Ben's Emergency Surgery, Important Male Skills, & Our Largest Subscriber Meetup
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- I started feeling bad for Evan a little bit when people would just come up and be like, "Man, Evan, you are so short." - If you saw someone like fiddling around with an eagle, you'd probably be like, "I don't know what this guy's doing, but like he's got a bald eagle." - I think my neighbors are so confused by me already. - One day you pull up in a Lambo, the next the ambulance is taking you out, man.

So I was taking my boat out of the water today and I asked my parents to help me. So my dad pulls the trailer over and he backs it in and I pull it in. I was having so much anxiety getting it, uh,

Out of the water? Because I was just waiting for somebody to be standing there with a phone and be like, we're putting this guy on the news. Yeah, it would be rightful. And next thing I know, I'm like, dad, dad, hey, to the left, to the left. The trailer's sitting sideways. I'm yelling and I'm trying to crank and I can't crank because I'm leaning over the boat and I'm not supposed to be cranking. And next thing you know, there's a little bit of confrontation. I'm getting hot just looking around. Oh, no. I'm like, just put...

I just pulled it out. He's like, what? I'm like... It was like, dude, all we need is just one person to just catch this on video and be like... Viral. Yeah, these guys that put other people on the news... That would just be funnier. ...are getting put on the news. For sucking at backing up. Taking your boat out and backing up in the water. But yeah, I guess for the listeners...

We did this bit in a video going to the boat ramp with a bunch of our friends. There's 10 of us there basically cheered people on coming in and out of the water. And then if people were doing a bad job backing up, you know, encourage them to do a better job. People love the YouTube video. And then we recut it up, put it on Instagram and it went viral on Instagram. It's got like almost 500,000 shares on Instagram. Wow. That's people sharing to another person. Like, isn't that crazy? Well, it's just so relatable. Yeah.

I feel like everybody who's been at a boat ramp is at the same thing. Oh, 100%. I saw another video on Instagram the other day of just a dad standing outside the window or the hotel was next to it. And there was 10 different clips of him watching the boat ramp throughout the weekend. And I commented, we need to get this guy in our next boat ramp video. I feel like it's just a standard male pastime. Going to the lake.

yelling at your wife for doing a bad job backing up the boat trailer the other times you've been there plus that day no there was a lot of like uh husband to wife like all right i'll make sure you do this isn't that i'm sure the kid with the megaphone did not frustrating it's a high-ten situation it really is so anyway yeah i was laughing though i was i was uh pretty nervous that somebody was gonna get it i should have been evan was just making fun of me for like

how i back up because i'm i was backing up a trailer and i don't use the mirrors i mean of course i like use them a little bit i don't use i use the backup camera about as much as i use the mirrors i go like this like you know obviously yeah throw it over yeah i'm just like really i'm like an owl like fully turned around and he's like why do you do that like it's just unnecessary i'm like totally agree it's so unnecessary yeah but it feels better it feels like you have more control the

the like the scaredness like if i'm at the boat ramp i'm not scared because i'm like i can see like i'm like fully turned around but if i'm depending on the mirrors my brain might short circuit and then i feel like all you gotta do is just look at one side and know like i gotta hold it to here and that actually is that's the best advice you give it's like yeah if it's a high stakes situation you gotta look at everything but if it's a normal backup just watch at one side yeah yeah there's few things that are more insulting to a man

than being called a bad backer-upper with a trailer. That seems to just hit a soft spot on really any guy that considers himself a man. I think just being a good driver in general is important for a guy. Sure, you could chalk it up to that. Like if you're a bad driver and you say that to a male. Remember that one time in Afton, we were on a snowmobile trip and I went down the wrong road and then I just backed

the trailer up. We were at a T, or not a T, whatever one of these intersections are, full-blown four-way stop. And then I just backed up in front of that car that was driving down the icy road, and we almost caused that pileup. Oh, yeah. That was probably my...

latest almost big mistake. That was pretty good though. You backed up like three miles. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You backed that thing up like three miles. I've never seen anything like it. It was really impressive. Or when we took the RV and we went, when we were doing the eBay motor shoot, we went in that neighborhood and I was like, oh, there's an airport back here. I'll be able to turn around there. And then there wasn't. You backed the whole thing up.

We had to back the whole rig up. Ryan spent a lot of time in reverse. What are you doing here right now, Ryan? Just trying to talk about all your good times that you successfully backed up out of a hard situation? Yeah, man, you're good at backing up. Hey, you remember that time I did that whole mile-long drag strip backing up and I beat that other car that was going forward? Remember when I beat you in a backup race and then you had to get a nipple piercing? I do remember that, yeah.

But yeah, just the other day we're filming rollers and CJ is in Cormorant. I saw you in the, the Cormorant community center parking lot. Like you could have turned around, kind of chat with Ben a little bit, look back up. CJ's in reverse. And I was racing that other car, racing a car. And then that car was trying to, not sure if he knew he was racing. It was hilarious. Cause,

I was in, you know, obviously the correct lane if I would have been going forward. But then I was like, you know what? We live in the middle of a tiny little town. No one's coming this way. I'm going to just throw it in reverse, drive half a mile down this way, and say what's up to the guys. So I'm going reverse, and then another car comes up. And when I punched in reverse, they were just – and we were just even. And, like, I would just be – I was, like, going. I was using my mirror. And every time I'd look over at him, we would just look at each other, and he's just like this.

I was just cracking up and he did not. He was just like confused. Yeah. He didn't even imagine as most people would be. I was waiting for him to be like, this is funny. We're like kind of racing, but I had that thing to the floor. And man, there's so many instances like we're all

I'll say it. We're respectful most of the time, like in our small community. I would say like literally most of the time, but sometimes, sometimes we just like, we just, CJ was having fun there and the guy was having fun with you, but people are, you know, from the outside. I don't think the guy was having fun with me.

Maybe not. He was waiting for C.J. to pull an accidental J-turn and take him out. I think that guy was just driving to the store and got caught up in a race he didn't know he was a part of. Imagine someone beating you in reverse in a race. It'd be embarrassing. Fast and furious style, dude. A lot of instances. Yeah, you look over at his dumb Toretto. His bald-ass head. Shave my head. Yeah.

Dude, you would look like Dom if you shaved your head. I'd have to get more jacked, man. There's so many instances where we just have to make it happen when it comes to making a video. And Cormorant and the surrounding area is an extension of that sometimes. We just kind of make it happen. So I'm sure sometimes people are just like, these guys, they're always in the way, even though we're not. I mean, do you think that? I hope not. I don't think that. I think we're like... I think, yeah, sometimes people have to be like, geez, I'm not even saying mad. They're just like, this particular day, they're just like...

geez, these guys are like, they've been back and forth on the road like 16 times. I feel like we're almost like a myth. Like you hear about us, but you don't even, you never really see us and you never really know when we're operating. You never really know what's going to, so like, it's like we do something that just happened so quick as like, right. You missed it. So when you do see us, maybe they're like, you know, Whoa, like, yeah, this is supposedly where they're at, but no one ever knows what they're going to do next. And it's just like, you don't even know what happened.

Yeah, until it's done. I looked out my window and I saw this big water truck, this old water truck driving down the road and a man standing on top spraying water. And he looked an awful lot like the decal on the side. Yeah, and then I love that. And they're probably like... And then I...

I think that was the only time that whole year I saw the water truck driving. Yeah, apparently it's a business in the area. Mike's watering service, he flooded the shit out of the community center flowers, but I haven't seen him come back. That is the case too, though. Think like with the water truck, me standing on top of it, a bunch of other, let's say we're running tiny through town. Like that might be, if someone sees us out, like that's probably the only time they'll ever see that vehicle out and about. Yeah, I would like to think that people look at it as like a myth.

Most of the time, no one's ever really around when we're doing stuff. My buddy who knows them just says they're always editing. They're at the computer. I always ask them what they're up to today and they always go, nothing. Just hanging around. Just hanging around. Just like Beetlejuice. Then all of a sudden, they just appear. People have been loving the Hummer. I was just driving with Alondra this morning.

10.30 a.m. on a Sunday, and there was a woman with a minivan that had driven out into our field and was taking a picture like this of the Hummer in the air. Did you go and tell her to get her ass out of our property? No, I just let her have her moment. I didn't want to disturb. It's kind of like a peaceful thing. Well, it's like a historic landmark. It's going to be there forever. Hundreds of years. I saw one comment. It said the Hummer's been on land once.

water now air it just needs to be lit on fire and it would have all four areas I think that's called burning man yeah I was like we could do our own little burning man and it's like the neighbors look out their window next week and it's just like this crowd of people and the hummers like there's flames going up the pole yo that would be an amazing meeting oh that would be an amazing event it would be we could bring a DJ in that's what we need to do is we need to do an event yeah

We could have an awesome event out in that field. We could. We get the track dialed in. We maybe get some music. I could live out my dream of being a DJ. We could literally have an event for subscribers to come out and have a good time. And there'd be stuff to do. Because, I mean, just think about it. Like, the crowd we draw for Hay Days, and, like, they're paying to get into Hay Days just to see us for, you know, signing and whatever. But we could actually have a good, good, good time. Yeah.

real good time with them. Stuff to see besides just pictures. And stuff for them to do. Obviously, there's a lot of liability that we'd need a lawyer to probably, there'd be waivers and whatnot, but... Our insurance guy just had a heart attack. He's not sure why. Well, our insurance guy also thinks that we're just editing. Yeah, right. Exactly.

That's true. What do you do? What kind of work are you in? Just an editor. You know, a video editor. No, I think that's a great idea though, CJ. Think about that. I guarantee you people are going nuts in the comments right now. They're like, I will come to that. That'd be great. I don't know where everyone stay. Maybe it's like RV parking, but it'd probably fill up. Now we're talking. Pretty cool. Like, like a lot of liability, but having like RV parking, that'd be pretty cool.

man no i i think we actually should uh shout out to everyone that came to our heydays booth so fun um crazier and crazier like blows our mind every year yeah it was amazing and uh so we do like a meet and greet and we do a meet and greet all day because we try and meet as many people as possible and every year it gets a little bit longer of a line people were waiting in long in line for like three hours long time so shout out to those people we try and give everyone a you know great

great experience without making the line four hours for like the next people. It's a tough balance, man. It is a tough balance, but it would be cool to do our own event, put together like a full day experience, I guess. Yeah. I would love to see that Hummer on fire, man. I can't get that image out of my head. Like at 10 o'clock we're lighting the Hummer on fire for like a ceremonial passing of the Hummer.

At that point, then we would have to finally pay Ryan. In my opinion, the thing doesn't suck. I love the Hummer. And then once we turn into a boat, like I really love, well, then I started loving it a lot. So if it was on fire, it'd make me sad, but sacrifices need to be made. Yeah. In the name of the burning circle. Yeah. Complete the circle.

What if something crazy happened after it started on fire? Like Avatar comes out, dude. Fucking aliens come down to Earth. We just unlock some things. It wouldn't be like that. It would be cool. But I heard they just discovered another alien, but then it turns out it was just cake. It was just cake. Oh, yeah. I saw that. Which is still funny. I got a good laugh out of that.

Hey, Mike, I just want to be a good friend and let you know that you have a piece of black stuff in your tooth. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you.

Thank you. You know who's the best at telling you you have shit in your teeth or your nose or your face? Evan. Really? You wouldn't believe it, but I just will put that as a PSA. I think no matter how rude it might come across or how awkward it is, you should always tell someone. Yeah, I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me I have food on my face. Even if it's super awkward when you tell them. I had that at Hay Day's. It was a guy I'd only met just a few times. Pretty popular fellow. Second time meeting him, and he...

just had a big old booger in his nose and i go i could let him continue on with his night or i could just be the guy who tells him oh you did and i just go hey man you got a you got a booger in your nose he goes you got it and he goes i get it i'm like yeah he goes thank you he goes i've talked to 15 people that no one said anything he goes that's a real friend right there and then you start to like resent you start to resent the other people you talk to that didn't tell you exactly friends they are you know what i have to

help you out on it seems like at least once a week is your zipper being down as sus as that is I know I hate to even say that but no and I'm bad about it too the worst is when a wiener falls out and you're just walking around we were in Walmart the other day and Mike was in the grocery aisle and the wiener was hanging out and he'd go Mike your wiener's

It's amazing how long he can go through his day without people noticing. The guy greeting him at the door, that was pretty rude of him not to mention that Mike's wiener. No, I think the worst part is if you maybe notice it at one point in the day, you might notice it later in the day too, and that's actually a second offense. I left it down again, and I'm going to blame the damn Hollister pants with just buttons up the front. That's all I had.

for like a stint, you know, when I was like, yeah, when I was like, no, they didn't come undone. I just like, it just had buttons. So I never used a zipper. I shouldn't say never, but a zipper wasn't really, it was foreign to me. So like I just said,

One of the simplest devices. No, no. I was just used to buttons. Mike's not used to regular pants. Not how to use it. I know how to use a zipper. The buttons, you either button them or you don't. But the zipper is like you button and you zipper. I think it was the first guy in line at Hay Days. I saw a guy with a zipper. It was the first guy in line at Hay Days. Mike goes, hey, your zipper's down. And imagine this dude's

I then asked him, how long you been standing here? And he goes, 6.30. And it was 9. So it was two and a half hours been standing there waiting. And the first thing, the first thing one of his favorite people in the world says is, you're a zipper. To be fair, to be fair, to come back, I'm pretty sure the first like 15 people told Mike how bad he looked. Really? No, right away in the morning. Some people were being kind of, they're like, man, Mike, you look a lot rougher in person. And then at first, I was like, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm hungover. After, like, 10? And then I started to hear it more. I'm just like, oh, man. Just... I get it. These guys are coming. It was, like, everybody with Evan. God. Evan probably got told how short he was. Yeah.

75 times. Yeah. People love Scott. It was like every other person was like, oh. And he took it well, but. He did. I think to be fair, it's like. To be fair. To be fair. It's like the icebreaker. Yeah, exactly. Of like kind of the icebreaker. What do I say? Or what's the first thing? Yeah, you're trying to come up with something other than just hi. Yep. Honestly, the dude is so small. If I met him in person after watching every video. Oh my God.

He's like what? Probably like four foot nine. I,

he's in the fours he's he's 411 yeah we'll go on and then we'll go on to segue to he's taller to like short people being kind of like rippers so you got him you got like we got to meet uh levi lavalier yeah we ronnie renner was short too all those guys were tiny dude like you meet him and you're like around and you just say well whoa you know like how do you do what you do and be that size and it just seems to be yeah but isn't travis pastrana tall

Well, that's why he told Levi LaValle, he goes, dude, I'm so jealous of your size. You're built like a bowling ball. You must be able to crash and tumble so well. Yeah. Because he was like, when I crash, I'm all flailing all over the place. I'm a safety hazard. But you, it's just like, doo, doo, doo, which is so true. Evan is just like a little meatball. Honestly, though, I started feeling bad for Evan a little bit when people would just come up and be like, man.

Evan you are so short like 14 they're like I'm taller than you and I'm 14 like they just they like just keep going it's almost the same as like walking up to someone being like man you are ugly you know like it's it's kind of like on the same like it's pretty rude it's something you can't control and it's just like obviously it's light or it seems like it's easier to say but it

you know, it's like, man, you are overweight, you know, or like, man, you are super skinny. Like you've like no muscle at all. Like, you know, it's like, man, you smell like shit. I feel like the smell like shit one is valid because like you can fix that. That's true. You can fix that. I used to get it before Evan was a part of the group. I used to get the short comments and I,

I don't think that I'm that short. Yeah, Ben's like maybe half an inch shorter than me. You're like average height. I'm 5'9". Oh, you are? Well, he's a lot shorter. Ken, can you look up average height of a U.S. male? It's like...

He just knows it off the top of his head. Alex, can you grab a tape measure from downstairs? I haven't measured myself in probably five years. Average male height in the U.S. is 5'9". Nice. Right now, we're average. I'm average, and I'm just a little above average on the smartness. And that's in the U.S., I'm assuming. What's the average height of a male in China? Judging by the...

Size of our Chinese trucks. Just triggered everyone. In our parking lot. Actually, in China, the average male height is 5'8". I don't know if I believe that, but... You'd be stupider than all of them, but you would be a little taller. Just saying. That might help out. That's like... So you obviously found Evan. Yeah.

You know, you're like, we got to find another short guy. So I don't have to be looked at as so short. I'm trying to find a new stupidest member. That won't be hard. There's one right there. No, but that's what I'm saying. I'm sick of having all the pressure of being the stupidest. We're going to have to search for a while. Stupid or new. Dude, I don't think it'd be hard at all. Take your shoes off before you do this. Don't want to give you any. Got to be exact. Got a half an inch of hair there.

Are you sure you want to do this, Ben? Actually, that's a good question. We're doing it on the record. Ben's height. We're going to get this figured out. Mike, you take the phone. Don't move that phone up at all. Oh my gosh. I'm not. He's excited, dude. 69 inches. Alex, what's the ideal height? I feel like women always say they want a tall man. What's considered tall? Six foot. You have to be six foot up? Some girls really make it up.

Yeah, I'd say like starting it. As long as they're taller. Do guys want, or do girls want tall guys? You just have to be taller than the girl. Yeah, I mean, I feel that. Some girls are really terrible, like really tall.

Alondra's always on me because she has I have a long torso and she has long legs so when we take a picture I'll pop it up and show you guys she also wears high-waisted jeans and I wear low-waisted jeans but look how funky we look because her legs are so much longer than mine holy shit yeah is that wide-angled though? I don't know I honestly never noticed but now that you pointed out Ryan you should start wearing high-waisted jeans

So you guys, you don't think it's going to work out? God, I hope so. She's like, look, one of us needs to change and it's not going to be me. I'm not making these legs any shorter. It's tough out here, man. I guess I'm not a runner, you know? I don't know if running would make your legs longer, Ryan. No, but it would be like I would be. So dumb. It's hard to sit at the same table.

Well, it's a good thing you're all the way over there. He said, beat your ass. Let me at him. Typical stupid behavior. Tries to fight when he says something dumb. He's a hothead, too. Doesn't know how to control his emotions. Goddamn. Not only does this guy have a long torso, just an awkwardly long torso. He's got a short fuse. There we go.

Long torso, short fuse. This should be the caption of your next picture, right? I'm 5'10 and a half, Ben. Really? You're an inch and a half shorter than me. Are you? Yeah, 5'10 and a half. People that are below six feet don't...

They don't add halves. People above six feet don't. Sorry, that is what I meant to say. I'm like 5'9 1⁄2". Do I round up? I'm literally 5'10 1⁄2". Do I round up to 5'11 and be lying? Or do I round down and be humble? And sell myself short. When you say how long your dick is, do you say it's five inches? Or do you round up to six? That one's totally fair to use deaths.

Well, it depends who you're telling. Three and three quarter. So...

Got my appendix taken out this week. Ooh, yeah. That sucks. Let's talk about it. Literally the most painful thing I've ever endured. Really? Hands down. Yeah. If they're like, hey, what's your pain on a scale of 1 to 10? You're like 9, 10. Yeah. What was the deal? Like you went to bed, felt fine, woke up, and it hurt? Or you couldn't sleep? Like what? No. So Monday this week, got done filming, ate dinner, and then was just chilling, watching TV, and was like, ah, damn, I can't.

I kind of got to like, what'd you go up or go to the bathroom? Just like a noodle dish or something. Normal food. Yeah. I go home, tried throwing up. Really? Yeah. Cause I was like, I don't feel good. I feel like I need to just get this out of the way. Okay. It was like nine o'clock on Monday night and I couldn't throw up. Couldn't go to the bathroom. Next thing I know, I'm like laid out on my bathroom floor,

All night long. Three finger tickling the back of my throat trying to like make myself throw up. Because at this point you thought you were sick. I thought I had food poisoning. Yeah, yeah. And I would drink a bunch of water and then I would just throw up the water. Oh, so you were, okay. I didn't get any sleep all night. And the whole time I was just thinking about the story that you told me, Ryan, when your appendix or when you thought that you were having an appendicitis. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you were calling me in the middle of the night, do I have health insurance? Should I go in? Oh, my gosh. And I didn't. But you didn't end up, like, you woke up the next morning, you felt fine, right? No, I still hurt. But basically, throughout the entire night, Alondra called me a baby for having a bellyache. Okay. And I went, I guess I have a bellyache then. But it was... Quit being a little baby. Let's go take some pills. But it ended up being too much crab, wasn't it? Yeah, it was too much butter. Apparently, I have a butter in my arms. But...

Like I didn't eat, didn't dump, didn't do any. Like I literally couldn't even drink water because like my whole body hurt. And I felt the same way. Like I needed to throw up, but couldn't. So anyway, continue on. So I was thinking about that. And I was like, well, Ryan, you know, kind of had similar symptoms and he didn't end up having it. And then our friend Justin got engaged, got a dog and an appendicitis all within like three hours of each other. Yeah.

And we were just talking about that the other day and I was like, well, maybe it could be that. I'm like going back and forth. I didn't get a dog or engaged. I skipped so many steps. And,

And all night long, I'm just debating like, oh, man, maybe I am just being a pussy. Going back and forth. And finally, at like 10 a.m., called Greta. And I was like, can you bring me to the ER? This is not normal. Like, something's going on. I couldn't drive. I couldn't even move, dude. I tried walking to my fridge. And I'm like hunchbacked over, like shuffling my feet, trying to get to my fridge and

And so they bring me in and they were like, you know, trying to diagnose it without giving me a CT scan. The CT scans, they try and avoid them. And then like this car crash happened and a bunch of people came into the ER and a bunch of sirens were going off. Like everyone get to the emergency room right now. Boom, boom, boom. Cold red. Yeah. Cold red. So I'm laying there like, like crippling pain. Yeah.

Like, all right, let's get the CT scan done with. Because they were like, we'll get you in there at any minute. Next thing I know, I'm waiting four hours for the CT scan. Yeah, because God forbid people were dying. But that's what I mean. At this point, you make me feel like an asshole, Ryan. You had to lay there and you still didn't know that it was appendicitis. Yeah, because usually an appendicitis is lower and my whole stomach hurt and

So that's why they didn't really know. I had to poop real bad. That's why I was like, I hate to go in. I hate to go into the ER and they're just like, look, buddy, here's a bunch of laxatives. You can't use our toilet. Go to the holiday across the street. And use the walk-in clinic next time. Yeah, so...

I end up getting a CT scan. The nurse runs in and was like, you're having acute appendicitis. Thankfully, it hasn't burst, but we have to get you into surgery immediately. And then 45 minutes later, I was put under anesthesia, and they chopped it out of me. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty fast moving, but they were like, if it were to burst, your appendix holds so much toxins. It's kind of a filter for your body. Okay.

And if it were to burst into your bloodstream, real bad. Real bad. Real, real, real bad. I guess like that happens though, right? As in like not like...

Like life-threatening right, but you don't have to say like that CJ. What's gonna filter that now wait, but yeah, what I see you're fine What happens if it bursts like it's not life-threatening, right? It's life. Oh, yeah Like Justin's nobody's bird you want to feel like you were here right now and it burst and you're like I'm not going to the doctor Yeah, I mean I've gone 15 years that appendix and I'm fine well Ken's debatably

Do you have your tonsils? Tonsils do something kind of similar. I got those taken out too.

out too really man you are susceptible you got your wisdom teeth all important organs out ken you got your wisdom teeth no i do have tonsils i don't have wisdom oh oh yeah same thing no easily confused what a dentist does and the other one is surgery oh really i honestly thought a dentist took your tonsils out i thought they were the same for a second but i i'm mistaking those one is a tooth what are wisdom teeth anyway anyway that sucked that sucked real bad

Yeah. And still feeling it. Really? But also like. Yeah. I mean, they. So it was like a laparoscopic surgery. So it's like three small incisions. And then they like go in there and they still put me under anesthesia. I. The last thing I remember is. Yeah. Did you try to fight it? One. One nurse going. My son's a big fan. I think I would take a picture. What a great thing to drift off to. Yeah. And then I woke up. I woke up. I woke up.

Hell yeah. In the start, I woke up, you know, like in the hospital room and I just remember going, all right, we doing the surgery or what? They were like, oh, it's done. The amount of confusion I had, I was like, what just happened to the last two hours of my life? It's crazy how it's just, man, just nothing. Nothing. Wow.

Yeah. So do you feel different? I feel like I was like cut open and like part of my body was taken out of me. Do you really feel that way? Well, I feel like shit. Yeah. Like, like, uh, I've had really bad brain fog like the past couple of days, mostly from getting put to sleep.

have a hard time the way that is articulating words you guys made fun of me so that helps oh of course true yeah you were singing you know that song Richmond North of Richmond or whatever it is Ben's just like Northman Rich Northman dude and we just took that and ran all day we're like living

Uncle Rich is going to Northland. He's just singing all the words wrong. No, I felt like an old tractor starting up. It's just shrinking. Still trying to get going. Yeah. We didn't really talk about it in the video other than a quick thing, but it is crazy. You went to work. Then you had a full day. I filmed all day. Yeah. Well, then you had a Tuesday of being sick.

sick and in the hospital all day and then Wednesday all day in bed you must have had your computer propped up somehow edited Thursday all day edited I didn't edit at all on Wednesday I lied to you guys oh really yeah I thought I could but I it's a good thing that I didn't it's a good thing that I didn't because you guys would have

I was like so... Just lost. You guys think that my brain isn't working now. You guys should see Wednesday. Oh, man. I bet. But I mean, that is some serious freaking dedication. Grinding it out on Thursday, though. Yeah, that is... I mean, we filmed a little bit on Thursday, too. Yeah. Out in the field. Walked around the pit bike track. I mean, I would assume most people would at least take a couple days off of work. Well, I would have liked to.

It would have been nice. Are you going to like do any lifestyle changes now that your appendix is gone? Dude. Okay. I was thinking about this though. And they were like telling me that the reason that my appendix was so inflamed and it was about to burst had nothing to do with my lifestyle or like anything. It just is the luck of the draw. And I was like, bullshit.

There's no fucking way. I have heard that, though. They say that it's just like, oh, it's just at random. Yeah, maybe for some cases, but I was like thinking of like the last eight years of my life. But let's just say the last eight days. Film a video all week. Edit it. Hop on a plane. Go to Bristol, Tennessee. Bang out another video. No sleep. Hop on a plane. Come back.

Hit a video, edit it, hop in the car, go to heydays, no sleep, do the meet and greet all day, party heydays night, get no sleep again, eat like shit, like fair food, and then come home, start stressing and planning the next week. And then a bunch of things happened on Monday, super stressed. And then boom, it all just like came crashing down at once. And it was like between like stress and...

poor diet, and then just lack of sleep. I was like, I'm not that surprised. So what, what in your appendix is bacteria? I don't, I think they say it's like a filter for your body. See, that's why I only drank a lot of Mountain Dew because my body is such an uninhabitable place that no sickness can take over me because

Because sickness can't survive inside of me. It is funny how I try to be as like health conscious as possible. And it's tough with the lifestyle that we live, how fast paced it is. And I would consider myself a relatively healthy human compared to my surrounding comrades.

you guys i would i would agree yeah i would agree and then that shit happens and i'm like oh it is i'm like now i'm second guessing everything like damn maybe i just need to think less so something that like i mean we talked about it before we're like you know the more you expose yourself drink the well water what hose water whatever something that blows my mind and is definitely gonna gross you out but gross me out gross me out bad so we're at heydays i probably shook and noxed and

whatever high fives literally 2,500 people in a day and then I mean I try to stay away from the finger food and stuff but like I'm just saying it had to be at least one point where like I got some food or something on my finger and I go like

yep, that's effed up. And I just like, I thought about it and I let it get to me. And then of course I'm like, well, I've done that my whole life. So like that calmed me down. Well, it just like, yeah, I mean, no exchange germs with 2,500 people and then lick your finger. Yeah. It comes down to just having a strong immune system. But even at that,

rate on that amount of people it's like how strong can you possibly have that's why I was trying to do nucks but if someone went for the handshake you have to do a handshake that's like disrespectful I guess it's just being more conscious of like washing your hands and that wasn't super available there but I'm like I can go through a whole day without washing my hands try not to let that happen anymore but like it's just

It's just kind of gross. Yeah. Part of being a boy. Yeah, there is something about building up the immune system for that. Like not being afraid of germs. Yeah, for sure. But there's a line though, you know, it's like. Yeah, we're protecting yourself versus. My mom works in a hospital and is constantly around sick people. Never get sick.

Really? It's pretty impressive actually. And of course they have tons of things. They're washing their hands 75 times a day and doing all the different things, but it's impressive. She never gets sick.

She probably has a strong immune system too from being around her. Built up, never got COVID, all that shit, never got it. She really does it. That's crazy. Yeah, knock on wood. But I mean, yeah, it's pretty impressive. So there is maybe something to be said about little doses of sickness. Dude, I have so much respect for the healthcare workers that live in that environment. Oh, yeah. Day in and day out. Just the shit that they see and experience in like...

In your mom's case with pediatric being young, that's heavy, dude. I have no idea how she does it. I couldn't. Certain people can do it. I could not do that.

I could not do that. That'd be too tough for me. What's the hospital like now? Like, have they upgraded from those, like, old shitty tube TVs? Do they have basic cable? Are you still watching, like, static Jeopardy? Hey, this guy really never does get sick. I wasn't turning on the TV. You couldn't even turn on the TV? Well, I could have, but I didn't. Like, I was just literally just sitting there in agonizing pain. I didn't even have my phone. Oh, wow. I was just straight up just, like, staring at the ceiling thinking about how bad this sucked. Dude.

yeah that makes for a long day yeah but i i mean yeah i don't know there's technology and shit there there is yeah okay well that's good to hear at least like i didn't know if they just set like a old transmitter radio next to your bed and like put on am radio and just let you suffer i don't know what the surgery bill is i've health insurance thankfully like be nice it's

you know, it's probably like a $20,000 surgery or something like that. So I'd hope that they'd have not tube TVs. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And hopefully insurance covers it. I mean, like Alondra has insurance and then still got a bill for three grand. Your bill is still, you got your, yeah, at least six, but probably closer to eight.

Really? I thought we had like a $2,000 deductible. What the fuck is insurance for then? Excuse my language. For my neck last year, I paid like $6,000 or $7,000 out of pocket. And what was it total? Like $20,000. And I didn't even have surgery. Yeah, that's actually wild. When I was in the just about to be wheeled into the operating room,

I look over at Greta and I go, I don't think that my insurance covers this. And she goes, why do you say that? And I was like, I think it's for like a different hospital because it's like there was like certain plans. And I was just like...

Fuck it. Yeah. She goes, well, nothing you can do now. And I was just like, all right, whatever. It's so much pain. I was like, I don't even care right now. Like, imagine they're about to wheel in and you're like, stop, stop all operations. I wonder who gets all that money. I say like the worst best part is like the doctors. They go to school eight, nine years. Yeah, but they get that. I'm saying like a lot of it goes to the hospital. Yeah.

I think they're paid a salary. I think they're paid a salary unless you're a private practice. I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure you get salaried out if you're a... I always just figured like some doctors... You know how some doctors are like operators, like surgeons. They're super gung-ho and they're like, yeah, you know, I don't do many extra curricular activities. Like I like to do like

five surgeries a week and some are like i usually do one and obviously there's different extenses to the surgeries but interesting you know some doctors seem like gung-ho and they're like ripping through surgeries and trying to make that dough i guess man surgeons deserve the salaries that they're paid i agree yeah and they can't have a bad day in that can look up like average uh surgeon salaries um in fargo very so like our local town it varies from 280 to 550

They come out with obviously a shitload of debt.

Yeah. Like an insane... I've heard they come out of school with a million bucks worth of debt. That is so crazy. I'm sure more. But also, a million bucks worth of debt is nothing. You could go and start a business, a plumbing business, and it could be a million bucks worth of debt to start a plumbing business. Yeah, true. People are so afraid of debt. Debt doesn't mean anything if you're working towards something. Yeah, it's an investment in yourself. But if you decide you go to school for nine years to be a surgeon and then decide you want to like...

Save the trees in Alabama. Then you should probably evaluate. You can sell a plumbing business, but you can't sell your knowledge, obviously. But it is that time spent. Some doctors coming out of school, granted they've been in school for 12 years with everything piled up, and their base salary is 1.2 million. They're making a bunch of dough. But

They deserve it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Because you don't want the cut rate guy in there today. He's like, yeah. So the guy that cost a million a year, he's busy. So we've got Freddie. Yeah. We pay him 75 and he also sweeps the floors. And you're just like, no, give me the guy. To what you said. Yeah. You can't have a bad day. Like you. Yeah. I mean, there's such a thing as like canceling, postponing surgery. But you can't.

You can't come in even if you were like, yeah, like I smacked my elbow really hard last night. Even that could, you know, mess your whole... Or you have a bad night's sleep. Just think about that. Like you got a huge surgery. You gotta have the best bed in the world if you're a surgeon. What I was saying though about like the hospital surgeons, they're salaried versus like...

Let's say you're a breast implant surgeon. You have your own practice. Like those guys are making a lot more than I'm pretty sure. Like I'm sure those guys are getting probably 280 and the titty surgeons are probably getting...

or a mil, you know, like those are like, you know, or whatever else kind of like a, obviously brain surgery is probably the most difficult. What do I know? But, you know, I think it was different. I think a lot of those like private practice people, like their customer bill is less, but their take home pay is way more. that's what I was saying though. Like, I wonder how much the hospital gets that if you, if it was 30 grand,

grand for that like it didn't go to the surgeon because he's probably getting a salary yeah anesthesiologist you have all the support staff you have the yeah there's still there's a there's got to be a profit going out there oh yeah that's right and i'm that's what i was wondering who got that money why yeah i mean it's a business like you know sanford is that a public but who owns that danny sanford no it's a public entity so that guy's getting the money it's a non-profit yeah i

So then it's non-profit. Where does that money go then? Why does it cost so much? It's a non-profit integrated healthcare delivery system. Okay. I don't know how the fuck that works. Could you see their annual revenues? $5.2 billion in 21. What?

It was a pretty big nonprofit, if you ask me. What's the nonprofit side of the business? Well, they just get to build sports arenas and different stuff like that.

Like they built Family Wellness, which is Sanford-sponsored, but it's technically not, so then he can make money there charging $100 a month. There's a whole good system to it. Dude, okay, so I watched Painkillers on Netflix. Have you guys watched it? Oh, yeah. It's about the Sackler family and OxyCottons. Crazy. Crazy just like how –

bad oxy cottons were and the amount of people that got addicted to it because the abuse because they said that they were non-addictive or believed to be non-addictive just a blatant lie it's it's insane to think about how much money that made the sackler family and like they didn't even care about the money at a point they wanted the name to be like outlive

you know, generations to generations be like a Rockefeller kind of name. You know, like these uber rich, like it gets to the point where like,

five million bucks donated to have your name on a football stadium or whatever for your local college and it's like the roth stadium or something like that like that gets them off so much more than like making money and like that's like what the sackler family was doing donating a bunch of money to like art museums and stuff like that so their name was like all over and it would outlive because they wanted it to be like remembered for an art museum the art

the Sackler Art Museum versus, oh, the family that created OxyContin. Yeah, the drug epidemic. But it's crazy to think about how many things have a name connected to it that, you know, could be connected to like dirty money like that. I'm sure. And I think, yeah, I'm sure like it's, you know, probably getting aired out, you know, things like that.

More and more now. I think so too. Yeah. Oh, that was crazy. If you guys haven't watched Painkiller, watch it. It's extremely eye-opening. It is interesting how like, I don't know, just like the tumultuous lifestyle of always wanting more. Initially, they were probably after money and they had money, but then they're like, oh, I want like,

or, you know, I want recognition by other people. So then they're trying to, you know, do this whole getting their name everywhere. You know, isn't that weird how you just always want more even when you got. Yep. And what actually started it was. Kind of ends up like screwing a lot of people always wanting more. So it was basically like the guy that created Oxycontin's uncle that started the company.

And then his uncle built it into this empire and like created a name for the Sackler family and was like donating all this money and trying to like make it into become like a generational thing. And then he died. And basically like the brother and the nephew and like the whole family gets this guy's empire and was like, oh shit, we have like a very short runway unless we change something because they were living like this rich life.

extravagant lifestyle and then the uncle died and like somebody had to step up to the plate otherwise like you know it would have carried on so that's when this guy created OxyContin to try and make the family name continue on and then like you know

continue to be successful. In it, they talk about how the guy that founded TNT was something Nobel. Wait, TNT what? Like explosives? Explosives. Oh, okay. Like TNT, like bombs. When

When he was getting older, there was this news article that was posted that said, so-and-so Nobel passed away, the merchant of death. That's what they called him. That was like the article name. He realized being the creator of TNT explosives, that's how his name was going to be remembered, the merchant of death and the amount of people that died from explosives. Yeah.

So he then started the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, he did. And now nobody remembers him for being the creator of TNT. When you think of Nobel, you think of the Nobel Peace Prize being the most prestigious award. But does anyone really think of him? Because I don't think of him.

Like, I don't know his name. Oh, I guess, you know, when I hear the Nobel Peace Prize, I'm like, nice. Yeah. To whoever won it. However, when I think of, when I think of TNT, I actually, I don't think about killing. You think of Minecraft? No. That's what I thought of. I think of Minecraft. I think of, I guess, real life Minecraft. I think of them using it to blow up mountains and build highways and. Or that building. That you.

you saw this movie. Oh, yeah. How was that? It was cool. So, you guys may know Fargo, North Dakota is just like 45 minutes from us and there's this huge building. I don't know how many stories it was, but the high rise, let's say it's 20, 25 stories. Pretty decent size building for Fargo and it was full of a bestest. They co-hosted

couldn't re-renovate it because... It was old, too. I think it was asbestos or 1970s. It's asbestos. Evan calls it a bestest southern idea. And it was like low-income housing. It was just in general a shitty building. It was all Section 8. I'm confused how they could blow that up. Isn't there like extreme removal process for asbestos? Ken and I were just talking about it. I'm sure they had a...

bunch of Evans in there removing the abestas. Evan had been in that building before removing the abestas. So they were just going crazy. But again, I don't think you can get all of it. So they exploded the building. 7 o'clock on the dot. Can't believe I was up for it. Dude, I can't either to be honest. I wasn't going to miss. Dude, it was so funny. It's difficult for me to get up as usual. But that, I'm just like...

It's 6.50. We got to go. Yeah. And it was so worth it, dude. Really? When you said you were going to that, I was like, no, you're not. You're not going to that. You're not going to that. In my head, I said, yeah, right. This dude's going to get up on his own. Sidney thought that we were going to be one of a small handful of people there. Like half the city was there. Oh, really? It was a spectacle. Yeah. Awesome. Traffic jam. And it really was a spectacle. So like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Thing falls down. We can put the video up.

Can we say what it was supposed to be? Supposedly, insider information, Mr. Beast was going to pay, you know, this is all allegedly, that Mr. Beast was going to pay $100,000 to be able to, like, blow that, like, he'd blow the building up. I don't know what that would consist of. He presses the button and they get to make a video of it. But then I guess he pulled out.

Damn. And then they asked if we want... Well, they didn't ask. The gal that was telling me was like, you guys should come do it. I go...

We're not paying $100,000 to blow up a building. That's already going to get blown up. Yeah, I said, I don't know about that. Put a cash grab. And then I was like, that'd be cool. And then just kind of fell through. There was just no point. There was like a couple buildings surrounding it. And we were like, it'd be funny if we told Evan. Yeah, that was my idea. That we get to blow up a building. And then we tell him it's the other building. We point him at the one here and we go, press the button. Press the button. And he presses it and the other building.

And we all turn and look at him. What the heck? Or like if there was two buttons on there and we tell him, press the top one. Do not press the bottom one. And he pressed the top one. We go, we told you to press the bottom one. Yeah.

Dude, I'm pretty sure that's crazy that it's a, I didn't know about that, but the $100,000 price tag just to be the forefront of it. It's crazy. Just keep in mind, basically the entire demolition to be cleaned off the face of the earth was 4.8 mil. Wow. Just to take the damn building down. And again, clean it up. $100,000 to be the forefront of it seems insane, but. Dude, how loud was that? Like it's gotta be insane.

It was loud. I mean, it was basically... Yeah, I mean, it was like louder than any explosion we've ever done. Like somebody had... It's a well-built building. They had to blow it up to get rid of it. Yeah. Think about that. Somebody had to...

Put all those explosives in there. Think about that. And the bond, dude. Yeah. Think about the high stress of that. The bricks. I mean, I feel like, would it be that high stress though? Cause you're just like, we're fucking blowing this thing up. I don't know. It going off early. It either doesn't blow up. Oh yeah. I'm saying like, like placing those around the building. I mean, you mess up. You're just like, well, fuck it. Let's get some more explosives. Yeah. Just. And the fact that buildings that completely surround that building. That would have been much crazier. Yeah.

Randy was telling me that you could hear the explosion on Big Cormorant. Someone was outside in the morning and heard it two minutes later. 50 miles away. 50 miles away. That's what I was cracking up to. So apparently, so your mom actually went to the top of...

the downtown Sanford to watch the explosion, but didn't make it there in time. And she's like, she's like, yeah, we were on our way up the stairs, but I guess like we didn't even hear it. And I'm like, there's no way you didn't hear it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair. But yeah, she's just, and then like shortly after that, I read the text that someone heard it and I'm big Corma. I'm like,

That's what I would have assumed. Someone could have just been shooting fireworks off, shooting guns. I saw there was a TikTok of it, and I was like, oh, I know that. And then some guy commented, wow, they did it with no plane this time. Yeah, I got a lot of 9-11 responses on my Snapchat, and I was like, what?

That was a tall building. That maybe not have been the best week to do that. Did you guys see the rainbow of New York? It was like a double rainbow and it was like the most insane rainbow I've ever seen above New York. Really?

on 9 11 today wow yeah like on 9 11 it was insane like i couldn't i couldn't believe my eyes like of course i didn't see in person a bunch of tiktoks about it people are just like this is like the most insane rainbow i've ever seen over new york quick poll wild just yes or no do you think it was an inside job just a quick guess yeah i do i feel like it was yes yes i uh no okay

I think probably, yeah, but let's tune back to our resident. I think it was an inside job. There we go. Ken watches Fox News every day. That in itself is a little weird. You think George Bush did it? The developer that owned the tower took out some insane insurance policy, like a whole lot.

a few months before the accident. And that's one of so many. And it's just like that's fishy plus there's like a whole docu-series of all the different little fishy things that don't quite add up. Dude, it's like such a crazy thing to wrap your mind around. If like the United States actually was behind doing that or like some one person, maybe it wasn't even like the government but it was someone. Ooh!

Who else would it have been? Who else would it have been? Like who else would have had any incentive? Why would that guy like have that much power to be like, I'm going to take an insane insurance policy out on it. Yeah. Now he's talking to like the most fear. I don't think it was his idea. I think he, that let's say that guy was just filled in on it and he's like sick. Like I'll be a part of it of course. Cause I'm the like owner of the building. Gosh, I don't know. It seems like there's like so many more like discreet ways to like cash on something than to like,

take an insane insurance policy out on the building. No, I'm saying he could have just been one piece of the moving cog. No, I know. I'm just saying, like, there's, like, so many things that I'd like to just, like, believe in humanity not being that corrupt. Yeah, same. And I guess, like, certain things, yeah, like, certain arguments are hard to make as, like, why they would make sense, but it's also on the other end of it, like...

Man, how dark you got to be. And then the fact that really nothing actually came out hard evidence-wise. I don't know. There are so many things that are fishy about it. Ryan, you just had that. It's also like... Well, I actually didn't really want to get into it because unfortunately so many people have delved into this topic. Is that a term? They've rung it out. And we unfortunately do not have any insider information or higher power information.

discussion to add, but I just wanted to get a quick insight. Dude, the Pentagon thing just seems weird, though. Sorry to wrap back on that, but that just seems so strange. I saw this TikTok of a guy. There was another plane hijacking either years before or year after, and he was on the plane,

And then he, while everybody else was hiding in the back corner of the plane, the guy was wearing like a bomb vest and said he was going to blow the plane up. And this guy went, I think I'm going to go take a picture with that guy. Cause he basically called his bluff, right? He's like, well,

One, I don't take the picture and then I only have my story to tell about being on the plane. Or two, I take the picture and we end up dying anyway. So he went and took a picture with the guy. And he was bluffing. Yeah, they ended up everywhere. He was fine. The guy didn't blow up the plane. Stuff like that. But he's just got this picture of him smiling with a thumbs up or big cheesing. And I thought that is exactly something one of you two would do.

When you were all hyped up on something, you'd just be like, I'm going to go take a picture with him. Fuck it. We're going to die. We might as well troll this guy. Exactly. You're like, we might as well mess with him. Man, that guy had to have been like, this guy's crazier than me. Yeah. What a beautiful thought process. That's something like Dave would do. That's reverse psychology, dude. That's legit something Dave would do. Wow.

Heidecker, photo man, Ben Innes explains, Egyptar plane snap. But I mean, how classic is that? You're just like, well, I might die either way, so might as well get a picture. I love how they stood up to take the picture. You start treating them all good, like, oh, sir, sir, please, let me get a picture with you. He's just like, what? Hold on. You're supposed to not like me. I know this is so born in 1999 of me to say, I can't believe there wasn't TSA before 9-11. Wait, I know it really is. Was there not? No.

No, dude. You just walk right out of the plane. That's why Bush put TSA in every airport. You used to be able to greet people at the gate when they got off the plane. Dude, that's blowing my mind right now. Maybe it was all a long con just to make us miss a plane in the future. It's a long con to make you buy $100 a year every five years for pre-check.

Yeah, Ken, I'm sure that's why. My gosh. Okay, so I would have thought that it would have been, it would have started out really light and then like got more strict and then, you know, nothing crazy. And then 9-11, then it got really strict where it is now. Like it feels so strict now. Again, it's gotten a little easier. We can get in and out pretty fast, but like.

You know, I'm like, I could deal with TSA every time. I'd prefer it if it was just fast and easy and they weren't like dickheads. I mean, it's all fun and games. I try flying with a avalanche airbag. Oh, they do not like that. They're not like one bit. To be fair, it looks a little suspicious. It does. Yeah, it looks a little fishy. Man. What am I going to do? Inflate a inflatable sack? Or blow the plane up?

Dude, the TSA agent that was so like when we were, I'll make this quick. When we were here last, Evan's bag gets stopped. CJ's like, ha ha, look at you. Of course, Evan's bag gets stopped. Evan was tweaking. My bag gets stopped. I'm thinking, yeah, I'm like, oh boy, these guys might be actually fucked. And then CJ's like, still like, damn, of course it's you guys. Both your bags, Mike. I'm like chuckling. I'm like, and Evan's just like.

yeah he's just like he's just telling him it's just a gatorade i'm sure it's just a gator i'm like evan did they ask bro and then uh yours gets then mine got stopped now i was like okay what the fuck now they're just being strict because obviously i don't got shit so i was saying like if you're trying to be fast like yeah they were just being strict but like anyway my

mine, uh, Evans was my water bottle or his water bottle. Mine's a water bottle. But anyway, the guy goes, he goes, he like pulls it out. He's like, um, the, um, the reason we pulled your bag is because we had a water bottle and he just, and, and,

No. And then he's just like, I'm like, oh yeah, sweet. You can toss it. And then he like didn't hear that. And he's just like, so we can do one of three things. We can either throw it away or, and I'm like, yeah, you can throw it. He's just like, are you sure? And I'm like walking away at this point and I'm just chocolate. Yeah.

Couldn't take them seriously, man. They were taking their job seriously, man. Yeah, yeah, they were. I mean, they were saving. I mean, shit. It's a good job to be taken seriously, I guess. I don't mind it. I'd prefer them to stop someone with a gun or a knife or some explosive. Yeah, exactly. It's just like when the credit card company calls you and they're like, hey, we blocked a suspicious charge. It's just you at the ATM in the casino all late at night. And you're just like, I'm mad.

It's me. It's me. It's right now. Don't question what money I'm taking out, but also thank you for trying to stop someone from stealing all my money. Dude, the way the world's going, I wouldn't be surprised if one day every Walmart had a TSA. Something of the sort. Or everything you go into had some sort of TSA. Right now.

Like our kids will be sitting at some podcast table and they'll be talking about like back in my dad's day, it used to only be an 80 year old man who said, thanks for coming in when you walked out. Dude, the amount of stuff that gets stolen out of Walmarts every year is nuts. Like so much that like certain Walmarts are shutting down. Goddamn Walmart was stealing. Well, dude, you guys billion dollars worth of products every year.

Did you guys hear that new California law? Oh, that you can't stop shoplifters? Yeah, that you can't stop shoplifters. Well, that might be the problem. Man, those guys just don't get it down there. They just don't get it. What is that? What are they going for? It's going to be a free-for-all. Everything's going to get shut down. Dude, what are they doing down in California? They literally, I feel like they look at a sane situation, and then they're like, how can we really fuck this up?

I think they're like pushing everyone normal out, you know, cause I'm not even talking like they're not even pushing like low income people out. They're just pushing like anyone who's not like a part of, let's say they're called like they're just pushing all these people out and then California will just be like, like the wall. You think eventually though, it's going to kind of just like ruin itself. It's going to take itself out with that kind of like if everyone's just stealing and there's no repercussions and yeah,

Well, and everyone's going to move out and they're going to move to like other places that don't have those laws. And then they're going to vote those laws in and they're going to ruin everything else is going to go to shit. I had a buddy that was arguing the fact that like Gavin Newsom is like doing a good job. Really? Oh my gosh. I don't want to say I,

I was like, you might be the only person in this side of the country saying that. She's running for president, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't believe it.

I literally couldn't believe it. He'd be like one of the few people you just have to tell them to fuck their own face. It was kind of refreshing to hear someone say something so outlandish. You could go five years without meeting somebody who says that. I literally heard him say it. I laughed and went, really? Really?

You were expecting me to also start laughing. Dude, I honestly have nothing to say. If you feel that way, I'm going to let you, brother. Let's just keep on moving. I love that. See, that guy's got to be stupider than Ryan. We could hire him for something around here. Fuck no. No, he's a good guy. So speaking of that song that you couldn't sing correctly, North of Richmond, North of Richmond, living in the North.

Ben's just making up his own words to the song. He got the melody right, but that song has gone so, so viral. Like,

mega viral and he just recorded off his android phone it's amazing android yeah he did off an android he's never heard of an iphone just record it and but it's like has a nice touch to the song like it there's this like almost realness to it and it's just him with his but that song has gone so viral and like the way that it speaks uh i think it really connects to just the

the average person, especially in middle America. And I kept hearing about how this song is this big deal and it's going so viral. And I was like, this is a good song. Like I liked this song when we were at Cletus's for the race, we were in Bristol and there's like all these people in the stands and there's just, they're just sitting there for hours waiting for stuff to get set up. And they have like music going. When that song came on, people started cheering, like cheering, like,

I was like, holy shit. Like, that's amazing. It was like one of the most patriotic things I've seen in a long time. It was beautiful. And all the people just sat there and sang along to it. And then when it got done, they all cheered again and clapped. And I looked at Mike, I think, and I go, dude. Never seen a song do that. This song has some serious impact. Yeah, I think it's been, like, so refreshing, I think, for, like, the –

The Common Man. It was really interesting to be in that environment and hear it. I feel like that's where that song is. Yeah, that's where. It was Virginia, and we were in Virginia, or right on the edge of Virginia, and clearly hit close to home. That guy, Oliver Anthony, he's got a crazy story. I listened to him on Joe Rogan's podcast. Really interesting. Like you said, recorded the song on his phone. Wow. Yeah, man. He was in such a dark place.

He was releasing the music because he didn't know if he was going to be here tomorrow. He was suicidal. Wanted to release the music before he, if he killed himself, wanted to leave it to the world. Released that and it went viral pretty much overnight. I haven't seen a song go that viral that fast or an artist really pop off. But it's like because people resonate with him. Yeah. Yeah.

I think it's refreshing too and it's also kind of the truth. Yeah, it's the truth. People like to hear it. And most people don't say that. Dollar ain't shit. I guess I remember coming across that TikTok and then watching it over and over. Sometimes music comes up. I set my phone and I listen to it over and over. I'm like, man.

Yeah, this guy can sing. Something about it, man. Yeah, I guess he's going on tour now. So he wasn't obviously like a wealthy man or anything. I think he might have been normal or maybe, I don't know, maybe a little bit below. He was living in a trailer with a tarp over the roof. Wow. I didn't know that.

He is, it's now going, you know, he's going on tour, but he canceled his tour because the ticket prices were like up to $90 a ticket or something. He said that was too much and he canceled his tour and they need to refix the prices because what he's doing is he doesn't want to switch up on his people. And I don't know. I just think it's just a great story. I remember making some stuff about that too. People are like, where's your, we want more music. He's just like, listen, I don't,

Care about fame. I don't care about money. I care about getting the exact message that I made in that song across, uh,

However, it's possible. I don't know. It seems like America and people are starting to turn back to that. Well, I think a lot of super conservatives were trying to say, see, this song is where America's at. This is our anthem. And then he was like, no, no, no, no. I didn't make this song. I didn't make this song for the conservatives or the liberals. This is for neither of you guys. Yeah.

Which is great that he prefaced because you're right. A lot of conservatives were like taking that and running. Yeah. All the talking heads at news stations that are exactly who he was singing about. One last crazy part on that was, so the last presidential debate, they played that. They played the music video, or like, you know, him singing, but the music video and the song, they played it at the debate. And then that's kind of when it hit me. I'm like, this song is literally about those guys. Yeah. You know? Because when I first heard it, I'm like, North of Richmond.

North and Northman. No. But yeah. So yeah, they played it. He got a kick out of that. He's like, the fact that they played it for the people I literally sang it about is crazy. I don't know, man. All I got to say is that was one of the, it was a beautiful moment. I just can't even, I wish we had it on camera. The way like the people cheered. I was like, what are they cheering for? And then I realized they were cheering for the song. And then when it all wrapped up,

They started cheering again. I was like, that is amazing. Like this song has some serious weight to it. All the best, hopefully for that guy and his, uh, new future. Yeah.

Dude, I saw another video of a bald eagle taking off and flying around a stadium during the national anthem. That was just Ronnie Mack. Dude, the national anthem's going in a football stadium, and this bald eagle is just soaring around the crowd. That's amazing, yeah. And then at the end of it, lands on it.

Oh, no. It's trained. It's trained. Oh, I thought it was a rant. I'm like, oh, no. Everything's fake. No, but I was like, yeah, man, you can train bald eagles now? I didn't know that. But it was so American. Honestly, I shed a tear. I was like, this is the most American thing I've ever seen. Next Cletus event we go to, I hope that he's got this eagle. He does need an eagle there. Yeah, he does. Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. That'd be American. I bet the list of like whatever you got to sign in the application.

Yeah, what if that thing did some shit, man? Attacked a Canadian or something? I'm just saying, just to get one. They're like, listen, we only give one of these licenses out to train a bald eagle. I'm sure it was a baby bald eagle. Every 29 years. Who? Who's giving the license? I don't know. The Eagle's Committee. The Eagle's Coats. The Eagle's Coats. You're saying this eagle was trained?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure the application process and whatever else goes with it to get a eagle in your possession is insane. Oh, I got you. I got you. To like be able to have an eagle. That's what I'm saying. Okay. They give one out every 30 years or something. You know, I'm making this up, but. Like the country. You're saying like the president has got to sign off. Yeah. Joe Schmo can have an eagle. The national bird. Yeah.

That's true. How does one acquire an eagle to begin training it? I'm sure it was a captive eagle and it was a baby and then they raise it from a baby. I'm not wondering how they trained it. I'm just saying I feel like if we were like, yeah, I bought an eagle, even if you bought one for 20 grand. You're interested, aren't you, in buying an eagle? Yeah, yeah, sure. And you know what, Mikey? Do you want to do it?

If the neighbors saw me with an Eagle, they'd probably be like, yo, this dude's like training an Eagle. So you need to go. And I'd probably get arrested. Really? Yeah.

Yeah. You got narcs for neighbors? I don't know. I'm just saying if someone saw me- Mike's new neighborhood isn't buffing out so well. Obviously, killing an eagle, but if you saw someone fiddling around with an eagle, you'd probably be like, I don't know what this guy's doing, but he's got a bald eagle. I'm just picturing you in your front yard wearing your overalls, playing a fiddle, and there's an eagle dancing. That sounds epic. Fiddling around. Imagine your neighbors are like, oh, Micah, he's up to something today, and you're

put a telephone pole in the ground with a big eagle's nest i think my neighbors are so confused by me already they would where would you spread yes i guess ben's got an eagle yeah one day you pull up in a lambo the next the ambulance is taking you out man this guy's always up to something yeah it's always something with that guy i love confusing the neighbors like

Quite literally, the never let them know your next move. It's a great meme. Well, they never do. No, it's like I pull up in the Ram, pull up in the Bronco, pull up in the BMW, pull up in the Subie, pull up in the mini truck. Dude, your neighbor comes up to you and goes, hey, man, just got to let you know your girl's having different guys. And you're like, no, no. And you like break down. You're like.

What was he driving? He pulled up in a Red Raptor. Evan drives a Red Raptor. Oh, shit. Evan does, too. I was thinking of Dave. Jake's dad? Yeah. What? Are we going to end it, bro? Well, thanks for making it to this point in the podcast. If you guys haven't subscribed, hit subscribe, and we'll see you guys next week. Peace.