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every step of the way. Hey,

2:31

thanks for having me guys. Thanks

2:45

for having me. Hey, Big Wrench, I

2:47

got some good news. Oh boy.

2:51

He just broke the mic. Have you ever fixed a mic

2:53

before? I have not fixed a mic. I'm sure you could

2:55

figure it out. You

2:58

literally just broke the mic. Dude, I've been breaking

3:00

so much stuff lately. Not even on purpose. Most

3:02

things aren't on purpose, but like barely even on

3:04

film. Just because Big Wrench

3:06

is here doesn't mean you can start breaking stuff during

3:08

the podcast, Ben. It looks like

3:10

you're messing with a throttle. You pissed some people

3:12

off with how you broke that e-bike. Dude, Ben

3:15

just didn't want to ride this week. So he

3:17

was like, okay, I'm going out to ride. I

3:19

don't want to rip the throttle off. Piss people

3:21

off. Were they actually? Yeah, there were some

3:24

comments. About what? They were mad that you

3:26

broke the throttle. They were like, Ben, going

3:28

ahead, breaking everything. Yeah, it's okay

3:30

when Evan does it. It's a problem when I

3:32

do it. It's cool when Evan does it. Problem

3:34

when I do it. Yeah. No, I was going

3:36

to say the good news is the twin turbo

3:38

kit for the Hoonicorn just got here today. Yeah.

3:41

So if you want to get going

3:43

on by next Thursday, it's a good

3:46

Friday project. Well guys, welcome back to

3:48

the life wide open podcast. We

3:50

have a special guest due to two special

3:53

guests. We have Gavin coming on as

3:55

well, but we have big wrench. One

3:58

of the wrenches coming on. on the podcast today

4:01

because uh, I mean, he's just got plenty of

4:03

good, good stuff to tell. And you guys have

4:05

been asking for a long time. Highly requested. Highly

4:07

requested big wrench. Well, that's exciting to hear. Yeah,

4:10

man. Is there a way I can turn this down

4:12

a little? Yeah, too loud. Yeah. Yeah. Ken, can you

4:14

turn that down? Ken ain't

4:16

here. I'm surprised that you would want yours

4:18

turned down. Well, who sits here normally? Like

4:21

somebody needs their hearing check. Maybe. Oh, Evan,

4:23

Evan does sit there sometimes. So he is

4:25

definitely has one year. Yeah. You think your

4:27

hearing Brian would be worse. I

4:30

actually just a hearing test. One of those online things.

4:32

And it was good. Yeah. It's I'm at like a

4:34

54 year old, which I'm not 54. So

4:37

wait, an online hearing test. Yeah. Like you put

4:39

your phone up to it and when

4:41

you can't hear the noise anymore, you're supposed to

4:43

tap it and it stops. And then it gives

4:45

you like an age of what you're hearing's at.

4:47

Oh wow. That's really interesting. I always think about

4:49

your hearing. Same with Gavin's with loud noises. It's

4:51

not good. And I don't take care of it.

4:55

It's crazy. It's a, there's a lot of things

4:57

that I should probably do that. Gavin actually does.

4:59

Cause he's younger than I am and like, and smarter

5:01

was brought up that way. Yeah. What, what is that

5:03

called? They call it like the like OSHA has got

5:05

a name for it, but it's when you're like

5:07

wearing your safety glasses and you have hearing protection, Evan

5:09

said it the other day, cause Evan used to be

5:12

in the labor union, P

5:14

P P P V P V personal protection

5:16

equipment stuff didn't exist that much when I

5:18

was growing up. I mean, I wear glasses,

5:20

so I'm good. Oh yeah. You're good. You

5:23

don't need safety from the safety squints and

5:25

you're good to go, dude. That's what they

5:27

say. Well, big wrench. Did you ever think

5:29

that you'd be sitting on

5:31

a podcast? Uh, no, not long

5:33

ago. Did we meet you've been working on

5:35

our pieces of junk for a long time.

5:38

I was on my way back here today.

5:41

I think it's been four years. Really working

5:43

on our junk. Yeah. On and off. I

5:45

think it was even before that could have

5:47

been Mike's Mike's coming. But whenever you guys

5:49

bought those two race sleds from Lavalle, that's

5:51

right. You built the cans for it. Yeah.

5:53

So that would have been like 2018. So

5:57

that was even before tiny. Yeah. Definitely

5:59

wasn't as. as you

6:01

know as much as it is now. That's for

6:03

sure. No, it was just sporadic. Yep. And

6:06

so we have a mutual friend, Rob. Yep.

6:09

And Rob and I were working at the same place and

6:11

Rob's like, hey, these guys just bought these things from LaValle.

6:13

You wanna come, they want cans built

6:15

for them. Oh. Yeah, sure, whatever.

6:17

And I think we got ahold of, Mike

6:19

is the one that got ahold of them.

6:21

Yep. Yep. I knew Jake a little bit.

6:23

Isn't it amazing how like things just evolve

6:25

and turn into it? The funniest thing is

6:28

like Jake's dad and myself he's

6:30

older than I am, but like we went to the

6:32

same parties in high school. Really? Yeah.

6:34

Man, that's a story probably for another day. I'm sure you got a point. We're

6:37

on here for that. Yeah, I was just a little guy then, but. I

6:39

still remember the very first time that Mike ever

6:41

like came back from like working with you. I

6:43

can just picture it knowing you and

6:46

knowing Mike and you guys will agree here

6:48

when you hear this. Mike

6:50

goes, yeah, I got this guy right

6:52

outside of Holly building my snowmobile can.

6:54

And I was like, oh really outside

6:56

of Holly, where? There's not

6:58

that many like kind of fabricator mechanics like

7:00

I guess, you know, that are like doing

7:02

like little one-off projects like that. And he

7:04

was like, yeah, actually like just down the

7:06

road from like my mom's house. And

7:09

so I told him, I was like, yeah, I

7:11

just grew up down the road from here. And

7:14

he was like, nice. And I

7:16

was like, oh, okay. And

7:19

then I was, I still remember that

7:21

being like I can just picture Mike

7:23

like talking about nothing and going nowhere

7:25

and you just being like, not saying

7:27

a word. What is

7:30

this kid talking about right now? I

7:32

can imagine he came to you and was

7:34

like, yeah, we got this YouTube channel and

7:36

we make snowmobile content and things like

7:38

that, but just explaining it in like the

7:41

worst way. And you'd be like, okay,

7:43

you want a can for this then or what? Well,

7:46

and it happened to me that I

7:48

was already making cans for other projects.

7:50

So it kind of worked out. Yeah.

7:52

Let's get in kind of the

7:54

backstory of your wrenching and

7:57

how it's evolved. Cause you basically started

7:59

off doing. You were a professional

8:01

snowcross mechanic. Yeah, correct. Yeah, that'd be

8:03

the title. Yep, and I mean basically

8:05

still are we are still are Yeah,

8:07

how many years have you been doing

8:09

that then I started doing that

8:11

in 1997 97

8:15

goddamn for yalla players. Oh for

8:17

play I did engine development and

8:19

some chassis stuff at Polaris

8:22

with where I when I came went out of tech

8:25

school. So you went right into snowmobiles Yeah,

8:27

when you're okay snowmobiles and then

8:30

morphed into engine development on watercraft side

8:32

of it for players Also, so you

8:34

get out of school you start wrenching

8:36

on on some mobiles Snowmobiles

8:38

right away or like water crafts and then

8:40

so yeah We graduated in the spring and

8:42

I went in as a test driver, but

8:45

they when they hired me But it was

8:47

springtime. So like I ended

8:49

up working on the assembly line all summer Which

8:51

they hired you to ride sleds like yeah, like

8:53

I test drove the first year Okay So

8:56

what's test driving like you ride and you like

8:58

because you understand the engineering side of it So

9:00

you understand why things work or don't yeah Like

9:02

so like back then there was a hundred test

9:04

riders at plows like it's a lot different now

9:07

There was five of you in a group and you

9:09

went out and rode every day. Yeah, you could

9:11

pretty good job We did about some 200 to

9:13

300 miles a day and it sounds like it's

9:15

a really sweet job. Tell us 25 below Yeah,

9:18

and you gotta go put in 300 miles. Yeah, maybe

9:21

we should get you on a sled I don't know

9:23

in all the years have you even ridden anything here

9:25

or driven any of the contraptions you've made? No,

9:34

that is something though every time you build it, I mean not

9:36

anymore, but we speak you want to ride it and you'd be

9:38

like I'm good Every

9:40

once in a while. I'll see Evan Finagos

9:43

you onto one of the machines here and there

9:45

but yeah scoot ski What

9:48

I thought was interesting if you've always been

9:50

in the snowmobile world is like you said

9:52

that you didn't want to like teach your

9:55

Son how to ride snowmobile or like get

9:57

him into that because like you have like

9:59

lived breathe snowmobiling for

10:01

what 25 years 27

10:03

years now almost so at

10:05

the end of at the end of wrenching on it

10:07

you're just like I don't even want to see one

10:10

of these things yeah and that it's kind of wrecked

10:12

me really like I don't even own a snowmobile I

10:14

mean you guys have been in my house we have

10:16

a boat that's about it and a jet ski that

10:19

a tree almost fell on why

10:21

because you don't want to you don't want to work on them

10:23

yeah I mean in one thing you

10:25

don't want to work on it and another thing

10:27

is I've been doing like the development stuff of

10:29

it for so long like when I ride something

10:32

all I think about is well this could be

10:34

better this could be better this could be really

10:36

excitement out of it yeah kind of yeah almost

10:39

all of it I mean I'm sure there's guys that are

10:41

in my position that are the same way

10:43

like I don't know like the development guys are this

10:45

I know a lot of them are the same way like you ride

10:47

something and all you do is pick it apart the whole time

10:49

and that's everything even outside of snowmobiles like

10:51

you ride a dirt bike and you're like

10:54

man I wish four wheel really yeah

10:56

that's really interesting so it kind of

10:58

wrecks you a little bit man I gotta

11:00

just have a real hard time then when

11:02

you do ride one of our vehicles like

11:05

this is so bad well the problem is

11:07

is like I built it or Gavin it's

11:10

like we you have enough time to do

11:12

this and it's not gonna work very well

11:14

but it's gonna get the job done yeah

11:16

I was gonna say the difference between our

11:18

stuff is it's not meant to be perfect

11:21

it's like it's it's just not gonna be

11:23

perfect because it's probably not supposed to be

11:25

a thing yeah but uh yeah I mean

11:27

it's crazy how not that it couldn't be

11:30

but yeah a lot of our a lot

11:32

of our things are you know you guys

11:34

understand as the wrenches of like what we're

11:36

trying to accomplish and what it

11:38

needs to do where the time really adds

11:40

up is like the nitty-gritty details of things and

11:43

like a lot of times you just brush right

11:45

over them so we can get it done and

11:47

then get the video posted because like at the

11:49

end of the day the most important

11:51

thing is that we just keep

11:53

turning and burning yeah so like

11:55

making these contraptions like a hundred

11:58

percent perfect not really new It's

12:00

more of like a novelty item where it's like good

12:03

enough to get by and that's quite frankly why a

12:05

lot of them break And Evan gets

12:07

kind of the short end of the stick there

12:09

of like man You just break everything but like

12:11

a lot of them just aren't meant to go

12:13

much more than like one video is worth and

12:16

it's so Funny when you reflect back done on

12:18

how many things that we have built or you

12:20

guys have built and we have filmed videos on

12:23

like 95% of them break at the end

12:25

of the video where it's like down to

12:28

45 minutes of use will be its lifespan.

12:30

Yeah, and we know that and we're just like

12:32

okay with it That's why we have a shop

12:34

full of broken toys now and the biggest thing

12:36

and we say this in racing too The biggest

12:39

thing is when Ben's really good for it. Like

12:41

we just need this one last shot Every

12:46

single time a racer like we did the same

12:48

thing this winter He's like I just gonna go

12:50

make one more one more moto and

12:53

that moto is when the thing spears the track

12:55

and he goes head Over heels and springs as

12:57

a oh, you know stuff like that. Yeah

13:01

So one more time skip the last one more

13:03

shot or a motor it's all the same across

13:05

the board Yeah, I was gonna say the other

13:07

thing is like we're not trying to really reinvent

13:09

the wheel with these Inventions

13:11

or these builds. It's not like we were

13:13

like this will be way better than a

13:15

normal four-wheeler, you know It's more

13:17

it's more so like I wonder what would it would

13:20

what it would be like, you know And there's like

13:22

the cold hard truth about when you make it too

13:24

nice too perfect You don't want to rip it you don't

13:26

want yeah, you know Like you don't want to break it

13:28

of course But you don't even want to rip it too

13:30

hard because it's too nice My old instructor and a lot

13:32

of guys that in the R&D shops that I've worked at

13:35

they're like don't fall in love with the project Yeah,

13:37

no, that's what I tell you. Yeah, and then

13:39

Evan comes walking in and you're like, no Isn't

13:43

I think it's uh, it's really interesting

13:46

though Like you compared to other you

13:48

know Mechanics and fabricators

13:50

is you what really sets you apart is

13:52

how much experience you have like you've worked

13:54

on obviously snowmobiles But you can work on

13:57

cars you can work on trucks. You can

13:59

work on is

20:00

Big Ranch was up on the

20:02

lift welding the pole, like the

20:05

whole, the stabilizations on

20:07

the pole as the Bronco was being lifted

20:09

in the air. We were really down to

20:11

the wire. We were like, Big Ranch, how

20:13

close, how many sides is it welded on

20:15

right now? And he goes, three. And

20:18

we go, fuck it, it's fine. With a 110

20:20

welder in a 31 hour weird way. Yeah,

20:23

up on the frickin' lift. Oh my

20:26

God. This should have been welded off

20:28

on all four. We just called it

20:30

good at three. The morning before

20:32

when I was measuring up the platform

20:34

to raise it up there, I was like, Ben,

20:36

this isn't a good idea. I

20:39

didn't watch you build it, but the platform

20:41

was truly impressive. I'm like, how is this

20:43

gonna work? I kinda rolled

20:45

up, I don't know what I was doing, but I rolled up

20:47

and you guys were like, Brian built all of it, it's gonna

20:49

work. And then it really did,

20:51

you know? Like you drive the Bronco onto the

20:54

platform and then it lifted it up, I'm like,

20:56

wow. A and those welds are still holding to

20:58

today. I drive by it every

21:00

morning and I'm like, God. I

21:03

know, it's actually kind of like, it would be

21:05

so much funnier if they broke at this point.

21:07

It would, Hummerpontoon would just come crumbling down. I

21:09

low key wanted to blow off. I know. I

21:12

just think it would be so funny. We were just

21:14

gonna set the pole in the dirt. A buddy of

21:16

mine is a concrete guy. He's like, that's not gonna

21:18

work. Yeah, and then one of your other

21:20

buddies had that pole. Yeah. The

21:23

pipe, we got a project going right now. I

21:25

don't wanna say what is going on because we

21:28

got a mole somewhere. And

21:30

we got people stealing our ideas. That's another story.

21:32

That too. We've got a project

21:34

going right now and the entire thing has

21:36

been sourced from Big Wrench's buddies. And

21:39

there's like five different pieces that all had

21:41

to come together and they're all a different

21:44

buddy. It's actually incredible. So shout out Big

21:46

Wrench's buddies. Funny thing, the one

21:48

buddy this morning when I went to pick

21:50

up the final puzzle piece,

21:53

he knows that I work for you guys. He's like,

21:55

hey, is any buddies with Cletus?

21:58

Yeah. And I'm like, yeah. And

26:00

I don't even think I had ridden it yet. I

26:02

hadn't ridden it once. I think maybe you guys, I

26:04

don't know who was riding it before, but someone was

26:06

riding it before, they bring it in, then

26:08

I hop on it. We go riding like

26:11

few miles down the road and

26:13

the thing just seizes up. Keep going. It's

26:16

got like 85 miles. Yeah, blows up. I

26:18

don't fucking know, I'm just riding the thing. Like I'm just,

26:20

I'm not doing anything crazy. And basically

26:22

it ran out of oil or

26:25

something like that. We didn't put oil in it. I'll

26:27

do it. I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

26:29

Yeah, yeah, ran out of oil. And everyone got mad

26:31

at me, but the thing is like the oil light

26:33

would have came on. Dude, the oil light never

26:35

came on. Yeah, no, yeah. Cause like you guys wouldn't

26:38

have just handed it to me and been like

26:40

hop on it and ride it. So oil light never

26:42

came on. So anyways, we have this brand new snowmobile

26:44

that we got gifted. And back then we

26:46

didn't have excess cash. Yeah,

26:49

we didn't have excess cash too. And like, we can't ask

26:51

these guys like, hey, we just ran your sled out of

26:53

oil that you just gave us. You

26:55

know, cause that's a pretty bad look. So then- Can

26:58

we get another one? Big Wrench came in

27:00

and did a motor rebuild on it. And

27:03

then we were back in action. Yeah, that was like

27:05

your first project. Yeah, it was, you had to be like,

27:07

God, these guys are- These guys are fucking idiots. They

27:10

just ran this sled out of oil. Like they didn't

27:12

put oil in it. And that is

27:14

like, that is the stupidest thing that

27:17

could happen. Like thing as like a

27:19

motor head. The light didn't come on.

27:21

It truly never did come on. The

27:23

issue with that is like it was

27:25

a community sled. So nobody took ownership

27:27

of it. Nobody thought to check anything

27:29

on it. And light never came

27:31

up, but yeah. Circling way back, you

27:33

had said that the Bronco on the pole

27:35

was by far your most stressful project or

27:38

was your most stressful project? Yeah, probably. Like

27:40

because of the money and- Well, and like,

27:42

I didn't know if it was gonna hold

27:44

or not. Yeah. There was no way to

27:46

test it. Obviously, I'm not gonna say, no,

27:48

it's not gonna hold. Like, yeah,

27:50

I have 50-50 chance. Well,

27:54

little do we know it's still up there, dude. You

27:57

gotta play the average. Yeah, true. You

30:00

know, yeah now we are like so much

30:03

awesome to hear father along plus

30:06

Five guys are are like when you

30:08

when we sit in these like the

30:10

planning meetings and stuff It's like crazy

30:12

what one one little comment Until

30:16

like a whole bill. Yeah.

30:18

Yeah, usually like like I can't think of

30:20

that myself Like one person's it's tough for

30:22

one person to think of something like that

30:25

Like it takes a group of guys to do that it

30:27

is and people ask that all the time Like how do

30:29

you guys come up with your ideas? And I'm

30:31

like honestly We are so good at knowing what's

30:33

gonna do well on YouTube and what people will

30:35

click on at this point Like you just take

30:38

one thing and then you just twist a little

30:40

bit and then you add one thing to it

30:42

And then you go into the vault of like,

30:44

all right, what is work before what vehicles do

30:46

we have? What can we combine who can we

30:49

surprise it with and like I don't know we've

30:51

just gotten so good at that over the years

30:53

of like training your brain how to how to

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like you guys a part of our creative meetings

31:00

now where we're just like coming up

31:02

with the most Abstract ideas and

31:04

now it's like we have so many ideas and

31:06

so many different It's and so

31:09

many different motor swaps and so many different just

31:11

contraptions that we could build a lot of

31:13

them take more than like a week two

31:15

weeks three weeks four weeks some of them

31:17

take Like eight weeks twelve weeks and

31:20

then it's just like well, it's not worth tying

31:22

you guys up So like ideally, you know, we

31:24

we find another set of of you guys and

31:26

we just continue to add to the team But

31:28

then we need to have more space to build

31:30

it and then we got it It's just like

31:32

so many different factors to it But I mean

31:34

for the little bit that I know of what

31:36

you guys do I mean you I

31:38

can't do what you guys do and whatever we can't

31:40

do Yeah, and

31:43

so it takes all of us To

31:45

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31:48

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31:50

comments on some of the videos They're like, oh

31:52

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31:54

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31:56

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If there wasn't for the moles, we'd be fine.

46:53

We need a third secret filming location now that

46:55

like nobody knows about. I can tell you what

46:57

I don't need is another group chat. I

47:00

can't even figure out like. Yeah, you're kind

47:02

of slipping up on it a couple times. Last week

47:04

I did, I'm like. Cause me

47:07

and CJ and Big Ranch are

47:09

in one specifically for this project that

47:11

Big Ranch is working on. And it

47:13

was late at night too. Big

47:16

Ranch on Wine Wednesday. Sent

47:19

us. You already know that group chat's gonna

47:21

stay active. Well, yeah, I mean, we're gonna

47:24

have to start honestly,

47:27

Big Ranch, we might just have to start

47:29

leasing your barn from you. Yeah, that'd be

47:32

fine. He's like, I love that. We do

47:34

that first day in, Ken puts in security

47:36

cameras. This is our

47:38

property now. The secret location, the Batcave. So

47:41

Gavin, welcome on the pod. Sorry we didn't really

47:44

give you a proper intro. Sorry

47:46

for all the air. Kind of snuck in here,

47:48

but yeah, welcome brother. You've been

47:50

with us for nine months? Eight

47:52

months now. Eight months. The story of how

47:54

Gavin ended up on the team is actually

47:56

really, really interesting. So for

47:58

like the past. two years, I would

48:01

occasionally get a DM from

48:04

Gavin saying, Hey, I live local

48:06

to you. And I used

48:08

to build exhaust so I could build

48:10

an exhaust for your Lamborghini. And I

48:13

was like, who's this guy

48:15

that lives local? And I was

48:17

like, you can just build me an exhaust for my

48:21

Lambo. And it kind of, it

48:23

didn't really go much farther than that. But I

48:25

was like, okay, well, yeah, I'll keep you in

48:27

mind if we ever have like a project that

48:29

we, that we need. And then we did a

48:32

hundred people mobile lawn. We put out this form

48:34

of like, Hey, sign up for this, uh, video

48:36

that we're filming. And Gavin was one of the

48:38

applicants and we selected them to come and be

48:41

one of the lawnmowers. So, you know, we're talking

48:43

to everyone afterwards and he goes, Hey, I'm the

48:45

guy that keeps messaging you about building you a

48:47

over and over again, a Lamborghini exhaust. And I'm

48:50

like, Oh dude, yeah, no way. And I'm like,

48:52

you, okay, so you could

48:54

actually do that. And you're like, yeah, I

48:56

could do like a bunch of different things.

48:58

That was just kind of like my foot

49:01

in the door. Right. Meanwhile, big wrench is

49:03

working on the common swap Ford ranger. So

49:05

like he was, he was away from us

49:08

for like two months just working on that.

49:10

Working over in the cave in the

49:12

farm before it was

49:14

the farm. Honestly, we were just like trying to figure

49:16

out what to do. Cause you know, we'd been doing

49:18

like these builds and then we had to kind of

49:20

just go back to the old style of filming with

49:22

like where we had like really no wrenches

49:24

to like lean on for these projects. So we're

49:27

like, Hey, we actually do need you really bad

49:29

right now. Let me get your number. So I

49:31

get your number. And that was on Saturday. We

49:33

sit down in this meeting. We come up with

49:35

a bunch of ideas and we're like,

49:37

well, big wrench can do them. Who can do them? I

49:40

go, let me call this guy that, that we met at

49:42

the lawn mowing meetup. I call you.

49:44

I go, what are you doing this week? You're

49:47

like, Oh, working my job. I'm

49:49

busy, but could you take some

49:51

days off and come and help us with this

49:53

project? So Gavin shows up, tell him what we're

49:55

doing. And it was the six foot

49:58

tall pit bike and the tandem pit bike. Ten

1:26:00

guys another group so this day started

1:26:02

off We all got on

1:26:04

this bus that other buddy of ours owned went

1:26:07

to wildflower I think we made it three holes

1:26:09

before they kicked us out of there you guys

1:26:11

were reckless golfing Yeah, so then we all filed

1:26:13

back on the bus and it's like let's go

1:26:15

to bed So we rented the

1:26:17

tubes But we had our own bus and we didn't

1:26:20

even care about going tubing so we just went straight

1:26:22

to the falls There's actually a road that you can

1:26:24

take to get there, but you have to cross private

1:26:26

land Really we may or

1:26:28

may not have like busted the whole gate open

1:26:30

with the with the bus and

1:26:32

like drove right back there Yo, you guys were

1:26:34

driving the bus. Yeah, okay Sat

1:26:37

there and we're drinking having fun these guys came

1:26:39

flowing down the river Didn't know

1:26:41

didn't have no clue who they were weren't even from around

1:26:43

here or nothing and they started John back and forth with

1:26:45

a couple of our guys and pretty soon he's coming up

1:26:47

on the bank and One of

1:26:49

our guys takes a full can of the beer

1:26:52

and chucks it at the guy and it bounces

1:26:54

off of his head Oh my god guys like

1:26:56

hell through that Really? Oh

1:26:58

boy. Oh shit I

1:27:00

don't know if we got the best of them or

1:27:03

they got the best of us But I remember going

1:27:05

to church the next day and a guy that you

1:27:07

guys know his face was swelled up shut Really black

1:27:09

eyes we had a doctor there that

1:27:11

stitched us up that night up in one of my

1:27:13

friends How you guys go long got beat up. I

1:27:16

didn't have You

1:27:18

had to get strong how many I have is

1:27:20

your cake I was I was

1:27:23

still sober enough for I kind of

1:27:25

swimming down the bay like I was

1:27:27

more like Standing behind

1:27:29

my big friend swinging over Sneak

1:27:34

attack in the knee Of

1:27:36

an underwater kicking up. Yeah, they were big have

1:27:38

you you got it in a fight a couple

1:27:40

Yeah, I was a little bit of an enforcer

1:27:43

if you could call it that oh really it

1:27:45

would send Gavin in Yeah, little guy come and

1:27:47

beat somebody up for hitting the goalie or whatever,

1:27:49

you know, you were little well I was about

1:27:51

this size. I wouldn't say I'm big.

1:27:53

They would I guess I wouldn't say send you in

1:27:56

myself in Make

1:27:59

it your mission where you things

1:32:00

like like big wrench like how I was

1:32:02

like you kick him in the knee like

1:32:04

I've heard him say that before you know

1:32:06

like like there's just things you get to

1:32:08

know a person and like it's just so

1:32:10

funny you know and it's just like not

1:32:12

in like a like I'm laughing at you

1:32:14

but it's just like there's so many everyone's

1:32:16

got like their own funny little things about

1:32:18

them and it's fun getting to you know

1:32:21

I think the most interesting one that I

1:32:23

would like to if you were gonna go

1:32:25

and get wild Justin like he seems like

1:32:27

he would fly oh he does get wild

1:32:29

oh yeah we were all mad

1:32:40

and he got mad and started we we

1:32:42

weren't we were all on the same team

1:32:44

but Justin was like giving them the beans

1:32:46

so hard that the rest of us like

1:32:48

kind of step back we're like oh man

1:32:50

like chill like we were going

1:32:52

after but that's

1:32:54

a story for another day but

1:32:57

I've gotten to know him a little bit since he

1:32:59

started working for us for you guys again but he

1:33:01

looks like he'd be a lot of fun oh yeah

1:33:04

hilarious dude yeah great guy that's why he's on

1:33:06

this why he's up here you know something I

1:33:08

thought was really funny that made me think of

1:33:10

this is when you were like yeah getting to

1:33:12

like kind of know everyone in the group but

1:33:14

there was one the other day that I didn't

1:33:16

even know about and it's

1:33:18

when Dalton goes yeah he's got

1:33:20

a fake chain to Evan and

1:33:22

that just struck a chord with him

1:33:25

and he was like hey fuck you

1:33:27

Dalton you're you're ugly ass blue truck

1:33:29

and that struck a chord with Dalton

1:33:31

no it was the vice versa though

1:33:33

cuz he said something about Dalton's ugly

1:33:35

truck and then Dalton just responded behind

1:33:37

the camera he's got a fake chain

1:33:40

that's what I thought was funny like he defended himself

1:33:42

a few minutes later I don't know what you guys

1:33:44

had going on that day cuz like I came over

1:33:46

I think I came to pick up Eli from work

1:33:48

and it was like there was some tension yeah even

1:33:51

just even Justin came over and goes oh hostile was

1:33:53

working didn't

1:33:57

like the wrap there was a lot of

1:33:59

And I was like, it's just funny that

1:34:01

you noticed it because like that day in

1:34:03

particular, big

1:34:06

grandsons, I'm going back to the farm. Even

1:34:08

I like, and he goes, I didn't know

1:34:10

I couldn't have an opinion. And

1:34:13

we're like, no, nobody fucking asked you for

1:34:15

your opinion on a hundred things. Since we've

1:34:17

been talking here, Evan, that's where we have

1:34:19

a problem. You can give your opinion when

1:34:21

asked. And

1:34:24

then I think that's when Ryan was like, why can't we, why we all

1:34:26

had to be like this? Why can't we just fricking get this thing done?

1:34:30

I'm sick of everybody just

1:34:32

bitch. And Evan

1:34:34

goes, and that's when Evan goes, didn't know

1:34:36

you couldn't bitch anymore. He's

1:34:38

just like, you can, you can bitch if you

1:34:40

want. The

1:34:45

tension was going every which way that, yeah,

1:34:47

but it was all just, it was light.

1:34:49

Like everyone was, I thought it was light.

1:34:51

Yeah, I was, I was chuckling. And it's

1:34:53

just, you get it thrown aback a little

1:34:55

bit because it's rarely ever even like that.

1:34:57

Yeah. Like everybody gets along so

1:35:00

well that, yeah. We were big grands walks in at

1:35:02

the thick of it. Well, we

1:35:04

were getting pressed for time and also

1:35:07

we didn't have much footage and there was rain.

1:35:10

There was a lot of factors. And it

1:35:12

was Wednesday night, you know, trying to move

1:35:14

his pallets. Yeah. Ken's trying to move his

1:35:16

pallets. There was just, you know, it's tough.

1:35:18

And, you know, I'd say there's only one,

1:35:21

one thing that keeps getting circled back to as

1:35:23

the problem. And it's our schedule that

1:35:25

we have put on ourselves. It's insane.

1:35:28

But we're a prisoner of our own schedule, but it's necessary.

1:35:30

It keeps you going though. It is. It's necessary. And

1:35:32

you have to have a schedule. Otherwise, like when is it?

1:35:36

Yeah. You'd be like, Oh, what do you mean? Like we'll

1:35:38

do it tomorrow. You got the next day,

1:35:40

you know, it's just like anything. Yeah. Like I said, last

1:35:42

week I got bored when we had a day,

1:35:45

half a day off. Yeah. It's

1:35:47

like, gosh, I'm going to have to start mowing a lawn if

1:35:49

we don't get somebody is going here. On

1:35:51

our shitty Toro. And then and then you actually

1:35:53

will get Evan to throw hands if you start

1:35:55

doing that. Well, guys, very good. I'd

1:35:57

love to keep talking, but I feel like you.

1:36:00

Probably have some you probably got to get home

1:36:02

for dinner big run actually it's my father-in-law's birthday

1:36:04

party. Okay. Well, we'll let you get Yeah,

1:36:08

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1:36:10

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1:36:12

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