Grandpa Ron on Getting Arrested, How YOU Helped Him Beat Cancer, & His New Outlook on Life

Summary

Podcast Summary: Grandpa Ron on Getting Arrested, How YOU Helped Him Beat Cancer, & His New Outlook on Life

Life Wide Open with CboysTV delves deep into the life experiences of Grandpa Ron, offering listeners an intimate glimpse into his past struggles, triumphs, and the wisdom he has garnered over the years. This episode, released on November 12, 2024, masterfully intertwines Grandpa Ron's personal anecdotes with valuable life lessons, emphasizing the transformative power of attitude and community support.

1. Getting Arrested: A Brush with the Law

The conversation kicks off with Grandpa Ron recounting his youthful escapades behind the wheel. He humorously shares his experiences with speeding and the subsequent run-ins with law enforcement.

• Grandpa Ron [00:25]: "If you keep scoring, don't win. It's your fault, that's what it is."

He details a particularly memorable incident where his attempt to navigate a three-wheel golf cart resulted in his vehicle crashing into a tree, leading to an unexpected arrest.

• Grandpa Ron [29:26]: "I rolled a cart over and there's clubs flying all over. Yeah. And I... if he comes out, I'm dead meat, you know?"

Throughout these stories, Grandpa Ron highlights the importance of having reliable friends and understanding the legal system, ultimately illustrating how he managed to navigate these challenges with a blend of humor and pragmatism.

2. Battling Cancer: The Role of Attitude and Community

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Grandpa Ron's courageous battle with cancer. He attributes his successful fight largely to his positive mindset and the unwavering support from his community.

• Grandpa Ron [05:00]: "I think, you know, I would have days when maybe I wasn't feeling that great and then I would start reading some of stuff you guys do and some comments coming back and I thought, what the hell am I doing feeling down?"

He shares a touching story about a woman he met at a pickup rally whose grandmother was battling cancer. By introducing her to the uplifting content created by CboysTV, Grandpa Ron played a pivotal role in improving her outlook, underscoring the profound impact of positive reinforcement.

• Grandpa Ron [04:28]: "And she was so depressed and I finally, I got her, told her, I took her and showed her the videos that you did with the Sea Boys and what you felt like, just like that, she turned around and doing better."

3. Reflections on Youth: Growing Up on the Farm

Grandpa Ron fondly reminisces about his childhood on a farm, detailing the dynamics of being one of six brothers. These stories not only provide entertainment but also shed light on the values instilled in him from a young age.

• Grandpa Ron [19:03]: "And I just go through this window. Like, oh, man. So anyways, that could have been good."

He recalls playful yet mischievous antics, such as hiding pre-made screwdrivers in the fridge and the resulting humorous misunderstandings. These narratives paint a vivid picture of a lively farm upbringing marked by camaraderie and lighthearted troublemaking.

4. The Power of Positivity: Influencing Those Around Him

A recurring theme in Grandpa Ron's dialogue is the significance of maintaining a positive attitude. He emphasizes how positivity not only shapes his own experiences but also influences those around him, fostering an environment of support and encouragement.

• Grandpa Ron [75:07]: "That was one aspect of it. Like right now you look at death, for example. Not a big deal, probably. I mean, I have a lot of friends that I went to funeral today. And you see, and you get older and it's going to happen."

His interactions with younger generations reveal how his optimistic outlook serves as a beacon of hope and resilience, inspiring the next generation to approach life's challenges with courage and a smile.

5. Outlook on Life: Embracing Change and Cherishing Moments

Concluding the episode, Grandpa Ron shares his evolved perspective on life post-cancer. He speaks candidly about facing mortality without fear, prioritizing meaningful relationships, and focusing on the present moment.

• Grandpa Ron [73:49]: "That was one aspect of it. Like right now you look at death, for example. Not a big deal, probably. I mean, I have a lot of friends that I went to funeral today. And you see, and you get older and it's going to happen."

He underscores the importance of enjoying life's offerings, staying connected with loved ones, and maintaining a positive demeanor despite external adversities.

• Grandpa Ron [76:27]: "But I know it's there and I'm not really afraid of it. Maybe 10 years ago, I might have been afraid of it, but after that, I watch what goes on with people and your attitudes, and I probably have more sympathy now for people than I did before and more depth in what they're doing, you know, because how am I going to be around? So I better enjoy what I see."

Notable Quotes

• Grandpa Ron [05:00]: "I think, you know, I would have days when maybe I wasn't feeling that great and then I would start reading some of stuff you guys do and some comments coming back and I thought, what the hell am I doing feeling down?"

• Grandpa Ron [73:49]: "That was one aspect of it. Like right now you look at death, for example. Not a big deal, probably."

• Grandpa Ron [75:07]: "I have more sympathy now for people than I did before and more depth in what they're doing, you know."

Conclusion

This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV offers a heartfelt exploration of Grandpa Ron's journey through legal troubles and a life-threatening illness, ultimately portraying a man who has harnessed the power of a positive attitude to overcome adversity. His stories serve as both entertaining anecdotes and profound life lessons, reminding listeners of the importance of resilience, community, and maintaining a cheerful outlook regardless of life's challenges.

Listeners who tune into this episode will not only be entertained by Grandpa Ron's engaging stories but also inspired by his enduring optimism and the genuine connections he fosters with those around him.

Transcript

[Ken]

Ken, do you have any control? Oh yeah, doesn't seem that way.

[Grandpa Ron]

If you keep scoring, don't win. It's your fault, that's what it is.

[CJ]

Who do you think was the worst kid growing up, me or cj?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh well, I hit this tree. I had all four wheels. Just how long am I going to be around so I better enjoy what I see.

[Gavin]

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[Grandpa Ron]

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[Gavin]

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[Grandpa Ron]

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[Grandpa Ron]

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[Gavin]

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[Grandpa Ron]

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[Gavin]

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[Grandpa Ron]

And that's the end of the script.

[Ben]

We just got sent some of these.

[Grandpa Ron]

Chris, you probably drink anything.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Gavin]

They're not bad. They're not good, though.

[Ben]

No, but, like, could you see yourself on the boat drinking six of these?

[Gavin]

Yeah, it's actually got a lot more flavor than I wanted.

[Ben]

Kind of a one and done road beer type.

[Grandpa Ron]

I could see Ryan drinking six of those on the boat.

[Gavin]

But why have six of those when you can have 12 of these?

[Grandpa Ron]

You know, that's true. You got a good point there.

[Ben]

Nicest party cup in the game right there.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, you don't drink anything.

[Ken]

I haven't drank since August 31st.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, you're better off.

[Ken]

I haven't had caffeine either. Since September 1st.

[Gavin]

What was harder to get rid of?

[Ken]

Caffeine.

[Gavin]

How long till we get you off those nuts?

[Ken]

Sorry, only a handful.

[CJ]

Grandpa, what's the longest that you went without drinking beer or alcohol?

[Grandpa Ron]

Just recently. I mean, since I had the cancer thing. Other than that, maybe a day. But when I. When I had the decanter, I didn't have any alcohol for three or four weeks. I found out was kind of.

[CJ]

Three or four weeks.

[Ben]

That's gotta be horrific.

[CJ]

Wow. For a second, I thought that you were gonna say a couple months.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, no.

[CJ]

While you were speaking, I was like, no, I saw him every couple weeks. And every single time I'd see you, you'd be like, let's get a drink.

[Grandpa Ron]

I'm always, you know beer is better for you than Pops, right?

[CJ]

Yeah. I grew up.

[Grandpa Ron]

Not good for you. So it's either water, beer or vodka, wine, whatever. Beer is easy, so. Well, thank you.

[Gavin]

There you go. There's your beer. We can celebrate again. You guys didn't hear Grandpa Ron kick cancer's ass? Buddy, let's go.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. That was really great. That was really great that we did. That happened and you guys were there. That was wonderful. I was telling C.J. on down here, I went to a deal with Jake a couple weeks ago.

[Ken]

My brother, so his grandson.

[Grandpa Ron]

And with a pickup rally, what they do. And this gal walks up to me, he says, grandpa around us? Yeah. She says, my grandma has cancer. She's the same age as you, 81. Same time. And she was so depressed and I finally, I got her, told her, I took her and showed her the videos that you did with the Sea Boys and what you felt like, just like that, she turned around and doing better. And that was the best thing I heard in a long time. I meant to hear that.

[CJ]

How much do you think attitude plays a factor in it?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, 95%.

[CJ]

Really?

[Grandpa Ron]

I think so. I mean, you know, I would have days when maybe I wasn't feeling that great and then I would start reading some of stuff you guys do and some comments coming back and I thought, what the hell am I doing feeling down? These guys are great. I mean, people all over the world wishing me well. Why the hell do I want to be down when they're thinking about me? And so that attitude just like that would snap me out of it. So I never really got into deep depression, but a lot of people do.

[Gavin]

Yeah, I mean, no kidding.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, I mean, you read a lot of those comments that we got back, people would say, my grand father or their mother or their whatever got depressed end up dying. So.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

And I guess I didn't realize that you guys maybe know more about it than I did. After you heard that stage four was pretty bad.

[CJ]

Well, yours was really bad. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

And I didn't really think it's so bad. I don't know, I mean, it didn't feel that great and I got out of it. I guess I feel pretty damn good now. I like having a beer. Played a lot of golf this year, did some work. So it's a lot of attitude in anything though, you know, the attitude.

[CJ]

Do they tell you that when you're like going into your first treatments, are they like, you know, keep a positive attitude or when it's like stage four like that, when it's so bad, is it, is it hard for the doctors to even like give, you know, give you any hope?

[Grandpa Ron]

The doctor I had, when he looked at, said, you know what it was, he said, well, I, I can take care of this. We'll give you a few more years to live, 5, 10, whatever. If you do what I say. Hell yeah, I'll do what you say. But when you go into the get your infusions and a lot of the people will such a knob. This might hurt. You're not, you may not feel well after you've had the shots. Why are you telling me this? You know, just give me some stuff in case it doesn't. It does hurt. And they did, but I never used it. But they warn you about the after effects, which I never had any really? Yeah. Fortunately I was really lucky on that. I still got the pills they gave me and cupboard at home, pain pills. And you see, after those infusions I had, sometimes you'd feel nauseous and dizzy. It never happened to me. But you guys are always around. What the hell? To keep me barked up.

[Gavin]

Hey, you had to stay young with us dragging you all around.

[Grandpa Ron]

I do, yeah. I'm serious and I talk about that all the time. I got grandkids and seaboys. Of course, keep me young. I mean, something to do. What the hell if you don't have that, you know, it's. But your, your attitude, I'd say 95%.

[Gavin]

Wow.

[Grandpa Ron]

I mean you can be sick and you're sick, I guess, but what the hell are you gonna do about it, right? I mean your attitude, it's not going to make any difference. If you have cancer, you have it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

You know, so let's do what we can do with it. I had a occasion where a friend of mine, I played golf with his sister in law had cancer and he saw the deal we did on WDY and he was, you know, tried to tell her about that and she, she won't listen. And she's got probably another month to live. What?

[CJ]

What do you mean won't listen?

[Grandpa Ron]

She won't do anything. She just. We'll give you an example. He told me one night he gets up and she's living with him now and his wife and she got up and made her had a waffle or toast or something and spill syrup all over the floor, right? So next morning he comes down and she's capable of getting around. He comes down the next morning and step in this syrup. What the hell is this? And she said, well, I spilled syrup last night. Well, why didn't you clean it up? Well, I'm sick and I'm going to die. That's the kind of attitude she has. So. And that's not going to cut it. Yeah.

[Gavin]

You know, I think being buddies with these two guys and your whole family honestly has really opened my eyes to how much like attitude manifesting like, you know, whatever you want to call it, but what you look for, how much you head that direction as opposed to looking towards the bad, you head towards the bad. Bad. And I mean in many things it's not like a good attitude can just pull you out of it in, in things like cancer and sickness and stuff like that. But thankfully with good treatment and the right attitude, you did. And we're out playing golf and, and.

[Grandpa Ron]

Doing fun things Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ken]

I think just even it goes to tie with, like, anything, like having a good attitude, no matter what you're trying to accomplish or do in life, it will help you do better. I'm not saying it's going to solve all your problems, but like, let's just say trying to do good in a sport, like having a good attitude going into it is going to make you just much more susceptible to learn and just, you know, evolve, be, be better and all that. But especially obviously with stuff like what Grandpa was going through.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I think attitude is obeying. You guys all have great attitudes. You do crazy stuff, which. Which is great. And people that I talked to, I was telling cj, I went to the football game a couple of weeks ago and.

[Gavin]

College game.

[CJ]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We were getting tagged in that.

[Gavin]

Oh, yeah. All the time.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, my.

[CJ]

I saw you were there.

[Ken]

Grandpa can't go anywhere anymore without getting pictures and hassled. Not. Not hassled, but yeah. You know.

[Grandpa Ron]

You know what the good thing about that is, is that people walk up to me and you say, grandpa Ron, how you feeling? I'm so glad you got over your cancer. This is what I mean. And that's really good to hear from young people. They're concerned that you know what they are about cancer, of course. But you're feeling better and you're America's grandpa. Yeah.

[CJ]

My dad was in Alaska fly fishing on this river up in the middle of nowhere, and there was one other guy or a couple other guys on the river. And like, I think my dad was wearing a Seaboyz hat, and the guy was like, oh, hey, yeah, I watch Seaboyz. And my dad was like, oh, Ben's dad. And the first question he asked is, how's Grandpa Ron?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

No way.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

That's crazy. Yeah. People are so concerned about. I mean, they. And when we did that, ringing the bell and that the comments. We probably read the comments and came back, but they're all over the world.

[CJ]

I mean, Australia on the video or on WD on the video. So our local news network also picked up Grandpa Ron's story. You were just like the poster or like cancer awareness. Yeah, I thought that was really cool, too.

[Grandpa Ron]

My idea, when they wanted to do that, I'm. I'm for it, but if we can help somebody get to a better attitude and what the hell, if you got cancer, you got cancer. So let's. Let's live with it and do what we can with it.

[Gavin]

They let you back into the country club. After you went golfing with us.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, heck, yeah.

[CJ]

Oh, my God. Evan doesn't even remember. He doesn't remember.

[Ken]

He blacked out.

[CJ]

He doesn't.

[Ben]

If it weren't for the clubs I bought, I say I wasn't there.

[CJ]

Evan is convinced that he didn't meet me and CJ's aunt or your. Your daughter.

[Ken]

He thinks we're messing with.

[CJ]

He thinks that we're still messing with him.

[Ben]

No, I think I met them. I just don't believe we had dinner at the club.

[Grandpa Ron]

You did. You sat right next to grandma.

[CJ]

That's what's concerning. Oh, yeah, Evan, I'm sure we should add grandma. And she remembers vividly.

[Ken]

But you were telling some pretty aggressive stories for my grandmother.

[Grandpa Ron]

You know, you're lucky.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. She's used to worse. But.

[Grandpa Ron]

But let me tell you what she said. She said she'd watch in the oven Dewey stuff on video, but he's really a nice guy.

[CJ]

Seriously, she must not have been thinking straight.

[Grandpa Ron]

You're a real gentleman. What the hell you're talking about? That was Evan. She said, I know.

[CJ]

Well, she has been married to you for 40 years, so sure she is.

[Grandpa Ron]

Maybe that wasn't a gentleman, according to me. I don't know about that. But anyway, that was.

[CJ]

That was wild, though. Yeah. We went golfing. It would have been like July at this point. And it was less golfing, more drinking.

[Gavin]

Oh, man, we had fun.

[CJ]

It was just like. Yeah. I think, you know, most of crew is so bad at golfing. It was just like, what are we even doing here? And then Ken is. Every time, like, the cart would come by, we would just go Rudy shots.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And before you knew it, we just did, like, 17 little fireball shooters.

[Ben]

You really like fireball, don't you? Is that your favorite show?

[Grandpa Ron]

I like it all. What the hell?

[Ken]

That's what golf looks like for him. Every single day. He golfs every day. That's just the same thing.

[Grandpa Ron]

Every.

[Ken]

What do you mean? That was golf.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we. We don't drink that many fireballs every day that. The only time was when Gina and you and I. My. My daughter and. And my wife played and.

[CJ]

Oh, and she got a. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

And eagle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you never had fireballs before, right?

[CJ]

No, I hadn't. I never had. Well, I actually. That was the first time I had ever drank, too.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Anyway, and we said, when you have a birdie, you have to have a fireball shot. And I remember Ben said, what do you mean? If you have a fireball, you Take it. You have a shot. Well, we had an eagle and a birdie, so we had two shots. Yeah.

[CJ]

And then they just brought a bottle. Yeah, it was good.

[Grandpa Ron]

And that was a good start for us.

[CJ]

Here's. Okay, let me. Let me explain this too. When me and C.J. were growing up at Grandpa Ron's, he had a jug in the fridge that was. It looked like orange juice, but it was actually a screwdriver. So. Orange juice. And it was screwdriver made screwdriver. So like, you'd come over and you'd be like, oh, hey, hey. Yeah, I'm just pouring some orange juice. And you drink and be like, that's not orange juice.

[Gavin]

Spicy orange juice.

[Ben]

It's so efficient.

[Grandpa Ron]

I have a great story about that. And my brother taught me how to do that, My older brother, when he was 10. Yeah. But anyway, my mom didn't drink and neither did her sister. So my brother, my aunt lived in Milwaukee, so they're gonna. My brother's gonna drive my mom and my aunt take her back to Milwaukee. So they get up early in the morning to get ready to go. Well, they same deal. They don't know the difference between screwdriver and orange juice. Neither one of them drink.

[CJ]

Well, most people in a sane household probably doesn't have that premixed in the fridge.

[Grandpa Ron]

My aunt and my mom drinking vodka screwdrivers, don't know it. So they get ready to leave. They get in the car, they fell asleep. They slept all the way from Minneapolis to Milwaukee.

[Gavin]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

Who was driving?

[Grandpa Ron]

My brother.

[CJ]

Okay. I didn't know where that was stored.

[Grandpa Ron]

They were in the backseat and they didn't understand why they were so tired. Yeah. Oh, my.

[Gavin]

That's funny.

[Grandpa Ron]

He taught me how to do that, so. In fact, they taught me a lot of things.

[Ken]

Are you still doing the pre made screwdrivers in your.

[Grandpa Ron]

In your fridge once in a while?

[Ken]

Okay.

[Grandpa Ron]

I did it when Ben's sister was living with us too, but I marked her to make sure she didn't get into it.

[CJ]

Yeah, we weren't sure that you were going to be welcome back on the. On the country club after we left.

[Grandpa Ron]

We were. Oh, no, no, no. In fact, you guys are welcome anytime. Everybody loved it.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, the waiters and.

[Ken]

Yeah, they loved it.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, well, they should have. You guys had a hell of a cap.

[Gavin]

It was pretty funny. I have a bunch of buddies that are also members of the country club. I got sent this picture this morning and they go, you guys only golfed once there this year, but you Made the yearly Instagram picture. And here's Evan with his arm around my aunt.

[CJ]

That's my aunt. Yeah.

[Ben]

I wasn't even there.

[Gavin]

It doesn't look like you're there.

[Ken]

The picture, Photoshop lights, Watermelon.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, no. You guys are welcome there, you know. Wow. We didn't do it. We had fun, that's all.

[CJ]

Yeah, we did have fun.

[Gavin]

We did have fun.

[CJ]

So, yeah, we were playing some, like, bunch of different golf gambling games with, like, the rest of Grandpa Ron's buddies. Dude, we sat at this table for probably, I'd say an hour.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Hour to hour to an hour and a half, trying to figure out who owed who money. And at the end of it, it was like Grandpa Ron made $8. His other buddy made three, but he had to pay two of that to another guy. But he was in the hole $8 as well, so he made six. And we were. We walked away, like, after an hour and a half. Like, you guys did all that for $12?

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I watched Ken threw $20 and I said, we won.

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken threw $20 in. Tell them to just off. He was like. He was like, I will pay you guys $20 to stop this.

[Gavin]

Math was just going in circles and did not add up. And I was like, I. I just gotta.

[Ken]

The way it looked like it was adding up was in your favor. You were the one doing the math, and you were the one who was like, okay, so you owe me $8, you owe me five, and everyone's kind of like, what? You ended up with all the money.

[Grandpa Ron]

I was honest on that. You guys just forgot. You guys forgot to collect, that's all.

[CJ]

What's your saying?

[Grandpa Ron]

If you keep scoring, don't win. It's your fault.

[CJ]

That's what it is.

[Grandpa Ron]

That's true. And that's the same goes for cards. You only play cards, you know.

[Gavin]

Oh, that's why you want to come and be our blackjack dealer.

[Grandpa Ron]

I could do that.

[Ken]

I do.

[Grandpa Ron]

I deal a lot of blackjack, actually, with. For games to go. They have the casino parties kind of thing, and I did one two weeks ago. So, in fact, his wife was your babysitter. Yeah.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Grandpa Ron]

Anyway, he told me, and then I saw him a week later because I did. A week, two weeks in a row, and they were both of them. And he wanted me to say hello to you from his wife. I forget her name. But anyway. Hello. He watches.

[Gavin]

There you go.

[CJ]

Thanks, Gramps.

[Grandpa Ron]

He does watch it. Yeah. You were a pretty good kid.

[Ken]

Pretty good.

[Grandpa Ron]

Pretty good, but not the best.

[Gavin]

That's on par.

[CJ]

What do you think was the worst kid growing up, Me or cj?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, well, CJ once a while would get had a kind of a. And you guys heard this story a thousand times. We were building a house and we would stay at different places while it was being built.

[Ken]

And one, how old was I before? Just to practice, how old was I?

[CJ]

Sixteen.

[Ken]

I was 2 or 3.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, it'd be 19 or be 2000.

[Ken]

So I was born in 96. I was 4.

[Grandpa Ron]

All right, okay.

[Ken]

So anyway, they hold this against me. They hold this against me. Like, I'm not kidding you, I can't escape this story. Tell the story.

[Grandpa Ron]

Anyways, we stay at his house in an extra bedroom there. And he comes in that door, he's crying and screaming, no, they can't stay here. And he's crying and jumping up and down, and his mom is trying to control him. Now he's four years old, right? You can't control him.

[CJ]

Like, old enough to know.

[Grandpa Ron]

Old enough to know. And he's going on and he's crying and screaming and hitting the floor and doing this. And finally his dad hauled him out, I think threw him in the garage, I don't know. But anyways, I put him in the kennel. Yeah, but that was, I don't remember.

[Ken]

That for some reason, but, but anyway, I, I.

[Grandpa Ron]

Who was hardest? I mean, you guys were all pretty good, you know, you always, you know, because I always played with you guys. So we did something, but I don't think anybody was really that hard. I don't know what you. Well, you want to say that you were the best, right?

[CJ]

I mean, I was hoping that you.

[Grandpa Ron]

Were gonna say that one thing about Ben. People are worried about him. He never cried.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah. True story. They thought that I was deaf.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah, they got my ears checked twice.

[Grandpa Ron]

He would play on the floor by himself and crawl around. Six months, nine months or a year. Never cry. What the hell's wrong with a kid?

[Gavin]

He's a happy kid.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Why are you not crying? Yeah, I can see like, everybody's like, oh, he doesn't cry. What's wrong? I can see you around being like, I'll give him something to cry about.

[CJ]

I'm running across the floor and he grabs my leg. I just face plant down, just a wall.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, never cried. Now he whines.

[CJ]

Yeah, whatever.

[Ken]

I think if we picked up anything from you, grandpa, it's our sense of humor and some of our driving, actually, because, Because I recall a story with you. Do you ever remember the game when, like, you'd be riding with Grandpa Ron. Let's say he was going from their house to our house. Make it my house or your house. And he'd say, like, I bet you I can make it there without come. Without hitting, like, stopping. Without, like, stopping at a stop.

[CJ]

Coming to a red light.

[Ken]

And I remember, like, we'd be, like, cutting through gas stations to go around red lights.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ken]

Like, we would just be, like, hopping curbs, like, zooming around. And I thought it was amazing.

[Gavin]

Hell, yeah.

[Ken]

And I remember one time, this guy was getting arrested. They had, like, a bunch of cops. It was me, grandma, and grandpa. And he's like, oh, you want to pull over and watch?

[CJ]

So we pulled over into the.

[Ken]

Into the convenience store parking lot and watched this guy get, like, taken down by the cops. I was like, watching out the windows.

[CJ]

That's Evan's, like, worst nightmare. He'd be afraid that the cops. He's sick.

[Ken]

Get out of here.

[Grandpa Ron]

Get out of here. Grip. What the are you doing?

[Ken]

That's what he'd be saying. Every time he sees a cop, he starts tweaking.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, There was a reason for that, because I thought if C.J. would see that. Don't let that happen to you.

[Ken]

So, yeah, I mean, it definitely helped. It helped. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Not much, but Such a good influence. Yeah. Yeah. I did the right things. You?

[Gavin]

Lots of speeding tickets.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, some pretty good stories. Not recently. Okay. I've had a lot years ago.

[CJ]

Well, how many is a lot?

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I got three tickets. Reading tickets. In one week one time. What, two were by the same cop. Right. And fight them. And I got.

[Ken]

Of course.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I had an attorney. I got an attorney, and this cop was. Was a small town cop. So the judge attorney made him look so bad because he was trying to judge how fast I was going and. And he couldn't.

[CJ]

What, they didn't have a radar?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, he did none that those. This is back in 1975. You guys weren't even boring.

[CJ]

Oh. So, yeah. How were they giving out speeding tickets?

[Grandpa Ron]

They would just kind of figure that, you know? Like, I remember him saying I was going. I was 100 miles an hour.

[CJ]

And the hell were you driving that did 100 miles per hour.

[Grandpa Ron]

What's a 65 Thunderbird?

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[Grandpa Ron]

So we get to court and something with the distance and about a quarter of a mile. I was doing this and so my attorney asked the cop how many feet in a mile. Well, he didn't know. So how in the hell can you say I know a quarter of a Mile if you don't. How many feet a mile is. So Judge threw that one out of court, thank God.

[Ken]

Dang.

[CJ]

And then you were back there the next day for the one.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, then I had one. I didn't have a driver's license. Minneapolis.

[CJ]

How'd you lose it to begin with?

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I had lots of. Had a few tickets. No DUIs or anything like that, though. Because those days, they didn't bother you. But anyway. No. They tell you to go home. I can. I get picked.

[Ben]

I try and do.

[Grandpa Ron]

I remember one time I got picked up. Was like I was in high school, I think, and it was like four in the morning or three in the morning, I get picked up by Annandale, Minnesota. I lived in Kimball, which was like seven miles away or whatever. But anyway, he picks me up. I showed my driver's license, you know, I had a few beers and he said, are you Ted's boy? That's my dad. And I said, yeah, well, my dad wasn't kind of in politics. He said, if I ever catch you out here getting this late, I'm telling your dad, you know, go home. Oh. I mean, nowadays. Try that.

[CJ]

So you took the ditch.

[Grandpa Ron]

I went home. I mean, well, it was 4 in the morning. I had to go home.

[Ken]

Are you able to tell the story about the golf cart when you piled it up in your neighbor's front lawn or. No.

[CJ]

No, no.

[Ben]

There were fireballs that day.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, there wasn't. In fact, it was a three wheeler like you guys had last week. Okay.

[Gavin]

They're dangerous.

[Grandpa Ron]

And you can tell when you. When you drive those three. They tip. They tip easy.

[CJ]

Yeah, no.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah, no. So I had a few beers, I'm going home. And I.

[CJ]

In those days, terrible combination.

[Grandpa Ron]

I didn't live on the golf course when I kept my car at my daughter's house because they lived on the golf course. I drive it back to their house and I take this ground, this corner, take this corner, and I roll over in this guy's. Cop in his yard.

[Ken]

Roll over in a cop's front yard.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I rolled a card over and there's clubs flying all over. Yeah. And I. If he comes out, I'm dead meat, you know? And I quick throw my clubs on, tip the card back up. I never got caught. That's too freaking. I know, right? You know, right in his front yard.

[Gavin]

You turn, How'd you turn? You were up in his yard driving, like through his yard.

[Grandpa Ron]

But those three wheelers, it didn't take much.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, yeah, should have Been on the road or something?

[Grandpa Ron]

I was at one time.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Did I take the ditch?

[CJ]

Every door built into those three wheelers.

[Grandpa Ron]

Take the ditch. Which side? You know which one, but didn't know. And I the tip. So easy.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah, we know.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. You guys, why the hell did they.

[CJ]

Ever make three wheeled golf carts?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, that was the first one.

[Ben]

It was cheaper to put new tires on.

[Ken]

You could turn pretty tight. Obviously tight enough for it to tip. But there was another one, though. I don't know if you can tell that one. You barreled into the front, then the cops got you. And then which one was that you went to. You were at.

[CJ]

He was in a car. He was in a car.

[Ken]

You were in a car though, I think. And then you had to call and you ended up getting out of it. Oh, we talked your way out of it, per usual. Oh my. I don't know. We don't even know.

[Grandpa Ron]

I'll tell you what happened.

[Ken]

A couple beers.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, yeah, I was at the country club on a Thursday night, which is men's night. Two glasses of wine, right. And that day, it was in wintertime because there was snow on the ground. That was.

[Ben]

How were you playing golf?

[CJ]

He was just there, just drinking.

[Grandpa Ron]

He told grandma that he was.

[Ken]

Was playing golf.

[Grandpa Ron]

I was playing cards. We played cards on men's day on Thursdays, so. But I got there late and I tried to catch up with the guy. Drinking wine.

[Gavin]

That'll get you.

[Grandpa Ron]

And I drove to Minneapolis and I had that. I came from Minneapolis.

[CJ]

How old are you? And you're still playing catch up. Your buddies are. How drunk are you? Probably like a 4 right now.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Anyways, I drove home and I had a four wheel vehicle, but I put it in two wheel drive because roads were good. Right. And from Minneapolis. So anyway, I go and I go directly to the country club, have some wine and I come home and I go around the corner and I step on it. Well, I forgot I didn't have a four wheel drive.

[Ken]

Were you trying to drift?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, I would just try. Just go home.

[Ken]

But yeah, step on around the corner.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I was just gonna take off.

[Ken]

Like a little fishtail.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, kind of.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Drifted. Yeah. I went in there, I hit this tree. So my car is stuck on the tree, Right. Oh, so like it's st. Or it's broken. It was a small tree.

[Gavin]

Do you remember what kind of car you were driving?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, Blazer.

[Gavin]

Okay.

[Grandpa Ron]

Anyway, I'm trying to get out and I got. Put it in four wheel drive. Now.

[Ken]

Ron again, he's in the front yard.

[Grandpa Ron]

So all of a sudden, honey, we.

[CJ]

Really got to move away from the car.

[Grandpa Ron]

All the lights come on, the house is rocking. I'm burning on that. And I can't get. So pretty soon, here comes the freaking cop. Shut up.

[CJ]

No way.

[Grandpa Ron]

My. One of my neighbors called the cops. So I guess. Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure which one. I'm kind of sure, but I don't know. Not there anymore.

[CJ]

And teepee their house.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Oh, I do more than that. But anyway, anyways, I said, I get out of the car, and cop comes over. He said, yeah, I. I'll be out of here in a minute. I. Well, I can't get out. So I get out, and he checked me, and I said, I have to go to the bathroom. And the lady's driveway that I was in, I said, can I use your. Bonnie is her name. Can I use your bathroom? Yeah. Nope, you're not using your bathroom. You're arrested. So they haul my ass to jail, right? Oh, I'm two doors from my house. So I call my buddy up, who's the. Who's the county commissioner. And I said, you gotta get me out of this. He was drinking too. So he said, wow, I got to find it because he was me at the club. And he said, I gotta. I'll find somebody to get you, come and pick you up, give you. So. But he did call. I didn't have to use any bail. And so this friend of this picked me up. My go. Next day, I'm leaving for Las Vegas with my. We're going to a show, the clothing show. My freaking car got towed away, and I'm ready. And so I happened to have Bunny because going to Las Vegas, right? So we gotta check in at the police station. I get a couple thousand bucks, probably, or 1500 in my wallet. I got a DUI. So I get a hold of an attorney and his God. So they start checking around, and so is my buddy, and he said, when was the last time you had checked, you know, for the. How good your fluid is that they check your. The chemical for dui? Well, they hadn't changed that for like nine months. Well, that maybe not any good anymore. They threw it out of court. Wow. So the bottom line is good to have friends and high places.

[Gavin]

Oh, man.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. But otherwise, I. That's the last ticket I think I've had. There you go.

[Gavin]

You've been driving good since then.

[Ken]

So, like to preface. These are stories I've heard, like, through my life, throughout my life, like, growing up, like Good stories like this obviously been too. Yeah, just family dinners.

[Grandpa Ron]

I'm in North Minneapolis 1. I was getting to that. I didn't have a driver's license suspended. And I have this guy with me. The lights go on. I pull around the corner, he says, lee, get over here. I'll take care of the fine and everything, but you take the ticket, you get here and say you're driving. This kind of buddy he is, gets over and gets in the car. Cop comes over there and says, see your license? I wasn't driving. He was.

[Gavin]

Oh, what?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, you. So then I keep. Nothing else. I kept postponing it and postponing. I was fighting it. And finally the cop had to come to court in Hennepin County. Now, Hennepin county is not a fun jail, by the way. You don't want to be there.

[Ken]

You've been there?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah, I've been there for a couple hours. Okay, that's enough. So anyway, the cop doesn't show up to testify, so they threw that one out. Oh, wow. So I've been lucky on a few of those.

[Gavin]

Interesting.

[Ken]

Lucky and everything, Grandpa.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, those are, you know, things that got to be careful of. You guys are young, so watch out.

[CJ]

I think they're a little different now.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah. Now you'd be in jail for a month, so probably.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's why we behave.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, that's exactly why you behave. I can tell. But yeah, that happens. You get older, you get more mild. Yeah, grandma doesn't think so, but that's the way it is.

[CJ]

I just can't imagine what grandma's doing, like when she gets the call, like sleeping. I got my blazer stuck on a tree. I need you to go over. I think it's still there. They haven't towed it yet. I need you to try and get that off the truck.

[Grandpa Ron]

That kind of happened because she didn't know what happened, Right. So I go to jail. I go to jail. They get me out. I go home, go in the house, and it's like 10:30, 11:00 by this time. And she didn't hear the garage door. Came in the front door. Well, I really don't have a car.

[Ben]

So she didn't see the commotion just down there?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, she couldn't see it. So I said, my car has been impounded. I got picked up. Got my ass chewed a little bit, but rightfully so. I deserved it. But, oh, yeah, Grandma's put up with a lot, right, Ben?

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Did you have to buy them, your neighbors, a new tree?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, I didn't.

[CJ]

God, I would have loved to have seen what that yard looked like.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, all dug to hell. I had all four wheels just. And I got. I got down to the grass.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

But I couldn't get off the tree.

[Ken]

They had a little reminder of you in the spring, huh?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah, you're right.

[Gavin]

There was Ron, you've gotten pretty. As Ben and CJ said, pretty lucky. I feel like you've been lucky later in life with finding a good lady that puts up with your shenanigans and keeps you in control.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yep.

[Gavin]

What advice would you give to Ken and other young gentlemen out there and Gavin?

[Ken]

And Gavin, they're both sitting here, they're.

[Gavin]

Looking for a lady, they're looking out for love. And all the other people listening, what advice would you give?

[Grandpa Ron]

Probably a lot different nowadays because girls are a lot different. Right.

[Gavin]

Okay.

[Grandpa Ron]

I would say that if you're not around them and you miss them, you miss you haven't doing something with them. I mean, that's a good start.

[Ken]

I mean, good advice. That's actually really. I was like, I was thinking there was going to be something really aggressive to come out.

[Gavin]

No, no, I like that.

[Ken]

That's really good advice.

[Grandpa Ron]

You know, you think, gosh, I haven't seen, you know, Betty or Jane. We haven't gone out and she's so much fun. I like being with her. Let's do something whether. No matter what it is, let's do something together and find it. When you do stuff together, you find out that you enjoy it. If you're not really want to get in a relationship, well, then it's like, well, see you around. What?

[Ben]

If you want that, but they don't want it, then what do you do?

[Grandpa Ron]

Probably find a different girl.

[CJ]

So, Grandpa Ron straightforward.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You've been married three times. You're on your fourth.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. You're.

[CJ]

Sorry, divorced three times. You're on your 4th wife.

[Grandpa Ron]

I married my first wife twice.

[CJ]

Right.

[Gavin]

Okay.

[Grandpa Ron]

And now I only did that because of my daughter.

[CJ]

What is one thing that you could also tell Ken and Gavin of the signs of a crazy woman to watch out for?

[Grandpa Ron]

That's pretty easy. I mean, it kind of isn't. Like when I was married after my daughter's mother would have been my third marriage. I was a clinical psychologist. Right. She was, yeah. That was her profession.

[CJ]

Were you a patient?

[Grandpa Ron]

I became one. So regimented in what she's going to do at 5 o'clock you can have a drink and before that you can't. I did not.

[Ken]

That wasn't gonna fly.

[CJ]

How the hell did you get to marriage?

[Ken]

It was the shortest marriage ever.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, her dad was worth $20 million.

[CJ]

You were gold digging.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, not really. She was a beautiful woman. Besides then I didn't play golf for a year and a half when I was married to her.

[Gavin]

Wow.

[Grandpa Ron]

Not drinking till five or not playing a golf really doesn't sound.

[CJ]

What the were you doing?

[Grandpa Ron]

I don't know.

[CJ]

Like, actually, what were you doing?

[Grandpa Ron]

I don't. I don't remember. I was just blacked out. I was miserable. Not black. Yeah, I'm just miserable. Kind of like. Yeah. You know, And I was on the road during the week, traveling at the time. But I get home and shit. This is like going into a prison cell.

[CJ]

Darn.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Well, one time her daughter goes outside and takes a water hose and starts spraying inside the house or the window. Oh, you shouldn't do that again. I mean, no discipline. I found that.

[Ken]

Except for with you.

[Ben]

What would you have done with to a garden hose in your living room?

[Grandpa Ron]

I'd go out and kick their ass.

[Ben]

Like if it was Ben. If you would have caught Ben with the garden hose in the kick.

[Grandpa Ron]

How old he is?

[Ben]

14.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, then he needs his ass kicked.

[CJ]

Yeah. I feel like some kids just never had their ass kicked.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Growing up.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. God.

[CJ]

My dad used to grab me by the ear. That was like when he's yelling at me, grabs me by the ear. Dude, I still have ptsd. Touch my ear.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, I know. Yeah. Well, I had five older brothers. Okay. On a farm. And so, I mean, I didn't have a chance really, because one would kick my ass, the other one would. In fact, I was thinking about that the other day growing up that I never. My parents never lie and never swear. Why I'm trying to figure out. I never lie, but swearing. I wonder what happened to me there, because I didn't. I bet I was 14 or 15 before I never let my mother hear me swear. Yeah.

[CJ]

The floodgates just opened.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, kind of. And. But my brothers, you know, picked on me. Of course. We had boxy gloves. That's why I know it got broken and knocked through a window.

[Gavin]

And you were the youngest.

[Grandpa Ron]

I got one younger. Nine years younger than me. And I had. My other one brother was nine years older than me. Was, kind of. So we'd have boxing gloves. So we said, I'll box on my knees. That really doesn't slow down his punch, right?

[Gavin]

No, he's still getting clocked pretty good.

[Grandpa Ron]

Goddamn stupid. I am. One time when my parents were Gone for the weekend, which was very seldom. We get in a. We'd fight in the house. He knocked me through our window. We had no picture window in the house. Bang. I go through this window. Like, oh, man. So anyways, that could have been good.

[CJ]

Like, you went through the window. Did you get, like, cut off?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, no, no, I didn't.

[CJ]

Oh, so you got, like, tossed through it?

[Grandpa Ron]

I got hit like that, and it went backwards like that, right through. But anyway, if you tell mom and dad what happened, you are in serious trouble. So I made up a story that he had some friends over, and they were wrestling around, so my parents never knew about till years later. You wonder why that window was broken when you got home? Because your one son knocked me through it. That's why.

[CJ]

That's what happened. One time when I was riding dirt bikes with my brother, I came over a hill. He was coming down the hill, and he hit me, and it broke my foot. And he told me, don't tell mom and dad what actually happened. Tell them that you tipped over and you broke your foot. So I did. Yeah. I think I just told him, like, the truth a couple years ago.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. He was just like, I didn't hit you. You tipped over. I'm like, oh, okay. I did. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

I had a pretty good life, really, growing up as a kid in a farm with five older brothers and whatever. And my dad was a pretty good farmer, so we always had what we wanted, but. Well, you guys took. You guys there. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ken]

It's cool to see. We. Ben and I, went to his farm that he grew up in, sold the house, still had the barn, you know. What was that two years ago? Two summers ago?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Barn blew down now, but anyway.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah, it was. It was on its last leg.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. It was honest.

[Ken]

We went in there, and it was cool. Yeah, it was really cool to see, you know, you were kind of giving us a tour. Like, I wake up and I'd come here and I'd, you know, get the eggs and.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And then Grandpa went up and knocked on the house. And I don't think the people. Did they know that you grew up there?

[Grandpa Ron]

No.

[Ken]

Yeah, he just goes up. We were walking around this farm for a while, and then he just was like, like, they're home. We're going in the barn, doing all this stuff. And I'm like. I kind of just assumed they knew who he was. And then. Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna see if they have any eggs for sale. Goes up, knocks on the door, and she's like, what's up? Hey. Yeah, I was just wondering if you guys had any eggs for sale. I'd love to buy some eggs. And she was like, oh, yeah, they.

[Grandpa Ron]

Were selling eggs for you.

[CJ]

It'd be like somebody that used to live at our shops or the farm over there. No, but they show up and they take a full tour around, and we're just sitting there.

[Ken]

There's a chicken coop at our farm, and they used to have eggs. Imagine they're just, hey, do you have any eggs? And Gavin just goes inside, grabs the eggs out of the fridge that we got at the grocery store.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Here we go. Five bucks.

[CJ]

The family that used to own our farm basically just built, like, kitty corner to where it is now, the other.

[Gavin]

Side of the tree line.

[CJ]

And they still have, like, six chickens that run around that I'm assuming used to live in our chicken coop.

[Ben]

They love the Chevy graveyard.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah. So. So these chickens started wandering over. I think they just remembered, like, their old home. And we'll be out filming and these chickens are just, like, wandering around and. Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking about maybe just seeing if we can buy them from them so we can get some. Some eggs.

[Grandpa Ron]

Get some eggs for. You Bet.

[Ken]

Do you have any advice? Because I've been saying it for a while. So we call it the farm because it used to be a farm, but it's not technically a farm right now.

[Ben]

It's a content farm.

[Ken]

That's true.

[CJ]

But I'm.

[Ken]

I'm looking for, like, agricultural farm. What animals would you recommend we get? And then Ken will take care of them. Because, like, I. I just could see Ken up early in the morning milking the cattle.

[Grandpa Ron]

You can avoid.

[Gavin]

Before you say an answer, the answer is already no.

[CJ]

That's a bull. We know that.

[Ben]

Don't drink that milk.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. You might want to audit this, but I think if you're going to have animals around. Ken don't have sheep.

[Ben]

Man, did Ken get done dirty now.

[Gavin]

Keep them coming.

[Ben]

That's what you said to the cow.

[CJ]

Yeah. I think we need a. At least, like, a mini horse over there. You know, something that's like, kind of low.

[Grandpa Ron]

Mini.

[Ben]

Get me to ride a mini horse.

[CJ]

I'm thinking, like, wouldn't ride a mini horse.

[Ken]

We'd get normal horses for all of us and a mini horse for you.

[Grandpa Ron]

I know.

[Ben]

It would become a meme so quick. Like, I just know better.

[Ken]

Funny everything. Cowboy boots with a little hat on.

[Ben]

Why is it a little hat?

[CJ]

I don't know. A little hat for his little horse, little boots, his little buckle.

[Ken]

Belt buckle.

[Grandpa Ron]

Do any of you guys ride horse at all?

[CJ]

No, I don't fuck with horses.

[Ken]

We have. Remember that time me, Ken and you did it? Yeah.

[Gavin]

I drive by that farm all the time now and I think about it.

[Ken]

I had no control over that horse. That horse was just going wherever it wanted and I was just there.

[CJ]

Well, horses go rogue. It's like the throttle sticking out a dirt bike. Like it's a bad situation.

[Grandpa Ron]

Not if you're training them right, they don't.

[CJ]

Yeah. But every once in a while who's to say that they're not like the.

[Grandpa Ron]

One horse that he's talking about? He couldn't stop when he pulled back on the reinforce will bite the bit. That bit is what goes in the mouth like this and they'll bite it so when you, when you pull on it, they don't feel it here.

[Gavin]

Oh, so you.

[Grandpa Ron]

But you can buy a special bridle that will make it so they can't do that. They will go rogue if they can bite the bit because you can't control them.

[Ken]

I ever been a horse guy?

[CJ]

Like, did you ever ride?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, I used to break horses.

[Ken]

Really?

[Grandpa Ron]

Really.

[Ken]

Like wild horses?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, no, no, they weren't wild. They would be a. Maybe a horse, a colt was born. When they were. As they got a little older, I would start riding them.

[Ken]

Really?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So do you guys use horses to like farm, like drag the plows and stuff?

[Grandpa Ron]

We did in some years because my. Well, you guys, where we lived along the road there and we had corn fields along the highway and if my dad took horses and a corn, two row corn planter, he could make every row straight this way, diagonal or crossways. It would look perfect.

[Gavin]

Oh, he wanted it to look good.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. And that. And he would do it with horses. He could.

[Gavin]

So he could go straighter with a horse than he could with a tractor?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Oh yeah, we used him.

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[Grandpa Ron]

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[Ken]

What would happen with the horses? Like, they get like real tired.

[Grandpa Ron]

They can.

[Ken]

It's a hot day. Like, you have to be pretty, like, careful with them.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah. You can't overwork. You can give them too much water at one time after they worked hard. But normally you don't beat them up. Horses are pretty stable.

[CJ]

Every time I'm driving out west, I'm always just reminded, like, this is really nice being in a car and not being on a horse and buggy Yeah.

[Ken]

I think the same thing.

[CJ]

That's how they found it. They were just going through fields, too.

[Grandpa Ron]

Did you ever think about going from city to city and a freaking stagecoach across the desert or something? The ride you would have. And wooden wheels riding in the back of that for hours. Yeah.

[CJ]

It's insane.

[Gavin]

We complain about the down road, bro. And our sprinter van. We're like, God, this road's getting bad.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude. When you really think about it, just some wooden wheels on. Not even a road.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Just gravel.

[CJ]

I think about that every time. I'm just like, somebody needs to just get them a car and tell them it's all right.

[Ken]

We should surprise the Amish with a car for a video. Imagine, thumbnail and title.

[Grandpa Ron]

Don't do a car, do a pickup. They won't drive a car. Drive a pickup.

[Ben]

And we get them in El Camino.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, they drive.

[Ben]

They won't know what to do.

[Ken]

Donked out El Camino with subs. We'll do yours. Ev.

[Ben]

No, not that one.

[Grandpa Ron]

They won't drive a car. They'll drive pickups.

[Ken]

Well, I didn't even know that they will drive pickups.

[Grandpa Ron]

What are the people over there by Holly?

[Gavin]

They're all right.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, they have. You see the pickups? They won't drive cars either.

[Gavin]

They do a little bit of technology, though. Like, the Amish don't.

[Grandpa Ron]

Don't.

[Gavin]

They do the vans. They all load up in the van. A van load of them last week wearing their little straw hats.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, right there, the hooter. Right.

[Gavin]

Shout out to Peter Yoder, ex Amish Mafia. There's a guy who is a subscriber, and we've met. Yeah, he's probably listening. Shout out to Peter. And he has a sticker on the top of his Chevy that says ex Amish Mafia.

[Ken]

Yeah, he used to be Amish grandpa, and he ran away. I think it was only like, six months after he had ran away. He met us in, like, 20, 21, because he had, you know, discovered watching, finding YouTube and all these things, and he was kind of nearby us, and he found out we were doing a meetup. So he came and he, like, starts talking to us and, like, told us the story, and it was just. It was just crazy. But then he came back one day out of the blue, like, we didn't exchange information. He came and he gave us that hat to put on the podcast. We should have filmed it, but did.

[CJ]

He leave the hooderoids?

[Ken]

I don't know if it was the Hutterites. I don't know where it was. Exactly.

[Grandpa Ron]

But Ken is right. The Hooterites have great technology. I used to sell him a lot of stuff. Joe over at Holly in that area there. And I go into his office. He's got his computer there and a deal in cash. He'd have quarter million dollars in a drawer. And I said, you know, where is this?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Oh, well, you never get to it.

[CJ]

You know, you would get there, and you would just become part of their culture.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gavin]

They'd use you like.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Well, they would just.

[Gavin]

He's a little short for them, but.

[CJ]

Yeah, but they would probably make use of for him.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

They'd find out that he could wheelie a horse.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, what happened?

[CJ]

He'd be putting on, like, halftime shows for their lunch.

[Grandpa Ron]

Actually, Evan, sometimes when these colonies get so large, like 150, 175 people, they have to break loose.

[CJ]

Well, bring in. Outside.

[Grandpa Ron]

That's bringing outside. And you don't do that. Need to see what I'm looking for. A stud.

[Ken]

Here's Evan might catch a venereal disease, but. Bad joke.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, they're clean. The clean people. Yeah. I was saying, Evan.

[CJ]

Yeah. They're the problem. No, they wouldn't let him in.

[Ken]

They do a background check.

[CJ]

Evan gets a call. Yeah. A couple of our women have these problems, and everyone's like, thanks for letting me know. I'll go get checked.

[Grandpa Ron]

I can hold my doctor right now.

[Ken]

Oh, my Jesus.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, you are a badass, aren't you, Evan?

[Ben]

No.

[CJ]

Do you think the Amish know, like, what's going on in, like, the country right now, or they just don't care? Like, do you think that the Amish, like, vote? So today is Tuesday, the election day.

[Grandpa Ron]

I don't know about if the hooter rights vote or not, but they're not. They know what's going on in the world. Like, they'll. They can do so much on their own. Like, for example, people tile fields, you know, to drain. Drain tile. Well, hell, they. They don't hire it done. They go out and buy the machine and do it themselves. And they deal in cash, a lot of cash. They'll go out and buy poor land, and then they'll fix it up. Fix it up because they have the labor insurance. Labor is no problem for them, obviously, but they don't.

[CJ]

Like.

[Gavin]

They pay in tax.

[CJ]

You know, they're not.

[Ken]

Are they exempt from taxes?

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, yeah. It's considered religion, church. So I'm not sure how they. But they. I. I'm not sure on that, but it's considered a religion.

[CJ]

So if they're not getting the news, though, you know, they're not getting fed.

[Ben]

They're probably, like, keeping an eye on things and pretending they're not, you know, there's probably people in there that, like, have a TV in the back.

[Grandpa Ron]

Never radio.

[Ben]

They're kind of, like, phony. They're not phony. I don't know. They're just doing what they want and then, like, making sure the people underneath them are doing what they're supposed to.

[Grandpa Ron]

They do have radios. I used to go out there a lot, and I would have lunch with them. And, you know, they are kind of sly. I'd have lunch with Joe, and he's the kingpin. Right. So we go in this hall. Well, he's a big guy.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

He's the man. Whatever. And he controls all the money and all the spending and everything.

[CJ]

Is he voted in?

[Grandpa Ron]

No. It's kind of hereditary. I mean, he passed down, I think, because now I think he passed away. I've been out there for a while, and now I think his son is ahead of tourists. But I used to go out there and I got to know him. His wife died. Make cookies for me when I got there.

[Ken]

I bet those were good cookies.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, they're great. But anyway, I'd have lunch there. He take me and he ring them at noon. Everybody eats at noon. So we go in there. We're at the head table, Joe. And then maybe a couple guys on top. And he had me there and all the food you can eat. But he said, ron, you better have a glass of wine. Yeah, I'm doing business with him, not going to say no. Right? Yeah, I have some wine. Well, just choke. Cherry wine made out of 190 proof alcohol. Whoa. So I have a glass of that. Jesus Christ. I'm sitting there having. Eating. All of a sudden, everything is going, Ron, what's the matter with. I suppose Joe? Oh, my. I mean, that's like registry. The alcohol. Yeah. And I drank almost a glass full of it.

[Gavin]

You were drinking. It was Pinot Grigio.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Anyway. And of course he laughed about that, you know, but he was smart guy. I mean, he run the computer and they go to auctions, and you could go out there maybe on a Monday, and they'd have a john. Your tractor tires burned off of it. Nothing left of it. Right. You go back a week later, and that thing is, like, brand new because they bought it that way. Oh.

[Gavin]

And they fixed it.

[Grandpa Ron]

You go back a week later, it's like brand new. They have an electrician shop, a carpenter shop, and make beautiful cabinets. These guys can do anything.

[CJ]

We gotta bring some of our stuff over there.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah, that'd be actually a really good idea.

[Gavin]

Gav, can you throw on that hat for me for a minute, just to get the visual?

[CJ]

What if we sent Gavin to learn a thing, too? An apprenticeship?

[Grandpa Ron]

I got a couple names out there for you guys.

[CJ]

I don't know, Grandpa, if we want to be affiliated.

[Ken]

Yeah, we might be better off just starting fresh.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, they kind of like me because I. I bullshit with them a little bit and whatever. I gave them good deals.

[Ken]

What were you doing out there selling them or what kind of business were you?

[Grandpa Ron]

I had to salvage stuff from Can Am Trucking, and we'd have truckloads of stuff that was delivered, but people wouldn't accept it, and the manufacturer didn't want it and the buyers didn't want it, and then Bob would charge them for storage. So all of a sudden, it's ours, right? And I would sell it to them like a pallet of peanut butter, for example. Be less than half price or whatever it may be.

[CJ]

So I don't want to get, like, too political, but I'm curious what your take on this is, Grandpa.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, my.

[CJ]

I don't want you to get too political either. Let me preface that. But being that today's election day, people watching this know, like, who the new president, who the new president is. I have seriously zero, zero inkling, like, what's going to happen or who it's going to be. But I'm curious if you've ever, like, in your lifetime seen, like, this much division between the country. Never between, like, Democrats or Republicans. It seems like it's like oil and water right now.

[Grandpa Ron]

Never. You know, the parties. Let's go back and let's use Democrats, for example. Let's take the John F. Kennedy 1960s or whatever. Completely different party. Look at Robert Kennedy right now. He's doing Republican, right? Seems to me that they do a lot of untruths and the press is brutal, and I don't know why that is, the money there or whatever.

[CJ]

Back in the day when, like, the. The opposing candidate that you wanted to win would win, you know, you kind of just accept it and move on, right? Like, it's like, oh, the people chose what the people wanted, right? It was like a fair and honest election, right? So, like, on the Wednesday after the Tuesday of the election day, you know, would the country kind of just accept it as it is?

[Grandpa Ron]

Pretty much, yeah.

[CJ]

Because it's like, well, this is our president now. You know, we kind of like, this is our guy.

[Grandpa Ron]

But the technology is a lot different nowadays, of course, and people can do different things. Smart people can. I mean, they really can. I'm not really a big Trump fan, but I like his policy and I look what he does and I'm, I look about what you are, you guys and your kids. I mean, I'm looking at crime that we have now, looking at the border that we have now, and inflation, things like that. And then you look at the other side and they really don't have a way to stop that.

[CJ]

Policy aside, I'm just curious as to like, like how you've seen over the years, I mean, however many different presidents you've, you've had in your lifetime, you know how you've seen just, I guess the effect of it on the world because, like, at the end of the day, how much is the president really going to affect, you know, our day to day lives? Not that much. But how much is, you know, the people that you're surrounded by, like, if, if, like there's so much division.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, that's true. You lose friends and people would speak to you, but it just seems like.

[CJ]

There'S like more of that. Like there's more of, like. That's right. It's like a less of a group where it's like, oh, no, he, he likes Trump. Or like, no, she likes Camel. And like you like look at them in like such a different light.

[Ken]

It's almost like the, the country is like being torn apart within for just trying to elect a leader, a new leader. But it's dividing us when we should all be united as one. It's technically us versus everyone else. But we're, we can't even get along ourselves.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, they call each other names, in my opinion. If Republicans, for example, weren't running Trump and had another person running for office right now, and you look at what's happening in the world, would be a landslide for the Republicans. A landslide.

[CJ]

I didn't, I didn't necessarily think that was like the, yeah, best move, but it's like it wasn't even close.

[Grandpa Ron]

I understand that. What you got, I mean, people don't like his personality. That's fine. You have to like his personality.

[CJ]

I mean, this might sound crazy because everyone knows, like, who won, but like, I just see, like, if Trump wins, like people that hate him are going like, you're gonna just hear about it non stop, non stop, non stop. And if Kamala wins, people that love Trump are gonna just be like, it was fake. It was. It was rigged. It was that. So it's like.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

There's not.

[Ken]

There's not gonna be an ending.

[Grandpa Ron]

In my opinion. What. Whoever wins. But say, Mike, my candidate doesn't win. Any other person with. Let's see what they do. And you gotta live with it either way.

[CJ]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Either way.

[Ken]

You gotta get up the next day. No matter who gets elected, that's your president and you gotta keep doing what you gotta do. That's all you can do. And literally all you can do.

[Grandpa Ron]

And again, it depends on. You got your Congress and you have your Senate.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, most of the time, it's a lot anyways.

[Grandpa Ron]

But you got some. Some programs that really go, because I'm older, go against what I believe in, like the trans gender in prisons, for example, you know, and if you transgender, that's fine. But why should the taxpayer have to pay for when somebody's in prison? Right? I mean, that kind of thing.

[CJ]

Really? I've never even heard of that.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah, that's Harris's deal. If you're in prison, they should be allowed. They want to be a transgender, they should be allowed to have the surgery.

[Gavin]

While you're in prison.

[Grandpa Ron]

While you're in prison.

[CJ]

So then do they get switched?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Whatever they are.

[CJ]

No, no, no. Do they get switched to, like a bad play?

[Ken]

Really realistically.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. But I mean, I've been pulling that one. Yeah. Yeah. And you look at like, what good.

[Ben]

Would going to an all women's prison be without my dick?

[CJ]

I don't know, but something tells me you'd want to find out.

[Grandpa Ron]

Go by yourself, go buy yourself a pack of dildos. But yeah, I mean, you know, some policies like that are something that. Beyond what I think be interesting to see what happens. Yeah, it will be from a week from now. I hope it works out. I. You know, that's the truth. Personally, I think a guy like J.D. vance for Trump's running mate, I mean, this guy makes a lot of sense. He doesn't call people names and he talk, he tells it like it kind of like it is. And you get a guy like we have in Minnesota, Tim Walsh. I hope you. If Tim, you get in now, you see this. Hope you don't shoot me. But I mean, a guy like that, I mean, it's serious. I mean, it is. Yeah. We'll see what happens. It is what it is. You know, hope it works out. You know, I. If I have people who vote for Harris or friends, that's Fine, you vote for who you want. I don't care. But some people don't see it that way.

[Gavin]

And that's what I think. Yeah. Ben was getting at. That's so crazy that the world's so, so torn right now.

[Grandpa Ron]

I mean, you have your opinion. You can do what you like.

[CJ]

Can you remember a president, like, two running mates that had any kind of division as much as there is?

[Grandpa Ron]

Not this much.

[Ben]

Has it been like a smooth, like, escalation to, like, where it is now, or is it a little up and down?

[Grandpa Ron]

Like, it may be up a little up and down. I mean, there's like. For example, I like Bill Clinton. I thought he was a good president and he was great for the.

[CJ]

Because he was a dog or.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, no. Yeah, he was more than that. I mean, so he had a little fun on the side.

[Ben]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Grandpa Ron]

You should be president. You'd be a good.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

Holy shit.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. And if I look at. In the Republican side and I look at George Bush, second, he was weak, weak president. His dad was pretty good. You know, Jimmy Carter was bad. Ronald Reagan was good. Dwight Eisenhower was terrible. But that's the way it is, you know, in those days. This year is really bad.

[Gavin]

If you could be president, dude, what would be like, the first thing you change?

[Ben]

You could drive anything, anywhere.

[Gavin]

Unlike dirt bikes.

[Ben]

Yeah, like going down the highway, whatever you got. You just, you know, maybe a little different way to pay for the roads. We gotta buy tabs and license plates and all that focus. You just get a little more slack on that, the transportation side of things. And I think it would make this country a better place.

[Gavin]

There you go, President.

[Ken]

Ride your dirt bike on have something to do with dirt bikes?

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of standing up for quad guys too, you know. I'm not leaving anyone out.

[Gavin]

Thanks, buddy.

[Ken]

Dabbling quads from time to time, inclusive.

[Grandpa Ron]

I would be a lot bigger on.

[Ben]

Crime, but not like motor vehicles.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, no, no, no. I'm talking about, you know, nowadays you can and steal stuff if it's under $900. They don't even prosecute you. That's bullshit.

[CJ]

I saw a post the other day that said. Well, it was actually a photo of like a T shirt and it was priced at $900. And then next to it was like a wallet that was $900 and said, everything in this store costs $900. And the discount is put onto the product when you're rung up. So if you steal from this store without us ringing up the product you're stealing at the value of 900, which is, you know, grand process.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, Genius. Great idea.

[Ken]

It is sad that it even has to come to that, though.

[Gavin]

That'd be great for Micah's inconvenience store.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, that would be.

[Gavin]

The price isn't real. There's a discount applied at checkout.

[Ben]

You have no idea what it is. It just says you have to know.

[Gavin]

What the discount code is for it to apply. There we go. Now we're talking.

[Grandpa Ron]

What is Micah going to have a.

[CJ]

Yeah, he's starting a store.

[Grandpa Ron]

We're at.

[CJ]

Oh, somewhere, like, really inconvenient.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

A couple miles outside of town.

[Grandpa Ron]

Okay.

[CJ]

Yeah. So we were thinking of, like, different things that Mike could do, like at his inconvenience store. One would be, you know, like the parking lot would be. Would be like just a mile down the road, but there'd be a shuttle bus that like, runs between the parking lot, but the shuttle bus would run every 30 minutes. But there's a 15 minute parking meter at the parking lot, so if you don't pay for it after 15 minutes, you get parking tickets.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, my.

[Gavin]

All the boxes are backwards, so you can't see the labels of anything.

[CJ]

You have to buy off the ingredients.

[Ben]

They don't accept cards, but they also.

[Gavin]

Don'T give out change.

[Grandpa Ron]

What a deal that is.

[Gavin]

He only accepts pennies.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The gas pumps actually have a hand crank on them.

[Grandpa Ron]

It'd be interesting to talk to him a year after he has it.

[CJ]

Yeah, Mike's big on, like, starting businesses that don't work, though.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, retail business is tough.

[CJ]

Yeah. Well, I mean, his hot dog stand's still doing really well, but he kind of took the foot off the gas with his skate park.

[Ken]

He didn't even charge anyone to get in. It was free and doing it for the kids.

[CJ]

Yeah. And then he just gave everyone a bunch of stuff.

[Ken]

Yeah. Bunch of money. And skateboards.

[Gavin]

You guys get that buffed out, Ken? 75 of it taken out, so it's still there.

[Ben]

Ken, I saw one of your employees today was running some sick South Park Heelys.

[Gavin]

Oh, yeah? Yeah, he bought some Heelys last week.

[Ben]

Did you notice any increased productivity?

[Gavin]

No.

[Ben]

Was it a decrease?

[CJ]

About flat.

[Ben]

I was gonna say. Just don't count the time that everyone probably had to take a test drive in the Heelys. Yeah, other than that moment, it was.

[Gavin]

It was fine.

[CJ]

Is everyone test driving the Heelys?

[Gavin]

Nobody liked them. I. I drove over there this morning. I had to park a trailer, and at about 8:57am I could hear the music outside of the building. Yeah, it was bumping. Dude, it sounded like a nightclub. They had the speaker really loud.

[Ken]

Ken, do you have any control?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

It doesn't seem that way.

[Gavin]

I don't care about the ox cord, but do you feel like you're learning because these guys are a little bit younger than you? Do you feel like you're picking up their young person traits? It is interesting, some of the music they listen to.

[CJ]

How about the words that they say?

[Gavin]

Oh, they're not that young. I heard you guys listening to the Hawk Tool podcast. Ironic that they put that on because they put it on just to torture people. The one guy puts it on just because the other guy hates it so bad.

[CJ]

Is it bad? I keep seeing, like, talk to him memes.

[Gavin]

It's so bad. Yeah, but I mean, everything I see, dude, on shorts, it's got like 3 million views. Take it for a listen. It's the worst thing you'll possibly listen to. What's worse? Bad baby. Or talk to a.

[Ken]

Talk to her.

[CJ]

Have you heard about the Hawk to a girl?

[Grandpa Ron]

No. What is that all about?

[CJ]

Hock to.

[Ken]

We pop it up.

[Grandpa Ron]

What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?

[Gavin]

You got to give him that.

[CJ]

That hawk, too, and spit on that thing.

[Grandpa Ron]

You get me?

[Ken]

What do you think about that, Grandpa?

[Grandpa Ron]

I don't know.

[Ken]

Yeah, she became very famous after doing that.

[CJ]

Yeah, like insanely famous.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. If she worked. If it worked. It works.

[CJ]

It worked for her.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, There you go. There you go.

[Ken]

Wild times.

[CJ]

Grandpa, did you watch our reckless golfing video?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yes, I did.

[CJ]

What'd you think of that as a golfer?

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I. I think probably. I wouldn't. Wouldn't want to get in your way while you guys are driving for number one. It's hard for me to say that because I've been with you guys and doing that stuff, so, I mean, I know how. How it is kind of. I mean, you guys don't really wreck anything. I mean, as far as golf course goes, you wreck your cars and. But sometimes you look at driving through a sand trap, for example, you know, is. You know, if you're a golf. Oh, God, I don't know about that.

[CJ]

Pretty bad golf etiquette. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Driving. You guys never drive on the greens. That's not a problem. You know, other than that, I. So you go in the water, hit a tree, roll over. Big deal, right?

[CJ]

Yeah, it's. It's like very little to no course destruction. It's just all right, right?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Our own golf carts.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

Trying to hit the last all causes more destruction with divots we're taking with the bunkers.

[Ben]

They run a tractor through it in the morning, fluff it back up.

[Grandpa Ron]

I understand that, but a lot of people don't. Well, I'm a golfer, but if I wasn't a golfer, Geez. You know, because when you play, you rake it and you do this when we raked it, I. Oh, I know that. I know.

[CJ]

We always after you even.

[Ben]

And let me tell you, that was.

[CJ]

A lot of raking, the whole thing.

[Grandpa Ron]

And Ben even straightened up the weeds at one golf course.

[Ken]

That's true.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Leave it.

[CJ]

Better than we found it.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

When Gavin went in the pond, you know when. When Evan pushed Gavin in the pond.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Gavin actually took garbage out of the pond too, because he was in there. So we were like, oh, grab the garbage while you're in there.

[Grandpa Ron]

Absolutely.

[CJ]

Believe it better than we found it.

[Grandpa Ron]

But I'm the wrong person to probably ask that. But if I were trying to be really, you know, impartial or whatever you want to call it, you know, driving the cart through the traps, think you might maybe ruin the edge, you know?

[CJ]

Yeah, it doesn't.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, I know.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

But could. But people see the concern.

[Ken]

You didn't know us. If you didn't know us and you just saw that video, you would think that's not cool.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, I don't know about that. I would think maybe. Well, I might.

[Ben]

I don't up to go golf and have some fireballs.

[Grandpa Ron]

I'm for that. Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. Grandpa on fireballs. And a three wheel golf cart is causing way.

[Grandpa Ron]

You guys still have that three wheeler?

[Gavin]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

I can show you how to drive it.

[Ken]

Oh, my man.

[Gavin]

We get you and Gavin together.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, There you go.

[CJ]

I can't see that.

[Ben]

I can see it now. An obstacle course. Grandpa teaching Gavin how to drive the Harley properly through it.

[CJ]

I cannot imagine that would end well.

[Grandpa Ron]

No, probably not.

[Gavin]

I was talking with a guy and he was actually from the town where we. Where we did that at the course. And he goes, well, you know what? You just used all the parts of the course that I didn't want to use anyway.

[Grandpa Ron]

Good. Yeah.

[Gavin]

He goes, I don't want to be in the bunker. I don't want to be off in the side. He goes, you know, I'm trying to be on the fairway in the green and goes, I don't even know if you drove on the fairway the whole time, so.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, yeah, true.

[Gavin]

I was like, I Like that attitude on it. Yeah.

[Ben]

We certainly didn't take too many divots.

[Grandpa Ron]

That's true. No divots. Well, Ken may have when he played the morehead.

[Gavin]

Just a couple. That was him just trying to go divots, though.

[Grandpa Ron]

They weren't divots. They were beaver tails.

[Ben]

When I played high school golf, I was on the driving range, and my golf coach came up to me and said, what the hell is wrong with you? You're digging your own grave. That's how deep my divots were.

[Gavin]

Oh, my.

[Grandpa Ron]

But I think on those golf videos, more what you do with. With the equipment, with your carts and stuff, you know, when you tip them over and run into each other and go in the water with them, that's no big deal, you know? I mean, what do you think of.

[Gavin]

That 80 horsepower golf cart?

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, that's a dandy.

[Ken]

Would you, like.

[Gavin]

Pretty nasty, huh?

[Grandpa Ron]

No, I don't think I'd like it. I might like it, but I don't think I should have it.

[CJ]

We were gonna bring it over, and we were gonna. Yeah, we were gonna, like, do a. Like a prank on you of, like, putting you in it and then having Evan rip off down the road. But we were like, ah, this probably.

[Ken]

Should be so dangerous.

[Ben]

Long story short, you didn't trust me.

[Ken]

Yeah, no.

[Gavin]

It also apparently is a sticky throttle.

[CJ]

But, yeah, we gotta get that.

[Ken]

Yeah. Very dangerous.

[Grandpa Ron]

What? It would be fun someday, though, you guys. Guys come up here and bring it up, and we'll be playing golf, and we'll start passing everybody on the horse.

[CJ]

It's so funny.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, it's so good. That thing moves.

[CJ]

It does. And it's, like, really well built. Like, it's actually. It's a little bent up. I don't even think we showed, actually, what happened to it, but Evan hit Gavin, so we gotta get that fixed.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, golf carts are built pretty well.

[Ken]

Yeah, we know.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. You guys, you should be a tester for some of these golf cart companies.

[Ken]

Maybe Yamaha hit us up easy.

[CJ]

Go hit us up, send us a fleet of them.

[Ben]

I do think it's. It's debatably the most dangerous vehicle we have in our fleet, you know? You don't think nothing bad can happen? It's just a little golf cart.

[Grandpa Ron]

You don't have any protection? No.

[Ben]

And no. The roofs are not solid, that they flip. And then to be able to go 80 miles an hour, you can get yourself into trouble awfully quick.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, yeah. Well, that's unusual, of course. I mean, there's not many of Those around. Evan, I hate to tell you, but.

[Ken]

How many times in your life have you seen someone flip a golf cart on the golf course when it wasn't us or you coming home from.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, I've done it myself, but I saw a guy tip over on a side hill one time and that was just because he made a bad turn. It was nothing major.

[Ken]

It doesn't happen as often as we'd think. Like every time we go golfing, that's bound to happen.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, you make it happen.

[CJ]

Golf carts just have such a low center of gravity. You really gotta, you, you know, put yourself in a bad situation. Like our buddy Gavin did. He found out what it looked like flipping it.

[Grandpa Ron]

I tell you. You know Harley Davidson used to make golf curtains.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what we got.

[Grandpa Ron]

Oh, okay. I had one of those.

[CJ]

The three wheel one. Three wheel.

[Grandpa Ron]

And I left it. My daughter borrowed it one night and. And left it at the club because he went to a. Some out someplace to eat besides club. Whatever. Anyways, there was a wedding that night. The next morning I go to play golf and my cart is floating in number nine. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Sitting out there. The cart, the three wheeler, you know, it comes up, that's up there like that and there's a pair of shoes with it. So the pro is all worried. That calls a wedding party anybody missing? Because we got a pair of shoes and a golf cart out there. They just took the golf cart. Was good. Was setting by the deal. Anyway, we pulled it out and that thing still ran.

[Gavin]

Hey, there you go.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Why would Harley Davidson make golf carts? That does not seem like a Harley Davidson thing to do. Obviously they don't make them anymore, but.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, Columbia. Well, I bought a new Harley Davidson. That red one I had. Remember that red card I had, the four wheeler?

[CJ]

Harley Davidson made four wheel golf carts too?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, that was the last thing they made. And when it was done, they would.

[Ken]

Have probably stuck around if they made them sound like Harley's.

[Gavin]

Yeah, you imagine?

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah, they probably would have stuck around.

[Gavin]

The loudest golf cart on the course.

[Ben]

But it's really slow.

[CJ]

Well, we've been thinking about maybe doing a Harley swap in our Harley three wheel golf cart. But there's only one way that could end with Gavin driving it.

[Ken]

Last thing he needs is more horsepower.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, you should put straight pipes on that.

[Ben]

We usually try to like keep the carts a little low key. You know, we got to get away from the pro shop.

[Grandpa Ron]

We weren't, what, 50 yards from the pro shop? Here's Ken right through the sand trap, at least. Wait, you get to pass the number one team. Remember that. Get past the number one tee box or number two tee box before.

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken gets all horny.

[Grandpa Ron]

I suppose he does. Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yeah, you gotta start early. You gotta use the whole course.

[Grandpa Ron]

I'll give you credit for that, I'll tell you that. Wow.

[CJ]

You know, kind of just to wrap everything up, you know, after beating cancer. Grandpa, I'm curious what your outlook on life is after going through something like that. If you. It gives you new appreciation for things or if it, you know, makes you kind of feel like, you know, more things are more important than others, or if you wish you would have done other things. Like when you're in a stage like that, where's your mind at?

[Grandpa Ron]

That was one aspect of it. Like right now you look at death, for example. Not a big deal, probably. I mean, I have a lot of friends that I went to funeral today. And you see, and you get older and it's going to happen. So you're not really afraid of it. You know, I mean, it could happen, but you're not really afraid of it. And so I'm going to do what I want to do and not worry about it. But I know it's there and I'm not really afraid of it. Maybe 10 years ago, I might have been afraid of it, but after that, I watch what goes on with people and your attitudes, and I probably have more sympathy now for people than I did before and more depth in what they're doing, you know, because how am I going to be around? So I better enjoy what I see. Just the attitude is that it's just kind of different. I mean, I love to see you guys succeed. I mean, that's very important to me. I love to watch that. What I see happening nowadays that I like is wonderful. What I don't like, I just forget it. I'm not going to argue about it. Just. But what I see certain things, I like it, I like it. And then you think, well, it's worth living for a while to see some of this stuff happen. You know, doesn't. It doesn't. You know, maybe a shitty attitude, but that's mine.

[Ken]

A newfound appreciation on life.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah, kind of. Yeah, really. You think about all the good things in people. And I kind of found that out again. Getting back to all those comments we had about when I had cancer and prayers for Grandpa Christ, I counted 3, 500 of them on that one.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. And you think, God, there's a bunch of Good people yet in the world. Because most people have a bad attitude of what some people are like nowadays.

[Ken]

The thing is you just attract like everyone to you because of your attitude is. It's so contagious. And that's why everyone just loves you. I mean, everywhere you go, you're just like the star of the room or whatever. You're. If you're in the video, you're the star of the video. And I think it just goes to your attitude because you just. You just have a very positive, happy, outgoing attitude and everyone wants to be around that.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Well, if you don't, you know, hate is a bad thing. What the hell. People are people and you gotta live with it. So you're not going to change them in many cases. So if you don't like them, ignore him. But the people that you're out enjoy it.

[Ken]

Something else that you do is like if. If you were in like a group of people and they were all saying something negative about like another person, you always, like, say something positive.

[Grandpa Ron]

There's something positive about everybody.

[Ken]

Right.

[CJ]

I, you know, but like, you, you.

[Ken]

Like, just don't, don't really let the bad talk continue on. You switch the conversation to something positive.

[Grandpa Ron]

I hope so. But like I said. Yeah, you guys have really been good to me. I mean, I'm inspired. I have hell new energy. And I could talk about doing stuff and what you guys are doing and whatever, and it gives you something to look forward to.

[Ken]

Yeah. Something new.

[Grandpa Ron]

Something new. Yeah. Something going on. What's going on now? Whatever. Stop your bullshit. Stuff that you want to forget about. And the negative stuff. Yeah, negativity is bad thing. But what there's a saying about you use less muscles to smile than you do to frown or something like. Like that. I don't know what the hell it is, but.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Really?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

It's easier to smile than frown.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

It is great to live by.

[Grandpa Ron]

You guys are crazy. So that's okay.

[CJ]

Well, there we go. All right.

[Grandpa Ron]

I know you are. That's great. It's wonderful. And I, you know, things I hear about you guys and everybody I talk to, I mean, it's just like, I don't care what age they are. They just say, God, there's a bunch of nice guys. They're just good guys and just do crazy stuff and, and people are happy to. I've talked to people that would. Watching your videos since you started, for Christ's sakes. And that was like when I was at that ball game. I bet 20, 30 people said, I've been watching Seaboy since they started.

[CJ]

Yeah, I always loved you that.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. So I said, well, great. Keep on watching. Yeah, Go buy some merchandise. Wide open. Let's get some shirts. Right?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Well, thanks for coming on again, Gramps.

[Grandpa Ron]

Well, hey, it's fun.

[CJ]

I always love sitting down and chatting with you and sharing you with the rest of the world. You know, me and CJ have, have, you know, heard a lot of the stories, but they're still funny.

[Ken]

Every. So many more. So many more.

[CJ]

But it's been fun to get to show the world, you know, introduce the world to you.

[Grandpa Ron]

If we can do anything positive, that's all we're here for.

[CJ]

There we go.

[Gavin]

I have a grandpa.

[CJ]

Love you the world. Room for you, too.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Yeah, they are. Gosh, yes. I've got some good stuff back. And like you said, all the young people, you know, come up to. Hey, I'm Grandpa. I'm Grant. I'm glad you're doing beat cancer. How you doing? You're doing well? You know, I'm doing fine, thank you. I mean, kids, 18 years old, 17 years old. You know, even, you know, even the. We had a restaurant. One of the gals there knew it was Grandpa Ron. And so before I left, she gets her friends and they all come over three up and they want a picture taken and, oh, how you doing with your cash? I'm glad you're doing well. These are four young gals that are working there. I mean, that's really nice to hear. You know, of course they stop everybody, you know, they're busy around. We're busy right now taking the picture. You can have to wait to be seated, but it was. It was fun.

[CJ]

America's grandpa.

[Grandpa Ron]

Yeah. Well, all right.

[Ken]

Well, thank you, guys. We'll. We'll be back next week. Tuesday.

[CJ]

Peace.

[Ken]

Peace.

[Gavin]

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