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Hey, are you upset you missed out on the live show tour? Well, don't be because we still have one show left to do. Brandon, where is that show at? Beautiful, Las Vegas. During what week? During the week of SHOT Show. So this will be our last show of the tour on January 20th at the Venetian Theater. And this one will be a double feature with the Gundys. So if you buy your ticket, it gets you access to both the Gundys and the unsubscribed live show. Two tickets for the price of one. So come hang out, have a blast, and then have a little SHOT Show experience too, right, Brandon? In fact, I would say the best part of SHOT Show.

The drinking and hanging out. Literally, the only part we care for anymore. So if you want to get the chance to hang out with some of your favorite people in the gun sphere, and also just have a fucking good time and see one of our live shows, go check out the tickets. They're available down in the description. Yay! Come check us out! Oh yeah, we got it. Ready? You're so embarrassing. Um... Mango! Okay, everyone knows how this works. Tangerine. Three, two, one. I was a second behind. Embarrassing, embarrassing. Oh, so good. Mmm.

Yeah, that's nice. That is not bad. Still not Cody. Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming to the Unsubscribed Podcast. I'm joined here today by Mr. Eli Double Tap, our old friend, Mr. Leon Lush, and our new friend, Mr. Anthony, a.k.a. EMTBedge502. Guilty. Yes. Nailed it. It's 502 or 592. Fucking...

By the time I get to E-M-T-B-A-D, it auto-fills. Okay? I'm sorry. Allow it. You know what's a good username? Let me add some you. A lot of numbers in there. It's classic like anon Twitter where it's like user57860045632. I think I'm getting shadow banned. No. On every other platform, it's just badge502. But someone on Instagram decided they needed that.

so that's just the luck I drew you know 502 is my actual badge number I couldn't get away from it has anybody ever asked for your badge number like they asked for cops quite literally yeah have they 100 I want to hear the story uh we go to houses obviously all the time and uh every so often

it doesn't matter how nice you are how courteous you are to people you know sometimes you get that person who just doesn't love you and you just step back let the other emts handle it and they're like i want your bad number i want your name i want your dad's name i want your next door neighbors leave me alone how dare you come and try and help me yeah you called me yeah i'm not jealous of

We got two amazing individuals. Both now are doing... You're expanding into different content. Now you're like, hey, let's figure out... Hey, let's break down cop videos. Let's have some people being stupid. Let's also do the family stuff. Very, very polite way of saying let's exploit my wife's innocence on the internet. I'm glad you said it because she would have been like, well, Nick said it, not me. I don't know.

Yeah, we do a little bit of everything. I mean, I've been in the game for a while, had the ups and downs, typical roller coaster of being a YouTuber. But she was courteous enough to, at my behest in like 2018, be like, honey, why don't you just sit down with me and see what happens, do what I do, and we'll do it together. And she's a very like not online person, doesn't like cameras, blah, blah, blah. But fast forward five, six years.

She's got a little niche audience that loves her. She's much more comfortable on camera. So we sit down and shoot the shit. It's kind of that relationship. Like the squabble, the banter between us, I think, that people like.

And then, yeah, as far as what I do, I'm just throwing pickles. Like I said this before, throwing pickles at the fridge, seeing what sticks. You know, I'm just trying new shit. I watch, I actually watch quite a few of your videos and there's nothing funnier than when your wife asks you a question and I can just see your brain start calculating. You like hit pause on the video and you're like, I need to explain like a level nine meme to somebody that has no internet history background. You're like, yeah.

It started when we killed this gorilla in 2016, and then there was... Dude, the best moment, and I'll never forget it, I still give a shit to this day. It was right at the height of Marvel supremacy. What was it? Infinity War, Endgame had just come out, and it was like Thanos was the most popular bad guy of all time. And we're sitting down and we're doing a video, and a Thanos meme comes up. And she's like, who's that? Here we go. And it was just like...

Excuse me? Who's Thanos? So ever since that day, I was like, snap, I pulled out the fucking power glove. It's not working. I was like, so I absolutely annihilated her on camera and it was very fun. And I was like, yeah, this could work. Let's get rid of this.

Let's get through with that bullying. Five years later to this day, I'm like, oh, we're going to have a Thanos moment right now, aren't we? Bullying is love. Love is bullying. She's just that type of normie Instagram bitch that's just like, ooh, my fun little recipes and here's this fun thing and I'm on X watching people get murdered and doing all this dumb shit like going down rabbit holes and then we get together for a couple hours a week and watch it together and I'm like, oh yeah, I've seen this a million times. She's like, what's this? I'm like,

I don't have the time to explain it to you, so we're just going to move on to the next one. So it's a fun dynamic that works between the two of us. And as corny as it might sound, it's like having done it for like five or six years now, it's cool as a married guy to like have an excuse to sit down and kind of like banter with your chick for a couple hours a week in a way that's like a business, but also in a way that like you're doing it because it makes money, but also it like –

there's been some really cool organic moments that have come from it, which has been really cool looking back. Yeah. You get like, it is Nick. You start incorporating your wife. I incorporate Sav. And those are those things where you, it strengthens your relationship. Because I think when you're really solidified in like a family relationship, like, and it shows on camera, everyone's happy. Yeah. And then others like, Oh man,

that's dope. I want that. So just have fun with it. Yeah. Yeah. I bring my wife on to bond, not for money laundering and tax evasion. That's why my wife's on so we can bond. I don't see two big bags of money next year at my wife. No, that definitely wouldn't be me. Certainly not. I don't exploit her in every single thumbnail possible. She went on, uh,

On Unstuck, she went on stage and the audience went fucking nuts. What'd you say? Just walked in because she's in all my ads. She's like, delete me! She just walked out and said it to the whole crowd. And she came out and she's like, oh my god. What did I do? She wrote that high all night.

I'll text my wife. Honey, views are different this month. Can you wear that low-cut shirt that you love? Yeah. Use her down. Oh, holy shit. That's my favorite story. I don't know if we're allowed to talk about it. I mean, I'll ask her later. We can cut it out. I'll let you know. I mean, like...

My wife does not do it. Like my wife has half a margarita at the Mexican restaurant at lunch and she is, I'm my arms feel heavy. Yeah. I love you, but this is why you're the DD. I'm like, I'm not, not drinking. So you can have half a margarita trash. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, so we go out. This is the San Diego show and everything's going great. She does her little delete me bit. She goes out in the crowd. Bye. Love you. Go watch me perform. Whatever. I come back out after the show to find my wife in the crowd and my wife is on fucking Jupiter. I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? Oh, Hannah ate the entire chocolate bar. Oh, okay. How much?

is an entire chocolate bar she wasn't feeling it by the way you know but it wasn't just been there yeah it's not doing anything you want to take a guess on how much how much a chocolate bar was she doesn't do any weed at all yes 100 milligrams yeah I was gonna say about 100 yeah out the gate thanks for playing dude if I do 10 I'm legless and I'm a big guy I was like oh god get out of here

She was paranoid. It was aggressive. It feels like you're dying for several hours. It's a horrible experience. She was in a crowd with 1,100 people that all knew who she was and they all wanted to come up and talk to her.

She's fucking like... Dude, I walked up, I was like, you good? I was like, you can go eat and lay down. And she like... She just starts ascending into heaven. I was like, she looks mad. She's like, I'm not buying your dinner. I have questions. Does she normally do that? Not a thing. So who convinced her to eat the chocolate bar? Well...

She wanted to have a little tiny bit, like five milligrams. Sure. And then at some point... Like a little sliver of... Like it was broken into five milligram increments. It was like a Kit Kat. And the only edible they could buy apparently was 100 milligrams altogether. And they were going to like, I don't know, save it, share it, whatever the fuck. And her brother who does do edibles and stuff and...

he turned around and she was like, yeah, she just ate the whole thing because she said it wasn't working. Now it's definitely fucking working. That is the way, that is the rollercoaster that people get on. It's like, ah, man, it's been 10 minutes. I don't feel a thing. 20 minutes? This isn't working. Christ, Kylo Ren calm down. Yeah. The good news is that's a mistake you typically only make once. I jump guarantee it. I've been to multiple of those houses. Yeah. Multiple. And they're sitting, I've had one guy who's just sitting on the curb, just freaking out. I'm like, what's going on? He's like,

my heart's racing. And I'm like, what did, like, did you do something different today? He's like, I ate, I ate this edible. And I was like, there it is. Yep. I don't know. Now they're strong. I ate the entire edible. They're strong, but they're also, so yeah,

You know, depending on where you buy them from, like if they sell them 20 milligrams, 100 milligrams, you get the gummies, the chocolates, whatever food choice you want. But the beauty of it now, like as it's become so mainstream, is you can really have a reasonable idea of how many milligrams you're having so you can dose it correctly. I'm thinking back to like when I was in high school. I just had my buddy Zach who was like dealing cocaine at the time. They're like, dude, I made a batch of brownies. I'm like, okay, how many do I have? He's like, I don't know, a couple.

A couple brownies? Yeah. And literally, it's literally brownies. He didn't even make it into butter. It was just like nuggets of wheat in the brownies. He's not good at mixing either. Yeah. So I eat two. I eat two. And of course, same thing. This is back when edibles weren't as mainstream. And it was probably one of my first experiences. I smoked off and on through high school, blah, blah, blah.

So I eat two brownies and same thing. I'm like, oh, this isn't working. I'm like drinking a fucking... Oh, it's working. I'm drinking like a Zima or something at the time. I don't even know. So I eat like two more brownies and then, you know, fast forward three hours and I'm literally like plastered on the tile kitchen floor like this, just like spinning for six hours. I'm in danger. Dude, it is... We had one of my buddies... And that summed up the time of my life. The best night I've ever had. There's my one buddy. He eats them. And then he's like, oh, once I was like, oh, no, I'm good. I was like, what? What's that?

What does that bottle say on the dosage? He's like, oh, they're 400 milligrams per cube. I was like...

Excuse me? Huh? Take care. Why? Why? He's like, well, there's 10,000 milligrams in this box. I'm like, like a bullion cube? You're making a f***ing stew or something? Why the f*** would you put 400 milligrams in a cube? Making a nice chicken noodle soup. You're supposed to drop those into a cauldron for a party, dude. Jesus Christ. You just eat these? Yeah. He's just upper decking it. Popping them up. Popping them up.

5,000 milligrams an hour right now. I'm rocking floating. I would die. What's the problem? It's called the all spark. The all spark. Oh my God, dude. People are crashing on five milligrams. This guy's eating the Tesseract. Yeah. What are you doing?

Oh, man. It was a good time, though. It was a good time. Mr. Leon got to join us at the Boston show. Yes. Yeah, Boston was amazing. Yeah, that was... Oh, yeah. They were both there. They were both there. I keep thinking Atlanta. I don't know why. We didn't know that either of us were there until we met here. It was wild. Down at the Range Day today. But the Boston show was unreal. Unreal. I had a beautiful time. Unhinged. I didn't have anything to compare it to, obviously, versus other shows.

But from my perspective, the crowd energy was good. I was very happy as someone who takes pride in coming from New England, the Boston area. Obviously, they're big into sports. And I was like, this is like a.

Sports team vibes, dude. Your fans are ravenous. They were ridiculous. After everything, every joke, people were like, fucking USA chants, like the whole nine. They actually liked you guys. I got a video of 1,100 people yelling, fuck communism and then chanting USA. It was awesome. Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill at the end. Yeah, the energy was palpable. It was a really good time and...

Yeah, you can't fake that. You know, you can't fake that. You either have that or you don't have that. It was wild because we've discussed it before, like getting...

Everyone wanted to do them because when the small shows it is like it is hard to be like, hey, we're doing a tour and no one wants to be on stage. We talk behind cameras, not behind a microphone. And then it is like, hey, we have to put in work and we got to make these seat cells and then we have to expand. But you have to start at the bottom and you're just like, OK, we got to sell these. OK, now we're here. Now we got to sell these. OK, now move.

Big venues. Bigger. Brick by brick, as they say, you know? This brick by brick. I'd be really curious to hear like a comedian, like an actual legit comedian's interpretation of like, oh, you guys have done five live shows and then sold out the Wilbur Theater.

Dicks. Yeah. It's just new media, though. It's because you think of how many hours and how much of the time you've spent grinding to build an audience through digital medium, which is the best. So you have now the luxury of selling out these awesome venues because of all the work you've done leading into that, like through what we're doing here at this table, which is awesome. People just see that tip of that iceberg, you know?

It's not like the podcast has been grinding at podcast open mics. You know what I mean? Going on the podcast version to kill Tony for 30 seconds at a time. All right, guys. We have 60 seconds. Let's go. He's like, so guys, comment.

I'm saying is thank God for the Internet People are always like, oh are you nervous going out there? I was like I was slightly nervous the first time but like it yeah, we're not trying to wait It's not like we're comedians. We have to go out there and win over the crowd now everybody all

already likes us. There you go. It's like, and it's, I also, you can't bomb. Like if your joke falls flat, there's four other dudes to catch it and throw it back up and hit it. This is, it's absurdly easy. And you guys have, you guys have that type of chemistry with each other where you can just play off each other. So perfectly. No, that's.

And that was the interesting part to me as someone who's watched a lot of stand-up is it's like you guys, it's like communal stand-up, really, but you're sitting down. It's sit-down. It's sit-down. Everyone puts that. It's communal sit-down. But it's the same idea. It's bits, it's jokes, it's... And yeah, and dude, what is wild is like the Boston show compared to the Buffaloes, different set. Completely different. Completely, yeah, because we just like... Like...

It just started going into a new direction. And it was like, okay. I chokeslam Rich through a table. Yeah, literally. I'm sitting here. I'm like, I wonder what the Boston show is going to be different than the Buffalo show. And then I click on the story on Instagram. All of a sudden, I just see up through a table. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Left-handed. Left-handed? Left-handed. Because we talked about it like four months prior. And I completely.

forgot about it because like Bill's Mafia it's like a tradition yeah so right pecs torn I can't lift shit up and I was like I like he starts pulling out the chair tables and I was like oh shit we're still doing this cool and I like turn to look back nobody has any clue what's going on and I'm like

Okay, looks like I'm doing this. You know what he's doing. Here we go. Fuck it. Left-handed. Here we go. Something's happening. Riches walks off, grabs the table, throws it on the chair. He's like, dude. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And then it's like the entire slant. He's like going through the show notes. He's like, where is this? And then I'm like, that's not scripted, by the way. None of us.

knew that was about to happen the funniest part is because i posted it and the amount of people in the comment section that were like wow dude in the american flag shirt did it dirty he didn't even sell the move like people are mad that he's like making wrestling look fake because he popped right back up he didn't sit there and act like his kidneys were in agony for 10 minutes yeah

People are legitimately upset about it. Like, Rich proved that wrestling's fake all by himself. I love that. I have to imagine that was Rich's idea, right? Oh, yeah. 100%. Absolutely. As a New England born and bred sports fan, Buffalo's a big competitor to the Patriots. They're crazy. And they're known for their table slams, right? Yeah. So, like, every football season. Yeah. Everyone knows the table slams. So, Buffalo.

Buffalo fans are psychotic. So like every football season, every weekend, there's clips on Twitter of people getting like life-changing injuries because they're tailgating. And I'm talking like off of a roof through like a flaming table and they just like...

Half the time they miss the table and just lay it on the fucking ground, and it's just a bunch of drunk retards everywhere. Happy Sunday. And that's literally what Buffalo sports is known for. It's like them just trying to outdo each other with who can do the craziest table slam. And as a New England fan, I just love sitting back and watching people essentially ruin their back for the rest of their lives over a fucking cheeky Twitter video.

I'm never going to win a Super Bowl. I'd probably feel better about it if I was paralyzed. Now I have an excuse to watch every Buffalo game. The ER is just sitting there. It's like, huh, it's like 3 o'clock. Guys, get ready. You know it's coming sooner or later. Five ambulances roll up. There it is. Yeah, I was going to say, if you were up in Buffalo, you'd be getting calls like that all the time. Absolutely.

For the 24-year-old male, injury to the shoulder, back, neck. What happened? Up, up, table. I will say it was the funniest thing, weirdest thing, when it's like Buffalo, it's like racism. I look at Brian, I'm like, we need to leave. They're like chanting. I'm like, what? This is getting oddly strange. This is a show. And they're like, we weren't used to the stomping thing. Like everyone cheers the stomping. I didn't.

I've never seen that at a live show before. And it is the entire... Yeah, that's cool. So they just get gone with both feet? Yeah, and it is rumpus. It's like thunder and you're like, what the... How was that from the front, Dave? When you hear that, it's like the place is going to fall down. Yeah, it was literally like an earthquake.

Start getting a little plaster coming out of the ceiling, like trickling down. It was like an old church from like 1803. It was crazy. Oh yeah, it was like they had a boiler. The green room had the original boiler with the chopped off gas lines. It was fucking nuts. Dude, W and me, like Ben, are...

like he's watched people like some of the best sets and he's like i have never seen an audience react like that yeah he's like oh oh you're one where you just broke the building come and a thousand people are cheering like that and everyone's getting shit wrecked yeah beyond belief we sold out all the alcohol at every venue we went to i know

I believe that. So that's the best part because that's where they make most of their money. So they're going to be begging you to come back. Like if you're doing like a violin recital and it's like three people are drinking like Chardonnay and the whole crowd, they're like, fuck this, dude. This sucks. Like sure, ticket sales are cool. But if you can like...

the bar yeah yeah you can come anytime you want they've seen us on tour and they're like hey you're not coming here we whatever you need yeah 100 we double-stocked all the liquor some venues boston wasn't afraid of the audience that's also true yeah the boston that all those shows just like i i'm super super happy we recorded

The Boston show. I can't wait to see that. I'm stoked to see that. We had four cinema cameras. Five cinema cameras plus backup roamers. Do you have an ETA on when that's going to come out? I think two weeks. Nice. On Pepperbox? Yeah. Hell yeah. I didn't even know that it was getting recorded. I was in line for the meet and greet.

And I'm just kind of leaning there. Now that I'm picturing what it looked like, I felt like it was one of those leaning against the high school building with your foot up type of moments. And I'm leaning up against the railing. I'm just kind of looking off in the distance, just kind of taking in the environment. And I was like, kind of snap myself back out. I look forward and there's just a camera panning across me. I was like, well, that's great.

You were getting recognized a bunch while you were there. I was getting recognized a bunch. That was a heck of a time. It's not my own element. I've got recognized at hospitals or EMT events and stuff like that. But walking in there, as soon as I walked in the building, there was just a circle of folks that were there for the meet and greet. And I just walked in. They're like, do I know you? I'm like, I don't. Are you a paramedic? I'm like, I'm an EMT. She's like,

Are you on TikTok? I'm like, I am on TikTok. And it just started from there. And it didn't end until we left the bar across the street. I'm glad our audience needs to be told not to shove stuff up their ass. You know that Batman's not putting things in your ass?

I don't like that advice. Yeah, they're like, how dare you try to dictate what goes in my ass? How dare you? I mean, we got to ask, what's the weirdest thing you've had to pull out of somebody's ass? So I've only, well, I never, I didn't pull it out. As an EMT, I try really hard not to put anything or take anything out. Don't sneeze, you'll break the light bulb. Yeah, what happened? So, I mean, the story that ended up happening was when I was on a paid department, so I ended up going on a call and it's,

when i do these rants when i do these rants it's always like when i do these rants they're they're serious about how it happens so like it's always like some stupid three o'clock in the morning just junk that happens and what ended up happening was it was a three o'clock in the morning call

And we get dispatched for a 19-year-old male who has an injury to the... An impaled object injury to the abdomen. So I'm like, oh, this is great. This guy fell on a pair of scissors, fell on a knife, cooking down... I'm like, what? This could be anything. We get over there and he's just sitting there on his couch, kind of, pardon the pun, but cocked to one side. And he's just looking at me with these doe eyes. I'm like, hey, buddy. My name's Anthony. What's going on? He's like, you're not bleeding? What's going on? He's just...

hands me a suave bottle from a suave shampoo bottle and i'm just like why doesn't it have a lid on it why doesn't it have a lid on it and he's just looking at me like understood okay okay we're gonna get we're gonna get through this all right yeah so i i asked him how it happened he's like i was in the shower and i was like he's like i sat down on it and i was trying to have some fun and things

thing came off and now it's you know sealed like a time lock at the bank and it's not coming out so yeah i was like well we're in this now is this like now was this like one of the like the pump top lotion straight up screw top suave bottle yeah so uh you know when this top just went yeah top just unscrewed and just that was it that was so we ended up transporting him and

With the burden of knowledge of how that's coming out, it's not a fun image. It's exactly like just what you think it is. They're going to spread it, and they're going to go in there, and they're going to get it. Get the forceps out. Yeah, exactly right. You may as well just get the jaws of life. I feel like there's a real basic level IQ test. It's like if you're going to drill something into your ass, absolutely prerequisite is to make sure there's no detachable parts in the market. One would think. So that's kind of like, are you below or above 100 IQ? Yeah.

It's like, below, swab bottle, cap comes off of my colon. All right, now it's so... It's a bad day. It's a bad day had by all. It's like, you might have a register set broken. You know, like, 20 minutes before that, he's like, he sees a BuzzFeed article about prostate massage, and he's like, hmm, this could be something. I don't have a dildo. I could make one out of Legos. Yeah.

Maybe the shampoo bottle with a very easily removable cap will work. I fell out. Yeah, everybody falls on a three-foot statue of Barbra Streisand in their bathroom. That's just how it works. Next thing you know, you sneeze and Anthony's standing over you like this. How many times have you heard in that situation where like...

bell yeah that's that's the answer it's nice i usually did i i fell in the shampoo bottle untwisted itself and wound up in my ass the big answer you'll get is i didn't expect that to happen i just want to sit there you know it's one of those things like the new thing on the internet is you know we listen we don't judge right but my answer to them is just always what did you think was gonna happen like i just want to know what how did you think this was gonna go oh i judge looking at him with those big doe eyes like oh no he's gonna talk about me on tiktok

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Yeah, you're probably at that point now. He's f***ing coming there. Can I get a selfie? I'm a huge fan. This is really awesome. This is so sorry I didn't listen. Did you do this because you know I'd show up? This is why I say don't meet me like this. I literally do not want to meet you like this.

Yikes, dude. How long have you been doing TikTok? TikTok, I think I started in like 2021. Yeah, and I was just making like, you know, it's just like everybody else starts out. Just making goofy stuff to pass the time, have a good time, and just put stuff out there that made me laugh. If it didn't make somebody else laugh, it made me laugh, and that was something. And then one day, I made a video, and it was just this weird like, I guess the best way to describe it is like this serpentine-looking kinetic thing that was going like this, and I was like, that...

is phallic I'm just like I don't know so it just the whole video was just this serpentine thing going and uh I just cut right to me just real fast and it was like a hard zoom and I was just like no no

and that just detonated one of my friends sent me a message and they were like you need to go on your tiktok right now because that is exploding and i'm sitting there like okay well my previous video hit like 16 people so uh i guess the new one's probably gonna hit like 100 people it's exploding so i looked at it as like 300 000 after like three hours what was the phallic thing what are we talking about it was like this weird like

gold-colored kinetic spiraled sculpture that was just doing this. That was in someone's ass? No, no, no. It was just sitting on a table. Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, I haven't seen that thing in a long time, so who knows where it ended up. In great places. You know? After you tell somebody no so many times, it's like, but my body's telling me yes. So how long have you been in EMT? So I've officially been in EMT for just a little over four years.

Okay. I'm a relatively newer EMT. What did you do before that? I have done everything on the surface. I was a range safety officer at a firearms range. I was in the restaurant business for 10, 11 years. I was a food manager for the Job Corps program, if anybody's familiar with the Job Corps program, which is a really cool program the government does for underprivileged or second or third chance individuals. It's a really good program. And I ended up being the food manager over there.

Just everything under the sun. I installed pools, just everything. And then finally, I got out of the restaurant business, got out of the Job Corps business.

and decided like I needed to do something a little bit more of value, at least in my own mind, something a little more of value. And my mom always had this sign that was above our couch. And not that my mom's a huge Muhammad Ali fan, so I have no idea why this was even there, but I guess it's something that she believed in. It just said, "Service to others is the rent that we pay for our room here on earth."

And it's something that just always stuck with me. It's something that I put on whenever anybody would ask me for what my favorite quote is. It was always that. So when I finally settled in on what I thought I wanted to do, I messaged one of my friends. I'm like, hey, how do I get involved in EMS? Like, it's something I really think I want to do. But it seems like such a difficult thing to get involved in. And he's like, go.

go down to the department and say hi. And I'm like, oh, well, you run a hard bargain there, but I think you can do that. Please, God, we need warm bodies. And that was pretty much it. I went down there and I probed for about six or seven months. And they're like, do you want to go to EMT school? Do you feel comfortable? Do you feel confident? I'm like, I feel good. My trainers were amazing. And I went to EMT school. And then as soon as EMT school started, people started getting coffee sneezes.

And two weeks later, COVID hit. So I became an EMT right in the heart of COVID. They shut school down. It became remote. It took me twice as long just to get through school because I couldn't do practicals. We couldn't meet in person to do hands-on stuff. So I finished EMT school book-wise and test-wise, but then I had to go back and do all the hands-on physical stuff and pass that.

which went well, and then you still have to take the national. In New Jersey, we take a national test in order to get your New Jersey EMT certification. So I went ahead and I had to set that. That was two weeks later, so I finally passed that, and after that, I was done. And yeah, then that's when the crazy stuff started happening. I was still working out the gun range, and in my first week of being an EMT, somebody decided that they needed to take a .357 Magnum and take it to this underneath their chin.

And he survived that. We were able to get him. Yeah, I was- You went in first calls? It wasn't even in my town. I happened to be on the retail desk. And the way the place looks, you have the retail desk. There's an area where people come in and pay for their membership or their range time and all that stuff.

And just on the opposite side, there's a, you got the glass wall and there's what was the 25 yard range. The main range. Wait, he showed up to the range and did it? Exactly right. He did. He, um, so it's like a range owned gun. This was a range owned gun. Yeah. And we have, we have special rules. We had special rules. Like if you're, you're not allowed to go in there and rent a firearm by yourself. That's, that was a main rule. And he wasn't by himself. He was with his girlfriend. Um,

And he was basically, yeah, he was insane. So I was in the retail county. Babe, do I have the date for you? We have new pieces in so we can communicate with everybody. Jesus Christ. All you see is we have, there's protocol in case something bad happens, right? So you see these, I just see the range starting to clear out. The privacy curtains just get cut down. I'm just like, and there was a guy next to me who wasn't, was already an EMT for a little while. It just so happened that he just started.

You just started at the range. I've been at the range for about a year at that point. Sorry, when you say EMT, like EMT-B, M, or paramedic? No, EMT-B. We're both EMT-Bs. What is B, M?

Be his basic intermediate and paramedic. Oh, gotcha. So it's like the level of trauma you can respond to. Yeah, the level of your depth of protocol and different things that you can do. So I looked and I see the curtains cut. And then he has no idea what's going on because he's literally brand new. And I just tapped him. I'm like, we got to go. We got to go. We got to go. We jumped the counter, which is glass. So it was probably not the smartest thing. And we run into the range while everybody's running out. And I look down and one of the main owners of the building at that time

It's holding this guy and he basically when we watched the video back he was doing what was called fly fishing. So he was taking the gun and go boom.

boom type of stuff like that. And finally you just see him look and just boom. And it was an accident. Oh, it was not an accident. Absolutely. Oh, okay. I was like, Oh, I'm going to trick it and tell this is what I'm doing. So when I go like this, exactly. No one can catch on. He raised his head like this when he did it. So instead of it going like this, it went out like this and just took out like the side of us. It was, it was a bad scene. It was really bad. Oh yeah. And I'm like I said, I'm a week into this. This is,

Like the level of trauma that I had seen before that was like little Johnny with the skin knee, you know? And we basically just, we gathered them up. We did the best that we could to stop the bleed and just did everything that we were supposed to do. The town EMS showed up, dumped them on the stretcher. We cooked it and booked it. The other guy and myself, we took the ride and we went over to one of the two, the two really good level one trauma centers in Jersey and

and uh we got him there actually i was actually able to get almost conversation out of him i asked him if he had allergies he's like but uh but we got we got stuff out of him and then the uh allergies lead the guy uh and then the medics were just like a little bit and you just see the medic you know pushed a little plunger and that was it the kid took took hold and that was it knocked him out and then we got to uh got to the center now to put into uh

To paint a picture for you, I'm wearing a red RSO shirt and khaki pants. By the time I left, I was wearing a red shirt and red pants. So we get back in there. Now everybody's back at the range. The range is obviously shut down. The mayor's there. It's freaking nuts. And we walk back in. You know that slow-mo vision of the astronauts walking down the gangway? That's what it felt like. Like the hero shot? Yeah, exactly. We walk in and just eyes just...

I'm like, okay, you don't have to look at me like this. That's cool. And we go into the, I guess it's sort of like a classroom where all the employees were gathered. And it turns out that one of the guys who works there, his girlfriend is a crisis counselor. So we walk in. Now, everybody had already been in there. We're sitting there. We walk in. We get in the back. And she goes, hey, hey, you.

you guys are the ones that went to the hospital, right? I'm like, yeah, yeah. And they're like, she's like, are you okay? Do you need anything? Yeah, no, we're good, man. That was wild. We're just like, we can handle that. It's fine. If I can handle that, I can handle anything. Jumping into the new profession headfirst. That's it, man. There was no leeway. You're just, it was just jumping in. COVID is crazy. You would like maybe like a broken arm.

Man, that would have been stellar. Not like a failed showy attempt. All I can think is like, you're so lucky it was EMTBs there, because if it was a bunch of fresh army medics, they would have cut your throat open and tried to shove a BIC pin down it just like you breathe. Totally unjustified, but they would have done it. The problem was I didn't have a pen. Nasopharyngeal down the hole. Army medics don't do trachs. Army medics do cranks. So, yeah.

A crike severs your vocal cords if they have to do it. Just to get oxygen in there, assuming this is all fucked up. If you get your face blown up and you can't breathe through your mouth, a normal hospital does a trach. Right. Which goes through... Well, no. There's different soft spots in your neck. There's a higher one where you can do a trach, but your epiglottis is in the way, so it's a lot harder to hit. So the Army is like...

just go through the lower one that's a crike it'll sever their vocal cords but we'll fix them later yeah just get air in them now look at you knowing stuff nerd nasal pharyngeals were you've had one i'm assuming oh yeah you have to know myself yeah i knew i had like a big dude yeah and it was an army one and it was like that 2000 it was 2007 when i got that because they were like hey

If you do this, you can go on leave earlier from Iraq. I was like, 100%. Do this shit. Put it up there. Yeah, 100%. And then it was just like, they're like, okay, lube. Did I lube it? Oh, wait, it's going in my nose? Yeah. Damn. I was ready to do so much more. I'm kind of mad. He's a b-hole. The leak's out. Yeah.

Can you do me a favor? I'm going to piss so fast. He's like, do you have another one? Yeah. Can you just skip the lube for me? I'll be fine. Yeah. Yep.

Oh, and I got a standing up. It was like, no, like down, like a climb filter. It was like, God, a career. And you fucking slammed it down. I was like, Oh, this sucks. People don't want to stay in the army. See your family until I fucking.

It is not a good feeling. It is. And mine was, the one that I did on myself was tiny. Like, there's, they get. I had a giant one, like nothing but pressure. Yeah. It feels like something is ripping your entire sinus cavity all the way down to the back of your throat. It's this big, you know? And then you're like, fucking this. Yeah, like you're supposed to be able to measure it. And I was like, no. Your aid bag is supposed to have lube in it for that. But like, they always tell you. What's the army say? Army, go. If you don't have lube.

Use whatever you got. There's like drills. One dude in a drill with an actual person though forgot to restock his aid bag just shoves it in their nose before they can do anything. That person is so fucking gross. That's that good old street EMS. There's literally so many people I watch who are like, no, no, no, I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do it. At least use my own spit.

He would walk around during training exercise like, he needs one. And I'd just be like, if I was like, this motherfucker. Did you eat tacos for lunch? Please do. Okay, it's good. And then he's just calling people that are dead. He's like, he's hurt. He needs one. He needs one. And the medics are just like giving nasopharyngeals down. And we're doing like the army big ones. Like pinky size. Yeah. One size fits none. Do it with an NCD. Yeah.

Nature's lube. Dude, watching those guys. Medic school was so fun. We used to play horse with IVs. Let's go. We were doing it in feet. All right, now do it in the vein in their forehead. All kinds of stupid shit. I remember the first time I saw somebody have to do an EJ line. I'm just like, oh, God. Okay. Yeah. All right. This is going to be messy. I gave one to...

God, what is this? Oh my God. Why am I not remembering Leroy Jenkins? And I know it sounds like- It's actually Leroy Jenkins. Like the Warcraft? He has the exact same name. Same name. Yeah, same name. Randomly. But he's like, oh, you're good. We've been drinking. He's like, just give me one here. Just give me one. I was like, what? He's like, no, you're fine. You're fine. Here, here, here. Walk it in. Walk it in. I'm like-

I gave him one. Got it. But it's terrifying. Your buddy's just like, yes, this is fun. I still have his blood in my living room. Yeah. That was like for practice? What was the... Yeah, Leroy's crazy. It was for Tuesday. We're hungover. It's fine. Yeah, everyone... Bonus IVs. It's practical hours. It's all of us. People being people. Yeah. Do you like TikTok, IG? Are you getting into YouTube next? So, yeah, right now, I mean, YouTube is basically just take this content, put it on YouTube.

But yeah, we're going to be going into an expanded format and trying to test the waters and see how well we do over on long form YouTube content. We've been talking to the guys about it. So are you still an EMTB? I am. Are you going to work for the paramedic or are you going to let us talk you out of it to just be a YouTuber full time? We got Ethan to quit his job after like 19 years or however long you've been doing it. I'm still trying to quit. It's

It's okay. I saw, I literally went and I saw his heart get corrupted. It was beautiful. You just felt it. Just, you just felt it. It was funny. Cause I got tagged in his YouTube video where he was like, I made a decision and he talks about how he's going to try to get out of the army. Now, every, all the comments section was like fat electrician one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow, he really rolled over. Ow, my arm. It was... Let me tell you. It was a really, really hard job. I'm very proud of myself. A normal man absolutely could not convince somebody that being a YouTuber...

It's a Herculean. It's way better job than the army. It was a Herculean effort, really. It gets way harder when you're YouTube successful, too. That's my favorite. It's like,

I don't have to be here, but I do. Dude, that would be the most rough time in the military. He hits me up and he's like, dude, I'm trying to buy a house and they don't like that I make money on the internet. That's like the one downside of this job. Trying to explain to the bank you're not a drug dealer. So this 60 grand, where did you say it came from? Listen.

Listen, Mike, you're not going to believe this, but just look at my analytics. If I look right here, Google says I'm wealthy. Have I ever told you the story of how I got my house, like the loan for my house? I could not get a fucking loan to get a house. You go to the bank and you're like, here's my banking and my W to all my shit. And they're like, you don't have a W too. I was like, well, no, I work for myself or whatever. And they're like, but here's all my bank records. Here's my income.

They don't care.

I went to every bank in town and finally found one, but they were super weirded out about it. The original loan officer was like, cool, completely understand. Very simple. You make a video, ads play, you get paid for it, you sell some t-shirts. Makes sense, right? Not super complicated. And then they're like, we have to take it to this loan committee, which is like...

I don't know, elder dinosaurs that are like in charge of all the money on the planet, apparently. - What? - Exactly. - Sky scaper somewhere? - Yeah, it's just like a board of Nancy Pelosi's that aren't cheating the stock market. - Tonight. - Yeah. - No. - So I had to like go before them, if you will, as two men and a woman. And they're like, explain it. And I was like,

I make videos. People watch videos. Ads play during videos. I get paid for ads. I also sell t-shirts. Fucking pretty straightforward. And the two dudes were like, cool. I get it. That's fine. It's literally the same business model as TV. Wonderful. The woman was just not having it. She was...

I don't understand. Okay. I'll say it again. I'll say it slower. Fuck, I guess. It's literally, it's TV. You know how commercials play? That's how TV networks make money. She's like, right. No, I get it. But like, what does your wife do?

And like, that's become my new pet peeve of the past two years. Cause he had a, I get asked it a lot. Like whenever you're like, Oh, what do you do? It's like, I make videos on the internet and they're like, who's making money. Yeah. It's like, Oh, cool. You sure you do, buddy. You sit at home all day eating Cheetos in your underwear, playing video games while your wife, the surgeon makes all the money. Do you do that? So at this point it's like already become a pet peeve of mine and I've developed the perfect answer and it just came out without thinking of it. So she's like,

So what does your wife do? And I go, me. Two dudes lost their shit. I got the house. It was good. Needless to say, loan secured. My wife loves that joke. Loan secured is not invited back. It's not funny. Don't laugh. Yeah.

That's going to be some post-2008 housing bubble regulations they made, right? Because if it was 2007, you can walk in and be like, yeah, I've been unemployed for six years. I'm $35,000 in debt. They're like, here's a million bucks. But I got an idea for a business. You sound like a good candidate for a really expensive loan you might be able to pay back. What's the house hunting meme? Like that house hunting show where it's like, oh, I work part-time as a substitute teacher and he collects butterflies

Our budget's $2.7 million for our dream home.

With the home TV, it's that TV, home TV. Yeah, HGTV. Literally now. It's like, how do these people... Where do you come from? Speaking of jokes my wife loves, I text her. I was like, hey, I'm sorry. I told the joke about you getting high at the live show. Let's go. She responds, and I quote, oh, God, did you make me sound like a total loser, like how I can't handle drinking a margarita? That's how young they are, honestly. Yeah.

It literally was the segue into the segment. Oh my god, how did you know that? We can edit that out. Babe, we know each other. Almost like you're married, yeah. Babe, I would never do that, edit. So here's a story. My wife's a ripping lightweight, dude. She once opened a bottle of Tito's and I had to carry her out of the building.

Your big journey into YouTube, what do you think? For anyone that doesn't know it, short form to long form is a beast to conquer. It is. And short form completely...

completely different pay structure where you're like, when you see long form, you're like, I need to hop into there. It's a transition worth making. Yeah, but it's just extremely difficult to do it. Nick, of course, did it within like six months. Yeah, and Nick was like, we're like, do long form. He's like, okay. Nick's a bit of an anomaly.

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Okay, cool. With zero to Nick. Hey, look, I started a secondary channel, also millions of views. Just so you know. I didn't even want the views. I didn't even want them. I had forgotten that you started doing, you started as like short form Instagram guy or was it TikTok? Do you want to hate me? No, I don't want to hate you. I can make you hate me. No, I already do and you're going to make it worse. Yeah.

So I got hurt and my wife kept sending me links for TikToks. You have to open it to the internet browser. So I was like, fuck it. I'm going to make TikToks sitting at home high on Percocet after surgery and just swiping all day. Eventually I got off Percocet. I'll be honest. I think I could be funnier than most of these people. I made one video.

12.6 million views. First video you ever made. My first video was 12.6 views. That's a typical online experience for anyone looking to get into the space. That's usually all it takes is one TikTok shot. Trapped in a third million views. So I've heard this story time and time again. Next thing you know, you're telling female bankers to go fuck themselves. Give me a loan for my house. Well, what do you do exactly? I made one TikTok video one time and now I want to buy a $1 million loan. Okay.

I figure the easiest way for me to get into long form content is just to hijack Nick's channel. I'm the asshole that like walks in next to the person that's been gambling eight hours a day for 20 years. Just one poll. Jackpot. Bye. Wow.

Then you take it and you put it down on the roulette table and 10 exit, and then you leave. The long form roulette table. Yeah, exactly. This gambling thing is easy. I understand why people do it. I got real fucking lucky. It was that and then...

long oh I don't know you were like I don't know if I could do it that long and then now he's doing an hour long video yeah that's awesome your videos have gotten a bit extensive yeah they're they're aggressive they're a great watch they're a great watch but like I just remember you know I remember the minute and a half long videos and I remember the 10 minute videos and I remember the 40 minute videos and it's like

It's crazy how that happens. The longer the better. These platforms like people to stay on these platforms. If you can be interesting for 40 minutes, which I hate to admit it, but you do a pretty good job of it. YouTube's usually like, yeah, we like this guy. It's like listening to your dad recant war stories. But it's also like you have that level like the other day. It is that tism that makes you successful. When you break down certain stuff where it is the stuff...

A lot of people would gloss over with analytics or things like that. If you don't track your analytics and see what works versus what doesn't, you're going to fail. It makes like, hey, guess what? I talk at this speed. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nobody knows this secret. Okay, never mind. Fuck you. Nobody knows that secret. 92 beats a second. Just tell me, but then cut it. Tell me, but cut it out after. 92 beats a second.

Sir, you do cadence? I need to be good. Tell him about 92 beats a minute. You've researched cadence of speaking? Yeah. That's awesome. I speak at 92 beats per minute. Do you have a metronome going when you talk? No, but I listen to it while I'm reading. This is going to make me so angry. I'm so fucking hard right now. Zach? That's the level of analytics I need in my life. Zach Vedder with a sign came to my house and he's like, why do you have a Yamaha metronome next to your bookshelf? I was like,

Well... Cuz. And he goes, do you play an instrument? I go, no. He's like, why? I go, I speak at 92 beats per minute. And he just goes, you're a fucking psychopath. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mamma mia, I could only get so erect. And... Well, no, Zach goes...

He goes, I forget which country music star he said it was, but he goes, are you familiar with like so-and-so? And I was like, I mean, yeah, I've heard of him. He goes, and how he ruined country music. And I go, no, why? And he goes, all the songs he makes are at 92 beats per minute. And it's all these, all the songs that he makes are at a certain like beats per minute. And basically he figured out that if you sing and have your music at night, this beats per minute thing, you were guaranteed to be billboard top 100. Even if your song fucking sucks, just because people naturally like music.

That cadence. The most pleasing cadence. Yeah, it's 92 beats per minute. That's what I speak at.

And he goes, you're fucking insane. I was like, I love Nick so much. The number one secret the music industry doesn't want you to know. Alexa, add metronome to shopping. Yeah. Well, fun fact, if you buy a metronome, it's like 40, 60, 50, 92, 100, 120. It's like nice round numbers. And then 92. Is that really like a thing? Obviously. 92 beats per minute is like a well-known thing in the music industry. Like it's people love it.

It's not reinventing the wheel. I always say, look what works and you can just... Humans are very simple creatures at the end of the day. And you get to break it down. That's why Mr. Beast, even how he breaks down human interaction or retention beats and learning all these things. That was a new one. I was like, huh.

I know I'm doing good when I throw Eli off. I know. I was going to say. I can't. I get all that. I'm sitting next to some of the biggest analytic nerds on the planet right now. If you can trip up this motherfucker, you know you've stumbled on something like out of the archaic mines of Mordor, dude. This is either weapons grade success or completely fucking retarded. There's no middle ground. There's...

This is way over here or way over here. Dude, how's the content going? Well, I've been speaking at 92 beats per minute. Things are going really good. I just set the metronome up and just fucking hit it. And then I don't have my views. I hear the clicks. People don't even listen to the words. They're just in their head like. This feels good. I'm going to fall asleep today. I like that. It's fucking nice. I can listen to all of their podcasts just straight through and everything just flows so good. I can't figure out why. What's happening? Dude is so.

well it's like frames per second like 30 is what the average individual is why the podcast 60 is weird unless you're watching sports 24 is when you're conditioned to movies but you have to separate them because the audience won't know what is going on they don't know what's going on but they know it doesn't feel right yeah and dude and they're so fast and i'm uncomfortable cinema 24 like you said yeah it's so weird it's like these things that are standards that have been so kind of just become so normalized now in our consumption of media or audio whatever it is

that once you kind of hit that new standard, if you try to stray from that, or you can do like, you can make creative decisions that are cool, but there is some weird element of just, you have to do what people are comfortable with.

like 80% of the way and then be cute with the 20% because otherwise you're just going to be like, fuck this, this feels weird, I love it. Deviation is either desire or death, man. It's going to be amazing. You're going to come up with something great or, you know what? You had a good run. Get out. Remember when you used to be good and then you released that one video that was completely different and then that's it, you're done. Adapt and overcome. That's it. That is a hard thing. That's what everyone's... Yeah, come.

I love watching everyone's like growing up in social media now and seeing what as you're doing. It's like, oh, this is not working. Okay. Let's pivot here. Let's do this. Fuck. This is, nope. That doesn't work anymore. History is just a go-to. Nick crushes it. When you're that dude, I will say the, let me tell you, everyone's showing up at the event and 90% are Nick's shirts. I'm like,

Son of a pain. Again. And it's also, thank you, everyone that walks up and they're like,

Yeah, it is because we do pick on them and they're like, Nick, you're my favorite. But when it's like four people, they're like, you're my favorite. You're like, damn. I don't know if you saw, but I'm standing right here. You probably missed it. That's my fault. I'll wear brighter shoes next time. Who's your second favorite? I haven't even thought about that really, to be honest. Yeah, I'm here for Nick.

Who's your first favorite? Nick. Who's your second? Matt from Demo. I hope your seats suck. Thank you. Thanks for coming. When Eli's like, who wants to hear Nick tell a history story? And there's like cheering. Today we're talking about, and it's from like the rowdiest crowd on the planet to everybody's just like pin drop.

yeah just dead quiet that's exactly what happened and you did like i think on boston you did like maybe three or four three or four i was doing quite a bit and it was just yeah they were responding well to it i mean you're listen there's you're a good storyteller obviously and that like as everybody knows being a good storyteller is like the one skill that's tough to replicate if you're good at that you can capitalize on that 92 beats very clear yeah 92 ppm storyteller

Everyone knows that. History, you know, war, guns, whatever the fuck. The strategic genius of looking at military history would be like, you know what, this needs more dick jokes. Full-time job, right there. Boom, career.

Doing the yeoman's work. What if instead of having a history teacher and a tie on the history channel, some dude with no sleeves and a fucking camo hat said dick jokes in between all the important facts? Fucking perfect. Nail people love it. It's exactly what people wanted, apparently. Scroll, scroll, scroll. Nobody's doing this? I got this. Now you're doing police breakdowns. You're doing people being drunk idiot retards. Yeah. Do it in

Yeah, there's no shortage of just content online coming up every week of people doing really stupid shit online. So I have a series called Brain Worms, which is where it's like kind of a culmination after a couple weeks. It's like, all right, let's look through the last two to three weeks and see what fucking moron got caught on camera being absolutely retarded. That...

I think she was a Mexican girl at the airport. Airports are like... Dude, that girl just parked... She wrecked her Tesla and then didn't want to give her information. They were trying to be so kind. So nice. So patient. 30 minutes of patience. I'm convinced that there are people that intrinsically are dying to be arrested for no reason. Some of these body cams I watch and... Yeah, 100%. Like...

they have every opportunity to be like, oh, that sucks. I fucked up. Here's my information. Good to see you. I'll be on my way. And it's just like every opportunity they have to be a super or like something. I'm like, what are you doing? Like you, all you have to do is say like three sentences and you get to go home, go to bed. And like, you got written a $50 citation. And instead you're screaming like a goat in the back of a squad car right now, cuffed up and pissing your fucking pants and then getting throttled at the

...hospital, then to the police. Like, what are we doing? It's like this kind of masochism in our society where there's this weird... These people that just can't envision complying with any sort of authority because they've been so brainwashed into thinking like, they bad, me right, good. So it's just like, I'm watching this and I'm like, say three words. Thank you, officer. On your way. You're fine. And instead, you're now facing like three felony charges, resisting arrest. And it's like...

Believe it or not, this could have gone easier. Yeah, it could have. And I just watch these things and I say at the beginning of my videos, like, you know, welcome to BrainWorbs. Thanks for watching where we gather here today.

to watch people being absolute retards because it makes us feel moderately better about our own lives. Because you spend any time online and you're like, "My life's not that bad, honestly. I know I got problems, but I don't got this kind of problem. I don't have these problems. This is some fucked up shit these people are doing." It's like, "These people exist," which is the... It is... Dude, this girl, holy shit. I've never seen the officer... 45 minutes of trying to give her a break.

It's like, ma'am. Like, she's super patient. And she's like, my ID. And then the car, you know, this is my car. And he's like, ma'am. Talking on the phone. And she's just an asshole. She's like, fuck you. Okay. Hey, can you come get her? Ma'am, you can't say that. Yes, you can go back in the car. You're not supposed to. You get one chance. Okay, we're going to count down. And yet, nothing. Just utter disregard. And she's like, on her phone, ignoring them. Telling them to fuck off, like, the whole nine. And, I mean, there's...

There's definitely a level of ignorance to it. I think some of them are young. Obviously, there's booze and whatever drugs involved, which exacerbates any situation ever. Always helps. I always say like what I'm doing, like I'm the guy watching this, like drinking whiskey being like, look at these drunk assholes as I'm drinking in my office, like making fun of the drunk assholes getting drunk myself. But there's like a level of...

I don't know how to put it. Like there's, there's people, there's good drinkers and people that just shouldn't drink ever. Right. You know, and there's just, there's kind of like a very hard line. And a lot of times, yeah, yeah. Everybody knows that. Yeah. Yeah. And some people, they just hit a certain point. It doesn't even have to be a lot where they just become so aggressively resistant to any sort of reasonable solution to an easy problem. Switch flicks and it's over.

He just like, you saying that with alcohols, like just gave me the idea. Do you think stupid people are just perpetually drunk the entire, their entire lives?

Some of the apps... Some of them, yes. We're just operating at a higher level and we have to dumb ourselves down to have fun and they're stuck being stupid and they get angry about it. That's why they can't handle dealing with cops or any stressful situation. Some of the best... You're perpetually fucking 80% lit your entire life because you're an idiot? I think there's probably a level to that. There is a level of like they just...

I'm always watching these being like, I'm a very pragmatic, like point A to point B. All right, here's the situation you're in. It sucks. What's the easiest way to get to the best resolution from here to there? All right, it's three steps. It's not that hard. Like you have to face the consequences of where you're at right now, but there's an easy way to get to the best resolution from here. And I just think that's like a level that like some people just don't understand how to have that sort of foresight into situations. And that's never been more apparent when you watch people going through

arrests or whatever it might be situations high stress situations some people really don't deal well with stress no i know i i never hit thank you with some of the guys that go on high stress situations like you have different parts of your life and how you measure stress i handle stress pretty decently like i'm like my rules are like am i getting shot at no

Cool. We can make this work. Yeah. Like literally it takes a very, a lot to get me to that level. I'm like, Oh shit.

here i have to react but then i see other people where it is like small things i am getting pulled over for a speeding ticket and this is and now i'm off to the races now i'm a felon it's a hundred dollar ticket just be like oh sorry thanks see you later 20 second interaction 20 second interaction you're on to go to your aunt's house whatever the you're doing i don't care do we have boxes and now you're in jail overnight and you're a felon

Because you have zero emotional control. And that's what I always say. It's like there is... Like being able to have a handle on your emotions and how you let those affect your behavior is basically a superpower. Like that's like if you can...

Have a decent handle on your emotions and not letting them affect your outward actions. Like you can think about it. You can feel it, but you're self-aware about how it's making you feel. And before doing that thing you want to do, rationalizing it and thinking about it logically before you act, superpower. You can do anything. Literally. You can do absolutely anything.

I handle stress pretty well. And I realized like, I've known you for like three years now. We're, I think episode 56 was our first pod. We've done hundreds of podcasts together. Yeah. Two hours a piece, hundreds of hours of bullshitting, hundreds of hours after the scenes bullshitting. And I've seen Eli run at two modes the entire time. Literally Eli's had two moves the entire time. I've known him. It's 80% right here working or not.

I'm tired. I need to go to bed. That's literally Eli's two whole fucking moves. I met both of them yesterday. Yesterday. Eli, it's 1.30. Do you want to go to IHOP with me? Ooh. I'm old. I have to go to bed. He's like, is it you? And Anthony to IHOP.

I could, but have you ever slept once before? Love you guys. Sleeping's great. It takes a whole level to get me to that next point. It's like anger switch flip or anything. It's instant. Your mood is everything. Alcohol and drugs are changing. Murder time. Have we considered suing RFK for trademark infringement with brain worms? We haven't. I think we should. We should.

The brainworms. Awesome. So the brainworms like branding that I started years ago, I just, I don't know where, probably like 2020. It was like, I knew about it when I started. I did my first one in 2020 during the pandemic when the world really just ultimately shit the bed on a macro scale. And there was just videos of like all of the most ridiculous encounters of people with masking and all this.

Yeah. I was recording a video live and I was like, this motherfucker has brain worms or something and then that just became a thing. And here we are, four years later, RFK all of a sudden has brain worms. I'm like, you son of a bitch. I would like royalties first of all. I'm just saying it's rude. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's fucking rude. But no, I actually looked it up afterwards because I was like, that's probably a thing. And I searched brain worms on Google and it's, I guess, a...

Before whatever RFK had, it was a disease that affects deer or something where it's like a parasite that can affect deer. But it was very niche, basically. And I was like, all right, this is cool. So like I own the domain. I have a little bit of merch, but I haven't done much with it because I'm lazy and old. But like there's potential. It's okay. I got a company. We'll help you out. I don't have a brain where I'm shit. You don't want to make merch? No, I don't. Do you make any merch at all? Yeah, we can...

No, that brain worm thing though. So it's deer and moose. So like, I'm in North Iowa. So there'll be like, there's no moose in North Iowa, but like once in a while there'll be a fucking moose. And it's like all over the news. Cause there's these brain worms get inside a moose and they go crazy and make them migrate South and do crazy shit. That's like the only time a moose will ever make it that far South down to Iowa. It's got this brain.

brain parasite that makes it fucking they're like completely goes against their instincts basically yeah

Oh, yeah. There's a parasite that makes moose just straight go for a stroll. Yeah. Legit straight south. Just dip south. Yeah. Dude, parasites are horrifying. It's like moose rabies. Yeah. Yeah. There's the one that like makes the crickets jump into the water because the parasite can only replicate in water. How nuts is that? And it forces the fucking cricket to drown itself. Have you ever done any content on parasites? I have not. It's horrifying. Because in having this conversation, I'm thinking like I've seen little tidbits of

like how parasites work where they like go into the host and like take over the neural function it's unbelievably horrifying but incredibly interesting it's wild like that would make a pretty good nature is terrifying fat electrician video osmosis horrifies me toxic oh yeah toxic plasmosis the cat poop worms that get in your brain like yeah that's scary stuff like that's why it's very real that's why pregnant women aren't supposed to be around fucking cats is cat poop has a

worm in it that can infect humans and it gets in your fucking brain and makes you like the smell of cat piss and this is like they think this is where the crazy cat lady archetype comes from is like oh you have worms in your brain from cats that make you like the smell of cat piss and being surrounded by cats yeah it's wild now you own 50 fucking cats okay

Alright, she doesn't have it yet. Unless you have the cat! Joe, do you have extensive knowledge of the, uh, kisses and scent of cat urine? She's over there with like a fucking glass like... What's the name of that? That's terrible. Also... He was like, I love cat piss. He was like, there's nine bottles of cat piss. I'm so tired, I did a double take, I was like, wait. I was like, wait.

Are you tired or is it brain worms? The show's always asking to clean out the litter box. I never could figure it out. Highlight of my day. Is crisscrossing that brain-eating anema that happens down in the south, kills a couple people a year?

oh it happens all over the country there's a bunch of that's brain eating anemia no there's a real problem yeah where do you get it like water like stagnant water like that yeah so like you can go swimming in a pond and it goes into your nasal cavity like it's it's actually really terrifying because it's like there's like a lot of like 17 year old kids that go to summer camp like oh

You've got a brain eating amoeba that we can't cure. Enjoy slowly going mentally disabled until you die over the course of the next three months. It's fucking terrifying. Nature is terrifying. Wow, yeah. I never heard of that. Time to stay inside and play video games. Yeah, stay away from the stagnant ponds, I guess. That's fucked up. Dude, it's...

that's why i'm going to india and also that's why i go to the ocean i'm an ocean guy something that'll interest you when you start doing long form but interest you right now i think you told me this and i had no idea so you can't say the c word on youtube yeah so like you get in trouble you get i said it on this podcast i'm sorry censored out please but that's what reminded me of it is like we're gonna have to bleep that out later yeah which it's fine we'll catch it it's no big deal but uh i think it was eli that told me that there's

There's a way around it. If you're Australian or Irish or you're from a culture where that is not an offensive term and you just casually use it, you're 100% allowed to say it on YouTube. So, like, literally, we could have Sho or Dave come up here as Irish...

Ireland citizens, not American citizens, they could say it and allegedly it would be completely monetized, no issue whatsoever. So if you could just come up here and drop 17 seabirds. Oh, dude. You gotta say it with the accent. With Buffalo, you said, right? Yeah. We're like, where's our little Irish girl? And she walks up, it's like, say it.

Yeah. And then the mic would be on the car like, ah! I loved it. Do you think you'd get away with it if I just like spoke the entire time on the podcast with an Australian accent? Do you guys think you'd get away with it? We can try. We all sound like a How Ridiculous episode.

How good? Like, are we going to risk it? We're still censoring that. All right. So live show. You guys got to see the donkey story from our friends. Yeah. That was ridiculous. It is. He is refined. It is straight up like S tier comedy bit that he has it refined down to. Agreed. You could tell that story just sitting at a desk, just face to face, and it would be insane. And it would be hilarious seeing that in person.

inconsolable it's it's literally his burt kreischer the machine story it's so good it's one of those ones where like you could have heard the story five times you're like i'm down to hear it again though just on the off chance you remember a little tidbit that you didn't last time i heard it so especially with you guys reenacting that's what it was i was obviously familiar with the story like i'd seen the story when you first he first did it on the show and then like it going getting a lot of traction on twitter and whatever else and um

So after he did it, because it was early on in the show, he came up and sat next to me and joined me. And I was like, having just saw it, I was like, dude, that was so funny. He was like, oh, dude, really? He's like, oh, I appreciate that. He's like, I have no idea. I was like, dude, that was like, it felt like that's something you've been doing your whole life.

In the physical, adding the physical comedy piece to it with Rich being the donkey and the fucking, like, the wall of the age and, like, the hive or whatever you guys are doing. It's the leg kick. Like, this is the golden back. That was the leg kick. That was a golden bracket. That's the brilliance of alcohol and Nick being like, we should reenact this. Bye. Bye.

Nashville 1 to Nashville 2. Enough drinks. I've been drunk. It's like, let's reenact it. So that actually, was that like the second or third time that it happened? That was the second time we did it. Zach lives in Nashville. So he was just naturally like he was going to be there regardless. Oh, fuck it. We'll bring you up on stage. Tell the donkey story. People love it. They've probably heard it, but I mean, it's. And did you reenact it in Nashville? No. So in Nashville, we did two shows back to back.

- Terrible. - That was a fucking, what you call a learning experience. So like we did, so it's like VIP, we meet 75 to 100 people, shake hands, take pictures, everybody's great. Go do our show, go backstage,

We had like 45 minutes to eat piss, pretend we weren't shit-faced, and then go back, do VIP again, meet another 75 to 100 people. And honestly, 25 of them were probably at the last show. We had people buying double tickets. I made sure to run up to them after the second show. And the second show was way more aggressive. So we're fucking...

Yeah. We, like, literally none of us remember the second show. Yeah. At all. Lazy. And apparently the second show is when we decided to reenact the donkey part because we told the story twice. So silver linings then. And now you're like, wow, okay. Good. We're keeping that part. Yeah. No, that was ridiculous. The reason I bring it up is because, like, everybody, you know, Zach deployed in the military. He's got his donkey story. We all have that one.

hallmark moment story from our career. So what's your donkey story? My donkey story. Okay. Yeah. I got a donkey story. I've, I probably have a couple, but, uh, I'll, I'll give the most recent one. Good. I've, uh,

I've almost delivered a baby. We got to the house too late and she was already delivered. And actually what's really cool is I actually got to meet the baby a couple years later, which is actually really cool. And then I got to deliver a baby, which was actually amazing, which apparently in my department is even just insane, which is just, I don't think it's happened. I think I might be one of the first or maybe the second to do it. But I got dispatched. I actually made a video about this and it sounded completely ridiculous. And the reason I made a video about it is because it sounded completely ridiculous. I got dispatched to a house.

It was in a different town. We got a mutual aid call. And the call was for a 42-year-old male who was apparently attempting to eat mailboxes. Eat mailboxes. Rusty mailboxes. Eat rusty mailboxes after taking one or several illicit substances. Medic's dispatched. So we get to the house. The funniest part is eating a mailbox is a felony, by the way. So...

We pull up to the house. It is. We pull up to the house. He's eating a mailbox. That's illegal, dog. We pull up to the house and there's a guy who's out. Literally, it's got to be the only actual physical standing mailbox in town. And he's got his face on the fucking mailbox. And we get there and I'm like, buddy, what's going on? They're saying that you're trying to eat mailboxes. And he looks at me with the straightest face, like the absolute deadpan straightest face. And he's like,

I'm not trying to eat a mailbox. I'm just licking it. And I was like, oh, yeah, no, that's way better. Yeah, 100%. This is good. We're fine. Everything's fine. We're just licking mailboxes. Like, was it winter and it was cold and metal? No, he was just strung. He was gone. I couldn't even tell you what he took. But, yeah, he was just sitting there just licking mailboxes. And I'm like...

The fucking Tootsie Pop owls over there. How many minutes does it take? I mean, he's gonna wear right through this thing. Dude, when we went to the German place and we were walking the history, remember that one guy that was a nurse or doctor? He was telling that one story about the homeless dude or the crazy guy that ate his eyeball. Oof. And then when the guy was like, Where the fuck was I? Was I drunk? Did you miss this? Yeah, you were drunk. Oh, fuck.

It was a dude ate his eyeball and then Brandon, he's like, oh, yeah, like you wanted to see inside his stomach. Like, wow. That's how you did it. He wanted to see inside his stomach. It did not register Brandon. Brandon was like, oh, and I was like, Brandon, I don't think you're... It's not. Easy.

He ate his eyeball because he wanted to see inside. He was like, oh my god. There it is. I got Bluetooth eyeballs. And he was like, okay, what do you see? He's like, it's dark. Where the fuck was I? It was at that bar across. I was like, what the fuck is this story right now? It's dark forever.

That's about what it looks like. You're not wrong. Wild, dude. I was like, well, that's crazy right there. He made his eyeball to see inside his stomach and was asked, what do you see? He's like, it's dark. You didn't bring a flashlight, dude? What's wrong with you? You messed up. Imagine that. You're like, let me see. What does it smell like? Hold on, I'll get to it.

Smells like shit. It's very iron. I'm just impressed he could still see after he took his eye out. Yeah, right? It's pretty impressive. A lot of light out here. This is very dark in there, though. A lot of stomach acid. This burns. There's that candy bar. I was like, what the fuck? And watching Brandon process what I said is like,

He ate his eye to see it. He's like, oh my god, what the f***? There it is. Sorry, where were we? What about you? What is your, like, f***ing... Hold on, I want to finish this f***ing story. Yeah, so he's sitting there, he's licking mailboxes, and the officers are like, yeah, this is just how we found him. There wasn't even a call. We were driving down the street, and this guy was licking a mailbox or eating a mailbox. And I was just like, um, okay, well, uh...

let's go to the hospital. We got to take care of him. You don't lose your empathy. You don't lose your sympathy. You make sure you take care of everybody, right? Everybody, every time, right? So we're like, all right, bud. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a trip. We're going to go to the hospital. He looks at me and he goes, if you fucking touch me, I'm going to kill you. And I was like, good. You can open my empathies up. See you later. I'm like, guys, if you could just, you're going to have to take the ride with us on this one. To the cops? Yeah. You're going to have to take a ride with us on this one. He's like, oh, okay. He's like, nah.

I'm just going with the fucking ambulance. He just goes in the ambulance, sits on the bench like this. Real angry, like, just sitting like this. I'm like, I'm like...

It's two o'clock in the morning. I'm inconveniencing you. Like, what are we doing here? So we ended up taking him to the hospital and he jumps off the stretch. It's the hospital we go to all the time. Right? So I'm constantly there. They know me by face. They know me by ambulance. They know me by schedule. And I'm just like, all right, we're going to go. He jumps out the ambulance, runs directly into the ER, smashes face first into the doors that don't open up unless you get buzzed in. I'm just like, I'm not even getting paid for this. Like,

I am a volunteer. Like, they need to raise my volunteer salary from nothing to something after this. And it's just like, I'm like, all right. It's like an IHOP gift card or something. Literally something. Like, give me some love here. All I get is a freaking brand new hat every two years. Like, I can't live like this. You're not a volunteer still, right? I'm still a volunteer. I have a per diem EMS job. My career job is I'm a 911 dispatcher for a police department. That's my career. So I...

I just happen to pick up a per diem EMS job as well, but I've been a volunteer since I started EMS. You're a low-key fucking psychopath. I'm going to be an EMT during COVID in 2020. What's great is you're a volunteer. They've offered salaries multiple times. They have. My specific department's offered me a paid department spot, paid work during the day, volleys work at night. You've got to quit social media, though. Honestly, that's basically what it would have been.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. They were, they were not what you would call thrilled.

But the place I record now does not mind. They love it. Did you get individuals like Rich being angry cops being in the military still and then a Buffalo PD is the most ridiculous thing? And you're like, bro, you do not need to be either of those. You don't need to be qualified on the YouTubes. Yeah. I didn't realize you were a volunteer this entire time. Yeah. I've never. And I won't. I've told my department many times because, you know,

Your volunteer contract is based on, you know, they sent me to EMT school, so I owe them. So I'm basically paying back my EMT school through a certain amount of time. You paid it back? I have. The first buck thing? Done.

Birth due to the range. Good. That amount of PTSD? Dead cleared. I just imagined him in EMT school. So people aren't supposed to shove stuff up their ass. And he's like, bro, I'm going to be so rich. Somebody write that down. But yeah, that's pretty much what it was. That stuff is mine.

You know what? This is turning into a job interview, actually. What's funny is I'll get people who send me videos that are like... Me and my friend group, I can guarantee you that I can swing this and make this happen. We'll pay for you to go to paramedic school. Finish it out. Ah.

Then you have to come. You have to move to Texas or fly in here. Twice. Twice back to back. That's the hard part. See, we always call it to the back to back we get the guy. It's a wager. I told you I could only get somewhere else.

We'll pay for you to go to paramedic school. Okay. You have to come and your new job is exclusively to be gun tubes paramedic. And you just have to be at all the range days working. I gotta tell you, that would break my heart if I had to just hang out with you guys all the time. I'm surrounded by people that aren't shoving stuff up their ass. To be fair, it doesn't happen that often. But you know, when it does, it happens. Your first one there. When it does, I push the button.

I pushed the other crew out. He only flies in. But yeah, I told my department, I'm like, I'll stay volley here until I physically cannot do it anymore. I was telling the guys that when I was growing up, my mom, who's, I don't know where she got this phrase from. It's a Muhammad Ali quote. So I have no idea where she would have even gotten it from. She's not by any, wasn't by any stretch of the imagination of a sports fan or a boxing fan, but above her couch,

It was one of those big fancy signs, you know, like those live, laugh, love signs. This one said service to others is the rent that we pay for a room here on earth. All right. And that was something that just kind of stuck with me. You know, the kids at school or not the kids, but like the teacher at school asking what your favorite quote is. And I'm like, that was my, my quote. So when I finally decided that I wanted to, uh,

do something a little bit bigger than myself. I figured that was the way to do it. So it's about the service, not the paycheck, obviously. 100%. Yeah. And it's a really cool feeling. That's commendable. Not a lot of people have that. A lot of times. You told that story right at the beginning. Yeah. I was like, cool, I get to double check the quote now. I had it pulled up. I love it.

I was like, oh, she had two Mahamali quotes about the couch. I was like, oh, fuck. I'm either really, really drunk or I just had a stroke. I was really worried I got a TBI. I immediately went to like...

Everyone's like eating horror. You're surrounded by dudes that have been to UBI. What's in this? That's why I stayed voli. I told you this was a 100 milligram fucking TNT drink, right? You told me not to eat it. Me, Eli, and the rest of the other, Brandon and Cody, have this perpetual nightmare that any moment we're going to wake up in a fucking mental institution next to each other and straight check like,

There it is. Shit. Has all of this been a fever dream? We did the gang episode and the episode was sponsored by Magic Mind and we did the Magic Mind shot and we're like, man, I feel funny. And then we all wake up in the mental institution. When you told the same story back to back in the same episode, I was like, I immediately went to the Matrix with the bricked out windows and the cat walking by. I was like, oh, fuck, this is it. Agent Smith just walking in the

Ethan's the six foot four tall guy in scrubs that tells me I can't do that anymore. I need to calm down before he injects me with something to make me tired. This is horrible. Why isn't no one sticking me with stuff? Show and Dave are nurses. They take care of us.

They're just wheeling us around. And there's like big gloves and huge syringes. Fucking King Trout's the warden. That's why he lives upstairs. He's actually just watching us. We think we're letting him live in our house, but actually... That's what the cameras are for. He's actually just watching you. Or they're just walking us to different rooms. There are live shows.

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Nick needs the helmet again. He's smashed from the wall. You guys laugh. I'm still horrified of this being a reality. Two and a half years ago, I was an electrician at work. There it is. You're just going to enjoy the dream before you wake up. That's all. I guess. Everyone's had that moment where like, I don't dream a lot, but like there's been a very, like a handful of times in my life where I've had the sweetest, coolest dream ever. And you wake up and you're just like,

Fuck, that was awesome! That was a good one, can we play that back? Motherfucker, I can't believe I wish I could just go back to sleep and go back into that.

And that could be what this is. Just a very long version. Oh, that'd be the worst. God damn it. I could think of just waking up. Please let this be real. No, no, no. Everyone is like, for the audience members, it is understanding. Like everyone, like Nick was an electrician. I did from infantry to fucking a lot of manual labor. Weird being Mexican. And roofing and everything else. And while doing that, it was like, hey, I'm going to do videos and tell people.

I didn't know. I never thought it was like, oh, there's going to be a career path in podcasting. I will let you know. Just anyone has this idea. It's like, well, you set out to do podcasting. The fuck I did. I was like, I want to do movies, VFX. I want to shoot. I want to write comedy sketches, millions of views. And I got that dialed in. And this was a very much a...

This is like the opposite of the effects. Yeah. This is no effects. Fuck. Why did that one work? Why? But it is pivoting. It's like, hey, it is working. So let's continue down that path. Do it again. Do the amount of blood, sweat and tears you're putting in on the back end while doing the normal job is what people do not

- Appreciate it, well yeah. - Well, it's like everyone, it looks like so much fun. Like from Nick to, like all of you, it's like, ah, they just have fun. Dude, finding out like volunteers, like wild. - But it is. - I had no idea. - No, yeah. - Volunteers still. - That's fucking awesome. - Yeah, I won't, I can't honestly see myself giving it up. It's just something that, aside from the fact that I love the guys in my department, you know, it's just, it's a great department.

It just feels good. It's something that just genuinely just makes you feel good. It's a great community. Yeah, well, that's crazy because life's only about money and success. You should never do anything that actually makes you feel like a human. Thank you, Leon. That's our next shirt. How dare you? It says, by Leon. Lyrical words. Hey, this is morally sound. It makes me feel good at a soul level, but it's not making me money. Fuck that. The flip table walked out.

Sometimes you just have to do the right thing in your head. That's it. It keeps me grounded. It is wild seeing all of it because on the backside it is that

The amount of people that was like, oh, it's too saturated. Oh, I can never go. It is, hey, the level of detail of like, I'm speaking like that. Oh, I am testing different stuff and tell me, see, it's work. Hey, this, oh, that work. Now that is what I'm going to do. And that is the key to the success that people miss. It is like, you're,

What works? Why did it work? How do I continue and how do I expand on that? And now, oh, success. Also while doing a nine to five a lot of the time and having a family. I'm always surprised. I spend a lot of time on the internet as all of you do and most of you watching I'm sure do.

And like my job for what almost seven, eight years now has been to like be the guy that's like seeing what's going on in the internet, make content. So I feel like pretty plugged in, right? As opposed to like my wife, who's just very like ephemeral, like not plugged in. So, but to this day still all randomly like happened upon this account that has like 24 million subscribers or followers and has this insane audience. And I'm like,

The second you think that it's like saturated or there's like, oh, that's already been done. No, no, no. Like for every new person that is like trying to do something or like find an audience,

is a big fucking world out there all you need to do is capture like 0.002 percent of like your country's population to make it into something that's sustainable it's true so you just have to like put it into perspective and like think about the scale and like i just was doing a video the other week with my wife and there was like the team put together a clip from this like russian instagrammer it was like really funny videos and they were good and he had like 23 million followers and i'm like

Dude, I spend my life scouring the internet for content and I've never knew this motherfucker existed. He's captured a country worth of people like somewhere on the other side of the world. So all that's to say there's just like there's always going to be an audience like

whether it's something you're passionate about or you want to try. You just have to try things, really, is what it comes down to. And you can get into saturated markets. You can get into saturated markets. It's a proven model that works, right? That's the thing. Obviously, somebody's watching it. And if someone will watch you do whatever, cooking videos, someone will watch somebody else do cooking videos. Yeah.

like there's been people that have done history content right or but they weren't fat and abrasive like the fat electrician whoa whoa whoa he's not abrasive he's not fat he's handsome and svelte the amount of other history so like uh steven and gabby uh stay aku he's been on the podcast he's fucking great check him out he's awesome but like uh me and him came up on tiktok at like the same time and we both do history but we have very different personalities and like

catch different like vibes from history and tell it a different way and like the amount of people that'll accuse both ways like i've been accused of being a knockoff stayaku and he's been accused of being a knockoff fat electrician and it's like oh i bet you guys don't like each other because you're competing it's like not not at all by all means tell the exact same story slightly different in your own style

I'm sure some people love you and hate me and vice versa and it's all gonna work out like nobody gives a shit. Absolutely. Like I'll do it when you're in like commentary like what's going on in YouTube stuff over the years I've done it if there's like a trending thing that happens and it's like obviously all the commentary youtubers like jumping to talk about it and it's the same idea it's like you don't always have to be the first one like certainly you can build a business model around being quick and that works or

My business model has always been, I'm just going to talk about this thing in the way that feels good to me. I'm always late. I'm like the guy that's a week after it happens and it's kind of out of the news cycle, but like

I'm just old and that's how I operate. But I always get people in the comments like, oh, I saw this so-and-so's video about it, but I was excited to see your take, right? And that's really what it is. It's like you're just talking about the same thing that everyone knows about. They can watch the news and they can get a take. They just want to see what you have to say about it because they've kind of built a relationship with you for however long. Even if it's their first time seeing a video...

That could be an opportunity. That could be like the zero to one moment where they're like, hey, I like the way this guy covered this versus the three videos I've already watched about it. And now you have a new person that appreciates your shit. It's like, that's why I love your content. The amount of times I've heard news and be like, wow, you know what I really need? I need the opinion of a.

Six foot tall, blonde haired, white guy with blue eyes with a loving wife and family to tell me exactly what I should feel about it. Do you find that you're very relatable right now? Thank you. I've always wondered what this opinion would be like if it came from somebody more attractive than me actually. Hey guys, buckle up. You're about to learn how you're supposed to feel about this very divided topic. He just laughed at this Kony 2012 video.

I've been going on my Facebook about it. He takes his time. Bernie 2012. You just did. He's working on Nixon right now. What a pull. You guys are never going to really believe this shit that happened in Africa recently. A decade ago. I thought I was pulling deep with Harambe. You pull out Kony 2012. Holy shit.

I would like you to just drop one next week. Oh my God. Hey, here's why I don't trust him after. No, that's almost at the point where it should be a history video. Like, yeah, it's that. Oh my God. Awesome. Do you find that your audience, do you have like diehard like followers that like actually snitch on other creators? Or like, listen, man, I don't know if you know this, but somebody's doing your stuff. Oh yeah. I get that all the time in my comments. Hey, look, man,

Or like in their video. Walmart, buy that one out. Somebody else gave the medical advice not to shove a shampoo bottle up your ass. They're onto your game. There's videos that people will be like, they'll hold up objects and just be like shaking their head. And the whole common thread is, yo, this person's stealing your stuff, dude. You need to figure this out. It was a fan. We gave him a shout out already, but it was the individual that was like, hey, is this, did you sell this design to Walmart or whatever? I was like, what?

i was like that's definitely not walmart.com that is walmart.com oh my god put in the group i was like hey this and then you have like everything mixed like hold up don't let me type something out for you guys to tweet cody we have and i quote we have the 11th most followed person on twitter let him say this and then we all retweet it and then

We've been trending on Twitter for like 36 hours. Oh, shit. Like if you go on Twitter and hit searches like Walmart accused of allegations of stealing a shirt used for autism charity. Oh, yeah. Oh, they wrote news articles. Yeah, no. Like we've been trending for like 36 hours. Walmart faces allegations over unauthorized t-shirt sales.

Several social media users, including notable content creators like Donut Operator and the Fat Electrician, have accused Walmart of selling a t-shirt design without permission. The design in question was originally used to raise funds for autism research. Oh, Walmart, how dare you? 24 hours. That is what was... I was on my flight, I think, when I saw this tweet initially, and

And while the Post expressed strong disapproval, there's a mention that the shirt might be sold through a third-party vendor on Walmart's platform. Though direct evidence of Walmart's involvement in the design theft is not confirmed. Don't care. You're making money. It's on your platform. I'm confirming right now that it's Walmart. Lawsuit complete. $4.2 million. Trust me, bro. Look, I, like, is... If you're going to sell my stuff, that's crazy. My entire goal...

The actual, it's literally just copy paste. Yeah. There's not many born to math with copy paste. And Thomas the Train Engine. I saw a lot of merch. Like you can find a ton of bootleg. Any of our merch, you can find bootleg, but it was like,

This is the opportunity that I can bully a blue chip stock company into donating millions of dollars to autism research. I'm going to fucking try. We never took a dime from that shirt. That is a hundred percent. So that's like not a good look on them. And then it's like,

So does Walmart allow third-party resellers on their site? Is that what they're trying to say? It's just like Amazon. So it's like third-party sellers can go on, but Walmart's not checking for IP and copyright. Of course not. That's bullshit out of the gate. It's using their web address. If I let somebody on the Fat Electrician YouTube channel and they went on and said a bunch of super racist stuff, I would totally... You're still on the hook for that. That's my response.

You know what I mean? So they should be responsible for that to some degree. And I'm going to try to bully them to make them pay a bunch of money towards autism research. I'm looking for a statement from Walmart right now. Yeah, 100%. That says a lot about you guys. It didn't go to you guys. It went to charity. That says a lot about you guys. What was the total numbers for veterans that we did this year? We still are waiting. It's over 110,000, if I remember at minimum. Last month for veterans charities for that year we sold, yeah? Yeah, just right in all your beautiful, amazing community.

Salute. That's fucking great, dude. We just get to write those massive checks, which is one of the dopest thing. Well, the funniest thing is when you... Because you're the guy that actually writes the checks and picks the charities and everything. We're just the idiots that come up with the shirt designs and sell them. But just hearing you tell the story of all the charities being like, oh, what do you want in return? And you're like...

help i fucking do your job and they're just blown away about it like yeah dude it is dude and you cannot stress it it is those phone calls or it is even calling the audit charity nonprofits hold a lot of y'all get your shit together you're like i do be a level i was like we made 57 million last year 50 million went towards salaries and marketing yeah like and you're like what the fuck so

So finding those really good ones, whether veteran community and or autistic community. You have to do the research. Yeah, but when you're calling them to tell, it's like, hey, hey, I'm going to donate. And they're like, thank you. Oh my God, thank you so much. Awesome. Fuck yeah. So where do I go? They're like, on the website and it'll be really easy. It's, I'll send you a link or here, type it in. Yeah, okay. And they're like, what are you thinking? I was like, ah, for you, I think we're doing 50K for you guys. And they're like, oh, holy shit.

Let me pass you through to a case manager real quick. You're meeting the owner of the company. They're calling. They're like, why? And the level of blown away because that is one thing they could not rationalize is like, we're just doing it with no ass. I don't need anything back. This isn't about, I don't want to be on the board. Like fucking take the money, do your job, do your fucking away. We're onto the next thing. And they're just like,

But why? What's the catch? The level of, yeah, it was mind-blowing to see that reaction where everyone was like, it's honestly kind of scary. Yeah. I would agree with that. You don't need any. It shouldn't be a why. The purpose of charity should have no why attached to it. It's like the definition of doing something charitable. It's just a good thing to do. For the sake of it being a good thing to do without any sort of...

getting something out of it or ulterior no and you're telling me i was like oh man like our community made this possible we just want to fucking we sold shirts all the profits went to this now we get a ride to check to y'all and i also imagine that kind of speaks to people that they deal with a lot where it's like hey we're going to give you this but also we need that like there's probably a little quick even in the non-profit communities where it's like

Yeah, like, we have this money we need to burn and do this, but, like, we need you to do this for us, which is, I think, just defeats the whole purpose of charitable giving. Sometimes it's good to just do a good thing, you know? Above my mom's couch. LAUGHTER

Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Roll the three, my friend. That's the perfect fucking joke, right? Oh, man. That's like a man of fucking heart. Yeah. God. Holy shit.

Ethan was on the couch like, I know an all-timer special. My grandfather was very close with him. That's fucking great. The only thing that would have made it better is above my mom's couch was this Mike Tyson quote. Which is weird. My mom didn't even like pigeon, but now kid. Play it back. It's spinal. It's spinal.

my back oh mercy like we do this thing obviously I'm not a much I'm much different for those of you who don't know I don't know if you can imagine this but I'm on a moderately smaller level than these guys and uh for now and it's for now and it's but it is it's important to do things like this the one big thing that I got for a while was like it's impossible to get

get conversation with me. Like, people jump into your DMs. By the way, if you want to see some unhinged DMs, the Badge 502 DMs full of phallic objects and fucking dick pics is fucking ridiculous. The amount of times, like, would this fit in your ass? Literally. I do history. The amount of times I get messages like, hey, my uncle has a really cool story. You should cover it. So I can't imagine how many has it. Bro, my uncle shoved this up his ass. You should do that. It's absurd. But, like, we do this thing where I came up with this little idea where it was just like,

Okay, so you guys want to have you guys want to be able to get your message to me I get it. So when I was growing up, I'm not doing the thing. Yeah when I was growing up we used to get these Cards sent to the house. It was just a really cool thing We used to hang up cards all over the house and from family and some friends and was really neat and holiday birthday holiday Christmas cards holiday cards all those things and I had this quote in it What we did was I was after a while, you know the family gets older my mom, you know She's obviously older

And it just doesn't happen anymore. So I came up with this idea and I was just like, you know what?

i miss getting these cards i miss hanging them up all over the house i'm like you know so here's what we're gonna do mom for mohammed ali wrote you a card at this point she'd believe it but uh i was like you know for everyone who sends us here badge 502 a christmas card i'm gonna make a donation to the food bank that's in the town that i grew up in i'm like you know that just seems like something cool i think that's a nice thing to do and i was expecting like five or six cards or whatever god we ended up getting up yeah we ended up getting like 400 cards which isn't insane but you know i was able to make a 400 donation to the local food bank but the

The mistake was I said, and if you send us a card, I'm going to read them out on live. Does this rule still apply? Yeah. Yeah. Where do we, what is it? I mean, we can do that. If you guys want to send a, if you guys want to send back to a Christmas card, you're absolutely welcome to Christmas cards in March. Christmas cards in March. It'll be nutty. But, uh, but we, uh, we do him over for Christmas. And I do it for this. The last one we did was for Easter. So I ended up doing the donation for, for the Easter, um,

and uh yeah p.o box 775 in uh Belleville New Jersey if you guys want to send one out we're going to make a donation one more time p.o box a 775 in Belleville New Jersey and how much do you donate every time you get one uh so last time it was a buck you know if it gets if it's more I'll donate more I have no problem it's listen it's it's all TikTok money I can't wait for you to be honest I just met you and I've said this already this podcast but like

Your balls are either enormous or you're fucking retarded. So I just so happen to have enormous balls and both. Yeah. I'm just saying you're just too wholesome. I feel like 30% of the audience is just like ignited into flames. It's worth it. Not to put too fine a point on it. I have my career. I work hard.

And I have the money that I need to survive and take care of my family, which is a blessing. 400,000 cards is my expectation. I want to see him homeless by next year. I'm not going to lie to you. I want to ruin him. If I get an unsub level of cards, the dollar level is going to drop. I'm not going to lie. It might turn into a Nikola card. You're still allowed to reform. This motherfucker is going to be living in a

box. I don't want to have to eat stale bologna sandwiches for nine months just to survive. No, fuck you. By the time Unsub gets done with it, you're going to be living in a box and then Zach is going to come up, cut one of the walls of your house off and make a sign to hold up above his head. It's like, I'm happy to help out those who need the help, but listen, I'm not trying to freaking give...

I'm over here, it's like, I used to have a cushion of $8,900. Now I'm getting blowjobs for sandwiches. Like, I'm not trying to do this. Relatable. I have my career. I have my money. I'm comfortable.

TikTok pays me whatever. Instagram pays me whatever. YouTube pays me nothing yet. I'm glad you issued that challenge to the internet right before TikTok's about to get deleted on January 19th. But if you guys want to get me to 100,000 on YouTube, I'll make it super worth it for that. I just want to hear the call from the post office. It's like, is this Anthony?

Like, yeah, sir, we're going to have to shut down your P.O. box. We have 16 mail trucks. He's got an affiliate program with USPS for selling stamps. Which is funny because on threads, I roast the post office religiously. Yeah.

Government. Everyone's a government. All 17 people on threads hate the post office now, thanks to you. It's 16 now. I've said it's got banned probably. Going back to it just real quick, it made me pop in my head because we're going to have Oopa and Chris on or they've been on at this point. We don't know.

um tomorrow but it is like you have those individuals like covid she went from nobody to 70 million subscribers if you guys want to get 70 million subscribers to australia because we didn't know that number to that degree like sav she was the one that's like holy shit call me chris i was like oh cool yeah and then you're like holy sh i was standing in line and i'm just like uh

I'm not in line anymore. We're just going to go. We're just going to two Australias is watching you like, well, yeah, we're just going to go ahead to Australia. The funny part is my audience in Australia. The funny part about like point. I'm like 0.05 Australians right now. I'm working on it. Yeah. I'm like just Sydney.

The funny part about Call Me Chris is she's super cool in person, but when we're talking to vendors and stuff for Arranged, when Cody and Brandon are talking to vendors and stuff for Arranged, they're like, oh, the total subscriber count amongst all the influencers that are going to be there is like 150 million subscribers. It's like,

Don't ask the breakdown because fucking a third of it's call me Chris. She is America walking in and big dicking everyone. She walked in and I was like, well, I'm not here anymore. She

She's just super smart. Bye, everybody. Couldn't happen to a better girl, man. Just cutting hair and that happened. You're like, damn. She earned it. She put in the work. What happened in two years? It's really crazy. I imagine after the first 200 million, you stop counting. Yeah.

Like 201 million? That's cool. Yeah, once you go from eight to nine figs, that's probably a lot of difference. Now you're just measuring by hundreds of millions. Yeah. I remember my first million. She's funny because she's been to all the range days, hasn't she? Yeah. And the first range day, I don't think she'd ever fired a gun. It was pretty uncomfortable. I was there for that. It was awesome, man. And now she's like, put it on the technical. I'm fucking... Chop, chop, chop. Yeah, yeah. Her and Caleb were just like...

She's like, I'm going to shoot this, but can I, can I shoot this next? I was like, Oh yeah, get after it. We had a, so like when you, when you reach a certain point on a YouTube, you get a, like a rep, like a direct contact with YouTube, basically just trying to keep you out of trouble. You know, like at a certain point you're making YouTube money and just behooves everybody involved to be like, Hey,

Here's the lines. Try to color inside of them. And if you step out, we'll let you know exactly what you did. So YouTube does a really good job at very helpful. Kind of helping you out. Shout out to that team. We had some of our YouTube reps show up today just hanging out. But they brought out some other YouTube executives and they were all great. But the higher ranking YouTube executives were like,

born, bred, raised in California, never shot a gun, never fired a gun, never been around a gun. And I went out there with, you know, our reps are like army guys. They're kind of like the, I don't want to say controlled opposition, but like definitely the

Hey, I was in the military. I understand. Here's what's actually safe. Here's what's actually... Yeah, they're like advocates inside the mothership for us, basically. Yeah. And they're probably just the most welcoming people. Yeah, there are, dude. I don't know if you guys don't know this. Gun people are the best people. They are the best people in the world. I've grown up around them. I've worked at... Gun people are the best people. I know. Look at the World Wars, how they worked out. Anyways, so...

We get these high level YouTube executives and they're like, we've never fired a gun. We're not sure we want to. I was like, I know exactly where I'm taking you. Took them straight over to Brandon's boys and like Brandon's boys are straight autistic. You could give them any gun that's ever been manufactured at any point and they can tell you I'm not shitting you.

probably the year it was made, the factory it came out of, and what country, like the country of origin, all of it. And I was like, hey, hook these guys up with the MP40, which is the best machine gun on the planet. 9mm, it's

auto buttery smooth though yeah like you can pull the trigger on a semi auto faster feel it and like just watching watching them go okay what what do i have to do okay we'll put put the butt stock in your shoulder hold the gun like this don't put your finger where the bolt reciprocates okay and then just pull the trigger and then and then they just magged up and like this is a lot of fun and i was like yes

Ladies and gentlemen, we got them. We understand each other. We understand each other. It really is just the best. I've shot guns

thousands of times. I've never shot full auto. So I walked in and I... Classic New Jersey. Yeah, exactly. If you don't know, New Jersey loves gun owners. They love us. You have a lot of freedoms. All the freedoms. In fact, now they let us have them. Which is great. But yeah, you go there and I'm like, yeah, listen, I've never shot full auto. And listen, I spent time with these guys. It was the guys from over... Was it Denver? Denver.

Denver Bullets? Yeah. Hanging out with these guys and they're like, hey, I remember you from yesterday. Step in. Have you ever shot full auto? No, I've never shot full auto. Okay, check this out. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to do it like this. And just, you just go through the motions. What'd you shoot? Oh, I shot everything. I shot that entire table. What was the funnest?

So I'd probably say the most fun was probably the Vector only because I genuinely just always wanted to rip one. They shoot kind of quick. They shoot real fast. The second you pull the trigger, that mag is empty. And it's not a cheap... Cyclo-grade is...

Again, when you say cyclic brake, it makes a huge difference on also being manageable. Like MP40 and everything, super low cyclic brake. Yeah, low cyclic brake. Even your Tommy guns are about 600 to maybe 800 max, but it's like... So you can walk it in. You can walk it out a little bit. Then you hit 1,800 rounds per minute cyclic brake, and it is... It's walking you. Yeah. Same route. 45, it's like...

Yeah, I'm sitting there and I'm just like, yeah. He's like, you got to get behind this one. I was like, all right, no problem. He's like, no, more behind it. I'm like, like, a little bit of lean. I'm like deep into my lean. Like I'm like in it. And, uh, I'm like, Oh, okay. So we're just standing up now. That's cool. We're going to just do that. Shout out to the Denver Bullets guy too. Cause I shot some really fun guns at that station today too.

And there was a bunch of people. You could tell, like, there's obviously, like, a lot of different skill levels, people that are super familiar with these weapons and people that are, like, kind of getting it for the first time. So it's really fun to see all of that come to fruition. But the guy who was kind of running the show there, I don't know his name, but

You get some of the newer people like they get a mister in their hand. Mr. John Denver Bowl, mr John Denver bolts I think that was his name you'd have like a person people were like, you know, a lot of you have an automatic machine gun in the hand They're just like good You got the point. He's like these are we don't burst fire. He's like you dump these mags You shoot it like a machine gun. I was like, I like this. Yeah He looked at me shoot the hole

man yeah I creeped a couple on my first one he's like oh cool I thought you were like a man yesterday turns out you just this is how you do this I was like gotcha the funny thing is like all the people that have like never shot a gun before and then they're showing up to range day with like literally every rare gun from Brandon's collection from World War 2 to like mini guns mounted on Teslas and shit and it's like

You guys are going from like zero to a hundred. You don't fully, like you've never played football and now you're starting in the Superbowl. Like is what this amounts to. And like, they don't really grasp it. And when one of the YouTube reps, she like mag dumped and she like, Oh my God, that was a lot of fun. I go, yeah, it was like $30 in ammo. And she's like, starts laughing. You're really funny on that. That wasn't a joke. No, you're not joking. It is like, Oh, it's 150 rounds. Okay. That is.

$300. And you're like, also, it's illegal to do that in your state. Yeah, I was walking by the first bar. I'm like, all the way when you first walk in, and you just hear that...

the minigun is obnoxious did an 810 just fly by like what the hell was that yeah it's the minigun on the other side the minigun going off it's like i can take my weird piece rumble dude i can take my ear pro out and have a conversation 50 yards away from the firing line now and the minigun goes off i'm like fuck yeah i messed up i should have not done that watching we fired those blanks and then we tried to fire them so there's we have the handheld one like

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have a backpack, yeah. So we have videos of us shooting. Blanks don't have that recoil. Sure. But it's like you brace yourself. And it is like just you just stand on a pile. And then when we were trying to do the we tried 7.62 variant of a minigun like handheld. And I have videos of us trying this. Just launch yourself across the world. No, dude. It is more scary.

Guns go like this. Many guns go downwards and right. So we're like, okay. Everyone right. And then people are lining up here. Actually, behind me and it was like, and we'd stop right here. It was like immediately. It was still like instantly 30 rounds of

In one touch. Yeah, yeah. And then, like, the recoil, though, it was like, oh, yeah, we can't hold cake. We cannot do full auto recoil on that. Micah. Like, I think my favorite, like, shorter clip of him. Have you seen the video when they were doing... 8.6? No, not 8.6. It was the new SIG squad automatic firing weapon. The walking one. The new LNG. And this is...

This is .338, not LePoult, but a .338 Norma. This is a very large... I don't even know what that is. This is a little smaller than this. There. Big-ass bullet. Like, .338 Norma is goddamn terrifying. But the entire concept behind this machine gun was like,

the enemy is probably wearing body armor but we don't care yeah yeah like that was the whole concept but like there's this video of i'm assuming some sf guy or something that um grantham was able to get a hold of and i mean this dude looks like a refrigerator with ears just a fucking unit of a man wearing body armor and it's like you know somebody's huge when like they're wearing body armor and they make the body armor so i was like oh you're fucking like body armored it looks it's

I can see your pecs through the plates, bro. Can somebody use my suit of armor? The body armor is for my heart. I have a heart plate, not a chest plate. Like,

He's like a brawl. It's three selves together. I love Micah, but he definitely kind of looks like a hipster. Not a intimidating dude in persona, but he's a bigger guy. He's taller than me and he's probably just as broad. He's a big dude. He's firing and trying to walk forward while firing and he can't do it. He's like, give me another try. He tries to get it. He's like,

I physically can't step forward while firing this machine gun and this army dude is like give me that fucking shit just marching with this machine gun mag dumping it's fucking horrifying and it could vary very large rounds and to watch that dude like walk forward and shoot that's what you do like

Huh. Like, like... He's like walking to the seat. No, it's at the end. Oh, shoulder mount. Okay. Oh, my God. He's like, okay, normal shoulder. Yeah. Not like hip fire. Like, shoulder mounted aiming and firing. It's like, that dude is fucking horrifying. Jesus.

Ugh. That's my favorite clip of that guy. Give me that fucking gun! So much hate. You're like, ooh, God. Was it magazines? This is a drum. Again, I cannot... It's an LMG, so it's got how many rounds? Fucking 100 rounds. Yeah, 100 rounds. That's just heavy. It's huge. Oh yeah, that's the 8-6.

that's a big boy round and that's tiny compared to a 3-3-8. I get it. My guy shoulder mounted the 50 Cal.

and sent around and i was like boof and i did i did that at the range that i worked at so i'm like i kind of know what to expect and then you know it goes off and you're like ah yeah you know it feels good i can't imagine freaking trying to walk with it you kidding me one is fine multiple back to back to back to back it's like what kind of rate does this thing have kind of like exponentially builds on itself i mean it's for suppressing fire it's got enough of a rate to convince people to stay the fuck down yeah yeah it's got enough to make uh standing up just

a general bad idea. Yeah, I mean, it's horrifying. You probably don't want to do that. And who made the gun you said? This is, it was the new SIG. SIG basically got all the contracts to do the new army pistols, the new rifle, and the new LMG, the light machine gun. So this is what was supposed to replace the SAW.

So the SAW shoots 5.56, a normal AR-15 M4 round. And the bigger rounds they're moving to are basically designed for near-peer combat. Essentially, they're planning to fight enemies that have body armor. It's more or less the gist of it. So, I mean, it was impressive. I mean, it would be rough to walk forward while aiming with a SAW. I can't imagine doing it with the new fucking LMG caliber.

That's nuts. That's an insane amount of power. It's an insane amount of power to be the person trying to walk it. Like, forget that. I don't have that kind of strength in me. I'm too old for that. Dumping bullets. This guy, this is having his subsonic AP round is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I love it. Is that what that is?

They're making subsonic AP rounds. That means it's traveling. Usually when you hear five sevens, you can go through body armor. It is because it is reaching supersonic speed at like 2,700 feet per second. And you're like, okay, clicking. They're like, no, we found a way around it. And it's slow, quiet. Kevin's such a psychopath. Killing people with body armor is cool, but have you tried to do it quietly? No.

The only sound you hear is the armor shredding. Oh, like Dave gets it. Dave's like, that's subsonic AP rounds. What? Dave, have you ever been broken down how 6.8 blackout works? 8.6. 8.6, sorry. Have you ever been told that? I'm just trying to think, is there another round other than that one Russian round, like SP5, SP6, that was like subsonic armor penetrating? They've never had it. No, it's never had it. Q invented it. So like that round. Yeah. Yeah.

That's not the AP round. So this is the bullet, what it does on impact. It looks destructive. Hey, stop. Yeah, no problem. I can see how that might, you know, in the long run be an issue. So like Kevin Q, his guys are out there like hunting big, like water buffaloes and shit with a subsonic round, which is insane. Tap, tap, and then see you later. No, tap. This is for Pepperbot.

Hey, people that are on the YouTube, on the Pepperbox, you get some really cool stuff. On the Pepperbox side, like we're working with Q now, and they're giving us every quarter to give away a boombox and whatever Q weapon we want for the Pepperbox stuff. They're like, as long as you're a member, you just entered for a free Q weapon.

Q gun, which they're not cheap. I talked with Jake and I'm, I don't know that this is a hundred percent sure yet, but I think the concept that we're going with for how we're giving away the guns is you automatically get one entry if you're a pepper box member, but for every month that you're consecutively a pepper box member, you get an additional entry.

If we do this for two years and you've been here since the beginning, you automatically get 24 entries. So it's kind of an incentive to just stick around, hang out. You're going to get more entries to win these guns and it's going to be fun.

Awesome. I actually prepaid for 11 years. I've been part of Pepperbox since 2010. The crazy part with a Q-Gun, if you paid for Pepperbox for 11 years and you won a Q-Gun, you'd still come out net positive. On the subscription to Pepperbox. They're not cheap. It's not an exaggeration. No. They're awesome. They're so fucking good. And like Kevin himself, he had such a good time. He was like, dude, whatever you got...

He's like here. We'll do this. I was like, oh, okay, homie. I was like, well, love you, but Thank you so much. It's wild. I don't know. Guns get expensive. It's it's phenomenal. They're starting at $4,400 the Atlanta the Atlanta airport Yeah, but it is the base model. Yeah, we're terrified me. I was like, okay, this is definitely a simulation. We're a fine airport. We're Atlanta Airport

like hungover did you take the show we were flying from atlanta to boston and we're we got through security like we've had issues with security the entire time because like brandon's getting pulled no brandon's getting pulled to the side because he's got too much metal in his bag because of all the metals i'm getting in trouble because i can't raise my arm above my head for the scanner like it's a nightmare eli's got

gigantic toys that are berserker collectibles and he's not letting security open them because it'll ruin the resale value like horrible shit like that is a good like pass it through like okay okay sir we're gonna come out like the you are i was like no no no you will touch nothing yeah i'm just like i don't think so through the fucking x-ray machine yeah they're like sir we're cutting in as like you're giving me a lot of fucking money if you're cutting that yeah

You're not cutting that. What do you mean? I was like, that devalues that immediately. Sir. I was like, do not cut the tape. Do not look at the tape. Touch. Dude, it was a whole thing, but go on. So like, we're just like, we get through that and we're sitting at the bar waiting for our flight to, you know, show up. Cause everything was kind of delayed. Cause it was like snowing on the East coast at that point in time. And we're sitting there and we're like, we're drinking and we're like,

Story of our life. I remember looking at somebody walking by and I was like, man, that guy looks like Kevin. And they're like, yeah, that guy does look like Kevin. He's like, that guy's wearing an Aimpoint shirt. Oh shit, that's Kevin. Like we just ran into Kevin from Q in the airport randomly. In Baltimore randomly? Yeah.

uh, in Atlanta. Oh, he was on our same flight to Boston. And we were all sitting next to each other on the flight drinking the entire time. I was like, there's no way this is from Africa. He literally just landed in Africa and,

also next to you guys as well yeah yeah 100% oh 100% we were all rows rows 17 a b and c dude nick walks around the cop angler cop stands up he's like just nuts oh my god are you the bad electrician

You are the... Yeah. Gosh. It was super funny until two random people from the plane asked for pictures. Yeah. My favorite one, I'm sitting next to Nick and a dude goes like this, can I get a picture? And he's like, yeah. And he goes like, he aims, I was like, yeah, they love it when you just take a picture of them.

I unbuckled my belt to stand up and get a picture with him. He was like, no, no, I just wanted a picture of you. I was like, that's not happening. Did you take your tank top off for me?

I was just sitting there laughing. I was dying. I was like, take a picture with him. I was like, it looks way better to your friends. Would you say I met them? That's so hard. You just sit there like on a plane and you're just like, thanks, man. Send this to my friends. It was nice. It was good that he unbuckled his belt, but he unzipped his fly, which was a little strange. I can't. Like, the guy wanted this.

So I was like the primary push, I think, to get business class for the flights. And I can tell you the exact moment I did it. Because like Brandon and Cody refused to board a plane until they're like paging you. Like until they're saying your fucking name over the loudspeakers, they're not leaving the bar. Last boarding call. Yeah, like legit, 100%. That's those two to a T. And I'm just like, I'm along for the fucking ride. You know what I mean? So we're drinking and...

So by the time we were flying Southwest on our first tour and I like Southwest, there's no seating assignments, right? So we're the last ones to board and it's a sold out flight. So there's four seats left for the four fucking hosts. And it's me, Brandon, Cody, and Eli, three normal sized humans, me in a sleeveless shirt with a lot of body hair going on 250 fucking pounds. And I'm the first one in line.

And every seat available is obviously the middle seat, you know? Of course. And I just, I scan and I pick the one with the two smallest women. Just fat ladies. Yeah, exactly. I was like, excuse me, ma'am, can I sit in between you? And they're like really nice. Oh, you're sure? And Cody, very loudly that the whole plane could hear it goes, ha ha, you gotta sit next to the fat fuck. Oh, Cody, you are just a height of too much. Oh my God.

That's when I sat next to a f***ing Stim to Steer. Oh, no. That was also terrible. Was that the one? Yes. I managed to sit next to the veteran heroes that have never done anything. But they have the leather shirt on. They got the stories, though. I'm sitting on the right side of the plane in between two smaller women. And he is one row back on the left side of the plane in between two

Two more heroes. Two large men that are well past their prime, no offense. And Eli, I'm like overhearing this conversation because they're having it volume 10 for no fucking reason. Me too. And then the guy across the seat. I get to listen to, I get to sit there and I'm like looking over the plane like this for, it was a 45 minute flight. I was like this for 37 minutes of it.

laughing my ass off as Eli's got his hood up and his earphones on and there's three dudes having a very vivid conversation of how they know how they know how to gut a man alive with a fucking pocket knife and a fishing lure and how many times did the Marines tell him

I don't even know. He knows how to cut a man from stem to stern with a pocket knife and I know how to fight. This dude's got a beard bigger than me. And he stood up with his leather vest cut off sleeveless. He's like, they're in it. Eli's sitting over here in between them just like, oh my god, with a purple heart, somebody that's been shot in a firefight. I'm dying. Oh my god.

I want to commit war crimes right now. It's never a war crime the first time. I was... Dude, the stimulus tears are... And I look at Nick's like...

I hate my fucking life right now. Like why next to me? Who would have thought the day would have ended like this? You get to the point you've heard the story four times and then you're like, can you tell me about that time that you cut someone with a fishing knife and just tear? Oh, I'd love to. And then you go back into the story again. So there's Muhammad Ali. Yeah.

Punch me in the face. Next time you come on, why don't you just go ahead and bring that picture with us? I might be able to find it. Okay. You let me know. We'll hang it up, but I'm happily, uh, we've been at it for two hours. We also have a range range day party after party to attend. So, uh, we better get to that. Oh, it's right now. We got to drink even more. So buckle up. But, uh,

Thank you for coming to the Unsubscribe podcast. I have been joined here today by my co-host, Mr. Eli Double Tap, our old friend, Mr. Leon Lush, our newest friend, Mr. Anthony, a.k.a. EMT Badge 502 on all the social medias or Badge 502 on everything except for Instagram because I'm really good at remembering. Also, his mom has this Muhammad Ali picture. And I am Nick, the Fat Electrician. Thank you so much for coming to Unsubscribe. I will see you guys later. Quack bang out.

Bye-bye. Fuck you. Fuck you.