136 - Surviving An RPG Explosion - In Slow Motion ft. Ballistic High-Speed
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So we'll go on to the accident leading up to it whose idea was like hey this sounds dope. So we've wanted to do RPGs for a while. Do you guys want to be the first ones to see it? I've shown one other person with his permission and it almost made him cry. Jesus. Three, two, one. Holy f***ing dude. I was not prepared for that.

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to do a quick insert real fast for this episode. Today's episode is absolutely crazy. Brandon and I were fortunate enough to interview the guys over at Ballistic High Speed after their accident. If you don't know the accident, Adam was firing an RPG-7 and it exploded as he pulled the trigger.

right here. He is lucky to be alive. Both of their stories about this event are absolutely insane. We will be playing the footage. So stick around. If you want to see that it will be censored, but if you want to watch the uncensored version, it will be on their channel. Go give these guys support. Go help them. They're amazing humans. Big shout out to Adam for showing up to the range three weeks after the accident and then coming on this podcast and shout out to Bryce for keeping a cool, calm, collected head.

and pretty much saving Adam's life. These two dudes are amazing humans. Go check them out. Also, if you want to support them in another way, Adam's medical bills are insane right now. They've started a GoFundMe. And if you want to support that GoFundMe, we will leave a link below. You are going to see one of the most visceral reactions from Brandon and I watching this footage. It caught us both off guard. It's going to do the same for you all.

That I promise that it takes a lot for me to have that reaction. So also holidays are around the corner. This can be a bright, cheerful, happy times, but some of us are going to go through some dark times. DM me, DM any of these guys, reach out to the communities, the communities you amazing humans have built. It's why I love y'all. Even during these holidays, I know everyone has a battle buddy that they can cover down with. And that's thanks to all of you. I truly mean that. That is thanks to all of you people out there.

If you are going through a dark time right now, just know it's going to end. It will end. Promise. I promise. I will impart this knowledge. I don't know who said it, but it's something I do live by. Diamonds are forged in pressure. They're not just forged out in the open. It is through the hardest, most brutal things that a diamond is forged. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the episode.

And cheers to all of you. Hey! Okay. Fucking Jesus. So if you guys wouldn't mind, please stop saying racial slurs. We're recording now. Yeah, geez. I have not seen that so hard. That was rough, dude. They were about to leave because they found out it was hosted by two Mexicans. We were like, whoa, calm down. I still might leave. They were using the other hard R.

These W-backs. W-backs? I forgot about that. We were going to make a shirt that's just a W on our back. We could sell it to our Hispanic audience. Because I'm only half Mexican, so I think the term was moist back. Yeah, moist back. Slightly damp back. That's why I'm still here, because you're still half okay. Okay, good. That's

Oh shit Bush lattes for the I'll do a bush like sure

Yeah, we got us there we got to start it right like a you are in Indiana boys, huh? Yeah every yeah, I don't what is with that Indiana, Iowa It's it's like a cultural thing. It's a very white cold. We don't like soda coke pop. Well, we don't have anything to racial slurs When you start drinking at 9:00 in the morning, it's gotta be a pretty light beverage. Oh, that's very true 3 2 1

That was a good one. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. We are joined by Eli Doublefap and our brand new two guests from Ballistic High Speed. Would you like to introduce yourselves?

Well, he's Bryce. I'm Adam. Triple fat. That's about it. And this is the Unsubscribe Podcast. Hey, welcome, you beautiful sons of bitches. I'm Brandon Barbera. Brandon Barbera, yeah. Our beautiful Brandon Barbera joining us with his lion's mane today. Like a lion. I guess you have an A for this time. It was a magical experience for both of us. Was it? Was it good for you? It was good for me.

We have been running ragged, to say the least. That's what it sounded like. Yeah. I was like, oh, my God, more podcasts. Let's go. You guys put on an amazing range day yesterday. I would say it was a success. It was huge. There were so many people there. We didn't expect the turnout we got, and we were honestly terrified. But everybody was really cool. Everybody was safe. It was fantastic.

Yeah, I enjoyed the hell out of it just because everybody else had a good time. I shot like maybe 50 rounds all day. Yeah. I didn't shoot anything. Yeah, we didn't. That's all the gun guys probably didn't shoot that many rounds. They kind of have access to like most of this. It was for us. It was just like people pulling us in like vendors, like trying to show some love to the vendors and stuff like that. Tim Kennedy coming in in a helicopter was pretty boss though. I know. That was definitely a power move. Everybody just looked at that. We're just like, that's Tim. That is what it is. I was

I was like, Tim, you can fly now? He's like, well, not technically. I have to have one of these guys with me. I have four hours of flight or night flights and then I can fly. Oh, he actually flew it? Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Tim flies it. That's fucking cool, man. Dude, Tim's ready for the end of the world. We are fucked if we find a helicopter. It's going to be like Edge of Tomorrow. We'll bring it in his diet 80 times, but he kind of can take off now. I love the implication in that movie is that he learned to fly a helicopter. Through death. Through dying. Yeah.

That's fucking rough. How are you guys doing? You guys? Doing really well. I have so many questions. We were nerding out about camera gear because it was like, oh, he gets it. Which is unusual for me. He gets it. Don't worry. I'm going to make sure to keep this on track. I'm not going to let him do their thing. Well, I kind of figured it would be like, you guys talk about cameras. Split camera. We'll talk about other stuff and then just play all of the audio all together. It'll be great. Whatever the captions do, they do. Nobody's going to get confused. It'll be great. It's all at the same time. Right ear, cameras, left ear, something else.

People would unsubscribe. They taught the entire time, but everyone all at once. Nothing was understood. That's the title of the episode. Everything everywhere all at once. All at once. But in slow motion. We have a fucking story today. You specifically have a fucking story. Do indeed. Today. Yes.

We can wait for it, or we can just get it out of the way or part of it, because it is fun. How many lattes do you need before you can talk about it? It also explains the nice long sleeves that you're wearing today. Yep. Keep you warm in the Texas weather. Been my attire for... God, I'm retarded. I thought those were long john underwear. No. No, these are, in fact, gauze jackets. Eli, that's called triage.

They're from Indiana. I don't know. This was a style back when I was in high school. Honestly, I did get a high school flashback. See? I'm not wrong. It's cool. I'm bringing it back. All of a sudden, I heard Blink-182 in my head. It was, yeah. Okay, so they have a fucking crazy story. Before that, you guys, Ballistic High Speed, you started doing high-speed camera gun shit. How long ago? Our channel started...

Summer of 2021? Perfect. You're like, COVID, okay, let's shoot shit. Just like half the country. It was either, oh, let's go out to the woods and shoot shit or let's burn down our local Wendy's for social justice. We almost did that. It was one or the other. That channel didn't take off.

As it turns out the Molotov channel was highly illegal. It was in high speed also, it was crazy. All the employees running out of the place. 10,000 frames per second of evidence. It was actually because I... Try subpoenaing all that data. I just forgot to do the form twos on the Molotovs. That was what got me. Turns out all of them did. Yeah.

So you started in 2021. Whose idea was it? You guys have been friends for how long before? They're not friends now. I'm glad it got her.

As you wrap him and take care of him. I've been helping him every morning. You're his husband and you hate him. I've worked with Chase's wife for the last three days. Well, this is off to a great start for me. You guys are so, because even finally he's like, does the police have a washer? I have to wash it and make sure he's bandaged. I'm like, oh, that's cute. Every morning I have to use six rolls of gauze.

six washcloths, five towels. Jesus. And I usually go through like eight to 10 sets of like nitrile gloves. Oh, you're going to find out what happened. To get through all of them. We're getting there. Next time on Dragon Ball Z. We're getting there. We just got to build a backstory of what they do in order to get there. we, uh, we met many years before we worked together. Um,

The girl I was dating at a time, he came and did a music video for her. And then we just kind of stayed in touch on Facebook. And then one day, he just randomly posted. He's like, does anybody have land and some guns? He's like, I've got my slow-mo stuff and just haven't really done any guns yet. And I kind of half-assed jokingly responded because I lived like an hour from him. I was like, if you want to drive an hour, sure. And then he was like, yeah, okay. No shit was that fast. You're like, oh, yeah. And then...

A lot of people have probably seen it. It was just muzzle exits of, I think I had like 10 guns or something. Yeah, but like a really clean white background. Like here's a 9mm, here's a .22, here's a .45. And like I'm used to just posting. Jamie, pull that shit out. Yeah, do you guys have a Jamie?

We have a Jamie. His name is G-Van, but we call him Jamie now because he didn't know that reference. He had no idea. He was like, I got a text. He was like, who's Jamie? What the fuck is Jamie? I was like, oh my God, G-Van. Watch one episode. One episode. Make fun of him. I'm like, how the fuck are you in like, you're in full flannel, a tactical hat, blue jeans, and you've never seen fucking Joe Rogan? He is, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so I'd done high speed for like 10 years. Like it's pretty much been my whole life. And so it's something you just don't learn overnight, by the way. No, not at all. So I'm used to making a like a random slow-mo video, posting it on Facebook, Instagram, whatever. It gets like 200 views. Nobody cares, but it's fun for me. So that's what this was. So we went and filmed like 15 different guns, 100,000 frames a second bullet, you know, muzzle exits. And then I posted on Facebook, go to sleep that night, wake up, you know, like 4 million views. It just like...

On my personal Facebook page. Yeah, it wasn't even like a business one. It was just rice. Yeah. And then I posted it on my Instagram at the same time and the NRA picked it up and shared it.

And that went from like 700 followers on my personal Instagram to like 20,000. Like it just, it literally blew up. And that like being from Northern Indiana, we're not used to anything ever. So we're like, what do we do with this? And that birthed the channel basically. And then that one creator we met last night, what was his name? I always get his name wrong. Collian. Collian. Yeah. Yeah. He shared it as well. So it was basically him and the NRA sharing it.

is what birthed our channel. So we got to thank him for that last night. We totally jumped in with it. Cole, that's good people. He's fucking rad. Donut pointed him out and I was like, that's actually him? Bryce just had the video and he was like, hey man, does this look familiar? Hard to see at night, but a very good man. Yes. Beautiful smile.

We had to go inside with everything light on. You're not hanging me out to dry on that. Difficult to fight at night, though. It's like you white people in the clouds. Just can't fight. Just can't do it. It was just that Theo Bond bit. Oh, my God. You ever fought six black dudes at night? Close your eyes. That's how many you're fighting. Now how many you're fighting. Nice.

So you guys have it and then you're like, okay, hey, this is blowing up. This is now what's the next step? Hey, let's get right. Let's test different rounds. Let's test it hitting. Yeah. Incidentally, our channel started really strong. We happen to get ammo companies reaching out wanting to send us stuff. Chris from Ballistic Dummy Lab reached out pretty quick. So we our first episode is a ballistic head getting shot with a 50 API round.

And somehow YouTube didn't care. YouTube, please don't care anymore. We didn't even know all the rules yet. In the title, it was like armor piercing incendiary. We couldn't have thrown more red flags than we possibly could. What's weird is to people who don't know the YouTube side of this,

It's not the ballistic dummy head part. It's the eye part. It's the incendiary. Apparently incendiary ammo is treated the same as, you know, just a lot of other... No shit. Yeah, no, incendiary ammo is not... It's just like full-on... Oh, okay. It's just that, like... Yeah. Yep. So, but, like, somehow we slipped perfectly into the educational section of ballistics and firearms, and we've kind of just been getting away with it. Well, you guys do, like...

You guys break down your videos very, very good. That's the one thing. My take was like, okay, they're actually like going full in depth. Yeah. Like the breakdowns on damage, the velocity. Hey, here's you naming the bone structure and what it's cracking. I was like, what the fuck? Pick

I don't know how you feel about it. I get like kind of jealous of like a lot of the other like gun to guys because they can just like shoot a bunch, just blow stuff up, like have a great time, get millions of views with it. And we tried that a couple of times, just like montages of different stuff. And it's like instead of our usual like 200, 500,000, it's like 20,000.

To be fair. Our subscribers want a question, and then they want answers, and they want to show your homework, like how you did it. Which, to be fair, it took me about 15 years to get to that audience size. It took you guys two. Oh, my God. Yeah, a lot of these guys, you have to understand, these guys have been grinding. We've talked about this in the past. A lot of people think, like, we look at you guys and we're like, fuckheads. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Oh. Shit. But then you do the backside is you've done cameras. I've done this for a decade. A decade. Yeah. You're the fuckhead now because you didn't do anything. You collected guns, you piece of shit. I trained in shooting for a while.

- No, I'm joking, I'm joking. - 'Cause like even before the, you know, obviously the incident we'll talk about later, but like even before all that, I was saying, I was sharing your videos to other creator friends of mine saying like, these guys are the big up-and-comers. I think I showed you their shit. - You literally said, that's, I remembered instantly. I was like, holy shit, yep, their camera work is great.

fucking next level. I said these guys are the new up-and-comers. They're basically doing a lot of what Richard Ryan was doing back in the day with the super high-speed, high-production shit. Nobody's doing that. Nobody is doing that kind of production shit right now. Nobody wants to go six figures in debt for a camera. Fucking fair. My question on that, just real quick, is how many Phantoms are shooting at once? Because you have multiple different angles.

I don't know if anyone else pointed that out, but I was like, do they have three Phantoms? At one point, I owned four Phantoms. Christ. Hold on. Hold on. I thought you were faking it with firing three different times. No. That's why I was like, they're getting one for each angle because it was, I was like, holy shit, these are all the exact same cameras. This is why I'm poor. I mean, at one point. Okay. Brian's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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You brought out kind of like everything and mathed it out. It was like $550,000. Yeah, it's like half a million when all Phantoms are on set. I sold one of them because it's like the oldest of the models. But at one point I owned a Miro, a Flex, a V711, and a V2512, which is like a very wide range of different use cases for Phantoms. That's a lot of letters and numbers that sound expensive. Yes.

I was blown away by the V711. That was the really good one that he had when we got started. And it's so funny now that he got the 25-12. The 711 is just like kind of like off to the side. That's how they're getting like 100,000 frames a second on one shot. And the videos, it's crazy because my favorite...

I was telling Brandon earlier, I was like, it's crazy watching even how the windshield, I thought windshield, I thought that was going to raise. I thought there'd be so much more deflection in the military. You were a train shoot low. It's going to rip back five, five, six is going to kick up high and then you'll hit them in the

head versus what you guys broke down and was like, no, no. Almost no deflection. Especially 308. 308 was the most nasty. So was it going, I didn't watch all, I saw some of the clips you guys put up on Instagram, but I didn't watch it. Was it going into a windshield and into the person? Yeah, right. Because I think a lot of the deflection issue is,

shooting from inside a vehicle and then outward because that's where you get 50 yards down. There's a difference between three foot of deflection versus 150 feet of deflection. But military, they still trained us to aim low in the windshield because it's going to really rise up. You taught me wrong. The next one that we want to do will be...

shooting out and then we want to get like a newer vehicle because that was like an 80s Buick something. Yeah. I don't know if windshield technology has changed much, but we just want to get like a newer one.

But dude, the 308 brain, that thing goes through. It's just like a nut. It goes slower than any other thing other than the blood splatter in the back window. It's hilarious because you can see in the front. You can just see like it is, what's it called? The movie. Accidentally shoot. Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction in the background because it's like deuced in there and it's like splurge in the entire back window. You killed someone with it. Yeah.

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I escaped this holiday season. Like we don't have like I'm not a gun person in terms of like my background at all. I enjoy the physics and how they work and the high speed and all that stuff. So I don't have any preconceived notions. I don't have any preferences for guns. I'm just not that person. So I go into all of these because I want to find out. So it's not like

We're setting out to prove what we feel about guns is right. We're like, we've heard this is true. We don't have a clue, but we can actually find out and do the real research. So that's half the goal of our channel is to figure out how bullets actually work. Like 50 cal going next to something, is it going to break your arm off? Those kind of myths. I hate that fucking myth so much because anybody who understands basic physics or math can figure that out. It's like if the 50 BMG... So the premise is...

If the bullet hits 50, like just one inch from you, it will tear your head off. That's scientifically proven each and every time. Trust me. I'm triggered. So many fucking people say shit like this. They're like, oh yeah, well if it just passes by you, the pressure will kill you instantly. It's like, okay, there is a predetermined amount of pressure that will kill a human as far as pressure wave goes. In order for a 50 BMG bullet to be able to exert that amount of pressure just by being around it. Mm-hmm.

Mach 50. And we know the amount of pressure there at the chamber for a 50 BMG or leaving the muzzle. We know the amount of pressure. To be able to exert that amount of pressure around you to kill you instantly, the bullet would stop after like three feet. The energy is dissipated immediately. Yeah, the energy would be fucking ridiculous. But also there's an even easier way to think about it, which is you want bullets to go as long, as straight as possible, so if it's causing all of this sonic disruption everywhere,

It's not efficient anymore. It's just like a plane. Dibs on the indie band name Sonic Disruption, by the way.

I think the important thing to remember is that a 9mm will blow your lungs straight out of your body. The president told me that. The commander in chief, he has to know what he's doing. I think that exact comment is like 1% of our comments. Oh my gosh, so many times. We get nothing but requests to work with Kentucky Ballistics and then whatever the hot meme take is of like 9mm blows your lung out or something like that. That's like 90% of our comments.

Everybody thinks they're commenting it for the first time. Yes. I bet it blows the lungs out of the body. Yeah.

They've never seen this one before. It kind of helped out, though, because we did a 9mm versus .45 comparison just on a torso. And it was like a long time ago. Every war. I mean, yeah. Okay. But it was kind of like a dead video. We'd done it so long ago. When that 9mm blows the lung out comment came out, it kind of revived that video. That was our first multi-millimeter video. It kind of brought it back. It happens all the time. So that's another example of how I don't have preconceived notions about any of this stuff. So I didn't care about 9mm versus .45.

I just wanted to put two holes in a body and see what happens. You pissed off some old buzz right there. But in the high speed, you can see the cavitation size right next to each other and the difference. I just thought that was cool. That's actual data. Whereas other people are like, well, it still don't matter. I'm not carrying a 9mm. All I'm saying, brother, is that we stopped winning wars the minute we switched away from .45. You speaking German right now? Didn't think so. The crowds use the 9mm. How'd that work out for them? How'd that work out?

Hey, everybody's carrying a Luger's today, I reckon. I reckon. Fucking Christ. The 10 mil, though. Nasty-ass round. I was surprised. I liked it. Grantham's did his, and I was like, oh, that's a nat food. Okay, what the fuck? It's a lot of energy. It's basically just fucking spicy 40 cal, which I hate 40 cal. I despise it. It's basically 9 millimeter, except with more recoil for not much more energy. It's great. But 10 mil...

It's a spicy round when it comes to recoil, but god damn, that performs. What did we do? We shot a steel plate with it, maybe? I don't even remember what we did. We didn't do a whole episode on it. We just had it in one. So when you guys... So, leading into... Well, backgrounds too. What was your background before any of this?

I started firing weapons. I did this. Tell the people that. I grew up shooting. Tell the people. The people want to know. When did you start sucking pee-pees? Probably before I should have been allowed to shoot a gun. We got a good soundbite from that one. Right on the gun part. I see it out of context. Laughter

It started I was a Boy Scout second class Probably before I should have I'm like wait a minute. Is this the gun or the BP? Yeah, which one? So let me guess Catholic. I'll leave that up to you guys See I just grew up shooting like every other weekend I got to go to my dad's house He'd give me one of those thousand round boxes of 22 long rifle and awesome every Saturday. It was gone I would just go out and shoot it

I did 13 years in the Army Reserves as a psychological operations dude, one tour. I love how he just randomly throws that shit out. I know.

Go on with that. You asked for my back. I know. Expand a little bit if you can. What did you do there? That's the big piece. You said more about 22 bullets than you did about psychological warfare. So I spent, like, you know, I grew up on my dad's farm. I shot some .22s. I did 13 years in psych war. But anyway, I toppled a couple regimes. I'm like, bro, expand.

Well, I kind of have a general rule of thumb when it comes to what I've done in service. I don't really talk about it on the channel because it's too easy for it to just take over. And then all of a sudden, it's like your entire channel is just being in the military or whatever. But also, my general rule of thumb is...

It's what I did was between me, the guys I did it with, and the guys we did it to. And our people. And that's just kind of where I leave it. And, you know, the tens of people who watch us. We're a small, tiny podcast. We need a feed. Unleash Adam. Let him know. Please, we're but a humble podcast. Please give us your story.

Stories? I did. Okay, I did. Darby needs stories. I did five months in Djibouti, Africa. I love Djibouti. And then I was forward deployed from there down to a little cop outside of Mogadishu. We were like 50 miles outside of Mogadishu. See, this is what's crazy to me because you have completely different like story. Like Mog, you went to Mogadishu, which is...

They didn't send any of my people down. That wasn't part of our deployments or anything. What do you mean, you people? Browns. Well, no, never mind. But when you were deployed, what year did you join? I joined in 2009. Damn. And then I didn't deploy until 2016. But you were still more OG. Yeah. Yeah.

I hate I get out a majority before most of y'all get in. And still it's true. I got out of the military before you even joined the military. Yeah. Yeah. It's old as shit. Fever, cough, congestion. When the symptoms keep coming, but you've got to keep going, you can rely on Mucinex Fast Max All-in-One.

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Yeah, the rarity right there. See, that's what you saw. A lot of people don't know. You can join and then you'll do basic training, then go back and do high school. It's awful. Yeah. Getting like that much discipline drilled into you and then going back to like the gen pop and they have like no respect anything. It's it sucks. Well, that's fucking. And then went back to A.I.T. And that was the split of what I would say, like kind of the army kind of going like soft.

Like we couldn't do like all the old cadences about like clubbing baby seals. That's my favorite cadence. I know. All of that went away. So all of that went away. You know you guys are going to have to do a lot worse shit than that. I know. It's like, hey, be kind. Also, here's how you murder people. You murder people.

Or Rogers are. It's like the old Full Metal Jacket adage about like, oh, you can napalm villages full of children, but you can't write fuck on the plane. You're like, geez, okay, cool army. Yeah, I went and kicked around Somalia with the Marsock homies for a little bit. No shit. Got to do some pretty cool stuff with them. What was your, if you can divulge and then we'll go into crazy, the story why you're here. Fucking insane. Brandon, I remember Brandon showing, I was like,

I was like, hey, do you think we can get these guys on the podcast? Because they might be coming down to the range day and shit. I think this is worth talking about. I can see the people now skipping forward. Where is it at? Play. And I was like, Jesus Christ. Did he live? Yeah. What? So what was your cool story in play?

Like one, just one story where you're like, this one sticks out to me on your deployment. Um, so I don't want to get like too far into it. Cause I don't know like what all is unclassed yet, but we weren't really known that we were there, um, until the New York times, uh, called us out.

And they called us out by name, like our exact location. They listed that Army Psychological Operations, Marine Corps Special Operations Command, and Navy SEAL Team 6 are all at this airstrip. Oh, so this is like the third podcast in a row we've called the New York Times a piece of fucking shit. It's called Obama's Shadow War in Somalia, if you want to look up the article. I'm not lying. The next week, we had our first bomb outside the gate.

We were like chillin'. Jesus fuck. And then that article comes out and then from there we wound up finding like EFPs and shit and we're like, oh, these guys have like connections. EFPs are the most terrifying thing. Like EFPs. We're gonna do an episode on them. We're gonna do those in high speed. Yeah, we're gonna do them in high speed. Those are the only things I've... I'm not familiar with the acronym. What's EFPs? It's Explosively Formed Penetrator. Oh shit. It's the copper disc. Yeah, yeah. It punches through an M1 Abram. We got the shape charge stuff. Yeah. They started putting them in trees down low up.

We got hit by a single one, a striker, and it was thankfully not a mass cast because it went through the axle. So, yeah, it missed everything and punched through. So when these usually punch through, it punches a hole through and brings all that fucking heat inside, cooks everyone. And then there's also something about, I guess, the armored vehicles. They're not like airtight, but I guess they create like a low pressure vacuum. And somehow that draws in fresh oxygen and ignites everything and everything.

It's supposed to mask cash like instant. Yeah. Like it's a full, like whoever's in that vehicle is just gone. So as soon as they found one of those things kind of shifted, you know, we had to like start wearing uniforms again, you know, doing all that dumb stuff. Oh, you had a fun time. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You're back to iPro on bass. For a reservist, I did like, I was in the right place at the right time, like a lot of times. Como estas? Feliz Navidad. That's German for hi, how are you? Merry Christmas. What do you mean that's Spanish? Apparently it's Spanish. If only I was using Babel.

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I ran a CNC shop. No shit. For a company. It was like all 2D, like just flat stuff. Okay. But I did all of the drafting, engineering, coding, wrote all my own programs, like did all that stuff. God, you're autistic as fuck. And

and I love it. The response to that is, yeah, so they gave me this machine and it had this stupid wind dial to move it around the table and I hated it.

So I scrapped it and I wrote my own coding into one of the ports and I mapped an Xbox 360 controller to it so I could drive it around and I could control the whole machine. The first fucking CNC machine we ever bought, like the first real shitty hobbyist CNC, just gonna fuck around with it, had a fucking ported PS2. So many people fucking do that. I coded my own automatic tool changer, all that stuff, and I loved it. So cameras. Yeah, now I'm like, oh yeah, you two are two people.

He's in a bar right now. Jesus. We both shoot guns and like machining shit. I don't know. Yeah. I've been following Titans of CNC making your AK-50. Titans has been one of the best partners we could have asked for in the AK-50 project. They seem really cool. They're really cool. The guy, Titan, the guy who owns the CNC shop, he's one of those dudes that's like so fucking neat. His whole backstory. Did you get to go there? Oh, yeah.

I went to a shop. I'll take you if you want to go. Yeah. Yeah. He's up in Dallas. Yeah, fuck this podcast. Let's go. Yeah, fuck. Let's go. Wait, right now. I can take you to camera places. We'll go fucking camera places. All right, good night, everybody. We're out of here. You 69 over there. We'll 69 over here. But Titan's one of those really cool dudes. Back to my Boy Scout days. I don't know how much I can divulge in his story. He's pretty open about it, but I don't know what he says or what he isn't or what he doesn't, but...

He's a felon. He spent a good bit of time in prison and got out of it. Basically, just like is trying to be an inspiration to other people who've gone through hard shit or whatever. He's like, hey, I learned to fucking trade. I became the best. I took a loan from a friend. I built...

A huge fucking CNC empire where he just, like, dedicates everything to education, teaches other people trades. And he's just one of the nicest fucking guys. Really cool. Like, has dedicated a lot of time and energy to teaching people stuff. They do their videos really well, too. Those are my favorite examples of, like, individuals making something. Like, that's hitting rock bottom. Like, that is the next level. It's like, I'm in prison. I fucked up along the way. Okay, I got over it. I am playing Now Life on...

new game plus it's hard yeah you're getting a full restart you're like oh dude this is gonna real suck and they still come through like hey i'm still building an empire i'm not giving a reason or excuse of why my life sucks it's i'm going to still i mean some of his machines have to be multiple millions of dollars oh easily like you're you're starting to run to like tool changes it's like 64 axis machining it's real yeah it's insane and then he

I just found out they have all the metal 3D printing and stuff now. Yeah, the DMLS stuff. They're working on all sorts of, especially wire EDM and all sorts of different EDM processes. It's ridiculous. No, dude, he's a fucking rad guy. His whole shop is crazy to just walk around this giant industrial warehouse and

Really really clean really well kept all it's gonna ask is it as clean as it is in the video It is so clean everyone there has autism like allegedly those are like waxed floors type stuff They let me push a couple buttons on some machines that are worth more than my net worth probably broken in you know I didn't thank God, but I was terrified I

He's been here for an hour, 30 minutes. He's fine. It was really cool. I can't shout those guys out enough. Titans of CNC, they're rad people. They've continued to help us with projects. Oh, that's fucking dope. And then, yourtism cameras.

I just guessed and it was right I think wait I

Oh, it may not be. Oh, you might be wrong. EDM. Yeah, it's got to be electric discharge. I don't know. Most of the discharges I have are bad. I don't know. Electric discharge. Music. Electrically discharged. Epic dance music. Electric dance music just came up. EDM acronym. That's wrong. That's the only EDM I know. I'm like, I don't know if that's that.

Well, electrical discharge machining. You fucking do that. There's no way. That's too specific. It sounded familiar. I was like, I think that's machining, right? Electric discharge, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. My doctor said all my discharges are bad, so. No. No, my language is like... I had a joke, too. I was like... No, my language is like dynamic range, gigapixels per second, all that good stuff. That's what I talk about. Sounds like a lot. Which if you guys, like...

Phantoms are fucking the most... You're running three at a time. I can't imagine the times between shots because it's like downloading the data. Yeah, there's times where we go a whole day and only shoot like three or four bullets. Yeah.

We have like, well, our friends are like, Hey man, like, do you care? Like if I come out for like one of your shoots, I'm like, sure. It's boring. Like come at the end. Cause we'll have some high speed. Right. Yeah. It'll be, it'll be like 30 minutes between bullets at minimum. Yeah. You're like fast. You're recording the, so the image, and especially with three different cameras, you're recording and you're like, fuck bro, this looks so fucking cool. Everyone looks at you can play back instantly. And you're like, dope transcode.

And then it's just sitting and waiting. So some of the older Phantoms had problems with long turnaround times. The problem now is just... So like the 2512, the newest camera, it records a quarter of a terabyte per clip. Like every time you record, it's a quarter of a terabyte.

And it doesn't 500 gigs it doesn't like that's right like that's your record is six seconds quarter of a terabyte so so then you have to So then you have to sift through hours of footage to find the part that you care about then you can trim it and then you can save it to you're looking for a couple milliseconds within a couple hours Yeah of data so you ever got you ever just zone out for a couple of seconds and realized you know hey that could have filled up your fucking iPhone and

Oh, instantly. And that's if you have the big one. Like the biggest iPhone. You're filling up hard drives. Like, instantaneously. Data management's not easy. Do you throw away your footage after it's done? No. You actually store everything? Yeah. He's got like this fucking Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse full of fucking hard drives. He just throws them away.

Let me clarify something. So it'll record a quarter of a terabyte or whatever. And then while it's sitting in RAM, it's got volatile memory where it sits in there. So if you lose power, you'll lose the shot. Like it's sitting in there waiting. So then you can go into the menu, watch it, trim it, and save that. So it goes from 288 gigabytes to like 5 or 10. I save that part. I don't save the whole thing. And then that takes, how long is the transcode when you hit that? It dumps to the CineMag in seconds.

Oh, okay. It's their proprietary hard drive. That's like $30,000 for two terabytes. So yeah, the hard drive. So shout out to vision research for being more expensive than red.

These companies that are literally not sponsored yet. Let's get this hard drive and let's charge them. How much are we thinking? It's $200 on Amazon. $30,000? Yes. Going once, going twice. We're good. And then people buy it. And you cannot not buy it because it's like, no. No. Well, the alternative is plug it into a laptop and wait hours for it to stream through Ethernet. Is that more what you were talking about?

Well, yeah, you have a different one, the different options, because I did it back in the day. Now we have the free fly. Yeah. For like some of the wave. Is that? Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. Just for how fast 2K resolution, like 1400 frames a second. Is it 4K? Yeah. 4K at 500 frames a second. And then you can go to 10,000. Yeah. Oh,

Don't want to break your budget $500,000 your Lamborghinis and cameras over there and you're over here asking about a Honda Civic like really 36 miles to go, huh? That's cute

That's what the pores are using now. I've heard of VTech before. It's definitely a big misconception. I have no money. I'm broke. I know. It's all in cameras. You're wealthy. I have assets. Bingo. It's a difference between liquid cash and net worth. Liquid cash, I mean, I'm not broke, but I'm not doing great.

as far as like, you know, machine guns, whatever, like, oh shit we use for the channel at like things that we use, like the shop, the machines, the tooling, whatever. It's a little different, you know? Yeah. You're like, oh, my net worth went up, but people think we could just like fucking, you know, drop 500 grand on something. It's like, well,

No, it's all tied up in shit that we use to continue to make money. And it's required. You can't just sit on all your money. And I think that's a big difference with how we spend it. We have access, yes. It's making money for the business and everything. A majority of us just dump it right back. I have my living expenses. Party foul. Back it up. Send help.

Oh damn you have that on standby. That was oh That was quick draw you you literally went into your like GTA selection paper towels

Just... Want to try that again? I was really looking forward to that beer, too. That sucks.

You still have three quarters of it. But it is like dumping money back into it to make the business more successful. Yours is cameras, yours is guns. It's like this is guns, cameras. People don't realize it's like building a studio because our plan's next year with a certain project. Whenever we get paid by YouTube. A couple of certain projects. A couple of certain projects. Is this a little hat tip going on here? We got some shit in the works with Corridor. We've got some plans.

Yeah, you know a little of it. We're dabbling, but it's everyone. Why don't we move to Rumble, Eli? Weird. We don't think about this at all. We have better plans. Own it. No, it is. It's reinvesting in the business. And then, Brandon, how many employees you got?

Full-time, I think, what, four or five? Something like that. That's where the money goes to. Oh, okay. For the channel? Channel, campaign. Well, shit, if you're kind of campaigned. Oh, God, campaign's way over there, dude. Yeah, well, a lot of them are consultants and things, so not full-time people. Seven, eight people now. Consultant as in they know how DC works to keep you going and stuff. Yeah, like a lot of people that are really a part of...

the political machine and are ideologically consistent with us, which is really helpful. But people that know the business, they know the system, they know a lot of the contacts that we need to be involved in. They've run campaigns before. Gotcha. Which is, that's the big part, is they know...

A lot of the vendors we need to use for even something as simple as bumper stickers. So we're using the money that people send us in donations are not getting wasted by paying four cents more for a sticker than we need. Stuff like that. Okay, I got you. It's smart. But all that employment, that's your bread and butter. It's what's awesome. It's like, hey, I got this money. If I die tomorrow, 10 people are looking for a job. It's...

A lot of stress. Why was that? That's the worst part is the stress. That's real. That came off pretty heavy. I didn't mean it to, but it kind of did. It really did. It's like the first time you actually thought about it for real. You're like, oh, yeah. Yeah, no, that just kind of came out. And I'm like, now I'm having an existential crisis. The employees are having more of an existential crisis. I constantly. That's why they're more careful than I am. They're like, dude, hey, if this fucking kills you, I'm going on fucking monster.com. Yeah.

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If I die, you can find another dude to pull triggers. No, no, no. If he dies... I can't remember. Well, luckily, it doesn't look like he's not in danger of dying on post-its. I don't know. You can hear it in the clip. Someone call the ambulance.

That was me. Oh, I know. I don't know. Which one is it? Adam? No, I wanted to say this earlier. I have to give him a lot more credit than people realize because so like me, I'm the cameras for the last 10 years. He has a massive assembly of connections to get whatever we can think of, whether it's machine guns, explosives, blueprints for crazy stuff we could build. Weird. Let me pause that. What was your job in the Army again? That's so crazy. I was a mechanic. Okay. Yeah.

You see how those... Yeah. It's actually true, though. I enlisted as a mechanic, so...

So he's the access to things and I'm the one that captures it. So like it's a very 50-50 on like... It's actually worked out. I can't film anything interesting if he doesn't exist. That's what's weird. Who does title thumbnails and stuff like that? Like what videos to do, titles, thumbnails, how you market it? Oh, interesting. That kind of is mostly him. It's like flowed around quite a bit. But lately...

Lately, it's a lot of us talking on Snapchat video or something. It's like, what do you think about this idea? Snapchat video. Whatever we come up with. That's a different platform for business communication. I've never heard of it. Well, one of us isn't on iPhone, so...

Oh, you're a dirty green texter? Yes, he is. Oh, you are? Yes, 100%. Oh, you gross motherfucker. Dude, okay, I don't have... So your repair was like, let's get a Snapchat, and then we can communicate on there. So it deleted afterwards. I don't know. It's not even Discord. It's deleting. Well...

He's a mechanic, Eli. Oh, yeah. Doesn't this delete? Eh, don't worry about that. Wait, you're logging everything? How? Damn, I don't have an iPhone. Do you use Signal or Telegram? Do you know what WhatsApp is? We all have plans in life. Maybe to take a cross-country road trip or simply get through this workout without any back pain. Whether our plans are big, small, spontaneous, or years in the making, good health helps us accomplish them.

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If iPhone was a little bit more into that, I wouldn't care. Obviously we all need that. Obviously everyone, the STL problem's been a huge hold back on my iPhone experience. Get an Android, dude.

But as far as ideation, it's pretty 50-50. It's a lot of conversations on what do we think people care about? What are the questions to ask? Because looking at bullet ricochets, those don't work the way that most people expect them to. We've got to revisit that episode, of course. We haven't done mild steel, soft steel, other sorts of bullets. Video idea that maybe you guys have already done, and I'm just a shitter. Have you done bullet ricochets on water?

No, no. We had a, I had a water box custom made for us and one of the walls is just Lexan and then there's a sealed, a resealable hole in the front. So instead of shooting down into the water, we actually get to enter the water about a foot. I would love to see that. That is like ASMR to me. I would love to fucking watch that video. Yeah, we're going to do cavitation shots and then like deflection shots and all sorts of stuff. And like shoot tracers, like do tracers stay underwater. Oh,

That's rad. That's cool to see shit like that. We don't have access to stuff like that. And your long john underwear shirt is throwing me off for the level of intelligence you have.

I'm not expecting this amount of brain cells. Oh, damn. Homeboy is pissed and can I love it. You're like, I'll just do everything for fun. I'm like, what the fuck? Holy shit. I don't know if I'm tismed up or like ADHD, but... Usually they're handed. Handed, handed. Okay, yeah. There's a Venn diagram of ADHD people and autistic people. And he's right in the middle. It's a circle. It's not this. It's not this. Adam.

It's more of a paint swatch. How deep are you? So we'll go on to the accident. Leading up to it, whose idea was like, hey, this fucking sounds dope. Let's do some RPGs. Homebrew RPG rockets. So we've wanted to do RPGs for a while. As most people do. And then we found out like... I can relate. Yeah, we found out like...

So once we once I found a guy with a launcher who could get me rockets, he was like, hey, he's like, just so you know, he's like, Mike Grantham, he's attempting to do one like as well. And I was like, oh, cool. I was like, well, why don't we just do it together? And then we can just buy rockets together and everything. And then found out that you were also doing one. And I was like, damn, we're going to get beat to the punch.

So we were putting it together for quite some time and then you had yours come out. Interestingly enough, me and Grantham had had a handshake deal about, I think I can say this now because you guys already did that part as far as the back blast. Yeah. Yeah. Cineblast area. Like the whole like back blast clear. Didn't check my side blast. The town blast. Neck blast. Not clear. Yeah.

I said, okay, well, we were both trying to do an RPG video. I was like, all right, well, I'll just do, like, just the RPG 7, like, reviewing that, maybe versus Human Torso, and you can do Backblast. Like, which would you like? So we did that, like, kind of handshake deal. Yeah, that's cool. All right, you take that one, and I tried to get him to cameo in my video, but, like, timelines didn't work out. He's a hard guy to get a hold of. He's a good dude. Like, he's busy, obviously. Well, I guess you have his number. I was trying to get through his Instagram. Yeah, good luck.

luck. So eventually we found the launcher and then we found a place that can just domestically make the rockets so we didn't have to do all of the import and all that stuff. Which good fucking luck because that shit doesn't exist. No, it's tough. It's a nightmare. But if... It's tough to do legally. The import? Importing HE RPG7? Yeah. Yeah. It was way easier to make them domestically. Which is what we had done. And it was kind of funny. I hope whoever commented this, I hope you're watching this right now.

This guy was a total goofball. He was like, he's like, did I hear you say that you had these CNC machined? What kind of backyard operation is this? Where do you think the military gets their rockets? They're CNC machined. I didn't understand that. What are you talking about?

So anyway, we had them made domestically with all the proper manufacturer filed, all the form twos, I think it is all that stuff. DDs, whatever. Yeah. We didn't do any of that because the guy that we had contracted to do it all did it. But yeah, so we had actual high explosive RPGs.

seven or two what's worth what's worth saying is we go through a lot of processes to be safe a lot happens behind the scenes so we still have three high explosive episodes coming out with actual high explosive warheads we filmed those first

I guess kind of thankfully. Sorry. But we aren't firing those from our shoulders. We mounted them. So there's every chance that we could take to be safer, more accurate, better results. We were doing it. What shitty luck.

Right. So when we finally get to being able... These New Year episodes are Brandon's like, I got 55 gallons of water here. I'm going to hide behind it and clack this nuke off. According to Indiana Jones, I should be fine.

I'm hiding in the fridge. Yeah. Well, as you found out, RPGs are not accurate. No. God, no. So in order to increase our chances... It's like, how do you sight in a fucking rocket? Right. Exactly. That's the real question. So we moved... We had one shot and then we...

measured how far out the smoke came. And then we moved so that the smoke wouldn't interfere with the shot. So we moved the RPG in as close as we could get it. And then while it was unloaded, you're not supposed to, but looked through the tube to kind of see where it was aiming. No, that's exactly what we did. Yeah. You're not supposed to. Well, not supposed to. It's a fucking...

A rocket launcher without a rocket is a fucking two. It's a fucking two. It's a goddamn steel two. It's a flashlight. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, anything's a flashlight if you're brave enough. You give me sponges and latex gloves. All right. We're going off the rails. You are autistic. But with his cameras, to get the good frame rates, it's a pretty small window that you actually get to see. So we needed the accuracy. So we had like a tote. It was strapped down. For the back blast stuff, we also wanted to shoot the rocket launchers.

launchers. So it's the exact same thing, we just didn't load any HE in the warhead. Because when you make them yourself, you can just do that. Because there's no reason to have it explode somewhere when we're looking at just the backblast. And then it almost killed me. Yeah, I was... I woke up one morning

and I had about 8,000 text messages. - Really? - Have you seen what happened to Adam? - What? Really? - Yeah, legit. 'Cause I know we had talked about, I had talked about coming out with you guys. We were trying to line it up. - I am so glad you didn't. Like if that had happened to somebody else. - Me too, dude. - That makes-- - 'Cause I'm like built different, so like it's fine. - Oh, I see, I see, I see. - So before we do the story though,

I saw you bring your laptop. Yeah. Do you guys want to be the first ones to see it? Do we want to? That's up to you guys. I've heard it's pretty bad. Have you seen it? I haven't seen it, so I would get up and leave. Okay, he doesn't want to... No, he knows already. He's not going to watch.

I'm not going to watch it because when we do our episode next week, it'll be our first one. Okay, it's interesting because Scott has also said the same thing. He didn't want to watch it. No, I want to watch it. Oh, okay. You're the one who wants to watch it. Do we want to watch this? Are we just going to huddle around you on the laptop? Does a priest touch children?

Well, yeah, we want to watch. If you want to keep chatting, I'll pull it up. But let me let me put this in perspective first. So I have shown this is a non-sub exclusive. Yes. I won't say who I've shown one other person with his permission. And he's he's like been deployed before. Like he's a military dude. And it almost made him cry.

Jesus. You don't have to watch it. He brought one of them to the, when I was in the trauma bay, he brought the footage in and he was like going up to the doctors. He's like, will this help you fix him? Please watch this if it helps you. Sir, he's on the table. Move. But will it help him?

We laugh about it, but it was it was really hard for me to go find that footage to show the doctor

So, I mean, he had to see it. Dude, my fucking wife was there. She saw the whole thing. How's she doing? Like, with all this? Surprisingly well. Yeah? Yeah, I mean, she's seen me get fucked up before. Was she sad you made it through? Probably a little bit.

She's like, damn, I was so scared. She had her phone out for her backup. She's like, oh, no. Oh, he's breathing again. She's like, all right, well, I mean, fuck insurance. Back to child support. Okay. Do you want to trade places with Herrera so they can watch it? Well, I tried. We'll just go right. I'm going to go restroom. We'll take a break real quick. Okay. I'll just get it ready. Okay. We are now getting a true reaction. Brandon, you're good. Oh, yeah. We're all pretty.

I don't want to watch this shit. I'm getting the... You don't have to. No, I'm good. I'm just like... The feelings from three weeks ago... And that's a non-HE? Yeah, that's just an inert warhead. Okay. The booster is exactly the same as before. So we'll just give a reference. We'll see if this goes up or however we do it. But Adam has a fucking RPG. He's taking a tactical pause. Knee on the ground. Wearing his camo shorts. Smile on his face. Well, we'll probably have this up on the corner. Yeah.

But audio people. Oh, yeah, you're right. Fuck, I forgot. You audio people exist. Brandon's like, this is a podcast. Fuck, you're all out there.

He's like, no, it's fine. The audio people are like, Eli, why are you describing a thing we can all see? Guy in the truck is like, fucking assholes. Fucking hell. Yeah, sorry. Okay. So he's taking a knee. I'm fucking retarded. Whatever. Targets behind him, a ballistic dummy, just to see the back blast area, correct? So testing that out, and Homeboy's happy. You look like you are having the day. That was the last time I smiled in

Oh, God. Well, technically, yeah. Are those sword-ins? Nice. Sword-ins? Oh, man. Really? Okay. Oh, shit. All right, so let's give it a shot. He's going to do a normal countdown, so you know when it's coming. All right. I don't even want to push this button. Is this the high-speed footage? No, this is normal. I also have high-speed. Damn! I would like to see high-speed. Yeah, that's the more fucked-up one. All right, you ready? Because that means we're watching. My hand's shaking. I'm sorry. No, you're good.

3... 2... 1... Holy fucking shit, dude! Holy fuck. Bro, what the fuck? That is absolutely terrible. I thought it was so much... That is so much worse than how bad I thought it was. You ever watch Deontay Wilder punch somebody? It's that. Jesus Christ, yeah. 3... 2... 1...

Dude, I'm hap- I am- I am happier here. Brother, holy shit. Holy shit, dude. You can't- you can't tell it from this angle. Um, I saw it with my eyes, but when I first got up to him, the bottom half of his face was like, bent sideways.

Like, he was, he's a bit mangled. He is currently, like, doing, he is in the Peter Griffin fall down the stairs, like, leg bent, arm up, like, fuck, it, like, you're out, dude. You're fucking out. For reference on the burns, it's an instant sear. Like, this is, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can see that right there. See that black that starts on his hand right there? It goes all the way up into his shoulder.

I didn't know you had burns that bad dude. Fucking hell. It was leather. It was gone. Yeah, it's gone. Jesus Christ. Dude, crispy 2.0. Fuck me. Bro, and you got slow-mo? I got one of the slow-mo. Let me see it. Dude, that is so much like same. Like I was... I was not prepared for that. I know we were going to watch something. Obviously, like you're a good dude. We were going to see you get really hurt. Like...

I expected it to be kind of fucked up. You got fucked up. Yeah. It's...

He's done bonked. If anyone's seen it or anything, it's the instant lip and then watching the body, how it reacts. It is an off switch, and that's when it's scary. The helmet left? Yes. To be able to blow the helmet and ear pro? Because you know that shit cups tight to your head. To blow that straight off just from impact is fucking insane. His helmet flew off and landed in front of me. Jesus Christ. That was the first thing I saw.

So this is normally we're like super high frame rate. This angle is only about 3000 frames a second, but it's still somewhat revealing. You're apologizing for like, like he's, he's in a bomb. What the fuck? It's a war movie shot. Like it's, it's not. Could you, could you reverse that back? I'm sorry. That. So it's not, it's not just backblast. It's just blast. Oh, I see. Oh, I see what's happening. Yep.

Oh, my God. Wait a minute. Was it a failure at the tube? Well... We'll talk about it. We'll talk about that one off air. I know it's... Yeah. Well, there's more that we haven't told anyone yet that I'll leave it up to him on if we even tell you, but there's... I see what happened. There's kind of a reason it failed. It has nothing to do with the well.

Oh, I know. I saw where it failed. That was... Holy shit. Everyone out there, we'll have it up probably or how much we can. The slow-mo shot at 500 frames a second. This is 3,000. 3,000 frames. It's a fucking action movie. Think of... Goddamn. What is...

Judge Dredd. Guy, oh my god, that's the perfect- With the slow-mo narcotics? Yes! Well, when the explosion's going off- It's a fucking good movie. Right next to his head. They blast through the door and- Yeah, and people are getting ripped up by shrapnel. That's this fucking shot, but like, homeboy's alive somehow. Also, it's colored very well. A beautiful shot. Sorry, is it-

Jesus and how oh god how quick it knocked his fucking yeah, he had the tube what no shit It healed itself thankfully, but he had a brain hemorrhage because the tube went straight up is that what knocked the helmet off? It's kind of blocked by the explosion, but yeah, we're good cool cuz I saw it if let's back this up Yeah, cuz the tube that that's the tube. Let me No, you're good. That's that's fine. Yeah, we're you're good. It's not slow enough for me. Sorry, cuz you see that I

You see the helmet fly off. Yeah. But you see the tube is knocking the helmet off. It looks slow, but that launched in the air. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, it's slow-mo.

Thank you. It looks slow. At 3,000 per pass. Really? It's easy to lose perspective on how energetic this is when you see it flow. Not when you see there is still shrapnel moving through the air. Yeah. Like these little pieces. Yeah, because the tube going up, I think, is what knocked him. And what's crazy is, like, based on his nervous system and all of us watching it, we still don't know what's happened.

No. You see what I mean? We don't even know this has happened. He's unconscious. You know how I can tell because there's zero reaction. He is full stand. This is .1 second after the explosion, and he is completely unconscious. Smoke everywhere, and his face is just sideways. Shrapnel is still flying over him. And he looks like he's having a pleasant dream. Yeah.

There's his plate carrier. You're still cute, by the way. I just want to let you know that. That's part of the wood furniture, I think it's called. Yeah. It grenaded, pretty much. Yes, it did. Shit, dude. The plate. Yep. The fucking... It knocked the goddamn plate out of his carrier. The fucking plate flew out.

Fucking plate the plate out the plate kept shrapnel from going into his chest. There's gouges were redirected Jesus His reaction is like what my plate The plate out in the fucking explosion slow-mo. It's you see it going away from you. Yeah, I

Oh my god, yeah, we're gonna... I will say, this is... No, we're not. No, you'll be safe with me. I have my rules, trust me. Can I give it to you shortly before you release your episode? Again, let's reiterate... I'm very strongly about this, I'm sorry. Oh, you're good, you're good. Let's reiterate, I'm very fucking sorry this happened to you, but this is some of the most beautiful slow-mo footage I've ever seen in my life. It's really good. Can I show them an AG shot?

Can I show you a happy shot? A fun shot. Yeah, is it roughly the end of this? Yeah, he just falls. There's his glasses and

Good on them. But right about now. This is the bet. No, no. This if you want a perfect fucking ballistic glasses test commercial, you show this and be like, but look what's not hurt. It zooms in and shows the brand name. Wiley X. Jesus. Test of time. That was just floating. Bro, they're just floating down in perfect shape. I'm still processing that. It's taken me three weeks. I'm not done.

Fuck. Fuck, dude. So do you want to see like a more exciting happy thing? Sure, yeah, let's see like a nice happy one. This is like a, you watch a horror movie and then you watch like 20 minutes of a comedy before you go to bed. So this is a high explosive rocket. It's called a heat rocket. It's about a pound and a half of explosives. It's a high explosive anti-tank? I think so, yeah. Against a body. Well, this has the slow-mo. Sorry. I was like, yeah. Bro. Bro.

And he's just there. Wait, he can't. You see what I mean? Yeah. Dude, you look fucking amazing. First of all, you look fucking great. Second of all, you look fucking great considering that was three weeks ago. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah. You ready for something to be happy about? Yeah. We can go back to the podcast. Okay. All right. Three, two. That's awesome. Me hiding from all this shit. And then brains. Yeah.

Not that! I did not expect the fuck. And then here's some slow-mo for ya. This is why I said they were the up-and-comers. Bruh, you guys are fucking killing it, especially in two-year timeframes. See when it hit the concrete? Yeah! I'm gonna cum. Isn't that wild? And we got one more shot. Super slow. I number three-ed my pants. Oh my god!

Oh dude, aww, it's a fucking shockwave. He's getting peppered by fucking shrapnel. I cut here but- I don't know what to look at! I know! Alright, that's all you get. I have a supernova going on. That's all you get. What do you think though? Pretty wild? That was dope. Jesus Christ. We're hoping that gets some views.

Alright, let me put this away. What?! Sorry to sober everything and then do that. Yeah, I'm on an emotional rollercoaster right now. So hard and sad. I'm so confused right now. Dude, that was the dopest fuck. It's like the Boy Scouts all over again.

*laughs* But like you can imagine- You can imagine how- if we had the high explosive warhead loaded and had the failure- You know what I mean? Like- Like you could imagine if we had a high explosive warhead during the failure- Then you just hope it doesn't fucking death the HE like that- 'Cause you never know. Yeah. Holy shit! As soon as you show me the slowmo I'm like, "Ah, that." First off, let me see your hand.

Which one? This one. There you go. That's the good one. Yeah, that's the good one. You got a touch. You got a touch. But you're lucky to have your digis. Well, you're lucky to be alive. Yep. So... I don't think the digis were in question. No. How's your hand? It was the... It was the part that was right next to the explosion I was worried about. So I wound up with a TBI. What? I know, right? You look so peaceful. I hardly got bonked.

He's unfortunately the same. If you don't mind talking about how bad of a TBI. Because you said it was like an instant brain bleed, I think. Yeah, so I have to go back. They have to recheck hearing, vision. I have to do a cognitive memory test, all sorts of stuff. Because apparently you can get long-term, short-term memory loss, something like that. So I had a TBI. Eli still doesn't remember to show up on time. That's why you have to give us the address for TBI.

Yeah, I because I've been in three no I told you get it well I've been in three no he's gonna make you feel bad about his military service real quick No, I got three I've been in three IDs and once a bomber so I'm like yeah Yeah, it's cheese It's just a whole cheese mine's just nice and smooth. Yes, no insults just slide right off. Oh

If your business partner would have liked you, like, oh, thank God he made it and he came to and he was like, I'm ready to film another one, Blythe. What is that? It's like the end of Ted. You want to tell them what the first thing I said when I woke up was? Well, first it was a lot of grunting, but, um, sorry. But the first thing, the first, like, why? Why did you do that when you woke up? His first word when he came to, daddy. Yeah.

The first thing I could understand that he said was, did you get it in high speed? I was like, Adam, yes, but also quit asking that. It wouldn't have been weird if he didn't ask it eight times after he woke up. Yeah. That's the short-term memory loss. The dementia kicking in. You're on your way to being president. Yes. To put it in perspective...

So that kind of test we were doing normally being off to the sides of the launchers, no problem. But since we were doing a backblast test and there was a head there, since we were doing a test with a head there, we were a little bit worried about if we blew the head up and like bones and stuff went everywhere. So I was laying on the ground like covering my head just to, again, safety. So from my perspective, I'm there with my hand trigger for the high speed waiting for it.

I hear a really loud boom, louder than normal, so instinctively I trigger the high speed. And the first thing I look up, it was like they say, it was like slow motion. It was like this huge smoke cloud. Adam's nowhere, and his helmet's just tumbling out right in front of me. So my first thought was he died.

Like that my first brain process was Adam just died and then shock set in immediately. And so and his wife was there, too. And as I'm getting up to go run up there, I look over at her. I see the same like feeling in her face of like like he's gone, like he just got blown up.

We didn't see him until the smoke started to move a little bit and we got up there. And the first thing I see was him moving finally and like struggling to breathe. Um, his face is mangled blood everywhere. Velvet black, like leather arms. Um,

Then you can kind of hear some of the audio in the because the footage like when I first won and when I first saw the the footage Yeah, that was the haunting part is egg as soon as it it goes up Obviously we didn't see the high-speed we just saw but like I just see like, you know, obviously explosion happens right and then it's all it's all blurred and then just like the the panic in your voice and the the call 911 is that's that made the fucking hair stand up on my arms when I saw it you did good on

Because you weren't trained for that shit. No, I didn't. To keep us cool, you were like, call 911 and just answer. No, I was consciously fighting shock in my brain the whole time. Because I'm at least aware enough of what shock is and panic and terror. So I could feel it creeping in. I'm like, no, we've got to be helpful.

But I didn't know how to be helpful. But then I thought 911. So even on 911, I could give them the address quickly. And then when they asked what happened, that's when my brain was still struggling to know it was real. That's a soldier right there. He's laughing about it. That's how I know he's deployed. This part's pretty funny, though. Which part? How you described to the operator. Oh, yeah. Because first they asked for the address and everything. And then so they said, like, what happened? And I was like, what happened?

But my brain froze up because I was about to have to speak the words of what just happened and my brain's not even sure it's real yet because I just saw him basically half dead and I've never seen that before. So my brain was just like, burns, explosion,

They were just like, sir, we need help. Like what happened? And it was like, I'm, I'm half embarrassed by the whole thing. Cause like, I, I couldn't speak fluently. What just happened? I don't know. They're like, sir, what exactly happened? And finally I was like, we had a launcher with a black powder booster blew up right next to him. So, you know, think large fire, large firework, you know,

serious burns, broken jaw probably. And then I could finally, I was looking at him describing it and then I finally could come back and was like, all right, treating time. Where's the burns? You'd already stopped the bleeding. Like finally my brain started to function and it took like a minute and a half. Did you have any sort of medical onsite? Um, we had a, I think there was,

Was there EMS there? No one was, like, no one properly trained. And this is not, like, this is not a slight, like, hey, you should have had medical on site. No. We were going to. Nobody plans for this. This is a, you know. I think it was supposed to be EMS. Yeah. Oh, no, it was all supposed to be the day before. EMS was on site the day before because that's when everything was supposed to happen. Yeah, things get delayed as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this is one of those things that nobody expects anything to happen and, like, you can't really plan for how bad shit like that can get. My medic...

I'd reached out to them because I've wanted some first aid kit stuff around because just, I mean, guns and stuff, I mean, it's... Yeah. There is an inherent danger involved in it. So I kind of wanted to have some stuff around and through the Army, I mean, I did the TCCC and all that stuff and I've been very medically minded. You're the one on the ground. Yeah, that's... That makes a huge... I was like, I got this.

He's like, I was doing shit. He's our medic. I was doing self-made. Maybe we shouldn't have let the medic shoot the RPG. No, I woke up. You did self-made? Yeah, I woke up. The fuck? My boy. Yeah, I looked at my arms. No shit. Do they try? Yeah, you look for fucking, you're like, yeah, PG, I got to put a tourniquet on my fucking mouth. No, I looked at my arms and registered burn. And my wife.

Because I had told everybody where all of the kits are. I had a like a medium on my front. I had a personal on my rear. And then I had like a backpack style in the bed of my truck. And I was just telling everybody like the whole week. I was like the bed of my truck. Anything happens. Somebody get it to the person and then I will be there and then the kit will be there.

She remembered in all of this. She runs to my truck. Oh, yeah. That's fucking awesome. And she has no medical training whatsoever. Runs to the truck, gets the kit, and as I'm coming to, I look at my arms, I register burns, and then I grab the kit, and I don't know who I was yelling at, but I was telling everybody, I was like, in the center pocket, orange packets, it's the burn mod. Orange packets, it's the burn mod.

Was like rifling through it and I pulled the one out and I was like, this is burn gel. This goes on my arms I was like, this is antibiotics like it was weird like all of us around him our brains were going into shock But his hasn't yet auto bike like he was just we saw an adrenaline. He was he was like physically messed up but like his brain was still trying to force his lungs to make words and Communicate with us like he was treating himself better than we were treating him for a bit until we figured out Okay, this is the layout

This is all the burn gels. These are the pads we can apply. You know, all that kind of stuff. That's fucking wild. I kind of like remember Bryce, like you like had said something or maybe I could just kind of sense that you had like, you'd like snap to like a champion and you had kind of like taken over. And at that point my body was just like, okay. Yeah. I was, I was trying to just back out. Can I sleep?

That's also, to be fair, a bit of the TBI where you're just like, okay, head noggin needs to repair. I'll see you later. My electric meatball is misfiring. My electric meatball. Birds, go! Not on the neck. See you later, space cowboy.

This is so traumatic. He's like, why are you guys laughing? This gave me PTSD. I had nightmares. Oh, man. So then I woke up in the helicopter. And the first thing I did, I remembered the explosion. And it was the first time I'd actually realized that I'd blown up. And then I remembered lifting my arms up and seeing them. And I tried to do it again and realized I was strapped down. And then my hearing kind of came back. And I was like, okay, I'm in a helicopter.

And then I kind of like passed out again and I woke up in the trauma bay. Fast forward a little bit though. This was super cool. Bryce sends me a screenshot from our, the Bosick high speed Instagram. And it's a pilot for Vanderbilt hospital where I was. And it wasn't just a pilot. It was way, way to fucking minute.

The pilot Vanderbilt hospital. Jesus Christ. Yeah. They need to stop dealing with fucking YouTubers. Cause I think that's exactly where Scott from Kentucky. Are you serious? I'm dead fucking serious. I think he got airlifted to there. Yeah. It's the place to go. So they're like, God damn it. Another fucking YouTuber. So we had, we went to the right place. Well, we were, we were by Nashville. We'd gotten a private range down there. So we were like already close to it.

I seriously think that's the same one, yeah. I'm reading the DM. I was like, this guy's not a pilot for Vanderbilt. I was like, this is the pilot that flew me. So I DM'd him from my personal, and I was like, dude, I heard you just saved my fucking life. And he was like, dude, I can't believe, you know, blah, blah, blah. I guess he was a fan already. Yeah, he watches our channel. Which is weird. What an awkward... Extra fast. Awkward way to meet. He lands, he's like, oh, okay. I was talking to unconsciously where he's flying. He's like, man, I love that video.

No. By the way, can we grab a selfie? No, so this is...

- He's having the best, here sign this for me, just take your hand. - Just in my blood. - How about a hand plant? - Yeah, fuck yeah man. - Jesus Christ. So then I got his number and I just started texting him and I was like, well I'm stuck here for like a minimum of two weeks. I was like, if you wind up here, I would love to meet you, like shake your hand. I was like, you guys are awesome. So I got out on a Tuesday, that Monday he wound up at the hospital

Um, so I got to meet him and one of the, so it's a three person crew. He flew me. And then one of the medics, uh, she actually came and got me on the ground and she was there too. So back to the helicopter, entirely unresponsive. They'd given up on asking me like your name, who's the president, birth date, all that stuff. Cause I'm just not responding. And they said out of nowhere, it must've been when I like realized what was going on out of nowhere. I just went, well, this can't be fucking good.

And then they were all like, hey, what's your name? What's your name? And I was just out again. The only thing I ever said the entire helicopter ride was just me sitting there going, well, this can't be fucking good. And then I passed out again. I woke up in the trauma bay. Well, first off...

- Bryce, awesome dude. - Like a champ dude. - Where are we at? You dude, amazing job. - I feel so embarrassed. I don't think I did well. - No, no, shut the fuck up. - Dude, most people would just like lock up forever. - You're white enough to see that you're getting very red. - No, my heart hasn't stopped since we watched the footage. - Well, and you're not trained for it.

People out there, most people, all y'all have a great game plan. It's no different than boxing. It's like you have a game plan and you get punched in the fucking face. Same for that. You reacted still good. You're like, hey, I got to fucking, I got to calm down. I have to call. I have to be direct. It took a little bit, but you still got everything done. I think the important part is your cash buddy is still alive. Yeah, your cash buddy is still alive.

Man, I gotta keep this guy alive. That's all he's thinking. I was like, fuck! Burns, burns, money, money. There's no views if he dies. Well... So, you know, we all have a joke that if anybody in the group dies, we're all gonna just capitalize on their memorial merch. Yeah, we have a merch thing. It's an understood agreement. Like, Eli, if I fucking die, you and Cody better make bank on my memorial. Oh, dude, it's gonna be that. We're selling tickets to the funeral.

No fucking better dude fucking cash that shit out. I'm not around. I don't give a fuck No, you nice to my parents. I don't care Most people entirely frees up like long-term you and Lana like I don't know how you guys did No, you guys responded like all of our emotions stayed in check until you were up in the helicopter And then we had a 40-minute drive to the hospital. We were both just like in silence just like

No, like I've seen people in the TCCC, the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Course, in the military, like it's their second or third time going through that responded like worse and slower than you guys did. Like you guys did like famed.

Well, what's crazy about like... Case in point, I'm still here. Yeah. I can also tell that you... He still has Long John shirts on. You genuinely care about him. I got blown back into the 90s, but I'm here. He woke up with Long John shirts on. It's his style. He's listening to Korn now. Freak on a leash. I got shell necklaces.

His Chico jeans is crazy. I can tell you genuinely care about him, though, because the entire time you're talking about it, you haven't stopped. You're going fucking crazy with your hands and legs. What's crazy about time perception when you're going through something like that is my memory of the event is all crammed into moment, and then...

The next thing I remember is after I'd been treating his burns for a while, at one point I was just standing there with his blood and burn gel on my face and on my arms and just seeing all these medics run down this hill and people's smoke still dispersing. And I'm just like, are we sure this isn't a movie? What is happening? It's that moment where everything's in slight slow-mo. You hear the ringing in your ears. And then you get that cinematic...

Yeah, and then the helicopter was coming. So what did you do after? I threw all my camera equipment into my car as fast as I could and drove to the hospital. Fuck. That's all there was to do. So when he asked me, did you get it in high speed, then it registered in my brain. I triggered the camera, but I haven't saved it. Now I have to go watch it to save it. So while he's laying there, I'm like...

We know it's burning you guys want to see holy shit this up

Dude, this looks so good. It's sick. And the medics just drop them. I wanna see. Yeah, what's going on? Yeah, they all come over and you're like, hold on, it's saving. Don't step on the cables, don't step on the cables. This transcode, my God, this is so good.

You can see him passed out at this. Adam, stop making noise. Stop screaming. It's like, hey, if this is useful, I can show you guys. They're just like, holy shit. Oh, he's dead. Which is even better now because now we know that footage. He's running into the doctor performing surgery. He's like, have you seen this? That recontextualized that conversation real quick. Yep.

Jesus Christ. Bryce is like, why are you making light of this? All in all. You have to at some point. Welcome to the club, pal. All in all, I wound up with a TBI, laceration to the cheek, broke my cheekbone in two places. They didn't notate it, but I'm pretty sure it dislocated my jaw. And then I had a temporal skull fracture with a brain bleed.

Which you said fixed itself? Yeah. They didn't have to cut out a segment to reduce it? It's wild. I got to talk to the neurosurgeon. It's crazy. And then I had 10-15% of my upper extremities. He's got that good, good brain, bro. He's got the smoothest brain of all. Your brain was smooth as a wall. There's just no pressure. The entire time. If there was a single wrinkle, that would have fucked you up, buddy. There's just so much room in there. It just...

Oh my god your trials and tribulations are so strong Look at your TBI Oh Speaking of that yeah the nerves the nerves in the half right side of my face are dead. Oh

They said how long they said it's more likely to come back than not but they said it could be days weeks months years They just with blunt force trauma and said that they just come back until then it looks like he's mocking you when he smiles I got like a forest Whitaker Harrison Ford. Yeah, I think going on and then I just thought you were smug when I met you You know no they call him ghost dog. Oh

And then 10 to 15% of my upper extremities were third-degree burns requiring skin grafts. Jesus Christ. Hell yeah. Dude, after watching that footage, dude, I'm just happier. It recontextualizes it, doesn't it? Oh, it really does. You didn't break any teeth or anything. That's what I was actually going to wonder. I was like, so all your fucking... They're like sore still. No, but I just got a lot of... Your teeth are sore? But...

My teeth bones are sore. Goddamn. His jaw moved so much that when I saw him, I thought teeth were coming out. It was like...

Holy shit. That's what that's what like really triggered the shock was like humans don't look like that. You don't look like that I mean he was ugly but like- Did you push it back? No, not like that. No, but you mentioned that so one of the- Stop looking weird. No, no, no. You look like shit on camera. Hey, but this is for you, for me, then you. It's for the shock. I'm tired of looking at it. He's like rolling my head this way so it's like stay over there.

Adam, can you make that sound again? I forgot to hit record on sound. Adam, roll your sleeves down. I don't want to see that. You know, the most important question is, did you bring those glasses on purpose?

Um, sure. I don't know. Wait, did you have those? Whose glasses are those? Those are mine. All right. That triggers the shit out of me. Did you know about that? No, why? These glasses here. Those are branded. These are my like OG Amazon sunglasses. That's where I got these back in the day. That was like when I was like, you didn't know that? That was like four or five years ago. These are my shades. I was just trying to be a cheap Tony Stark. That's all I cared about. What was branded? Dude, I'm...

I'm catching fucking streams here!

Seriously, I saw those glasses immediately. I used to buy them by like three or four at a time because they're cheap as shit. They're cheap, but they look good. They look good. And I was like, man, I'll buy a couple of those as iPro or whatever. You go back to my early YouTube videos. They're like seven bucks a piece. They hit crack up in here and just barely work. I still have like three extra pairs in my house. It's the same exact one. They don't look alike. It's the same ones. Unlike you unsafe degenerates, I only wear ballistic rated Wiley X. Hashtag not sponsored. Yes.

Yeah. Why the X will send you the invoice. They gave it to me for free. Well, we're glad you're here, man. Oh, so the neurosurgeon. I think this is super cool if you like medicine. See, he remembers stuff. It's not that bad. Yeah, it's not terrible. Pussy. If you like medicine. Right. Sterling Valor. Do you want to see real TBI? Ask me what I had for breakfast. You want to see real TBI? What? What are you asking me about? Where are you? Why are you

Get the fuck out of my Danny's Okay, okay Neurosurgeon comes in and he's just telling me like how a brain bleed works because he's like we're gonna have to Reese I had to get CT scans every four hours and If the brain bleed didn't slow they were gonna have to drill and drain and do all of that stuff. So

eight hours in it had slowed and so they're like okay we're not gonna do like a brain surgery i don't know if it's considered brain surgery if they're just drilling but we're not gonna do a surgery and then 12 hours in they're like it's actually rescinding already it's draining and we can see that there's healing going on in the skull fracture and i was like in 12 hours and so this neurosurgeon tells me and how are they doing the scans i hope it's true it's a just a ct scan okay

So he tells me that the reason, so I couldn't have pain meds yet because with the brain bleed they can't give you pain meds. So I've been getting my wounds like literally steel wooled with no-- - Fuck dude. - Yeah, worst pain I've ever been in my life, hands down, bar none. - Jesus. - I read stories, Crispy's talked about it. I remember I got like a small injury on the tip of my fingers where they had to clean it like that.

Oh yeah. And you're like, "Oh fuck, why are you scr..." You were there for one of them! Yeah, Lana and I were both watching it, and they were like, "Let us know if we need to stop," and the whole time he's just like... I'm like, "Adam, it's okay to say 'give me a break'," and finally he was like, "Okay, I need a break."

But like, I've never seen him shake in pain before. Well, and also, your body can't regulate temperature when it's burned. So I would go from like shivering cold to so hot I would puke. And then that would mess with my jaw because my cheekbone was broken. So the whole thing was just a revolving door of suck. But the neurosurgeon, he was like, the reason that you're not like feeling most of your pain right now...

is because your brain knows that if it doesn't fix the skull fracture and brain bleed, that you're gonna die. So it had like shut down the pain centers everywhere else so that it could focus on fixing the skull fracture and draining the brain bleed. - Well, that's nice. - I don't know why it turned them back on when it was done though. It could have just left them off. It would have been fucking great. - I just like, yeah, there's that brain cells like, okay boss, mission accomplished.

It's literally like, tag back in. Put me back in, coach. But then after that, I could start getting all of the IV fentanyl and Dilaudid. I mean, they just fucked me up for five days straight. You just named every drug. Every drug. Oh, no, it was...

I mean, if I missed a medication by like in the beginning parts of it, by like 30 minutes, it was like terrible. Terrible. And then they'd have to come in and give you like an IV stuff. And I'm not a huge fan of like narcotics and stuff. Well, shout out to Vanderbilt for saving two of our friends' lives. Oh, and everybody there was so awesome. They were all great.

Except there was one guy, he tried to put pills in my mouth while I was asleep. What? Did you scoutmaster Kevin again? That was me. I came back and put pills. You were black at one point? No, seriously, I was in my bed. This is a very big pill.

Oh, wait. He can't move his jaw. Answer. Oh. I double checked. It wasn't Bill Cosby. I had to move his jaw. No, I like woke up and he like had the cup and was like tipping it in my mouth. I was like, what the fuck is going on? Like, excuse me, sir. So my mom had come down to see me and I told her about it and she like went total mama. She's like, well, he's never coming back in your room again. And she went and found like the nurse in charge. She's like, I want that man off my son's case. And I was like, yeah, get him, mom. I don't have the balls to say anything. Yeah, you do. Yeah.

I was going to get... I mean... I'm going to be in a different ward in this hospital. Still trauma, but different. Man, two PTSDs for the price of one. Fucking hell. Well shit. I mean, that is how we close that story in this podcast. That was incredible. Fucking Jesus Christ. That was... That is the fastest podcast I think we've ever filmed. It's a longer one, but like... That was...

Thank you guys so much for coming on. Thank you for sharing your story. Oh my gosh. Fucking hell. I know we make light of a lot of this stuff, but it's a serious thing. I'm glad you're okay, man. I am too. The horrors persist, but so do I.

I mean, same. Felt, felt. For real, for real. Guys, thank you so much for coming and hanging out. Where can we find you, you beautiful bees? Primarily on YouTube, Ballistic High Speed. We're on Instagram a bit. We're not as heavy as we should be into all the other social media platforms. But yeah, YouTube.

Just ballistic high speed? Ballistic high speed. Boom! Oh, right there. And you can get that merch soon at Bunker Branding? Yes, we actually, I think we're getting picked up. The same place you can find the unsubscribed merch, you can get their merch as well. So just all wrapped into one big cart like we're one big happy family. I'll be like, links, can we do like the links pointing? Oh yeah, do the TikTok. Links down there. Anywhere you want. Can we get like the coin runners so people will actually like...

Keep watching. You got to have a coin runner on half of the screen. So people actually focus. I've never seen those. Really? You're not as disembodied as I thought you were. The Instagram reels where they put the gameplay footage. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like the GTA cards. We'll just look at the accident footage at the bottom. Ratchet or an owl.

hour and 40 minutes. That's fucked, but I love it. Oh my god. Joe, that's a real. Go. We're gonna do it just for that segment. We're just looping it. This is great. Hey, we're gonna go to the, we're gonna jump to the after show on Patreon now, so make sure you stay tuned or subscribe for that. Otherwise, goodbye my beautiful people.

Thank you guys for watching the Unsubscribe podcast. We are joined by Eli Doubletap, our friends at Ballistic High Speed. Thank you guys so much for showing up for the podcast. Of course. And we will see you guys in the next episode and or the Patreon. Say it. Say it. You got your line. Brandon Barbera, say your line. And I'll see you sexy YouTube mother lovers in the next podcast.