Cleetus McFarland, Westin Champlin, & Heavy D x CboysTV
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This is weird. Yeah. Oh, this is not right. Is this your first podcast? Yeah, I've never been on one. Oh, dude, what an honor. It's so great talking to you and yourself. Is this how Joe Rogan feels? Yeah. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Yeah, bald and wisdom-y. You get on, you start talking about aliens.

Have you guys heard of the Cornbread Mafia? No. Like, seriously, I think it's a thing. Because, like, why is every long John Silver still in business, but no one's ever there? That's a good question. Because they think it's a money launderer for the Cornbread Mafia. That's a thing. That's, like, an actual, like, thing. What's a Cornbread Mafia? Sure. Well, I think it's, like, a thing of everyone thinks there's, like, a Cornbread Mafia that they made a lot of money selling, you know, a certain, like, what's it? It's not grass, but it's something like that, you know? Yeah.

and they dump all their money into Long John Silver's. Are we getting into conspiracies already? What are you talking about? No, seriously. This is the thing. No, I'm curious. What's been going on with Long John Silver's? You drop out of the buildings. And by the way, you can say drugs. Wait, you can say drugs? Yeah. Okay, so they sell drugs, right? And they take the money from the drugs. They put it into Long John Silver's. George, what do you know about the Cornbread Mafia? Because he just brought that up, and that's your email, right? I thought you made that up. Dude, he looks like...

What do they call it? A capo or something? Look at him. Oh, he is. He's the one who comes sit down with us. Did you just uncover something? George is real antsy right now. He walks back and forth. The Cornbread Mafia is a homegrown syndicate's code of silence and the biggest marijuana bust in history.

Oh, okay. The biggest marijuana bus in history? How many tons do you think it was? Tons? Yeah, 12. Okay, well, Monster Max weighs 15 tons, so I'm going to guess that. They sold a Monster Max worth of weed? That's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot of weed. 182. 182 tons. Oh, my gosh. That's a lot of money. You need like 10 CDLs to move all that. Yeah, how much volume is that? I'm trying to be El Chapo here. Think about the logistics if you was doing it legally. 80,000 pounds.

How many tons is that? I didn't pass math. 80,000 pounds is 40 tons. 40 tons. So two and a half truckloads? Five truckloads. Each truck can gross 40 to 50,000 pounds. Yeah, but it depends on the volume, like the size per weight. That's true. How much room does that take up? Does that fit in a 53-foot van? Anyway. Alright.

All right, guys. This is definitely probably the coolest podcast that we've ever filmed. We are currently in Utah. We got invited to a snowed-in weekend at this cabin. You can kind of see it in the background of the cameras right now by our good friend Dave, Heavy D. You guys know him on YouTube. And you might recognize the other guy sitting over here, Weston Champlin. Hello. And then the guy over here, Cletus McFarland.

What's up? Quite the crew sitting here. Yeah, we got a good crew. I've heard that it's the... And to think that it isn't everyone here. Yeah, no. There's way more down there. There's definitely some heavy hitters. And what's cool about this is... I don't know if you guys see this on your channel, but we get it a lot.

you should collab with C-Boys. You should do something with Weston. You should do like, you know, all the fans want something to happen, but at the same time, it can't be forced. It's got to be organic and natural. Cause you see forced collabs and it's like, you guys were scratching the bottom of the barrel coming up with that idea with us. It's just like, Hey, we're doing something really cool. And so I knew that we wanted to collab, but for me, I was like, let's wait till we do something awesome. No, this made sense. And honestly, dude, we,

We are honored to be invited to this group. Like, thank you for letting us be a part of this because it is so cool. We watch YouTube. We're fans of you guys and everyone downstairs. So it's really cool to just be able to be in the same room and make videos and honestly just shoot the shit with everyone. Cletus and I were talking a little bit ago, running around in the snow cap, and we're like, it's so cool to meet...

the other personalities on YouTube and have them be cooler than you expected. Cause you always, I don't know what it is about YouTube, but there's this thing where successful YouTubers have imaginary beef with other YouTubers. Yeah. And like, they don't even know why the fans kind of create it and fuel it. So you don't know what to expect from people when you meet them. It's like,

We could have grown up together. I could be a sea boy. Yeah, we were like, why did we not hang out with them sooner? That's what we were talking about. We'll take you in, bro. We will take you in. It's so fast. But will the town of Cornbread? Oh, man. The town of Cornbread. I don't know if they'd be ready for you, but we'll take you in, bro. When you meet these dudes and you find out that they are cooler than you expected, not douches, you know, there's no imaginary beef. We all have similar interests.

it's content just flows naturally. Sure. I mean, you don't have to plan anything. Nothing was really planned. We

We just kind of go out and do our thing and stuff just naturally falls. It's easy. I think the coolest part about this weekend is seeing the process that everyone has to make these videos. We thought that we were a mess, but it's so nice to see that everyone is just struggling to just get through whatever's going on because everything breaks. Everything goes wrong. We're just trying to make these videos and it seems like most of the time

The world is not on our side, so it's nice to see that you guys kind of have the same process. I kind of feel attacked here. Dude, yeah. Actually, just everything has to break. Yeah. Everything does break. Yeah. So you brought your Ford Ranger monster truck. Let's not talk about it. Yeah. How did that go? You know, I might as well just built the thing here.

I might as well. Like, you know, I did. I did. I got here the first day. It didn't work. Uh, loaded on the trailer, took it to town, took it to a shop, put a starter on it, fixed fuel leaks, all kinds of stuff.

still i mean it worked i guess but it kind of we're not gonna talk about it it's not great but it made it a long ways it got stuck and the thing is is i'm just like natural i'm good for recovery videos because like i just got stuck like 14 times a day i saw dave snatching the ranger with the jeep it's harder than i've ever seen a vehicle get snatched he was like mad at it he's like

You kept it in park the whole time. I'd look back and I'm pulling you backwards and your front, your wheels are turning forward. Well, no, I'm not.

And Roman just gives up. I saw Roman trying to warn you a couple times, and he's just like, whatever. We just snatched him in the park. Dude, honestly, I take back what I said about everyone because you haven't had anything go wrong because all of your stuff is so dialed. Everything that you have going on, dude, is so dialed. I don't know about that, but I've got a good team. You have a great team. I like to break one of his things. Even I had a really proud dad moment, like in the shop, last year.

a week or so ago when we were building Cletus' sand rail. Because originally we were like, we're going to throw tracks on it, right? Just whatever. We throw tracks on everything. But we never throw them on for the purpose of actually doing anything crazy. We just go up in the mountain, do a video, bring them down. With Cletus' we knew that he was going to push the car hard. So I just told my guys, hey, just adapt to these tracks. And there were a set of K&M tracks and Timbersled skis. Dude, let my guys at it for a couple of days and came back. And I was like, dude, these are full-blown race parts. Yeah, they killed it. Killed it. I was so proud of them. They did a really good job. And it held up until I drove it.

I think you may have the most destructive tally for the weekend. 1,000%. Yeah, I break everything. I mean, let's not even get into that. That's a whole podcast. If we get into the Dave Sparks annual tally up on damage to vehicles, it's incredible. It is. It really is. Yeah, you back it up. He's been saying that, and then you just continue to back it up. But it's not with your stuff.

which is amazing. Well, it's like everything that you have working flawlessly. It's weird. It's like, it goes back to stuff being dialed, right? It's not operator error. It's just the stuff's got to be dialed. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I don't know about that. Hopped in Cleaves. That snow rail seemed like it was working real good for a long time. I did the exact same thing. It's not operator error. It's,

That rev limiter. Oh, God, it sounded good, though. I don't think we were hitting the limiter. I think we were getting super lean. That was 100% the rev limiter. You were hitting? Yeah, that's just rev limiter. I felt like it hit early. I felt like the car was missing a little bit. There's all sorts of problems with that car. I mean, it's a sand rail. We're in the mountains. He's going to call it ugly. He's going to call it ugly.

He's like, I don't like the color. Dude, he's running like junk. That's why the track's ripped off. 100%. If it was running better, it wouldn't have done that. I was driving the...

Hellcat Jeep on tracks. Yeah. Eight tracks. Yep. I'll be honest, dude. I was mobbing that thing. That thing is great. Hold on. Run. Run. Jump over the couch. We're kind of blocking the way. I'm sorry. Jump over the couch. Rearrange the living room. There we go. Yeah. But that thing was incredible. I've never driven anything. I have driven everything there is to drive in the snow. Nothing compares to that Jeep.

And it just kept going. Like, I wasn't concerned about it getting stuck. Nope. And it never overheats. Like, AMW 4x4 is the company that does that. They're building my Jeep right now. They're doing the Demon engine with the big whipple blower. So, I think it dynoed like 1,100 horse or 1,200 horse, something like that. So, this one that we're driving has 700. It's just kind of a stock Hellcat motor, probably a pulley and some tunes. But anyways, AMW 4x4. Oh!

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. We just got snowed in. For those of you that are just listening. Don't you fucking dare. I will unsubscribe to Seaboys right now. That wasn't our idea. Was that our idea? Was that Evan? Who did that?

No, I saw Roman. I saw Roman, dude. Get up here. Hey, which one's his bedroom? Get up here, you boomer. Oh, no. Isn't that his bedroom over there? Go throw in his bed. It's going to make a mess. Should we be concerned about the electricity on the floor? No, I say we just get rid of it. Don't worry about it. Everybody just kick their feet out. Yeah, this is going to be wet socks. Get that tote back up here. You're good. Damn you, Roman. Oh, Haley, you were in on it? You filmed it? You dirty little...

We actually should grab a bucket and get rid of some. I have to agree. That's a significant amount of snow. We explained to the listeners, right? I'd say that's above average.

I don't know if we did, but yeah. For those of you that were listening, they just got the middle couch got snow dumped all over it. Dave Garrett and Ryan. There's snow everywhere right now. There's a solid 12 inches of snow on the floor. Or snow, Dave. No, I have a question, though. Out of all the vehicles, let's go around. Everybody give me your favorite and why, starting with you. I'd say my favorite is the...

bus. I'm not trying to pump your tires. I know you just asked, but I climbed up inside. It was a whole feat to do that in itself. The PRP seats and the sound system and everything and the fact that it didn't break, that's my favorite. How about you, Weston?

1992 Ford Ranger. No. You can't go wrong with Ford Ranger. I'll be honest, that Jeep. I love it. Just things with Hellcatch just tickle my heart the right way, and I just love it. And I got to be honest, I did hit Hans with it earlier, and I'm not going to tell you about that, but that thing is absolutely epic. It is.

I love that thing so much. It's got so much power. And it's just like we used it like probably 10 times to recover the range of the day. The cool thing is it has usable power. It's got a good range. There's no, like you're not afraid to get in any situation because you know it's got the response and all the power. Hey, that's what a 6.2 liter hammy will do for you, you know? It's a machine, dude. They kill it. You just lean into it and go, whee!

It just winds itself away. Dude, it's whining. You couldn't hear anything but the whine. I love that there's two sides of Hellcat culture. Like, there's two different sides of the world that like Hellcats, and I love how you hold it down. There's the Atlanta crowd, and there's the Kansas crowd. And the Kansas crowd. Dude, it's sexy red. Sexy red loves Hellcats. You should do something with her. She does have a song. Who's that?

- Oh! - You don't know who Sexy Red is? - I'm not. - Show him Sexy Red. - I don't like Sexy Red. I'm not gonna show him. - Dude, CJ would be so fired up. - Is this something my girlfriend's gonna get mad about or what? - Yeah. - I don't know if she's gonna be too worried about Sexy Red. - It's a hitter of a song. Hellcat, SRT, I mean it really. - Really? - I'll tell you what, you know what's the coolest thing? Like for a long time I did like a lot of stuff and I never really leave my town that often, right? So like I live in a town of 12,000. So everybody already knows who I am before I did YouTube or anything.

And then I leave. I'm like, wait, am I fucking famous? What's going on right now? Because everybody's walking up to me in, like, Buc-ee's in Texas and stuff. And this guy, like, he is...

six oh yeah it's bucky's you know yeah this guy's like six foot six dreads walks up he's like dude you that motherfucker what the hell can't hit you and he come up and give me a big bear hug like hell yeah yeah that's cool so yeah i don't know it was just weird because like i started like doing videos like right around covid thing like covid happened so everybody was staying at home nobody's going anywhere you've only been doing it for that long i don't know like 2020 i don't know

Like three years. That's awesome. Like three going on four years. Yeah. Yeah, dude, you had like a really fast blow up. Dude. Yeah, you killed it. It ain't me. I had a really good team behind me. My brother is like – No, it is you, dude. I mean, the team helps, obviously, but like you just have that personality that like everyone is attracted to.

I always say that and wink at you. Yeah, why'd you wink? That's made it weird. No, people just love that personality. That's the thing is like when we first started doing YouTube, my brother's like, don't ever try to pretend to be somebody else because it's hard to remember how to pretend to somebody else's be yourself. And I'm like, well, what happens if myself ain't funny? He's like, well, then, you know.

It's just not meant to be. Shit happens, you know? The bright side is that's one thing you don't have to worry about. Yeah, yeah. I'm funny looking. I'll be all right. Dave, I feel like you've been famous for as long as I can remember. Yeah, we've had a ride, man. I don't know if you guys even know this. Most people don't know that we started on YouTube. That's how we got our start, 2013. And then it was discovered. Had the bathroom prank. We uploaded like three videos. The second or the third was the bathroom prank. That's one went viral. Oh, the diesel one. What's the bathroom prank?

We had a buddy who was in the bathroom, and we had a super smoky diesel pickup, and we opened the bathroom window because he was in there taking it down and backed the truck up with a garden or like a big five, six-inch flexible hose, pumped it in the window, and then just hammered down. It smoked him out. So, like, he was black for days, like couldn't get it off. So Jay Leno saw it, had us down on a show, and then we went down, and then the rest is history of discovery. So we only got to go maybe...

maybe five or six videos deep on YouTube before we had to shift all of our attention to diesel brothers in 2015, we didn't have any regular content and, and the channel wasn't really even anything. My, my heavy D sparks channel didn't, I don't know if it existed or if it had like two followers or whatever, but it,

October 2020 is when we started doing YouTube. Oh, man. Can you imagine if you would have just stuck with it at like 2013 and not done the TV show? You know, I think about that a lot. And the TV show took us down a road that I loved. There was a lot of really fun stuff. But I also didn't like it enough to keep doing it, which is why I went back to YouTube. But it was good because it really helped us polish our –

skills on camera because you have to you're repeating yourself over and over again that was my biggest issue when we came back to YouTube was I was doing the TV show guy thing and I still do but I try to dial it back because I found that YouTube doesn't want anything planned prepared polished they want

what's going to happen next. I hope the guy filming doesn't even know. You know what I mean? Like that's the way that I found our viewers like it. So it's just worked better that way to be able to start in TV and move back to this because now we can polish up our ads. Everything can be dialed in that way. But yeah, we've been...

Kind of on the radar since 2013. You guys have killed it. It's done really, really well. Thanks, man. The thing is, I remember you started posting videos. I'm like, oh, that's cool. And then I didn't pay attention for two weeks, and I don't pay attention again. I'm like,

damn yeah you getting after it boy yeah we got once we got i didn't want to do youtube again until i could be consistent so we had a ton of opportunities to do a video here video there and i was just like no i'm not worth it because if i do something i got to be all in 100 so when we finally had to go all in it was kind of like a middle finger to discovery because i went to them first because they wanted to keep doing diesel brothers forever and i just got tired of building trucks on the tv show it's the worst

And so I was like, hey, these are other things that we do. Recoveries and it's still Diesel Brothers stuff and same vibe, same people. We're just out of the shop doing other stuff. And they're just like, nope, not going to work. We don't want to do it. It doesn't work. Stick with trucks. And so I was just like, oh, they didn't think it was going to work. I don't know if they didn't think it was going to work. Discovery is just terrified to make any decisions because they have their box that they have to follow. It's like a format, right? This, this, this drama, pay the high payoff, high stakes, blah, blah, blah. Every episode has to be the same. And to break away from that.

I think individually, all the people at Discovery know, but collectively, they can't make a decision to save their lives. And everybody's so afraid of getting fired because it just happens in that industry. You go cast one bad show or you let a show get canceled early or whatever, you're gone. Yeah. And so people are just too afraid to make decisions. Dude, we had this guy come in and basically made us a pilot episode and like pitched it to like Discovery, the Science Network, everything.

All these different networks. We worked on the list from discovery. But anyway, so we have been doing YouTube for a couple of years there, like maybe three years at that point. So, I mean, nothing like big, maybe at a couple hundred thousand subscribers, but it's

Enough for people to know what our personality was. And then we filmed the TV show. And they just kind of script things and they tell you what to say. And it pretty soon turns into not your true personality. Not at all. And after the pilot was filmed and edited, we were...

watching it back and we're like, this isn't us at all. And people are going to know that it's not us, you know, versus you going from TV to YouTube, you know, but I think it'd be much harder to go from YouTube to TV because it's two completely different styles. Yeah. It's a going from YouTube to TV. Luckily we didn't have enough time to get real situated on YouTube. We were just kind of back in 2012, 2013, nobody really knew what going viral was and nobody knew how to do it for sure. So, um,

We were didn't get too ingrained in that because if we had because we were already super reluctant to do the TV show I told discovery no for six months like no not we thought it was the guy at the mall with the card, you know, the talent scout Hey, I'll make you famous. I'll make you a model We thought it was like that like just a scam said no forever And then finally they came in and said alright We guarantee you eight episodes at a minimum like we're not just gonna do a pilot and then leave you guys hanging because we had to invest Quite a bit. That's what people don't realize

Anybody who does a TV show, their business becomes a TV show. It's no longer the house decorators, the house flippers, the truck builders. It's a TV studio. These small businesses have to put in a ton of money because Discovery doesn't pay very well at all. We started off at $3,000 an episode for our first season. Really? And the contract said you only get a 5% annual bump. Wow.

That's what they put in there. But when the time comes to actually renew contracts and they go to give that 5% bump and if the show is successful, you just say, I'm good. I don't do it anymore. And then they're like, okay, what's your price? And so we did that every season. I got my, my rate up to, I think it was like 30 grand an episode for a while, which was decent. But the problem is you can only, we were only able to film eight episodes a year.

So, cause it just takes so long to build these trucks. How long did it take to film one episode? Way too long. Uh, originally they had planned on filming an episode, uh,

Every three to five days. Found out it takes us about six weeks to do one episode. You have to build a truck? Yeah, you have to build a truck. And trucks, you can't build it faster than you can build it. We were already hauling ass, and our quality in the first couple seasons was dog shit because we're just rushing to get stuff done. Every truck that we built in the first three seasons, we brought back into the shop and rebuilt. Touched back up. After the fact, yeah. So it's...

TV was fun. I'm glad we did it. I wouldn't do it again. That's not true. Sorry. We have a spinoff that we're working on, but it's with a difference with Netflix and we have control. I think that you really like pioneered an industry though, you know, and I think a lot of YouTubers right now have, have you to thank for doing a lot of that too. So that's awesome. I appreciate that. I would never view it that way, but I'm always the guy that was looking up towards other people that paved the way for me. And I'm now getting to that point in my life where I can kind of,

I can kind of see both directions because I can see the progress. I can see how far I've come. Time gives you results no matter what, whether they're good or bad, time doesn't lie. So I look back at the last 10 years,

And I'm pretty proud of it. There's a lot of things I wish I could have done differently and I probably would have, but for the most part, we got, we got out really lucky. Most TV people don't make it out alive. They go bankrupt and the show gets canceled or ran into the ground. We made it out alive and thriving way happier on YouTube, way happier. And we've, we've grown like crazy. We've got the best freaking viewers and followers. And, and,

My I was so traumatized being stuck building trucks that I didn't want to get stuck in that, you know, no niche again So we went to YouTube I made it very obvious that my content was gonna be was not that all over the place and you guys have seen it It's literally one day. We're buying a band storage unit next day. We're recovering a dead body next day We're I mean dude, it's just it's just real. Well, I thought it was interesting when you came to YouTube full swing. Yeah, you had like helicopters

insane trucks it was like all all of our youtube channels started from like one vehicle and like we were we work on that and like that was like our content and you came in full swing because obviously you're already established you know you're and you already knew the recipe so that was kind of a strange thing to watch like you just came in full swing and i see like

There's rich guys who try and do this. Rich guys, they have the best, coolest cars, toys ever. They're like, I'm going to start a YouTube channel, and it just never works. But here comes Dave Sparks. You knew the recipe. You had the toys.

And yours worked. Yeah. I mean, I remember the first snow trip. What was that? Four months after you started. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. It was, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. It's just new to YouTube. It was fun and it still is fun. I love it. It's like we were doing last night and we're like staring at thumbnails, trying to figure out what's going to get more eyes. Like it has such an immediate payoff. It also has a terrible downside. Do you guys know the nines out of tens, 10 out of 10 videos? That's like a, yeah, that's a,

kicking the dick. Listen, that's a bad system. I don't like that because it just gives you depression. You gotta call your therapist. It does, 100%. But then it gets to number one. They have the little confetti that pops up. It makes me feel so good, dude. Yeah, but like,

That makes the number 10s, you know, hurt that much more. I got to sit. Imagine if the number 10 was just like a little sad face. People watching, they rank. I'm going to say what mine is because I sat down last night and I got thumbnail advice from Roman Atwood, Dave Sparks, the C-Boys, and Whistlin' Diesel, and Weston all at the same time.

Yeah. I mean, when you get that opportunity. Oh, dude. We're sitting at two out of ten. I wish CJ's not here right now, but he would love that. Yeah. So basically on YouTube, there's a thing where in the amount of time since you post your video, it tells you how it's competing against your last ten. And my jumping the sand rail, number two out of ten. Good. You boys helped me with that. Yeah, it's probably because you could see very clearly what was going on in the thumbnail. I mean, you had some good advice. Yeah. Well, I'm three out of ten, so I'm doing good. And I just now realized I haven't uploaded in 29 days.

That's normal for me. Consistency is not my thing. The last video we posted is the Lamborghini on Frozen Lake. That thing was cool. I've seen the thumbnail of it. That's our number. Four out of ten. Four out of ten, not bad. Oh, hell yeah. We're three out of ten on the bus video. Look at that. We're all in the top five. We're in the pocket. Yeah, we're in the pocket. We were trending yesterday, too, and we had another three out of ten yesterday. What did you trend?

I saw it at 17. Somebody said it went higher, but I didn't see. Westland was number one on trending yesterday. You know what? I've been number two on trending a bunch of times. Are you jerking someone over at YouTube? You for sure are. What? Are you jerking someone at YouTube? Oh, I wish. You're always on trending. Literally every video. You know, like every video we posted in 23 got on trending. What? That's what I'm saying. Every one of them except for like two or three. Does trending do anything anymore? I don't know.

I don't know. That was my next question. It gives you a lot of impressions. It gives you a lot of impressions. But that might hurt you. Yeah, because your click-through rate is going to go down because you don't know if it's going to be people that really like what you want. Dude, this is such a YouTuber talk right now. All the people who watch our YouTube channels listen to this podcast. I used to be obsessed with my real-time views, like constantly watching them. When I would hit trending, I would get at least like a 20% bump in viewers instantly on the video. But

Now I don't think that exists. You know, I don't watch real-time views, so I don't know. I just kind of look at the analytics after, you know, five days or whatever. I'll be honest, my brother watches it way more than I do. He's like the behind-the-scenes man. This is really bad to say. I've never uploaded a YouTube video. Like, he's always uploaded every YouTube video. That's good you have someone. Also kind of cool. If it makes you feel better. What's your channel at now? How many subs? 3.372. 3.372? Yeah. That's awesome. What are you at, Dave? I think we just hit 3.5.

You're still giving a helicopter away at 10? Yeah. That's so crazy. I remember when you said he came out swinging. I remember that. The first thing I go, holy shit. Yes, he did.

So cool. I remember that. Yeah, dude. What are you going to do when they walk into your hangar and go, I want your blackhawk? No, no, no. I'm going to say, here's the helicopter, and that's the one you get. Well, bro, and then Cleet's giving away a helicopter for the next race. Wait, is that secret? Oh, is that secret? Well, when's this going to be out? Yeah, is that secret? Not this Tuesday, next Tuesday. Oh, yeah, you're good. I was getting ready to say that. I'm like, oh, I don't know when this is going to be out. Yeah, the prize for the Freedom 500 is a helicopter. Yeah.

Oh, man. You know, that makes me so sad that I'm not going to be there. Like, you text me and you're like, yeah. And what, the prize is a helicopter? I'm like, oh. Can you fly a helicopter? No. Dave and I are the only two pilots in the whole racing field. So if anyone but him or I wins it, like, they're just going to have to.

Can I keep it at your house or your house and then just fly with you? Yep, come park it out here. If I want to fly or if I want to buy a helicopter, which I do after hanging out with you guys, dude. Is that like a thing? I'm just so fired up just to... Be an aviator? Yeah, you guys just fire me up in general, but helicopters are...

at the top of my list of things that I want. Dude, watching how capable all of you are to operate kind of anything, you'd be able to get your, if you had a helicopter, you could get your license in three weeks. Really? Easy. I got my stuff all signed off in three days.

Oh, no shit. Yeah. But if I had a helicopter, I could fly it technically with you being a pilot. Like, you're flying it, and then I could fly it with you. You could fly a helicopter easy, though. If you won the Freedom 500, you just have to have a CFI, like a certified flight instructor, go with you. And then every hour you're flying with a CFI counts towards your 40 hours minimum you have to have to take the test to get your license. So let's not talk, like, license or anything. Let's just talk, like...

Practical application. I got in a helicopter. Yeah. What do you think the likelihood I get that thing off the ground safely? 0%. I know what the collective is. I know how the rudder works. I know all that. I've played flight simulator. No, yeah. You'd get it off the ground. You'd be back on the ground in about six seconds. Not the way you want it to be. It's insane because I honestly feel, you know, I'm not trying to be cocky. Like I've just operated so many different things in my life and I feel like I've got a really good handle on things.

I could not control... Like, I can honestly say, in the first minute of flying a helicopter, there's no way I could have controlled it and not crashed in the first minute. Is it just, like, that sensitive? It is. It's just, like, nothing. It plays tricks on your brain. Yeah, it's so hard to keep everything coordinated. Because depending on the model...

they have a lag in response so when you put a control input in it could be almost like two seconds like some of the bell stuff like they're so slow or like the bo105 and then all of a sudden you look that direction and it's going that way so well can you explain like the what was the thing where when you're taking off from the ground the air is pushing on the ground so your controls are opposite in certain helicopters yeah you're flying a frisbee you're not flying the cockpit of the helicopter so when you see the cabin of the helicopter that is a ball hanging from a pendulum it

It's literally just hanging from the rotor disc. So picture you're throwing a Frisbee, tie a string to the bottom of it and let it hang a tennis ball from it. That's what you're flying. So really you're tilting the rotor disc and that's why, that's why it's such a different experience. And that's why it's so as the pendulum swings, you think you're swinging. So you got to bring it back. And all that does is just accentuate. It makes it worse. We could let you try.

I mean, we could let you try. Listen, when I win the Freedom 500. There's dual controls in the helicopter, right? We could get in the helicopter that's the prize for the Freedom 500 next week, and you guys could try. It's very humbling. I would just be there. After seeing Ben try to fly your RC plane, I ain't getting anywhere near that.

Can we change it to, like, a Cessna? I feel like I'd get a Cessna. Oh, you could try and buy the Cub. I've flown a Cessna. I flew a Cessna when I was, like, 13. When you're on your own, like... Oh, it's a single seat. No, no, no. Like, I'd be in there, but, like, if I was fully off the controls and said...

to all you you would really be it'd get sketched yeah so would you say your experience flying planes before helicopters did that correlate at all like rc stuff no no no this is so good at rc i was helicopter then airplane okay okay okay you got your helicopter he wasn't one of them fixed wing guys yeah yeah

I want to get my pilot license for a plane. I think that'd be awesome, but I really don't know what I would do with a plane or where I would go with a plane. You'd fly it. I would, but with a helicopter, dude, I would...

I would take it from my house to the shop, and I would take it from our shop to the farm, and then I would go to the C-Store and land it in the... Listen, bro, you could have one in a month if you win the Freedom 500. Come on down to the Freedom 500. It's available in Braynton, Florida. I'm so interested to see what the winner does with it. Are they going to fly it everywhere? Are they going to sell it? I don't know. Are they going to strap it to the ceiling of their barn? Imagine Cody wins it.

No, I was cracking up when you said you're like, oh, I'm bummed I'm not going to be there. And I'm like, I'm bummed that we all suck at racing. Yeah, that's the worst part. He's like, I know I'm not. I suck at racing too, so it's fine. Wait, how did I do for my first time out there at the LeMolins? I pulled a Rockford in the middle of the race. I was so proud. It looked so lame on the live stream. I

I remember blowing by you. And I was like, that boy's scared. That boy busted somebody else in my car. I remember that, too. I said, that boy's scared. You were getting lapped. You were very scared. Well, you know, my seat broke off. Yeah, dude, so did Ken's.

You and Ken. That was a new seat bracket design. You know what? I won't give you any grief about that. I won't give you any grief about that, but the seat kind of broke off, and it would have been great if the passenger seat would have been in there because I could have put my hand up against it, but then I'm like, well, that wouldn't have been very safe. That passenger seat is still in it. But I've seen how you guys prep your cars now versus you guys would go beyond.

of what is needed. Probably not what's needed, but you guys go above and beyond to make him safe. Dude, I spent that entire damn race like this. With my hand on the passenger seat. Hey, listen. Just trying to hold myself up. One-year design flaw, dude. One-year design flaw. We're all distressed. Honestly, at least you guys didn't pull off the track. Ken's seat broke, and he pulled off the track. Twice. Twice. What's broken? Well, he was on a cone one time. He pulled off, and then his seat broke, and he pulled off another one. But Haley Deegan was his...

is a co-racer and she was actually like she's a racer like she's competitive and she was like what are you doing like she was like mad like rightfully so rightfully so cause like Ken is just yeah dude there's an El Camino on the line right now Ken's like I'm tired I did 1500 laps in one day and that was as practice we did like we tried to do a Mr. Beast video and did like we did laps for 24 hours straight and it was really not

not good. Terrible. Really? What did you feel after that? It was absolutely miserable. Torture. Mr. B says that his videos get really hard.

I can't imagine how hard those get. The commitment that dude has to his content is insane. I think the last one when he was buried alive for seven days. Bro. Seven days. That's crazy. We spent 24 hours in an igloo for a challenge. That was our Mr. Beast video. Dude, we had...

We had Wi-Fi in there. We had the UFC fights going. We had a keg of beer. We had a keg of beer. It was legit. It could have been much more set up. Yeah. The only thing we didn't have was our phones. Dude, you guys went on vacation. You're like, let's film a video. Yo, that shit sucked. Right? Like, we had luxury camping, and we were like, this is terrible. We should have got a GoPro and set it up as soon as we got here. We spent 72 hours on top of a mountain in

Every YouTuber gets like a wild hair every like year. Like, you know what? It's time to step it up. I'm going Mr. B style, like scrolls through his videos. Like, all right, this is what I'm doing. I was like 24 hours laps. This is going to be cake, dude. It sucked. Didn't it do well on YouTube though? I don't think it did very good. No.

I think it did average. I think that's almost the thing. People are like, no, you got to stay in your lane without going into Mr. Beast's lane, even though it works so well for him. I did like the thumbnail really done up. You got the best of all of us, bro. You got it so dialed. You got your iPhone. You got George on iPhone, and you're just running it, bro. I think we're all kind of just like...

They're just too good. You guys do have some pretty serious productions going on. Yeah, Dave gets after it. I mean, we got big cameras. We run around big cameras all the time. You know, GoPros, Sonys, all kinds of stuff. Gimbals, FX3s, drones, all that stuff. And then sometimes I'm still like, well, you know...

All right, everything else is dead. So here we go. They do work good. We have so many people hit us up and they're like, I want to be a YouTuber. What kind of camera should I buy? We're like, dude, that is the most annoying thing. You have a phone. Pull it out and then maybe see if you still want to be a YouTuber after you make a video. I think the thing is like everybody walks up and is like, I want to be a YouTuber. I go, dude, go do it. And then like people be like, well, I don't know. I'm like, well, what could you do a YouTube about?

Like we start going down and then like, yeah, but I'm like, well, okay. You don't really want to do that, but everyone wants to be a YouTuber until it's time to edit.

Yeah, editing's... Well, yeah. Editing is tough. Editing is, I think, makes or breaks a video. Dude, I don't know a single person that likes editing, but it's a crucial part of making a good video. I don't think people enjoy editing. I think people enjoy the satisfaction of a good result at the end of editing. Creation of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's the feeling when you post it. Dude, isn't it nice that, like, we have...

Our whole life's document. Like, our kids, if they, like, if we die, they're like, I can watch my dad's basically, like, majority of his life. That's crazy. That was, like, kind of the selling point for us when we started. It was like, well, at least we'll have a video of whatever our weekend was. I imagine my kids will be sitting there like, yeah, see why dad was broke. Yeah.

And he really loved Rangers. He really loved it. Oh, yeah. He blew that motor up. Blew that truck up. Caught that one on fire. Yeah, that's why he was real broke. Couldn't play child support. So you are a father. You as well. Do you ever worry about, you know, like every dad gets his payback, right? When his kid grows up.

and they start doing all the things that you did, do you worry about that? Because you have no excuses when your child takes his first car and gets caught drifting somewhere. I mean, you could say, they're doing it on my track. You just want to criticize his technique. You can do way better than that. I tell you right now, my kid's going to be a phenomenal driver.

Oh, for sure. Don't come after his kid. No, but yeah, I'm just saying the one time that— I'm going to encourage him to do all that stuff at the track. Yeah. I don't know. That's what I'm saying. When they get in trouble or they wreck something that they weren't supposed to— There's probably not going to be a ton I can say. Yeah, that's what I mean. You don't have any real— No leg to stand on there. Yeah, no leg to stand on there. Yeah. So one thing—I'm living what you just said, the whole watching your kids do crazy shit and drive you crazy—

Kids are the best, and they're also the worst. The thing about kids, though, is each kid's different. I got three. My oldest is a girl and then two boys. You'll see different parts of yourself and your kids and the way they behave, and there's really proud moments, but then you'll find there's times where you just can't stand your kid. You just wish he was somebody else's kid. Like, you cannot stand your kids because they just get real rotten sometimes. Like, sometimes sugar, you know, lack of sleep, whatever. Kids get shitty. All right.

And you'll catch yourself just like, oh, I hate that. I'm so mad at this. And then I caught myself one day. I'm like, oh, shit. All the things that he's doing right now that I hate are all the things that I do that other people hate about me. So I see my bad behaviors in him too. And you're just like, oh. It's actually good because it's a little bit of a mirror and you can help them

to not go down the path that you went. Like if you're, if you have a certain personality trait or whatever it is that didn't work for you and didn't work socially, you can help them with that. But it's a double-edged sword because you can want your kids to make mistakes. So it's this fine balance of like my youngest son is like identical to me. He's a, he's a riot.

But he's... Big old beard, too. Yeah, he's on his way. Four years old, bigger. He's so stubborn and bullheaded, though, that he can't play with anybody at recess. Nobody wants to play with him because they all invite him to do stuff, but he doesn't want to play with their playing. He's just got his mind set on doing something else. And so all I'm hearing as a dad is like, oh, my kid's not getting anybody to play with him at recess. Like, this is terrible. I don't want to be traumatized. You want to step in.

Well, what happens when you step in? Then you solve the problem for them and they don't learn how to solve problems. So these kids have to, you like gotta let them get bumped and bruised. And, and so when they make these mistakes, go back to your question.

I like it. It's, it proves that, that he's not a dud. Like there's a lot of kids out there that have no desire to be mischievous. And I don't understand that because you have to be mischief as a kid is just extended creativity because they're not malicious. They're not being malicious at all. They're just trying to figure out how stuff works. So I want my kids to figure out how stuff works as risky and dangerously as possible right before they get like super hurt. So I want to stop it there.

It's a fine balance though, man. It's not easy, but it, you'll, I can't wait for you guys to see your kids and, and see the things in them that you're like, oh shit. He got that from me. I have that even with my dad, dude. Yeah. We get things, things that, you know, I, I,

don't talk shit about my dad to my mom because we were late on that. And then the boys are telling me that I do the same thing. And then I go, well, it's not that bad that my dad does that. And I'm like, maybe I was just being hard on him. You'll see it, dude. And it's so weird when you get to my age. I'm 38, 39.

like I said, you're looking both directions now. As a kid growing up, you're just looking at what's next, forward, forward, forward, getting older. As you start to get older, then you have that opportunity to look back because now you've got these miniature yous that are running around. It's a weird perspective shift. I like it. I like it a lot because I never understood why somebody was wise. Like, why do you go to somebody for advice? Like an older person, why are they wise? Why does their advice matter?

I'm starting to feel a little bit more wise. Like I have knowledge and I have experience. That's wisdom, right? And it's a cool feeling because now you have all this experience under your belt.

If you want to go do something by Blackhawk, you've got all this momentum and it just happens. Like if things happen so much quicker, like real wealth and real prosperity happens in your late forties. So many kids get so caught up on being rich in their twenties and thirties. It's like, slow down, enjoy these years, build that momentum, get that experience, build

Don't you don't want to look back guys and, and wish that you would have done something differently or wish that you would have been something differently. Do that now, do that now, because now's the time to have those experiences later on is when the wealth just comes naturally because you've let yourself live. You met people, you made relationships, you earned, you learned skills, all these different things. Now's the time to do that.

Don't worry about getting rich. It comes easier with age. 1000%. It comes easier because it's, you've done the same thing over and over and over again. It's repetition. It's muscle memory. No, it works. Yeah. Do you know what works? And you know yourself better in your, in your twenties. And even in my early thirties, I didn't know myself very well. I had a relationship with myself and I was kind of like an acquaintance with myself. If that makes any sense.

But as you start to get a little bit older, you start allowing yourself to like look inside and figure out like the good, the bad, the ugly. You pry up all those things that you kind of maybe buried over the years, just dumb stuff. And you deal with it. And dude, it's, it's powerful feeling. It's that's where a lot of peace comes from. It's a lot of peace in, in being able to actually confront the demons of your past. Cause we all have them.

It's dumb little things. Dude, the dumbest little things will bury themselves inside of us. And then we carry them around for years and they start to like fester and you don't know what they are. And then they manifest themselves as like bipolar or, you know, depression or whatever it is. People get all these like psychological disorders when really it's just something they didn't deal with from their past. They just buried it and they're trying to keep it from knocking down the door, but it's coming. Those, those problems always come. If you ignore them,

You can't. It just eventually comes to you and you'll live so much of your life having run from something that wasn't even that big of a deal if you just turned around and faced it. Have you found that like most of your big wins come after like your big losses and you can appreciate them a lot more? I don't count my losses at all. I don't even, I couldn't tell you the last time I failed. It was probably 20 minutes ago, but I don't keep track of it.

And the reason for that is because I think it's partly, I was born that way, just kind of wired that way to be able to be constantly glasses half full. My, my glass is like overflowing all the time. It's never been half empty. Um, and that's just the way that I view things. So it's, um,

It's interesting as you get older because I talk like I'm a 50 year old man. I'm not that old, but I just have noticed over this last year or so, this kind of pivotal moment where you start to, you start to, it's crazy as you start to understand your parents way better. So wait till you get to that age because then you're gonna be like, Oh man,

I know why my dad did that. I know why my mom, like you start to understand what they were going through and you realize that they were just humans like us doing the best they could. And so many of us let our relationship with our parents, whether they're good or bad, usually bad, just scar us for life. And it's like your parents, unless your parents were like actually terribly abusive, they were doing the best they could. And so when, when you talk about like raising your kids, obviously,

You're extremely successful and you have wealth. And you didn't come from any of that, right? No. So is that going to be hard for you to, you know, you want to instill these values, obviously, that you had to learn without just setting them up for... It's one of the hardest things that I have to deal with in my life.

Keeping my kids grounded and giving them a sense of reality. They go to school after spring break or something and talking to kids about, hey, what'd you do? I went here, I went there, went down. We went to the lake and my kids are like, yeah, we flew the helicopter to Lake Powell. And they're just like talking, it's normal. And I don't even think they're bragging. I think they're just saying what they did. And so reality is...

totally different for these kids than it was for me. So it is extremely hard and you're constantly doubling back trying to figure out like, did I solve too much of the problem for them? Did I make their path too easy? What do I got to do moving forward to let them trip and fall a little bit? It's, it sucks. Honestly, that's the worst part of becoming successful is your kids potentially never learning any work ethic.

I always wanted to try to pretend to be broke. Excuse me, pretend to be broke. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Drive around like, you know. I know so many billionaires that drive a 97 F-250. Yeah. I do a lot of different business. And you meet these guys that are worth so much money and that you would never guess it. You would think that they're $70,000 a year. My uncle was like that. Like, you know, he drove around in the junkiest pickup and he had like thousands of acres of land, all this stuff. And you'd pull, and everybody felt sorry for him because his truck always broke down. Yeah.

And everybody was always pulling him home. And then he's like, you pull into his driveway though, but there's two brand new trucks sitting in the barn behind the truck. And then you're like, well, I don't even want to drive one of them. I never understood why rich people did that until I started making a little bit of money myself. And now I know. Yeah. You're the biggest freaking target in the world, dude. During 2016 to 2019, where I was seeing a new lawsuit on my desk once a month from different people. And the most frequent

frivolous garbage bullshit lawsuits but I'm a target they see me on TV doing all this crazy stuff and money's flowing out my ears and so they want some of it and when you're a target like that it's so dude suing somebody is so dirty it's so dirty because you can you can sue somebody and

not have any reason to sue them like no valid case and you can still sue them and make their life hard enough that they just settle and pay you out. It is dude. I have no respect for people. I've never filed a single lawsuit against anybody and I've sued, I've been sued.

No less than 50 times. Oh my gosh. That's insane. It's just insane. You can't set a precedent that you just pay them off because then everybody else will fall off. You can't. And that's the... So I don't settle. Well, I've had to settle a couple times here and there, but it's actually frustrating because...

It gets easier just to settle because dude, lawsuits are, they can dig up your entire life and emails that you sent 10 years ago. Like they are, it's the worst use of time and energy. So that's why people settle and it's worth it. You're buying your time back. Yeah. Cause it's a mental drink. You're being blackmailed basically with your time for nothing. It's frustrating. Wow.

People ask us all the time why, a little change of subject here, but people ask us all the time why we stay in Minnesota. You are in Kansas. That's right. Sunflower State, baby. Dude, I think you might have less to do there than we have to do. What are you talking about? We can count sunflowers? I heard you downstairs talking very highly about Kansas. Oh, Kansas is epic. We can jump hay bales. We can count sunflowers. What else can we do?

Fort Granger. A lot of airstrips. But when people ask, you know, why do you stay? Because at this point you could go anywhere. Why do you stay there? I might move eventually. I don't know. I just got my compound there. So I got 52 acres of things I can play around with that I absolutely love. And it's just like the perfect place. And I stayed there a long time because of family. My whole family was there. But recently I've had like –

I've had a lot of my family die, so there's not really much reason to stay there. So I'm just like, but I still got my place there. And I love my place. I'm like, well, whatever.

Monday, I might, like, I look at ReboGain. Because, like, the thing is, is, like, you know what sucks? Is it sucks that you can't make content for, like, three months out of the year because it's too damn cold. Yeah. That's what we run into. Yeah. See him? He's nodding his head because he used to live in Omaha. He knows the struggle. Oh, dude. Windows down, middle of December. Yeah. January. Can't beat it. It's the best. Yeah. Yeah, Cleet. I mean, you got it. Yeah.

down there your compound what's holding you guys back come on down you got room next door for the winter come for the winter yeah no we want to find you some places no problem i was just down there last week we uh we bought a car in florida and it was like super nice it's 65 degrees we're staying there and being bees and it's beautiful when we go down to daytona beach i was swimming in the ocean

It's cold, but I was there. And then I come up here, and I'm, like, swimming through snow, and I'm not doing so well. You like that ocean better. Yeah, that ocean is a little easier. It's a little better, I'll be honest. But, you know, yeah, Florida is like a – and I feel lied to. The first time I ever came to Florida was to go to one of your races, and I fly in. I get across the Pacific at the airport, and I get out there, and just the roads are so nice and so beautiful, and it's nice everywhere. I'm like, I thought this place was a shithole.

Everybody lied to me. This place is nice as hell down here. Florida's the best. That's what they say to keep you in town. Oh, Florida? You don't want to go to fucking Florida. You know what's fucking funny? We drive down there and we drive by this Waffle House. It's on the exit to the Freedom Factory or something. It's down in that area someplace.

I got food poisoning from that one. Well, listen here. I'll tell you what. We get to the race, and we're back in the pits, and we're talking to a bunch of people. And somebody from Florida, I think they worked for you, was like, that place is sketchy. And I drove by there a little bit later as I was going back to my hotel. I'm like, that's the nicest fucking wildfire.

You've seen sketch. You've seen the one on the north side of Oklahoma City, south side of Memphis. Them ones are sketchy. He's shooting tonight. I'm pretty sure every Waffle House has had some kind of world star brawl break out at one or two points. I love Waffle House so much. It's just such a... I love it so much. And then...

At the time, my videographer was riding with me, and he hates it. Hates Waffle House. And we're driving. I'm like, Waffle House is great. Look. And then we drive by this Waffle House in Florida while we were there for a month. And there was a drug deal going on out front.

And he's like, look at that. I'm like, that's live entertainment, dude. What are you going down for, dude? We want to get a place somewhere else, too. And obviously, Florida would be sweet. We got to make it happen. That'd be so sweet. But honestly, we say all the time, Salt Lake City is so awesome, too. It is. Because you're like two hours or four hours away from like

everything you have moab you have desert you have mountains you have the salt flats you have lake powell what's crazy is we decided to settle in the worst part of the state salt lake is the least pretty part of the entire state everywhere else is insane because you can go to red rock country two hours south you can be here in the high pines at nine ten thousand feet in an hour i can be to nine thousand i live at

5,500 feet. I can beat a 9,500 feet mountaintop right in my backyard in 20 minutes. So you're right. It is a rad spot. It's frustrating, though, because where we settled here, we as in the Mormons and us Utah pioneers, my family runs deep in, like, the heritage of Utah. So I've got, like...

I've got deep roots here, but the settlers settled in this area that was just on the west side of those mountains there or here. And it's like the foothills. And then it's the great salt Lake. So it's just tiny stretch of land that almost,

basically 90% of the population lives in. So living in that is frustrating. So I'm looking to actually move in here pretty soon onto the other side of the mountain to get some space. Um, because it's just real estate's going crazy here and I just need a little bit of elbow room. You ever want to know how to like find if somebody is from Utah, just see how they talk about Salt Lake city.

Because they all, like, every one of them. I had a flight attendant here. He's like, oh, yeah, the Great Salt Lake. I'm like, you're from Utah. Like, and I think that's just a Utah thing. Everybody's like, the Great Salt Lake. People are very proud of where they're from. No, like, it's just like, I've never heard anyone ever say the Great Salt Lake. It's like Salt Lake City, blah, blah, blah, whatever. But then you get here, everybody's like, the Great Salt Lake. Well, it's because it's taking up all of our space. Why? It's this damn lake that's drying up.

It's sitting literally in the most prime real estate. I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, there's not much to see right now. It's low. Oh, well, that's all right. I hear it's salty. It is salty, yeah. The salt content somehow is going down every year. I think it's because they mine magnesium stuff out of it. But 10, 15 years ago, you could lay on your back. It doesn't matter if you're a big boy, little, doesn't matter. Lay on your back, and you just sit there and bob like a bobber. You don't have to tread water or anything. But now it's going down a little bit, so you can't do that quite as much. So it's a lazy lake.

It's a lazy lake until you get a boat on it, and then they get these 10-foot rollers. It is terrifying. I've had worse conditions on the Great Salt Lake than I have on the ocean. Really? Yeah, it's wild. No alligators. No gators, no living life whatsoever except for brine shrimp. It's the world's largest supply of brine shrimp. Brine shrimp? Yeah, there's basically this microscopic...

Bug. Don't they smell awful or something? They smell terrible. It's fish food. That's what 90% of the world's fish food comes from is the Great Salt Lake. It's brine shrimp. And it smells like rotten tuna. What percentage of the Salt Lake City is Mormon? I don't know what the percentage is now. I think I used to know growing up. But it's changed a lot because over the last 15 years, a lot of tech companies have moved here. So a lot of Californians, a lot of people coming in. Call it 20 years ago, I would say...

85%. Oh, wow. It's a high number. It's probably, if you live in a neighborhood, at least one of your neighbors is going to be LDS. And it's pretty rare that they're not. Like it's, if there's 300 houses in a neighborhood, maybe five or 10 of them aren't members of the church. And so it's funny because you just...

you grow up just thinking everybody's mormon yeah i treat everybody like they're mormon and it's nothing crazy like you guys have seen how what mormons are about we're not what everybody thinks we are dude some of the greatest people i know are mormon they just like the values that you guys have and the pureness you could say at least where we're at is you know i don't know a single person really that doesn't drink alcohol and

here has such a great time without alcohol. It's so refreshing. Yeah, it makes you kind of be like, oh, wow, you don't need a drink to have a good time. 66%. 66%.

You know, that's not like the core belief. No, I mean, the thing is that Mormon beliefs are very simple, guys. It's all stuff that we, as just trying to be a good person, do anyways. So whether you're Mormon or not, do you want to kill somebody? No. I mean, sometimes we feel like it, but are you going to kill somebody? No. Are you going to lie, cheat, steal, rob, use drugs? It's all the stuff that we're told not to do as kids. The alcohol thing...

is a big one and it's, it's a big no, no. And I've seen firsthand why it destroys people. Yeah. It just destroys people. It's really hard for a lot of people to drink responsibly. My father-in-law is an alcoholic and watching him, it's just so sad because he just literally is disintegrating his body. It's just poison. So that's a, it's a,

It's a rule that I agree with across the board. Really, honestly, we don't have any doctrine that I don't think any of you guys would, wouldn't agree with. Right. It's all basic. Just be good person. Yeah. And it's a really strong family value. So we growing up in the church are, are big on family, big on family history, finding out who, like what our lineage is, where we came from and respecting the past and learning from it. And then also, uh,

you know, Mormons generally have more kids than most people. It's I think the average, probably four or five kids in each house. I go out of state. It's like one or two. I think, uh, the craziest thing about Mormons is I haven't met an unsuccessful Mormon. Yeah. It's like every single Mormon that I've met has their own business or is a go getter in some. Well, I'll tell you why it's because right. As soon as you finish high school, uh,

and you're getting rid of it into the real world. Instead, you go to the church, you hand over everything, your phone, everything, girlfriend, get rid of it all and say, all right, I'm going to go serve other people for two years. So you get sent on a mission. I got sent to Bolivia and Brazil. I didn't know anything. Dude, when I opened my mission call and saw Bolivia, I thought it was like in Europe, like Bulgaria.

I didn't know where it was. So, um, but you get sent into this place where you have no nothing about anything, especially if you're going to a different country, you gotta learn new language and you just have to embrace this culture. And so, uh, missionaries learn really good work ethic and work ethic translates into success in the real world. Like it's apparent there's more, there's probably more Mormon billionaires than any of the religion besides maybe, uh,

There's a lot of rich Jews. How long did you go to Brazil? Two years. So I was in Bolivia. So your family or no. So when I was a missionary dude, you leave home and you can call your mom and your family on Christmas. You can write a letter home one day a week. So I talked to my family twice in two years. And that still holds like that. No, they changed. They changed it over the, when, when COVID hit, it changed the whole missionary program. You could never, ever, ever be by yourself. Two,

Two years, I was never alone. You have to be with inside of your companion. Really? Wow. Do you pick your companion? Nope. It's all chosen for you. Oh, dude, did you have a cool companion? I've had the best companions and I've had the worst companions. I had, dude, my trainer, the guy who, when you get to the mission, it's an older veteran missionary who trains you the area and teaches you everything. My trainer was a 20, no, no, no.

a 29, 30 year old Peruvian kid who was going home the next month. And a lot of the Peruvians in the South American missionaries went on a mission because they, you don't get paid to go on a mission and you pay to do it, but their quality of life was better as a missionary than it was at home because the church was paying for a nice apartment and stuff like that. So you'll see some, some of them out there that are just there for the free ride and his kid was there for the free ride. So it sucked. So I had to learn a new language. I had

I had to learn how to be away from my family and not have any contact with other humans and be stuck with this guy 24-7. It was rough. But then my next companion was one of my best friends to this day. In fact, Hans, who works for me, my assistant, his brother was my companion on the mission. That's how we know each other. Do you think that a lot of Mormons after they serve...

Go into door-to-door sales. It's huge. It's one of the biggest industries. When I was, I would say nine out of my 10 buddies, if I had 100 friends, 90 of them went out into door-to-door sales. Pest control? Yeah, pest control and alarms. Alarms, Apex. Well, Apex is now Vivint.

That, I'd say 80% of the sales guys worked for them. And then there's a bunch of others that... Like, I have a friend who started a really successful pest control company because he did door-to-door sales. Yeah. And he's still kicking ass with it. Oh, dude, I'd imagine you get back and you're like, yo, I'm going to just keep doing this. Yeah, exactly. Ben's getting all the info on Mormons right now. Ryan, I'll give you the scoop on it. I've heard this whole soaking up the knowledge thing many, many times. And I agree with it. It's cool. But Ben is...

I'm obsessed with the culture. I'm extremely interested in the Mormon. You have a Mormon vibe, I'll tell you that. You do. All you guys do, actually. Honestly, I'm not. I'll tell. I'm not looking to become a Mormon, but I respect the religion and the culture and the work ethic so much. Once you have a family and kids...

religion's going to become more important to you. And it's just a natural thing that happens because you want to make sure that you are being the best thing you can for your kids as far as raising them. And you also want to make sure that they have roots outside of

So religious roots are cool because they're deep. They're really deep and they keep you anchored. People who don't have those kind of have shallow roots. That's kind of a general statement, but I have found that in general, people who don't have religious beliefs kind of have those shallow roots and anything comes along and just blows them away. And they just can't, they can't hold a job. They can't stay engaged.

in a relationship. Like when you have these deep religious beliefs, it requires faith to believe in something that you can't see in order to be able to have faith. Oh, that's not easy. Expecting something to happen that you don't know if it's going to happen, but you just believe 1000% that it's going to happen. Like that's not always easy, but that's faith. That's, that's the core of religious beliefs. So I'd like I said, you guys all have Mormon vibes because all we are is just, just like you guys, we just like to work hard. We try to be honest and we, uh,

like to, you know, the big thing for our church is service. So the culture of serving other people. So if you look at my content, most of it is we're doing service for somebody like the recoveries. We don't get paid for any of those. We just go do it. You're just like, you gotta be losing money on so many of those recoveries. We lose a lot of money, but bro, it is so rewarding.

So rewarding. It's, it's honestly without it, I would be a very sad person. I think the amount of times that we have been in a pickle, uh,

And it's just like, dude, your back is up against the wall. And you're like, I don't need, I literally do not have any options right now. And the fact that you are a lot of people's like last resort of like, well, we can always call heavy D you nailed it, dude. And you show up, get their shit out every time. It is amazing. Like, it's honestly so amazing. I've

I buried a bulldozer one time. I'm like, God, I wish every day was closer. We thrive on a dude. Honestly, it's, it's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done because it's problem solving real life, problem solving with giant toys and you're bonking things around until it works. I get really excited about it. I get really excited about it. I'm passionate about it. And I love the snow cat. We are usually the last call. I have a thing for snow cats.

I was telling somebody this story yesterday when I got home from my mission, it was right during the recession and I really wanted to get a job kind of doing anything. Um, cause there was no jobs out there. So I saw a resort groomer position pop up at the local ski resort. I was like, hell yeah, I'm the guy for this. So I go on there and fill out the application. I lie and say that I've got experience doing this and that and all these different things. I don't get the job. They tell me just flat out that I'm not qualified. And I was like devastated.

for like 30 seconds. And then I was like,

fuck that, I'm going to get my own snowcat. And that's honestly the way that my whole life has kind of happened. For that snowcat. Bro, I was telling you that too. When I was a little kid, I said, if I win the lottery one day, I thought that's how you got rich, win the lottery, I'm buying a snowcat. Because I love snowmobiling, and I love snowmobiling on groomed trails, and I'm like, yo, I'm buying a snowcat, I'm going to groom the trails, and I can ride on it.

There's like three snow cats at a shop. Several snow cats at a shop, too. It's a stash. I think you made it, then. There you go. What more do you want? That's the ultimate sign of success right there. Multiple snow cats. How many employees do you have? It fluctuates all the time. We're going through a bunch of changes in our company now because we're closing down the diesel power gear side because of a lawsuit. And it's just I got tired of it. But at our peak, we had like 100. Right now, we've probably got 40.

Dude, I think people forget that you like pioneered the whole giveaway. Yeah. Oh yeah. You buy our merch, you get entered for this giveaway. Like you were the, you were the guy doing that. In 2013, 2012, I started a Facebook page to sell trucks. I was hoping to sell more trucks to a bigger audience, me and Dave. Diesel sellers. Yeah, diesel sellers. And then we started posting videos and stuff to try to get more attention. And the pages all went viral super quick. And we're like, hell yeah. Yeah.

well what do we do like facebook wasn't monetizing we didn't we're monetizing much on youtube or anything we're like how do we make money on this and then i saw a comment one day kids like hey you should give you should raffle off a truck and i was like that's it really amazing how many good good comments there are that you're like that's a great idea dude it pioneered an industry like for the last 10 years uh vehicle sweepstakes have been huge yeah who is that guy

Who commented that? I don't know. I think it was a kid. You don't want him to find out because he's going to come knocking to you. Oh, yeah. It'll be another lawsuit. No, yeah. So I called a buddy of mine, a mentor, a good, good friend of mine, the guy that I worked for before my mission, owner of Rockwell Watches. I was like, hey, Rich, I want to give away a truck, but it's illegal to do a raffle for profit. So what do I do? He's like...

just sell something. I was like, well, what do I sell? I don't want to go. I don't have any money to buy anything. And he's like, sell wristbands. So we did. I ordered a bunch of silicone wristbands from China and they said diesel power. And that was our first entry for our first giveaway. It was like the live strong. Yeah. Just like those. Yep. And then we started adding like a new shirt every couple of weeks. Like,

Stuff was selling and going crazy. Our first giveaway, we gave away a 2013 Ram, and we did $475,000 in total revenue. We were like, holy shit. That's wristbands. That's just wristbands and stickers. How many wristbands? Dude, it was so many wristbands. How much were you selling wristbands for? 25 bucks. Okay. Because it was every $5. Okay, got it. I got a 2013 Ram at home.

I better get back in there real quick. Dude, Weston. Weston starts selling wristbands. Hey, guys. Come on over to westonlikescake.com. It worked. The problem is now that there's a lot of trash in the industry, a lot of people that do it. Dude, it's so saturated. It's saturated. It doesn't work like it used to. If you have a good audience who loves what you do like Cletus does, it's going to work forever because his fans just love what he does. Yeah. And so he doesn't have to do advertising. But we used to make... Dude, we were spending... That drip out?

We were spending a million dollars a month on advertising on Snapchat and Instagram and stuff. A million dollars a month. So, I mean, it had to be still making money, but at what point does it just not make sense? Well, that scale started right here. If we were spending a million, we were making 10 million that month, and it was awesome. And then as the algorithm kept changing, it started getting to, like, we had to spend a million to make 1.1 million.

It's not going to work. So I just got tired of selling t-shirts. I got so tired of it. So I'm not, I'm not an apparel. I love the apparel, but

but I don't have the passion to have my own apparel company because it's really hard to do a good apparel company. Like these pants are done by a guy, um, an ex, uh, he's a veteran and he's like a CrossFitter. And so he took everything from the tactical world and everything from the CrossFit world and blended them together and went and made this like proprietary fabric. Dude, that's so hard, so expensive, so time consuming. Um,

I was going to ask you what kind of pants those are. Cargo pants, cargo pants, born primitive, huge shout out to two people here, born primitive. Um, check them out. Like the best clothing I've ever had and origin, uh, company owned by Jocko Willick, um,

and a bunch of other veterans. Dude, shout out. Origin is legit. You don't make shitty merch, you get shout outs on podcasts. It's all very high quality. And Origin is actually the only denim manufacturer in the entire United States because everybody else went overseas. These veterans went out and bought an old freaking like 1880s

wool mill and started making their own denim and they've just been killing it. A lot of cool companies like black rifle. Oh yeah. One of my best buddies runs that company. That's a, again, those guys just freaking get it done. They, they, they're so disciplined. They're like the LDS missionaries times a thousand because they're

They spent all that time. Shout out to Black Rifle. Shout out to Black Rifle. Dude, it's got to kind of piss you off, though, that, like, everyone's doing these giveaways now, and, like, that was kind of... It did at first. I was just, like, so upset because the first copycats of our business model were close friends of mine, and it was super frustrating. What year did you do your first one? 2013. April. Oh, my gosh. Started in April 2013 and ended in August 2013. And we've given away, like, 120 trucks now. Can I ask what your guys' biggest, like, giveaway was? Black Friday 2013.

I think we did like 15 million in like three or four days. Holy crap. Yeah, we were doing... What vehicle was it?

Oh, I couldn't even tell you. Black Friday was, oh, I think it was, we did three classics. We did the Bronco, the Ram Charger, and the Blazer, and it killed it. Wow, that's crazy. But you know what our most successful, most profitable giveaways have ever been? Always, always, always semi-trucks. Really? By a landslide. That's kind of your market. Yeah. And truckers spend money differently than online guys like us. They spend different money. You got me into giveaways pretty much every day.

Right when we met and right before this cabin trip, the first time I ever did it was the first time I did a giveaway. Cause you were like, bro, you gotta do it. So that was,

Eight, nine years after you started doing giveaways. It frustrated me at first when I watched people copy us, but then we realized that it was going to happen regardless. So then we started, we put on a clinic to teach people how to do it. 2019, I put together a thing called the Heavy Academy. And it was just basically like a business mastermind to teach people how to do giveaways. And we killed it. We did two of them and made a ton of money, made a bunch of really successful business owners a ton of money because they went out and did giveaways.

And I've had a lot of people tell me that that changed their life. Oh, that's got to be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm big on that, but I won't do anything unless I feel 100% right about it. And it got to the point where I felt a little slimy, like we were doing the get rich quick thing, and I just couldn't do it. I can't force myself to do something like that, so I had to back away. Well, the thing I like about giveaways, the way that you...

set out the platform is it's not like you're throwing money at something and hoping you win. Like you're just, you're buying something for the same price it would normally be like, at least in, I think most of our circumstances, we don't raise our prices on our merch or anything. It's the same as it is all year round. It's just during this period of time, there's also an added incentive of a car. The problem is we train our customers to only shop when giveaways are happening. You've done a better job at it, keeping steady sales, but

we were doing giveaway, giveaway, giveaway back to back because they were working so well that everybody just waited. And then we started doing like first of the giveaway, huge spike flash giveaway on the first two days and then the last two days. And people learned that. So they'd wait and spend their money in the last couple of days. Your consumers track what you do. And we weren't fulfilling the customer service very well on the t-shirt. We tried. We had a huge warehouse. That's where most of my overhead was.

Fulfillment's really hard. Doing that much volume, dude,

And so we kind of got a bad name for customer service because we just couldn't keep up, especially when the TV show was airing or it was just flowing in. But I got tired of apparel and I decided to dump that and we're revamping some of our business models and growing. So that's crazy. You did something that I think every YouTuber is like really, really jealous of. And that's one, the Freedom Factory. And you're able to host these events. Like we always sit down and we're like, man, how could we...

recreate something that makes sense for us or host an event or put on something that'd be so cool to bring the fans together and it makes sense because it fits our style. I don't know if you could ever recreate something as good as you've got, dude. And then you have the fucking pay-per-views, dude. As soon as I found out you were pay-per-viewing it too, I was like, God damn, dude.

I want to say one more thing about that, too. So that was like Greg Godfrey, who is also Mormon, who's from Utah. He was when we were sitting in a yurt in the middle of nowhere, and he's telling us, he's like, you guys got to do live events. When we did live events, we crushed it. And I'm like, what does that even look like for us? Like, what are we going to do? Yeah, we're like, dude, we're going to entertain people. I don't know.

I don't know how you... And all while that was happening, you're, I mean, doing it under our feet and you're just doing it. It's incredible. You little weasel. We were totally going to do that. I thought you guys were going to do it, so I was like, no. Get that done. It's a top shelf operation though, too. When you go down there, it is so dialed in. Oh, yeah. I appreciate that. Like, Quedis and Kars was like...

really, really cool. Makes me happy to hear that you guys see it that way. Yeah, and I'm not trying to suck you guys' dick right now, you know? If that's what it seems like. I got like four layers you guys have. I'm leaving. No, I'm just giving you guys your

flowers. I was promised some fellatio. Yeah. No, I'd love to help. I think you guys are just killing it. But, um, well you, you did offer out the, yeah, like you mentioned the paper, I would, I would love that. Honestly, see boys, you guys have, you guys have a unique opportunity right now to fill in the nitro circus gap. Nitro is just Evan just jumping something really far. Like,

It doesn't have to be crazy though. Nitro already did everything crazy that could ever be done. You need to do something unique and relatable. It has to be something that, dude, freaking chainsaw races, something like that. Semi truck races. You can put together something that

Keep it as generic as possible so that everybody can participate, like those Spartan races and stuff like that. Putting on an event is so much harder than anybody could ever imagine. Glad you know that. Logistically, it is an absolute freaking nightmare. And the fact that you just do it back to back to back and keep pulling them off, I don't know how you do it. It was miserable until I got the best group of guys ever to help me do it.

But they can be brutal. They can be brutally hard and have very small returns sometimes. Really? And it's just a battle. Why? Because the margins are just so fine or you got to sell enough for it to make sense? Some of these tracks, like Bristol isn't amazing, but that track,

costs a fortune to rent. How much? Can you tell us? I mean, I'd have to look at the last one, but I don't know if I can say, but it's okay. Because I'm curious, too. Like, everyone's, I've always wondered, like, man, what does it cost to, like, rent? Is it, like, new F-150, or is it, like, new, like, diesel Jetta? Oh, no. Diesel Jetta's, like, 14 grand. It's, like, a decent helicopter. Yeah. Decent helicopter. Yeah. Like a Robinson? Yeah.

It's a decent helicopter. I don't think a Robinson's a decent one for one. I'll leave it at a decent helicopter. My goodness. But they're also opening up a world-class facility with a name like Bristol. Exactly. So there's a reason you pay for it. You know, I've never been there. I've never done anything about it, but I'm like, oh, Bristol, huh?

I know the name. Yeah, you're like, we're in Bristol, baby. Yeah. Like, that has pull to it. So that's why it's expensive. 100%. But you know what's cool is having the Freedom Factory has solidified. Like, that carries a name now, dude. People, like, would dream to be able to drive around that track. Dude, that first video that came out. Oh, my goodness. Hater, dude. Hater. In the thumbnail where you're in the helicopter. It's like in the third pack. God dang. Yeah, that's been a crazy deal. And now it's like...

It's just like set up and operational. There's actually an event going on right now. Oh, wow. What? What's going on? There's a race going on tonight. Were they racing on Mars or what? They're just doing like some circle track racing, Crown Vig stuff. They had a cars and coffee this morning. It's just like that's how it ends up. You got a well-oiled machine down there just working. It's wild, dude. I don't know if this is a true stat at all, but I feel like you brought back –

People say that to me, and I don't feel like it brought it back because it never went away. But I feel like we allowed a fresh new take to be played

kind of like opened up and seen by a lot of people like that racing i don't know it did have a kind of a dark look like we'll say it i'm not saying brought back race definitely not we'll say it for you definitely not got you from me i just i just wanted to show people how fun it is and like it purely happened just because i was having so much fun you made it super relatable anybody can go buy a two thousand dollar crown vic i honestly have more fun in the crown vic than like a

Almost anything. I love Crown Pigs. I'll tell you what, my smart car, I love that thing. I drive that thing. You love a smart car? That's the thing. Smart cars rip. I got a lot of cool cars. I drive around a smart car, and I got a black and white Chevy Tahoe I bought for $1,100. It was an old police car. I drive that all around town. How annoying is the transmission on the smart cars, though? Dude, they're the worst. They're the worst. I know. I banged mine off a rock. The clutch is so good.

Dude, Brian Scotto has a great line that driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car at all. Because when you're driving a smart car, your balls are walls. You feel like a race car. You're Mario Andretti. 42 miles an hour. Yeah, you're not going to jail like you would be in the Hellcat. No, no. Then I get in my Hellcat and I'm like, oh, wow! 160, that's weird. I have a lot of cars that I ruined because they're so fast. Isn't it? That's the problem with them, right? Because like all...

Like, this is the thing I run into in all my Hellcats. I'm like, all right, let's put on E90. All right, put big injectors in it. All right, let's do this. We'll do that. Pull out the intercooler. Do this. Ice tank. And I'm like, well, I can't go to McDonald's anymore. Yeah.

You know, the thing is, you know, that's what the drag racing too is like, you ever think even when I got into it, because I never really did drag racing before YouTube. Like I, you know, I messed around like, you know, out in the country, like country kids did nothing else like that. It was really intimidating. Like, it's like, if you know nothing about it, you're just stepping into it, whatever. Like, it's like, it's intimidating because you're like, not really sure where to start, like what to do. Like, you're just kind of like, yeah. Try doing that with monster trucks.

Monster truck drag racing? What about just monster trucks in general? You did monster trucks in general. I forgot about that. Dude, how crazy is driving those things? It's the best. So we had an awesome deal. Monster Jam, we partnered up with them. They love the Brodozer. And so we built the diesel Brodozer. And...

Dude, that truck was a completely different animal than anything else out there. Those methanol trucks are hard to drive because they're just all over the place. They're just snappy. The Brodozer was 10,000 times harder to drive than veteran drivers like Tom Mintz, Anderson boys, Dennis Anderson. They've all driven the Brodozer, and they're just like, how do you do that? Yeah.

How do you even compete? It's a Duramax compounds waggler. Really? But, dude, it's snappy for a diesel, but it's not a methanol truck. So, basically, anytime I hit an obstacle, I'd have to basically build two seconds of...

or boost into the system and see what was going to happen. Because that's my inertia, my momentum. Everything in Monster Jam is about momentum and inertia. It's how fast you can keep your run going and you just keep that momentum going. If you stop, you lose all the momentum. With the diesel, I can't keep momentum going

when I think about needing to keep it. So if I'm slowing down, my brain says hit the gas and I hit the gas and a methanol truck goes diesel. I'm sitting there. So I'm having like, I would drive in a way that I didn't even understand. Yeah. I couldn't predict it. So I would like, I was experimenting the whole time. So, so I'd get in it and dude, it would freaking build boost. And then all of a sudden it hit the same obstacles, the methanol trucks hit, but it would hit it with probably five times the force. And it would just do the wildest shit. But yeah,

when I would flip over and land upside down and then when your tire grabs and it flips you back over where that breaks most of the methanol trucks because they're on the throttle and it just snaps it. My truck had like a built-in shock absorber because of the turbo lag. So it would go and

And then the turbo would spool, and it would just go freaking bananas. But it would do it a gradual way so it wouldn't snap parts. So I had some of the most insane recoveries in Monster Jam. I think I know what you're saying right now. Like, I think I understand. But I'm also trying to wrap my mind around all of it because monster trucks just, in general, blow my mind. It's the coolest thing you'll ever do. I feel like that was your calling. You're kind of a wrecking ball. Yeah, in general.

So I would love to like see a live show of you just destroying. You guys would love the live shows. We, I don't say this to brag, but the live shows that we competed in, like burn down the house. I'm telling you like fans rushing the floor in new, in,

Texas. What's that? El Paso? Might be El Paso. I have a really strong Mexican following because I speak Spanish and love Mexican people. Bro, just the entire stadium flooded with Mexican people to come down and say how they hate me and Dave. It's the best, dude. I could see Weston doing that. I could just hear your voice in it. Oh, hell yeah! Motherfucker! You're saying you love something, Bill!

I've been built some boots. Next thing I knew, I was upside down. Hell, it was a good time. I'm upside down. Some of the most pain I've ever been in was from monster trucks. It's got to hurt, right? Bro, my first backflip, I went to go hit the wall and the methanol trucks, they hit it rolling at about 15, 20, and then they just go crack the throttle right before it and it'll give them their bull pop. Well, I have to hit it two seconds early and wait for my boost to build.

I freaking hit it just like maybe a half a second too early. I built boost and climbed the ramp instead of flipping the ramp. Launched like 40, 50 feet in the air and came to a complete perfect stop upside down. Cage first. Bro, cage first. But you know what you don't think about is your feet. My feet wrapped up around the steering wheel into the roll cage. I was like freaking...

Like cheesy gordita crunch. Just all folded up, dude. And my feet, dude, that was rough. I jumped on like 10...

maybe maybe six feet in the air to flat on the burnout pad and about snap my neck because they have like 300 psi in the shocks and yeah they're real stiff and you have to run a certain pressure in the tires to uh regulation so it's but that truck was amazing dude it allowed diesel dave to do a consecutive backflip so he went up and came up short and he was coming to stuff his nose just grab the throttle i don't think he meant to i think he was just

it boosted and the truck goes and does a double backflip in the stadium. Lost their damn minds. Where is that truck now? So that's really frustrating. COVID came around. Um, they canceled the shows and well, let me get to your answer first. It's, I think it's at Feld headquarters and down by you. Um,

but they can't use the license anymore because I own the Brodo's or license. And so I revoked the license from them after COVID because it wasn't a great partnership as far as them fulfilling their end of the bargain with licensing. And then that kind of ended the relationship ish.

I'll, there's a chance I might build another truck and go back though. I'd go back as an independent though. And just cause dude showing up and just being able to get in the truck, wreck it and fly home. The big ones. Maybe that's what we were doing when I was running for monster jam. We would only hit the big, big shows. I was on, that was another frustrating thing. You get really excited. And the reason I brought this up is because racing in monster trucks is really competitive. There's some really fast guys out there and it is, it's full blown racing, dude. You gotta be significantly better driver than the guy next to you.

because it comes down to like tens of seconds and I would get so excited. I'd go in, I do shoot two shows in a row, get momentum, do well, be kicking ass in racing. And then we'd get pulled from the circuit for six months cause there wasn't any big shows for the summer. And so you get just dropped in right when you're getting comfortable, you get pulled out and in and out, in and out. But,

It was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done. And I loved it because I took my family with me to every show. We just flew to, it was always in Florida in the winter, which is the best for the family to get away. But I think we'll come back. And if I do, it's going to be, it's going to be David and I will have dueling trucks. Do you guys do anything right now where you're like in a competition?

like because like we like we're drag racing all the time so we're always like competing against people yeah do you guys do any stuff like that you know not really like oddly enough the only time that we like race and anything's on the line is for your events yeah we're like earlier today we gotta figure out who's racing um yeah or today you'd love racing dude we're not like huge racers but when we're hanging out with you we're like everything's a bug

I love racing. The only person that I love being intimidated, I love beating people. So like all I'm doing. Yeah, no shit. You know what? I first come down here and there's a person day next to me. I'm the worst at racing. I like racing, but I don't.

I don't know. I kind of just like going out and having fun. Yeah. I think if it gets too competitive, it's not really that fun for me. But then when it gets really competitive, I'm like, fuck, I want to fucking win. And I get like the biggest competitive thing I've ever done is like Roadkill Nights up in Pontiac. It's the thing Dodge puts on. And I've been there like a couple years. And like last year, I went.

and did this thing where it was a six-speed car thing. Yeah, I saw that. I built like a 1,500 horsepower big old fat full interior, 4,200 pound street car with six feet in it, piled weights on the back of it, piled sandbags in the trunk, did all the shit. Didn't know what I was doing, but God dang, I could row gears. That's the only thing I had going for me is I could get the fuck out of some gears. And nobody else could shift that well. So I was beating cars that were 1,700 pounds lighter with, you know,

15 wides on the back and a lot of rubber on the ground somehow. And I pulled out and I got a trophy. And I'm like, ah! So I still look at the trophy. My boy. Yeah! That's what I'm talking about. So this is like, yeah, I bet you want another one. I'll be honest. I'll put up a trophy next time we race. The thing is, is I sit there and it was so fucking fun.

It was so fun. It was so. I live for those trophies. I know. And I was rolling out of that event. I love hearing this. I was rolling out of that event, and, like, there's four link drag racing cars, like, just full, like, back half cars there, right? Yeah, and I posted this thing on Instagram of me rocking the radio with the AC on, rolling out of there. After, just holding the trophy in my lap, like, yeah.

Oh my god, yeah. We're good. You won Freedom 500 one year, didn't you? Yeah, I won it last year. Okay, so when you won it last year,

Saw that you posted it. I finally won. I was like dude fuck this guy Three years and there's four races a year. Yeah, I

i mean i feel like that's not too many to be fishy right i i agree the first he wants out a couple years i don't know what am i supposed to do sit out i think it's just suspicious i tell everyone like i'm racing the first ever freedom 500 we did a thing it was covid so we did like this crazy stupid thing where we all had to walk up one by one and choose like our car

And I let everyone choose. I took the last car I was left. And I won. Oh. You won the first ever one? Yeah, I won the first ever. But, like, even the cars now, like, if anybody wants my car, they can have it. Yeah, I want it. I'll take whatever car in the field because... That's fair. Mine is probably the shittiest one. I've raced mine in, like, freaking 10 races now. So...

Oh, it's been that many. He's got them trick flow heads on him. I'm telling you. He's got four valor. I do feel a little guilty. Like, I can tell you right now, I'm not going to take the helicopter. Ha ha ha ha.

But I will win and give it to the second place person at the Freedom 500. Is that because you just don't like it that much? No, it's because I'm not going to hype up a sick prize. Last year, I hyped up a sick prize, and I was like, all right, I'm taking it. But this one's so sick, I want one of my friends to have it. I would love to see somebody. Wait, what kind is it?

It's a Hughes 300. So like, you know, MD, like the helicopters are really like the Call of Duty looking one. It's like their OG helicopter. But that was like started by Howard Hughes, right? It's like a Howard Hughes. Yeah, Howard Hughes. My boy, dude.

That guy was a G. I fucking love Howard Hughes. You hear this guy talking about Howard Hughes? Oh, I know everything about Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes is, like, big in Wichita. Wichita was the air capital of the world. Everybody talked about Howard Hughes. I was watching. It's a Hughes 269, but they call him 300. I have this, like, portrait in my office, and it's of him standing in front of the H1 racer looking like a pimp in a long coat. And he is just. That guy figures. You guys not know who this is?

Howard Hughes was like the real-life Tony Stark. This guy figured some shit out. Just some stuff that you just can't even wrap your head around. He figured it out. And he was making musicals and movies at the same time. 100%. What an interesting combination. Made number one movies. He got put in the ICU and reinvented the hospital bed, made the modern hospital bed that won't give you bed sores. This guy was smart, like super smart.

Yo, I love that you have a picture of him hanging up in your office. Dude, it's epic. He's your Steve Jobs. The thing is, well, and then they always talk about, like, the Japanese stole the design from the H1 to, like, make the Zero or whatever. But, like, the H1 Racer was, like, one of the fastest airplanes for a while. It was, like, 725 horsepower or something like that. It was crazy. I love that you know that. Oh, dude, I love.

Like I love knows it, but you're passionate. I love aircraft. I love like Howard Hughes. Like I'm right. Really into that. Like the Hercules. I want to go so bad and see the Hercules. Cool.

And when anybody calls the Spruce Goose, I just get mad. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's how it's called. Listen here. I watched a movie. I read the documentary. Nah, I'm not going to say that word. But anyway, I can't say documentary. All right. How do you say it? Documentary. Documentary. I can't say documentary. Yo, dude, you should meet my buddy CJ.

But no. No, yeah, he was a G. He was like the inspiration for Tony Stark from Marvel. I feel so lame. I really like Tony Stark. I love Tony Stark. That's what's been so fun about this trip. You find out all these people that you love and watch and hang out with, and then you just figure out that they're

I'm obsessed with some guy that you never even heard of. I love hanging out with all you guys. It's like all the snowmobiling and all that stuff is so fun, but honestly chilling in the cabin at night is like the best. It's so cool hanging out with everybody. Yeah, that's my favorite part is that, I mean, think how rare it is that you go into a house or a cabin or whatever and there's not a TV in the living room. Yeah.

And there's not a TV in here and we all just conversate and it's a beautiful thing. But yeah, I mean, circling way back to what you first said, like we, just like everyone who watches YouTube, hope that you guys, it's just this underlying thing that I hope they're as cool off camera as they are on camera. And it is the case for sure for everyone here. In this case. Yeah, there are some. Never meet your heroes.

You know, I've had the moments and I'm not going to say what it is. I'm not going to say who it is, obviously, but I'm just like, aww.

I can tell you who the number one guy, my hero was. He absolutely exceeded my expectations. Oh, that's awesome. And became more of my hero. And that's Travis. I was going to say that. That dude lives up to what he is and what you see on TV and overshoots it by a mile. He's a legend. He never stops. Dude is always going, going, going.

Man, I've seen him, but I've never actually had a conversation with him. I've met him, but I've never had a conversation with him.

He's just the best. You know, we've posted a couple things, like, showing just, like, where we're at or who all we're with. And it was your – you posted a story last night, like, just of everyone hanging out in the living room. And we – I just reposted it on our story. Dude, we got flooded with so many responses of, like, yo, I am so fired up right now. Like, all my favorite YouTubers in one room. This is so awesome. It was pretty surreal looking around last night. If only they could have heard the conversations. Yeah.

Yeah, they would be like, these guys are idiots. Not a lot of, like, real productivity going on, you know. Hey, the creative juices were flowing, you know. Oh, yeah. I say it all the time. I say, like, you know, we obviously get along with certain people because of just, like, common interests. But, like, it seems like majority of the time it's just, like, the inner degenerate.

And we love hanging out with other degenerates. Dude, it's so fun. Yeah, it's just like people that don't take it too serious. They're not afraid to laugh at themselves or make light of a situation.

It's just so fun. I said that like two times while I was here. I'm like, dude, it's so awesome that everybody is just like, I'm just like scared of showing up and saying something dumb. Because I always say something dumb. And I'm like, oh, everybody else is saying something dumb. Ah, we're good. Everybody else is just like, oh, yeah, that's great. The cabin's gotten louder as the weekend has progressed, which has been fun. Everybody's just getting comfy. Yeah. Like this is just the best annual trip.

I love this trip. Yeah, you guys, I'd like to extend the invite for next year. Dude. It's like an annual tradition for us. I'm going to have to bring some works better. Oh, you have to be invited to come because I've just been. Yeah, no. You just got us happy. I don't know if I've ever been invited. Clee's got just the open invite. Actually, last year, it was just you and me, right? That'd be such a different vibe just to do. It was just you and two. It was other people, but him and I were the only. They were just talking helicopters the whole time. There was kind of a gap year and everyone was.

I don't know. It was just like you and I. Somebody else was here. I can't remember who it was. But yeah, it's always been a good trip and it just keeps getting better every year. Cletus and I always joke. It's like, what are we going to do to top this year? Next year? Yeah, next year. I've been thinking about that too, man. Like, how do you, what vehicles does everyone bring? Oh, I don't know. Oh, we have a snow race. I brought a Blackhawk, a school bus on tracks. Monster Max was here. We did a sand rail on tracks. Yeah, we did the air

We did every brand of Sherp and fat truck you can think of. We did a bullet bike on like, dude, what else is there to do? Bullet bike. You guys keep calling it the bullet bike. I like that. I like that. Bullet bike. What do you call them? Just like a crotch rocket. Dude, you know, we need to set up for next year is a zip line from the balcony. Oh, hell yeah.

You'd be going about 400 on that. Let's do it. Evan was eyeing up. I'll put that down. So there's a hill right on this side of the wall, and it's steep enough to carry enough speed on skis. If we built a jump off the deck, you could air the gap underneath off the deck and then land on the hill. Yeah. Two years ago, we built a step-up right here where you first go off the hill. We built a huge step-up for a timber sled backflip, and Ethan Roberts was here doing it.

But he couldn't get any traction on the hill, so it wasn't a great spot. A zip line. Hot air balloon? I have been wanting to do that. It would be too low intensity for you guys. It's my hell. Unless I'm piloting it, even then, I will. You're just up there floating around with the wind. I fucking hate the wind. You know what's impressive? I was in one, and dude, we took off, and they're like, the winery that was on the balloon is the one we landed at.

Like, it was intense. We landed 15 feet away from the other balloon that took off next to us. Really? It was impressive. Huh. So, I don't know how they did it. It was weird. I don't either. Yeah, that's always new. Mexico, when they have that extravaganza where they launch all the balloons. Yeah. I was accidentally there. Like, I was...

I was just driving my Humvee across the country. No, literally, I was there to pick up my twin-turbo TRX, and I got up one morning. I'm like, what the fuck is all that shit in the sky? And then next thing I know, there's just people just, like, catching balloons on freeways in people's backyards. They're just, like, going all over the place. There's no way that's not a shit show. Oh, it is. Oh, it's a massive shit show. Did you guys see the—there was a clip on Instagram where—

A hot air balloon gets drug away in the windstorm, and he, like, wipes out a car, knocks out a family, flies away, hits the power line. Power line breaks, like, catches his thing on fire, and then he comes back down, bounces off the ground just enough to get thrown out and get his leg caught in the rope, and then it takes off again. Bro's hanging by one leg as the hot air balloon drifts off after being electrocuted and wiping out a family.

It was the most chaotic video I've ever seen in my life. So I take it you're not really on game for the hot airborne. I'm in. Oh, okay. I have zero ability to calculate risk. What do you want to do? What about some sort of like survival challenge? I thought about that. But that takes days. I thought about us trying to sleep in an igloo tonight or something like that. That sounds hard. What about a triathlon but with vehicles? Or how about what if we just did this?

What if we just came and had a good time? Yeah, I don't think we have to change a single thing. I'm sure all of us are quietly going to be building some competition against each other. But we can all just pretend like it's not happening. We can just pretend like it's not happening. I'm going to do the Snowdean 500. We're going to do a race. We're going to do an oval track over in the field.

Fire me up. 500 laps. I'll get some fiber optic ran up here. We'll pay for you. Ground mix on studded tires. Oh, that would be sick. Bro, a lake race on the ice? That would be wild. Count me in. Bye.

Wait, ain't there a lake just like over there? Yeah, huge. You guys want to go on the lake? Just go to Cormorant. Yeah, you guys should all just come to Cormorant. Is it thick enough to drive on? We drove a wrecker on it a couple days ago. You drove a wrecker on it a couple days ago? Okay, we had to do a recovery. So the shoreline right now is only like 200 or 300 yards off the shore. It's frozen, but you can drive around the edges. Sometimes the whole lake freezes, and it gets crystal clear. You guys ever see a video of a guy that goes underneath the ice, and he's swimming, and he tries to find the hole back up, and he can't?

And you can just see him crystal clear under the glass. That was my buddy right here at Bear Lake. What? Was that real? It was 100% real, yep. He got so disoriented and his eyes froze. He couldn't see the hole. Was he all right? Barely. He barely made it out alive. He was trapped under there. I think the video's like 60 seconds long or something. He was swimming.

And at one point he panics and he's in fairly shallow water. So you see him put his feet on the ground and he puts his back against it and pushes and you can see nothing happens. And he keeps on swimming and his girlfriend is like up top, like trying to freaking out. It was rough. I just got scared thinking about it. That's one of my good buddies. Dude, this kid has gone viral.

probably five times. You probably know the videos. Ever seen the kid that jumped off the cruise ship with a GoPro? Yeah. That's him. Ever see the original video of the kid who

who was wake surfing and then acted like he's going by himself and then fell off and the boat runs away. That was him. Oh my gosh, dude. This guy's a genius. Dude, and nobody knows him. Does he do social media? Yeah, but he just has shit luck. The pages don't tag him and all of his shit's like licensed to juke in and stuff and nobody knows him. It's so funny. We give him shit for it all the time. He doesn't really care because he's not trying to do social media, but he has done the wildest shit and...

Never gets credit. That's the worst. When you see one of your videos posted, reposted on TikTok, and it's got so many views, and there's no credit. This guy Keaton already posted.

Oh, God. Bubba Gross. Let's give a shout-out to The Muscle for posting all of our content for the whole weekend before we all posted it. Guys, go follow him. See everything that we're going to do. I love how that's just an understanding that we all have, though. And why do we let it fly? It was just because it's Keaton, I guess. I've had the conversations with him. He's just... That's Keaton. He's bigger than all of us. Yeah, I'm not telling him what to do. Yeah, I've tried to, you know, be as...

Hey, are you cool if we're, like, filming right now? Because, like, you know, everyone kind of wants to just not just be, like, bombarded and, like, filmed when you're not knowing. And I hate being that guy. No. I didn't consent to this being filmed. I didn't consent to this being filmed at all. But I'm still, yeah, we've got some stuff for you guys to sign afterwards. But, no, we're still used to just, like, hanging out with, like, our crew and, like, very.

Very rare does somebody new come in, so I always try and be respectful of other people that might not always want to just be blasted on camera. We didn't finish the favorite vehicles.

We made it to Weston. Yeah, we kind of got sidetracked. I had the best one. What the hell happened? You got a real sidetrack, bro. What's yours? No, you got to say yours. I can't. It's hard. Yeah, you can. The snowcat, the Jeep, the Blackhawk. Okay, how about this? How about you pick one that's not yours? It's not real.

Snow Rose bitching. That thing was magical. I wish everybody had a chance to drive it. I wanted to, but something happened before I could. You sabotaged me. I tried so hard to be on my best behavior, too.

You guys missed a real adventure last time, last year. Didn't you get a, like a rip saw stuck? Oh, yeah. Oh, no, that's not the one he's talking about. We had some aircraft damage. It's the only video. Well, I'm allowed to show the video at your funeral, right? You showed up at my funeral. Okay, so. It's vaulted up.

Nobody's ever going to see this. There's one copy of it in my hands, one copy in Dave's hands. And as long as you haven't sent it to anyone, it exists nowhere else. We can talk about it. It was an incident. That's all we can say. If Dave allows, I could show it after this. We'll show you guys off camera. And it costs a lot of money in fixing something. Yeah.

We're not even going to worry about it. Mistakes were made. Mistakes were made. There weren't even mistakes. We had a fluke distributor wire pop off, and that led to a whole chain of disgusting events. It's funny how that happens. Yeah. Yeah. Let's move on. Yeah. Moving on. Anyway, what was your favorite vehicle? I don't know.

I hate to do it. It's a Jeep. I mean, I know it's just so next level that you can't even compete with it. The snow rail was awesome, too. It just, unfortunately, had a short life. I wanted to ride in the snow rail so bad. Yeah.

It looked really snowy. That was the nice thing about the Jeep. You sat in it. The heated seats were on, dude. The radio was playing. Dialed. It was great. And it was dragging your ass through the snow today. Listen. It was pretty impressive. Yeah, I'm sorry that nobody said the Ranger Westin. That's all right. It's not my favorite here. I brought it. You know what? A preparation I did. I got back from Florida, and literally I'm sitting there, and I got back at like 5 o'clock that night, and I'm...

I'm like, well, yeah, I ought to go. So I call my brother. I'm like, well, you know, I'll just fly out there. And he's like, why don't we take some? I'm like, we don't have anything to take. We don't have anything that'll go. Like, they'll work out there. And I'm just, like, casually walking by the ranger that I haven't started in three months or done anything with. I'm like, if you start, you're going. I threw it in my face. They're all trembling. I threw a battery in that thing. And I loaded it on the trailer, chained it down. All of you.

See you later. I'm curious what you guys that brought trucks on tires were thinking bringing them to a mountain. Oh, I really didn't care. I didn't care if it worked. The thing is, I was just out here to have a good time. Just wanted to show up with something. Yeah, I just fucking like. The thing is, I'm like, you know, I just can't show up with no. It's like showing up to golf and went to the putter. You got a great driver. You got to have something to play with. It was a good potluck selection.

So I think the thing is, like, at the end of the day, I'm like, I know it's not, like, that's not where this thing's supposed to live. It's not supposed to be out here in four feet of snow. And it's also, it wasn't really ready to go on an adventure. But it's like, if you're ready for an adventure, you know. Bro, that thing belongs at a Van Halen concert. It would get down at a Van Halen concert, wouldn't it? I was loving your early morning, uh,

tuning sessions. You know what? It ran so bad. And the thing is, I put a Holley sniper on it and I couldn't figure out why. And I never tested fuel pressure. It takes like 55 or 60 to make it run. Turns out I had the regulator set at 30.

They ran like garbage. But I set it on up there. I got it running good enough to make it overheat. There we go. There we go. Damn. That's pretty good. Let's be going. Was it the loudest one here? It was, dude. Yeah, it wasn't the most powerful. It got stuck the most, but it was the loudest one here. She made some noise. Oh, she's a noise-making machine. Cleeter, what about you?

I'm going, dude, I got to go with the Timbersled, the 450s, the Timbersled I was riding. Oh, yeah. You're ripping that thing. I love that thing. I mean, I know it's not like one of the YouTuber cars, but I just love that thing. I hate the front end feeling of Timbersled. I love those things. I hate that hard, dull feeling. And then I also want to say that my second favorite vehicle was the InnerTube because...

I got to see Dave built the most ridiculous slide that's from the top of the mountain. It's more of a death chute. It's terrifying. He literally forced us to go down. I mean, there was no saying. I have video proof, yeah. And I saw George fly through the air and land there.

hair first like the top of his head contact the ground his neck had to flex to a 90 degree angle to absorb the rest of his body pile driving it down on top of it it looked even better from the heated seats of the jeep that was uh that was some good old-fashioned fun right there not a camera in sight it was dark out just just a good old living

Yeah, that was cool. And your favorite? Oh, dude. I mean, the Jeep was probably the most fun because I was, like, actually mobbing it. The Snowcat was really cool. I've never driven a Snowcat, so that was, like, you know, a dream. Everything was also, like, brand new. It was so fresh. It doesn't get better than that. And, I mean, dude, just watching, like, Whistlin's Monster Max with the jet engine was, like, dude, my eyes were playing tricks on me. Yeah.

But after watching it, I was like, yeah, of course there should be a jet engine on the back of a monster truck. I was like, I can't imagine a monster truck without a jet engine. I don't know. I don't know. We're on board and have one. Right. Yeah. I was like, it's just, they go hand in hand. And then the Lambo.

That showed us the off-road Lambo, dude. Yeah, he didn't get around very good, but I was like, hey, dude, A for effort for coming. Oh, yeah. We stole your Jeep and went and recovered a Porsche, by the way. Oh, you did? Yeah, we did a heavy D recover video. Oh, yeah. I was towing that Lambo out, and I accidentally snatched it kind of hard. Oh, did you? Yeah.

We snatched the Porsche kind of hard, too. And then I hit Hans with the track of the Jeep with the track of the Razor. Did they knock him down? Well, no, no. He was in a Razor, and I was in the Jeep, and I hit him. Oh, you hit the Razor. Yeah, I hit the Razor. And he's like, that's fine. Hit that. I'm like, okay.

I already hit it. I just rubbed it a little bit. I'm sorry. There was a moment where down in the meadow, you had the Blackhawk, the bus on tracks, Whistlin's, Monster Max. The Lambo and the Porsche were sitting there. It was crazy. You had the Sandro that was broken, but it was still there. And then our R1 sitting there. And then Weston coming. And

and like flying through, like kept going. Like you did like four hot laps back and forth, back and forth, but you was everything in one. He wanted me to crush that camera, so I was just kind of like... And the thing is, the only way that thing works is momentum. Momentum's your friend. So you know this big, like big field out here in the front by the gate, like on the way in? We... I figured out if I get up on top of that hill, I get enough momentum, I get across there. And...

We got flying across there, and I mean, I'm on top, and I just got this thing pinned, and I can't find anything else. The steering wheel, the gear shift, nothing. But I got my foot all the way on the gas pedal. We hit these ruts in the middle of that field. The whole fucking ranger left the ground. The whole thing. Leaf springs and ruts in the snow, and it was like... It started doing this violent bouncing, and after that, I'm like, oh, God, my back hurts so bad.

And then I keep trying to get in and out of that tall thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, I'm kind of over this thing. Is that technically just a mud truck? Is that what it is? You know what's funny? I don't think anything about this has been shown yet, but technically, I thought it was road legal because it's got windshield wipers. It's got headlights, taillights. That's all you need. I thought it was road legal as hell, you know? But these guys from Australia stopped by our shop, and they're like, let's go to lunch. I'm like, fuck yeah. What's more American than fucking...

Going to lunch in a Ford Ranger, dude. Going Ford Ranger with fucking flames on it on 49s, you know? These Australians are like, oh, my God, dude. Yeah, they'd be like, this would be a felony in Australia. I fire it up, and we take it to town and go to lunch, right? And then we get out of the place we went to lunch. I'm like, you know, I probably ought to take it back. I'm like, ah, that's not fucking very American. So I take it right down Main Street in Winfield. I turn the corner, and I see a state trooper sitting there. I'm like, that's not good.

And he pulls over and he just walks up there pissed as hell. And I know who he is. His name's Bob. I'm like, hey, Bob, what's up? Hey, Bob, what's up? I don't worry. I shout him out in my video too. And he walks up there. He's like, Weston, what in the fuck are you doing? Oh, man. Oh, brother. They call him my first name and everything. And he's like, how far is the trailer? I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, how far is the trailer? Where's the trailer at? I'm like, it's at my shop. He's like, you drove this thing all the way down here. I'm like, yeah.

He's like, well, I suggest you call somebody to go get the trailer. I'm going to impound it. So there's like, and then the Australian guy stood in the passenger seat. He's like, hey, can you arrest me for a photo on Instagram? Not now. So like he gets out, handcuffs him, sits him on the curb. We get a bunch of photos for Instagram. And then somebody comes and gets the trailer and then the ranger won't start.

Because the charging system didn't work then either, just like it didn't work today. So we hook it real close to my TRX, pull them both onto the trailer at the same time. Don't tie anything down and go back to the job. Nice. Sitting there, and all the guys that work for me are like, you know, Bob's going to be more mad about this. Got to make it happen. Bob, I love you. I'm sending you a Christmas card. I told you I would then. I will do it. And then they posted it on Kansas Highway Patrol Facebook page. Really?

Really? They took a photo of it and said... They're trying to get some clicks. Yeah, they took a photo of it and said, you know, we pulled this over today for unsafe motor or something. But I wasn't being unsafe. We built this RC four-wheeler. We had this RC four-wheeler built for us. Oh, I love those dudes. Oh, yeah. They built you that gold wing. Yes. Yeah, super nice guys.

We had this four-wheeler, and we're just driving it around, and we don't have many places to drive it, right? So we're, like, getting it on the road, and we're driving it over to our track, which is, I don't know. Close. 500 yards away from our shop, right? A little stint.

And anyway, I kind of lose track of where this thing is at. We're in the truck. I'm driving it. I'm talking to the boys. Well, I forget that this thing is like a full grown four wheeler. Yeah. It hits like our local Wi-Fi and Internet provider box and it hits the box and and breaks the post off. And we're like, ah, damn it. Run down there.

Try and put it back together, but I have a contact over at the place of a guy that always comes to my house. So I call him, and I was like, hey, man, can you just come and make sure that this thing didn't just take out the power for the entire street down below? And he's like, yeah, I'll come and make sure everything's all right. So he comes over, checks it out. He was like, yeah, there's nothing in this box. You're good. We'll just fix it in the spring. Next day.

I get a call from the local sheriff's office. Hey, yeah, we're just calling to check and see what your plan is with that box that you hit. And I go, well, first of all,

I didn't hit anything. The four-wheeler. I was not on that four-wheeler. It's a drone. It was an unmanned four-wheeler. Rogue. And then the second, I was like, dude, what narcs, man? They just ratted on me that quick. They didn't come and ask what we were going to do about it. But that's our recent run-in with the sheriff's office. But they were cool about it. And I was like, yeah, man, we'll get it fixed and everything. You know what's funny is I bought my Humvee in California. And I had a tag for it.

But it kept falling off. So I just threw it in the RV that was following us, you know? So every time, as we're driving it across the country, every time we would see a cop, my videographer would pick up and start recording. And I wouldn't really think too much about it. I'm driving a Humvee. I'm going, brr, this is awful. This just sucks. They're terrible vehicles. It's a terrible fucking vehicle.

I still have mine. It's great. It's great to look at. It looks so cool, but it's awful to drive. Anyway, every time we pass a cop like 100 times all the way back to Kansas, he turns on the camera, hits record, nothing happens. Nobody pulls us over. And then we get like three miles away from Winfield and like five state troopers are sitting next to the road and he turns it on. He's like, I know this is going to be the time.

Drive right past him. Nobody pulls over. And Bob let you through, too? You know, Bob was asleep. Bob don't work nights. It was nighttime. Bob was asleep. But, you know, the thing is, Bob is fair. But Bob is a long dick of justice in town. He makes sure that things are fair. He is very fair, but he is very like, you are going to keep my road safe, damn it. You know what I mean? So I can't give Bob too much grief. But anyway, we get all the way back.

He gets, my videographer gets in his car, a perfectly legal Jeep, gets pulled over two blocks away from the missing tag light. The Humvee has no taillights, no turn signals. It has headlights, no tag. And, like, we drive it, like, 1,500 miles across the country, never get pulled over. He gets pulled over for a tag light two minutes later. That's funny. That's about how it goes. Yeah. Good stuff. I once drove a bus from Salt Lake City to Costa Rica with a...

fake temp tag. Wasn't it that bus? It was this bus's brother. I bought Godham at the same time. I have not driven with a license plate for probably 15 years. I'm a dealer, so I'm always moving back and forth between different vehicles. I just don't ever get anything licensed. 2012, we buy this bus and our goal is to drive it to Panama. We're going to try to do the whole trip in 10 days.

It's really hard to get an unregistered vehicle into a foreign country, especially when it's a commercial vehicle. Makes sense. So they get all them stolen ones on there. Well, we found a way to get the bus in. You basically just have to wait, and the border customs lady has to tell you no enough times that she feels like she's doing her job, and then you just offer her money, and then she takes it. I was stuck at the border three days at the Mexico border, two days at the Guatemala border, a day at the Belize border. Wow.

So it got lower. By the time you get to Chile, you just like roll up there. Come on in! You paint Jesus Christo on the side of your bus, and you say you're a church, and you're fine. Okay. But don't try to take one on your name. Hey, there you go, Wes. The next day you drive a Humphrey across. I put it...

It's church on it. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Yeah, there we go. I think the thing is, I think everybody see me driving by and it's like, I feel sorry for that man. I'm going to pull him over. That sounds like a lot of paperwork. I think the thing about pulling a guy like you over though is like you're getting...

make jokes with them and they're going to laugh and you're going to laugh and they're going to bend you over and spank you a couple times. They were my favorite ones. Bro, have you guys ever seen this YouTube channel where the guy buys the mini Jeep and goes to Moab? Yeah. Yes. That guy has the most underrated channel online.

It's the best channel on YouTube, in my opinion. I've seen the first video of that when it had 12,000 views. Yeah. And I'm like, that shit's good. What video is it? He bought a go-kart Jeep. Drove it really far. He shipped it to Utah and drove it from the top of Utah to Moab. And it was insane. He took a really fucked up route that took 1,000 miles. That dude is so underrated. What is his name?

He blew up the... I don't remember. Look up Moab. It's like C90 Adventures. I want to shout out a YouTube channel, too, that's underrated. This guy, Nathan Carhu. Have you guys seen that guy who does burnouts and drive-thrus at McDonald's and that?

In that regular cab, Silverado. Let me see. Is this a thing? Bro, this kid. Oh, he had the U-Haul that he welded the diff in and was drifting it. Yeah, I didn't see that. Bro, this kid, I've been watching his videos because he did some savage stuff. And he just made this, like, seven-minute-long apology video. And it was like, don't do what I do on the streets. It was pretty funny.

C90 Adventures. It's one of the most entertaining pages I've ever found. Shout out to Slow Diesel. Guy needs subscribers, dude. Edgun Leashy. He shoots squirrels with his super high-powered airsoft rifles. And he's just got scope cams, dude. It's so good. I think I'm

Also, Peter's Outdoors. I think I'm more on the burnouts and the McDonald's kind of thing. Everyone's got to shout out one YouTube channel before we end. Extending the olive branch and then we're rest. Western Champ one too. Dude, I love it. Dude, shout out to all of your guys' YouTube channels. Thanks for coming on our podcast and taking the time. I think we're like...

Over two hours. Yeah, we told you guys like, yeah, maybe just 30 minutes. So we really, I knew that was really appreciate it. I knew it was a lot too. Yeah, we knew it was a lot. He's like 20 minutes. You like you, you cool to jump on. Well, the good thing is, is that it was going so well. We enjoyed talking to you guys so much that we just did the whole thing with you guys. So the question is how many bleeps are going to be in it? None. Zero. Actually, I don't know. We might actually have to start. I'll talk to you about that though. Yeah. I think we might be getting throttled.

Throttle? Yeah. Dave needs to get back to his snowcat, guys. Dude, I got snow to groom. That whole place out there is not un-groomed. You can fall behind. Hey, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for coming on the podcast. We love you, and we'll see you in the next one. Hey, brother. Beep.

Rusty Clark, an Army and Air Force veteran, needed treatment at a VA hospital. Meet his wife, Juanita. We live above Borgentown, West Virginia. It would take us about seven hours to get here. And I was prepared to sleep on the hospital floor beside of Mr. Clark. But the

Fisher House opened up that door. We had a lovely suite to stay in. We had food to eat. We didn't have to worry about that because of Fisher House, the foundation. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher took care of all that years ago, following their dream to make our reality that we were together and we could be treated here. It's a great blessing.

I was in the Army Guard, and then I went into the Air Force, and then I met Juanita. Because of family's love. It's good medicine.