Grandpa Ron on Bowling Prank, Funny Stories of Ben & CJ, and Picking Up Chicks 01:06:16

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Throw the headphones on, see if you like them, and if you don't, it just kind of almost locks you in. You hear me? Yeah, I can hear you real well. Okay, so basically just try and be close to the mic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. About that. Okay. All right. Talk to me now. Hey, Grandpa, how's it going? Maybe a little bit lower than that. Turn him down a little bit. You might have better hearing than me. How's that? I can hear you, I think. Pretty good? Yeah, I can hear you. Is it too loud? No. Okay, perfect.

Yeah, yeah. I'm okay. Grandpa, do you want a drink or something? I was sitting over there. I thought I better not drink while I'm talking. I might fall off the chair or something. Bring it over. I'll have one with you. Good, good. That'd be great. Should I not show this? No, no, no, you're good. I don't want people to think I drink. Yeah, that'd be a shock. Yeah, we're going to hide that. We don't want that to happen.

Alright, this one has been requested by a lot of people ever since the very first time that we had you on camera, Grandpa. And it was when CJ smashed your TV. Oh yeah, I remember that. But people have been asking to have you on the podcast since that moment, so I'm glad that we could finally make this happen. That was two years ago. Two years ago? Yeah. It's been that long? Okay. If you guys haven't seen our last video, we took our Grandpa Ron bowling.

And he might have had a little bit of a slip accident. I'm not going to make the tour. Let's put it that way. A bowling tour? I don't think so. I'm not quite good enough for that yet. I don't know how many injuries there are in bowling. Luckily, you don't seem to be injured. But, I mean, you damn well could have been.

You know, when you have a head with nothing in it, you really can't get hurt that bad. There was a lot of concerned people, obviously, in the comments, but I got reached out to by just a bunch of friends being like, yo, is your grandpa okay? And thankfully you are, but a bunch of people have been wondering, so we wanted to have you on the podcast to show that you're still kicking it and still doing all right. And then also just sit down and shoot the shit with you.

What's okay? I mean, people never thought it was really okay, no matter what I do. But yeah, I'm fine. It took a little bounce there on the alley, but I didn't realize it was that slippery, to be honest with you. And in fact, somebody asked me if it was planned. Well, I planned on hitting that

I was fighting with my chest forward all the way to the pins, but when I threw the ball, it kind of threw me off balance. I went on my back.

It was amazing how off the cuff you were going, though. I mean, even with, you know, the back and forth riffs between you and CJ, like, you know, going into it, we were just like, all right, here's kind of what we're going to do. But, you know, just feel it out and just, you know, do whatever you think is funny. And then you go and do that shit, which honestly would have been hilarious if you wouldn't have ate shit.

but imagine if he would have successfully gone halfway down and thrown the ball as soon as you went walking out there you can see me go oh grandpa i'm because i legit knew what i was like does he what i didn't know what you were thinking i assumed you know it's slippery being that not that you know you've been through 80 years of life you think you would know i'm not that smart is slippery

It was pretty amazing how good you were at off the cuff just doing that and just going in it. You weren't even scared or anything. I was telling Ben, I was like, dude, I mean, we're pretty committed to this lifestyle of doing stuff like that sometimes. And you were just basically like,

Yeah, sure. I'll do it. And you just went in, guns a blazing, and just did perfect. You could be an actor. I've been told that. But not a good one. That's the only problem. You're a great actor. Oh, yeah. Well. You'd be your own stuntman, too. Well, I don't know about that one. I don't know what kind of stunts I could do. I doubt that. Do my own stunts. I do my own stunts is right. I don't know how long that would last. But, oh, yeah, it was fun with you guys. You know, I enjoy it. You're a hit. You're a hit. Well, I don't know about that. Yeah.

You got to see every comment is about you in the comment section. Yeah, well, that's fine.

Normally he has to have brought me in a post office with a picture up. Have you seen this man? Have you seen looking for this guy? Oh, yeah. Used to be husbands were always looking for me sometimes, but that's years and years ago. That doesn't happen anymore. So I've been married to the same gal for 40 years. Yeah, her grandma. Yeah, her grandma. And if I could write a book, I could do 40 years of turmoil,

And, well, in 40 years, maybe tomorrow will be more fun. Chaos. The first 40 years were...

We could have had a lot of fun, boys. We do have a lot of fun. So what's the main difference between the first 40 to the second 40? Because you're 80 years old. Well, you know, my first 40, you try and do stuff that nobody's doing or you want to be successful. And in school, my buddy and myself, he was in eighth grade, he got the car.

No driver's license, but his mother let him have the car, so he picked me up. And my parents kind of wanted, God, a kid's kind of young to be having a car. But, you know, I did my work in the farm. I lived on the farm. I got my work, you know, done, and we'd go out. And we didn't get any trouble. I mean, two things.

You never steal and you don't lie. That was always instilled in us. But we'd go out and have some fun. I just had such a hard time believing you weren't getting in trouble. Well, we got in trouble, but not serious trouble where, you know, we'd go steal something or we would do something that would damage. We made damage a few things. If you ain't stealing and you ain't lying, you ain't getting in trouble. That's what he's listening to. I mean, we used to do like...

kind of our goal was to have a girlfriend in every town. Oh, I got a buddy like that. Yeah. Probably you. But anyway, because Frank had the car and we were always in sports, so he got to know a lot of people. And...

The girls in our own school really didn't like us that much. Why? Well, because everybody's going steady. It's bullshit, you know. Yeah, being in a relationship. Well, they want to take your letterman's jacket and hang it in their locker, that kind of shit, you know. But it's kind of tough when your letterman's jacket is with the girl in the town over. In the town over, yeah. They wouldn't do that. No, you wouldn't do that? Only a couple times you'd date them. Okay. And so, like, we'd have a prom, and you'd bring a gal from, I remember...

I was telling Fat Grammy and they were talking about that. And my junior primary, I brought a girl from Litchfield, which was 20 miles. And then homecoming, I brought a gal from Belgrade, which was 30 miles. And then I brought, I was a senior, I brought a gal from

Buffalo, which is 35 miles, always had, you know, we never brought the dates in. How were you meeting these chicks back in the day? We'd travel around. We played sports. So you'd just drive around in the car? Well, not so, here. There's one right there. There's a girl? How that could work, because during the winter especially, when you go to a game and you have the B squad, for example, in basketball, they're playing. So you're kind of free. So what you do, you look for the cheerleaders on the other team.

Oh. Yeah, and they know that you're playing on, so they talk to you. On the varsity. Yeah. You were riding the pine, but. No, no, we were waiting for the other team to get done. Oh, I see, I see. Until we had time, and so, and we get to the older girls, because they weren't cheering for the B team, they were for the A team. And that's how you meet a lot of them. And it was, you know.

And we'd say, well, where are you at? Well, we're going to come to your town and maybe you could have a Coke or something. Coca-Cola, not Coke. Of course. Yeah. Or maybe a beer. It depends how old you were. But yeah, so that's kind of how you met all these gals. Did you keep in touch with them over the phone? Because like now, if you meet a girl, there's Snapchat, stuff like that. But you would have had like a landline. You would have had to call the girl. You got to call the dad. Right.

None of that? None of that because we had a phone. We always had a phone. But in our area, I think maybe 20 people on the phone and everything outside of that was always long distance. And in those days, my mom would

Would never let me call on distance unless it was really important. I mean, just to me, call up for some gal. Yeah. Oh, no way. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. So you'd never get to do that. So you just, we drive, you know, whatever we had to do, but only once or twice.

That's enough of that person. So your buddy in eighth grade gets the car, no license, but you and him just hit the road and just start cleaning up on chicks. We had fun. So you felt like you had the upper hand on everyone else? No kidding. Yeah, and my parents, they didn't say much about me except my buddy.

We had an eighth grade car when he was a sophomore. He knocks up this chick. Oh, no. You're a wingman. Yeah. So you had to go solo. Oh, well, my mom says, you know, maybe what are you doing? What are you doing? Well, not doing that. So he kind of made things. But then I had my driver's license as well. So.

Hey, look, man. I'm going solo. Yeah. Yeah, well. So did you start getting, like, quite the rep around the surrounding areas? Oh, I don't know if I did that. I mean, I knew a lot of people. Like, a guy is standing there, and he sees you and your buddy roll up, and it's like, yo, where's my chick? Where's my chick? They were probably looking for him. They're going to go...

Well, yeah. Tried to punch his lights out. Yeah, that was sometimes they tried to do that too. Did you get in a lot of fights back then? Not really. No? Not a fighter. There's a theory. It's easier to make love than war. Did that with all the chicks down? Yeah. Yeah, true. So there you go. Love it. Fighting was, my brothers fought, but not me. But a lot of times when guys are out fighting, their girlfriends are available.

They're over there talking, hey, how's it going? Yeah. But that's kind of how those younger years went. And then, you know, I got married pretty young, 20. I was 20. And the gal I married was a schoolteacher, actually. She was older than me. Wait, your schoolteacher? No, Wanda, my first wife. No, she wasn't. She was. Okay. She was teaching, yeah. Okay. But she taught at the school where I...

graduated from. So her teacher friends were, a lot of those were my teachers. So it was awkward to go to a teacher's party and here I'm 20 years old

And here's my old teachers and her. Because you were causing chaos, I'm sure. Well, they were all faculty members at the party, and here's this 20-year-old punk married to one of us. Unbelievable. So we left town. I mean, we went to a different area. You chased them out of town. No, we went to Wisconsin. She taught in Wisconsin down by La Crosse. You had to go to a different state where they didn't know you? Well, I don't know about that.

Didn't have to, but he did. It helped. Probably. You ever heard the saying, they got the gift of the jab? Gab? Sorry, gift of the gab. Gift of the gab. I have no idea. I've never heard that before. It's just like being able to shoot the shit, always having a comeback, always just being funny, basically.

And you have that to the, like, I'd say you have a 10 out of 10. Maybe I'd say actually 11 out of 10 score in the gift of the gab. See, I don't know if I'm a firm believer in that so much. I think more is if you, if you just have, if you're comfortable in talking to people, well, maybe that's what it is. Have you always been like that though? Pretty much. Yeah. So you didn't have to learn it. I could get some vibrations off people if they were bad.

Get the hell out of there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You mentioned it a little bit before, but when you saw the person being a cigarette salesman, you knew that you wanted to become a salesman. Yeah, I thought that would be a good job, yeah. So did you see, like, you know, the person out selling cigarettes, but they're out bullshitting with people, and you're like, hey, I have that characteristic. I could be a good salesman, or what, like, clicked? Well, it just looked like a good thing to do. Talking to people and just selling them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I always...

Pretty much could do that. I mean, but I see, I had like five older brothers and they'd bring their friends home many times and I did bullshit with me and you get to talk to anybody, you know, whatever it's going to be. What about the humor aspect of it? Like where, where'd you get the quick wit and the comebacks and the humor side of it? Cause you can, you can talk to anyone, but how do you become a bullshitter? Everybody can do that. I think, uh,

But some people are afraid to say anything. But basically, I think people... You know, you'll know people that will bullshit with you that probably wouldn't bullshit with anybody else, right? Because they're comfortable with you. And that's kind of how it gets. I mean, after a couple of things, you're comfortable. So you say, you're fat, you're ugly or whatever. You can get away with it. In my golf group, and we call it...

Our wives say, if we called each other that, we'd never talk to each other again. That's how you know you're good friends. Yeah. Because that's like us too. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. If you guys weren't in each other, shit, you wouldn't talk to each other probably. But it's kind of like you kind of learn that maybe a little bit, that you're comfortable with people. And nobody's any better than anybody else, you know. Yeah.

Treat everybody equal. And give everyone the same amount of shit. And give some more than others. Some people are just made to give shit. I didn't know that certain families just don't

that kind of way because i thought it was pretty normal to go to a family christmas and like your your grandpa is telling you how fat you got but then you're also telling them how old he's looking and shit and like constantly just like you know make making jokes towards each other but um and then greta started hanging around our family and uh after we went to natalie's graduation last week we're in the car ride back and she's like i just um

I just can't believe like some of the things that your like family says to each other. Some of the jokes that you guys make. Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angie. And one thing I've learned is that you buy a house, but you make it a home. Because with every fix, update and renovation, it becomes a little more your own. So you need all your jobs done well. For nearly 30 years, Angie has helped millions of homeowners hire skilled pros for the projects that matter. From

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whoa this is so fun it feels like you get all your cousins together and it's really cool because i wasn't blessed with many cousins my age they were all younger way older yeah and once i saw your guys's family dynamic i was like man that's something that's something special and as i've gotten older now i can bs with my aunt and uncles a little better because we're i'm older in age but it is unique what you guys have like there's not many families like that for sure do you think we can bring ryan to our christmas eve to my house i don't know if he'd be able to handle it

And at my house, Christmas Eve, it's my wife and then their grandpa Dave is there with his girlfriend. Who's my grandma's ex-husband. Yeah. Yeah. So technically he's like...

I don't know what you would call it because you've been married to our grandma since before we were born. But like in theory, we're not blood. Which is so funny because God, you guys, I feel like you guys are two apples right off the tree. Like, you know, you have so many similar characteristics. I mean, you think about it though, he's always been our grandpa. So yeah, he did raise us. I can see you guys picked up mannerisms. And then my brother is there who married my ex-wife. Yeah. Christmas time. Yeah. It's like, yeah, you got my grandma's ex-husband.

his girlfriend and then his ex-wife married to his brother wow Christmas Eve yeah and everyone plays cards and talks shit and it's fun yeah

We drink wine and beer and whatever else. Once in a while we have a surprise. I don't know what it would be, but we'd maybe have one on Christmas Eve. But anyway, yeah, that's kind of... What was that? I don't know what that means. Well, yeah. I didn't realize how weird that family dynamic is until a couple years ago. Until I got older, yeah. I was explaining it to...

A friend or someone. And I was like, yeah, it's actually pretty funny, though, because, like, my grandpa's ex-wife is there, and then my grandma's ex-husband is there, and then actually my grandpa's ex-wife is married to his brother. And, yeah, but it all works. Like, it all works, and they're just like, what? Hold on, no. Your grandpa's brother is married to the ex-wife? Which I still think is really funny, because...

I just like, I'm trying to picture what that would be like of you and her, like getting divorced. And then you find out that your brother is married to like getting. Yeah. Were you mad hitching up? No, but I've already asked you this before. I did hear something this morning or this morning. I think when I talked to my niece, she, you should visit with her sometime. She'd clue you in a lot of stuff. She said her mom just died here a couple of months ago. And she said, one of the things that,

My mom always told me, she remembers you talking to me, is when Ken, my brother, married my wife. I said, what in the fuck is wrong with him? And she...

Her mother is 92, and she can still remember the day I said that, which was a good point at the time. And then after he married her, I would say, I'm glad he's married to her instead of me. So that was it. Yeah, that's what he always would say. I was just happy that he was married to her instead of me. They'd always ask me, you know, what's that like? I mean, seeing your brother with, you know, your...

Fine with me. I mean, at least it's not me. So, but yeah. But, you know, getting back to relationships like that, I found out that my mom's mother died when my mom was three. So her dad ended up marrying my dad's sister.

whose husband died in the war. So we kind of started a long time ago doing this. Wow. Yeah, so actually my dad's sister was my grandma.

Oh, my gosh. Kind of, you know. Wow. Yeah, and I didn't really realize that growing up when I was younger, but now, you know, later years, I've forgotten. We're all together. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. In those days, I mean, everybody knew everybody and weren't blood related, but one person's spouse passed away and the other one's dead, so they got together. That's where it's at. That's how it goes. That's how it goes. You're going to make love no more, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, talking about...

These guys, growing up, Ben, I lived on a golf course, and Ben and Sam and Natalie would always come up there, and we'd go out on the golf course. Oh, I wanted to drive the golf cart, of course. Well, Ben was the youngest, so they always beat the shit out of him. They wouldn't let him drive.

And now I think about that, you know, it's probably a good thing because I see how he drives today. I wouldn't have had a golf cart. Yeah. They've been toasted. I was thinking about that. You look, you look out the window and I'm jumping it off the tee box. Yeah. Right. I mean, yeah. Have you watched our reckless golfing videos? Yeah. Yes. I got to do that. Do you want to come with on next one? Maybe. Oh, actually hold on. You'll get your own cart. You just stay off the side. You got to stay out of the, I don't know if we can trust him with

that. I do. I know we gave him strict instructions not to hurt anyone. We didn't tell him not to hurt himself though in bowling. That is where we messed up. Yeah, that one kind of slipped between the lines. I got a cut in my finger. Christ. I mean, that's, I was telling these guys, uh, ran, you know, I got five older brothers who grew on my farm. They used to throw me under a bull and a kick. What? And, and, um, and we'd have, we had boxing gloves, you know, and I'm,

five orders. I could just shit kicked out of me all the time. So that was no big deal. You know, that, uh, you are a tough bastard. You know that, you know, how fucked up anyone else, even everyone sitting at this table would be taking a fall like that. I'd be complaining about it for a week. CJ, CJ, it would have been bad deal. You have to know how to land. What are you talking about? You had no time to brace. I remember going down. God, I felt like I was flying for a minute. It's

You were. Okay. I remember going back to the golf cart stuff as kids. I remember one time you were driving the golf cart, and we had like four or five of us crammed in that thing, and I was on the end, and there was nothing to really hold on to, and you were ripping around, and we were on the cart path, and you took a hard turn, and basically everyone just kind of slid, and I just got booted off the side, and I just tumbled and got all skinned up, and I was like...

Like, I think I might have been crying. And then all of you guys pulled up on the golf cart laughing. Yeah, I was worried about you. Oh, yeah? Well, yeah. And then I hopped on, I think. And you guys didn't really care until we got home. Then Grandma was like, oh, are you okay? Yeah, my niece was telling me another story because, you know, she sees some of the shit that happens. But she said when her and her sister were like maybe eight or nine, and I had a 60 Chevy convertible.

And so I decided I'll take them. They were at our house. And I said, I'll take you to town and buy you a cone of ice cream or something. So I do. And I put them in the back seat. And then I'm driving. So I'm going 90 miles. And our ice cream flies off of their cone. And one was in the front and one was in the back. Ice cream all over hell. And they told their mother about that.

God, I thought her mother, she'll never ride with her Uncle Ron again. And they never have. I mean, that was a death deal. Well, they don't have to, but I mean, you know,

Oh, gosh. You know what we used to do? Do you remember when you'd be driving us somewhere and you'd go, hey, I bet you I can make it the entire way home without stopping? Yeah. That's across town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'd be driving, you know, 20 minutes across town, busy intersection, stoplights, everything like that. So we'd see, like, a red light.

you know, quarter mile up, and he would start slowing down in traffic. He'd be holding up traffic just so you can go until it turns green and then you can go again. Same with, like, stop signs and all that or if you're, like, actually getting in traffic. We did it. I think we did. Oh, we didn't do it. And then if you would fail, we'd be like, oh, I told you you couldn't do it. Or if you'd make it, you'd be like, gotcha, fucker. He'd be like, oh, I said that.

One mile per hour just creeping until the light would change. I remember one time when I was riding with you, Grandpa, it was me, you, and Grandma, and there was a guy at the grocery. We were driving past the grocery store, and this guy was getting arrested, and you pulled over, and we watched. We pulled over, parked, and watched. You're like, oh, you want to watch? And we pulled over.

Oh, yeah. Most grandparents take him to the zoo or something like that. They're like, don't turn the other way. Oh, yeah, that's cool. Watch. He pulled in. Yeah, learn not to get arrested. That's true. Exactly right. Yeah, that's the underlying message, not the entertainment factor. Yeah. I think you were laughing during it. You're like, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Yeah.

I've had some great experiences with all these guys, all my grandkids, a lot of people. But you've got to live wide open is perfect. That's what you've got to do. Absolutely. Help people do things and whatever. I always say it, but I really hope that by the time I'm your age, I've lived a life like you, and I'm still like,

Have energy like you. Maybe I shouldn't say lived a life like you, but just had a very fun life like you. That's what you've had. So you can tell you're getting your head in hockey, can't you, by the way you talk? But, like, you're in such good... You're in good condition, and, like, you just... You can do a lot of stuff that most people 10 years younger than you can't even do. Well, that's your fault. It's true. I mean, well, seriously, like...

Your parents, both are chiropractors, have taken great care of me, obviously. Next morning, after I hit my head, I get phone calls, get your ass over to the clinic and do this and do that. So they take good care of me. Did they say you were out of shape?

When they fixed you up? No, my neck was a little bit screwed up. He just kept complaining about his finger. My finger. Which I'm just, like, I'm happy that that's the only thing. It's like broken. Yeah, just a little jammed up. Yeah, well, Jason put a laser on it, and he said if it hurts, that laser's broken. I said, just cut, for Christ's sakes. I mean, everybody gets that. But anyway, so that helps. Obviously, it keeps you safe.

You're healthy. And you kind of watch what you eat. Really? You do? I don't eat a lot of greasy foods. That's good. And I've never smoked, ever. Cigarettes. What about vape? No, I'd never do that. They didn't have vapes back then? No. And they had dope, marijuana, but I'm afraid if I would have tried it, I would have liked it. So I stayed away from it. Right.

I can't believe you never smoked cigarettes either. What was the reasoning behind that? Because growing up, I'd imagine it was extremely common. It's like how vapes are now. My mom never smoked. And my older brothers, three or four of them did, I guess. And my dad did it.

I don't remember him smoking. And whenever my brother would bring, older brother would bring a girlfriend home or something, and my mom would say, she smokes. It was like she put something in my mind that it's really bad, you know. So she never did. And I was in sports, so we had training, drank beer, but worked that off. You've been drinking beer your whole life. But lunch. When did you start drinking beer? Oh, I don't know. You know, we used to have a farm where you had

thrashing days, you know, where you'd harvest and thrash, and crews would come in. And when we'd do that, we had a milk cooler. You guys went in that milk house. And my dad would buy two or three cases of beer and throw it in there so it would stay cold. And people would come in and have a beer before they'd go back out. So I maybe, I don't know, 13, 14, you guys sneak in and grab a beer. Yeah, yeah. Didn't have too many.

But I would have one, you know, good for you, better than Coca-Cola. That's another thing you've always told me is drinking a beer is better for you than a pop. Well, yeah, if you're old enough. Well, not old enough.

Don't take any of this as advice. This is just the way I was told. Where do you get this energy from, though, Grandpa? I mean, I don't take drugs. I don't even have a doctor. But I try and eat right, pretty much, if I can. And I don't know, I eat eggs every day. I don't eat a lot of fatty foods.

And I don't drink pop with sugar and stuff like that. How much of a difference do you think just being social makes? And like getting out and talking to people, but more along the lines of just doing something. Oh, 100%. I mean, if you can have social, you can bullshit with somebody and go out. Well, look at people you know that don't do that.

They get up and they can barely walk. And they limp or whatever, back bent over, their nose is touching their toes, basically. They don't socialize. In fact, I was telling your grandma, yes, we should go out dancing some night, you know? And I could still do that. She's a little lax in that maybe, but I could do that.

And I think you could do a lot of things, but I have the energy to do that. And it's because you got to socialize with people. You got to talk to people. You guys do that all the time. That's what we, you know, but you have friends, probably your age that are not social or not friends. And what's their, what are they like? I mean, they're duds probably not that. I don't know. Some people are just have it or they don't though. You know, well, you have a knack for just like when you walk into a room, you just like,

Being funny, you're talking loud, people just like immediately kind of like you. And then like just the whole vibe of the room and the positivity of, you know, everything gets elevated. And yeah, everyone else has more fun, whether they're even not talking around you. I mean, you have to have good feelings towards everyone. Basically, you should have, you know, like, you know, the other night we did at the pool. Yeah.

The three gals sitting at the table there. I didn't know that happened. I was laughing my ass off, dude. They were pretty good looking chicks, yeah. Well, I was talking to them. You know, they were nice. I said, we're having some fun here. And so pretty soon they're asking questions and they're talking to all of us because we're nice to them. Yeah. It's a good point. You walk in energy the way you talk to people. Yeah. And you're smiling when you're talking to, you know, and you're just...

Yeah, you can just tell. I feel like almost everyone has that innate, you can tell if someone means well. You know, obviously you got to be careful because there's plenty of people who are snakes, but. Oh, yeah, yeah. But ultimately, in like most cases, you can kind of tell. Yeah, I kind of ended up, you know, when I was traveling in the clothing business, that most of my, all my clients or customers, basic clients, I guess, were friends of mine. And a lot of them, I would say at their house, you know,

at night sometimes. Come over and wait dinner and you stay here. Because I get along with them. Treat them fair. Don't cheat anybody. But yeah, you are correct on that. Social is so important. And that's why I worry about nowadays the kids working on computers. Oh yeah, like for work and then school? Yeah, and school. You've got to have part of that social life or you're going to turn out to be

basically, you know? So, yeah, that's scary. Would you go door to door doing sales? I did that. I did that when I went to, I sold fuller brush at one time. I feel like that's where you've got to like really refine your social skills. Cause every, every door to door salesman or person who did door to door sales actually kind of has very similar. I, I,

I did fuller brush, and you guys, are you familiar with fuller brush at all? No. With fuller brush, you'd sell spray cleaners or room deodorants, and they'd sell brushes, you know, fingernail brushes, scrub brushes, toilet brushes, cleaners, and you'd have your case, and you'd always have these little liters. We're not going to do it to give them a, what I mean by a liter, a sample or something, but

When I went to work, these guys, I was in St. Paul. They put me in the frickin' slums, low-income areas. Really? Yeah.

Were you worried walking around? No, I wasn't worried. Like it wasn't like the hood or nothing? No, I wasn't worried at all. But they didn't have the money to spend as compared to the... They thought they did. So they give me these orders. Shit, I'm writing these orders, you know. Well, then I have to deliver them a week later. I go back. None of them have any money. Oh, no. Yeah. But some of the places I can go in, they stunk so bad. So I'd open my case up, and I'd always have these room deodorants.

and I spray them above my head. So I'm talking while this is settling down, and as soon as I would go away, I'd grab another one, spray it above my head, and so I can talk to them without choking. But some of these places, I remember this one place I walked into, I'll never forget it, I walked in, a lady left me, she must have weighed 300 pounds, ugly, no teeth.

you know, whatever. I walk in and at the refrigerator, he's got a broom handle holding the refrigerator door shut. And in those days, they had milk bottles, you know, and there were empty milk bottles sitting there that weren't washed out. Oh, yeah. And the side of the refrigerator was just dirt. House was dirt. Stunks of bad dirt. I just stand there. And,

And then you want to get out and well, those people, no, no, stick around. Let's see what you got, what you have. I got a deployment. I got to go. I mean, some of the places, what a lesson to be learned. But if you can go door to door, a lot of people are so full of brush, have been done okay afterwards because if you can go door to door and talk to those people and stand that, you can almost do anything. Yeah. Yeah. That takes courage. Yeah.

Or I don't know any better. I'd say the courage came in handy with the blind bowling. Well, yeah, but that's some of the sales stuff, yeah. And then you get to some places in corporate where everybody thinks they're on a pedestal. It's a privilege for me to try and sell me something. Screw you. But once you got past some of those buyers, they were great. Yeah, if you had a good product, but...

That's kind of sales work, you know. But, oh, this is a good one. I forgot to tell you guys about this. It's Easter time, and I'm going to Watertown, South Dakota, that way. I'm going to Watertown to call on a customer there. And I used to have a deal underneath my seat. You never heard of this one. And it was like a little flapper, and it would say, how about a drink? Would you like a cup of coffee or...

Whatever it may be. So, I see this gal driving this, maybe a 60, five plus thing, whatever it was, and I wheel up, and there go a good looking gal. So, I walk up, I pull my sign up, and I hold it like this. No fucking way. You had a sign to hold out the window? Yeah, I kept it underneath the seat. And I...

And I could wait. Was this just you or, or this was like a thing? This was me. Okay. That's how you'd pick them up. Well, it'd be how you'd meet them. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, I have this sign and I bring it up and I put it next to the window and she looks at me like, which sign was it? She said, how about a drink? It's like two in the afternoon. Yeah.

And so we get to the stop sign, and she's right behind me. So I get out of my car, and I walk over. I say, you see my sign? Would you like to stop for a drink? And she said, sure. So we go to a place called the Pheasant Inn, which is a restaurant and bar in Watertown. This is like 2, 230. We drink gimlets. What are those? Gimlets with your vodka with a little rose of lime juice in them. You drink too many, you'll know it. Okay. So anyways...

And we go in this bar, and she's drinking Gilmour's with me. Well, she's on her way to Belfouche. You know where that's at? That borders the Wyoming border. Okay. It's across the state. Yep. So we're drinking about 5, 30 maybe. And so she's heading out there because on Easter, she was a teacher at Sherbourne, Minnesota. And her parents were out in Belfouche and her brother, and she was going to go visit them for Easter. Okay.

oh okay why don't you come with me i said i can't work and she says oh i'll bring you back i can't i'm working she's like now we're sending a party so anyways we get in her car and we have to drive across south okay i ride along so we get in the car it's a five hour drive find her brother it's like one in the morning whatever i'm tired and uh so piss around at night with whatever next morning

I got to go back to Watertown. I'm five hours away. So I said, you don't have to give me a ride back. I'll try and catch a bus. No buses. Fly back, no planes. I said, well, I guess you do. So she had to give me a ride all the way back to Watertown. So I screwed up two days of her vacation. Just because of your sign. My sign worked pretty good, too. In the morning, you could go, how about coffee? And then you'd go in the restaurant and have coffee. How many times would that happen?

but then you find out that they're married. Never asked that.

Because I'd imagine, you know, if you're having a conversation with someone, but that one's just like you see someone, you're like, you want to go on a date? Well, if we're driving down the road, I mean, in my South Dakota, especially out in the middle of nowhere by themselves, they're probably. Yeah, true. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't do that if you saw some lady with two kids in the back seat. You don't want to deal with them. No. You said you had some. What are the kids going to do? You pissed off some husbands, though? Yeah. Really? Yeah.

Well, when I lived in Kenyon with my buddy, we were single, both of us. And I get a letter in the mail from this guy. They were not getting along anyway, but I was going out with his wife. And anyway, I get a letter in the mail from her husband.

A letter. Yeah, how in the hell did he get my address? How in the hell does he know who I am? And in there, he's starting to kill me. I'm going to kill you when I come to your house and kill you. Which is concerning because he wrote a letter to your house, so he definitely knows where you live. He knows where I live, yeah. And it's only about 80 miles from where he lives. So my buddies I live with, I mean, they have fun with that. Schmitty.

Strange car just pulled in the driveway. Yeah. I mean, what do I do? What, my upstairs window? Because there's only one door out of the house. Well, then it wouldn't be. But they did that a number of times on me. But finally, I settled down. He never did come? Not when I was there. I hope. But he got over it. They were getting divorced anyway, so it wasn't. That was the only run-in? No, I didn't want that.

i had i had one in fargo actually yeah that was long many years and that's like 50 years ago and this guy i go to her place i'm taking a shower in the morning door knocks somebody knocks on door and opens it up it's a guy yeah

And I'm naked. Take a shot. Talk about being vulnerable. Well, I'm going to take a bar of soap first of all. I'm going to rub on his eyes and whatever I have to do. You had a plan. I did have a little bit of a plan. Rub it in his eyes instead of just punch him? Well, yeah. I mean... I'm not a fighter, but I'll rub soap in his eyes. Well, he can't. That hurts, you know. Yeah. You're right. So, but I don't want... So, I said... And he said, that's my girl, right? I didn't realize...

She was married. As you're using his bar of soap to wash your nuts. No, no, no. He didn't do that. And he said, well, we're not. That was my girlfriend. Oh. I said, well, that's different. But then they go in the bedroom and argue. All my clothes are in the bedroom, so I got to go in there and get my pants and my shoes. That was an awkward moment. Talk about it. And I got the hell out of there. I told her, I'm not coming back to your house. You're going to see me. You have to come in. Yeah.

Well, you know, you get some interesting experiences when you can free and do whatever you want, kind of. Yeah, it sounds like it. So that was the first party. Well, one time, my brother and I and two other guys, we go to NASA. We're in the Bahamas. Bahamas? Yep. And we went to play. It was my birthday, actually, March 7th. And we go to a playboy club at that time. It was fairly new there.

They had those in the Bahamas? The first one they built. Do they still have those? I don't know if they do or not. There's no way. I feel like they've kind of gone extinct. Meet this gal from, her and her friend from Louisville, Kentucky. So we spent a couple days. We all get together. We have fun. So they want us to come back to Louisville with them, my brother and myself. Okay. What the hell? We're in no hurry. So we do. Okay.

We get back to Louisville, and Lemo picks us up at the airport. It was her butler. Oh, my. So we go back to their house. Man, it's on the river, a nice home. God damn, this is all right. That was the one my brother was fooling around with. And her husband had passed away, but he owned all those, like, carpet ranches.

You know, that kind of carpet store? Carpet world? Well, stuff like that. It was home decor. He owned around the whole country. Wow. Yeah. And then she also owned a country western bar in...

Louisville and she owned a radio station. She had never gone in her bedroom since her husband died. That overlooked the river so I got that bedroom. So he gets it. I don't care. So I pushed the button

Behind me, and you're in May to come up, bring me orange juice. Oh, wow. Yeah, because the other gal was a Christian. But anyway, we're supposed to go back to the Kentucky Derby. In the clothing business, you get your lines that would break, like for fall or winter. Well, that would have been my fall line, which is a big time of the year for me to be on selling.

And when you get your line, you're supposed to get your ass on the road. I was going to say that. It seems like in a lot of these stories, it's been that you've taken advantage of an opportunity and you're just like, yeah, no, the other stuff I got to do, that I can do later. I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity now. It's really cool. Like, I admire that. Yeah. You set your life up so you can kind of just do whatever you want. Well, it turns out that this gal's booth that she had in her box was next to the governor. So I'm thinking...

Okay, I get my line that particular week to go back to work. And I think, I go to that fucking Kentucky Derby. Or I go down there, and I'm setting up in their box. And my guys, my bosses from Texas, look at the, because there you watch, it's a Kentucky Derby. Sees me setting up in a box. Why isn't that asshole on the road selling goods like he's supposed to be? So I didn't go.

I didn't go. That's one of the reasons I didn't go. Because I didn't want to jeopardize my job. And I kept thinking about that. He's in Minnesota. And now he's just got his line because they know when they ship all my samples. And now it's Saturday. He's down in Louisville, Kentucky at the Derby.

He's not working. You were so close to the governor. Yeah, you couldn't necessarily go hobnobbing. Well, because I thought they were, when they run the camera, they only show the governor. Yeah, of course. You'd be right on the side. Right on the side. Just talking shit, drinking beer. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I, oh, shit, it's not worth it. I didn't go. Is that wrong? Yeah, I said I didn't go. Grandpa, you did, Ryan kind of mentioned it, but everything...

that you're saying is basically you just saying yes and then just figuring the rest out afterwards. Have you always kind of just been like, fuck it, let's do it? Yeah. It doesn't get me in any serious trouble or anything and don't hurt anybody. Yeah, I'm game for a lot of stuff. The only question, hey, we got a prank. Do I have to get naked? No. All right, I'm in. That's his only stipulation. You were in before you heard the prank. Well, yeah. Yeah.

But no, I do appreciate that. I don't know if it, if it's the times that's a little different. I feel like now it's, you're so easily connected. Like your boss would be calling you on Friday and go, Hey, how was sales? You don't get that day or two of leeway when you're tracking the truck, everything. Exactly. And I feel like life moves maybe a little bit faster. I don't know, but I really can admire that. You're just like, yeah, I went to the Bahamas. I took the time to do this. I took the time to drive five hours across the state of South Dakota with some chick. Like,

stuff like that i don't think people just do now maybe because the world doesn't set up maybe girls wouldn't pull over if you pulled held up a sign and said i want to get a drink maybe they're smarter nowadays but i mean it's it's just so cool and it shows you can learn by saying yes to experiences and stuff like that like you almost never regret saying yes to something

Which is maybe a bit too much of a blanket statement. I said yes a couple times when I got married. I shouldn't have. I mean, that's one maybe I should have missed.

But we said, no, I'm fucking out of here. Well, it worked out for you and grandma. Grandma's sitting here like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have said yes to that. Oh, yeah. I always give a shit about that. I said, oh, man. But she's a great lady. So, I mean. She's managed to put up with you for what, 40 years? Yeah, she's wonderful. So, that's perfect. I do find it so funny because grandma is like one of the nicest people I've ever met. Yeah, she is. And, yeah.

I just think it's so funny that you two ended up together. Not saying that you're not, but I just picture Greta more of like a, just like a, you know, she's a little bit quieter, but just like clean cut, sweet lady. And then you got you coming in. Kind of like you and Greta. Very similar. I don't know if I should say this, but what probably happens because of her previous marriage, I mean, living the way that

I mean, like that was kind of a down the road, middle of the road probably kind of thing.

And finally, do I want this anymore? You were in the ditch. You were driving in the ditch. They were down the middle of the road. You were going across the ditch. Then you were popping back up. Hitting the other side. Jumping approaches. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So the other night, it was probably 11 or so. And we were down in Minneapolis.

Everyone wanted to go to bed, but me and CJ and Grandpa Ron wanted to go to the casino. And Ken. Ken was our driver. He was very eager. Ken was game. Ken was game. And we were talking about going to the casino, but it ended up getting vetoed. But...

I think we still got to do something like that. You guys would love that casino down there. Well, we just need a little bit of help on the, on the gambling aspect. Not, I don't know if you're any help, but I think we need to switch something up. We need some good luck. Well, yeah, yeah. But you know what? I was thinking, why am I having my back in my head? Um, the part that got hit, we got hit. Yeah. Right here. Uh, you,

You guys should do a casino night here sometime. Let us, you know, the games to go, we do those. We set up maybe six blackjack tables, a roulette table. Oh, that'd be fantastic. A big wheel. You have to, you know, we can do that. The money part of it, we got to play money, $100 bills. I don't think you'd be allowed to. Oh, we can't do real money? Well, but here's how we can do that.

You do that, and you would have to get chips. Okay? And you get money to start with, and everybody would have to buy play money, and let's just say everybody spends $100, and they get X amount or whatever they get. And then they play with chips. And then at the end of the night, you take your chips in, and it's worth X amount of dollars in chips. And then you have your prizes that you can bid on. Mm-hmm.

or however you want to do it. But I don't think... I think from what I watched a movie on it, as long as the house doesn't take a cut, it's not a casino. Oh, okay. All right. We should totally do that. There's tons of people in this area that would totally pull up. If we had blackjack roulette... And it'd be so good for your ATM. Oh, my gosh. I'd keep my ATM plumped full. I'd probably swap from... You'd have Brinks truckers to 20s. And I would have the dealers, and I'd have people because I worked with them all the time.

You know, I deal with blackjack all the time and games to go. So we got tables. We got roulette, two roulette tables. We got a spinning wheel. I can't believe you have a big wheel. Evan loves big wheel. We spin it. Yeah. We got that. And then we have one called a horse race thing. That's fun. We'll get him other games too probably. But you put maybe seven or eight or ten games together. You accommodate quite a few people. I don't know if you got enough room in your parking lot for everybody. But yeah.

We could build one here. What's like your go-to gambling game? By myself? Probably blackjack. Do you think you have the best odds? The video poker, I think I mentioned to you before, where you play video. That is your best odds.

Except for the guys who really know how to play craps. I still don't understand that game at all. If you're really a good crap player, you'll win because you can cover your bets. You're smart enough to know how to cover your bets. I'm not smart enough to do that. I'm just a crap player. I'm just a crap player all around. Well, you know that. It's true then. No, I just can't play. I'm crappy. I'm bad. I am a shitty player. I'm a shitty gambler. Are you? Yeah.

Maybe we've seen the game sometime. But, yeah, but no, if you learn how to play craps, I mean, you really know how to do the odds. I had some friends that were really good at it. They'd fly into Vegas all the time to play. I was telling these guys, you know, they had this one friend that he would run money through the front desk.

at the hotel. So they think he's spending all this money there. Can he take it out? And then he'd just keep having more money. He'd gamble, but he wouldn't lose it. But they don't know that. Oh.

But they think because he's running $5,000, $10,000. Genius. $5,000, $10,000 through the front desk that he's gambling a lot of money in their casino. Therefore, they'd comp his room, fly him in. Wow. I wonder if they still do that. Because they've got the player cards so you can track what you put in. But I still don't know. It might be. Yeah. I don't know. Let's say he doesn't use his player card all the time. He just...

plays you know yeah i i don't know if he still does i don't think he still does that i don't know if i'd have the self-control if i've if i've got money coming in if i was just put in ready to walk it out and he'd end up being like let's put it on black yeah and then it'd be gone but i had a good friend who was a actually he sold his paper company in san jose california and just became had the money just to

play sports. He could be a bookie. Sports bet? Yeah. He wasn't a bookie. He could be, but he wasn't. I mean, he just for himself and he'd have his budget for baseball, football, and then he wanted to be, he was a professional gambler. So some of the offshore gambling at that time, he wasn't a professional gambler. So he ran it through my computer and

So I would see all the bets he's doing, you know. And so some days he'd bet $12,000 and lose $9,000. He'd bet $20,000 and win $40,000. And it was really fun to watch that. No kidding. Yeah. And when I'd go to Vegas to visit him, we'd go to the – when he'd make his bets, we'd bounce all around town at 6 in the morning to find out where there's a half a point difference in a spread because that's a big deal because he bet –

And when he played blackjack, he had to bet $100 at a time to keep his card going. And at the MGM, and he got all his comps, and they'd go there, and Mr. Bennett, how are you tonight? And you'd have dinner and all the wine you wanted and free food. I don't know how much they do that. He's passed away. I don't know how much they're doing that anymore. I think they do. Do they? We have a buddy who gets all of his stuff comped, and he goes down, and he'll either win.

Win real big or lose big. Yeah. One or the other. But, yeah. I wonder, so, like, Steve will do it is, uh...

Always at the casino, Red Rocks Casino, and they're, like, taking really good care of him and doing all this stuff for him. But I just wonder if he is positive or negative because if he's positive, why would they do it? There's no way. Well, also, but he is promoting them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'd imagine that they have similar treatment to other people that are just big gamblers. They must just be taking the risk on, like,

This person's an addict. They're going to keep doing it. And we're eventually going to win. Yeah. They should call me a room. I'm a consistent loser. They don't need to. They know you'll come back either way. The house is a winner. It's tough. Yeah. It's hard. Every time. Yeah. If you're like that, you know, I was telling these guys, you're a gambler. There was a time I was in the Bahamas. I go to the casino and our dealer is stoned. Okay. Yeah.

Anyway, playing blackjack, and nobody would break, and he pays everybody every time almost. Go around, you have a break, he'd pay you. It was a hell of a deal. People were lined up. One guy wanted to buy my CD off me 500 bucks for it. He got people behind us watching.

And you're not losing. And my buddies keep taking my money, you know, because I'm winning. And I'm kind of like, man, if I have it, I'll spend it. Oh, I suppose you've got to shift it off the table and get it away. They kept taking it. No, I think because you were so liquored up. Oh, yeah. So anyway, they changed dealers. Went out to another story because although the pit boss came over one time and looked at him and he said, sleepy, sleepy, sleepy, wakey, wakey, wakey. They're all British there.

So, because he's got the eye in the sky. Yeah, they know. And I couldn't believe it. So, anyways, this other guy comes back. Shit, you know.

I don't even leave. I lost it. What I had. So I go home next morning. They come in there. They take it. They threw $2,800 on my bed that I had won that they took. Amazing. Yeah. Those are some true friends. No kidding. My brother. And you know, I would have tried to double it. And then I would have been like, I lost it. Well, I'd be like, what, what are you talking about? And you'd be like, perfect. Doesn't remember. I,

We went back the next night, and he's still working. He wasn't stolen this time, but he still had a job, and it was amazing. People lining up to hop on that table. Yeah, not that, not the next night, but amazing how he still had a job. No kidding. I mean, I never had seen that before. Yeah, but anyway, getting that...

Think about a casino night. I think we got to, just for fun. I don't think we could put it on YouTube, but it'd just be fun. People would love it around here. We have a lot of friends that like to gamble. And you might have a night. Recreationally. A site on auction at the end. You want to give away some stuff. You guys give away a lot of shit. Maybe like a t-shirt or something. Yeah, that. Yeah. Motorcycle, car, whatever. Case of beer. Blown up R6. Yeah. Ha ha.

But anyway, you guys like to gamble. That's a lot of fun. That would be fun. You got any stories about these hooligans when they were kids? Anything they did? Oh, well, you know, yeah, I got one about CJ over here. We were building a house. This has been in 2000.

building a new house so we didn't have a we sold our old one we didn't have a place to live grandma and i so we'd bounce around we stayed at ben's parents lake home for a while gonna stay at kim and jeff cj's parents so we could stay there so we stay there and i in the spare bedroom here comes cj he's crying and he's shaking he's in he's about four maybe five you

I think I might have even been younger. He was like 15, 16. They really hold this against me. Well, he does. Yeah, you got me here. I got to hit you guys and...

Grandma, she doesn't know what to say. Poor grandma took it personally. One time my grandma bought me underwear for my birthday and I was so embarrassed I cried. I'm hoping she forgot it. You smalls? No, she got me like freaking Spongebob underpants. I was like 12. So it was just like right in that age and you sold friends over your birthday party. Cried like a baby. Man, that had to have been a rough look. It was probably a rough look. You get underwear and then you start crying. And then I cry.

What an idiot, dude. I was probably younger than that. Eight. I don't know. I think you gave me a case of beer on my 12th birthday. I did? Really? I don't think so. Because I did. Could you imagine? Well, I might have given you one beer on your 13th birthday, but I don't have a case. I'm not going to give you a case of beer. I'll drink it myself. I think that was about the age that whenever we would start coming over, you started offering us beer.

Yeah. Only one, right? That's all they had given. It was more of a setup, though. It was trying to see if you'd take it. Yeah. Yes, you could take it. I could tell the parents. Yeah, that was one of the stories about CJ. Yeah.

I love, they hold it over me. Yeah, yeah. They do. They bring that story up all the time. It's hard to say this, but Ben was really always a good kid. No way. That one? Yeah, he was. He was. I remember his shit when he'd crawl around. He never cried.

He cries now a lot probably, but he never cried. He was just always a good kid. Just, you know, and Nick never cried. You know, he was just, he probably was afraid to get the shit kicked out of him by his older brother or sister. I don't know. But he never cried. He was a good kid. He was pumping my tires. Thank you, Grandpa. Well, you didn't. I mean, you didn't. You were a little kid that just always laughed, crawled around and floored. Yeah, they actually tested if I was deaf.

Because they thought I couldn't hear because I, like, I guess wouldn't cry. Really? Yeah, I don't know. Right, Dad? How long did I go without crying? Like years. Yeah. Yeah. You're amazing. Yeah. Years. Yeah. That's unbelievable. Yeah. And then, of course, I had a chance to watch CJ play hockey a lot. And, of course, when he played hockey, his cheeks would look like two red roses. Yeah.

Remember how rosy your day was? Yeah, I probably got red cheese right now, though. Well, yeah, it could be. But I watched him get some hat tricks many times. Oh, I thought you were going to say get lit up. Well, that too. Ha ha ha!

Thank you. Oh, yeah. I appreciate the hat trick stuff. You were getting hatties? Yeah. Were you a goal scorer? Lotterer scorer. Lotterer scoring. Lotterer scoring. Yeah, he won more medals than shit for that. Thank you. I appreciate that. You can't say that on your own. Well, you did. Thank God. Someone finally recognized you. Who's the guy that did it behind your back? Who did that? Sidney Crosby? Or when I did it when I was...

I skated behind the net and I had a bunch of wax on my stick. So I picked the puck up and put it behind, behind him and made it behind the goal. Yeah. Wasn't that a pretty big deal too? Didn't you get like brought on varsity because of that or something? Or what? No, I was like younger, but, uh, but yeah, no. Yeah.

We didn't have it on video, though. That shit would have gone SportsCenter. That was a Sidney Crosby shot. He's the only guy that could... It was the University of Michigan goal. That's, I think, who originally did it in college hockey in the 90s. Amazing. Behind your back. Oh, yeah. You've always been so involved in our life, though. I mean, you came to every sporting event, any kind of school thing. We'd be hanging out. Now you're filming YouTube videos and podcasts with us. It's like, really...

I mean, yeah. Thank you for that. It's been great. It's been a lot of fun. Yeah. I'm safe today. I got my, I got my chiropractor here. Don't try any shit with me today. Grandpa, we don't have to try anything with you. You'll just hurt yourself. Thank God he's here. He's going to help you when you fall down. I know. That's what I said. I'm glad I got him here. That's yeah. He keeps me healthy for Christ's sakes. That's good. You know, hopefully, uh,

let you continue to hang out with us. Yeah. And, I mean, and the rest of the family. We did get a little backlash after that one, but... You did? For what? Well, they just weren't... I mean... Not too pumped. Yeah, they just weren't too stoked on, I guess, us enabling it. He's older than me. He should be telling me what to do. No, no, no. Yeah.

Like I said, when my niece saw that, she thought it was great. So what the hell, you know? Well, we appreciate you, and we're glad that you're okay. Yeah, so am I. But we do have to keep doing more video bits or something. Maybe we could do something a little more dangerous. What did you have in mind? I didn't know bowling was dangerous. I didn't either. I didn't either. Maybe try trap shooting. Oh, my gosh. The wrong end of a gun or something like that.

I think you're looking too into like the danger factor. Oh, no. Just so you guys have fun and do some videos. We could do a bunch more pranks. We could maybe have Ben pull up in his Lamborghini or something, and then you – and like he's like maybe like bragging about to some guy, and then you pull up and be like, what are you doing with my car?

Yeah, I could do that. Like spank them or something in public. Can I take the car then too? Yeah. Okay. My car. That's my car. I want it. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. No, we'll do some other stuff. Whatever you guys want. All right. I think we're going to wrap. But new merch drop, seaboystv.com, April 27th. Go and check it out, 7 p.m. And go and pick up some merch. Get entered for the giveaway. And we appreciate the support. Do you want us to plug? You don't have any social media. Do you want us to like plug your email or anything?

You can do anything you want. We're not going to plug your email because you have to get a new one after that. Thank you, guys. Thanks for coming on, Grandpa. Oh, yeah, that's fun. We love you. Oh, you guys are great. You even have cold beer here. That's cool.

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