How Two Mechanics Helped CboysTV Reach 1 Billion Views

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: How Two Mechanics Helped CboysTV Reach 1 Billion Views

Date: June 11, 2024

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode dives deep into the pivotal roles that "Big Wrench" (Brian) and Gavin have played in shaping CboysTV’s DIY, stunt-driven content, and how their mechanical ingenuity and relentless work ethic have enabled the channel to hit the milestone of 1 billion YouTube views. The crew candidly discusses the journey, ups and downs of building wild vehicles, the pressure and culture within the shop, and the funny, chaotic moments that happen behind the scenes when running a creative operation at high speed.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Origins & Roles of the Mechanics ([02:41], [11:46])

• Big Wrench’s Backstory:
  • Started as a professional snowcross mechanic in 1997, initially with Polaris.
  • Transitioned from snowmobiles to watercraft, then to all types of fabrication and R&D.
  • Joined CboysTV about 4–6 years ago via a chance connection while fabricating snowmobile cans.
  • “It’s kind of wrecked me, really. I don’t even own a snowmobile. ...All I think about is, ‘this could be better.’” (Big Wrench, [08:04])
• Gavin’s Arrival:
  • Gavin persistently reached out to build an exhaust for Ben’s Lamborghini and wound up joining after impressing the team with his skills during a mass lawn-mowing video.
  • Hired after building a 6-foot-tall pit bike and a tandem pit bike within their tight timelines.
• Jack-of-all-Trades Approach:
  • Both mechanics pride themselves on being able to “figure out anything”—from choppers for the Minnesota Vikings’ games to spontaneous YouTube builds.
  • “Don’t fall in love with the project.” (Big Wrench, [11:25])

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2. Behind-the-Scenes: Building Process, Deadlines & Creativity ([09:10], [25:21], [30:05])

• Dynamic Build Process:
  • Projects are typically "good enough to get by" due to rapid YouTube scheduling, accepting that most creations will only last a single video.
  • “The most important thing is that we just keep churning and burning.” (Ben, [09:47])
  • Both are constantly learning through trial and error, forced to problem-solve in novel ways.
• Stress of Deadlines:
  • Timelines (often a single week or less) are the most stressful—everything can change by the hour.
  • "The timeline’s ridiculous... I strive to learn something new every day." (Big Wrench, [30:20])
• Creativity Meetings:
  • Build ideas often spark from small comments in planning sessions, rapidly spiraling into full videos.
  • “It’s crazy what one little comment sparks into a whole build.” (Big Wrench, [25:23])
  • Balancing intricate build coverage with entertainment is key—70% of their audience isn’t gearheads.

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3. Culture, Camaraderie & Shop Life ([46:01], [66:01], [68:07])

• Shop Culture:
  • Both Gavin and Big Wrench emphasize the importance of humility, grit, and being a team player. Friendship and crew fit are as crucial as technical skills.
  • “You spend way too much time as a group... to not get along with each other.” (Big Wrench, [67:51])
• Expectations & Work Ethic:
  • The relentless pace is a badge of honor, with Gavin working many weekends and Big Wrench likening the pressure to racing-level stress.
  • "Unfortunately for you, the job is never done here." (Ben to Gavin, [46:36])
• Work-Life Balance & Family:
  • Big Wrench reserves some hours for his family, humorously explaining why he can’t always join after-hours hangs.
  • “We’ve been married long enough where she knows all my tricks.” (Big Wrench, [51:24])

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4. Legendary Builds, Fails & Wild Moments ([23:00], [57:18], [58:40])

• Favorite & Most Stressful Builds:
  • Sexy Red (Gavin’s turbo mini truck) – Gavin’s favorite build, his first big project.
  • Bronco on a Pole – Big Wrench’s most stressful job due to the engineering challenge and live timeline.
    "That was probably the most stressful thing... I didn’t know if it was going to hold or not." (Big Wrench, [23:00])
  • Hummer Pontoon – Entirely “dumb luck” that it worked, but now a legend.
• Fails and Hard Lessons:
  • Many builds only last a single video; failures are shrugged off as part of the job and sometimes inspire future projects.

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5. Shop Hierarchy, Nicknames & Running Jokes ([47:54], [49:45])

• Big Wrench vs. Little Wrench:
  • Not actually related, but the running joke persists—“Big Wrench” calls the shots, while “Little Wrench” (Gavin) isn’t a fan of the moniker.
  • Amusing family implications as relatives ask about “hidden sons.”
• Conflicting Rumors & Tattoos:
  • Teasing about matching team tattoos, old nipple piercings, and fake chains—buying into and debunking shop rumors as part of the culture.
• Banter Over Food Choices:
  • Endless ribbing about Mike’s alleged hot dog obsession, with threats of photographic evidence and playful denial.

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6. Recruitment, Shop Expansion & the Next Generation ([68:07], [69:06])

• What Makes a Good Mechanic for the Team?
  • Adaptability, humility, learning mentality, “not thinking you’re the best,” and willingness to jump in wherever needed.
  • "If you bring something new to the table, don't think you've done that before—try to listen to everybody's ideas." (Big Wrench, [69:08])
• Future Ideas:
  • The team muses about doing a “Wrench Off” competitive mechanic series or bringing on a tech school intern.

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7. Street Fame, Fights, and Odd Encounters ([20:04], [77:00])

• Mechanic Street Cred:
  • Big Wrench gets recognized by his teenage son’s friends, enjoys low-key local celebrity, and has memorable bar stories and altercations.
  • “You got in a racetrack fight… mechanic to mechanic.” (Ben, [77:00])
  • Shop members recount altercations with a local homeless woman wanting to ride an e-bike, and sharing defense tactics (kicking knees in fights).

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8. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Don’t fall in love with the project.”
  — Big Wrench, on not over-investing emotionally in fleeting builds ([11:25])
• “We’re so good at knowing what’s going to do well on YouTube... then you just twist it a little bit.”
  — Ben, reflecting on the YouTube creativity process ([25:48])
• "If I was another 10 years younger, I probably wouldn’t be going home, right?"
  — Big Wrench, on shop camaraderie vs. family life ([50:26])
• “Timeline’s ridiculous… It can change every hour.”
  — Gavin, on the chaos of shop scheduling ([30:51])
• "I take that mentality with here too. You should learn something every day... If you learn something every day, the next day’s going to be better."
  — Big Wrench, on his continuous improvement mindset ([65:41])
• “If you can hang with us, you’ll be good as long as you don’t get tied up with that Evan guy…”
  — Dalton, about after-hours mischief ([50:41])

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Important Timestamps

• [02:41] – Big Wrench’s entry into CboysTV and their mutual connections
• [06:05] – Starting out in snowmobile mechanics in 1997
• [11:25] – Shop wisdom: don't get too attached to builds
• [23:00] – Most stressful build: Bronco on the pole
• [25:21]/[25:38] – Idea generation and group creative process
• [30:05] – Shop life, learning, and working under pressure
• [46:01] – Gavin’s work ethic and integration into the crew
• [57:18] – Favorite and least favorite builds
• [65:41] – Lessons from racing and taking those into shop life
• [68:07]/[69:06] – Advice for recruiting new mechanics/team members
• [77:00+] – Shop brawls, altercations, and defense tips

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Conclusion

This episode highlights that while the crazy vehicles and viral moments are what viewers see, it’s the passionate, hard-working, and endlessly creative mechanics—willing to learn, adapt, and collaborate—that enable CboysTV to continually one-up themselves and keep fans hooked. The wild stories, stressful deadlines, and unique personalities behind the scenes are what truly bring the channel to life.

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"The timelines here are probably one of the most stressful things, man... you want to get it done. Everybody."
— Big Wrench ([66:01])

Transcript

[Gavin]

Big Range is not my dad.

[Ben]

Yeah. Oh, that's actually. Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You didn't know what YouTube was till about three years ago.

[Ben]

That was actually probably the only design flaw that you've had. Big Ridge is how narrow you.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

My design flaw. Just need this one last shot, and that's what's going to do it in.

[Gavin]

Like, maybe we should have a weld off.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, the timelines here is probably one of the most stressful. You're my friend.

[Dalton]

You're the best.

[Ben]

Hey, thanks for having me, guys.

[Evan]

Pretty good song. Pretty good song.

[Ben]

Hey, Big Wrench, I got some good news.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, boy.

[Evan]

Oh, he just broke the mic.

[Ben]

How do.

[Evan]

Have you ever fixed a mic before?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I have not fixed the mic.

[Evan]

I'm sure you can figure it out.

[Ben]

What the heck did I just do?

[Evan]

You literally just broke the mic.

[Ben]

Dude, I've been breaking so much stuff lately. Not even on purpose. Most things aren't on purpose, but, like, just because Big.

[Evan]

Just because Big Wrench is here doesn't mean you can start breaking stuff during the podcast.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Ben, looks like you're. Looks like you're messing with a throttle.

[Evan]

You pissed some people off with how you broke that. That E bike, dude.

[CJ]

Ben just didn't want to ride this.

[Ben]

Week, so he just.

[Evan]

He was like, okay, I might. I'm going out to ride. I don't want to rip the throttle off.

[Ben]

Piss people off. Were they?

[Evan]

Actually, yeah, there's some comments about what they were mad that you broke the throttle. They're like, Ben, going ahead, breaking everything.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's okay. When Evan does it, It's a problem when I do it.

[Evan]

It's cool. When Evan does it, problem when I do it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No, I was gonna say the good news is the twin turbo kit for the Hoonicorn just got here today.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So if you want to get. Get going on by next Thursday.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Be right on.

[CJ]

Now it's a good Friday project.

[Evan]

Well, guys, welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. We have a special guest. Due to two special guests, we have Gavin coming on as well, but we have Big Wrench. Hey, one of the wrenches coming on the podcast today? Because, I mean, he's just got plenty of good, Good stuff to tell, and you guys have been asking for highly requested.

[Ben]

Requested Big Wrench.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, that's exciting to hear.

[Evan]

Yeah, man.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Is there a way it can turn us down a little?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Too loud?

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Ken, can you turn that down?

[Evan]

Ken ain't here. I'm surprised that you would want yours turned down.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, who sits here normally like somebody Needs their hearing check. Remy.

[Ben]

Oh, Evan. Evan does sit there sometimes. So he is definitely one ear. Yeah.

[Evan]

You think your hearing. Brian, would be worse.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I actually took a hearing test, one of those online things, and it was good. Yeah, it's. I'm at like, 54 year old, which I'm not 54, so.

[Ben]

Wait, an online hearing test?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. Like, you put your phone up to it, and when you can't hear the noise anymore, you're supposed to tap it and it stops, and then it gives you, like, an age of what your hearing's at.

[Ben]

Oh, wow, that's really interesting.

[Evan]

I always think about your hearing. Same with Gavin's, with the loud noises.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's not good and I don't take.

[Ben]

Care of it, so it's crazy.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's a. There's a lot of things that I should probably do that Gavin actually does because he's younger than I am and like. And smarter was brought up that way.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

What.

[Ben]

What is that called? They call it, like, the. Like, osha's got a name for it. But it's when you're, like, wearing your safety glasses and you have hearing protection. Evan said it the other day because Evan used to be in the labor union. Ppe. Ppe, Personal protection equipment stuff didn't exist.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That much when I was growing up. I. I mean, I wear glasses, so I'm good.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, you're good. You don't need safety.

[CJ]

Throw the safety squints and you're good to go, dude.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's what they say.

[Ben]

Well, big wrench. Did you ever think that you'd be sitting on a podcast?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

No, not.

[CJ]

How long ago did we meet? You've been working on our pieces of junk for a long time.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was on my way back here today. I think it's been four years.

[Gavin]

Really?

[Evan]

Working on our junk.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, on and off.

[Ben]

I think it was even before that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It could have been Mike's.

[Ben]

Mike's coming.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But whenever. You guys bought those two race sleds from Lavali.

[Ben]

That's right. You built the cans for it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So that would have been like 2018.

[CJ]

So that was even before Tiny.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Definitely wasn't as. As, you know, as much as it is now.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's all that. It was just sporadic.

[Evan]

Yep.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And so we had a mutual friend. Rob.

[Evan]

Yep.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And Rob and I were working at the same place, and Rob's like, hey, these guys just bought these things from Lavala. You want to come? They want cans built for them. Oh, yeah, sure, whatever. And I think we got a hold of Mike. Is the one that got a hold of.

[Ben]

Yep, yep.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I knew Jake a little bit.

[Evan]

But isn't it amazing how, like, things just evolve? Evolve?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

One of the funniest thing is, is like Jake's dad and myself are. He's older than I am, but, like, we went to the same parties in high school.

[Evan]

Really?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, man.

[Evan]

That's a story probably for another day.

[CJ]

I'm sure you got plenty around here for that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was just a little guy then.

[Ben]

But I still remember the very first time that Mike ever, like, came back from, like, working with you. I can just picture it knowing you and knowing Mike. And you guys will agree here when you hear this. Mike goes, yeah, I got this guy right outside of Holly building my snowmobile can. And I was like, really? Outside of Holly, that where, you know, there's not that many, like, kind of fabricator mechanics, like, I guess.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, that are, like doing like little one off projects like that. And he was like, yeah, actually like just down the road from like my mom's house. And so I told him. I was like, yeah, I. I just grew up down the road from here. And he was like, nice. And I was like. I was like, oh, okay. And then I was. I still remember that being like. I can just picture Mike, like talking about nothing and going nowhere and you just being like, not saying, what is this? What is this kid talking about right now? I can imagine he came to you and was like, yeah, we got this YouTube channel and we make snowmobile content and things like that. But just explaining in, like, the worst way. And you'd be like, okay, you want a can for this then? Or what?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, well. And it happened to be that I was already making cans for other projects, so it kind of worked out.

[Evan]

Yeah. So like, let's get in kind of the backstory of your wrenching and how it's evolved. Because. Because you basically started off doing. You were a professional snow cross mechanic.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, correct.

[Evan]

Would that be the title?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. And I mean, basically still are.

[Evan]

Still are.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

How many years have you been doing that then?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I started doing that in 1997.

[Evan]

97. God damn.

[Ben]

For Yamaha Polaris.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, four. I. I did engine development and some chassis stuff at Polaris where I, when I came, went out of tech school.

[CJ]

So you went right into snowmobiles. Yeah. When you were. Okay.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Snowmobiles. And then morphed into engine development on watercraft side of it for Polaris also.

[Ben]

So you get out of school, you start wrenching on. On snowmobiles. Snowmobiles right away. Or like, Watercrafts and then snowmobiles.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

We graduated in the spring, and I went in as a test driver, but they. When they hired me, but it was springtime, so, like, I ended up working on the assembly line all summer.

[CJ]

Which they hired you to ride sleds?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like, yeah, like, I test drove the first year.

[CJ]

Okay, so what's test driving? Like, you ride and you, like, because you understand the engineering side of it, so you understand why things work or don't.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. So, like, back then, there was a hundred test riders at Plumbers. Like, it's a lot different now. There was five of you in a group, and you went out and rode every day. Man, that you could.

[Evan]

Pretty good job.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

We did about 200 to 300 miles a day, and it sounds like it's a really sweet job till it's 25 below.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And you got to go put in 300 miles.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Maybe we should get you on a sled.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I don't know.

[CJ]

In all the years, have you even ridden anything here or driven any of the contraptions you've made?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Ah, not on purpose.

[Evan]

Banshee.

[CJ]

I think a little bit.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And I. I've owned, like, five of them things, so. Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

No, that is something, though. Every time you build it. I mean, not anymore, but we used to be like, you want to ride it? And you'd be like, I'm good. I'm good.

[Dalton]

Every once in a while, I'll see Evan finagles you onto one of the machines here and there.

[Ben]

But, Scootski, what I thought was interesting, if you've always been in the snowmobile world is, like, you've said that you. You didn't want to, like, teach your son how to ride snowmobile or, like, get him into that because, like, you have, like, lived and breathed SnowMobiling for, what, 25 years, 27 years now, almost. So at the end of. At the end of wrenching on it, you're just like, I don't even want to see one of these things.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And that. It's kind of wrecked me, really. Like, I don't even own a snowmobile. I mean, you guys have been in my house. We. I have a boat. That's.

[CJ]

Boat. That's it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And a jet ski that a tree almost fell on.

[CJ]

Why?

[Ben]

Because you don't want to. You don't want to work on them.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. I mean, and one thing, you don't want to work on it. And another thing is, is I've been doing, like, the development stuff of it for so long. Like, when I Ride something. All I think about is, well, this could be better. This could be better. This could be better.

[Dalton]

Really? So excitement out of it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, kind of.

[Dalton]

Yeah, almost all of it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I mean, I'm sure there's guys that are in my position that are the same way. Like, I don't know, like the development guys are this. I know a lot of them are the same way. Like, you ride something and all you do is pick it apart the whole, whole time.

[CJ]

And that's everything. Even outside of snowmobiles, like you ride a dirt bike and you're like, man, I wish.

[Ben]

Four wheeler.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Really? Yeah.

[Evan]

That's really interesting.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So it kind. It kind of wrecks you a little bit, man.

[Ben]

I gotta just have a real hard time. Then when you do ride one of our vehicles, like, this is so bad.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, the problem is, is like I. I built it or Gavin built it, and it's like, we. You have enough time to do this and it's not going to work very well, but it's going to get the job done.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I was gonna say the difference between our stuff is it's not meant to be perfect. It's like it's. It's just not gonna be perfect because it's probably not supposed to be a thing.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Evan]

But. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy how.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Not that it couldn't be, but yeah.

[Evan]

You guys just don't have the.

[Ben]

And a lot of our. A lot of our things are, you know, you guys understand as the wrenches of like, what we're trying to accomplish and what it needs to do, where the time really adds up is like the nitty gritty details of things. And like a lot of times you just brush right over them so we can get it done and then get the video posted. Because, like, at the end of the day, the most important thing is that we just keep churning and burning.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So like making these contraptions like 100% perfect, not really needed. It's more of like a novelty item where it's like good enough to get by. And that's quite frankly why a lot of them break. And Evan gets kind of the short end of the stick there of like, man, you just break everything. But, like, a lot of them just aren't meant to go much more than like one video's worth. And it's so funny when you reflect back on. On how many things that we have built or you guys have built and we have filmed videos on like 95% of them break at the end of the video where it's like, down to 45 minutes of use will be its lifespan.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And we know that, and we're just, like, okay with it. That's why we have a shop full of broken toys now.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And the biggest thing. And we say this in racing, too, the biggest thing is when Ben's really good for it. Like, we just need this one last shot, and that's what's going to do it in, like, every single time.

[Ben]

Every single time.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

My racer, like, we did the same thing this winter. He's like, I just going to go make one more. One more moto. And that moto is when the thing spears the track and he goes head over heels and sprains his a. You know, stuff like that.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's always one more.

[Ben]

That's why you always say, okay, so two more times, skip the last.

[Dalton]

So saying one more shot or a moto, it's all the same across the board.

[Evan]

I was going to say the other thing is, like, we're not trying to really reinvent the wheel with these inventions or these builds. It's not like we were like, this will be way better than a normal four wheeler. You know, it was more. It's more. So, like, I wonder what would. It would. What it would be like, you know.

[Dalton]

And there's like, the cold, hard truth about when you make it too nice, too perfect. You don't want to rip it. You don't want.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

You know, like, you don't want to break it, of course, but you don't even want to rip it too hard because it's too nice.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

My old instructor and a lot of guys that. The R D shops that I've worked at, they're like, don't fall in love with the project. Yeah. Know, that's what they tell you. Yeah.

[Ben]

And then Evan comes walking in and you're like, no, isn't.

[Evan]

I think it's. It's really interesting, though. Like, you compared to other, you know, mechanics and fabricators is you.

[Ben]

What.

[Evan]

What really sets you apart is how much experience you have. Like, you've worked on, obviously, snowmobiles, but you can work on cars, you can work on trucks, you can work on choppers, motorcycle, like, anything. You can.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. It's, you know, your way around. And I've had a ton of different types of jobs like that. And even, like, growing up in high school, like, we built derby cars and just wrecked our own stuff. Just like what you guys do, you know? But like, yeah, from. I worked at a chopper shop. I worked in Fargo redline snowmobiles at One time. And then a bunch of investors bought it. I got hired, another guy got hired and we built dune buggy.

[Ben]

I always remember those. Yeah, yeah, those are crazy.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I helped develop it and then I went on my own, started my own welding shop. And then they hired me to build all the suspension components for them.

[CJ]

I always love when we start working on a project, you know, whether it be turning some type of vehicle into a dune buggy or the chopper was the most surprising one. When you're like, oh, I hate working on these things. Like what do you mean you hate working on them? We just got it. You're like, no, I've had a lot of experience with these.

[Evan]

I used to build them.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So like the, the chopper shop that I worked for, like they were. Worked a deal out with the Vikings and like one of my jobs was to bring that chopper down and Ragnar drove it on the field every home.

[Evan]

The Minnesota Vikings. Yeah. So I remember you telling me about that. So his job was to make sure, you know, they like, they'd get the chopper down to, you know, the Minnesota Vikings stadium on Sunday and he Metrodome at that time and he'd make sure that it was gonna start, run and all that.

[Ben]

Because it's a chopper, right? You never know.

[Evan]

You never know. So like I was, you know, he's making sure it's gonna run for the game so they can do the hot lap on the field.

[Ben]

How often was it like the last minute things would go wrong and then you gotta. You're crawling underneath it and you're like.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Trying to figure out choppers you don't have to crawl underneath, but they're notorious for like the really big bore engines. Like they just spit the starters out like that. So like I literally had one in a backpack always.

[CJ]

Cause you never know, dude.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's like all live tv. So they're like, we gotta go.

[Ben]

But it's like, you know, things like that and you're just like so experienced and, and seasoned where it's like, that's cuz I'm old. It's just because you've done so much. Like you've been. You've been in so many different industries and yeah, like Ryan. Ryan said like every single time that we start working on a new project, you tell us about like a. A job that you used to had that you used to work on. And it's like every single time that something breaks, I'm like, well, big wrench will fix it. Yeah, and you always do. It's crazy. It's actually Unbelievable.

[Evan]

And you can, like, fab it. Up you go. Oh, if you go down to this shop over here, they'll have what we need. And then I'll call this guy and he's going to do this for us. And, like, you just know how to make it happen so quick, which is.

[Dalton]

That's just as important as knowing how to build something. It's like knowing people who call where to get material.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

This comes with experience and age. And I mean, a lot of my friends that I went to high school with are, like, do the same kind of stuff that. That I do. Not to the level that maybe I do it, but.

[Ben]

Big Wrench's vehicle resume is actually nice.

[Evan]

Who else has one like this?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

There's a. Guys that, like, know way more about certain things than I do, but maybe not so much about everything.

[Ben]

Well, you're a Swiss army knife of fabricators, and it's.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, it's. It's dumb.

[Evan]

So when you went to school, you know, and you're getting started out, you're. You're, you know, a mechanic, you know how to do all these things, you're doing all these different jobs. Did you ever think it would lead to being on a YouTube channel doing what you're doing?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You didn't know what YouTube was till about three years ago. That's.

[Ben]

Yeah. What did you think of. Of us when we first came into your life? Of. Obviously we explained kind of when Mike was doing it, but the first time that you really had worked on one of our projects. Tiny, right?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. What did we have you do for Tiny the first time?

[Evan]

New motor.

[Ben]

That was second, but we dropped the transmission. Yeah. Was it the transmission out of it?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

No, because you guys blew them.

[Dalton]

You, like, went right for the motor.

[Evan]

Oh, was it? Yeah.

[Ben]

And then we motor swapped it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. It blew up when it was silver. Then you paint. Yeah. Green, Right. Was it green after?

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Ben]

It's hard to remember.

[Evan]

A long time ago. But I remember you had it sitting in your shop for a while. You had to look at that ugly thing.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, and I was doing, like, other jobs too, so.

[Dalton]

But that's what I wanted to rewind back on that a little bit. Like, I remember when I somehow got in contact with you to build snowmobile exhaust. Yeah. Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Through Rob.

[Dalton]

To build snowmobile exhaust for our race leads for Jake and I's race leads. Because they didn't make them. And then you built them and you're like, yeah, that's. That should be pretty easy. And then you're like, here's your cans. And I'm like, dude, this guy just built a can from scratch. This is awesome. Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And it works.

[Dalton]

And it works. It worked great. And then. And I'm like. And then he was just, like, building someone some stairs. Like, you had, like, that project going, and. And then shortly after that.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You.

[Dalton]

We reached out to you to the motor swap, and I'm like, what is this guy?

[Evan]

Yeah. So what were your thoughts, though, as far as, like, what. What are these fucking idiots? What were you thinking?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

A little bit, but. But I get it. Like, it's not my generation, but you. You see stuff like that. Like, even my kids are like, yeah, I'm going to. Not that they're going to grow up and be YouTubers, but they're like, yeah, it's like a legitimate thing. Yeah. So I was. I'm open to a lot of things. I mean, right. Even when you asked me, like, can this be done? Well, yeah, anything can be done.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You do always say that.

[CJ]

I think that's an interesting thing that probably is. The reason that both of you guys got your jobs is when Ben or all of us would come and go, can you make this crazy thing, like, let's go. Putting Ken's Bronco up on a pole. Anyone with a good brain would be like, I don't even want to be involved in that. And we go, can you get it done? And in a week? And you go, yeah, anything can be done. That is always your answer to whatever project we have. Anything can be done.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That was the probably most stressful thing that I have done here.

[Evan]

The Bronco? Yeah.

[Ben]

Why?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Because I didn't want the thing you didn't want.

[Evan]

To.

[Ben]

Breathing down his neck of, like, watching each weld be made of, like, all right, big wrench.

[Evan]

Are you done?

[Ben]

My pen is going to be here in 45 minutes.

[CJ]

My favorite fact is, Big Ranch was up on the lift welding the, like, the.

[Dalton]

The whole.

[CJ]

The stabilizations on the pole as the Bronco was being lifted in the air.

[Ben]

We were really down to the one big Rich. How close. How many sides is it welded on right now? And he goes, three, and we go.

[Dalton]

It.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's fine without with a 110 welder in a 30.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Up on the freaking lift. Oh, my God.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

God.

[Ben]

It should have been welded off on all four. And we just called it good at three.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The. The morning before, when I was measuring up the. The platform to raise it up there, I was like, ben, this isn't a good idea.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I didn't watch you Build it. But the platform was truly impressive. I'm like, how is this gonna work? I kind of rolled up. I don't know what I was doing, but I rolled up. And you guys are like, brian built all of it. It's gonna work. And then it really did. You know, like you drive the Bronco onto the platform and then it lifted it up. I'm like, wow.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Hey.

[Evan]

And holding to today.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I know, I know. I drive by it every morning and I'm like, God.

[Ben]

I know. It's actually kind of like. It would be so much funnier if they broke at this point. Hummer pontoon would just come crumbling.

[Evan]

I lowkey wanted to blow off.

[CJ]

I know.

[Evan]

I just think it would be so funny.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

We were just going to like set the pole in the dirt. A buddy of mine is a concrete guy. He's like, that's not going to work.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then one of your other buddies had that pole. Yeah, the other pipe. The pipe. We got a project going right now. I don't want to say what is going on because we got a mole.

[Evan]

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

[Ben]

That too. We've got a project going right now and the entire thing has been sourced from Big Wrench's buddies. And there's like five different pieces that all had to come together and they're all a different buddy. It's actually incredible. So shout out Big Wrench.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Here's one funny thing. The one buddy this morning when I went to pick up the final puzzle piece, he knows that I work for you guys. And he's like, hey, isn't he buddies with Cletus? Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, I've like, I've never met him, but he's like, well, I got a buddy that races with him all the time down there. Goes to his place all the time.

[Ben]

Oh, we got buddies. A buddy.

[Evan]

Small world.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The wrenching community is. Is a tight knit group.

[Evan]

So do people come up to you like on the streets now? Do they recognize you or, or like when you're going out, does people come up and ask you stuff like that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Or like my kids as friends? Yeah, you know, my, my kids are teenagers, so it's a lot of them are like interested in it and like obviously want merch or whatever. My son's a little bit on the shy side, I would say. So he's kind of more like, I don't really want to talk about you and what you do. And yeah, he just quiet. Which is fine.

[Ben]

Yeah, Good kid. He's packing merch right now.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Good kid.

[Evan]

He's kind of a chip off the old block because that, that's why we ask, like, what'd you think of us in the beginning? Because, like, until you spend a lot of time with you, you're kind of a man of few words.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So like, when we would have the tiny. Another project that we had you do was when we blew up that brand new Polaris snowmobile.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's kind of a funny story.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So this was like.

[Evan]

Yeah, you guys say we, but I mean, you guys say.

[Ben]

It's hard to say because we all.

[Evan]

But so basically I'll tell the story now because enough times passed. So it was like our first. Was it our first snowmobile we had ever been given?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The first year, the 850th.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So we get this brand new snowmobile and like everyone's riding the thing and we're going riding for the day. And I don't even think I had ridden it yet. I hadn't ridden it once. I think maybe you guys, I don't know who was riding it before, but someone's riding it before they bring it in. Then I hop on it. We go riding like few miles down the road and the thing just seizes up. It's got like 85 miles, blows up.

[Ben]

I'm.

[Evan]

I don't know, I was just riding the thing. Like, I'm just. I'm not doing anything crazy. And basically it ran out of oil or something like that. We didn't put oil in it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

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

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

It ran out of oil and everyone got mad at me. But the thing is, like, the oil light would have came on.

[Ben]

Dude, the oil light never came on.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah. Because like, you guys wouldn't have just handed it to me and been like.

[Ben]

Hop on it and ride it.

[Evan]

So oil light never came on. So anyways, we have this brand new snowmobile that we got gifted and back then we didn't have.

[Dalton]

It was much cash. Stressful.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

We didn't have excess cash. And like, we can't ask these guys like, hey, we just ran your sled out of oil that you just gave us.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You know, because that's a pretty bad look.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So then can we get another one?

[Evan]

So big wrench came in and did a motor rebuild on it and. And then we were back in action.

[Ben]

Yeah. That was like your first project.

[Evan]

You had to be like, these guys are idiots. They just ran this sled out of oil. Like, they didn't put oil in it.

[Ben]

And that is like, like that is.

[Evan]

The stupidest thing that could happen.

[Ben]

Like, thing as like a motor head.

[Evan]

The light didn't come on. It truly never did come on.

[Ben]

The issue with that is like, it was a community sled, so nobody took ownership of it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Nobody thought to check anything on it and light never came up.

[CJ]

But yeah, circling way back, you had said that the Bronco on the pole was by far your most stressful project. Or was your most stressful project.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, probably like because of the money and. Well, like, I didn't know if it was going to hold or not.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[CJ]

There was no way to test it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like, obviously I'm not going to say no, it's not going to hold. Like, yeah, I. 50, 50 chance.

[CJ]

Do we know it's still up there?

[Dalton]

Dude, you gotta play.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You gotta play the average.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I, I want to do more.

[Gavin]

I've.

[Dalton]

I've seen comments. Yes, yes.

[Evan]

We just have like 10 vehicles.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yes.

[Dalton]

I don't want to make it like, I don't want to overdo it or whatever. Or maybe that's Cheeto or Silly. But like, I think there's certain builds that we have that won't see another driving day. Some of them are kind of just for looks.

[Evan]

I wouldn't mind like a fake Lamborghini up there, but the fake Lamborghinis are so good. So.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, I was just going to say, like, I backed that four wheel, 4x4 Lamborghini out of the storage shed. That thing might as well go on the pole.

[Ben]

You think so?

[Dalton]

Oh, really?

[Evan]

I mean, it's pretty. They're just, they're fake Lamborghini.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I think if, I think if Gav or I got to spend like a few days fastening stuff down. Yeah, it might be all right.

[CJ]

It might be enough to stay on the pole.

[Dalton]

The entire body.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Get one more video.

[Evan]

It was a good rig. It just, it shook apart after Moab and the other sand.

[Gavin]

Whoops.

[Ben]

Whoops.

[Evan]

We did. But I remember when, when you first came on, you were like, I mean, I don't need to be on camera or anything. We're like, well, be easier, you know, if we could have you on camera. Like, do you mind? You're like, no, I don't care. I'll be on camera. And now it's like, you know, it just kind of slowly evolves into people recognizing you out on the street.

[Ben]

I think back to the just like times before we had you and Gavin here when it was just You. I can't believe that we were able to accomplish as much as we were with just you, and then without you. I can't believe that we were even able to function with, like, doing anything. But it was just, like, it was a different time of our YouTube career where I think we were forced to. To just think different. And, you know, we didn't have, like, the leg of. Of creativity, of builds to lean on. And, you know, it's been, like, a huge blessing for one. Just, like, our creative capabilities of, like, what we can build now because we have you. You too. Overall, like, I think our channel is so much better because of what we can build, and it's just like, no doubt now, you know.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Now we are, like, so much.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's awesome to hear farther along. Plus, you five guys are. Are like, when you. When we sit in these, like, the planning meetings and stuff, it's, like, crazy. What one. One little comment sparks into, like, a whole build.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah, usually, like.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like, I can't think of that myself. Like, one person. It's tough for one person to think of something like that. Like, it takes a group of guys to do that.

[Evan]

It is.

[Ben]

And people ask that all the time. Like, how do you guys come up with your ideas? And I'm like, honestly, we are so good at knowing what's going to do well on YouTube and what people will click on at this point. Like, you just take one thing and then you just twist it a little bit, and then you add one thing to it, and then you go into the vault of, like, all right, what has worked before? What vehicles do we have? What can we combine? Who can we surprise it with? And, like, I don't know, we've just gotten so good at that over the years of, like, training your brain how to. How to creatively think. And it is fun having, like, you guys a part of our creative meetings now where we're just, like, coming up with the most abstract ideas. And now it's like, we have so many ideas and so many different builds and so many different motor swaps and so many different. Just contraptions that we could build. A lot of them take more than, like, a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. Some of them take, like eight weeks, 12 weeks. And then it's just like, well, it's not worth tying you guys up. So, like, ideally, you know, we. We find another set of. Of you guys, and. And we just continue to add to the team, but then we got to have more space to build it, and then we got there's just like, so many different factors to it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But, I mean, for the little bit that I know of what you guys do, I mean, you. I can't do what you guys do and whatever, but we can't do it. Yeah, yeah. And so it takes all of us but to. To figure out, like, how to package that type of video. Like, you know, I've read some of the comments on some of the videos. They're like, oh, we need to. We need to see, like, in more involved build, you know, video type of thing. But, like, how do you do that with the schedule that you guys already have? It's. It's crazy.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's. That's something that a lot of people don't realize, too, is like, we're filming three videos at once. Because these. These builds take so much time. You know, you can't just like, solely focus on one thing and be nice if you could, but it's not possible. So it's like managing all these different things and having, you know, getting the shots for the build, and it's like, how intricate do we want to go? Because we're trying to apply to the masses. We're trying to have the masses be entertained. And, like, I think maybe 30% of our audience is like Motorhead gear head, where they'd even understand if what you guys were explaining what you're doing, you know, and then the other 70% would almost just check out. Yeah, that. So it's like, you got to stay broad enough with it, which I think we've done a good job.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's not like it's a learning channel.

[Ben]

Right. That too.

[Evan]

I think the key word you said there was package. Like the way that, you know, we do all this and then package it into the. The video. Like, that was. That's really cool that you. You know that just from being on the inside. I mean, you just, you know, from day to day and. And seeing how everything rolls. And that's what people don't understand on the outside. Like, why didn't it go? Why didn't you do this? Why don't you show that? It's just like, sometimes it's just the overall packaging of it, and there's so many little factors into just running this from doing this idea meeting. Like, you're like, you're talking about. Someone says one little comment, and then this person says something, and then it just evolves into this thing. And like, sometimes people, like, who came up with that idea, and it's like, I don't even know. Like, we were all just in there and then it was just like all of a sudden we were plan on doing this, and it just like evolves.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Some. Some say evolve, some say spiral.

[Evan]

Yeah, spiral.

[Dalton]

But it's crazy.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Dalton]

And sometimes it's literally like a late night text that you're just firing out there because you're like, I don't even know if this is anything.

[Evan]

Or like, the idea gets said and then it changes because it's like, okay, well, how do we actually make this happen?

[Ben]

And.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Or whatever.

[Evan]

But no, that's. That's cool that. That you pick up on that as well.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I always tell people, when it was like, when you first came on, everyone's like, how. How is. Because you were like our first hire. And how is it with Big Wrench? I'm like, dude, Big Wrench makes our dreams come true. That's what our ideas are, our dreams, in a sense. And then now it's Big Wrench and Gavin make our dreams come true. Because we do. We have a lot of good ideas and. And they come to fruition and it's.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like, you want to do them all, like, this week?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, that's. That's the hard part. It's. It's hard for me, and I'm sure it's hard for Gavin too. Like, there's seven things on that list that I'd rather do than what I'm doing this week.

[CJ]

Yeah, well, you know, you'll get to it eventually.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Right.

[CJ]

Before we get too deep in this, I want to get Gavin on here, since now we're kind of talking about how crucial is to have more members of the team. So, Gab, you come in here. I'll go back in Ken's spot since he's on vacation these weeks.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

So he's in Mykonos.

[Evan]

I got a question for both of you guys here. So obviously we have you doing such obscure jobs, you know, like, everything you're doing. Like, who the frick has. Has. Is doing that kind of stuff? Like, are you still constantly learning? Just.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, definitely. Like, I, like, I strive to learn something new every day.

[Evan]

I'm sure you guys probably are, because, I mean, who else you like for these things you're doing? You can't just be like, oh, let me look it up on the Internet, or let me call this per. Like no one else has done.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And it's whether you learned something that is of value or you learn something that. Hey, don't do that again.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That type of thing also. Value.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What do you think, like, the worst, most stressful part, wrenching for us is our. Our timelines.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Timeline. Yeah. The timeline's ridiculous.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Not knowing what's coming up next, like, well, it can change every hour.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

What a lot of people don't see is like, yeah, we have a. We have a build, but there's 15 other things that you get pulled every day. Plus you get that build done, I would say, weekly.

[Dalton]

Like, there's the long term build. Like, you're kind of talking about whether it's one or two or three or four weeks. And then daily you're being pulled for something, whether it's something real quick and small, or whether it's like, hey, this week's video needs something that you are crucial for, and you get pulled for the whole day for that.

[Ben]

What were you working on when I called you about the triple bike cyber truck?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Cybertruck.

[Ben]

Okay, so, all right, so good example.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So which we only got four days.

[Ben]

To do, so that was fun. Let me explain this timeline out. Ken buys his cybertruck, and we film the first part of the cybertruck video with it. We thought it was great, but we wanted to do something with it entertaining enough to title it around. Ken buying a cybertruck and not just have it, like, as, like a B bit in, like, the back end of a video. We were like, if we make this more entertaining and do something with it, build it out, we can make this into more of a video bit. So we're like, okay, what could we do? What could we do? Evan goes, buy me a normal Chevy, and I'll. I'll prove that Ken's cybertruck isn't better than a 90s model Chevy? And I was like, okay, that's a pretty good idea. Well, what if we made the Chevy then look like a cybertruck? So then it was funnier of what you were doing with the Chevy. And it wasn't just you, big dick. And in a Chevy.

[Dalton]

Right. And I just. I'll stop you there really quick. These two worst nightmares, when Ben's brain starts blowing hamster wheeling. Literally. Yeah, literally.

[Ben]

In the meantime, Gavin is working on the mini truck turbo build and clutch.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Was just screwed in it.

[Ben]

Oh, God. That was a nightmare too. But so I'm thinking, all right, what is Gavin doing? What's Big Wrench doing? I go, okay, I'm gonna call Big Wrench and pitch him this idea and see what his reaction to it is, and then that'll justify. Or that'll. That'll let me know if it's possible or not. And if it sounds somewhat possible, I'm gonna push for it. I called Big wrench. I go, hey, what are you doing? I'm working on this or that, which is what you, you know, for the video next week. I go, okay, sweet. Do you think that building a cyber truck by next Thursday is possible? And it's Wednesday at this point, and normally I would be like, we need one more bit for tomorrow's video. Can we do it in one day? So I felt like asking for a week was pretty good. And you're like, yeah, yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I mean, get a truck coming now. That's usually what I say.

[Ben]

Yeah. If he goes, yeah, if you have a truck here tomorrow, then we can start on it and it might be possible. That was Wednesday. Truck is there on Thursday. You guys start on it on Friday. Memorial Day weekend takes Monday off. So then you only had Tuesday, Wednesday. So, like, started it on Friday.

[Gavin]

I think we started on Thursday because.

[Ben]

I think had it completely torn down, started on Thursday. Ken sees it, we tell him it's a boat. He buys it. I don't care what he says. And then you guys have Monday, Tuesday, or Tuesday, Wednesday to finish making it look like a cybertruck. While you were doing that, go, hey, Big Ranch, do you think that you could take the tandem pit bike and put a third pit bike on it? You're like, dude, I'm working on this cybertruck for next week's video. And I go, yeah, but that's next week's video. Can you do that for this day, for this week? And that was on Wednesday. You're like, okay, yeah, I guess. Well, this is what really made me happy. I go, how long do you think it'll take? And you go, a couple hours. And that's like, let's go. That's what we like to hear. And then, sure enough, you had it done in two hours, three hours. It was actually incredible. And then you guys finish up the Cybertruck Wednesday at 5:00'. Clock. We film it for three hours, ends up breaking by 7:30. Actually insane how fast Evan worked on that one. And then it was just like. That was the end of the week. And then we started fresh on on Friday.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, it's like that every week, though.

[Ben]

And no, that was like the last two videos that we filmed.

[Gavin]

So, yeah, it's a revolving gauntlet, I'd say.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Over and over again.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. You guys handle. You guys handle it really well. I. I do gotta say that I.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Feel like you guys felt bad for us. After that whole episode. Because, like, there was really no build in this last video. We did.

[Ben]

We actually, we actually did. And we had to like sit down and be like, all right, we're working the wrenches way too hard. On.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We were like, alright, okay. Okay. This timeline was actually pretty, pretty crazy. And you know, it's crazy when big wrenches. Like, you guys are actually fucking nuts for this.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, usually.

[Ben]

Usually you just kind of do it. But that one was like, this is crazy.

[Dalton]

Which, I mean, if we're able to. I always hope to give you guys those days. Like, I know for like YouTube or like merch Shop for me or any podcast day for you or YouTube when you're editing videos, it's like on a Friday, sometimes duty calls. But like, if you had to like get up on a Friday and edit another video all day.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Be like, fudge.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

But yeah, try to give those breaks. But man, most of the time it's pretty cutthroat.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's like. Like I have a lot of guys that ask me questions of like, how, you know, my age Guys are like, what do you do? Yeah. So you explain it to them. And it's like, it's kind of nice though because, like, they added on Thursdays, so like, Thursday is kind of our day. Like, we can put the wrenches back.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

I was gonna say that Thursday after the cybertruck was nice. Like for probably two hours. It was like, we're just kind of cleaning up. Then I kind of got bored actually.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gavin]

Wait, what are we doing next?

[Evan]

I remember one time we were talking about, you know, oh, this guy could maybe, maybe help or whatever. And you chimed in, it was another mechanic. Be like, he's just a parts swapper. He's just part swapping. And like, you two are like, he's just part swapping. Like, do it like a motor. Like swapping out a motor in a truck is just part swapping. Like, that's.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

There's technicians and there's parts changers. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's. Yeah, the matter of fact.

[Evan]

But so obviously you guys are much more than a parts changer. I'd even go as far to say that you obviously don't have engineering degrees, but you do.

[Dalton]

You could be an engineer.

[Evan]

Like, I say that all the time. Like, dude, these guys are so good. We'll be sitting here and saying this and that and then be, well, we probably want to do it this way. So that way, you know, it doesn't do this and that and it's amazing.

[Gavin]

I was going to be an engineer until I got to pre calc and then I said fuck that, I'm not doing that.

[Dalton]

And that clearly benefited you as well. Like it's so much more than just fabricating parts or being a mechanic. It's so much more than that. And that's where it actually gets tough and is also exciting like when you.

[Gavin]

The problem solving.

[Dalton]

We need something done, you know, like I wasn't expecting like the sidecars even to have suspension. And you know, we went to the drawing board a few times with it or you guys did, I guess. But like that was sick that it did and like stuff like that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, well even Gavin and I spent a lot of time on, on that part of it and once you start looking at it it's like, well, it almost has to have suspension otherwise it wouldn't have worked, right?

[Gavin]

Yeah. So yeah, I think we weren't going to do suspension and then yeah, just decided to and yeah, it would have.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Been way easier not to, but it wouldn't have worked.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think you guys just understand like, you know, how to skirt the boundaries of what needs to be done. But also like we've done so many things that sometimes work and sometimes don't and then when they don't work we're just like struggling to like make it entertaining. So you kind of know what, like what we need for the entertainment factor which, which is really good.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But it's getting easier. Not easy by no means, but. But it's getting easier to. To figure out what that needs to be.

[Gavin]

You know, I think back to like getting better every. Every week is like that's pretty self explanatory as we, as we face these different, different things. It's like.

[Evan]

No, it's amazing. You guys are serious.

[Dalton]

We're still working on every week like with the farm. We're still working on getting you guys the tools that allow you to, you know, do that. Oh, if we had this tool here, you know, it's not. It wouldn't be a one time use thing. We use it every week and if it makes it easier then that can help everyone out.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I've never had a lot of them tools either.

[Gavin]

Right.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And you get used to building the same stuff with less.

[Gavin]

You still make it work.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. So like you're, you're almost not more creative but more like you use your mind more. Like how can I do this without the tool that I need to do it with?

[Ben]

You guys are like cavemen with some of. Especially before we moved into the Farm. Yeah. When we were wrenching.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Working out of here, dude, it was.

[Ben]

Like nothing rocks, just.

[Dalton]

We literally just had, like, wrenches and hammers and screwdriver.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

There's a propane torch, but usually never had an end on it.

[Gavin]

Yeah. I started on Sexy Red, and I'm like, I'm gonna take the next couple hours. I'm gonna go to my house and get all my equipment and bring here, because I can't do it without that.

[Ben]

Yeah, we're. We're still working on equipping the farm with the proper tools, you know, and. And it's been nice getting to, like, the size that we are being comped for a lot of them, but, like, then you're kind of working with a bunch of corporate companies, and then it just takes a little bit more time. So we're trying to get everything equipped. But that was a large reason of why we built the. Built the farm so we could have more projects going. You know, ideally have a project going here and there and then. But that. That'd be the dream world. But then we're also pulling you guys, like, here when they're supposed to be there, and then they're over. Over here.

[Dalton]

But, dude, Brian's still working on his. The current project at his house.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Shop.

[Ben]

Yeah. Literally. Now we. Now we started working at Big Ranch's place as well.

[Dalton]

We need to keep secrets because we.

[Ben]

Got a mole somewhere.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So it wasn't for the moles, we'd be fine.

[CJ]

We need a third secret filming location now that, like, nobody knows.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I can tell you. What I don't need is another group chat. I can't even figure out, like, yeah.

[Ben]

You'Re kind of slipping up on it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

A couple times last week I did. I'm like, oh.

[Ben]

Because me and C. Me and CJ and Big Ranch are. Are in one specifically for this project that Big Ranch is working on.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And it was late at night too.

[Ben]

Yeah. Big Ranch on wine. On Wine Wednesday.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's my wife.

[Dalton]

You already know that. Group chat's gonna stay active.

[Ben]

Well, yeah, I mean, we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to see. Start kind of like, honestly, Big Wrench, we might just have to start leasing your barn from you.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, that'd be fine too.

[Ben]

He's like, I love that we do that. First day in, Ken puts in security cameras.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

This is our property now.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The secret location. The bat cave. Yeah.

[Ben]

So, Gavin, welcome on the pod. Sorry we didn't really give you a proper intro. Kind of snuck in here. But, yeah, welcome, brother. You've been with us for nine months.

[Gavin]

Eight months.

[Ben]

Eight months. The story of how Gavin ended up on the team is actually really, really interesting. So for, like, the past two years, I would occasionally get a DM from Gavin saying, hey, I live local to you, and I used to build exhaust, so I could build an exhaust for your Lamborghini. And I was like, who's this guy that lives local and could. I was like, you can just. You can just build me an exhaust for my Lambo. And it kind of. It didn't really go much farther than that, but I was like, okay, well, yeah, I'll keep you in mind if we ever have, like, a project that we. That we need. When then we did 100 people mow my lawn, we put out this form of, like, hey, sign up for this video that we're filming. And Gavin was one of the applicants, and we selected him to come and be one of the lawnmowers. So, you know, we're talking to everyone afterwards, and he goes, hey, I'm the guy that keeps messaging you about building.

[Gavin]

You, bugging you over and over again.

[Ben]

A Lamborghini exhaust. And I'm like, oh, dude, yeah, no way. And I'm like, okay. So you could actually do that? You're like, yeah, I could do, like, a bunch of different things. That was just kind of like my.

[Gavin]

Trying to get put in the door.

[Ben]

Right. Meanwhile, Big Wrench is working on the Cummin Swap Ford Ranger. So, like, he was. He was away from us for, like, two months just working on that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Working over in the cave in the farm.

[Ben]

Before it was. Before it was the farm. Honestly, we're just, like, trying to figure out what to do because, you know, we'd been doing, like, these builds, and then we had to kind of just go back to the old style of filming with, like, where we had, like, really no wrenches to, like, lean on for these projects. So we're like, hey, we actually do need you really bad right now. Let me get your number. So I get your number. And that was on Saturday. We sit down in this meeting, we come up with a bunch of ideas, and we're like, well, big Ranch can't do them. Who can do them? I go, let me call this guy that. That we met at the lawnmower meetup. I call you, I go, what are you doing this week? You're, like, working my job. I'm pretty busy, but could you take some days off and come and help us with this project? So Gavin shows up. We tell him what we're Doing. And it was a six foot tall pit bike and the tandem pit bike. And we were like, yeah, can you help us build it? And you were like, yeah, I mean, I can try. And you built them. And by Wednesday, we had the pit bikes done. And you crush the build. And behind the scenes, we're like, all right, if he successfully does this in our timeline, we're gonna hire him on the spot.

[Gavin]

Yeah, I didn't really know that.

[Evan]

Sure. I mean, we didn't want to tell you. We didn't want to, like, tell you, like, hey, if you do this good, we're gonna hire you. And then, like, ends up not being good. And we're like, yeah, man, see ya.

[Ben]

You know, and you got it done in time. And on the last or on that Wednesday, I was like, hey, bro. Yeah. You want to come and work for us full time?

[Dalton]

Both those rigs still work to this day.

[Ben]

And then you were like, yeah, I would love to, but, like, I have to, like, finish my other job for the next couple of days. I was like, okay, can you start on Monday? You were like, okay, I can start on Monday. Give me Thursday, Friday to close up. My loose end boy got pressed.

[Gavin]

Yeah. I was self employed, so it kind of worked out. I could kind of.

[Dalton]

Well, it was interesting. Things are like, yes, this is a great opportunity. I do have to button some other stuff up. And then you button it up real fast.

[Gavin]

I did work pretty hard.

[Dalton]

And then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's one thing to put your two weeks in. It's another thing to be like, all right, here's what's gonna happen with my business. What did happen?

[Gavin]

I'm, you know, it's kind of a seasonal business, except for I do snow removal in the winter, so I just didn't sign any of those contracts.

[Ben]

It's like property management.

[Gavin]

Yeah. So finished up the fall stuff. Like, wrapped everything up, did all. Took all the docks out, did all the, like, the yard cleanups, and then close. Close up shop.

[Dalton]

Unfortunately, you have to find somebody else.

[Evan]

The thing with you, Gav, is you undersold yourself heavy. Like, we have people come up to us all the time and say, oh, I can do this, I can do that. And, you know, we've given them shots, whatever it was, and, like, oftentimes they fail, honestly. And you were just like, you undersold yourself. Like, I could. I can make some exhaust for you. You know, I'll make exhaust. And we're like, that sounds great. But, like, how many things do we really need an exhaust for.

[Dalton]

That's not originally what you said to me, but I still agree that you undersold yourself.

[Ben]

I think the thing about you, though, Gav, that we learned real quick, which obviously, you know, we are stoked about your talent, of what you could build, but you were just a grinder. And, like, the biggest thing for us is, like, you know, our crazy deadlines and our wild ideas. But, like, you know, we work 24 7, and it's hard to have an employee that you hire on because we don't expect that from. From anyone that we're, like, hiring on. You know, you guys are salary, but, like, a lot of times it's more than 40 hours a week. And, you know, we don't expect you to do more than 40 hours a week, but you do. And that's, like, the biggest thing. Like, we couldn't ask that of you, but you're just a grinder, bro. And that's why you fit the team so well.

[Evan]

Like, super skilled, too.

[Ben]

I think you worked, like, every single weekend for the first, like, three months. And it got to the point where I was like, bro, you don't. You do not have to work on the weekends. You're just like, no, I'm just like, I like working, and I appreciate the opportunity. And I. And we're like, dude, we appreciate that too. You know, like, that goes. That goes really far.

[Gavin]

That's kind of what I'm used to. Like, I mean, I've owned a couple of different businesses over the years, and that's. That's the way you have to do it when you own the business. You just keep working. And then did some agriculture stuff, too. And it's the same. Same story there. You just. You work every day until the job's done. And so that's.

[Ben]

Unfortunately for you. The job is never done here. It's never done.

[Dalton]

That's what I was impressed, too, is like, so when you first started, there was the excitement of being with the crew. And the biggest thing is Gavin's a good guy, so we get along really well with him. Like, you know, we're hanging out after work. And I was like, I wonder how long he's gonna, like, hang out till 9 or 10 or 11 every night or almost every night. Like, we enjoyed it. I'm like. I'm just like, how long is that gonna last? And then it almost went the other way. Like, where you still stayed till that time, but you almost started working longer.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Either we're hanging or working. You're here grinding it out.

[Ben]

That is the cool part, too, is. Is, you know, like, everyone that we've added to the team is like, you know, they just become one of our friends. And. And, you know, you're coming with out on sprinter van nights.

[Gavin]

When we're out on the boat.

[Ben]

When we're going out. Out on the boat and big ranch, you're always invited, too, but you never seem to show up or want to come because, like, you're always like, I'm hanging out with my family.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I've got a wife and three.

[Ben]

I have a little. Oh, I got to go to my son's baseball game.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was like, I. Just kidding.

[Ben]

It's okay, too.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

On the way here, it was the same deal. We're like, hey, let's do the. Yeah.

[Dalton]

What do you have?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I had to bring Eli to baseball.

[Gavin]

So actually that brings. Or something that brings up a good point. Big range is not my dad.

[Ben]

Yeah. Oh, that's actually.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. My other son. Yeah.

[CJ]

I wanted to clear the air on this now that we have you both here.

[Evan]

There.

[CJ]

We started what ended up kind of becoming a dirty rumor. Ben.

[Gavin]

Ben's bad joke.

[Ben]

I think it was just a joke, and it just. I mean, it made.

[Gavin]

But the way you.

[CJ]

The way you.

[Gavin]

The way you put it out there, it was. It was casual.

[Ben]

One of.

[Dalton]

One of a handful of trolls that were completely uncleared up.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I cleared it up in a later video, but what was done was done.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Once you get it going, it's tough to cleared it up, but I think it was too far.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But in that. In that video, you just kind of nonchalantly were like, oh, yeah.

[Ben]

It was believable, by the way.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It was actually not big.

[Ben]

Didn't like.

[Evan]

Didn't like your wife's, like, sister or aunt or cousin.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Was just my wife's cousin. This was probably a month after the fact. She text my wife, and she's like, does Brian have something to say to the family?

[Evan]

Like, she thought he just had this.

[Ben]

Kid out there that he, like, was.

[Evan]

Just ignoring after all these years.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

She was talking to her mom, which my. My wife's aunt, and she's like, I didn't know Brian had a older child.

[Evan]

He's just never mentioned.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

I was born the year after you graduated high school, so it would be one of those.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It could have been. Yeah.

[Evan]

Could line up.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But it. But it is not.

[Ben]

It's not.

[Gavin]

Yeah, everybody. It's not. He's not my dad.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And then that kind of goes to the. To the next thing. Big wrench. Came on before Gavin. Not that we're asserting that he is a better wrencher than you, but he just got the name Big Wrench because it's kind of like. That's funny. Like, hey, go get the Big Wrench. Because, like, we're just a bunch of little wrenches around here. And then, you know, you come in, and you're kind of the second wrench, and we're just like, well, what do we call him? Little Wrench. Like, just as. As a joke. And then it kind of caught on. But you. You don't seem to like Little Wrench.

[Gavin]

I'm not a big fan of that one.

[Evan]

You don't want to be known as Little Wrench.

[Gavin]

I really would rather not.

[Evan]

Yeah, I mean, understandably. I mean, Big Wrench definitely has gotten. Got the better end of the deal on that one.

[Gavin]

Yeah, there hasn't been any Little Wrench merch yet. I wonder why.

[Ben]

Do you think.

[CJ]

Do you think?

[Evan]

I think you got to, like, try and try and, like, sell some kind of mystery behind it because you're. You're a single guy, so maybe, like, when you're out at the bars, like, if you were actually going by Little Wrench, like, you know, people could come up, and you'd be like, that's what they say. But, you know, I mean, you'd have to just find out for yourself.

[Ben]

And then the mystery.

[Gavin]

I think it would work.

[Evan]

I think it would work. There'd be, like, some mystery behind it. Like, you know, I got to find out if it's true or not.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

My wife's gonna. My wife's gonna shoot me. But there is times like. Like Wednesday after filming, it's like, I'm going home. But, man, if I was another 10 years younger, I probably wouldn't be going home, Right?

[Ben]

You just be running around with us. Yeah, yeah. You and Evan.

[Dalton]

Wait, wait. I was gonna say if you could. Sorry. If you could get. If you can hang with us, you'll be good as long as you don't get tied up with that Evan guy.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well. And that happened a couple times last summer.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Emma would say that. And he's like, yo, me and Big Red shut down the bar last night. I'm like, dude, you are such a badass. I'm like, you corrupted Big Wrench.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I'd go home, and I'd be like, yeah, Evan, he didn't have nobody to. To eat with.

[Evan]

Nobody felt bad for the little guy.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

My wife's gonna watch this now, and she's gonna be like, she's gonna know.

[CJ]

You'Re not gonna be able to stay late anymore. I always wondered if you told her, like, oh, the boys just got me grinding on this project.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Meanwhile, you're drinking.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

We've been married long enough where she knows all my tricks, so.

[Dalton]

No, Evan always told me he, he was in a good way. He was just genuinely excited.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You go. Yeah.

[Dalton]

So last night, me and Big Wrench drinking Tony's till midnight.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Midnight.

[Dalton]

Good time.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I'm not getting tattoos or nothing.

[Dalton]

Exactly.

[CJ]

Gavin, you were close though, right?

[Gavin]

I was gonna do it, and then I bailed it last minute.

[Dalton]

As far as the tattoos go, yes. I, I was fully jotted down on his thigh. Shaved and everything.

[Gavin]

We did a couple revisions with a Sharpie. Yes.

[Dalton]

We even kind of scribbled off the parts that looked whack and then went for it. You, like, walked around the pool table for three minutes and we're like, I'll just hold off. And then I'm like, that's all good. It'll be sick when you get it later. And you're like, I'll let you know.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Another Tony.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Gavin's too dialed of a person to have a half ass tattoo or something not completely perfect. That's going to be permanent on him, which.

[Gavin]

That's fair.

[Evan]

I mean, I, I, I.

[Dalton]

At least for the first one, it.

[Evan]

Makes complete sense to me.

[Gavin]

I still think you got to do it. Siege.

[Evan]

I, you know, I think what you guys got is sick. Like, it's a perfect number. But if all of us are out on the boat and then we. We have some other people hanging with us that, you know, maybe aren't our first group of friends. They're gonna be like, these guys are. It's pretty cultish, you know?

[Ben]

Like, you just.

[Evan]

All of you got the same tattoo in the same spot.

[Ben]

You all wear such a boy band.

[Dalton]

You' wear short enough shorts to even show.

[Evan]

I don't either. But I feel like on the boat, your, your pant leg comes up. Whatever. Just in general. Even, like right now, like, my, my short's probably high enough. And I mean, I wear a Life wide open hat, Life Wide open shirt, Life Wide Open swim trunks, Life Wide open socks. Pretty soon it's like we're Life Wide Opened out.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's true.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Whenever. I'd probably have to kick my own ass if I did that.

[Ben]

Yeah. How much would you regret that one? Waking up?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Probably quite a bit.

[Evan]

Bit, really?

[CJ]

Do you have any tattoos, Brian?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I don't. My wife does.

[Ben]

When we were in Vegas with our grandpa Ron. We were trying to get a. A tattoo.

[Evan]

We wanted him to do it.

[Ben]

Me, C.J. and Grandpa Ron. And he was the one that would.

[Dalton]

Tattoo of you guys.

[Ben]

Oh, no, no, no. We were like that. No, I told him. I was like, I'll get grand tattooed on me if you get Ben and CJ tattooed. And he wouldn't do it. And I was like, no offense, Grandpa, but, like, I kind of got more to lose.

[Dalton]

Very surprised by that.

[Ben]

Yeah. And his reasoning was, like, well, if I got you two, I'd have to get all eight grandchildren. And I was like, fuck it.

[Dalton]

Get all eight.

[Evan]

I think he didn't want to do it when the other kids weren't there.

[Dalton]

Your other grandchildren aren't YouTubers.

[Ben]

Yeah, but they'd be taking you, like, Grandpa Ron, like, sends him. It's just, like, a photo of his leg, and it's got his name on it.

[Evan]

He didn't want to do it.

[Dalton]

Having a Grandpa Ron tattoo is way cooler than having a Ben and CJ tattoo.

[Evan]

That's very true.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't blame him one bit for not wanting.

[Evan]

And in cj, I don't think I regret this one.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But having a Ren and Stimpy.

[Ben]

So lame.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Evan]

That is so lame.

[Ben]

That is.

[Evan]

It kind of is the same idea as when we all had our nipple piercings and we took them out before we went to Florida.

[Dalton]

Like, what?

[Evan]

We're gonna have all six of us walking around on the beach with our nipples. Pierce. Rolling in a group. You know, it's kind of the same. The nipple piercing, I'd say, is a little bit more apparent, but I would say.

[Gavin]

I will say the nipple piercing was weird, and I'm glad I missed out on that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I was gonna say you guys kind of got. Got in after that phase.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. Gosh, that had to hurt, didn't it?

[Ben]

Oh, it was terrible.

[Evan]

Was that nipple piercing worse than the tattoo?

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

That's kind of what Evan. Evan said. The nip. Like, the tattoo was not even close to the nipple piercing.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I guess if somebody was like, you're either doing this or you're doing this, I'd probably get a tattoo.

[Evan]

The nice thing about the nipple piercings.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You can take them out.

[Dalton]

So, yeah, I was gonna say, let's say two, Two, three months from now. I hate the tattoo, then I'm gonna be like, I. I wish it was a piercing.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't. Yeah, but a tattoo is way cooler than a nipple piercing. But if you walk around with his nipple, Pierce, I'm Like, I don't know about that guy, man.

[Evan]

Honestly, I was.

[Ben]

One day she get a hot dog tattoo, Mike?

[Gavin]

Yeah, definitely. That's next.

[Evan]

That would actually be fitting.

[Gavin]

Do you do that tonight? If you want.

[Dalton]

I don't want to do it.

[Evan]

Just like a very, like, simplistic imagine.

[Dalton]

They clearly look the same. I get a brat tattoo, and I'm like.

[Ben]

It'S not a hot dog.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's a bra.

[Dalton]

It looks the same to me, bro. I'm like, can you not see the thickness?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I like when that was brought up the last time. And he gets so heated about it every time.

[Evan]

Very defensive.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, it's like, I do agree, though.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like accusing someone.

[Gavin]

There's a difference.

[Ben]

Yeah, but he likes hot dogs. He just covers it up with, who told you that? Mike? I've seen you eat so many hot dogs, you can't even say that you.

[Dalton]

Don'T, like, take a picture. Every time I eat a hot dog over the next year.

[Ben]

I don't have enough storage on my phone, bro.

[Evan]

Dude, what do you want me to do, follow you around all day?

[Ben]

I can't do that. More storage.

[Dalton]

I know.

[Evan]

I'm not going to follow you around.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Take a picture.

[Ben]

I got so much stuff to do, Mike. I can't just follow you around and record every meal you eat.

[Evan]

I just remember, like, no, but if.

[Dalton]

I started noticing if I eat so many, you can take a picture every time you see me do it and then you.

[Ben]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying here, if somebody didn't eat an absurd amount of hot dogs, they wouldn't get defensive, would they?

[Evan]

I don't know why you're embarrassed. Nothing wrong with eating hot dogs.

[Dalton]

I love eating pizza. And I tell every. They go, what's your favorite food? I go, pizza. Hands down, pizza.

[Evan]

Oh, you're lying there because you're in.

[Ben]

The closet about eating because all you.

[Evan]

Eat is hot dogs.

[Ben]

Dude, you can't tell me that somebody that doesn't eat a bunch of hot dogs wouldn't be this defensive if we.

[Dalton]

Could just bring some proof into it.

[Evan]

Like, when I first started noticing how many hot dogs Mike ate, it was in the college house when he started just putting.

[Dalton]

And those were all brought. Those were all brats. They were literally all brats.

[Ben]

All right. I'm just kidding. Mike's out. I wanted to ask you guys what your favorite build has been and what your least favorite build has been.

[Gavin]

Least favorites are way harder. Question.

[Ben]

Okay. All right, let me. Let me just go through a couple of them, I feel like I know.

[CJ]

Gavin's just based on his time spent on it. Maybe.

[Gavin]

Maybe my favorite.

[CJ]

Yeah, your favorite?

[Gavin]

Well, yeah, that's easy. Sexy red, no question.

[CJ]

The turbo mini.

[Evan]

That's your least favorite.

[Gavin]

No, that's my favorite by far. Yeah.

[Ben]

Is it because you spent the most amount of time on it or.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It was probably one of your first big builds.

[Gavin]

It was. Yeah, it was the first big one.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And.

[CJ]

Yeah, you never forget your first big build. What was like, the first real project that we had you work on, Brian?

[Ben]

It was a shitter cart, wasn't it?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

If you. That was build.

[CJ]

Yeah, that was up front for sure.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Did we do that before the pontoon?

[Ben]

So when we hired you on, we did the 450 shifter cart.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, we did the shitter cart. I don't know what was up with the shifter cart phase that we were in.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, with the R6. You finished the R6?

[Gavin]

Yeah, that was the first project because that's what I was hitting you up about.

[Ben]

Oh, that's right.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I just got it running in the end.

[Gavin]

You did the exhaust because, like, I.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Did the exhaust at my.

[Gavin]

I finally got in touch with him, and he was talking about how that's what you were doing.

[Ben]

Yeah. Oh, and then. And then right after the shitter cart, you did the Hummer pontoon. Yeah, the Hummer pontoon was like one of those. Pitch it. See if it's possible. Okay, it's possible. Now, how fast can you do it now? Cut that in half.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then that's what we were.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, the funniest thing about that thing is it's like. I don't know how. Like, it was just a wing and a prayer that that thing even floated the way it did. Like to not have water come in the cab, because that was what I was worried about. Like, I didn't get the pontoons down low enough for the truck up high enough for the water not to flood the cab.

[CJ]

And it's literally perfect. The water is, like, 3 inches below the door.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Loaded up with perfect.

[CJ]

You could have planned it that good.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I'd like to say that was just me thinking about it, but it was just dumb luck.

[Gavin]

Well, I think you just probably just put them down close to the ground, but as close as you could.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, that was the biggest factor of that thing, was to keep it up off. High enough off the drive to drive it.

[Ben]

Yeah, that one is, like, actually really, really impressive how well it worked for how heavy that thing was. Yeah, like, it's like a 10,000 pound.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was trying to do the math on it and I was googling crap.

[Gavin]

And that's where the lack of the engineering degrees helps show.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Well that was.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well that's what you got these things for, right?

[Ben]

Yeah. Cuz we were, we were sitting, I remember we were sitting in the junkyard right next to the shop here and we were looking at the Hummer and we go okay, do you think we could do this with two pontoons? And we're doing the math of, you know, the buoyancy of each pontoon and we're like, I don't think so. Probably could, but probably wouldn't be a good idea. Then how do you do four? How do you have the flip downs?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

All right. So after that then it was the scootskis.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That was pretty fun. It was it size the fiber other than the fiberglass, cutting them apart because it was 95 degrees that couple days.

[Ben]

Yeah. Pop up the picture of Big wrench walking around in his hazmat suit.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Look like Breaking Bad.

[Ben]

And then following that one, it was the front flip mini truck, the roll bar over it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That one was tough because we needed a tube roller. Right.

[Ben]

Because you had to notch it well.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And I notched some of it. And then like at my buddy's place I, we. He has this huge plate roller and we were rolling them in it. Well then it just flattens the tubo because it's not a tube roller. But. But it got the job done.

[Ben]

Got the job done. Broke my neck.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I wish he would actually.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And that's what we were talking about after it was all done, I'm like man, that's going to be a, a violent hit.

[Evan]

I think everyone was saying I I.

[Ben]

100 take responsibility for that one.

[CJ]

We should have taken another day and put like fox floats up front or something like that.

[Ben]

Probably should have. Following that one up, we did the 100 foot rail.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That was probably my biggest. Like that thing's terrible.

[Ben]

Yeah. That was actually probably the only design flaw that you've had. Big wrench is how narrow you. My design flaw is how narrow you put the tabs.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well. Yeah. That all comes down to like we're running it on Wednesday.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's true. That's true. I mean it always comes back to it being our fault because you guys, you guys do always consult before you do something. And 90 of the problems are always like time restraints because we're like just run it. But the, the 100 foot rail that Mike crashed, the raise the brand new razor on totaled the razor out. But. And. And today has never been hit again.

[Dalton]

I know.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, and Gavin chopped it down.

[Gavin]

I lowered it like, never got used again.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But it's still like. It's pretty scary.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

I wouldn't do it, honestly.

[Dalton]

You know how Evan talks about losing sleep over, like not doing Hell's Gate or whatever? I do lose sleep over that, but not in the way that I want to do it again. I just hated everything about, well, not actually doing it. I hated all the aftermath and the thought process I had after I did it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Even the approach jump was not right.

[Dalton]

That's what like, the approach jump threw me off more than the tabs ever did.

[Evan]

Kind of jumped you onto the rail.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And the tabs would have worked if the approach jump would have been higher and you drove down onto it.

[Dalton]

But yeah, just it's like, which is.

[Gavin]

Kind of how it is planning, dude.

[Dalton]

I wish. I wish I could take you guys along for like that aftermath of like, after it happened. Everyone was just like, dude, we like, you know, we bit off too much. Like, how stupid. But you don't know until you know. You know, you don't know until if.

[Ben]

It would have worked. Everyone would be like, yeah, what a great idea.

[Dalton]

Exactly. And it wasn't like, again, like, if I wad myself up or if anyone does just like trying to jump the razor or dirt bike or anything, that shit happens. But like, that was like intentionally a stunt. And then the stunt went wrong and we're all like, what the fuck?

[Ben]

Yeah, let's see here. Oh, six foot tall pit bike. That's when Gav came in then.

[Gavin]

And then like that one.

[Ben]

And then following that one up was the Cumming Swap. Ranger.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Ranger.

[Ben]

Because that one took like three months. How long did that take?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I think it was six weeks.

[Evan]

Oh, six weeks.

[Ben]

Okay. Way less time than three months.

[Evan]

I thought it took longer than that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But yeah, I think it was six weeks.

[Evan]

Six weeks.

[Gavin]

I worked on it with you for.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

About two and that's when we were just about finished up with it because it wasn't snow on the ground or nothing.

[Gavin]

Oh, no.

[Dalton]

You know what's also tough about these? We. We do the same thing sometimes even when you guys are editing, you're looking for a video to throw back to, call back to and you're like, what video was that? That's a problem we'll probably always have because our videos have so much more than what's just in the thumbnail.

[Ben]

Like, we're probably missing.

[Dalton]

Like, you're just looking at the thumbnail. But like if we were to go through each video, you go, oh, that's when we pulled you to a day to do this.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Build something else.

[Dalton]

And we pulled you for a day to do this. But, yeah.

[Ben]

Which is.

[Dalton]

I love. Like, there's so much more than.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The OG Miata was kind of fun. Like, well, you didn't do much to it. I just welded their diff in it. And yeah, that rallied that thing. Like, it was crazy how long that thing lasts. Like, I didn't expect it to last the day.

[Ben]

It is actually insane.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Still good in it.

[Evan]

You just said it was kind of fun. So do you think it's fun working here?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, you've worked so many different spots.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. In, like, I have always liked to work someplace you either don't know what you're doing the next day or, like, it doesn't matter if you know what you're doing the next day because you know it's going to be interesting and you know it's going to be fun. And you. You're working with a group of guys that you all. Everybody gets along for the most part. Like. Yeah. I mean, obviously everybody gets a little chippy after spending that many hours with each other for that long.

[Gavin]

But is this your favorite. Favorite job?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Big wrench, Favorite job that you've ever had?

[Dalton]

Be honest.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It ranks up there. Like, is it my number one favorite? That'd be pretty tough to put that label on it. But it's up in the top two, three.

[Evan]

Because you've definitely worked some cool places. I mean, with the race teams and all this.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. X Games racing is like something different. Like, if. If it's in your blood, it's in your blood, and it's really tough to get it out of your system. Like, I. I went four years and had nothing to do with snowmobiles whatsoever. Like, when we moved back home from Minneapolis, didn't even keep up with the circuit. Didn't know who was in the circuit. And then you just get pulled back into it and it's like, pretty soon the semis coming and dropping off snowmobiles at your shop. I mean, your wife's like, when did we start racing again? Like, I don't know. Just happened.

[Dalton]

I promise I didn't try.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I love the racing side of it because there's. You always have to be on your toes and. And like, you can't spend too much time on a certain thing. Just like, you can't hear it. It's almost like racing here, except you don't have to go out and like win every.

[Gavin]

Every weekend racing, you can't let up because somebody will pass you up.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Real quick.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And if you. If you. If you're not excelling or. Or learning something new every time you're on a track, like, you're going backwards.

[Ben]

Right.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I take that mentality with here too. Like, you should learn something every day, like I said. And if you learn something every day, like, the next day is going to be better because you've. You've learned that yesterday. Now you're going to learn something else today.

[Evan]

Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad that. What's more stressful, racing mechanic or working here.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The timelines here is probably one of the most stressful things, man. Like, and it's not because, like, you guys put stress on us to get it done, but, like, you want to get it done. Like, everybody.

[Gavin]

Video's got to happen.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

That is an interesting take.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Gavin and I probably us.

[Evan]

It's.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's everybody watching myself. Yeah. Because I want to get it done for you guys to do what you do.

[Gavin]

And then the fans have something to.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

It's it all. There's a boil. And that's ridiculous schedule.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And sometimes I feel bad. Like, I don't remember even the last time I've actually went and like, we finished a project and I went and watched you film it just because you. You're torn between having to go home and eat supper with your family.

[Evan]

Right.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Or. Or hang out. Like, I know it's going to be good because of what you guys do. So we do enjoy.

[Dalton]

I can watch it when you guys are able to. We do really enjoy.

[Gavin]

That is my favorite part of the job, dude.

[Dalton]

When you're done with the build, it's. It's fun having you along to go.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Watch and watching, see how it works.

[Dalton]

And then nine times out of 10, you end up wrenching on it that very same moment. But yeah, it's fun having you guys.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Sometimes it's like, this isn't going to work, so I'm going home.

[Ben]

You do kind of just sneak out of there.

[Evan]

I'm out here.

[Gavin]

That's what he did with the cyber truck.

[Ben]

He's like, yeah, you guys have fun.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I'm like, hold on, pig Rich. What if it doesn't work?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was there when we started filming and I'm like, okay. I. It's like we were halfway through and I'm like, I gotta go home. And like, I got literally shut the door and Ben calls.

[Evan]

Yeah. You're like, can you come back it's nice that you live so close. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm glad that. That you guys have fun working here, because that's one thing. Like, when whoever we add to the team, obviously, you got to be good, but we also got to feel like they fit in well around here. We like them as, like, a person. We like spending time with them because you want to keep that culture of just, like, how it is around here.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You spend way too much time as a group in this shop or at the farm shop to not get along with each other.

[Evan]

And if it throws off, like, the vibe, then the. If the vibes off for filming, then.

[Gavin]

It'S just in the video, doesn't.

[Evan]

It's not good. Just not good. So for sure, you know, I'd say.

[Dalton]

It's like a 50, 50 thing. Like, you got to be. You got a 50 get along and 50 be good as far as that goes. Like, you really do.

[CJ]

That brings up a good. A good question. Like, you guys fit our group so well, even though we are all different in our own ways. If you guys were going to add another young padawan or an apprentice to the team, what would you look for in a guy like that or girl? Like, what skills would they need? Like, where do you feel like the most valuable asset in a person other than, of course, getting along and meshing with the team?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I mean, I'm older, so being the age that I'm at, like, they. You need to. To be able to take direction and, like, and listen and learn. Everybody. Everybody knows certain things, but, like, when you come into a group like this and there's already guys here, like. Like, we've no. We know how it runs and how it, like, don't come in thinking that, oh, I'm going to be able to do this and this and this, and these guys don't know how to do this. And it's like, yeah, we've probably already done that once or twice before.

[Ben]

Listen, the humility is.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

To do.

[Ben]

Yeah. Kind of. What. What is that?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I mean. And I would ask myself of the same thing. Like, if they have. If they bring something new to the table, like. Like, don't think that you've done that before. Like, are you no better type? I try to listen to everybody's ideas. Like, I. I'm not the end all. Be all of any of it.

[Ben]

So, yeah, I mean, we'd like to, you know, add another wrench to the team. Big wrench, little wrench, mini ranch, crescent wrench.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, man. I don't know.

[Evan]

We're gonna run out of names.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It'd be good to get a guy that just, like, can just jump from. Maybe Gavin's got a project he's working on, and I have one and I'm working on, and you have a guy that can jump from in between.

[Gavin]

Give an extra hand for each of us for whatever reason, or, like, if.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You guys have to, for next week's build, like, hey, we need to go get a bunch of this and a bunch of that. You can send that guy to go do it. But he also has to know enough to, like, be helpful, like, where to go to get that type of stuff, Right?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Because if you have to hold his hand the whole time he's gone doing.

[Gavin]

It, it's not worth it. It's not worth it.

[Evan]

Well, if there's any local people or if you guys know anybody that you think would be good, definitely open to that idea, because that'd be great. I agree. I mean, just, it's like, the more you add to the team, the better it operates. It seems like, you know, maybe you.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Guys do, like, a mechanic internship for the summertime from a tech from the tech school.

[Ben]

That's an option too. I was thinking, what if we did, like, a wrench off? We're like, you know, it's like a series. You know, we got five wrenches, and we got a timeline that some might deem ridiculous.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's kind of like what I was.

[Ben]

Big wrench calls it going to work on Monday. Yeah, yeah, but. And then. And then we have, like, a series of, like, you know, last wrench standing.

[Evan]

No, absolutely.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's kind of like Hell's Kitchen type of thing.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

That should be really good.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That could be a good, good little. The. The. Who's the name? Main chef guy. Oh, Gordon Ramsay comes out and just swears that'd be probably you or Gav.

[Evan]

One of you two would come in. I don't know if you'd be able to run out. I don't know if Gavin could, but I think Gavin could probably do it better than. I don't know if I could see you yelling at a guy, and I.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Don'T know, I'd have to start drinking Morgan or something.

[Dalton]

You got to be a mean man to be a Gordon Ramsay spin off there.

[Gavin]

Yeah, I guess. I don't know if I could be that mean, but, I mean, I do have the background of having employees and.

[Evan]

Right.

[Gavin]

Getting to work.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, I like that idea just because then it, Like, I was kind of saying about Gavin is people say what they can do and. But oftentimes don't live up to what they're saying. Whereas Gavin was almost like he was very humble with what he was saying he could do and then outlive that. Like, he overperformed way over our expectations.

[Gavin]

So it's like the text back and forth from me and Ben before you guys hired me, like, the last thing I said is, like, there's only so much I can say. You just got to let me come show you what I can do.

[Evan]

I think that is the best way to find someone on the team. And you look at Dalton, like, he came and. And he wasn't just like a person on the team. He was like doing some cinematic stuff for us. And then we're like, this guy's good.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And let's.

[Evan]

Let's do that. So, I mean, if you guys know anybody, we'd love to test it out.

[Gavin]

And I like that. I like that idea of having the time to test somebody out, because you never know in an interview, sits down.

[Ben]

And they feel you full of talking out their ass.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, and even. Even on their end of it, like, it's. It's gonna be tough for anybody just to jump into this. And that's like. Like I handed to Gavin, like, you had really no idea what to expect and what the timelines kind of were and stuff like that. And he jumped right in, like, handled it.

[Gavin]

Built the six foot pit bike in two days.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Handled it.

[Dalton]

Handle my biz.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

When you ask somebody if you can, this is what we need to have done. Can you do it? He's like, yeah, I can do that.

[Evan]

And he does it.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And he does it.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's the best.

[Ben]

God, you gotta cringe at some of like the. Well, like, being the welders that you guys are. When you see, like other people being like, yeah, I'm a fabricator. And then you see their welds. Is that one of those Might be.

[Gavin]

A fabricator, but you're not a welder.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

More of a grinder than he is.

[Gavin]

I love grinder and paint welder.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I ain't.

[Dalton]

Sometimes I'll find on Facebook, like, it'll. It'll be like a page that's just like the best welds in the world. That's the name of their page.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I'm pretty sure Gavin and I both been working on something and it's like, go time. Like we supposed to been done two hours ago. And I'm like, I'm more of a grinder today.

[Gavin]

Gavin welds look like bird, but it's.

[CJ]

Going to make a video.

[Dalton]

Is that just like a welder thing, though? Like that you just. If you post. I'm not joking. Like, you post the best weld that you may think that you've ever put down in your life and people are still.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Somebody will pick it apart.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I mean, maybe way easier to pick.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Apart other people's stuff than it is to do your own.

[Gavin]

I guess most. Most welders, all they do is weld all day. So then it's like. Well, then they have.

[Dalton]

That's true, actually.

[Evan]

Like, it'd be hard welding all day.

[Gavin]

I've done it like here and there. Like never. Over and over again every day. I. I couldn't do it.

[Evan]

It sounds pretty.

[Gavin]

Not do it. You're staring at an arc all day.

[Ben]

Yeah. You're like your perception of God.

[Evan]

It's got to be hard on your eyes.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I like this another. This is probably just because I'm old, but like, when I take weld now, I can't. I have to take my glasses off because I can't focus on it. Really Kind of stinks, but big range.

[Gavin]

Maybe we should have a weld off.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Oh, I get the razor blades.

[Evan]

We don't need you guys.

[Dalton]

I mean, like. No. Keep the emotions out of it. But it would be fun for a video bit just to like do a weld off.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like, have only a weld off. It's only with razor blades.

[Ben]

What does that even mean?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

What does razor blades together.

[Ben]

Oh, we can do that.

[Dalton]

Damn. Just a one and done thing.

[Gavin]

How about pop cans?

[Ben]

What. How do you do that?

[Dalton]

Yeah, but see, you're really good at aluminum.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You ever seen the edges of a razor blade? Like a. Like the handheld ones you scrape decals with?

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Weld them two together.

[Ben]

Oh, and that's like. That's like kind of like a flex.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

It's pretty tough. Cans would be tough to do. Yeah. Everybody says, oh, you can weld pop cans together while you take the bottom of this. It's pretty thick.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like weld it together this way.

[Gavin]

Yeah. I don't know if I could do that.

[CJ]

There was a little stint when Ben wanted to be a welder.

[Ben]

I've made a couple of our.

[Gavin]

Yeah. You welded what? The. The fenders on the ranger are still there.

[Dalton]

Oh, he did not.

[Evan]

No.

[Dalton]

I think we just made it from tractor supply.

[Ben]

I don't even know. Yeah. Smart car something.

[Evan]

It was during the smart car. Remember we got this harbor freight welder.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

We're putting a lift kit on the Smart Car. We even had to call Brian over to come help us.

[Dalton]

That's right.

[Evan]

Fix some shit on it. Put it on. And it was right when we moved in. It was like our first winter here. But.

[CJ]

Yeah, I don't.

[Evan]

I just remember you were trying to do your thing.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That welder that's downstairs.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. It's like a flux core.

[Ben]

That's when I learned we're working with what we.

[Evan]

What we could.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Something is you. You're tying one hand behind your back. Just welding with that. That's the problem.

[Ben]

Big Wrench. Have you gotten in any Facebook fights lately?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Not in the last week.

[Evan]

He's been too busy.

[Ben]

So Big Wrenches is, like, as we said, super reserved. He's a keyboard warrior.

[Dalton]

Dude is.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's a keyboard warrior. And he's just a hothead on Facebook. What's up with that?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's right. That must be my outlet.

[Evan]

Let your steam off.

[CJ]

Yeah, with, like.

[Ben]

With who?

[Evan]

I don't know that you can hop in.

[Dalton]

It's kind of fun.

[Ben]

Well, yeah. You. Like, you're a baiter.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, I kind of do it to get a rise out of people. Yeah, you're a troll.

[Dalton]

Don't get too good at it, because you'll become masturbator.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I am not to that level.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Dalton]

Yeah. You know Jake Sherbrooke Cheese. Yeah, I loves. I mean, he's just like, I don't know what to do today. I'm just gonna go rip some people on Facebook.

[Ben]

And then.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, back when he's not on Facebook that much anymore, but I used to jump in on dog piling on something.

[Ben]

Are you ever worried that you're ever gonna meet one of your no culprits?

[Evan]

Big Ranch knows how to fight.

[Ben]

Or one of your victims, he'd kick him in the knee.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That's the first thing you do.

[Evan]

Yeah, I know. I've heard him say that a few times. Did someone press them?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

The bigger they are, the harder you kick them in the knee. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

[Ben]

Kick them in the knee, huh?

[Dalton]

That is crazy. Yeah.

[Ben]

Have you done that?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Maybe.

[Ben]

Really kick him in the front of the knee.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Just been in a couple fights before.

[Gavin]

In the pits on the racetrack.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I fight for the fun of it. Yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, a racetrack fight.

[Dalton]

Well, you have some different defense tactics.

[Ben]

Like, that's a great defense.

[Dalton]

Yeah, it's great.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Some people just like to fight. Like, they'll go out and just pick a fight.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Just for something to do. Like, that's what they left to do love to do.

[Gavin]

Like me and Rich ran into a guy like that the other night.

[Evan]

Really?

[Gavin]

Oh yeah. He just wanted to fight as soon.

[Ben]

As we got there.

[Dalton]

Really?

[Evan]

What was he doing? He's just.

[Gavin]

Just talking as soon as we got there.

[Evan]

What was he saying?

[Gavin]

He's talking about the Seaboys.

[Evan]

Like I don't give a.

[Gavin]

About the Sea Boys. You guys are. I'll kick your ass.

[Evan]

And it was outside right now, it was just you and Rich?

[Gavin]

Well, Rich said something to him and then he. Yeah, then he went off. What, the rest of the night.

[Evan]

And none of no one else was with you guys?

[Gavin]

Oh, Ev was there.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I had a buddy of mine, a good friend of mine, and his philosophy is the same as mine. Like when I get into a fight, they. It's one or two punches either way and it's usually done.

[Dalton]

Wow.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Like either I'm gonna win or I'm gonna lose.

[Ben]

You've gotten in a racetrack fight though, like in the pits, mechanic to mechanic.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

A couple years ago, working for the team that we used to work for, we just about gotten a pit fight with the trailer next to us. Really?

[Ben]

What was the cause?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Kind of parked too close. It was like a difference.

[Evan]

Sorry.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Some. Some say I didn't even see it. It was a non track deal with one of our riders and one of their riders and kind of a dirty, dirty corner. Like cross jumping and stuff like that. Which is in any motocross or any motorsport. You don't do that type of thing, you know. Ripped the whole front of the sled off of our. One of our race leads and one of the other mechanics just had like the front end of the snowmobile and just like slammed it down in front of their trailer. And then it was game on for about 15 minutes there for really no fists were thrown. But it got. It got DS close before that happened.

[Ben]

Yeah, but you would have hopped in?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Well, if I had to.

[Evan]

Would have, had to, yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Taking people in the knees.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Six of them. All of them are laying on the ground.

[Ben]

Like me, my knee. And big reds are just standing there.

[Gavin]

Waiting for the next one.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

When you're five, seven that you don't have a whole lot of reach on you. So you gotta use something else.

[Evan]

Kick them in the knee.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Craziest one that I've ever seen. I wasn't really a part of it. I was with everybody. But we. A buddy of mine got married and we had a bachelor party. You guys know where the falls is? No. When you go tubing down the Otter Tail.

[Ben]

Oh yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

We got In a roundup with like 10 guys, another group. So this day started off. We all got on this bus that other buddy of ours owned. Went to Wildflower. I think we made it three holes before they kicked us out of there.

[Evan]

You guys were reckless golfing.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

So then we all pile back on the bus and it's like, let's go tubing. So we rented the tubes, but we had our own bus and we didn't even care about going tubing. So we just went right straight to the falls. There's actually a road that you can take to get there, but you have to cross private land. And really, we may or may not have, like, busted the whole gate open with the. With the bus and like, drove right back there.

[Evan]

Yo, you guys were driving the bus?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Sat there and we're drinking, having fun. These guys came, flown down the river. Didn't know, didn't have no clue who they were. Weren't even from around here or nothing. And they started John back and forth with a couple of our guys, and pretty soon he's coming up on the bank and one of our guys takes a full can of the beer and chucks it at the guy and it bounces off of his head.

[Evan]

Oh, my God.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Guys like, who the hell threw that? We're like, oh, boy. Oh. I don't know if we got the best of them or they got the best of us, but I remember going to church the next day and a guy that you guys know, his face was swelled up shut, really black eyes. We had a doctor there that stitched us up that night at one of my friend's house.

[Evan]

You guys got beat up?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I did.

[Ben]

How many knees did you kick?

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I. I was. I was still sober enough where I kind of.

[Ben]

They were swimming down the bank, like.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was more like standing behind my big friend, swinging over his shoulder.

[Evan]

These dudes were like sneak attacking the knees. Boom, boom.

[CJ]

From an underwater kicking them.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah, they were big.

[Ben]

Have you. You got in hockey fights?

[Gavin]

A couple. Yeah. I was a little bit of an enforcer, if you could call it that.

[Ben]

Oh, really? They would send Gavin in.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Little guy come and beat somebody up for hitting the goalie or whatever, you know.

[Evan]

You were little?

[Gavin]

Well, I was about this size. I wouldn't say I'm big.

[Ben]

I guess they wouldn't say send you in?

[Gavin]

No, I'd send myself in.

[CJ]

Make it your mission were you. Would you shave your head back then? Because you'd be pretty mean.

[Evan]

Even when he was like seventh grade.

[Gavin]

A bald 12 year old.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

With a beard.

[Evan]

Just beating people up out on the ice.

[CJ]

Pretty savage.

[Ben]

Anybody check this guy's ID real quick?

[Dalton]

Can we just laugh about when I gave that homeless lady a ride on the.

[Evan]

Yeah, bro, that was funny.

[Dalton]

So funny. I didn't really, like, basically, this homeless gal who is. You know, she's a nice lady.

[Evan]

She.

[Dalton]

She's yelling at us like, I want to ride on one of them things. And I was like, you want to ride or you want to drive? And this is kind of before we started filming. She's like, I want to drive it. And I was like, no way. Letting you get on this E bike. Like, no way. And then basically, she starts coming over, sees the cameras, and starts, fuck you. Yeah, get that camera out of my face. Get that shit on my face right now. Like, seriously, I'll mess you up right now. Like, get that out of my face. No filming me. And she's just all riled up. And then I'm just like, well, you still want to ride? And then, like, as that pans out, she's like, sure. And we get on and ride away after. She's like, after. She's, like, legit trying to, like, knock the cameras off.

[Evan]

She was going off after Dalton, and it was just.

[Ben]

It was just gold.

[Dalton]

Yeah, it was gold.

[Ben]

And then so Mike gives her a ride, and then she was like, thank you. And Mike goes like, that was pretty fun, wasn't it? And she goes, no, it wasn't. Yeah. And then she hops off and looks at Dalton and just goes.

[Dalton]

Just immediately a little.

[Ben]

And grab the camera off on him. It was crazy.

[Evan]

Camera and everything. Like, he wouldn't let it go. And, like, he, like, had to grab her wrist, and, like, he was like, yeah, I grabbed her wrist and pressed on her pressure point.

[Ben]

So she let off.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Kung fu.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know. I just get a kick out of, like, just.

[Dalton]

That was too.

[Evan]

Like, that's something I would have never thought. It's like, I'm just gonna grab her pressure point so she'll release. You know, I gotta yank.

[Ben]

Dylan's been in a camera. A cameraman altercation before.

[Dalton]

That's what was the best part when you were. You were like, why were you, like, letting her get so close? And Dalton was like, I wasn't scared.

[Ben]

It's so as. As Evan is like, boy, yeah, boy.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Everyone's like, I want to get out of here.

[Evan]

I want to get out of here.

[Dalton]

General Evan. That's so interesting to me. I hate to talk about, like, this when he's gone, but he's just like, seriously, let's just dip. Let's dip, let's dip, let's leave. Let's get out of town.

[Evan]

He was so scared of that about that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And then I'm just like, he's actually scared, or do you think he's like.

[Evan]

I don't want to get jammed.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I don't want to get jammed. Yeah, probably that because. Because if goes down, I mean, I would think Evan would be like, yeah, little Tasmanian devil, usually.

[Dalton]

No, you're right, though. Like, he didn't want to get jammed up by the.

[Ben]

What do you mean?

[Evan]

Like, he would just be.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Just everyone up. But, yeah, in the end, the dust would settle and he'd just be standing there and everybody be.

[Dalton]

Honestly.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's true. He's felt like a rock.

[Dalton]

He's not much of a fighter.

[Ben]

Oh, you mean, like me on that?

[Evan]

That's been quite a few fights, really. Before our time. Yeah, he's.

[Ben]

He's a pretty big, hot head.

[Evan]

He's got. He's got some stories I won't tell him.

[Ben]

Pretty big fighter.

[Evan]

I'd say, like, three times, I'm pretty sure.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

He's a type.

[Dalton]

Real fighters that get into bar fights every weekend are like, that's numbers.

[Evan]

You're a real fighter.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Every Friday and Saturday night, I head out and I get myself into a fight, like, training.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I don't think he's looking for a fight, but he probably is. Ended his own.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

But, yeah, no, it was just. It was too funny. Like, I was. I didn't realize how funny was at the time. And then you guys were like, that was really funny. And then everyone was like, dude, when Micah just took off with.

[Ben]

You want to ride after, she was.

[Evan]

And then I was perplexed two or.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Three blocks and just dumped her off.

[Dalton]

I should have. Honestly, I should have left her away from us, but, yeah, brought her right.

[Ben]

Back to the action.

[Dalton]

I said, she was all mad. She was so, so mad. And then she's like, don't be filming me. And I'm like, you came to us. You still want to ride, though?

[Evan]

That was funny. That was a total Micah move.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The characters that you'll run into downtown.

[Evan]

The characters that are on our. Just like, that we work with every day now, it's like the group is getting bigger and bigger, and it's so fun, like, kind of learning, like, just little funny things about each and every person. Like, Dalton's guy sings like. Like, big wrench. Like, how I was like, you'd kick.

[Ben]

Him in the Knee.

[Evan]

Like, I've heard him say that before, you know, Like. Like, there's just things. You get to know a person, and, like, it's just so funny, you know? And it's just like, not in, like a. Like, I'm laughing at you, but it's just like, there's so. So many. Everyone's got, like, their own funny little things about them, and it's fun getting to, you know, the most interesting one.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

That I would like to. If you were gonna go and get wild, Justin, like, he seems like he would fly.

[Gavin]

He does get wild.

[Evan]

One time, he did.

[Ben]

One time, he flew off the animal. We'll have to bring that up when he's on the podcast. Remember when he was yelling, bro?

[Evan]

Yeah, we were all mad.

[Ben]

Then he got mad and started like, we.

[Evan]

We weren't. We were all on the same team, but Justin was, like, giving them the beans so hard that the rest of us, like, kind of stepped back, and we're like, yo, man, like, chill.

[Dalton]

Like.

[Ben]

Like, we were going after.

[Evan]

But that's a story for another day.

[Ben]

One time.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

But I've gotten to know him a little bit since he started working for us, for you guys again. But he looks like he'd be a lot of fun.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah. Hilarious, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Great guy. That's why he's on. That's why he's here.

[Ben]

You know, something I thought was really funny that made me think of this is when you were like, yeah, getting to, like, kind of know everyone in the group. But there was one the other day that I didn't even know about, and it's when Dalton goes, yeah, he's got a fake chain to Evan. And that just struck a chord with him. And he was like, hey, you, Dalton, you're. You're ugly ass blue truck. And the reason struck a chord with Dalton.

[Evan]

No, it was the vice versa, though, because he said something about Dalton's ugly truck, and then Dalton just responded behind the camera. He's got a fake chain. That's what I thought was funny. Like, he defended himself a few minutes later.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I don't know what you guys had going on that day, because, like, I came over. I think I came to pick up Eli from work, and it was like, there was some tension.

[Ben]

Yeah, even.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Just.

[Ben]

Even Justin came over for a second a little bit, and goes, oh, hostile was working heaven.

[Evan]

Didn't like the. The rap.

[Dalton]

There was a lot of tension that.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Day, and I was like, I'm going home now.

[Dalton]

It's just funny that you noticed it because, like, that day in Particular big.

[CJ]

Ranch is like, I'm going back to.

[Dalton]

The farm, even I like.

[Ben]

And he goes, I didn't know I couldn't have an opinion. And we're like, no, nobody asked you for your opinion on 100 things since we've been talking here, Evan. That's where we have a problem. You can give your opinion when asked.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

And then I think that's when Ryan was like, why can't we. Why do we all got to be like this? Why can't we just freaking get this thing done? I'm doing. I'm sick of everybody just bickering.

[Ben]

And Evan goes. And that's when Evan goes. Didn't know you couldn't anymore.

[Dalton]

He's just.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Evan's over there.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's just.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

You know what?

[Dalton]

You can. You can if you want.

[Gavin]

The tension was going every which way then.

[Ben]

Yeah. But it was all just. It was light. Like, everyone was.

[Evan]

Yeah, I thought it was light.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

I was chuckling. And it's just. You get it thrown aback a little bit because it's rarely ever even like that. Yeah. Like, everybody gets along so well that.

[CJ]

Yeah, we were.

[Gavin]

Big wrench walks in at the thick. At the thick of it.

[Evan]

Well, we were getting pressed for time, and.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Also, we didn't have much footage, and there was rain. There was a lot of factors. And it was Wednesday night.

[Dalton]

Ken was trying to move his pallets.

[Evan]

Yeah, Ken's trying to move his pallets. There was just, you know, it's tough. And, you know, I'd say there's only one. One thing that keeps getting circled back to as the problem, and it's our schedule that we have put on ourselves. It's insane. Like, we're a prisoner of our own schedule. But it's necessary.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Keeps you going, though.

[Ben]

It is.

[Evan]

It's necessary.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

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

[Evan]

Yeah, you'd be like, oh, we. What do you mean? Like, we'll do it tomorrow. You got the next day. You know, you. It's just like anything.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Like I said last week, I got bored when we had a. A day. Half a day off.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah. It's like.

[Ben]

It's what keeps.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Gosh, I'm gonna have to start mowing lawn if we don't start getting some ideas going here on our shitty toro.

[Dalton]

And then. And then you actually will get Evan to throw hands if you start doing that.

[Evan]

Well, guys, very good. I. I'd love to keep talking, but I feel like you.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Probably have some. You probably gotta get home for dinner. Big rent.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Actually, it's my father in law's birthday party.

[Evan]

Okay, well, we'll let you get going. Keep talking then. Yeah, we. We really appreciate you guys.

[Gavin]

Yeah, thanks for having us on.

[Evan]

Everything you do. And we especially appreciate you coming onto the podcast. Appreciate all you guys telling your stories. I'm sure the listeners really appreciate it, and they're probably going to ask for more.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Have us back sometime. I like this.

[Big Wrench (Brian)]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Do me a favor. Keep it real.

[Evan]

Yeah. Hit the subscribe button if you haven't already, and we'll see you next week.