed in. It was another mechanic. He's just a parts swapper. He's just parts swapping. And you two are like, he's just parts swapping. Like swapping out a motor in a truck is just parts swapping. There's technicians and there's parts changers. Yeah. I mean, that's just...

matter of fact but uh so obviously you guys are much more than a parts changer i'd even go as far to say that you obviously don't have engineering degrees but you do you could be an engineer like i say that all the time like dude these guys are so good we'll be sitting here and saying this and that and they'll be well we probably want to do it this way it's that way you know it doesn't do this and that and it's amazing i was going to be an engineer until i got to pre-calc and then i said fuck that and

that i'm not doing this and that clearly benefited you as well like it's so much more than just fabricating parts or being a mechanic it's so much more than that and that's where it actually gets tough and is also exciting like when you guys the problem solving yeah when we need something done you're like we're

I wasn't expecting like the sidecars even to have suspension. And, you know, we went to the drawing board a few times with it or you guys did, I guess. But like that was sick that it did and like stuff like that. Yeah. Well, even Gavin, I spent a lot of time on on that part of it.

And once you start looking at it, it's like, well, it almost has to have suspension. Otherwise it wouldn't have worked right. Yeah. So I think we weren't going to do suspension and then just decided to. And yeah, it would have been way easier not to, but it wouldn't have worked. Yeah. I think you guys just understand like, you know, how to skirt the boundaries of what needs to be done, but also like,

We've done so many things that sometimes work and sometimes don't. And then when they don't work, we're just like struggling to like make it entertaining. So you kind of know what, like what we need for the entertainment factor, which is really good, but it's getting easier, not easy by no means, but, but it's getting easier to, to figure out what that needs to be. You know, I think back to the, like getting better every, every week is like, that's pretty self-explanatory as we, as we face these different challenges.

different things. It's like, no, it's amazing. You guys are seriously getting better every week. Like with the farm, uh, we're still working on getting you guys the tools that a

allow you to, you know, do that. Oh, if we had this tool here, you know, it's not, it wouldn't be a one-time use thing. We'd use it every week. And if it makes it easier, then that's going to help everyone out. I've never had a lot of them tools either. Right. And you get used to building the same stuff with less. You still make it work. Yeah. So like you're, you're almost not more creative, but more like you use your mind more. Like, how can I do this without the tool that I need to do it with? You guys are like cavemen with some of it.

Especially before we moved into the farm. Yeah, when we were wrenching here. Yeah, working out of here. Dude, it was like nothing. Just rocks. We literally just had like wrenches everywhere.

and hammers and screwdrivers. That's pretty much it. There's a propane torch, but it usually never had an end on it. Yeah, I started on Sexy Red, and I'm like, I'm going to take the next couple hours, I'm going to go to my house and get all my equipment and bring it here because I can't do it without that. Yeah, we're still working on equipping the farm with the proper tools, you know, and it's been nice getting to, like, the size that we are.

being uh comped for a lot of them but like then you're kind of we're working with a bunch of corporate companies that and then it just takes a little bit more time so we're trying to get everything equipped but that was a large reason why we built the built the farm so we could have more projects going you know ideally have a project going here and there and then but that's

That'd be the dream world, but then we're also pulling you guys here when they're supposed to be there and then there over here. Dude, Brian's still working on the current project at his house or at his shop. Yeah, literally. Now we started working at Big Wrench's place. Sometimes we need to keep secrets. Yeah, because we've got a mole somewhere. If it wasn't for the moles, we'd be fine. We need a third secret filming location now that nobody knows about. I can tell you what I don't need is another group chat.

I can't even figure out like... Yeah, you're kind of slipping up on it a couple times. Last week I did. I'm like...

Because me and CJ and Big Ranch are in one specifically for this project that Big Ranch is working on. It was late at night, too. Yeah, Big Ranch on Wine Wednesday. You already know that group chat's going to stay active. Well, yeah, I mean, we're going to have to start kind of like, honestly, Big Ranch, we might just have to start leasing your barn from you. Yeah, that'd be fine, too. He's like, I love that. Exactly.

We do that first day in. Ken puts in security cameras. This is our property now. The secret location. The Batcave. Yeah. So, Gavin, welcome on the pod. Sorry we didn't really give you a proper intro. I was bummed about that. Kind of snuck in here. But, yeah, welcome, brother. You've been with us for nine months? Eight months now. Eight months. The story of how Gavin ended up on the team is actually really, really interesting. So, for the past two years...

I would occasionally get a DM from Gavin saying, Hey, I live local to you and I used to build exhaust so I could build an exhaust for your Lamborghini. And I was like,

who's this guy that lives local and could i was like you can just build me you can just build me an exhaust for my lambo and it kind of it didn't really go much farther than that but i was like okay well yeah i'll keep you in mind if we ever have like a project that we uh that we need when then we did 100 people mow my lawn we put out this form of like hey sign up

for this video that we're filming. And Gavin was one of the applicants and we selected him to come and be one of the lawnmowers. So, you know, we're talking to everyone afterwards and he goes, hey, I'm the guy that keeps messaging you about building you a Lamborghini exhaust. And I'm like, oh, dude, yeah, no way. And I'm like, okay, so you could actually do that? And you're like, yeah, I could do like a bunch of different things. That was just kind of like my foot in the door, right? Meanwhile...

Big wrench is working on the come and swap Ford Ranger. So like he was, he was away from us for like two months just working on that. Working over in the cave. Yeah. In the farm before it was, before it was the farm. Honestly, we were just like trying to figure out what to do. Cause you know, we'd been doing like these builds and then we had to kind of just go back to the old style of filming with like, where we had like really no wrenches to like lean on for these projects. So,

We're like, hey, we actually do need you really bad right now. Let me get your number. So I get your number. And that was on Saturday. We sit down in this meeting. We come up with a bunch of ideas.

And we're like, well, big ranch can't do them. Who can do them? I go, let me call this guy that we met at the lawnmowing meetup. I call you. I go, what are you doing this week? You're like, working my job. Yeah, I'm pretty busy. But could you take some days off and come and help us with this project? So Gavin shows up, tell him what we're doing. And it was a six foot tall pit bike and the tandem pit bike.

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

And you got it done in time. And on that Wednesday, I was like, hey, bro, yeah, you want to come and work for us full time? Both those rigs still work to this day. And then you were like, yeah, I would love to, but I have to finish my other job for the next couple of days. I was like, okay, can you start on Monday? And you were like, okay, I can start on Monday. Give me Thursday and Friday to close up my loose ends. My boy got pressed.

Yeah, I was self-employed, so it kind of worked out. I could kind of... Well, it was interesting. You were like, yes, this is a great opportunity. I do have to button some other stuff up. And then you buttoned it up real fast. I did work pretty hard last fall. And then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's one thing to put your two weeks in. It's another thing to be like, all right, here's what's going to happen with my business. What did happen? You know, it's kind of a seasonal business, except for I do snow removal in the winter. So I just didn't sign any of those contracts. It's like property management. Yeah.

So I finished up the fall stuff, like wrapped everything up, took all the docks out, did all the yard cleanups, and then closed up shop. Unfortunately, you have to find somebody else. The thing with you, Gav, is you undersold yourself heavy. Like we have people come up to us all the time and say, oh, I can do this, I can do that.

And, you know, we've given them shots or whatever it was. And, like, oftentimes they fail, honestly. And you were just like, you undersold yourself. Like, yeah, I can make some exhaust for you. You know, I'll make exhaust. And we're like, that sounds great. But, like, how many things do we really need an exhaust for? That's not originally what you said to me. But I still agree that you undersold yourself. I think the thing about you, though, Gav, that we learned real quick, which obviously, you know, we are stoked about your talent of what you could build.

but you were just a grinder. And like the biggest thing for us is like our, you know, our crazy deadlines and our wild ideas. But like, you know, we work 24 seven and it's hard to have an employee that you hire on. Cause you, we don't expect that from, from anyone that we're like hiring on, you know, you guys are salary, but like a lot of times it's more than 40 hours a week. And like,

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

And we were like, dude, we appreciate that too. You know, like that goes, that goes really far. That's kind of what I'm used to though. Like, I mean, I've owned a couple of different businesses over the years and that's, that's the way you have to do it when you own the business. You just keep working and then did some agriculture stuff too. And it's the same, same story there. You just,

you work every day until the job's done. And so it's, unfortunately for you, the job is never done. That's what I was impressed too. It was like, so when you first started the, there was the excitement of being with the crew. And the biggest thing is Gavin's a good guy. So we get along really well with him. Like, you know, we're, we're hanging out after work. And I was like, I wonder how long he's going to like hang out till nine or 10 or 11 every night or almost every night. Like we enjoyed it. I'm like, I'm just like, how long is that going to last? Like,

And then it almost went the other way, like where you still stayed till that time, but you almost started working longer. Yeah. Whether we're hanging or working, you're here grinding it out. That is the cool part too, is, is, you know, like everyone that we've added to the team is like, you know, they just become one of our friends and, and, uh, you know, you're coming without, uh,

on sprinter van nights when we're on the boat when we're going out out on the boat and big ranch you're always invited to but you never seem to show up or want to come because like you're always like i'm hanging out with my family yeah i've got a wife and three kids at home oh i gotta go to my son's baseball game i was like i'm just kidding it's okay too on the way here it was the same deal they're like

Hey, let's do the pod at 2.30. I had to bring Eli to baseball. Can we get those kids a pedal bike or something? That brings up a good point. Big Grinch is not my dad. Oh, that's actually my other son. I wanted to clear the air on this now that we have you both here. We started what ended up kind of becoming a dirty rumor. Ben's bad joke. I think it was just a joke, and it just...

I mean, it made sense. But the way you put it out there, it was casual. And it was like one of a handful of trolls that were completely uncleared up. I cleared it up in a later video, but what was done was done. Yeah, once you get it going, it's tough to clear something like that. I cleared it up, but I think it was too far. But in that video, you just kind of nonchalantly were like... It was believable. By the way, it was actually not big renters. Didn't like your...

wife's like sister or aunt or cousin was just my wife's cousin this was probably a month after the fact she texted my wife and she's like does brian have something to say to the family like she thought he just had this kid out there that he like was just ignoring after all these years she was talking to her mom which my wife's aunt and she's like i didn't know brian had an older child

Never mentioned or brought around. I was born the year after you graduated high school, so it would be one of those situations. It could have been. But it is not. It's not. Yeah, everybody. He's not my dad. Yeah. And then that kind of goes to the next thing. Big Wrench came on before Gavin. Not that we're...

asserting that he is a better wrencher than you, but he just got the name Big Wrench because it's kind of like, that's funny. He's like, hey, go get the Big Wrench because we're just a bunch of little wrenches around here. And then you come in and you're kind of the second wrench and

And we're just like, well, what do we call him? Little Wrench. Like, just as a joke, and then it kind of caught on. But you don't seem to like Little Wrench. I'm not a big fan of that one. You don't want to be known as Little Wrench? I really would rather not. Yeah, I mean, understandably. I mean, Big Wrench definitely has gotten the better end of the deal on that one. Yeah, there hasn't been any Little Wrench merch yet. I wonder why. No. Do you think...

I think you got to like try and try and like sell some kind of mystery behind it. Cause you're, you're a single guy. So maybe like when you're out at the bars, like if you were actually going by a little wrench, like, you know, people could come up and you'd be like, that's what they say. But you know, I mean, you'd have to just find out for yourself. And then play that. I think it would work. I think it would work. There'd be like some mystery behind it. Like, you know, I got to find out if it's true or not. Yeah.

My wife's going to shoot me, but there is times like Wednesday after filming, it's like, I'm going home, but another 10 years younger, I probably wouldn't be going home right now.

Just be running around with us. Yeah, you and Evan. That's fine. Wait, wait. I was going to say, if you can hang with us, you'll be good as long as you don't get tied up with that Evan guy. Well, and that happened a couple times last summer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Evan would say that, and he's like, yo, me and Big Wrench shut down the bar last night. I'm like, dude, you are such a bad influence. He is. I'm like, you corrupted Big Wrench? I'd go home and I'd be like,

Evan, he didn't have nobody to eat with. Nobody to hang out with. I felt bad for him. I went to eat with him. I felt bad for the little guy. My wife's going to watch this now and she's going to be like. She's going to know. You're not going to be able to stay late anymore. I always wondered if you told her like, oh, the boys just got me grinding on this project. Yeah. Meanwhile, you're drinking. Just chilling. We've been married long enough where she knows all my tricks. No, Evan always told me he was, uh,

in a good way, he was just genuinely excited. He goes, yeah, so last night, me and Big Wrench drinking Tonys till midnight. Midnight, yeah. Good time. I'm not getting tattoos or nothing. Exactly. Gavin, you were close though, right? I was going to do it, and then I bailed at the last minute. As far as the tattoos go, yes, I was fully jotted down on his thigh, shaved and everything. Oh, we did a couple revisions even. With a Sharpie. Yes, we even kind of scribbled off the parts that looked whack and then went for it.

You, like, walked around the pool table for...

three minutes and we're like, ah, I'll just hold off. And then I'm like, that's all good. It'll be sick when you get it later. And you're like, I'll let you know. Yeah. Gavin's too dialed of a person to have a half ass tattoo or something. Not completely perfect. That's going to be permanent on him, which that's fair. I mean, I, I, I, I completely for the first one, it makes complete sense to me. I still think you got to do it. Siege. I, you know, I think what you guys got is sick. Like it's a perfect number, but,

if all of us are out on the boat and then we, we have some other people hanging with us that, you know, maybe aren't our first group of friends. They're going to be like, these guys are, it's pretty cultish. You know, like you just, all of you got the same tattoo in the same spot. You all wear it. It's such a boy band. I don't wear a short enough shorts to even show them. I don't either, but I feel like on the boat, your, your pant, like,

comes up whatever just in general even like right now like my my shorts probably high enough and I mean I wear a life wide open hat life wide open shirt life wide open fucking swim trunks

Life wide open socks. Pretty soon it's like we're life wide opened out. Yeah, that's true. Not going to lie, I'd probably have to kick my own ass if I did that. How much would you regret that one waking up? Probably quite a bit. Really? Do you have any tattoos, Brian? I don't. My wife does. When we were in Vegas with our Grandpa Ron, we were trying to get a tattoo. We wanted him to do it. Me, CJ, and Grandpa Ron. And he was the one that wouldn't do it. A tattoo of you guys?

Oh, no, no, no. We were like, no, no, no. I told him I was like, I'll get Grandpa Ron tattooed on me. Yeah. If you get Ben and CJ tattooed and he wouldn't do it. And I was like, no offense, Grandpa. But like, I kind of got more to lose. Very surprised by that.

Yeah, and his reasoning was like, well, if I got you two, I'd have to get all eight grandchildren. And I was like, fuck it, get all eight. I think he didn't want to do it when the other kids weren't there. Your other grandchildren aren't YouTubers. Yeah, but they'd be stoked. Like Grandpa Ron sends them just like a photo of his leg and it's got their name on it. He didn't want to do it. Having a Grandpa Ron tattoo is way cooler than having a Ben and CJ Tattoo.

that's very true yeah it's actually very i don't blame him one bit for not wanting it in cj i don't think i regret this one too is lame but having a renin stimpie so lame dude that is so lame that is

It kind of is the same idea as when we all had our nipple piercings and we took them out before we went to Florida. Like, what, are we going to have all six of us walking around on the beach with our nipples pierced, rolling in a group? You know, it's kind of the same. The nipple piercing, I'd say, is a little bit more apparent. I will say the nipple piercing was weird, and I'm glad I missed out on that.

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

Then I'm going to be like, I wish it was a piercing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but a tattoo is way cooler than a nipple piercing. If I had a tattoo, I'd be like, cool, but if you walk around with this nipple piercing, I'd be like, I don't know about that guy, man. Honestly? I was one day. Should we get a hot dog tattoo, Mike? Yeah, definitely. That's next. That would actually be fitting. We can do that to your leg if you want. I don't know.

No, let's do it. Just like a very simplistic hot dog drawing. Can you imagine? They clearly look the same. I get a brat tattoo, and I'm like, it's a brat. It's not a hot dog. It's a brat. You're like, looks the same to me, bro. I'm like, can you not see the thickness? I like when that was brought up the last time, and he gets so heated about it.

every time very defensive well it's like I do agree though yeah yeah it's like accusing someone there's a big difference yeah but he likes hot dogs he just covers it up with who told you that Mike I've seen you eat so many hot dogs you can't even say that you don't like hot dogs take a picture every time I eat a hot dog over the next year I don't have enough storage on my phone bro dude what do you want me to do follow you around

all day like i can't do that more storage i know i'm not gonna follow you around i already seen you i got so much stuff to do mike i can't just follow you around and record every meal you eat i just remember like when i first started noticing if i eat so many you can take a picture every time you see me do it and then you can post them i'm just saying here if somebody didn't eat an absurd amount of hot dogs they wouldn't get defensive would they

I don't know why you're embarrassed. There's nothing wrong with eating hot dogs, Mike. Because I love eating pizza and I tell everybody, they go, what's your favorite food? I go pizza, hands down pizza. Well, you're lying there because you're in the closet about eating hot dogs. All you need is hot dogs, dude. You can't tell me that somebody that doesn't eat a bunch of hot dogs wouldn't be this defensive. I,

If we could just bring some proof into it. When I first started noticing how many hot dogs Mike ate, it was in the college house when he started just putting them into mac and cheese. And those were all brats. Those were all brats. What?

They were literally all brats. All right, I'm done. Mike's out. Just kidding. Mike's out. I wanted to ask you guys what your favorite build has been and what your least favorite build has been. Least favorite is a way harder question. Okay, all right. Let me just go through a couple of them. I feel like I know Gavin's.

just based on his time spent on it. Oh, my favorite? Yeah, your favorite. Well, yeah, that's easy. Sexy Red, no question. The Turbo Mini Turbo. That's your least favorite? No, that's my favorite. Favorite. By far, yeah. Is it because you spent the most amount of time on it? It was probably one of your first big builds, too. It was. Yeah, it was the first big one. Yeah, you never forget your first big build. Yeah.

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

I don't know. What was up with the shifter cart phase that we were in? Yeah. Oh, with the R6. You finished the R6. That was his first project because that's what I was hitting you up about. Oh, that's right. I just got it running in the end. You did the exhaust. I did the exhaust at my shop. I finally got in touch with him and he was talking about how that's what you were doing. Yeah, that's right. Oh, and then right after the shitter cart, you did the Hummer pontoon. Yeah.

Yeah. The Hummer pontoon was like one of those pitch it, see if it's possible. Okay, it's possible. Now, how fast can you do it? Now, cut that in half. Yeah. And then that's what we were pushing for. Well, the funniest thing about that thing is it's like, I don't know how, like, it was just a...

a prayer that that thing even floated the way it did. Like to not have water come in the cab because that was what I was worried about. Like I didn't get the pontoons down low enough or the truck up high enough for the water not to flood the cab. And it's literally perfect. The water's like three inches below the door loaded up with people. It's perfect. You couldn't have planned it that good. I'd like to say that was just me thinking about it, but it was just a dumb way.

Well, I think you just probably just put them down close to the ground, about as close as you could. Well, that was the biggest factor of that thing was to keep it up high enough off the ground to drive it. Yeah, that one is actually really, really impressive how well it worked for how heavy that thing was. Yeah. It's like a 10,000 pound. I was trying to do the math on it and I was Googling crap. That's where the lack of the engineering degrees helps show. Yeah. Well, that's what you got these things for.

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

That was pretty fun. It sucked cutting them apart because it was 95 degrees that couple days. Yeah, pop up the picture of Big Wrench walking around in his hazmat suit. It looked like Breaking Bad. And then following that one, it was the front flip mini truck, the roll bar over it. That one was tough because we needed a tube roller.

Right. Cause you had to notch it. Well, and I notched some of it. And then like at my buddy's place, I, we, he has this huge plate roller and we were rolling them in it. Well, then it just flattens the tubo cause it's not a tube roller, but, but it got the job done. Got the job done. Broke my neck. Um,

I wish he would have actually said not to do that one. And that's what we were talking about after it was all done. I'm like, man, that's going to be a violent hit. I think everyone was saying we all know before that. I 100% take responsibility for that one. We should have taken another day and put like Fox floats up front or something like that. Probably should have.

Following that one up, we did the 100-foot rail. That was probably my biggest... That thing's terrible. Yeah. That was actually probably the only design flaw that you've had, Big Wrench, is how narrow you... I don't know if it was my design flaw. ...is how narrow you put the tabs. Well, yeah. That all comes down to...

We're running it on Wednesday. Yeah. That's true. That's true. I mean, it always comes back to it being our fault because you guys do always consult before you do something. And 90% of the problems are always like- Time restraints. Because we're like, just run it. But the 100-foot rail that Mike crashed the brand new Razor on totaled the Razor out.

but and and today has never been hit again i know well and then and gavin chopped it down i lowered it like never got used again but it's still like it's pretty scary yeah i wouldn't do it honestly uh you know how evan talks about losing sleep over like not doing hell's gate or whatever i do lose sleep over that but not in the way that i want to do it again i just hated everything about well not actually doing it i hated all the aftermath and the

thought process I had after I did it. Even the approach jump was not right. That's what like the, the approach jump threw me off more than the tabs ever did. Kind of jumped you onto the rail. And the tabs would have worked if the approach jump would have been higher and you drove down onto it.

But yeah, just, just like, which is kind of how it is now. I wish, I wish I could take you guys along for like that aftermath of like, after it happened, everyone was just like, ah, dude, we like, you know, we bit off too much, like how stupid, but you don't know until you know, you know, you don't know until if it would have worked, everyone would be like, yeah, what a great idea. Exactly. And it wasn't like, again, like if I wad myself up or if anyone does just like trying to jump the razor or, or, or,

A dirt bike or anything. That shit happens. But, like, that was, like, intentionally a stunt. And then the stunt went wrong. And we're all like, what?

Like, what the fuck? Yeah. Let's see here. Oh, six foot tall pit bike. That's when Gav came in then. I didn't like that one. And then following that one up was the Cummins Swap Ranger. Ranger. Because that one took like three months. How long did that take? I think it was six weeks. Oh, six weeks. Okay, way less time than three months. I thought it took longer than that, but yeah. I think it was six weeks. Six weeks? I worked on it with you for about two. And that's when we were just about finished up with it.

Cause it wasn't snow on the ground or nothing. You know, it's also tough about these. We, we, we do the same thing. Sometimes even when you guys are editing, you're looking for a video to throw back to call back to. And you're like, what video was that? That's a problem. We'll probably always have because our videos have so much more than what's just in the thumbnail. Yeah.

Like we're probably missing like the, you're just looking at the thumbnail, but like if we were to go through each video, you go, Oh, that's when we pulled you for a day to do this. And we pulled you for a day to do this. But yeah, that, which is, I love like so much more than the OG Miata was kind of fun. Like, well, you didn't do much to it. I just welded their diff in it and,

But you guys rallied that thing. It was crazy how long that thing lasted. I didn't expect it to last the day. It is actually insane. Those Miatas are incredible. You just said it was kind of fun. So do you think it's fun working here? Oh, yeah. It's awesome. I mean, you've worked so many different spots.

Um, yeah. And like, I've always liked to work someplace. You either don't know what you're doing the next day or like, it doesn't matter if you know what you're doing the next day. Cause you know, it's going to be interesting and you know, it's going to be fun. And you, you're working with a group of guys that y'all, everybody gets along for the most part. Like, yeah. I mean, obviously everybody gets a little chippy after spending that many hours with each other for that long. But is this your favorite, favorite job, big wrench, favorite job that you've ever had? Be honest. Uh,

It ranks up there. Like, is it my number one favorite? That'd be pretty tough to put that label on it, but...

It's up in the top two, three. Cause you've definitely worked some cool places. I mean with the race teams and all this. Yeah. X games. Yeah. Racing is like something different. Like if it's in your blood, it's in your blood and it's really tough to get it out of your system. Like I, I went four years and had nothing to do with snowmobiles whatsoever. Like when we moved back home from Minneapolis, didn't even keep up with the circuit. Didn't know who was in the circuit.

And then you just get pulled back into it. And it's like pretty soon the semi is coming and dropping off snowmobiles at your shop. I mean, your wife's like, when did we start racing again? Like, I don't know. I promise I didn't try. I love the racing side of it because there's, you always have to be on your toes and like, you can't spend too much time on a certain thing. Just like you can't hear anything.

It's almost like racing here, except you don't have to go out and win every weekend. Racing, you can't let up because somebody will pass you up real quick. If you're not excelling or learning something new every time you're on a track, you're going backwards. I take that mentality with here too. You should learn something every day, like I said.

And if you learn something every day, like the next day is going to be better because you've learned that yesterday. Now you're going to learn something else today. Yeah. Word from the wise. I'm glad that. What's more stressful, racing mechanic or working here? The timelines here is probably one of the most stressful things. And it's not because like you guys put stress on us to get it done, but like you want to get it done.

Like everybody wants to. Video's got to happen. That is an interesting take. Gavin and I probably put. It's not just us. Yeah, it's everybody watching. I probably want to do this on myself. Yeah. Because I want to get it done for you guys to go do what you do. And then the fans have something to watch. Yeah, right. It all just boils down to this ridiculous schedule. And sometimes I feel bad. Like I don't remember even the last time I've actually went and like we finished a project and I went and watched you film it. Just because you're torn between having to go home and eat supper with your family.

family right or or hang out like i know it's going to be good because of what you guys do so i can we do enjoy it when you guys are able to we do really enjoy that is my favorite part of the job too when you're done with the build it's it's fun having you along to go watch and watching it see how it works and then nine times out of ten you end up wrenching on it that very same moment but yeah it's fun having you guys sometimes it's like this isn't gonna work so i'm going home

You do kind of just sneak out of there. That's what he did with the Cybertruck. He's like, yeah, you guys have fun. I'm like, hold on, PigRedge. What if it doesn't work? I was there when we started filming, and I'm like, okay. It's like we were halfway through, and I'm like, I got to go home. And I got literally shut the door, and Ben calls. Can you come back? Dang it.

It's nice that you live so close. Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm glad that you guys have fun working here because that's one thing. Like, whoever we add to the team, obviously you got to be good, but we also got to feel like they fit in well around here. Got to mesh with everybody. We like them as, like, a person. We like spending time with them because, like, you want to keep that culture of just, like, how it is around here. You spend way too much time.

as a group in this shop or at the farm shop to not get along with each other. And if it throws off like the vibe, then if the vibes off for filming, then it's just, and the video doesn't turn out as good. It's just not good. Just not good. So for sure, you know, I'd say it's like a 50, 50 thing. Like you gotta be, you gotta 50% get along and 50% be good as far as,

That goes like, you really do. That brings up a good, a good question. Like you guys fit our group so well, even though we are all different in our own ways. If you guys were going to add another young Padawan or an apprentice to the team, what would you look for in a guy like that or girl? Like what skills would they need? Like, where do you feel like the most valuable asset in a person other than of course, getting along and meshing with the team?

I mean, I'm older. So being the age that I'm at, like they, you need to, to be able to take direction and like, and listen and learn. Everybody, everybody knows certain things, but like when you come into a group like this and there's already guys here, like, like we've no, we know 100%.

how it runs and how it like, don't come in thinking that, Oh, I'm going to be able to do this and this and this. And these guys don't know how to do this. And it's like, yeah, we've probably already done that once or twice before. Listen to humility to do. Yeah. Kind of what, what is that? And I would ask myself of the same thing. Like if they have, if they bring something new to the table, like,

don't think that you've done that before. Like, are you no better? I try to listen to everybody's ideas. Like I'm not the end all be all of any of it. Yeah. I mean, we'd like to, you know, add another wrench to the team, big wrench, little wrench, mini wrench. Crescent wrench. Yeah.

Yeah, man, I don't know. We're going to run out of names. Monkey wrench. It'd be good to get a guy that just like can just jump from maybe Gavin's got a project he's working on and I have one that I'm working on and you have a guy that can jump from in between. Give an extra hand for each of us for whatever we're doing. Or like if you guys have to for next week's build, like, hey, we need to go get a bunch of this and a bunch of that. You can send that guy to get it. But he also has to know enough to like be helpful. Like where to go to get that type of stuff.

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

better it operates it seems like you know maybe you guys do like a mechanic internship for the summertime from a tech from the tech school that's an option too i was thinking what if we did like a wrench off yeah we're like yeah you know it's it's like a series you know we got five wrenches and we got a timeline that some might deem ridiculous yeah it's kind of like what i was big wrench calls it going to work on monday yeah yeah but and then and then we have like a series of like

you know, last wrench standing. No, absolutely. It's kind of like hell's kitchen type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'd actually be really good. That could be a good, good little, the, the, who's the name? Main chef guy. Oh, Gordon Ramsey comes out and just swears. That'd be probably you or Gav. One of you two would come in. I don't know if you'd be able to, I don't know if Gavin could, but I think you probably, Gavin could probably do it better than,

I don't know if I could see you yelling at a guy and sparing him. I'd have to start drinking Morgan or something. Yeah, you got to be a mean man to be a Gordon Ramsay spinoff there. Yeah, I guess I don't know if I could be that mean, but I mean, I do have the background of having employees and getting them to work. Yeah, I mean, I like that idea just because then it, like I was kind of saying about Gavin, is people say what they can do and it's,

but oftentimes don't live up to what they're saying. Whereas Gavin was almost like, he was very humble with what he was saying he could do and then outlive that. Like he overperformed way over our expectations. So it's like the texts back and forth from me and Ben before you guys hired me. I like the last thing I said is like, I, there's only so much I can say. You just got to let me come show you what I can do. I think that is the best way to find someone on the team. And you look at Dalton, like he came and,

And he wasn't just like a person on the team. He was like doing some cinematic stuff for us. And then we're like, this guy's good. And let's, let's do that. So, I mean, if you guys know anybody, we'd love to test it out. And I like that. I like that idea of having the time to test somebody out. Cause you never know in an interview, somebody sits down and they really full of bullshit. Talking out their ass. Yeah. Well, and even, even on their end of it, like it's,

It's going to be tough for anybody just to jump into this. And that's like, like I handed it to Gavin, like you had really no idea what to expect and what the timelines kind of were and stuff like that. And he jumped right in, like handled it. Built a six foot pit bike in two days. Handled it. Handled my biz. When you ask somebody, if you can, this is what we need to have done. Can you do it? And he's like, yeah, I can do that.

And he does it. And he does it. Yeah. That's the best. God, you got to cringe at some of like the well, like being the welders that you guys are when you see like other people being like, yeah, I'm a fabricator. And then you see their welds. Is that one of those things? You might be a fabricator, but you're not a welder. Yeah.

more of a grinder than he is a welder i love grinder and paint welder i ain't sometimes i'll find on facebook like it'll be like a page that's just like the best welds in the world that's the name i'm pretty sure gavin and i both been working on something and it's like go time like we still been done two hours ago and i'm like i'm more of a grinder today again welds look like bird shit but it's gonna make a video is that just like a welder thing though like

If you post... I'm not joking. You post the best weld that you may think that you've ever put down in your life and people are still like... Well, somebody will pick it apart. It's way easier to pick apart other people's stuff than it is to do your own. I guess most welders, all they do is weld all day. So then it's like, well, then they have something to pick apart. That's actually a good point. It seems like it'd be hard welding all day. I've done it here and there, never over and over again every day. I couldn't do it. It sounds...

Pretty. Could not do it. Staring at an arc all day. Yeah, you're like, your perception of God, it's going to be hard on your eyes. Another, this is probably just because I'm old, but like when I take, well, no, I can't, I have to take my glasses off because I can't,

focus on it really kind of stinks but big red maybe we should have a weld off oh i get the razor blades though we don't need you guys going wait wait i mean like no keep the emotions out of it but it would be fun for a video bit just to like do a weld off like have only if i'm having a weld off it's only with razor blades what does that even mean what does razor blades together

Oh, we can do that. Just a one and done thing. How about pop cans? How do you do that? Yeah, but see, you're really good at aluminum welding, aren't you? You ever seen the edges of a razor blade? Like the handheld ones you scrape decals with? Yeah. Weld them two together. Oh, and then...

That's kind of like a flex. It's pretty tough to do. Yeah, it's a flex. I remember when Ben wanted to get... The sides of pop cans would be tough to do. That would be tough. Everybody says, oh, you can weld pop cans together. Well, you take the bottom of this. It's pretty thick. It's thick, yeah. Like, weld it together this way. Yeah, I don't know if I could do that. There was a little stint when Ben wanted to be a welder. I've made a couple of our... Yeah, you welded the... Smart things.

Fenders on the Ranger? No. They're still there. No, we did not. No, I think we just bought those from Jack to Supply. I don't even know. Yeah, smart car. It was during the smart car. I remember we got this Harbor Freight welder. We were putting a lift kit on the smart car. We even had to call Brian over to come help us. That's right. Fix some shit on it and put it on and

It was right when we moved in. It was like our first winter here. But yeah, I just remember you were trying to do your thing. That welder that's downstairs? Yeah. Yeah, it's like a flux core. That's when I learned to give it up. We were working with what we could. Dumb thing is, you're...

tying one hand behind your back just welding with that thing is the problem big wrench have you gotten in any facebook fights lately not in the last week he's been too busy so big wrenches is like as we said super reserved he's a keyboard warrior dude is just yeah he's a keyboard warrior and he's just a hothead on facebook what's up with that that's right that must be my outlet let your steam off yeah

With who? I don't know if he's a hothead. It's kind of fun. You're a baiter. I kind of do it to get a rise out of people. Don't get too good at it because you'll become a master baiter. I am not to that level. You know Jake Sherbrooke. He's just like

I don't know what to do today. I'm just going to go rip some people on Facebook. And then, well, back when he was on, he's not on Facebook anymore, but I used to jump in on dog piling on something. Are you ever worried that you're ever going to meet one of your, uh, no culprits. Big wrench knows how to fight or one of your victims. That's just it. He'd kick them in the knee. That's the first thing you do. Yeah, I know. I've heard him say that a few times. Someone pressed on the bigger. They are in the hurry. You kick them in the knee. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Yeah.

Kick him in the knee, huh? Yeah, it's crazy. Have you done that? Maybe. Really? Kick him in the front of the knee? I've been in a couple fights before. In the pits on the racetrack? I don't fight for the fun of it. Yeah. Oh, a racetrack fight? Well, that and just... We have some different defense tactics. That's a great defense tactic. Yeah, it's great. Some people just like to fight. They'll go out and just pick a fight just for something to do. That's what they love to do. Me and Rich ran into a guy like that the other night. Really? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, he just wanted to fight as soon as we got there. Really? What was he doing? He was just talking shit as soon as we got there. What was he saying? Oh, he was talking shit about the C-Boys. Like, I don't give a fuck about the C-Boys. You guys are pussies. I'll kick your ass. I'm going to go outside right now. It was just you and Rich? Well, Rich said something to him, and then he, yeah, then he fucking went off for the rest of the night. And no one else was with you guys? Oh, Ev was there. I had a buddy of mine, a good friend of mine, and his philosophy is the same as mine. Like, when I get into a fight, it's one or two punches either way, and it's usually done.

Either I'm going to win or I'm going to lose. You've gotten in a racetrack fight, though? Like, in the pits? Mechanic to mechanic? A couple years ago, working for the team that we used to work for, we'd just about gotten in a pit fight with the trailer next to us. Really? What was the cause? Park too close. It was like a...

Some say, I didn't even see it. It was an on-track deal with one of our riders and one of their riders and kind of a dirty corner, like cross jumping and stuff like that, which is in any motocross or any motorsport, you don't do that type of thing. Ripped the whole front of the sled off of one of our race sleds. And one of the other mechanics just had the front end of the snowmobile and just slammed it down in front of their trailer. And then it was...

Game on for about 15 minutes there for a while. Really? No fists were thrown, but...

It got de-escalated before that happened. But you would have hopped in. Well, if I had to. Would have had to. Taking people in the knees. You took down like six of them. Boom, boom, boom. All of them are laying on the ground. My knee! My knee! And Big Red's just standing there. Waiting for the next one. When you're 5'7", you don't have a whole lot of reach on you, so you got to use something else. Kick them in the knee.

Craziest one that I've ever seen. And I wasn't really a part of it. I was with everybody. But a buddy of mine got married and we had a bachelor party. You guys know where the Falls is? No. When you go tubing down the Otter Tail? Oh, yeah. We got in a roundup with like 10 guys there. Another group? So the day started off. We all got on this bus that another buddy of ours owned. Went to Wildflower. I think we made it three holes before they kicked us out of there. You guys were reckless golfing. Yeah.

So then we all pile back on the bus and it's like, let's go tubing. So we rented the tubes, but we had our own bus and we didn't even care about going tubing. So we just went straight to the falls. There's actually a road that you can take to get there, but you have to cross privately. Right.

Really? We may or may not have busted the whole gate open with the bus and drove right back there. Yo, you guys were driving the bus. Yeah. Okay. Sat there and we were drinking, having fun. These guys came flowing down the river, didn't have no clue who they were. They weren't even from around here or nothing. And they started jawing back and forth with a couple of our guys and pretty soon he's coming up on the bank and one of our guys takes a full can of the beer and chucks it at the guy and it bounces off of his head.

Oh my gosh. And the guy's like, who the hell threw that? We're like, oh boy. Oh shit. Oh shit.

I don't know if we got the best of them or they got the best of us, but I remember going to church the next day and a guy that you guys know, his face was swelled up shut. Really? Like black eyes. We had a doctor there that stitched us up that night at one of my friend's house. You guys full on got beat up. I didn't. How many knees did you kick? I was still sober enough where I kind of stayed out of that one. They were swimming down the bank. I was more like...

Standing behind my big friend swinging over his shoulder. These dudes were like big. Sneak attack in the knees. Boom, boom. From an underwater kicking them. Yeah, they were big. Have you got any hockey fights? A couple, yeah. I was a little bit of an enforcer, if you could call it that. Oh, really? They would send Gavin in. Yeah, a little guy would come and beat somebody up for hitting the goalie or whatever. You were little? Well, I was about this size. I wouldn't say I'm big. They would send you in?

I'd send myself in. Make it your mission. Would you shave your head back then? Because you'd be pretty mean even when he was like seventh grade. A bald 12-year-old. Yeah. A high school shaved head with a beard. Just beating people up out on the ice. Pretty savage.

Anybody check this guy's ID? Real quick, can we just laugh about when I gave that homeless lady a ride on the e-bike? Yeah, bro. That shit was funny. So funny. I didn't really, like, basically this homeless gal who was tweeting. You know, she's a nice lady. She's yelling at us. Like, get out.

I want to ride on one of them things. And I was like, you want to ride or you want to drive? And this is kind of before we started filming. She's like, I want to drive it. And I was like, no way. I'm not letting you get on this e-bike. Like, no way. And then basically she starts coming over, sees the cameras, and starts driving.

Fuck you. Yeah. Get that camera out of my face. Get that shit on my face right now. Like, seriously, I'll mess you up right now. Like, get that out of my face. No filming me. And she's just all riled up. And then I'm just like, well, you still want to ride? And then, like, as that pans out, she's like, sure. And we get on and ride away. Okay.

After she's like legit trying to knock the cameras out of there. Yeah, she was going after Dalton. And she was about to tee off on Dalton. It was just gold. It was gold. So Mike gives her a ride. And then she was like, thank you. And Mike goes like, that was pretty fun, wasn't it? And she goes, no, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. And then she hops off and looks at Dalton and just goes, I fucked you, you little bitch. And starts teeing off on him.

It was crazy. He wouldn't let it go. He had to grab her wrist. He was like, yeah, I grabbed her wrist and pressed on her pressure point so she'd let up. I just get a kick out of it. That's something I would have never thought. I'm just going to grab her pressure point so she'll release. I got to fucking yank it out. You know what Don's been doing? A cameraman altercation before. That's what was the best part when you were...

you were like, why were you like letting her get so close? And Dalton was like, I wasn't scared. It's so, as Evan is like, boy, boy. Yeah. Everyone's like, I want to get out of here. I want to get out of here. In general, Evan, that's,

It's so interesting to me. I hate to talk about this when he's gone, but he's just like, seriously, let's just dip. Let's dip. Let's dip. Let's leave. Let's get out of downtown. He was so scared of that. And then I'm just like, he's actually scared. Or do you think he's like, I don't want to get jammed. I don't want to get jammed. Probably that. Cause if shit goes down, I mean, I would think Evan would be like, yeah, little Tasmanian devil. Usually.

No, you're right, though. Like, he didn't want to get jammed up by the police. What do you mean, Taz? Like, he would just be fucking everyone up. Yeah, in the end, the dust would settle, and he'd just be standing there, and everybody would be on.

but he'd be honest. Yeah, that's true. He's built like a rock. He's not much of a fighter. Oh, you mean like a fighter? I've just been in quite a few fights. Really? Before our time, yeah. He's a pretty big hothead. He's got some stories. I won't tell him. He's a pretty big fighter. I'd say like three times. I'm pretty sure. Okay. He's a type. Real fighters that get into bar fights every weekend are like, that's pussy number.

You're a real fighter. Yeah, every Friday and Saturday night, I head out and I get myself into a fight. It's like training. I don't think he's looking for a fight, but he probably is in it a few. Hold his own. Yeah. But yeah, no, it was just, it was too funny. Like, I was...

I didn't realize how funny it was at the time, and then you guys were like, that was really funny. And then everyone was like, dude, when Micah just took off with that. You want a ride? And then I was perplexed, too. You should have brought her down like three blocks and just dumped her off. I should have. Honestly, I should have left her away from us. You brought her right back to the action. I said she was all mad. She was so mad. And then she's like, don't be filming me. And I'm like, you came to us.

You still want to ride, though? That was funny. That was a total Michael move. Yeah, the characters that you'll run into downtown. The characters that are on are just, like, that we work with every day now. It's, like, the group is getting bigger and bigger, and it's so fun, like, kind of learning, like, just little funny things about each and every person. Like, Dalton's guys' things. Like, Big Wrench, like, how I was, like, you'd kick him in the knee. Like, I've heard him say that before, you know? Like, there's just things you get to know a person, and, like...

it's just so funny, you know, and it's just like, not in like a, like I'm laughing at you, but it's just like, there's so many, everyone's got like their own funny little things about them. And it's, it's fun getting to, you know, learn, learn those things. The most interesting one that I would like to, if you were going to go and get wild, Justin, like he seems like he would fly. He does get wild. Oh, one time he did. One time he flew up the handle. We'll have to bring that up when he's on the podcast. Remember when he was yelling? Woo!

We were all mad. We were all on the same team, but Justin was giving them the beans so hard that the rest of us stepped back and were like, chill. We were going after...

But that's a story for another day. I've gotten to know him a little bit since he started working for us, for you guys again. He looks like he'd be a lot of fun. Oh, he is. He is. He's hilarious, dude. He's a great guy. That's why he's here, you know. Something I thought was really funny that made me think of this is when you were like, yeah, getting to kind of know everyone in the group. But there was one the other day that I didn't even know about.

and it's when Dalton goes, yeah, he's got a fake chain to Evan. And that just struck a chord with him. And he was like, Hey, fuck you, Dalton, your, your ugly ass blue truck. And then that struck a chord with Dalton. No, it was the vice versa though. Cause he said something about Dalton's ugly truck. And then Dalton just responded behind the camera. He's got a fake chain. That's what I thought was funny. Like he just,

He defended himself a few minutes later. I don't know what you guys had going on that day because, like, I came over. I think I came to pick up Eli from work, and it was like there was some tension. Yeah. Even Justin came over for a second and a little bit snippy. And goes, oh, Hostile was working. It was because Evan didn't like the rap. There was a lot of tension that day.

And I was like, I'm going home now. It's just funny that you noticed it because that day in particular. Big Ranch is like, I'm going back to the farm. Even I like... And he goes, I didn't know I couldn't have an opinion. And we're like, nobody fucking asked you for your opinion on...

A hundred things since we've been talking here, Evan. That's where we have a problem. You can give your opinion when asked. And then I think that's when Ryan was like, why can't we... Why do we all have to be like this? Why can't we just freaking get this thing done? I'm sick of everybody just...

And that's when Evan goes, dude, no, you couldn't bitch anymore. You know what? You can, you can bitch if you want. The tension was going every which way that, yeah, but it was all just, it was light. Like everyone was just, I thought it was light. Yeah. I was, I was chuckling. It's just, you get thrown aback a little bit because it's rarely ever even like that. Yeah. Like everybody gets along so well that, yeah.

We were big wrench walks in at the thick of it. Well, we were getting pressed for time. And also, we didn't have much footage. And there was rain. There was a lot of factors. And it was Wednesday night. Ken was trying to move his pallets. Yeah, Ken's trying to move his pallets. It's tough. And I'd say there's only one thing that keeps getting circled back to as the problem. And it's our schedule.

that we have put on ourselves. It's insane. We're a prisoner of our own schedule, but it's necessary. It keeps you going, though. It is. It's necessary. And you have to have a schedule. Otherwise, when is it? Yeah, you'd be like, oh, what do you mean? We'll do it tomorrow. You got the next day. It's just like anything. Yeah, like I said last week, I got bored when we had a half a day off. Gosh, I'm going to have to start mowing the lawn if we don't start getting some ideas going here. Yeah.

on our shitty Toro. And then you actually will get Evan to throw hands if you start doing that. Well, guys. Very good. I'd love to keep talking, but I feel like you probably have some, you probably got to get home for dinner. Big round. Actually, it's my father-in-law's birthday party. Okay. Well, we'll let you get going. It's always something. Keep talking.

And that's always something. Yeah, we really appreciate you guys. Yeah, thanks for having us on. For everything you do. And we especially appreciate you coming on the podcast. Appreciate all you guys doing. Telling your stories. I'm sure the listeners really appreciate it. And they're probably going to ask for more. Yeah, have us back sometime. I like this. Yeah. Do me a favor. Keep it real. Yeah, hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. And we'll see you next week. Ah, no hay nada más satisfactorio que dejar tu casa completamente limpia. Excepto, tal vez...

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