The Weight Loss Journey From 660 Pounds ft. Ethan Benard | Unsubscribe Podcast 247

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

  When I have the skin removed, it's gonna weigh between like 50 and 70.

• 0:33Speaker 02

  Do you get to keep it?

• 0:34Speaker 01

  Moisturize me.

• 0:35Speaker 02

  You cannot say that it is not impressive that the United States S-ranked an entire [BLEEP] country while the entire world is asleep.

• 0:41Speaker 03

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• 0:44Speaker 04

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• 0:45Speaker 02

  He's had a hard day.

• 0:46Speaker 04

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• 0:51Speaker 05

  Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous and random. His hair is fucking fabulous and donut. A dark oak disposition and there's a fat electrician. Welcome to unsubscribe.

• 1:11Speaker 03

  Hi, oh yeah, we gotta start it. Ready?

• 1:12Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:14Speaker 03

  What do this one? Three, two, one.

• 1:23Speaker 02

  Cody's gonna mess up your last name, I'm calling it.

• 1:24Speaker 04

  I'm not gonna mess it up.

• 1:26Speaker 03

  Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe Podcast. I'm joined today by Eli DoubleTap, Ethan Bernard, Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut Operator. Thank you so much for being here.

• 1:36Speaker 04

  You did, yesterday I was like, what do I call you? It was like, as long as you don't mess up my last name. I was like, what is your last name? Now I am wrong. Bernard, not Bernard.

• 1:47Speaker 02

  Not gonna lie, I would have fucked that up.

• 1:49Speaker 01

  No, it's crazy, dude. It's even phones. When you type in my last name, most of them auto correct it. It's ridiculous.

• 1:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, I've got no excuse. I've seen your name spelled like eight times in the last 24 hours. I just wouldn't have picked it on or picked up on it.

• 2:05Speaker 01

  Didn't learn this until a couple of years ago, but apparently Bernard is English and Bernard is French.

• 2:11Speaker 02

  I'm so sorry.

• 2:12Speaker 01

  I know, it's like.

• 2:14Speaker 02

  We.

• 2:16Speaker 04

  Now, our homie, you've been a, you reached out to Cody first. This is ages ago when you just started your journey.

• 2:23Speaker 01

  Twenty twenty-three. Yep.

• 2:25Speaker 04

  Oh shit, this is really.

• 2:26Speaker 02

  Did I reach out to you or did you reach out?

• 2:27Speaker 01

  I reached out to you. You, the first interaction we had was you did one of your plane AMAs. Okay. Spring of twenty-three.

• 2:36Speaker 02

  Um, I remember this.

• 2:37Speaker 01

  This was in the middle of my five-year period of struggling with my weight. So this was like two years in. Um, I had lost about a hundred pounds and I tweeted at you on the plane. I was like, hey, I'm used to weigh this much. I currently weigh this much. And if I reach my weight goal, I'd love to come to a range day. And you were like, hell yeah, let's do it.

• 2:57Speaker 04

  Nice.

• 2:58Speaker 01

  That was the first interaction we had. That was like, almost, that was like fricking almost three years ago now.

• 3:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was a minute. And you've lost two hundred and sixty pounds so far?

• 3:07Speaker 01

  Two hundred and nineteen.

• 3:08Speaker 04

  Two hundred and, man.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  So I was, yeah, I was six sixty at my heaviest and as of right before getting on the plane, I was like four forty point five.

• 3:18Speaker 04

  God damn dude, you lost me.

• 3:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:21Speaker 04

  That's wild to think about.

• 3:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, but it was, the timeline was a little interesting, man, cause like twenty twenty, uh, twenty twenty, twenty twenty-one is when I started trying to lose the weight. But over the course of four or five years, I lost a hundred pounds and gained it back like four times.

• 3:38Speaker 02

  What would you attribute that to? Like, why, if you were already making like the life-changing decisions to like, to lose a hundred pounds, cause that's no small feat.

• 3:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:45Speaker 02

  Losing a hundred pounds is fucking crazy.

• 3:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:48Speaker 02

  But like, how do, how do you think that you got sucked back in like just?

• 3:52Speaker 01

  Every time something happened in my life that was hard for me, I didn't have the mental resilience to not let it had, like, make me go back to what I was doing.

• 4:02Speaker 02

  Right.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  So like I had, you know, some, I would go throughout the years, something bad would happen. And then instead of just like continuing to move forward, I would just fall back into my old ways. You know, there were, there were a couple of things like my friendship with Danny went through a rough spot. I got depressed, gained the weight back, my dog died. You know, that was my, one of my, my closest companions for 14 years. She ate a mushroom and ate.

• 4:27Speaker 02

  No shit.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  Damn. Literally, just like out of the blue. And it's so weird because when I was in those relapses, subconsciously, I knew what I was doing. Like, dude, I told Eli, like, I think I literally ordered pizza the day my dog died. I just like it without skipping a beat. I went straight back into that old fat man shit that I used to do. I started doing really unhealthy shit again and I stopped weighing in.

• 4:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:51Speaker 01

  So that's when I could tell internally, like you're going down the wrong path.

• 4:55Speaker 02

  It's funny. Well, maybe funny is not the right word, but the, just the fact that you say that, uh, you like relapse, like treating it like a drug addiction.

• 5:02Speaker 01

  It is, it is absolutely an addiction.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:05Speaker 01

  I've come to, I had to come to terms with that last year. Cause even like with the social media stuff that's happened, those pages grew so fast. And there's so many people watching the journey now, but even with that determination and that like amount of support that I have, I still sometimes find myself struggling with like really dumb ass food stuff. Like cravings or like wanting to eat stuff that I shouldn't and struggling to stay within a certain calorie count and stuff.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  Do you find it easier because there are so many eyeballs on you? Like you're like, it's like an accountability thing? Really? Oh no.

• 5:38Speaker 01

  I started the pages for that purpose, but then I quickly realized for the sake of my mental health, using social media for accountability is a horrible idea for me. Cause all, even most of my comments are positive. Like it's, it's a stark contrast from back when I was in the streaming space. You know, but even with that insane amount of positivity, my mind will find the negative and like focus on it. So if I have a weigh in that didn't go as I expected or something, I'll see the negative and I'll just be like really, it'll just be really bad. So I've recently put people in place in my life to kind of act as accountability for specific things. Like I have a guy that I literally send like my fitness pal screenshots to.

• 6:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:23Speaker 01

  So it's like, hey, this is what I had. Uh, this is what my calories are. You know, so, so I have the accountability, but I don't feel like, I don't like to use the social media as that. Cause that just wrecked my mental.

• 6:37Speaker 04

  It's it's hard like I have training clients and I remember one client wouldn't stick to it, but my fitness pal is the one thing I'd make all my clients get and be like, hey, I need this updated. And then once a week I went to see it and then we'll go through everything and I'll be able to tell if you follow it or not, just based off when you weigh in. And then my client Wes would never like miss meals, eat too much snack. You book, well, next time, well, next time. And then I was just tired of it. I was like, dude, I'm gonna fire you as a client. I just don't give a shit anymore and you're not worth the time. You make me look bad, not worth it, homie. So you need to either fix this or get out and that's it. That dude got so pissed at me, he did not miss a single, oh, it No shit. It lit a fire under him.

• 7:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, cuz he wanted to prove me wrong. Dude, if that's what it takes, dude. He hit it. First time he ever went under 200 in decade and he was just stuck at like 230 to 250, got under 200, 199, he's like, yeah, he's excited. And he looks at me, he's like, I'm not gonna lie, I was super mad at you. I was like, I noticed you would not talk to me. I was just running you through exercise, but your weight, you just knock out those weights. Like it was just coming off every week. I was like, dude, look at you though. Like you hit your goal. It just took me being a dick and holding you accountable. Spite's a hell of a drug. I say, let the hate flow through you. Do what it says. As he's next to you, you little piece of shit.

• 8:03Speaker 04

  He's just out, you you look out your blinds. He's just like doing curls in your front yard. But it happens. I'm glad you found that accountability. Is anyone else in friends or family? Do they ever be like, hey, what are you doing?

• 8:18Speaker 01

  Uh, like when I'm, when I'm doing something bad. I think, yeah, I think so. But I've, I've been pretty dialed in lately. Like, cuz I do, it's actually, it's kind of weird, man. Like I had a lot of times last year where I struggled, right? But then even when I'm having these periods where I'm not going off course and I'm staying on track, I have like residual guilt from the days that I did, that makes it so I have a hard time even like

• 8:50Speaker 01

  being happy that I did the right thing. Cuz I'll still feel bad about having done wrong in the past. I know that's makes sense, but it's also kind of stupid.

• 9:01Speaker 02

  I mean, well, I mean, I think everybody would empathize with that when you apply it to literally anything else.

• 9:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:06Speaker 02

  I fucked up in the past. I still feel bad about it, you know?

• 9:10Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 9:10Speaker 04

  It's hard to move forward. That's like that breakthrough of trying to move forward or moving on. It's just, okay, I have taken accountability for that. I will now do better and I'm trying to not repeat the same mistakes and I'll do better this time. That's always the goal. That's just figuring it out and the best way to do that. Now, what is your overall goal for weight loss total?

• 9:31Speaker 01

  Oh, this has changed a lot. So initially, like, I'm, I'm pretty tall. So like, my main goal was to just go under 300 pounds. Um, last year, my doctor told me when I have the skin removed, it's going to weigh between like 50 and 70.

• 9:44Speaker 02

  The skin itself?

• 9:45Speaker 01

  Skin.

• 9:46Speaker 02

  Holy shit.

• 9:47Speaker 01

  Because, you know, I'm a big ass guy, you know, I'm tall and I was super fat.

• 9:51Speaker 02

  Do you get to keep it?

• 9:52Speaker 01

  No.

• 9:54Speaker 02

  You're gonna make a lamp like this is Texas Chainsaw Massacre or some shit?

• 9:58Speaker 01

  Spread it out on one of those boards from Doctor Who, dude.

• 10:01Speaker 03

  Like Fight Club. We'll, we'll scrape the fat off and make soap out of it and then sell it. Unsub soap.

• 10:06Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 10:07Speaker 04

  Unsub soap. See, we're a bit.

• 10:09Speaker 02

  Ethan's Soap Company.

• 10:10Speaker 04

  Yeah. I, we can, we can.

• 10:12Speaker 01

  I'm sure if you found the right doctor, you could fi- you could make one of those really fucked up products that has like every piece of this is made with part of Ethan's.

• 10:21Speaker 02

  They use every piece of the buffalo?

• 10:25Speaker 04

  What is this?

• 10:26Speaker 02

  Shadow box. That's Ethan's skin. I gotta give you points for the Doctor Who reference, by the way. I did get that. That's.

• 10:32Speaker 01

  So good.

• 10:34Speaker 04

  Moisturize me.

• 10:37Speaker 02

  It's back before the CGI was decent.

• 10:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:40Speaker 04

  Dude, that is wild. 50 to 70.

• 10:42Speaker 01

  Well, that's the thing though, because now I think about 300. I'm like, there's no way I get down to 300 before skin surgery, because that would mean I would be like 240. I honestly, guys, I don't know. It'll be a long time before I weigh 240. I don't even, that's not even like my, anywhere near my goal, you know?

• 11:03Speaker 02

  Well, you're also like a big dude, like not just like size wise. I'm like height. You are a tall motherfucker.

• 11:08Speaker 01

  Wide shoulders and tall. Yeah. So, so I think af- post-skin surgery, honestly, if I stayed between like 250 and 270, I'd be happy. Like my goal, main weight loss goal is to get under three hundred. But I don't know what the timeline on that looks like because the surgeries too with how much I have to lose. It's going to be split up into like four or five.

• 11:32Speaker 04

  How much are they like, how much is skin surgery? And I wasn't sure if it's like in a single.

• 11:38Speaker 01

  I think it's a lot. Like ten to twenty grand. One of the guys that I know is doing, he has a GoFundMe for his final one and his goal is like thirty. So if he's, he's had like four or five, so like this is like his fourth or fifth, I think so.

• 11:52Speaker 04

  I didn't realize they did multiple. I thought it was.

• 11:54Speaker 01

  Well, that's the thing. Like when you have as much to remove as I'm going to. I think it's just a bit too much of a shock on your body to have it all done at once. Because the recovery for those things is not easy. You have like the wounds leaking and like it's just shit all over.

• 12:11Speaker 04

  You're removing seventy pounds from a human body. Yeah, you're gonna have some.

• 12:14Speaker 01

  Well, that's the, it's gonna be really weird, man. I think they literally do like the face. And like the arms, like I'm, I've already got the fricking bat wings, dude. Like they do the arms, they do chest separate, they do the arms separate, they do belly separate, then legs and back and all that are all like different procedures technically.

• 12:33Speaker 04

  Makes sense.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  So. That is, uh, what I'm going to refer to as the skin removal saga. It's gonna be, honestly, I think it's going to be the most viral. But it's also going to be the hardest part.

• 12:49Speaker 04

  I've said, we'll see if we keep this or whatever, guys, but that's the one thing I DM'd or text you about. It's like, we want to help with that, even covering some of that bill.

• 12:59Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 12:59Speaker 04

  For the skin removal, I think that would. Yeah, that's too easy. I was like, especially with what you're going through, it motivates the out of everyone out there and us. And then you put in the work, not a month of work, not two months or three months, you put in at two years.

• 13:15Speaker 02

  And you're a shining example too of the fact that like all these people that, you know, might be saying in their own head, like, hey, I'm past the point of no return. There's no coming back. There's this, this, this. Fuck you.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're not too far gone.

• 13:27Speaker 02

  Yeah. Cause I, I know a lot of people get that way in their head and there's probably plenty of people watching that have just already given up. You're like, oh, I'll never be there. It's like, no, you, there's never a point of no return.

• 13:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:37Speaker 02

  Tell your dad.

• 13:37Speaker 01

  Well, I was, dude, I was.

• 13:38Speaker 02

  Tell your dad. Yeah, that, that's a pretty good point in no return.

• 13:40Speaker 01

  I've been in some pretty, I've been in some pretty nasty places, man. I've been at that point where I didn't care if I lived or died, right? But like. You know, in twenty.

• 13:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, speaking sidebar.

• 13:57Speaker 04

  He didn't say it, it's fine.

• 14:01Speaker 01

  Throwback my way, why don't you?

• 14:04Speaker 01

  I was thinking about the edit, the way that was going down and I'm like, oh, at least I wasn't in frame.

• 14:12Speaker 01

  Speaking of veterans, by the way, I did a collab with Zach when I was at his house. He had me hold up a sign and I just said, keep going forward. And then a bunch of the comments were like, I didn't know you were a veteran. I'm like, no, not. I didn't take time to respond to most of them. I think Zach was doing it. It's just like.

• 14:36Speaker 02

  Including you in the the forced valor saga.

• 14:41Speaker 04

  No, no, no, no, no, dude, that is amazing. Okay, so we would love to cover a portion or help with that. When you do hit that point of your goal, because that means you put in the work, that's an extra hundred and forty pounds to go essentially.

• 14:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I think once I lose another hundred, I'm going to be getting at that point where I'm going to start consulting with people. You know, because like, because when if I'm three forty, you know, minus fifty to seventy, that puts me under three hundred. I don't know if I'll be at the correct body fat percentage or where they want me to be for it, but.

• 15:15Speaker 02

  I'm just so curious. I have so many questions because that's not something I've ever explored before is like the skin removal. Yeah, like, is that something that, like, not to get like crazy personal with it or anything, but like the like stretch marks and things like that, do those like, do they have a way of like fixing that?

• 15:28Speaker 01

  I don't think that ever really goes away. I think they just kind of make your you, uh, normal shaped. So they just kind of cut you up to make you normal shaped.

• 15:37Speaker 04

  It's crazy. Have you have you seen how they do it? What they're going to do.

• 15:41Speaker 01

  So they'll literally have me.

• 15:42Speaker 04

  This all got this gone. They just cut that.

• 15:44Speaker 01

  They will take a marker and they will draw a dotted line of like exactly where they're going to cut and then they will just cut it up and sew it.

• 15:51Speaker 02

  You know, every time I think like medicine has advanced so far, we do some crazy like middle ages shit like that. Just like, I don't know, sharpie it up and slice it off.

• 16:00Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 16:01Speaker 02

  It's like you see those videos that people like the surgeons correcting like, you know, a car accident, like somebody's got something like a hip displaced and they're using with a chisel.

• 16:11Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 16:11Speaker 03

  They're putting a rod in someone's thigh.

• 16:13Speaker 01

  No, the range of the medical stuff.

• 16:15Speaker 03

  Sledgehammer and just fucking.

• 16:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  The range is crazy because they have some surgeons who use like the robots and they're good like super like microscopic precision. And then you have other surgeries that are just like, you know, drawing, drawing on people with a Sharpie.

• 16:29Speaker 04

  Oh, Medicare.

• 16:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:31Speaker 04

  Yeah. I'm very short. Well, Grandma, here's the video.

• 16:37Speaker 06

  He's an 80 pound sledgehammer missed once.

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  That's why they gave.

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  Sorry about your balls.

• 16:44Speaker 04

  That's why we're calling you Grandma now. Oh, no.

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  Every time just.

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  Ah, dude, the 50 K you gave me, it's gone.

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• 18:34Speaker 04

  Boom.

• 18:35Speaker 02

  That's why we gave you a bunch of Fent before the operation. Dude, my grandma, Oma, had, she had a surgery at one point that was, you know, like fairly invasive. I, she was getting her like hip fixed or something like that. And they legitimately, legitimately gave her Fentanyl before the operation. And she had an entire day where she was speaking to people like perfectly like, you know, cogent and everything, talking to people. Didn't remember any of it. That shit's scary. I've, I've never been put under for, for anything and I really don't want to.

• 19:04Speaker 04

  Did you, Cody, have you been put under ever?

• 19:07Speaker 03

  Got my wisdom teeth taken out. That's the only time.

• 19:09Speaker 04

  It's wild. It's like countdown.

• 19:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, you fall, you're in there awake instantly. You have a weird dream or two, then you're just awake. It feels like you just went like that.

• 19:18Speaker 02

  Oh dude. The dream, like when you say dream, like, like a normal, like you go to sleep dream, like, kind of like you're sleeping eight hours or like you just?

• 19:26Speaker 03

  It felt like a couple of seconds and then you pop awake.

• 19:29Speaker 04

  That's the best way to explain it.

• 19:30Speaker 02

  What?

• 19:31Speaker 04

  Out and then open, uh, when I had my colonoscopy and the, the mouth one. And.

• 19:38Speaker 02

  What? You got spit roasted by your doctor?

• 19:40Speaker 04

  Oh yeah. Oh, a hundred percent. That's like the doctors, I, when they came in, they're like, we're do this. I was like, you're using the same tube? Like, no. I'm like, I'm fucking with your god. I know. And it was mask or the shot, whatever, and they pushed it in.

• 19:58Speaker 04

  And then it was waking up and that's that violent wake up.

• 20:01Speaker 01

  You have the wake up immediately?

• 20:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, there is no.

• 20:04Speaker 02

  This is kind of like getting choked out.

• 20:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

• 20:08Speaker 01

  Dude, I've never, I've never experienced it like that. Like even when I remember my tonsil surgery, I remember explicitly like having like dreams and stuff while I was out.

• 20:18Speaker 04

  Mine was.

• 20:19Speaker 01

  And like, there was a elongated period of time between going under and then like waking up.

• 20:24Speaker 03

  No, dude, I was, I was, I was out. I, for like two seconds, I was snowboarding. And then, yeah, it was weird. And I have a snowboard, so I was like 16 and then I was back up. I, that felt like two seconds.

• 20:37Speaker 02

  And you grab the mask, put it back on.

• 20:40Speaker 04

  Sick ride.

• 20:43Speaker 02

  That's just hit the nurse, grab the mask.

• 20:47Speaker 04

  Nurse almost got punched by me because they did the real, they violently wake you up to that is.

• 20:51Speaker 02

  Did they read your file?

• 20:53Speaker 04

  They were like, oh man, I wish Sav Sav was like, whoa, she was like, wake up, it's time to wake up, Mr. Cravis. And I was like, and I went like that. Don't remember. And he was like, aimed at her. And I was like,

• 21:05Speaker 04

  did my butthole go on OF? I don't know why I said that. Sav said I like had.

• 21:09Speaker 02

  That's what you said.

• 21:12Speaker 04

  Cause they were recording everything and they're handing me the papers. And I'm just like, uh huh, uh huh. Yeah. Looking around and then I finally came to what was going on and I had papers on. I'm like, what the fuck's going on right now? They're like, okay, you got everything? I'm like,

• 21:28Speaker 04

  Sav, what? And she's like, you're good. I was like, okay, cool. Yep. A hundred percent.

• 21:32Speaker 00

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• 22:02Speaker 04

  Walking out right afterwards.

• 22:04Speaker 02

  I remember my brother got his, I think he got his wisdom teeth removed or something like that. Like one of those where he got put under. And he was like, one of those zombie states in the, the car ride home. And as soon as he got home, he's like, I want to play piano.

• 22:18Speaker 02

  And we're just, me and my mom are just watching him in his room and he's just like, playing the same song that like, he was like practicing and it got like progressively slower. Until he just stopped and was like asleep, like keys held down. He's like, okay buddy, time to go to bed.

• 22:36Speaker 04

  Come on Phantom with the.

• 22:40Speaker 02

  That's funny.

• 22:41Speaker 04

  Yeah. It's so fast. It's a wild feeling. I dreams or any of that.

• 22:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:50Speaker 04

  But yeah, so you'll have to go through that waking up with just a portion of your meat gone. That's gonna

• 22:57Speaker 01

  That's a really weird way to say it. Holy shit. You're not wrong though.

• 23:03Speaker 02

  Here's what's crazy though, because you'll still have the same muscle memory. So I imagine like, let's say you just lost 10 pounds off your right arm. You go to grab something and just like

• 23:14Speaker 02

  it's just way lighter, like you're not expecting it.

• 23:16Speaker 04

  Dude, walk, I couldn't even imagine waking up and then with 70 pounds, 50 to 70 pounds.

• 23:21Speaker 01

  Well, that's all not all at once.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  But still like 20 pound vest.

• 23:25Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 23:28Speaker 04

  That is a

• 23:28Speaker 01

  It's gonna be weird. That's the, like I said, though, like when I said it's gonna be the most viral, but also the most frustrating. Like I can't imagine the mental part of that. Because at that point, right, like when I at the point where I'm ready to have it done, I will have lost like over 300 pounds.

• 23:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:47Speaker 01

  And to have gone through all that just to be like visually a melted ice cream cone. You know, like you just got shit laying everywhere, dude. Like that, I feel like that's gonna be rough. And I feel like not being able to have it all done at once is also like, I know for my health, I shouldn't. But like, just having to still live with that after putting in the work for so long. I think that's gonna be hard, man.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  But look at it this way, how old are you?

• 24:19Speaker 01

  26.

• 24:19Speaker 04

  So you had 24 years of accumulation and then you're gonna have a few years of that going away. And in that scope, if you look at it like that, it's like, oh shit, this is only like

• 24:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, my underlying goal honestly is to just be able to live a normal life in my 30s.

• 24:37Speaker 02

  Cause I mean, realistically, like you just granted, the way to look at it, I would think are one of them. And I'm sure you've thought all of this through before, I mean, but. You know, your future children just got 25 more years with their dad.

• 24:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:51Speaker 02

  Like, losing that much weight, like, that's absurd. Like, congratulations, truly.

• 24:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, I appreciate that, man. Actually, speaking of future children, man, like, 2025, in January, I was back up to 624 pounds. It was like the fourth or fifth, I think, fourth time that I'd gained all the weight back. And I had a realization, man, I literally had the thought pop into my head on January 6 of 25. And it was like-

• 25:18Speaker 02

  Exactly a year ago.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  Yeah. Oh, sh- is it?

• 25:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, literally one year ago today.

• 25:24Speaker 02

  No shit.

• 25:24Speaker 01

  Um, I thought, if I fail this journey, I'm not just failing myself. I'm also putting the lives of my future wife and kids in jeopardy. Because, like, you know, people can say what they want about religion, but I've always 100% believed it when the Bible says that God will give you the desires of your heart. And ever since I was a kid, I've had the desire to start a family. So as soon as I, I don't know why I didn't think like that before, but as soon as that thought came into my head, dude, 2025 was the first year in the five years that I've been trying to get it off that I kept a big chunk off.

• 26:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:04Speaker 01

  It was a, it gave me a level of determination that I had never had. Like, I still struggled, but I never once backslid. Like, I never gained weight last year.

• 26:15Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, it seems like it's been very consistent, at least since I've been keeping track of it. Like, it seems, and you'll, you'll have, you know, different days-

• 26:22Speaker 01

  Some plateaus and stuff, yeah.

• 26:24Speaker 02

  And that's to be expected. And like, I think you do a good job, too, when you're explaining, when you're doing your weigh-ins, you're like, "I expected this. I was hydrating a lot more. I was doing this because of these exercises." Like, not all weight is fat.

• 26:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:38Speaker 02

  And there is, there is a difference. Like, that's, and a lot of people, maybe if they've, they're not familiar, like, they don't really know that.

• 26:44Speaker 04

  That's water weight. We have eight pounds for a single gallon.

• 26:48Speaker 01

  The water is fricking ridiculous, man. I have a thing called lymphedema in my lower body and it's literally like my body just holds on to water like it's no one's fricking business. So if I have a day where I don't wrap my legs and I eat high sodium, I was telling Eli, I could easily go up like 11 pounds the next day.

• 27:06Speaker 04

  No shit.

• 27:07Speaker 01

  Just if I drink water and I don't wrap my legs properly, I can gain 10 pounds in a day if I wanted to. And I know that's not fat. You know what I mean?

• 27:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, because it's impossible.

• 27:16Speaker 01

  It's not physically possible. So like even after this trip dude, like my weekly weigh-ins are on Friday and I'm gonna get back after traveling and there's probably gonna be some water weight. And that's what I'm gonna say in the weigh-in, you know, like that, that's hard for me because like

• 27:32Speaker 04

  It's water weight.

• 27:33Speaker 01

  I know I shouldn't care what the comments say. I talked a lot with this about Eli yesterday, but I, I am someone who I just wanna know what people are saying. So I always read into it and I read way too much of it.

• 27:44Speaker 04

  That's human, I think.

• 27:45Speaker 01

  But you know, I, I know that I'm losing weight, but when the scale, the scale and that stupid number is like the only number in this space that people actually judge you off of.

• 27:57Speaker 04

  Which they, because they haven't put in the work or understand it. That's why anyone that worth their salt will say, don't look at the fucking scale, look at the size of the, like, your body's going to change so much.

• 28:08Speaker 01

  Four shirt sizes in the last year and a half.

• 28:09Speaker 04

  Pants, what, what about pant sizes?

• 28:11Speaker 01

  Oh, I've gone from like a 60 something to like a 54.

• 28:17Speaker 04

  Like fucking, that is the stuff that matters. It's why I wait, as you said, oh my God, I can drink in a single day with water retention 11 pounds. That's why it's like, it's a bad measurement. It's good that you're tracking yourself and you're doing it, but anyone worth their salt will be like, who cares?

• 28:31Speaker 01

  Well, actually I'm happy. I started weighing in every day.

• 28:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  Which kinda sucks, but at the same time, seeing the data is good, especially this week because if I am, if I do happen to be up a couple pounds on Friday, I can go, hey, look at where I was at right before I left. You know, I had, that's three and a half pounds lower than I was last week.

• 28:50Speaker 04

  Because you get the full data set, because it's gonna go up and down. It's just like a stock market or you know, like it's.

• 28:55Speaker 01

  The graph is ridiculous, man.

• 28:56Speaker 04

  What's the average? And then what we did, what, last night you had sushi, like we went to the sushi place?

• 29:02Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  So Nagiri, just super clean, easy food. And then today you had what? Chi, or chicken? Where I don't even know what you had.

• 29:09Speaker 01

  Oh, I just had a breakfast bowl at the lunch place.

• 29:12Speaker 02

  So what is it? Just like scrambled eggs?

• 29:16Speaker 01

  I calculated like eggs, sausage, two, two, the highest calorie bacon slices I could find on the app. Cause those were big slices bacon.

• 29:24Speaker 04

  It's thick.

• 29:25Speaker 01

  The hash browns, the Brussels sprouts, and then I did what my nutritionist taught me and I just added an extra ounce and a half of fat. Onto the tracking, cause I'm sure that it's all cooked in a bunch of stuff. So came out to like 1200 calories, but.

• 29:39Speaker 02

  So I have to go like, like at restaurants like that. I have to specifically ask them like, okay, eggs.

• 29:44Speaker 01

  No oil, no bullshit. Like chicken and avocado today or something?

• 29:48Speaker 02

  It's like, I'm like, no oil, no bullshit. Cause I don't, cause all those restaurants add so much just lard and fat and whatever else.

• 29:55Speaker 04

  That's a terrible stuff. And then for even praising him even more, he was pacing and then we thought he was nervous or something.

• 30:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, before the podcast. Oh, I was actually, I'm excited for this.

• 30:06Speaker 04

  It was like, hey, you good? I think Connor was like, hey, you good? He's like, I'll get my steps in. He's just walking back and forth. It's like, oh, fuck. Yeah, that was awesome. And you got a box today for the first time ever.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. That was a good time. Put me in my place, dude. Like that is so, it's like, it's fun, but I'm like, oh my God. Like that'll really show you how fat you are if you try something like that.

• 30:30Speaker 04

  Well, cardio is hard.

• 30:32Speaker 02

  Yeah. Any sort of fighting period is very good for humbling yourself.

• 30:36Speaker 04

  This jab, we just worked on a one, two and jabbing for three minutes straight. And you're like, wow, this sucks. I'm like, mm-hmm.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude. Three, that three minute round, my heart was beating out of my fricking chest.

• 30:48Speaker 04

  And he sparred a little bit too. We got some sparring and light sparring. And then me and Brandon did a little heavier sparring. We still did light sparring, but that was a blast. As I said, you did the best you've ever done in a sparring session. I was like, homie is throwing fists at me. I like.

• 31:04Speaker 02

  Still, I mean, it's a great reminder too. Like I said, it's great for humbling yourself of how fast the cardio goes. Cause me and you haven't been in the boxing gym in a couple of months. And so like that fight cardio goes away so fast.

• 31:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:16Speaker 02

  It's aggressive.

• 31:18Speaker 04

  That three minute round starts feeling like a 30 minute.

• 31:21Speaker 02

  That second round, me and you did about like halfway through, I'm like, I started just running away.

• 31:28Speaker 02

  Evasive maneuvers. I it was I've made this joke before, but it's like the the uh the stamina bar has gone to zero and it's starting to chip away at HP. It's like, oh, no, fuck.

• 31:41Speaker 04

  Put your hands up, keep your hands up.

• 31:45Speaker 02

  Throwing punches in slow motion. It's like, oh, oh, that I know that looked like shit. Stop recording.

• 31:52Speaker 01

  The contrast between like the bag work and the sparring was wild.

• 31:55Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 31:56Speaker 01

  Like actually having to think about defense is crazy. Cause like I was I was trying to just get the form with the punches, right?

• 32:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 32:04Speaker 01

  And then we start, you know, he starts doing his like super, super light baby sparring with me. And I was like, oh, shit.

• 32:13Speaker 01

  It was ridiculous, man.

• 32:15Speaker 02

  It's totally different when there's somebody there hitting you back.

• 32:18Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 32:19Speaker 02

  And I think we've I'm sure we've told this story, but the first time that I told Eli I was taking a fight, he's like, come to my house right now.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  You spar today.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, went to his house and he just the only thing he threw was jabs. He just just one minute.

• 32:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:33Speaker 02

  Of just being jabbed in the head. He's like, get around my fist. And he just kept

• 32:40Speaker 02

  jabbing me in the fucking face. And like after like 30 seconds, I'm like, all right, Eli, I'm done. What? How do I? How do I get around that? This isn't fun anymore. I'm just getting hit in the head.

• 32:50Speaker 04

  It's just a Mortal Kombat sweep over and over and over. This is stupid as bullshit. Stop using that, huh?

• 32:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, stop using that move.

• 32:58Speaker 04

  It's jab, jab, jab, jab, jab. But it is good thing, even you trying it. A lot of people get nervous getting in the ring because it is sparring is terrifying if you've never done it.

• 33:07Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:08Speaker 04

  And then you don't know if they're gonna swing for the fences or not. And that's why I was like, don't worry, we're not not blasting. You don't even have a mouthpiece. I'll like touch your head. If I can show you where I'm gonna hit you, but just keep your hands up, keep moving.

• 33:19Speaker 02

  Finding people who aren't mean spirited, like everybody's trying to learn, you know?

• 33:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, I appreciate the scalability of it, you know, like you like the way you did it with me today was probably perfect.

• 33:29Speaker 04

  You you burnt a lot of calories, round after round, you were like, okay.

• 33:34Speaker 06

  I'm just watching the sweat start to like just the the sweat stain. I'm like, yeah, this is what we're here for.

• 33:40Speaker 04

  What are some of your New Year's resolutions?

• 33:43Speaker 06

  I want to cut back on stimulants. I'm horribly addicted to caffeine, nicotine, and methamphetamine.

• 33:49Speaker 04

  Nice. You got a good hookup for the last one?

• 33:52Speaker 06

  Yeah, he's a real cool biker down at the love station.

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• 34:05Speaker 04

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• 34:10Speaker 06

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• 34:19Speaker 04

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• 34:22Speaker 04

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• 35:37Speaker 03

  Mr. Cody, how you been, dog? Ah, super duper, man. You said, what have you been working on right now? Still just doing my streams, man. I didn't do shit last week. It turns out when you get past thirty, when you do that whole like crazy partying thing on New Year's Eve, it takes like three or four days to get to recover from that. A little longer to recharge. Yeah, a little bit. So I don't think we did much of anything last week. But yeah, just started back to streaming. I wanted to box with you guys, but I really gotta get some stream time in this week. Cause I didn't do shit last week.

• 36:06Speaker 02

  The stream still like doing good?

• 36:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's doing real good, man. I had a thousand concurrent viewers on Twitch this morning, then like eight hundred on Kick. So had about two thousand people in there.

• 36:17Speaker 02

  That's awesome, man.

• 36:18Speaker 03

  Watching dumb people drink and get arrested.

• 36:21Speaker 02

  Hundred on Kick and a thousand on Twitch?

• 36:24Speaker 03

  Eight hundred on Kick and a thousand on Twitch.

• 36:27Speaker 02

  And you made way more on Kick.

• 36:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, you made a little bit more from viewership, yeah.

• 36:33Speaker 02

  Turns out when you don't have to pay Lord Bezos, you're doing.

• 36:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, right.

• 36:38Speaker 02

  Oh, man, that's awesome.

• 36:40Speaker 04

  And then we had the president get stolen.

• 36:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was cool.

• 36:46Speaker 04

  We have so much shit we haven't been able to talk about. I did this like, yeah, there was a whole kidnapping in the middle of the night and waking up and be like, eh, we have a text from Brandon. It's like, well, I think we're at war.

• 36:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, cause yeah, show text the group chat in the middle of the night. Cause it was, it was like three thirty AM. I rolled over and I'm just like, oh, fuck. And I see her, her text. She's like, I think we're at war. And it's the, the, the video of like the Apaches like shooting, uh, shooting at the anti-aircraft, like blowing up the anti-aircraft defenses. And I saw the text like twenty minutes later cause I just rolled over and like opened it. And, uh, I'm like, no, I think it's done. And I sent back like the, we captured the president of Venezuela. Thirty-five minutes on ground, wasn't it? I was, I think it was less.

• 37:30Speaker 04

  That's wild.

• 37:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, no US casualties either.

• 37:34Speaker 04

  No, and they had that new weapon system Ethan talked about that, but is like their new weapon system and then the S three hundreds.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:41Speaker 04

  I think that's what they're called and they had 5,000 new systems in place. And all I seen was like, well, those didn't work because they're flying very low in helicopters. They like, uh, what were they in? Uh, Chinooks? I'm assuming.

• 37:58Speaker 02

  Uh, I, I think we had Apaches and maybe, I don't know, Blackhawks, Chinooks, something like that.

• 38:02Speaker 03

  There was a couple of different ones.

• 38:04Speaker 04

  It was low.

• 38:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, dude, the one 60th, they, you know, they were flying in nods.

• 38:10Speaker 04

  And then they blew, you know how they caught, kicked it off?

• 38:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, they blew up the, uh, the museum that houses Hugo Chavez's grave.

• 38:18Speaker 03

  That's how they started it.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  I believe that.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  Oh, I've, I've been told that.

• 38:22Speaker 04

  No, that's a, yep.

• 38:23Speaker 03

  That's all in my mind. I, I feel like they extracted and they're like, you guys want to do something else? Real quick. It's gonna be funny.

• 38:29Speaker 04

  That's what we, there was a question mark that popped up. They're like, oh, sorry.

• 38:35Speaker 04

  Except.

• 38:36Speaker 03

  Extra XP.

• 38:37Speaker 02

  I, I wonder if that was a sanctioned military target or the pilot just did a funny.

• 38:44Speaker 01

  That's one hell of a choice to make on your own.

• 38:47Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's one of those things I, you can say what you will about like, oh, well, we shouldn't have done that because X, Y, and Z, you know, these, these, these different things and like, not all of those are necessarily invalid. There's an argument to be made.

• 39:00Speaker 04

  It's a hard one.

• 39:01Speaker 02

  You, what you cannot say is that it is not impressive. You cannot say that it is not impressive that the United States S ranked an entire fucking country. Like the biggest oil producer in the entire world that had the backing of Russia, China, you know, all these different, you know, world powers, giving them anti-aircraft missiles, whatever. We go in, we destroy their entire anti-aircraft defense system. Swoop their president while the entire world is asleep.

• 39:30Speaker 02

  All of us found out about it in the morning. It took us like fucking two hours, whatever it was.

• 39:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:34Speaker 02

  Maybe less.

• 39:35Speaker 04

  Like a Lord, like, I think someone said, is it, you could have started a Lord of the Rings movie and walked out and be like, what happened?

• 39:42Speaker 02

  That's what I said. Like, i- i- if you started the, the finale of Stranger Things, by the time you were done, we were out of Venezuela with the president.

• 39:51Speaker 03

  I read somewhere on a couple of these military Twitter's, I hope it's true because it sounds super cool that at an undisclosed location somewhere in the United States, they had built his palace with the exact materials that the palace is made of, including the safe room that he has so that the Delta guys and all the CAG dudes could go in and figure out how to get in the quickest, grab him and get out.

• 40:12Speaker 02

  Because we had people on the inside.

• 40:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:15Speaker 04

  I guarantee you that was, because I know they did that for the Osama raid. They reconstructed what they thought the layout was, and then they're just run it, run it, run it.

• 40:27Speaker 02

  All right. I'm throwing a hail Mary here, but this is very funny. We start talking shit about like a world leader or something like getting into a shit fit, whether it's China, Russia, Cuba, Colombia, you know, Timbuktu, whoever. All of a sudden, we just leak intel to them that somewhere in Arizona, we built a repro of their house. And we were doing Delta raids on that repro of their house. It's like, just so you know, maybe you should stop talking shit.

• 40:54Speaker 04

  I mean, think of how many dictators woke up that next day like, oh, because that is the, so they have 27 to 29 million people, and then they were ranked 50th out of the 145 countries in military power. And we S rank them without a single casualty.

• 41:14Speaker 02

  Zero, zero casualties on our side.

• 41:18Speaker 04

  That's wild to be able to do as a military power. And it's one of those, it's like, oh, well, US or China, like, they're neck and neck. It's like, I don't think you know how much we spend on military budget and we love to fight for some reason. They love going to war, really good at it at this point in US history. And that is a perfect example, how good we are at.

• 41:43Speaker 02

  And, and that's the other part too, is you know, if you look at the, the comparison, because like, I don't like being involved in foreign entanglements. I don't think we should be the world's police. There's a lot of things that I disagree with in having an invasive foreign policy. At the same time, if we're gonna do it, instead of a 20 year forever war where we kill a million civilians, we have thousands of American soldiers dead and we're, you know, dicking around for trillions of dollars, in and out in two hours? Capture the king? I'm down. Like if we're, if that's the way we're gonna do it, I, I think it's vastly superior to what we've been doing.

• 42:18Speaker 01

  That is pretty crazy.

• 42:20Speaker 04

  I don't think it's war that, that's the one thing. It's like, it doesn't, I don't consider that war. That is just a movie. Oh, you, like you're in, you're out. There was no casualties on our side. And it is the, the hard one because it is, as you were saying, A, well, we overstepped our bounds, but then it is what, what's abound on something bad? Do you just sit back? North Korea, we don't do anything with that. There's slavery, like generational slavery, concentration camps, everything, nothing happens. So what's the line? Do you just sit back and do nothing the entire time? Or is that one where it's like, hey, this is a dictator. Other people in the past was like, oh, we gotta do something.

• 42:57Speaker 02

  I think it's not even just the human rights thing. Cause like there's not, again, not to get into, into the politics of it, but the argument on one side is that

• 43:04Speaker 02

  it's not just that they were a socialist dictatorship, uh, but also the fact that when they took power, they seized tens of billions of dollars worth of American assets, things that American companies paid money for to put there to be able to allow them to use their oil to the extent that they are. We invested there and as soon as they took power, they, they seized those. So they stole from Americans. And so like, all right, well, that's all, you're gonna do that on top of talking shit and saying like, oh, we're gonna retaliate. We're gonna do this. It's like, well,

• 43:35Speaker 02

  maybe learn your place.

• 43:38Speaker 02

  No, you're not gonna learn your place?

• 43:45Speaker 04

  Did you do anything on that one?

• 43:47Speaker 01

  I haven't done anything on it. No.

• 43:49Speaker 04

  I mean,

• 43:49Speaker 02

  You were in the skit.

• 43:50Speaker 04

  We did, we did that skit. That was, that was pretty funny. I was like, I haven't got to watch that. I just watched the intro though, you, because I think you clipped just the intro of it.

• 43:57Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:58Speaker 04

  I was like, oh, this is dope.

• 43:59Speaker 02

  That was one, we had the idea that night. We're like, all right, this is pretty funny.

• 44:04Speaker 04

  We're knocking this out. We're knocking this. Ethan's like, I can't, I don't know if I'm even allowed to talk about it.

• 44:10Speaker 01

  I have been, uh,

• 44:13Speaker 01

  I've been very conservative on the way I I don't speak about anything like this. So like, I'm not opposed to talking about it, but I'm just like,

• 44:22Speaker 02

  It's a hard one.

• 44:23Speaker 00

  Not pissing people off for no reason.

• 44:24Speaker 01

  I, yeah, you know, this, this time around, uh, cause I was different back when I was a streamer. But this time around, I'm just kinda like,

• 44:32Speaker 02

  Brand safe.

• 44:33Speaker 01

  The more people that my videos reach, the more people it helps and the better I do. So I just try to,

• 44:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:43Speaker 01

  Stay in my lane, you know, I, I even, even my faith, I'm pretty like tactful in how I speak about it.

• 44:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:51Speaker 01

  Cause I don't wanna alienate anyone.

• 44:53Speaker 02

  And there's a difference between rejecting your faith and also like just not choosing to be,

• 44:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:58Speaker 02

  You know, very aggressively outspoken about it.

• 45:00Speaker 01

  That's the thing, man, cause like I give God glory for everything that's happening in my life. And I'm not afraid to say that, but I will never like shove people shove Jesus or scripture down people's throats.

• 45:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:10Speaker 01

  Cause that's,

• 45:11Speaker 02

  Push people away.

• 45:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause that's when you like, if you were like, you guys are gonna go to hell if you don't accept Jesus as your savior. That is like the dumbest possible way.

• 45:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:20Speaker 01

  To convince people that that's something that they should pursue.

• 45:23Speaker 02

  I mean, you, you don't wanna picket military funerals?

• 45:27Speaker 01

  So I'm like, you know, I, I find this stuff interesting. That whole Venezuela thing was wild, but I just like, I don't know what to say about it.

• 45:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, cause like there's a lot of,

• 45:35Speaker 01

  It's out of my wheelhouse, dude.

• 45:37Speaker 02

  Cause your message really does like inspire people no matter, you know, it doesn't matter what walk of life you come from, left, right, you know, what, what, what have you, your, your message is really, really fucking cool.

• 45:46Speaker 01

  It's wild, man.

• 45:47Speaker 02

  Difference in, in your life. And then when they lose that weight and for guys, you know, they maybe they jump on TRT, they start lifting weights, they feel good about themselves and then they become a conservative.

• 45:58Speaker 00

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• 46:28Speaker 01

  Many, many such cases, I'm sure.

• 46:30Speaker 02

  It was right there. I'm sorry. It was just, it was, that was low hanging fruit.

• 46:32Speaker 01

  Many such cases, I'm sure.

• 46:36Speaker 02

  Pull a Zuckerberg.

• 46:38Speaker 04

  Dude, I know. He started fighting and lifting. You're like, oh, homeboy's fully into this world.

• 46:44Speaker 02

  Round puka shell necklaces all of a sudden.

• 46:48Speaker 04

  Oh, man. Now you get a, you actually are sponsored by Jaco and you work with that in the military space. Cause I consider him.

• 46:56Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, they're very heavily ingrained in that.

• 46:59Speaker 04

  And it was actually really cool. That was before you blew up. You like.

• 47:04Speaker 03

  No, I was gonna say that that raid on Viso was sponsored by Jaco.

• 47:09Speaker 01

  We were talking about that earlier. The origin hoodie dude, it's legendary.

• 47:14Speaker 02

  Marketing win of the century.

• 47:16Speaker 01

  Swear to God, I thought that was photoshopped when I saw it. Like, for those of you who missed it, when they captured Maduro and brought him back to the States. Someone, I don't even think Jaco knows who it is. Someone in the military put him in a pre-release blue Origin USA hoodie. And they posted that photo. I thought it was fake. I thought it was fake. And then Jaco posted the photo on Instagram and he's like, I can't wait to meet the patriot who put Maduro in this hoodie. I'm like, that is sick.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  The question is how they get one? How they get a pre-release?

• 47:50Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 47:51Speaker 04

  He's an, I guarantee it's an influencer and he needed to get some margin. He was like, oh, I'll just do this here. I'm gonna put these beats on you. That's cool. Look.

• 47:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, make sure you thumbs up.

• 48:02Speaker 01

  The photo.

• 48:04Speaker 04

  Use turtle beach headphones, right? Right? Okay. Hold this up. That is Ray Shadow Legend.

• 48:10Speaker 02

  Use code first group for 10% off.

• 48:14Speaker 01

  No, the photo was hilarious. Do you remember? He's like, he's like sitting there with his thumbs up in the, in the little folding chair.

• 48:21Speaker 04

  With the dude's hand.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  I make sure they could see the origin logo.

• 48:27Speaker 04

  As we said.

• 48:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, he's like, he thumbs up. He's like, no, no, thumbs closer together. Logo out.

• 48:32Speaker 04

  I want to see the first few of those photos because he definitely got.

• 48:35Speaker 03

  That was a couple of photos to get to that one.

• 48:40Speaker 02

  I just want to see the Apple, like the iPhone live photo version of that.

• 48:44Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 48:45Speaker 02

  Just slap in the back of his head.

• 48:48Speaker 01

  No, I thought that I thought that was really cool, though. Like, I don't know how the hell they pulled that off. But like when Jaco made his post about he's like, we have, we have like partners and friends in all branches of the military. And I can't wait to meet the patriot who put him in this. And it's just like, what are the fricking odds, dude?

• 49:06Speaker 02

  I wonder if he did that as like, kind of like throwing flares, like, oh, I had nothing to do with this. Can't wait to meet the patriot who knew about this one.

• 49:16Speaker 03

  That'd be wild to have that.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  Not an accusation, that's a joke.

• 49:21Speaker 01

  He said it.

• 49:24Speaker 04

  Brandon, what kind of shirt is that?

• 49:25Speaker 02

  I'm glad you asked, Eli. This is a poncho.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  Brandon and I actually wear ponchos so much, we constantly end up wearing the same nice poncho shirt.

• 49:34Speaker 02

  Good thing nobody's ever pointed that out before.

• 49:38Speaker 03

  Now, if you guys have ever seen one of our live shows or this podcast in general, you'll see Brandon and I wearing these incredibly comfortable, great looking shirts all the time.

• 49:45Speaker 04

  Finn, pull it up with pictures. They're literally always wearing the same shirt.

• 49:50Speaker 02

  I got turned on a poncho like a year ago, been wearing them ever since. Uh, personally prefer, I think this is the western, because it's got the pearl snaps. Uh, because it's hot in Texas and I like something breathable.

• 49:59Speaker 04

  Here's the thing I find really cool. Brandon, do the glasses trick.

• 50:03Speaker 02

  So ponchos have this neat little thing in the pocket where you just take your glasses.

• 50:07Speaker 04

  Nope, that's the other one.

• 50:08Speaker 02

  Be more specific.

• 50:10Speaker 04

  Who gives a shit about that?

• 50:11Speaker 02

  All right.

• 50:12Speaker 04

  Oh, watch everyone.

• 50:13Speaker 02

  So if you got fat fingers and you smudge your glasses all the time, the bottom of the shirt actually acts, it has like a microfiber. So you can clean your glasses.

• 50:22Speaker 04

  I make him clean my phones.

• 50:23Speaker 02

  He does.

• 50:24Speaker 03

  I like the hidden little pocket on the breast.

• 50:26Speaker 04

  Wait, what?

• 50:27Speaker 02

  Right over here. Got a little zipper pocket.

• 50:30Speaker 04

  I didn't even know about that one. Is that where you hold Cody's heart?

• 50:33Speaker 02

  And his drugs.

• 50:35Speaker 04

  Things you might need to know. Poncho has put a lot of thought and detail into each one of their shirts.

• 50:40Speaker 02

  Oh, holy shit. They're soft. They're really soft.

• 50:43Speaker 04

  Yo, what?

• 50:45Speaker 02

  That's my one like thing is fucking fabric sensitivity. I don't wear uncomfortable shirts. This is comfy as.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  That's why we wear them all the time.

• 50:53Speaker 04

  So Poncho's got a bunch of great styles, the original, western, denim and ultra light.

• 50:58Speaker 03

  If you're looking for the perfect shirt, something breathable and stands out in a good way, give Poncho a try.

• 51:04Speaker 04

  Go to ponchooutdoors.com/ unsub and get $10 off your first order.

• 51:09Speaker 02

  That's P O N C H O outdoors.com slash unsub.

• 51:13Speaker 04

  Oh, man. And they Jocko actually sponsored you before you blew up, right?

• 51:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was crazy. So like I I used to be a full time Twitch partner. Uh, back in back in my heyday.

• 51:23Speaker 04

  Dude, he was getting like 1,200 viewers.

• 51:25Speaker 01

  I have a thousand viewers on Twitch in the Valorant category.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  Oh, Valorant, yeah.

• 51:30Speaker 01

  God, fucking hate that game now. But but I, you know, I say that, like, I had years of experience of like on camera. Talking, having a good time. Like, I've always felt at home on camera.

• 51:42Speaker 02

  I say you seem very comfortable.

• 51:44Speaker 01

  I love it, dude. This is I enter like a flow state when I have a camera in front of me.

• 51:48Speaker 04

  Really well.

• 51:48Speaker 01

  Yeah. So, you know, I had that experience and then I was hospitalized. I don't want to really get into that again. I've talked a lot about it this week, but I was hospitalized for 60 days. Um, but dude, I lost everything in that hospitalization. But, you know, I spent so I spent a few years at home after the hospital recovering and just being miserable.

• 52:08Speaker 02

  If you don't mind, just for the the sake of the people who don't know about it, what like? If you don't mind talking about what what were you hospitalized for?

• 52:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I was hospitalized for 60 days in 2021, uh, from mainly COVID. But when I got COVID, I also got a bacterial pneumonia.

• 52:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:27Speaker 01

  On my lungs. So it it is 100% God that I'm still here, man. Like, I I was on a ventilator for 10 days.

• 52:37Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:38Speaker 01

  So you're talking in a time where 99% of COVID patients who were put on the vent died. A 600 pound dude lived.

• 52:50Speaker 01

  It was crazy.

• 52:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, not to get too into it. I just figured.

• 52:52Speaker 01

  No, it's it's fine. I know. I tried. Probably shouldn't have skipped over it as quickly as I did, but.

• 52:57Speaker 04

  I almost died fast forward.

• 52:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:00Speaker 04

  And.

• 53:01Speaker 02

  I can imagine why that's not fun to talk about.

• 53:03Speaker 01

  You know, I came off the ventilator, uh, with a stage four pressure wound and a nerve injury that fucked up the entire right side of my body. So I came off there in significantly worse health than I was before going on to it.

• 53:18Speaker 04

  Well, what's I think the crazy part for that story is you had. 1,200 viewers. It was like one of your best streams. You just got partnered and then you just.

• 53:29Speaker 01

  Fell off the face of the planet. Literally.

• 53:32Speaker 04

  He but he doesn't remember two days?

• 53:34Speaker 01

  I don't remember two weeks.

• 53:36Speaker 02

  You should have streamed it.

• 53:39Speaker 04

  He got his partner, apparently he did. He got the partnership.

• 53:42Speaker 01

  Partnered.

• 53:43Speaker 04

  Made it and then.

• 53:45Speaker 01

  I got partnered, posted the screenshot of the email and then I fell off the face of the planet.

• 53:50Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, I mean, you, you know how it is too. You stream, you, you leave the stream for a week. Your viewership just plummets.

• 53:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:57Speaker 03

  So I can imagine being gone for as long as you were.

• 53:59Speaker 04

  Like how, how many days until you woke up though? It was like two days, three days?

• 54:03Speaker 01

  Oh no, no, it was dude, it was, I don't remember the three days prior to the hospital or the like 11 days on the vent. So it was almost two weeks.

• 54:13Speaker 04

  Cause you were at home and.

• 54:14Speaker 01

  I remember the evening, getting the partner email and tweeting it out. And then that's the last thing I remember before waking up in the ICU two weeks later.

• 54:22Speaker 03

  Dude, oh, you're a fresh partner too. Damn.

• 54:25Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 54:26Speaker 04

  Dude, yeah, like I would, Cody knows if you have done Twitch, especially at that time, 2020, 2021.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  21, yeah.

• 54:34Speaker 04

  It is. And then you have to be active. There is no time off for streaming. That's why it's one of the roughest career choices. Cause you cannot take vacations. There is just zero. You are working six days a week minimum and no time off, or you will kill.

• 54:50Speaker 03

  Especially trying to make partner too. You're, you're having to stream like almost every single day.

• 54:56Speaker 01

  Oh yeah. I was in that 50 to 100 viewer area, applying over and over and over for like a year before, before getting it.

• 55:05Speaker 04

  And then you did the thing and then it was your mom, dad that called.

• 55:10Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, dude. So like I was apparently just like sitting on the couch. Uh, my oxygen was so low that I was like semi unresponsive. Uh, so I think they just called 911. But you know, I was so big at the time, you know, I'm still big, but I was so fat at the time. They literally had, I think the fire department got me out of the house.

• 55:26Speaker 03

  Gotcha.

• 55:27Speaker 01

  Cause we have one of those by levels. So you actually have to go up the stairs to get into the house. So they brought in like a fricking machine, brought me down the stairs, got me onto the ambulance and. Then the whole hospital thing happened.

• 55:39Speaker 04

  Damn. And then now with that, that too, like, cause it took two days for your parents to be like, oh shit. Because you said you were still doing stuff. You just don't remember it.

• 55:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, I was just sitting at home, apparently. Like, I was literally, I was eating, like, I was just sitting at home, like, sleeping all day and

• 55:54Speaker 04

  autopilot.

• 55:54Speaker 01

  I don't remember any of it.

• 55:55Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 55:56Speaker 01

  I mean, to be fair, I think a part of that is the meds that they put you on on the vent. They probably give you some crazy shit when you get put on the ventilator. So I'm, wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of like memory loss component to that.

• 56:11Speaker 01

  But.

• 56:11Speaker 04

  That's still wild. God, I fixed the AC and now it's actually chilling in here. Cause that's why I had you.

• 56:16Speaker 01

  I was surprised. Like, I've been roasting this last day.

• 56:20Speaker 04

  Dude, well, I went up, I was like, man, it's fucking hot right now. I need to go. That's why that, ma, upstairs, I was getting this compressor and I was blowing out the AC pipes. And now I'm like, oh, it's cold as.

• 56:31Speaker 01

  It worked.

• 56:34Speaker 04

  Like, damn, damn. Dude, that's still wild to go through. That is just.

• 56:40Speaker 04

  And we'd talked about it, but it is that.

• 56:44Speaker 04

  The hardest part was you were at the top and you just got part and you did a 1200 viewer.

• 56:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, I had like 1300 viewers because it was, it was a part of one of those crater events where Riot gave us early access to one of the new maps.

• 56:55Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 56:56Speaker 01

  So I was one of like 10 people streaming the new map at the time. I know Valorant was fricking popping back then. And so, and then, yeah.

• 57:07Speaker 04

  And over a thousand viewers too. That's really good money. Bro, that's wild.

• 57:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude, I was, I was a moron back then. Like, I was only focused on the gaming. I didn't have any sort of business mind. I was literally renting an office to stream, but I was still like, I had no merch. I had no sponsors. I wasn't doing anything. I was ma, I made like, I was making like six or seven grand on Twitch that, that point though. Only for a few months because it popped off after I created TikTok, but. Yeah, that that whole time my life was crazy, but it's crazy cuz the experience I had from that streaming. You know, when I got back up to six twenty four and I started losing the weight again last May. Um, I decided that I was I was thinking like contemplating making videos again and getting back into that space.

• 57:54Speaker 01

  And I wasn't sure about it and I had a dinner with a couple of friends of mine from church and they convinced me to do it. And dude, like the first week, it was like ten million views and seventeen thousand followers on Instagram. And I was like, holy shit. Like I knew from the past, like with everything that I had done prior on socials, I was like, all right, I I know what to do with this. So I took that momentum and I just fricking ran. You know, but the Jaco partnership dude, like I made a video to them. A week in when I was at seventeen thousand followers and I I was like, hey, I've been using your guys products. I want to work with you. And I sent him a DM and I'm like, if I I made like this whole two paragraphs, but I'm like, if you guys work with me, you will make money.

• 58:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:40Speaker 01

  That's what I said. Uh, they didn't respond. Yeah, they didn't respond initially, but then a week later I made a video using their creatine or something. Uh, and then they follow me back and I got a DM. And I was at forty thousand followers the first time I had a meeting with the team. And two weeks later, when I signed the contract, I was at a hundred thousand.

• 59:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's a good, I'd be like.

• 59:04Speaker 04

  We should sign him now.

• 59:06Speaker 02

  That's not a not a bad growth trajectory, I would think.

• 59:11Speaker 01

  It's ridiculous, man. Like I think last year. We had three, like over seven hundred million real views. And then. Over one point three million new followers across socials.

• 59:25Speaker 04

  It was a super awesome hearing. Oh, the one thing you did was you were cutting everything, even when you were streaming. You were cutting everything into clips, reels, socials.

• 59:37Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 59:38Speaker 04

  And you do it all yourself.

• 59:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, when I was streaming, I literally like I had the stream deck set up and I had a little program in OBS that automatically cropped it to like the TikTok format.

• 59:46Speaker 04

  Oh, no shit.

• 59:47Speaker 01

  So I would just like press a button and it would save it. I would just post like four or five times a day on TikTok. But I started a TikTok in twenty twenty one and it went from zero to a hundred thousand in two months. That's how my stream grew. But I didn't expect the conversion because I see a lot of creators on TikTok that have a lot of followers, but don't have a lot of Twitch viewers.

• 1:00:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:09Speaker 01

  But whatever it was about those clips, man, it was getting people to come over.

• 1:00:13Speaker 02

  TikTok's one of those weird platforms where like followers don't matter. It seems like where it's like you, you got like, somebody who's got a million subscribers on YouTube. And like, you see the views and everything. You're like, okay, cool. Like, I understand. TikTok's like, oh, I have forty billion followers. And it's like, yeah, okay, well, you know, promote this T-shirt, you get four sales. Like, it's just, it's, it's so much drive-by viewership, I think.

• 1:00:36Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 1:00:37Speaker 02

  That, and it sounds like I'm just shitting on the platform because I don't like it.

• 1:00:40Speaker 01

  No, I don't, I don't like it either. They still owe me money.

• 1:00:43Speaker 04

  We all are very old when it comes, we don't use TikTok. Show, we thank God we have show and staff that can figure that shit.

• 1:00:51Speaker 02

  The lamb and.

• 1:00:53Speaker 03

  The lamb and no TikTok.

• 1:00:55Speaker 04

  The lamb and.

• 1:00:56Speaker 02

  The, the biggest thing that drives me crazy is the amount of, and I think it's like a Gen Z female thing, for the most part, not even, maybe not even Gen Z, like millennial, but just how many people get their news from TikTok? Oh, I found this out from TikTok or this from TikTok. Like, so some random guy with an iPhone in his kitchen, which like, I understand, like, that's how a lot of us get a lot of our information nowadays, but you at least vet the source. Some of these people just like open gullet, absorb rando's information. Cause this shit is just, some of the shit that I've heard, like, oh, I saw it on TikTok. It's retarded.

• 1:01:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:01:31Speaker 02

  Yeah. Genuinely retarded.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  Sovereign citizen thing is picking back up because there's a lot of people going around TikTok saying you don't have to get out of your car for police, which, of course, the case law of Pennsylvania versus Mim says you have to get out of your car. And there's people like sovereign citizens on there teaching people on TikTok. You don't have to have a license plate. This is comm, you're not in commerce. You're just traveling and like all that shit that sovereign citizens say.

• 1:01:54Speaker 01

  This is my vessel.

• 1:01:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:56Speaker 04

  Stuff you can literally just check.

• 1:01:59Speaker 03

  Just Google it.

• 1:02:00Speaker 02

  Google it. Yeah.

• 1:02:01Speaker 04

  And then like, no, and then you get to watch them try to film them owning a police officer or a judge, whatever.

• 1:02:09Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:02:09Speaker 04

  If you actually know.

• 1:02:12Speaker 02

  They usually cut right before the window gets broken.

• 1:02:15Speaker 03

  Yeah. Which I mean, they're making me tons of money. Like, it's awesome.

• 1:02:19Speaker 04

  You love sovereign citizens.

• 1:02:21Speaker 02

  The first half of that video, you go to TikTok. For the second half, you go to Cody's channel.

• 1:02:26Speaker 03

  Bro, there's been a lot of instances within the past year that I'm loving, and it's an old school police thing where they grab the top of the window because people will crack it and they'll just pull the window out. Have you ever seen that?

• 1:02:36Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:02:36Speaker 03

  That's fucking awesome, man. There's been so many videos coming out lately that it's like, yes, another window pull. This is awesome.

• 1:02:43Speaker 04

  It's not that hard. And it's not like you do, and I hate you get hate for it. It's like, bootlicker. I'm like, homie will call out bad police action.

• 1:02:53Speaker 03

  All the time.

• 1:02:53Speaker 04

  Any day of the week. And it's not, well, no, he doesn't. It's like, no, I assure you, squirrel cops are great fucking video on that. Like, any of the bad ones where you're like, this is, no. So you don't shit on them.

• 1:03:05Speaker 02

  There's several bad shoots that you've gotten shit for.

• 1:03:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:03:08Speaker 02

  Like that, just you're like, oh, why aren't you backing the cops? It's like, well, no, you just do what you think is right. God forbid.

• 1:03:14Speaker 04

  The.

• 1:03:15Speaker 02

  It's a crazy concept nowadays.

• 1:03:16Speaker 04

  And that is the problem with it. It is, you try to hold the people accountable for it, and then now you're reacting to it. But both sides, also, just fucking, hey, here's my license. Here's, I've been pulled over with a ton of guns and I am not a dude that looks like, I would draw a gun on me, like, walking around a corner and seeing a bunch of guns. I'd be like, hmm.

• 1:03:41Speaker 02

  I've had guns drawn on me for that.

• 1:03:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:43Speaker 02

  It's not great, typically.

• 1:03:45Speaker 04

  You've been called boy.

• 1:03:46Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Straight up, on multiple occasions. Well, and I usually, I instigate it because I like, got pulled over doing like 20 over or whatever the fuck it was. And I've got machine guns in the back. So understandably, like, I could see where this is. Problematic.

• 1:04:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:02Speaker 02

  But I, my, the thing that I always gets me about those is the, uh, the passive aggressiveness of you get pulled over like normally it's, you're swerving, you're drunk, you're, you know, speeding like crazy and all these, uh, like different like body cam videos. And they only roll down their window like an inch.

• 1:04:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:21Speaker 02

  Oh, it's like the most passive aggressive shit you could do to a cop ever. Like as a police officer, if, if, if I were a cop, that would just annoy the shit out of me, white out the gate.

• 1:04:31Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, it's not the nicest thing. Yeah, all you gotta do is be courteous and you usually get a warning.

• 1:04:37Speaker 04

  Dude, that's what I pull no matter what. The first thing I do, roll down all windows, put my hands on the steering wheel and then turn the lights on. So when they approached, it's like, oh, homeboy's doing everything in his power to show it's like, hey dude, like, we're good. Like here, look away. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, especially if I have guns in the back, whatever it is, like make this as peaceful as possible. You should do, it's like, you're lucky I didn't run.

• 1:05:04Speaker 02

  Yeah. That would be very funny.

• 1:05:07Speaker 04

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• 1:06:36Speaker 02

  I got pulled over, speaking of that, I got pulled over by a Georgia, I think it was a Georgia state trooper. Like fucking three o'clock in the morning. I was traveling like state to state. And I was probably, I was speeding. There's nobody on the fucking highway. Got pulled by a cop, pull over.

• 1:06:52Speaker 02

  Roll down all my windows and I'm like 10 and two on the steering wheel. Cause I do have a gun, cause I always have a gun. He comes to the, the driver's side window. And I was like, hey, you know, how, how's it going, sir? I'm like, how's it going officer? Just so you know, like I do have a gun. I'm carrying appendix. It's on my front right side, whatever. He's like,

• 1:07:11Speaker 02

  yeah, he's an older guy. He's like, I figured you were.

• 1:07:15Speaker 02

  Sir? Oh, the way you have your hands glued to the steering wheel. I figured you had to have had a gun. He pulled the traditional cop line. Well, I'll tell you, I'll catch you a deal. You don't touch yours. I won't touch mine. Yes, sir. That sounds very fair.

• 1:07:33Speaker 04

  It's super simple. Just do that. I know. I had a shirt over gun. He's like, can you get your driver? I was like, I would get my insurance and everything, but there was a gun in that seat.

• 1:07:44Speaker 04

  I will let you grab that first. If you're okay with that. And he's like, yeah, okay. Thank you. Lifts the shirt, grabs a gun.

• 1:07:52Speaker 04

  Can't figure out how to clear it cause the safety's on. And he's like, I was like, you want me to clear it for you? He's like, can you? I was like, yeah. Clear it for him, handed it to him. He's like, I have to run this to make sure it's not stolen.

• 1:08:03Speaker 02

  I don't think you do.

• 1:08:06Speaker 02

  As a cop, you don't have to.

• 1:08:08Speaker 03

  That sounds really weird.

• 1:08:10Speaker 04

  I did have a bunch of guns in the back and then because it was covered and I didn't have my concealed Texas.

• 1:08:17Speaker 03

  That'll do it.

• 1:08:17Speaker 04

  Yeah. And, and he pointed out, that's why

• 1:08:20Speaker 02

  Back before he had constitutional carry.

• 1:08:21Speaker 04

  And I had a lot of respect. He's like, hey, just so you know, next time put it in a glove compartment, then you can't get in trouble for concealed carry. He's like, because it was here with a shirt over it, that's concealed. And if it was a dickhead cop, he's like, you would have got a felony for that. I was like, dude, thank you so much for that.

• 1:08:38Speaker 03

  Yeah. Glove compartment, glove box, an extension of your home at that point. In some states.

• 1:08:42Speaker 04

  And that's why I was like,

• 1:08:43Speaker 03

  Don't quote me in all states.

• 1:08:45Speaker 02

  If you're in Illinois, don't try it. Don't try it.

• 1:08:49Speaker 03

  It's a good rule of thumb for a lot of stuff in that state.

• 1:08:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:08:53Speaker 04

  But super thankful all that unfolded that way, but I did, uh, when he's like run the security, I was like, I mean, you can, but the, the serial number on that gun is literally my name. Like what? It's like there's a custom built one that has.

• 1:09:08Speaker 02

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• 1:09:09Speaker 04

  Yep. See, he knew.

• 1:09:11Speaker 02

  Called it.

• 1:09:13Speaker 04

  Came back. He was like, handed everything. He's like, hey, uh, yeah, just, uh, slow down next time. If you're good to go. Don't put the, the gun in the actual glove compartment or, uh, yeah. And then.

• 1:09:26Speaker 02

  Or at least before, yeah. Constitutional carry now in Texas. Cause like a lot of times I'll, you know, take off and put it in the glove.

• 1:09:32Speaker 04

  When you're reaching for your license to hand it, right?

• 1:09:34Speaker 02

  Exactly. Super quick.

• 1:09:35Speaker 03

  Wallet shirt.

• 1:09:38Speaker 03

  Yeah. When you have to get your wallet to the officer faster.

• 1:09:43Speaker 02

  You can get out of the car and sprint at him pulling your wallet out. So you save him time, you know, he doesn't have to.

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• 1:09:53Speaker 04

  Make sure you get that wallet real quick. Officer.

• 1:09:56Speaker 03

  You don't want to waste officer's time.

• 1:09:59Speaker 02

  He's had a hard day.

• 1:10:00Speaker 03

  Cops are really busy. Don't waste the cops time, dude.

• 1:10:04Speaker 02

  The way I normally do it is, you know, cause a, a lot of times I keep like my registration and insurance and everything in center console with usually a gun. If I've like taken it off, cause you know, if you're driving a long ways, you don't want to keep a fucking gun in your waistband. I, I normally just like ask the cop what they would prefer. Just like, oh, can I see your, you know, registration? Like my registration is in my glove compartment. I also have a handgun in there, like my carry gun. Um, you know, I'm, I'm an FFL, all this sort of, sort of stuff is what, what I'll say. How would you like to proceed? Do you still want me to get it? How, how do you want to do this? And usually if you put the ball back in their court, they're super comfortable with that.

• 1:10:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:10:42Speaker 04

  That's the way to do it.

• 1:10:43Speaker 03

  Female cops, she'll just shoot you.

• 1:10:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, that, that will happen.

• 1:10:46Speaker 03

  Joking.

• 1:10:48Speaker 03

  That was a joke.

• 1:10:50Speaker 02

  I, I remember.

• 1:10:53Speaker 02

  Told this story on the podcast before, but that one time we were leaving a brunch on like the north side or something.

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• 1:11:31Speaker 02

  You were in my passenger seat and I got pulled over because my registration was out. You know, fair enough. Female cop rolls up and I just hear Cody like, oh, we're gonna die. My windows are already rolled down, like.

• 1:11:44Speaker 04

  What'd you say next, Cody?

• 1:11:46Speaker 02

  She goes back to her car to go like run my stuff and like, whatever, fair enough. If you're like, I think I'm just gonna get out of the car, sprint to the tree line. And then put my hands over my head and see what she does.

• 1:12:02Speaker 04

  I just love to cut, you're just causing chaos.

• 1:12:05Speaker 02

  I'm just like actively sweating, I'm like, please don't do that. This is gonna be a very simple interaction.

• 1:12:13Speaker 04

  It's over Cody. Drunk Cody, the wild card, we're like, I don't know if he's joking.

• 1:12:20Speaker 04

  You buckle him in.

• 1:12:24Speaker 02

  He unbuckles himself and like, no, no, no, put that back.

• 1:12:31Speaker 04

  Were you ruining my fun, Brandon?

• 1:12:33Speaker 02

  This is bullshit. It's like rolling a 20, 20 sided dice, like, oh, well, let's see how this goes.

• 1:12:40Speaker 04

  Now it's a 20.

• 1:12:45Speaker 06

  Anarchy.

• 1:12:47Speaker 02

  You roll below a five, I need to find new best friend.

• 1:12:53Speaker 04

  Welcome to the podcast.

• 1:12:54Speaker 01

  Oh dude, I'm having a great time, man. I'm not nearly as well versed as you guys are on any of this stuff. So I'm just here for the ride, dude.

• 1:13:04Speaker 02

  And we're all just here for the ride, man?

• 1:13:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:13:06Speaker 04

  Just laughing, having a good time. Damn it, I was gonna, please, what was the one thing that hit my brain? And then disappeared.

• 1:13:15Speaker 02

  Fitness challenge numbers?

• 1:13:17Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:13:20Speaker 04

  Something else.

• 1:13:21Speaker 01

  I'm still curious about those results.

• 1:13:22Speaker 02

  So is the subreddit.

• 1:13:24Speaker 04

  Well, that's what we're doing on this. That's this episode. Yeah.

• 1:13:27Speaker 02

  Oh, okay, cool.

• 1:13:27Speaker 04

  We're doing an announcement for everything at the beginning of this one. So it'll be slated right at the beginning. Cause we figured this would be the perfect send off for that. It's like, hey, look, like we have you on. We want to do all the announcements, motivate everyone, be like, hey, and then also being able to talk to you and then those individuals. Hey, if you want to know if you want or not, here you go. But also watch the episode, they get more motivated. Cause a lot of people have stayed on track months afterwards. And you get a few posts about them saying like, I kept the journey going. Who else did? And then all the responses for that.

• 1:14:02Speaker 02

  Which that was always the goal. Like that's, that's fucking awesome. See people like, not just for like a quick little stint for social media, but people actually make, making life changes. Like that's, that's super inspiring to see.

• 1:14:13Speaker 04

  It's hard.

• 1:14:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:14:15Speaker 04

  Like it, it is not easy to actually put in the effort. You're, you're down 30 pounds?

• 1:14:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:14:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, I was 207 to 177.

• 1:14:25Speaker 04

  Dude, what show? Did show disappear? Show's gone. Oh, she's upstairs. Like show has lost. I was like, what the fuck? Even this morning, it was like, what the? Like, I don't know how much she's lost. She looks fantastic. She's crushing it. Her and Dave are killing it. And they're just going to the gym. Eating right. Eating right's the hardest part. You've discussed that.

• 1:14:45Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:14:45Speaker 04

  This sucks, but it's not that bad.

• 1:14:48Speaker 01

  It sucks how much of it is all food. That's the most frustrating part about it. Like, uh, I, I, I talk about this quite often. Like I'm in a position with how big I am, that there's no amount of effort that I could put in on any given day to wake up tomorrow and not have to deal with this body. That sucks dude. Even if I fasted, you know, like even if you deprived yourself of all food, I would still wake up tomorrow, four hundred plus pound guy. And I'd still have to deal with all the negative repercussions of being that size. And then when you're do like, I don't know, I think a lot of big people deal with the food addiction, whether they've accepted it or not, you know?

• 1:15:31Speaker 01

  So when you deal with that constantly too, it sucks so much worse when you realize that the diet and like the calorie deficit is literally like ninety percent of weight loss.

• 1:15:44Speaker 02

  And the the crazier part too, that we were talking about a little earlier, if you're okay to talk about is the the fact that you said like, you don't even drink, like you don't drink and you don't uh like you don't drink soda. Right? Like I've met a lot of people-

• 1:15:55Speaker 01

  I didn't grow up on soda and I never, yeah, like this is, this is probably like the eighth drink I've ever had. And this is probably the strongest one ever.

• 1:16:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, five percent.

• 1:16:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:16:08Speaker 02

  The so- Well, because the, yeah, the crazy part being like, I know a lot of people that have really struggled with weight, but like, these are also guys like that like got really big, but I also like, I have unironically seen people that are like a very large size, drinking out of a two liter of Mountain Dew, like as it if it as as if it is a personal soda. It's like, oh yeah, well, no shit. Like that's so much sugar, so many calories. But for you was, it was no alcohol, no soda, none of that, just food alone.

• 1:16:37Speaker 01

  Yeah. And you know, the crazy thing, dude, I was six hundred and sixty pounds at my heaviest and I was never diabetic.

• 1:16:42Speaker 02

  No shit.

• 1:16:44Speaker 01

  That's wild to me. Like even to think about that, that's fricking nuts.

• 1:16:47Speaker 02

  God, you need-

• 1:16:48Speaker 01

  Pre-diabetic at my worst.

• 1:16:50Speaker 04

  You need to meet our friend Jay Wolf, if you want a mammoth of a man. He's a big boy. The, yeah, the biggest of boy, kindest human. Seven foot plus. Wow. What? How tall is he? Seven two now? I think he's, I think he's seven two.

• 1:17:04Speaker 02

  You say seven two now, like as if he's a grown boy still?

• 1:17:07Speaker 04

  I don't know, man. You never know.

• 1:17:08Speaker 02

  He might.

• 1:17:09Speaker 04

  He is. Cause he's six, is he six hundred? He's like five hundred or four eighty. Oh shit. And he is a big, but he is also like, when you go to hug him, we have a photo of him lifting Rich up like a baby on stage. Like he's like this.

• 1:17:25Speaker 02

  And Rich is not a small man.

• 1:17:26Speaker 04

  No, it's like just this. The dude's just so big.

• 1:17:30Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 1:17:31Speaker 04

  He is on a fitness journey too. We want him to go like- Super into it because he would be seven foot two.

• 1:17:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, dude. Well, see, my personal goal is just to kidnap J. Wolf and put him on a mixture of Ozempic and tren, like tren acetate. Oh, shit. And just like, kind of like Bane, just have it like just going into his traps and just turn him into a monster because that man has the body to be a supervillain. I thought you were gonna go with the fat man camp route. No, no, no. I want to turn him into a menace.

• 1:18:06Speaker 04

  Eat clean, tren hard, Anavar give up.

• 1:18:09Speaker 02

  If you. The simple.

• 1:18:13Speaker 04

  Like, it's funny. The monster, you will be Bane. He will break all our backs.

• 1:18:19Speaker 02

  Because J. Wolf is like the nicest human you'll ever talk to. But well, maybe not after like a horse dose of tren, but we'll see. We'll see.

• 1:18:29Speaker 04

  Because imagine like your size and you're like, oh, man, like this is now seven foot two.

• 1:18:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's nuts.

• 1:18:36Speaker 04

  And big. And we had Ubers pull up and they would just.

• 1:18:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:18:40Speaker 04

  Turn around. We can't. So we'd always have to get like a minivan and then it's like, oh, thank God.

• 1:18:46Speaker 02

  Even some of those, like even in Nashville, I think one of them just said like, no, sorry. Like, we can't. Wow.

• 1:18:53Speaker 04

  Big boy. Amazing dude, too. Amazing man. Amazing. Also, our security when we have him around because no one fucks with him.

• 1:19:01Speaker 02

  Hasn't he talked about moving down to San Antonio?

• 1:19:03Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

• 1:19:03Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, that's gonna be rad.

• 1:19:05Speaker 04

  He's a good dude. You'll have to meet him if we ever do like shot show, whatever it is. Brandon, why do you keep sending me money through Cash App with it saying just deck work?

• 1:19:15Speaker 02

  Wait, is that not you doing all my yard work?

• 1:19:17Speaker 04

  On the real, I think we all do use Cash App. It's a quick way to pay friends if they owe you money. Finn, where's my money? You told me you could beat the house.

• 1:19:26Speaker 02

  But you know the saying, Finn always wins. Real talk, though, I've used Cash App like this week.

• 1:19:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think actually that's what we use to pay our boxing instructors. We also use it on vacation to pay for rides and just random things.

• 1:19:38Speaker 02

  It's like, hey, let's split this Uber. Let me wire you $20. It's the two best things. It's easier and it's free.

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• 1:21:07Speaker 04

  So what is your overall goals? Once you hit your weight goal for skin reduction, and then you hit your actual personal goal, what's next? Is it getting as strong as fuck athlete? Like, what is the overall idea for it?

• 1:21:23Speaker 01

  I don't really care that much, man. Like, my main goal is to just be able to see what a normal life is like. Because I've never had that. I was 200 pounds by the age of nine. So I've been tall and super fat my whole life, and I've never known what it's like to be normal. And that's pretty much what I'm aiming for. 200 pounds by the age of nine? Yeah. How tall were you back then? I have no idea. But I was always like, by a few inches, the tallest kid in class.

• 1:21:54Speaker 01

  So.

• 1:21:55Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 1:21:56Speaker 03

  Your teachers ever try to get you into football constantly?

• 1:21:59Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, that whole teenage years, every fricking day, someone would come up to me like, you play football?

• 1:22:07Speaker 04

  We got an idea for you. Here, just grab this.

• 1:22:10Speaker 01

  Played tennis in middle school.

• 1:22:11Speaker 04

  No shit?

• 1:22:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:13Speaker 02

  Really? No shit. I was still thinking of like football, you being the super offensive lineman.

• 1:22:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:22:22Speaker 04

  Brushing kids.

• 1:22:24Speaker 01

  Just plowing through them, dude.

• 1:22:27Speaker 04

  Nine years aren't stopping you at 200 pounds.

• 1:22:29Speaker 02

  There's, there's offense.

• 1:22:31Speaker 04

  A line of bodies.

• 1:22:33Speaker 02

  There's defense, offense, punishment.

• 1:22:38Speaker 04

  Just a path of.

• 1:22:40Speaker 01

  No, I probably could have just been a wrecking ball.

• 1:22:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:22:42Speaker 01

  At that point.

• 1:22:43Speaker 02

  I think that's why they were trying to recruit you.

• 1:22:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:45Speaker 04

  Just crush nine year olds leading to the quarterback. Oh, we're just replacing them so fast. When, okay, so do you have any, you did boxing, you did that, and you're saying, oh, I don't care. Is there any like strength goals that you're trying to hit?

• 1:22:59Speaker 01

  Oh, dude, I don't know. I've talked to you about this earlier this week, like the gym has been hard for me lately. Like for the past couple of months, I've mentally, the gym has felt more like a chore than it has felt like something I actually wanted to do. And when you get to that spot with working out, it's bad. Like when you get to the point where it's like something that you feel like you have to do as opposed to something that you want to do. It's rough.

• 1:23:24Speaker 02

  Does that impact how often you go?

• 1:23:26Speaker 01

  Oh, dude, I haven't been in a month. It was just horrible, but you know, at the same time, I was like, thinking back to like, when I was losing weight the fastest. And what was the most sustainable for me? And it was just getting to 10,000 steps a day and eating correctly. So I don't want to give up the gym. That wasn't like the plan to just stop going. But like with the holidays and traveling and stuff.

• 1:23:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:23:51Speaker 01

  You know, I look back at the calendar and now it's like the beginning of December is the last time me and Danny were there. So.

• 1:23:56Speaker 02

  And I mean, realistically for weight loss, lifting weights, like especially for men, like is not the way to do it. Like lifting weights is good to like build your frame and like build muscle, which every guy wants. That's obviously the goal. But it's, it's shockingly low when you look at compared to other things like calorie burn per hour.

• 1:24:14Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:24:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:24:15Speaker 01

  You don't do it for the calorie burn. And it's like a lot of some people make the argument they're like, oh, well, if you replace the muscle or you place the fat with muscle, it'll burn calories more, but like, a lot of people don't understand this, but fat burns calories too. Like, I know that sounds stupid, but it does. Like, there's a reason I burn as many calories as I do. It's because of how big I am.

• 1:24:38Speaker 02

  Or just having to carry around the weight.

• 1:24:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, like the literal, like the mass will just like make you burn more.

• 1:24:44Speaker 04

  If I'm walking around with 200 extra pounds, that's like squatting weight and workout. That's gonna, I'm, I'm, that's a workout, motherfucker.

• 1:24:53Speaker 02

  Not, not to be too crass about it, but like you're basically always rucking.

• 1:24:57Speaker 01

  Oh, for sure.

• 1:24:59Speaker 02

  If you think about it.

• 1:24:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, one of the guys I met in Orlando is like, you're basically every time you get up or do anything, your resistance training. I'm like, yeah, I just, it sounds stupid, but he's not wrong, you know?

• 1:25:10Speaker 04

  A hundred percent.

• 1:25:12Speaker 02

  That's a, it's.

• 1:25:13Speaker 01

  But you know, I would, I wouldn't mind like continuing to push the weights and eventually doing like maybe just strong man stuff for fun. I would never, ever care less about doing any of it, even semi professionally.

• 1:25:27Speaker 04

  If I'm gonna throw, Danny, what, what, make him go to the gym.

• 1:25:32Speaker 04

  When you don't want, so both of you will have that problem where it's like, I don't want to go to the gym. I don't want to go to the gym.

• 1:25:36Speaker 01

  He had, he actually has his own gym schedule now. He's just doing his own thing.

• 1:25:41Speaker 04

  Make him go. Make him go. Fucking.

• 1:25:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:46Speaker 04

  No, don't do that. Fucking drag him.

• 1:25:48Speaker 02

  That's horrible.

• 1:25:51Speaker 04

  Me and Brad, like I, I text Brandon. Well, I'm like, hey, you want a gym? Want a gym? Nine thirty.

• 1:25:55Speaker 02

  And there's a lot of times that I wouldn't have gone. I was like, ah, fuck, yeah, sure.

• 1:26:00Speaker 04

  Now, the day after New Year's, I text Brandon. He's like, not, I am hurting tomorrow. I text him that day. He's like, not gonna lie, I drank again. I need another day.

• 1:26:09Speaker 02

  Not gonna lie, I recovered from New Year's too well.

• 1:26:14Speaker 04

  It's like, okay, I'll go to the gym. I'm not getting out.

• 1:26:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:17Speaker 02

  But other than that, we normally keep ourselves in check pretty well. Just like, all right, gym tomorrow? Yep.

• 1:26:22Speaker 04

  Go do it. Just force him.

• 1:26:24Speaker 01

  Well, so like the mental aspect of it, man, like you gotta realize like with the nerve injury and everything like I told you earlier at the boxing gym, like I am a 440 pound man who benches 125.

• 1:26:35Speaker 02

  But I, and, and like I told you in the boxing gym, and again, tell me if there's anything that's too personal here, but like.

• 1:26:39Speaker 01

  No, it's all fine.

• 1:26:40Speaker 02

  They, the doctors told you that like you would never be able to have that mobility again.

• 1:26:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:44Speaker 02

  So you were supposed to be able to bench zero pounds for the rest of your life. So small victories, 125 pounds, when the doctors told you that was impossible is incredible.

• 1:26:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, they, yeah, the nerve stuff is so stupid because they're so uncertain about it. They're like, we can't tell you if you'll ever be able to lift your arm again.

• 1:27:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:27:02Speaker 04

  And injuries are scary. Brandon, I gotta watch my bench just fucking.

• 1:27:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:27:06Speaker 04

  Deteriorate for a month and I've never had the itis like a miniscule tear on my shoulder. But when I was struggling to do pushups all of a sudden, I was like, that's weird. I can't do pushups and 135 pounds was a lot to me.

• 1:27:25Speaker 04

  And that was a drop of like 150 pounds from my normal. I was like, what the?

• 1:27:30Speaker 01

  Dude, I literally failed 135 in Philly. We did, I did a Philly trip with, with my trainer and the Jaco team. And on the final day, we tried to push like the plates for the first time, like 45 on each side. And I just could not do it. Like I did like five reps of 125, which was a PR for me, but 135, dude, that's like my cutoff. Which feel, you know, feels crazy. I know this is all in my head, but like I feel really weird going into the gym as the fat guy to begin with, right? Let alone the fat guy who is bringing his little phone in on a tripod and then let alone the also being as big as I am and also like lifting as little as I do.

• 1:28:15Speaker 01

  But like I know it's all it's all like I know none of that should matter. It's all in my head.

• 1:28:21Speaker 04

  Cause I was just like you for me, it is watching somebody like that you do that. That motivates the out of me because I don't think what a dumb shit. I think that dude's trying. Hell.

• 1:28:35Speaker 02

  Yeah. You don't look at that and you think gross, you know, like you see somebody big in the gym.

• 1:28:39Speaker 01

  That's how I look at myself a lot though. So like I do kind of look at it like that, but I know that's all me.

• 1:28:45Speaker 02

  What but but you're worried about what other people think and I can I can honestly tell you that like in the gym. It. These are all people that have taken a step to better themselves because they are there. And at least I know me and like a lot of the people that I know, like our mindset when we get there is you see somebody like that and you're like, fuck yeah. That guy got off. That guy got off the couch. Like that guy's taking steps. He's doing shit like that's cool. Like I think that that's again, it's motivating.

• 1:29:13Speaker 04

  That's all it is. And that's what you should go in, especially with that mindset. It's like you're beating yourself up. Instead, when you go to the gym and you're doing that, think of, oh, one person. One idiot might think that I guarantee everyone else is thinking, holy shit, that is dope.

• 1:29:31Speaker 02

  If that one guy who's like, look at that piece of shit. If that guy voiced that.

• 1:29:39Speaker 02

  He would get the fuck bullied out of him by everybody in that gym because it's like that's that's like the the one thing you don't do. And if somebody's trying to better themselves to put them down for that, you.

• 1:29:50Speaker 04

  You get to see that now on social media. It's like anyone that tries to bully an individual getting in shape. They might be big. They might be overweight, fat, whatever it is. But they're in the gym doing it. And then you see like girls or guys and like, huh, look at this and you get to see those girls.

• 1:30:06Speaker 03

  That's when old old Joey Swol swoops in.

• 1:30:09Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:30:10Speaker 03

  Full out of everyone.

• 1:30:11Speaker 04

  I love that shit.

• 1:30:12Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 1:30:13Speaker 04

  Cause and as everyone says, it is motivating. That's you have to have that mindset of going in and be like, I'm I'm doing this for myself. But also anyone that's watching or somebody that's hesitant of going into the gym or.

• 1:30:26Speaker 04

  Self-aware or embarrassed, they're going to.

• 1:30:30Speaker 02

  Self-conscious.

• 1:30:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, self-conscious. Yeah.

• 1:30:34Speaker 04

  Self-conscious, it is what you're saying. It is you are that motivating factor. Cause then they get a look at you and be like, oh, he's doing it. Okay. I'll go do the same thing.

• 1:30:43Speaker 02

  Even like, I've been to like some of the, like the steroid kind of gyms where I like walk in, like I don't belong. I'm just a guy who's just like.

• 1:30:50Speaker 01

  Gold's gym.

• 1:30:52Speaker 02

  Regular, like I try to be like fairly athletic, you know, build decent muscle mass, just normal guy. And then like I've walked into those, like the, the gym me and Clean used to go to was like one of those where they had photos on the wall of people that won Mr. Olympia.

• 1:31:06Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 1:31:07Speaker 02

  Bodybuilding gym. They're giant and intimidating people and they're the kindest fucking people you'll ever talk to.

• 1:31:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:31:15Speaker 02

  It was like, oh, you made it in the gym. Congrats. Step one. Yeah. Let's like, no matter what you're lifting, like they're just so like uplifting. They're just cool.

• 1:31:22Speaker 01

  That's a trend.

• 1:31:24Speaker 02

  Yeah. By the way, I got a dealer. It's like, no, no, no.

• 1:31:34Speaker 04

  What's your number?

• 1:31:39Speaker 02

  At least that's always been my experience.

• 1:31:41Speaker 01

  No, I, I appreciate that, man. And it was honestly, it's more, it was never in the people in person that I was worried about. It was always just the bullshit online. But that's like, like I've talked your guys fricking ears off about that this week. That's just something I know I shouldn't have let affect me as much as it has, but in the past I was really just like.

• 1:32:01Speaker 04

  We were talking, so I.

• 1:32:03Speaker 01

  I was just really in bad spaces because of that stuff.

• 1:32:05Speaker 02

  That's a fun part about mental health is you don't get to choose it.

• 1:32:09Speaker 04

  And I told him, I was like, dude, okay. How many positive comments? He's like 500. And how many negative? He's like 20. I was like, brother, you are sifting through those mountains of positive comments. You're like, but look what he said. Like, yeah, but that, those, oh, look how many people said the opposite of that.

• 1:32:27Speaker 01

  It's like, yeah, that guy has an anime profile.

• 1:32:33Speaker 01

  A lot of the time it's just blank. It's ridiculous.

• 1:32:38Speaker 02

  You know, somebody, uh, it was actually administrative results, uh, Aaron. He gave me some really profound advice that I've tried to follow and failed more often than not.

• 1:32:50Speaker 04

  Don't pull out.

• 1:32:52Speaker 02

  No, that's, that's Grant though.

• 1:32:59Speaker 01

  I love you, Mike.

• 1:33:00Speaker 02

  Meet me with a better punchline.

• 1:33:03Speaker 01

  And now that's his first impression of me.

• 1:33:08Speaker 02

  But he gave me really good advice about, um, you know, positive comments versus negative comments. Cause you know, we see thousands of positive comments and then just, it's the, the couple of negative that you see that just like really stick with you, especially if there's a grain of truth to it, even if they're being an asshole.

• 1:33:24Speaker 01

  Not to get, not to interrupt you, but like, holy shit. Last year, when some of the negative comments started saying what I was thinking.

• 1:33:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:33:33Speaker 01

  Bro, that's when it like really.

• 1:33:36Speaker 02

  That's when it hurts. Yeah. A hundred percent. But the one thing Aaron told me that like really stuck with me and like said, not been the best steward of this advice, but if you're going to engage with comments at all, cause you know, all of us are like inclined to respond like nuh uh to the negative comments.

• 1:33:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:33:52Speaker 02

  He said, try to at least respond to as many positive comments as you do negative. Because if you're just responding to negative comments, you're just putting negative energy out there. You're encouraging user behavior, like you're encouraging people to say negative stuff. Try to engage to positive comments and like, man, I, I've tried to do that because that is just such a healthy rule.

• 1:34:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's good.

• 1:34:13Speaker 04

  Point them. I, and then I just don't give a shit.

• 1:34:18Speaker 02

  You just fire and forget?

• 1:34:20Speaker 04

  Dude, I love, I do, I literally, I do not check anything. The, the one, um.

• 1:34:26Speaker 02

  The Stranger Things.

• 1:34:27Speaker 04

  Stranger Things, I woke up and I was like, oh, that's a lot of things.

• 1:34:31Speaker 01

  That was a good video.

• 1:34:32Speaker 04

  Videos, I was like, or the views, I was like, what the fuck? Why is it at four, four million, 3.9 million? I was like, eh.

• 1:34:37Speaker 01

  Did that one got that, honey?

• 1:34:39Speaker 04

  Yeah. I was like, I'm not reading that. That's a lot. I'll read the top ones and I'll be like, thank you. Or the bikini. Cause I find that hilarious. I'm like, Grok, put us in bikinis. Cause I just seen the hoes just having a heyday.

• 1:34:51Speaker 01

  I stole past that as fast as I could, dude.

• 1:34:53Speaker 02

  Me too.

• 1:34:56Speaker 04

  I just seen everyone. I was like, why is this the thing? Oh, that's actually hilarious. Pentagon photo. Grok, put us in bikinis.

• 1:35:04Speaker 02

  Eli is the drive-by shooter of Twitter.

• 1:35:07Speaker 04

  And then Cody's like, Eli, what are you doing? That was my favorite reply.

• 1:35:14Speaker 03

  They just all look jacked, though. I like that part. That's pretty cool. You guys have veins and Nick was the smallest.

• 1:35:23Speaker 03

  Play for bodybuilder. Nevermind.

• 1:35:27Speaker 00

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• 1:36:00Speaker 04

  It's hard. I think the negative comments, Cody probably is the best advice. I mean, you get positive and negative.

• 1:36:07Speaker 03

  I got a lot of negative.

• 1:36:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, you get death threats and it's wild, but you stay so positive. You just don't give a shit on that stuff.

• 1:36:14Speaker 02

  You also, you get a lot of negative comments, but I've only ever seen, you get negative comments, but I've only ever seen positive interactions in person, too.

• 1:36:23Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, I'm the same way. I don't even read comments anymore, to be honest with you. I'll read like the top three or four, say hello, and then that's it. I'll just turn my phone off. It's bad for your mental health, man.

• 1:36:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:36:35Speaker 03

  You know, when I, when I started like started streaming and YouTube and all that stuff, I would, I was obsessed with fucking every single negative comment and it drove me crazy and I knew it was just bad for me. So I'll read the top couple, say, hey, done.

• 1:36:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:36:51Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then go people on Twitter.

• 1:36:53Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 1:36:57Speaker 04

  I'm not reading those negative bullies. Turn to bullet.

• 1:37:03Speaker 03

  Governor Tim Walz. I'm not stuck in here with them. They're stuck in here with me, brother. The president called you retarded. I'm about to call you worse.

• 1:37:19Speaker 04

  Love. Yeah, you think that word's bad?

• 1:37:21Speaker 02

  Yeah. Wait till you find out some of my favorites.

• 1:37:29Speaker 04

  It's so good.

• 1:37:31Speaker 03

  Someone just called me the best white people slur I've ever heard right before we got on this podcast.

• 1:37:36Speaker 02

  Oh, was it because of the last episode?

• 1:37:39Speaker 03

  No, no, I was just making fun of someone, but.

• 1:37:43Speaker 02

  As you do, you know?

• 1:37:45Speaker 03

  It was, it was racially motivated post. It was one of those comments. Someone was like, they would have shot that guy if he was black. And I'm like, no, they wouldn't. And someone said, shut up, cum skin.

• 1:37:58Speaker 03

  I was like, I can't be mad at that. That's awesome.

• 1:38:02Speaker 04

  You just reshare it.

• 1:38:05Speaker 04

  You retweet that.

• 1:38:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, because the, the reason I say that is the last episode we put out was, or at least at a time of recording was the one with Bar None.

• 1:38:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:38:14Speaker 02

  And so the whole episode was like trying to seek the best white slur.

• 1:38:19Speaker 03

  I forgot.

• 1:38:20Speaker 02

  So I think you finally found it.

• 1:38:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:38:22Speaker 04

  Cum skin?

• 1:38:23Speaker 03

  Cum skin.

• 1:38:25Speaker 04

  Do that.

• 1:38:25Speaker 02

  Rumpel. Rumpel, cum skin.

• 1:38:33Speaker 02

  All right, Wikipedia, add it. Add it to the list.

• 1:38:37Speaker 04

  Oh, we gotta get Jake back. Such a good episode. Everyone's like, man, Cody talked, they were like, I think you talked more in that one episode than all of unsub. Cause he was right. He was like, yeah, I was, he riled you up.

• 1:38:53Speaker 03

  Me and him also had a couple of drinks in us. I think we all were doing a little bit of heavy drinking that, that night.

• 1:38:59Speaker 02

  Well, two of us were.

• 1:39:00Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, that was fun.

• 1:39:04Speaker 03

  It was good.

• 1:39:05Speaker 02

  It was me and Eli trying to keep it on the rails. You guys were just feeding off each other.

• 1:39:10Speaker 04

  To the heaven. And then we went out to eat afterwards and you were like, he didn't remember going. And then he was asking you the same questions over and over.

• 1:39:19Speaker 02

  It was just like, so where are you from again?

• 1:39:22Speaker 02

  That happened five times over the course of dinner.

• 1:39:25Speaker 04

  And he's like, Brandon also does it really well. You don't know they're drunk.

• 1:39:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm decently good at it depending, but.

• 1:39:34Speaker 01

  Of what? Like hiding when you are?

• 1:39:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:39:36Speaker 01

  Or?

• 1:39:37Speaker 02

  Well, no, I just, well, also part of it is like pacing. Like I just, I don't enjoy being drunk. Like I don't enjoy the sensation. Like I'll have a couple of drinks, like knock the edge off. I genuinely do not enjoy like the sensation of being hammered. It's not fun to me. Like just like I get nauseous, just the motion. I just, you know, not a big fan. So just, it's about pacing.

• 1:39:59Speaker 04

  And then when you get hangovers, when you get older, fucking the worst thing, code hangovers when you're like thirty eight? Yeah. Like I said, after New Year's, it took me like four days to recover. Dude, it is. Like I've had three drinks. I'm like, I gotta drink so much water now.

• 1:40:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:40:14Speaker 04

  This is very bad for my soul right here.

• 1:40:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, I don't know. Honestly, I don't think I've ever been drunk. Like I think maybe two or three of these is the most I've ever had in one sitting. But I'm also ginormous. I know your weight doesn't directly equate to how much you can.

• 1:40:28Speaker 04

  It has a lot to do with it.

• 1:40:30Speaker 01

  Means a lot.

• 1:40:31Speaker 04

  Yeah. You might not drink much, but it is, it does correlate very heavily with.

• 1:40:36Speaker 01

  Well, that's what I was gonna say. Like I've had maybe three of those Seagram's that I mentioned earlier. That was like the most alcohol that were consumed at one time and I never, I didn't really feel much.

• 1:40:45Speaker 02

  I had an old mentor when I was back in college. He was a good gunsmithing mentor who was partially Native American. And I'm dead fucking serious. I, I, I knew that like Native American blood, like you kind of had like a sensitivity to alcohol. Like that's, you know, a historic thing.

• 1:41:02Speaker 01

  What? So they're like more susceptible to becoming drunk?

• 1:41:06Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:41:06Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:41:07Speaker 02

  Uh, cause they, they don't have that, you know, resistance to it, or I don't know.

• 1:41:11Speaker 04

  I think it's enzyme to break it down in their liver or how it's broken down is different. It's like. Opposite of the Irish.

• 1:41:17Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 1:41:17Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 1:41:19Speaker 04

  But they have that.

• 1:41:21Speaker 02

  I, I, I thought it was, oh, you know, it's one of those things where like, oh, I thought like a Native American might be like ten, twenty percent more susceptible.

• 1:41:30Speaker 02

  I, I, at one point I had brought like a six pack of, I was young. It was like Angry Orchard. Which nowadays I'm like, oh my God, so much sugar. I couldn't, I couldn't finish one today, but like, you know, brought over a six pack, just, you know, around after hours.

• 1:41:46Speaker 02

  He had one of them and he was like confined to the chair, can't speak English, piss your pants drunk. And I've never seen anything like it before or since.

• 1:42:00Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 1:42:01Speaker 04

  Wild.

• 1:42:01Speaker 02

  Yeah. He legit, and it was over quick too. It was like 10 minutes, 10 minutes. He was just like, I'm saying I'm but pee myself. Like that's sort of like just completely fucking blasted. I've never experienced anything like that. Like that's.

• 1:42:17Speaker 04

  There, wow. There was the one guy I do not remember. He streamed and he told me, he told us, and then his, like everyone knew, but I didn't believe it at first. It was like, oh, I can't get drunk.

• 1:42:32Speaker 04

  It was, I was like, well, no, that's not possible. He's like, no, like literally how my body breaks it down. It's just, I cannot get drunk. It just. Whatever gets you drunk or intoxicated, it flushes it out. I do not. And then sure as shit, we streamed. And he streamed drinking. He's like, tell me when to do shots. I will open a brand new bottle. It's not going to do anything. Like half a bottle, nothing. He's like, no, I, I don't drink because of this. I cannot get drunk.

• 1:42:58Speaker 02

  So he's got the pectose where he's just like, oh yeah, it'll just do direct HP damage and absolutely no side effects.

• 1:43:04Speaker 04

  Yeah. It'll go through your whole chloric intake and just not, just none of the benefits. Oh.

• 1:43:10Speaker 02

  Congratulations. You hurt your liver, got 3,000 calories and got no benefit out of it.

• 1:43:17Speaker 04

  Like fuck. Now you're, you are a gamer.

• 1:43:22Speaker 02

  Oh yeah.

• 1:43:23Speaker 04

  We have, we have multiple. So you do first person shooters, which is everyone's wheelhouse. Cody does first person shooters and you do like. I'm doing World of Warcraft right now, dude. I'm hardcore into it. You're, are you playing vanilla or like new updated? Yeah, classic. The classic vanilla. Are you doing hardcore classic?

• 1:43:41Speaker 02

  No, no, fuck no, dude. That's, I tried it and it stressed me out so bad.

• 1:43:46Speaker 04

  Dude, on a any, on a soft raid, you're like, but it's fine. I'm dead. Done. Character's done.

• 1:43:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, cuz that's, you know, dozens of hours that just completely evaporate.

• 1:43:59Speaker 04

  Dozens, that is days. This is like.

• 1:44:03Speaker 02

  How do you have the time?

• 1:44:05Speaker 04

  That's why I don't play hardcore.

• 1:44:06Speaker 03

  I'm making them at night, dude.

• 1:44:08Speaker 01

  I wouldn't start a hardcore one, dude.

• 1:44:11Speaker 04

  How many days would it take to get a level 50 in OG like vanilla WoW?

• 1:44:16Speaker 03

  Like our level cap 60?

• 1:44:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:44:19Speaker 03

  It'll take you at least two weeks if you're like dungeon boosting, if you're speedrunning it. But if you if you take your time and do quests, it could take you a month.

• 1:44:29Speaker 04

  And that is branded.

• 1:44:32Speaker 01

  If you die, it's all gone.

• 1:44:33Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, no, I know. That's why it's fucking insane to me that this is fun to people.

• 1:44:39Speaker 03

  I got a dude to level like 25 on hardcore and I was just stressed all the time. It's like, I'm not even enjoying this shit anymore.

• 1:44:46Speaker 02

  It's just like life.

• 1:44:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, pretty much.

• 1:44:48Speaker 02

  I've made it 30 years and I'm just stressed and I can die tomorrow.

• 1:44:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:44:54Speaker 02

  This isn't even fun anymore. I can't even start a new save.

• 1:44:58Speaker 04

  Dude, I would never be tank.

• 1:45:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:45:00Speaker 04

  Playing with randoms, but you know how to heal? Bro, you don't know how to heal. Oh, one bad pull, one bad pull and your team's gone. Like, that's how when you're doing instances. If you have a bad team that no one knows shit, if you have one bad team in a bad pool, that is everyone.

• 1:45:21Speaker 02

  You have your own guild, right?

• 1:45:23Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, it's on the, okay, yeah, I'm gonna shout it out real quick. It's on the 21st anniversary server. It's the Night Slayer room, Horde, of course, Alliance is gay. And it's called the Geneva Suggestion, so named after the unsub tour. So if anyone wants to join, that's where it's at.

• 1:45:41Speaker 04

  Our boy Fadar. I love, that is the most random friendship.

• 1:45:45Speaker 03

  Random, yeah.

• 1:45:47Speaker 04

  This is a guy I knew from World of Warcraft, or sorry, EverQuest, then World of Warcraft, Fires of Heaven, FOH Guild Board from 2001.

• 1:45:59Speaker 04

  And then he knows Cody.

• 1:46:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, he like we ran into each other on WoW and he joined my guild and he's like, oh, I know Eli.

• 1:46:07Speaker 01

  25 years ago.

• 1:46:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, and he is like, he was in, he's a very good MMO player.

• 1:46:13Speaker 02

  Oh, dude, he's incredible. I had to do the mental math. I'm like, how old was Eli 25 years ago?

• 1:46:19Speaker 03

  Unfortunately, he's still old.

• 1:46:22Speaker 02

  Fifteen.

• 1:46:24Speaker 04

  Fifteen at that point, sixteen.

• 1:46:25Speaker 02

  According to Jeffrey, never mind, but.

• 1:46:28Speaker 04

  I was legal age.

• 1:46:33Speaker 04

  For him.

• 1:46:35Speaker 04

  But he's like, that dude, a monster player, because they played back in the EQ days, which was the most unforgiving fucking game.

• 1:46:44Speaker 04

  Especially when you played MMOs, that was, if you died, now it's not hardcore, like, character loss, but if you died in EverQuest back in ninety-nine to two thousand and two. You lost half a bubble, half a bubble, you were looking at twenty hours in game of grinding.

• 1:47:00Speaker 02

  Off.

• 1:47:01Speaker 04

  If you die one time, guess who never, bad, bad players did not make it to level fifty and then level sixty. Like, there was no one bad that made it that far in the game, because there is that reality check, it's like. Yeah. Fucking, and you could de-level.

• 1:47:15Speaker 02

  You could.

• 1:47:16Speaker 04

  Yo, yeah, oh, yeah. That game was fucking brutal, dude. No maps, no nothing, quests, you had to type in shit and then hope it worked. There was no, like, you know how, uh, video games have like the exclamation point or the question mark? That did not exist at this time. It was word of mouth. Vendors, auction houses didn't existed, you had to trade with players and barter. Like, you, everyone created their own zone of where they'd meet up to barter or trade.

• 1:47:45Speaker 02

  I was gonna say, could you bully players like PvP wise, like, trade me this for this, or I will fucking kill you and end your save?

• 1:47:51Speaker 04

  If you were in PvP servers, there was different ways, or if you're just a shitbag like a lot of us, you'd be like, hey, new players, dude, we troll the fuck out of new players, you'd be like, hey. How do I trade? I'd be like, dude, you need money? And they'd be like, yeah, because they'd beg online, they'd beg and shout all. Like, dude, where are you? Yeah, I got money for you here, come here. And they're like, how do I trade? It's like, oh, I got some good money for you here. I need you to hit slash T or slash P, uh, slash T.

• 1:48:20Speaker 04

  Slash C, slash C and my name type that in and then we'll good, well, I can trade you and like, oh, okay. That makes sense. Slash C type of names like they challenge you to a duel slash D duel. That is, and it's like they challenge you to a duel and you hit yes, and you go boom and kill them. And their body is there and all their stuff stays on their corpse until they walk back out to it.

• 1:48:40Speaker 02

  Cause I remember you, I think you were telling me where they had this thing where like you could own sheep or like whatever that would just like walk out on the map.

• 1:48:48Speaker 04

  On which one? On this would be different.

• 1:48:49Speaker 02

  I don't remember which game it was, but you were telling me like you could just own livestock. That would be something that you could just hunt in the game. Maybe it wasn't you, maybe it was clean.

• 1:48:59Speaker 04

  That's probably a clean.

• 1:49:00Speaker 02

  But like you could just, they would bully new players that way because like veteran players could not engage like newbie players. Unless the newbie players engage them first, but they could like own livestock animals or whatever and just let them loose.

• 1:49:16Speaker 03

  You can do that and you can fuck with people in Hardcore World if you're a hunter.

• 1:49:20Speaker 02

  I think that's my.

• 1:49:21Speaker 03

  You tame a beast that looks like something in that area. And then you get your pet and you walk it out there and let them, the new people doing a quest will think like, oh, that bear over there is part of this quest and they'll attack your pet and then you just stomp them out.

• 1:49:34Speaker 02

  I think it was me, you and Clean that we're talking about.

• 1:49:36Speaker 03

  It might've been, yeah.

• 1:49:37Speaker 01

  That's messed up.

• 1:49:38Speaker 03

  That's fucked up, dude.

• 1:49:40Speaker 04

  Dude trolling in old OG ever quests also you could, there was Oasis Island. And it is where everyone from 10 to 20 would level up, you would level up on orcs. And then for whatever reason, they had this little island in the middle with a portal. And then the level 46 specters, which could one shot in anything like level 50s, max level. You do not fuck with specters.

• 1:50:05Speaker 04

  If you did invisible and you ran by, you could collect all four of them. And then you run any J, J boots, cause you can't outrun anything unless you have boots that come later in the game. You just grab them and then they would follow you until you zone out. So they just follow you have four level 46 specters that can one shot anything. And then you just take them to Orc Island, newbie island, and they will kill anything in the way to get to you. So they will one shot everything. Cause it wasn't, oh, I can only attack this individual because they hit me. It was, I'm pissed, I'm chasing that guy, I'm killing everything along the way though. And so you just have a line.

• 1:50:46Speaker 02

  You're just bringing Deathclaw Valley into New Vegas like.

• 1:50:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, every time. And they couldn't see you because you're invisible. So they were like, who the fuck trade specters to Oasis? And you're like, eh, those means we just zip now, come back in and then on the way back they'd kill everything.

• 1:51:02Speaker 02

  So you were just an asshole.

• 1:51:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, it was 99, 2001. I was 15. I was living my best life.

• 1:51:11Speaker 04

  What games? So what kind of games are you into?

• 1:51:13Speaker 01

  Oh, man. When I was streaming, I was doing all shooters, like pretty much like I I enjoy single player games. That's all I've been playing lately. Like I this past year. Holy shit, guys. I used to play like 60 hours of games a week. I do like five or six now. I like I'm really not great with time management. So like my schedule isn't technically busy, but I am I am always busy.

• 1:51:37Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:51:38Speaker 01

  So, you know, I've a couple of single player games like thankfully Expedition came out before all the social media stuff happened. So I was just sitting on my ass.

• 1:51:48Speaker 02

  So you played it back in the day then?

• 1:51:49Speaker 01

  So, yeah, I played it the day it came out. I picked up my copy and I did not pick up another game until I 100%ed that.

• 1:51:58Speaker 04

  Oh, shit.

• 1:51:58Speaker 02

  I got into it after Eli bullied me into getting into it and it was best decision.

• 1:52:02Speaker 01

  It's a game worth convincing people to play.

• 1:52:05Speaker 03

  I'll go back and try it, man.

• 1:52:08Speaker 04

  Cody, my favorite thing was like, oh, yeah, I ran in that side box. You can't be, I'm gonna come back. And I was like, oh, you can beat him and just you could play it pretty. He's like, you can beat that? But yeah, you have to play it perfect.

• 1:52:19Speaker 02

  Or so you could just choose to move past it. It was like the guy in the first area, I think.

• 1:52:23Speaker 04

  The mime?

• 1:52:24Speaker 02

  No. Fuck the mimes. The mimes.

• 1:52:30Speaker 02

  Hate them.

• 1:52:31Speaker 04

  It was, um, after they've landed on the island and happiness happened.

• 1:52:37Speaker 01

  Was it the scuba guy? The guy with the underwater mask?

• 1:52:40Speaker 03

  I can't remember. It was like a big green monster, wasn't it on the right?

• 1:52:43Speaker 02

  It was like in the first area.

• 1:52:44Speaker 01

  Oh, like in the overworld.

• 1:52:46Speaker 04

  Star, yeah, before the overall, before you even hit the overworld, there was that one side. If you go under, it's you can fight everything and actually win. It's like trading. He is the only one that will one shot you no matter fucking what. And you have to be perfect on timing, otherwise.

• 1:53:04Speaker 01

  I loved the combat in that like being forced to learn when to dodge and parry and stuff was like.

• 1:53:11Speaker 04

  This is most text I have from Brandon is when we were playing.

• 1:53:14Speaker 02

  I remember that one boss, because I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about. Because I immediately, because they're optional.

• 1:53:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:53:22Speaker 02

  Because I just remember like walking straight past him, like seeing him, I'm like, that dude looks scary as. And just kept moving.

• 1:53:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:53:30Speaker 02

  Did not ever have to fight him. I went back later and like one shot him, just out of principle, principle, but like.

• 1:53:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:53:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, I mean, I love the fact that you get to choose who you fight.

• 1:53:39Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

• 1:53:40Speaker 02

  For the most part, anyway.

• 1:53:41Speaker 04

  Such a good game, Co. You got it.

• 1:53:43Speaker 03

  I'll give it another try.

• 1:53:44Speaker 01

  No, yeah, you absolutely should.

• 1:53:46Speaker 02

  You guys still talk about it, and this was months ago that.

• 1:53:49Speaker 01

  It came out, what, like last March or something?

• 1:53:52Speaker 02

  It's not like that one friend that's like, oh, we should play this game. You should definitely give them $20 and like you play it for one night and never play it again. It's not one of those.

• 1:54:00Speaker 04

  No, you don't. I was like, Brandon does not like turn-based or JRPGs. And I was like, dude, you will still love the shit out of this because this is not turn-based combat. This made it fun for the first time ever in turn-based combat. This is a fucking blast.

• 1:54:14Speaker 02

  The story is worth it alone.

• 1:54:16Speaker 01

  What I like, like a lot about it too is like, I'm not a big turn-based combat fan either, but the fact that the exploration and stuff was still you literally controlling a character.

• 1:54:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:54:29Speaker 01

  So you still got to like explore these worlds and enjoy the level design of like a traditional third-person game on top of their insane combat system.

• 1:54:38Speaker 02

  I just realized it's kind of like Pokemon in 3D.

• 1:54:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:54:42Speaker 02

  You're walking around a world and you just get to choose.

• 1:54:44Speaker 04

  Which is.

• 1:54:44Speaker 02

  Oh, I'm gonna engage.

• 1:54:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's funny because I've always like before this game came out, I've always told people the only good turn-based game is Pokemon. It's the only turn-based game I've ever enjoyed, except for a few of the Final Fantasies, you know?

• 1:54:57Speaker 04

  So excited for you to try.

• 1:54:58Speaker 03

  I will, I will. You know what? I'll actually do it tonight.

• 1:55:01Speaker 04

  You.

• 1:55:02Speaker 01

  Oh dude, it's so fricking.

• 1:55:03Speaker 04

  Once you get into it, there is a reason it just broke every record for like winning every award is when you play it.

• 1:55:10Speaker 02

  It swept the gaming awards.

• 1:55:12Speaker 04

  For $10 million, like indie game. And then people were shitting on it. It's like, well, oh, it was AI-generated. And they're like, well, no, it was one like ass asset.

• 1:55:21Speaker 01

  Once, yeah, it was like one small asset that was.

• 1:55:24Speaker 04

  And then that's why they were shooting. It's like, that's the only reason it won game of the year. And you're like, no cards. It's because it was a good game.

• 1:55:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:55:33Speaker 04

  That writing was fantastic. The characters were fantastic. The music, I give two fucks about music.

• 1:55:40Speaker 01

  Oh dude, it wasn't even English and it was still like so powerful, man.

• 1:55:46Speaker 02

  Not to give away any spoilers, but I didn't realize that if you actually, if you, if you know French, so many of the words that they use, like the gamage and different things like that and different things that are said in the music itself, give away the plot to the game.

• 1:56:00Speaker 01

  Oh, no, for sure.

• 1:56:01Speaker 02

  Very early.

• 1:56:02Speaker 01

  I listened to a singer who did a translated version of one of the songs.

• 1:56:06Speaker 02

  It.

• 1:56:06Speaker 01

  And it was wild.

• 1:56:07Speaker 02

  If, if you were in France playing this game, you were like hammer fisted with the plot before like.

• 1:56:15Speaker 04

  I do, well, the main song, I didn't realize they were singing, they were just saying Claire obscure the entire time.

• 1:56:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:56:22Speaker 04

  With the other words. I was like, oh, they're just saying the name of this game. I'm stupid.

• 1:56:27Speaker 01

  Well, I, I, I think this is true. Um, I've saw like Claire obscure is apparently French for like light and dark, which is so cool. It's like so badass to think about when you think about the game. But I, I saw an article recently that the, one of their game directors was like, we're not planning on upping the production of the next one.

• 1:56:47Speaker 04

  Good.

• 1:56:47Speaker 01

  Like they're just going back to what they did. They're just kinda like going back in their hole and doing what they did and doing it again. I'm very excited for what the second one might do. We talked about this. I just don't want to give any spoilers to people who haven't played the game yet, cause it's worth playing.

• 1:57:01Speaker 04

  Yeah. Oh, I know. Oh, if it goes to the other storyline, I'm like, oh.

• 1:57:06Speaker 01

  Well, that's the thing with that, with that universe, cause they're, the next title will be a Claire obscure game.

• 1:57:13Speaker 01

  Whatever they do, it's gonna be ridiculous.

• 1:57:15Speaker 04

  Everything possible. And then, uh, I loved the voice act, the main voice actor that won. And once it took off, he didn't know his character name. He didn't know the game. He's like, I went in and acted. He was like, that was it.

• 1:57:29Speaker 02

  It was like one day.

• 1:57:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:57:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:57:31Speaker 04

  And then he's like, people were running up and be like, oh my God, Gustav. I think it was Gustav.

• 1:57:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:57:36Speaker 04

  And he's like.

• 1:57:36Speaker 01

  Charlie Cox, the guy who played Daredevil.

• 1:57:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:57:38Speaker 01

  Voiced Gustav.

• 1:57:40Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:57:40Speaker 01

  When, when someone asked him about it in an interview, he was like, what?

• 1:57:45Speaker 04

  He had no clue and then he started winning video game awards for best actor and he was like, what the fuck is

• 1:57:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think Mael's voice actress won best performance at the game awards.

• 1:57:56Speaker 04

  Do you go to your, oh, you're gonna, we'll put you in a group chat.

• 1:58:01Speaker 03

  I haven't played it since release and I only got to that first starting area. So I'll go back and replay everything.

• 1:58:05Speaker 02

  It won't make you feel very good.

• 1:58:07Speaker 01

  I'm surprised that the game didn't capture you because I feel like most people like just right off the get go. That game just like grabs you.

• 1:58:14Speaker 02

  Depends. The first, the first half hour.

• 1:58:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, like the intro, the intro. I was like, holy shit.

• 1:58:21Speaker 02

  Show, false Paris.

• 1:58:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:58:23Speaker 02

  That whole, yeah.

• 1:58:24Speaker 04

  Did you hear how far show is? Shows?

• 1:58:26Speaker 02

  She's already in like act two.

• 1:58:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, halfway through act two. I was like, holy, you're like, cause she at brunch or lunch today, she was like, Eli playing Expedition 33. I was like, get your fuck out of here. What? Yeah, let's fucking go. How far are you? This far.

• 1:58:42Speaker 02

  How long she been playing it?

• 1:58:43Speaker 01

  We said, how far is she going? Was it deep? Me and Eli are like, wait a minute. What does that mean? Like.

• 1:58:50Speaker 02

  What do you know?

• 1:58:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:58:53Speaker 04

  Uh, it's a journey.

• 1:58:54Speaker 02

  Shit, man.

• 1:58:55Speaker 04

  Have fun with it.

• 1:58:56Speaker 01

  I can't even remember the last game that I remember as fondly as that. Like I have a few, like my top three of all time, like Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild and stuff, but like that game is ridiculous.

• 1:59:06Speaker 02

  I feel like this game studio needs to be paying us for how much we've talked about it, but like it's, they don't for the record, but I feel like they should because for fuck's sake, like I, I can't remember the last time we've advocated this, this hard for something.

• 1:59:19Speaker 01

  Oh dude, it's ridiculous. I bought, I got my physical copy day one. I bought the collector's edition, the limited edition and the Amazon limited edition and I'm just keeping them sealed.

• 1:59:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:59:29Speaker 01

  I'm even opening them, dude. I ordered the fricking vinyls and I don't even own a record player.

• 1:59:35Speaker 04

  That man pulling Eli on that one.

• 1:59:37Speaker 01

  I was obsessed with that shit, dude. I was like, you know, in my mind, like a piece of art like that, regardless of whether it's a game.

• 1:59:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:59:45Speaker 01

  Does not come around very often.

• 1:59:46Speaker 04

  Trust me. I know they're fucking.

• 1:59:48Speaker 02

  Fucking Eli immediately like earlier this F1 season. He's like, buy a Max Verstappen rookie card.

• 1:59:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, this grade, do this, this, this was like, trust me. And it's already fucking like.

• 2:00:00Speaker 04

  Like, trust me, this is, this will go really far. That's one game looking at him. I was like, I'm trying to find all the exact same one you just listed because they shot up in price.

• 2:00:11Speaker 01

  Cause I didn't even buy them to resell. I just bought them because I like collecting that shit. You know?

• 2:00:16Speaker 04

  They shot up in price.

• 2:00:17Speaker 01

  Oh, I'm sure.

• 2:00:18Speaker 04

  Motherfucker. Dude, and then, well, I think, I mean,

• 2:00:26Speaker 04

  that was, we covered a damn near everything for an episode. We got after show if we want to do an after show.

• 2:00:33Speaker 02

  Yeah. Well, I mean, is there anything that you'd like to talk about?

• 2:00:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:00:36Speaker 02

  While, while you got the floor.

• 2:00:37Speaker 01

  Oh, I don't know, man. I just think this, this journey is just so fricking nuts, man.

• 2:00:44Speaker 02

  It's understatement of the year, man.

• 2:00:47Speaker 01

  You know, I can't even comprehend it. Looking back on last year, dude, like you guys got to realize like I was in a place where I didn't even know why God kept me alive after the hospital. You know, like, cause I, cause I had like hated off on Twitch and I was enjoying my life for the first time and I was starting to lose weight. And all that got taken away and I spent a few years not even knowing why I was here. And then that happened last May, it all started happening and I was like, holy shit. Like I have like for the first time in since 2021, I feel like I'm actually on the path that I'm supposed to be on. And that's a wild feeling.

• 2:01:29Speaker 02

  It's a good feeling, I'm sure.

• 2:01:30Speaker 01

  Especially knowing the impact it has.

• 2:01:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:01:33Speaker 01

  You know, because like we're at a point now, man, like I get recognized everywhere. It's ridiculous. Like on the street, gas stations, like Target, Walmart, GameStop. Like it's, it's like actually ridiculous. But when I get to meet some of those people and then they not only, some of them tell me about their own journeys, but then to also hear like firsthand the impact that the videos that I've created have had.

• 2:02:00Speaker 01

  Dude, it's like priceless.

• 2:02:03Speaker 02

  Not to get too sappy about it, but if you think about it, like what we were talking about a little bit earlier, like the, the amount of sacrifice that you've done personally and just, you know, hey, I'm going to make these personal sacrifices to make sure that I get healthier and I, I lose all this weight and everything. And you've given 20, 25 years to your future children. Extrapolate that out into all the people that you've inspired to do stuff like this.

• 2:02:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:02:26Speaker 02

  And you've granted, you know, hundreds, if not thousands of years to other people who've been inspired by your journey to do the same thing.

• 2:02:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:02:36Speaker 02

  That's, that's a crazy thought. And you know, that, I think it's something to be proud of.

• 2:02:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, I appreciate that, man. That's what I always, some people get mad at me for one of my taglines, but like one, one of my taglines is like, when I do something difficult, I'm at the end of the video, I'll go like, if I can do something like that at my size, imagine what you can do. And then they're like, yeah, but we don't do social media full time. And I'm like, you don't need to, you don't need to.

• 2:03:00Speaker 02

  You didn't need to when you started.

• 2:03:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, like you don't need to do that to like hit your step goal or do what I just did in the gym, you know?

• 2:03:06Speaker 02

  I need followers to walk down the road.

• 2:03:13Speaker 01

  So, but no, like that's, that's.

• 2:03:15Speaker 04

  How do you expect me to walk down my street? I don't have a following. That's what you took away from this?

• 2:03:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, listen, like I, I, I, views don't help. Views don't help that stuff.

• 2:03:27Speaker 02

  It makes it harder.

• 2:03:28Speaker 01

  Like even last, yeah, the pressures, dude, sometimes the pressure makes it harder. But like even last year, like I, even when I was in like my peak of like, the amount of support I was getting and stuff, I still struggle with shit. Like it's not, it's not like a Band-Aid. It's not just going to fix it, you know? But I think that, that, that is like one of the main messages that I, I love being able to like entertain and motivate people at the same time. And like, if I can come back from 660 pounds, not knowing why I'm alive, to living a life worth living, you know, the guy who has like 10 or 20 pounds to lose.

• 2:04:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:04:03Speaker 01

  He's got it, bro. He's easy.

• 2:04:05Speaker 02

  And what's your excuse at that point? It's like, hmm?

• 2:04:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, easy.

• 2:04:10Speaker 02

  Any, uh, words of wisdom or tips for anyone beginning of the journey?

• 2:04:16Speaker 01

  Couple of things. This first one's a hot take, right? Not everyone needs to share it.

• 2:04:23Speaker 01

  Because I see a lot of people uh from uh even from my page who like started their own journeys and started sharing it. And dude, I honestly believe I would have lost more weight last year if I hadn't started that page.

• 2:04:39Speaker 01

  Because I was I was losing weight faster before I started social media.

• 2:04:45Speaker 01

  And I know I made a lot of healthy changes from it because I got a trainer. I started going to the gym. I started eating more because I was starving myself for the first five months of last year. But there was so much like for me personally, because I talked to you guys about how much I let all that impact me. There was so much stress. So much stress, dude, like I was literally like for the last six months of last year, I was a fricking ball of stress. I know that if I had just sat on my ass and stayed in that crazy deficit I was in, I was eating like fifteen hundred calories a day. It was stupid. I lost a hundred and twenty pounds in the first five months of last year. It was ridiculous. But if I had stayed on my ass starving myself, I probably would have lost more than I did.

• 2:05:30Speaker 01

  So I'm not to say that that's what people should be doing. But I know for a fact that the stress from social media has negatively affected my journey. It hasn't stopped it. Like I've had a few plateaus. I've continued moving in the right direction. But that's the one thing like people need to weigh.

• 2:05:51Speaker 01

  If they because you know, a lot of people who start social media, they got to ask themselves why they want to start it. Right? But like More people probably should. Yeah, people need to weigh whether it's worth sharing. And if they're capable of sharing in a way that they're not going to do what I did and then they don't let it impact the journey itself. Because the journey itself and their life and their future matters more than the page in a lot of cases. You know, so I know that that's a bit of a hot take and you know, but I think it's I think it's important. I think it's important for people to consider because I see a lot of people

• 2:06:32Speaker 01

  who will like start their journey and then start posting and then they'll get some negative comments and then they'll just like. Crash out and.

• 2:06:39Speaker 04

  Way worse than what they were thinking. Social media is not the easiest life. I mean, like,

• 2:06:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:06:44Speaker 04

  You're gonna get hate or you're gonna get positivity. Some people are fine with the hate and they thrive off of it. And then some people it is you want that pot, you want to put out positivity.

• 2:06:55Speaker 04

  And you're expecting that's all you're going to get back. And then when you do get hate, then you will.

• 2:06:59Speaker 01

  Well, I was at, I was at a couple of points last year where like, I didn't want to upload. Like I was just so over it. I was so sick of the internet, man. I was so sick of the internet and I, but I, but I knew at that point how many people it had impacted. And that's why I didn't stop.

• 2:07:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:07:18Speaker 01

  But I think that's an important thing for people to consider because if they are capable of doing it, sharing it and not letting the internet get in the way of their journey. Hell yeah. Let's go dude. Cause there, there's a lot, there's some really cool people in the weight loss space online that are on like crazy journeys that are just frigging killing it.

• 2:07:41Speaker 04

  And what other tips would you give if you have any other?

• 2:07:44Speaker 01

  The other thing, and I, I said this on say hi yesterday too, but like, man, if someone has a significant change that they want to make in their life, instead of just knowing that and convincing themselves that they need to make the change, they need to make the decision. And actually flip the switch to change. Cause until I had that, epiphany realization, whatever you want to call it last January.

• 2:08:12Speaker 01

  I obviously didn't have that decision made and I didn't have like the determination that I needed to get to where I needed to be. Cause that was like my fourth time getting back up over 600.

• 2:08:23Speaker 04

  And I, I feel like there's a lot of people, excuse me, that have a, there's like a dopamine reflex with talking about the thing you're going to do instead of doing it. You know, I think there's a lot of people that, that fall in love with that. Like, well, I'm gonna go do this. And then I tell you about it and you're like, that's awesome, man. You're like, cool. I got the dopamine of achieving the task, even though I didn't do it.

• 2:08:47Speaker 02

  So even though I'm on the journey, oh, that's so cool. I'm glad you're doing it. I'm like, okay, I got the dopamine. I don't need the actual results.

• 2:08:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:08:54Speaker 02

  I feel like that's kind of tapping.

• 2:08:55Speaker 01

  No, absolutely, dude. One of the hardest things for me, and I don't think I actually struggle with this, but I try to be very, very aware about it. I don't want to fall into complacency.

• 2:09:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:09:04Speaker 01

  Because like, that's one of the most interesting dynamics of my journey with how big it is, like just the sheer amount of weight. Is I've lost over 200 pounds. But I have a hard time even celebrating that because I have another 200 to lose. So I can like, I have to find a balance of like, obviously you have to celebrate milestones like that because it's fricking nuts. 200 pounds is a lot of fricking weight, dude.

• 2:09:30Speaker 04

  You're halfway there. That's a, and it's that hard part, like.

• 2:09:33Speaker 01

  But I also don't want to let myself be like, oh yeah, I've lost 200 pounds. I did it.

• 2:09:39Speaker 04

  Trust.

• 2:09:40Speaker 01

  I'm not done.

• 2:09:40Speaker 02

  Most people can't lift the weight you've lost.

• 2:09:43Speaker 01

  Yeah. I can't yet.

• 2:09:45Speaker 02

  That's.

• 2:09:47Speaker 01

  You know?

• 2:09:47Speaker 02

  That's, that's a crazy milestone, man.

• 2:09:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:09:50Speaker 04

  You've hit the halfway mark, which is again, it can be motivating as fuck.

• 2:09:53Speaker 01

  That is, yeah, I never even thought about it like that.

• 2:09:55Speaker 04

  A road, dude, a road march, that's the turnaround point. You're at the turnaround point. You've made the walk out. Now you're making the walk back to your goal. Like, yeah. Being sure I hated road marching. It was the worst thing in the world because it, I can't step out. I don't have long strides. My buddy's habit, fuck you. He's like six, four and he's like, why can't you keep up? I'm like, dog, you're six, four. Your one step is like three of mine. And then I have weight on my back. So once I got to that turnaround point, six miles, if I'm doing a 12 mile, I'm like, cool. Now I just gotta get back. Doesn't matter how fast I got to that.

• 2:10:36Speaker 04

  I got to this six miles fast, especially for EIB. It's like, I ran, I just jogged the entire time. I was the second run at the turnaround point and then I was the slowest motherfucker back because I paced it. I was like, I'm going to be garbage on the way back, but I will hit it and I'll be within that three hour window. Sure, two hours and 51 minutes. I'm at crossing the finish line. I was like.

• 2:11:00Speaker 04

  Sitting down, you're at, you're walking back now. You already hit the halfway mark. Now it's just fucking staying focused.

• 2:11:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, take her home. That's the, yeah, that was the kind of cool this year. Like, this is the lowest I've been since before high school. So like, like I said, like last year was the first year in this whole time that I've been struggling with my weight as an adult that I've actually kept a lot of it off.

• 2:11:26Speaker 01

  So it's very interesting going about it now because I've never been at this point. So it's kind of a new territory in a way, but it's really good.

• 2:11:35Speaker 04

  If you fuck this up, we will bully you.

• 2:11:37Speaker 01

  Oh, you should bully the fuck out of me, dude. If I'm not, if I'm not under 400 by the time you guys see me next, so you don't need to fucking slap. This is a threat.

• 2:11:46Speaker 04

  Whoa, whoa, whoa. Any other last?

• 2:11:50Speaker 01

  Aggressive support.

• 2:11:52Speaker 04

  Exactly. I love aggressive support.

• 2:11:55Speaker 01

  No, I'm, I'm good, brother. Whatever you guys.

• 2:11:57Speaker 04

  Where does, what does everyone find you at, brother?

• 2:12:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I just started a new YouTube channel, literally today. It's youtube.com slash the Ethan Bernard Show. Cause I couldn't transfer my original username.

• 2:12:14Speaker 01

  Um, so.

• 2:12:15Speaker 04

  Ethan Bernard Show, the Ethan Bernard Show is good, good, fucking good.

• 2:12:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think it's gonna be good. I think it's kind of cool to be having the YouTube channel, the Ethan Bernard Show, and then having all the other socials, just the name.

• 2:12:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:12:28Speaker 01

  Cause then the long form is kind of the show, even though it's not going to be like a talk show or anything, but. Hebbs for short. Then TikTok and Facebook are Ethan Bernard Live.

• 2:12:38Speaker 04

  Everyone hates my joke.

• 2:12:39Speaker 01

  EBS. Yeah, I don't know about that, dude.

• 2:12:44Speaker 01

  And on that note, Cody, save us.

• 2:12:49Speaker 04

  Bye, everyone. Thank you for joining the Unsubscribe Podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, Ethan Bernard, Brandon Arera, myself, Talon Operator. Thank you so much for being here. Stay tuned for the afternoon. We'd like 10 minutes to hang out, talk about dumb shit. Also, hope you like the new cameras.

• 2:13:05Speaker 01

  I'm curious to see how it comes out, the camera. Everyone will hate it. Bye.

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