200 - Demo Matt's Last Episode ft. Demolition Ranch | Unsubscribe Podcast 200

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast Episode 200 - Demo Matt's Last Episode ft. Demolition Ranch | Unsubscribe Podcast 200

Release Date: February 17, 2025

Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, Fat Electrician, and special guest Matt Carriker (Demolition Ranch)

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1. Celebrating Two Centuries of Content

The episode kicks off with heartfelt acknowledgments as the hosts celebrate reaching the monumental milestone of 200 episodes. Eli Doubletap expresses immense gratitude, stating, "It has been a privilege to experience 200 episodes with y'all and to see where this started and where it is today" (01:30). Brandon Herrera adds, "When my best friend started this podcast out of Cody's kitchen, I never would have imagined it would have gotten here."

2. Matt Carriker's Farewell Announcement

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Matt Carriker announcing his departure from YouTube and, consequently, his final appearance on the Unsubscribe Podcast. At 03:24, Matt solemnly declares, "Yes, this is sucking Matt's podcast now," signaling the end of an era for his popular Demolition Ranch channel. The hosts collectively express sadness and support, with Brandon mentioning, "It was a privilege to know you," and Eli adding, "Thank you so much for everything you've given YouTube community us."

3. Reflections on a YouTube Career

Matt delves deep into his journey, reminiscing about the inception of Demolition Ranch and the challenges he faced. He shares, "YouTube was me for, like, 15 years... I accomplished all the goals that I ever wanted to accomplish and then kept going for five years after that" (04:17). This prolonged dedication led to burnout, prompting his decision to step back. He recounts a pivotal coffee meeting where a retired friend advised, "A plan will come to you. Stuff to do will come to you, work will come to you, and you'll figure it out."

4. Balancing Family and Content Creation

A recurring theme is the struggle to balance a demanding YouTube schedule with family life. Matt admits, "My daughter’s birthday is right around Shot Show. I've literally missed the actual day of her birthday because it was Shot show" (11:03). The hosts discuss the complexities of being content creators while striving to be present parents. Brandon emphasizes the importance of independence for their children, stating, "You're not going to go out every day. You're not buying your lunch."

5. Community Impact and Collaborations

The episode highlights the profound influence Matt had on the gun community and other content creators. Fat Electrician shares experiences of guiding newcomers on range days, noting, "How safe this is not what I was expecting at all when I came here. Everybody is so nice and like, everybody's being very professional and like safe with all these guns" (16:12). The hosts collectively acknowledge Matt's role in making firearms approachable and entertaining, fostering a welcoming environment for enthusiasts.

6. Controversial Incident: The Trump Shooting and Matt's Shirt

A notable and sensitive discussion revolves around an incident where an assailant wearing one of Matt's shirts shot at the sitting president. At 60:32, Matt recounts, "He was wearing one of the shirts that, like, our most popular shirt... All you guys have had one of those shirts." The incident led to unwarranted scrutiny, with Matt sharing his concerns about potential FBI investigations. He asserts, "We didn't know him. We don't want this. And I was like, he literally just bought a Shirt online."

7. Early YouTube Days and Viral Moments

Matt reminisces about the early days of Demolition Ranch, highlighting viral videos that propelled his channel's growth. He mentions, "The one that got me on you when it was like, I think was like, 2008, 2009. It was the shotgun show" (78:55). Collaborative efforts with fellow YouTubers and memorable moments, such as interactions with Chuck Liddell, underscore the vibrant and dynamic nature of their content creation journey.

8. Emotional Farewell and Final Remarks

As the episode draws to a close, emotions run high. The hosts express their deep appreciation for Matt's contributions and the friendships forged over years of collaboration. Eli Doubletap conveys, "Thank you so much for everything you've given YouTube community us," while Brandon adds, "It genuinely though, it's been a privilege to know you."

Matt reflects on the surreal nature of his departure, stating, "Person in 10 years. Like, you know, it's similar, but you're not to change in that amount of time." The conversation encapsulates a blend of nostalgia, gratitude, and bittersweet emotions as they bid farewell to a cornerstone of their community.

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Notable Quotes:

• Matt Carriker (03:24): "If that truck would have broke down on the way. This is sucking Matt's podcast now."

• Eli Doubletap (01:30): "It has been a privilege to experience 200 episodes with y'all and to see where this started and where it is today."

• Brandon Herrera (04:43): "I just feel like you're gonna have culture shock when he finally moves out."

• Fat Electrician (16:12): "Everybody's being very professional and like safe with all these guns."

• Matt Carriker (11:03): "My daughter's birthday is right around Shot Show. I've literally missed the actual day of her birthday because it was Shot show."

• Brandon Herrera (78:55): "How you got here? I was too broke for a plane ticket."

• Matt Carriker (60:32): "He was wearing one of the shirts that, like, our most popular shirt... All you guys have had one of those shirts."

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Conclusion

Episode 200 of the Unsubscribe Podcast serves as a poignant farewell to Matt Carriker and his influential Demolition Ranch channel. Through candid conversations, heartfelt acknowledgments, and shared memories, the hosts reflect on the incredible journey of content creation, community building, and personal growth. Matt's decision to retire marks the end of a significant chapter, celebrating achievements while navigating the complexities of life beyond the digital spotlight. This episode not only honors past accomplishments but also sets the stage for future endeavors of the Unsubscribe Podcast hosts.

Transcript

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[Matt Carriker]

Demolition Ranch could have been over before it ever started. If that truck would have broke down on the way.

[Cody]

This is sucking Matt's podcast now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Poor guys off demo.

[Fat Electrician]

We're all gonna get canceled, and Matt's gonna have to come out of retirement like fat Thor and save all of us.

[Brandon Herrera]

To the New York Times, the demolition is a cult.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the note he's going to go out on.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Say hi to Eli.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's racially ambiguous.

[Fat Electrician]

And Brandon, his hair is fucking some donut. The dog joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, everyone. We just wanted to say a giant, giant thank you for 200 episodes.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know I haven't been there for all 200 episodes, but I'm genuinely privileged to have been here as long as I have. And frankly, I'm only here just to make sure that Eli doesn't cry this time. Don't do it.

[Cody]

Get back in there.

[Matt Carriker]

Tia.

[Eli Double Tap]

It has been a privilege to be able to. To experience 200 episodes with y'all and to see where this started and where it is today. We're just truly blessed to have all you rallying behind us to make this possible. From the live shows to each week, and then the thousands of dms that we get daily. Thank you for everything you guys have provided for us, and we are so humbled and appreciative of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

When my best friend started this podcast out of Cody's kitchen, I never would have imagined it would have gotten here. And I'm just, like I said, privileged to be a part of it. And I'm so thankful for all of you, and I'm looking forward to where it goes in the future.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. Keep doing amazing things. Enjoy this episode. It was a blast to have Matt on for one more time, and it's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sad to know that we're going to shoot him after this is done.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the hard part.

[Fat Electrician]

That's why we're sad.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like putting down the family Dog. But you know what? Somebody's going to do it. Thank you guys so much. Enjoy the episode.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, you do us pop choice.

[Matt Carriker]

Did you want to.

[Fat Electrician]

Wait, I got another one. I gotta drink them all. That's fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Very true.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, ready?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, we'll pop it first, I guess.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Three, two, one.

[Fat Electrician]

Demo's last day.

[Cody]

I'm going hard as we doing the damn thing. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap fat electrician, Demolition Ranch himself, Brandon Herrera, and myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Brandon Herrera]

RIP headphones users.

[Cody]

Ah, also this episode 200.

[Brandon Herrera]

This episode 200.

[Matt Carriker]

Really?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Crazy 199.

[Matt Carriker]

That's crazy. 199 is this week.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, Saturdays.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes. And then this one's going to be.

[Brandon Herrera]

Next week for 200.

[Cody]

This is 200.

[Matt Carriker]

Thanks, guys.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, we got to decide. Do we want to push this 199 or 200?

[Fat Electrician]

200.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just 200. This feels like 200 energy right now.

[Eli Double Tap]

I fucking like it.

[Matt Carriker]

And you're going to get drunk.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're already drunk.

[Matt Carriker]

I'm already drunk. I sipped this.

[Cody]

No, we're just really happy to have Demolition Ranch here today because as you all know, he just announced his departure from YouTube.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. And this is. That means this is for sure my last unsubscribed podcast ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

We'll see that you, you know, allegedly.

[Matt Carriker]

Definitely the last.

[Brandon Herrera]

It might be the last one.

[Fat Electrician]

Last one he remembers.

[Matt Carriker]

I get drugged. I'm just like.

[Fat Electrician]

Demolition Ranch.

[Cody]

We're in a puppeteer, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

I retired from YouTube and I like killing kittens. It's like his mouth.

[Matt Carriker]

Dude, this.

[Cody]

This is a. This is a sad one for me.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know you got, I think for everyone.

[Cody]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, for everyone, because you've helped all of us so much, man, with your platform. And we good. We absolutely love you for everything you've done for our community.

[Matt Carriker]

That's awesome to hear. And I've had a lot of people reaching out with, you know, similar sentiments, and it's. It's weird. It's. It is like, something we just kind of decided to do recently, and it's very scary and sad and weird, but, like, overall, I'm pretty excited about it. I'm pretty excited about moving to the next phase and not being worried about the next video anymore and that kind of thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Number.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, Numbers. I'm just not going to care.

[Brandon Herrera]

And the way you. The way you said it, where you're like, man, I just really want to figure out who I am without YouTube. Yeah, that. I think that kind of hit all of us a little hard where it's like, man, I don't.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't even know.

[Matt Carriker]

It's weird because, yeah, YouTube was me for, like, 15 years.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, almost half.

[Fat Electrician]

So you, like, are you gonna get into history or smoking meat? Those are your two options.

[Matt Carriker]

I just actually started smoking meat, so it's probably gonna be that.

[Fat Electrician]

Damn it, I'm gonna get in that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Face smoking the meat.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I know. I don't know. I met a guy this morning. He just wanted to have coffee, like, sit down. He's a guy that retired. He said three years ago, he retired. So he saw my video, and he's like, it's kind of an acquaintance. I know. And he sent me a text, and he's like, man, I'm proud of you. And, you know, if you want, I'd love to go sit with you and have coffee. So I went and had coffee with him, and he was kind of asking what my plan was, and I was like, I don't have a plan. Like, I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna kind of sit around and see what happens. He was like, that's perfect. He's like, that's what you need to do. A plan will come to you. You know, stuff to do will come to you, work will come to you, and you'll figure it out. Don't try to figure it out before it happens.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, my God. We're all gonna get canceled, and Matt's gonna have to come out of retirement like, Fat Thor and save all of us.

[Cody]

It's gonna be awesome.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, that's true. I'm gonna retire for a while until you guys need me again.

[Eli Double Tap]

His videos are. I don't associate with them at all. Retirement.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Whenever y'all are down, I'm just gonna come out of retirement to kick you. Yeah. Those.

[Brandon Herrera]

He comes out of retirement on the side of YouTube.

[Matt Carriker]

Now that. Now that they all got canceled. I'm back. Let's go.

[Cody]

Nah, seriously, dude. Like, a lot of us took a. Like, just. We looked up to you. We don't anymore.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Acknowledge.

[Brandon Herrera]

You.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Fat Thor.

[Cody]

A lot of our career was just looking up to you and just looking at what you did and just going off of the basis of what you were doing in your videos.

[Matt Carriker]

I mean, I did that to a bunch of other channels, too. Like, I had so many idols on YouTube because I love YouTube. I think it's so cool. I loved. I love the whole process of, like, growing the channel. And there were so many channels that I, like, aspired to be like. And so I kind of modeled little parts of my videos like them. And. And so, yeah, it's cool that I think I've done that for a lot of people, too.

[Cody]

Like, you know, because we all had.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, the FPS rushes and stuff like that when we first started.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I mean, it's crazy. I think we talked about on the podcast the other day, but just like the fact that FPS Russia at one point was like a top seven or eight YouTube channel on YouTube, period.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like, man, the closest thing we have to that now is you.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it's. It's, it's, it's, it's. It's a cool end of a chapter, though. I'm. I'm proud of you, man. It's.

[Matt Carriker]

Thanks.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's awesome.

[Matt Carriker]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Cody]

For your. For your vlog channel specifically, you had, like, Atwood. That's someone you looked up to.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. He was one for sure.

[Cody]

Yeah. That's awesome. And I looked up to you for my vlog channel, and you helped me out so much, man. Sorry, I'm just. This is Sucking Matt's Dick podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I, like, we got the title. That's the pepper box version 4 guys suck off demo.

[Matt Carriker]

We get some views, we get the couch photo.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. But it's all of us standing behind us.

[Matt Carriker]

All.

[Eli Double Tap]

We couldn't do it.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's just a shadow of a dick. And it's just like the. The Willem Daf.

[Eli Double Tap]

Black and white. What was. What was one of the determining factors? Like, 20, 24. Did you have a feeling, hey, leading up to this, I. I'm probably going.

[Fat Electrician]

To retire next year?

[Matt Carriker]

No, not. Not really. We had. We kind of figured it would be eventually. You know, there's. There's like. I don't know. It's. It's like I. I accomplished all the goals that I ever wanted to accomplish and then kept going for five years after that. You know, it was like. So it's just kind of like, why am I still doing this? But really recently, it's kind of hit us that, like, our kids are all getting very old, and I'm realizing they're going to leave soon. And I'm just like, this is weird. And I, like, we have made all the money I need to make from YouTube. Like, we don't need more money.

[Brandon Herrera]

We don't need more hundreds of dollars.

[Matt Carriker]

I've made hundreds. My bank account has hundreds of dollars.

[Cody]

Hundreds of Dollars.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't need more fame, you know? So I was just like, I'm just gonna, like, take a break. And I'm not saying it's impossible that I won't come back in a two.

[Brandon Herrera]

Three, four years in a podcast, let's say, with your friends.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, maybe it could happen. It's possible. Right now I think it's not. I think I'm like, maybe done forever. But I just decided, yeah, I'm just gonna cold turkey quit in a couple months, like, wind everything down and then just stop. Which actually is weird that we said a couple months and then it, like we looked at it. Oh, that ends right on April 1st. No one's ever gonna believe us that we're actually really funny. I was like, we said that at the end of. Yeah, this month. We're like, yeah, two months. It's like, shit, that's April 1st.

[Eli Double Tap]

We just had a con. A business convo about anything happening on April 1st.

[Matt Carriker]

The worst. I'm gonna make my last video on April 1st, and people are gonna be like, actually really good people gonna be like, wait a minute.

[Brandon Herrera]

Or reverse psychology at drop a video on April 1, saying we're still doing YouTube and then never upload again.

[Fat Electrician]

That's.

[Matt Carriker]

I changed my mind, guys.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm back, baby.

[Matt Carriker]

We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna take a one week break. We'll be back, you know, and then just never are like, I don't understand what's happening.

[Brandon Herrera]

The meme of the kid waiting next to the door to like, waiting to prank my dad when he comes home. Day 379.

[Fat Electrician]

That's how it ends, guys, I'll be right back. I got to go get some milk. Walk will never return.

[Matt Carriker]

That's pretty good.

[Cody]

Just going to go down to the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Gas station, get some scratchers. I'll be back in five.

[Fat Electrician]

My gun.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how it should end.

[Fat Electrician]

My gun tube. Dad never showed back up.

[Matt Carriker]

He went to get some cigs.

[Eli Double Tap]

So it just.

[Matt Carriker]

It.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was the. Is. Was there any determining factor or was it just waking up one day and be like, yo, I just want to. You know what? I'm tired.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. I mean, it's. It's been. I would say it's been a couple years where I've like, been slowing down, you know, and being like, I'm not as driven to do this anymore as I used to be. But yeah, as far as announcing it, no, it really was just like all of a sudden just kind of a realization that I don't really know why I'M here anymore, you know, and it's still fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think they call that depression.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I think that might be it too. Not in life in general, but like, it's still like fun for me, but I'm just not driven to do it anymore. And I want to find. I like being driven, you know, and I want to find what drives me now.

[Eli Double Tap]

You want to be hungry, But I.

[Matt Carriker]

Think, yeah, but I think I have to stop doing this completely to figure out what drives me now. And so it's like, it's that it's my family. It's just wanting to also just be normal, you know, not be a social media person anymore. To not worry about what's happening on Instagram or Twitter or any of those things. I want to just like step away and just like. And maybe just detox from it for a while. And maybe I'll come back in two years and be like, oh, I feel refreshed, you know, but fuck, no, you won't. Probably be done.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is a hellscape I never want to get back.

[Matt Carriker]

I think I just want to be a normal guy. Yeah, it's weird because it's also really fun to not be normal. It's fun for companies to like send you places and you get to go do cool things and that's so cool. It's cool to go to Shot show when, like companies like pay your way and you get to go to a cool hotel and do all that kind of stuff. But yeah, like you. I've been to Shot Show a ton. I don't want to go anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's exhausting. Exhausting.

[Fat Electrician]

I'll treat you like shit for free. That's what you're looking for.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Like the first, the first four years is fun.

[Fat Electrician]

You're back.

[Brandon Herrera]

What a friend. That is a service I can provide. Yeah, I feel like you've done that before though, like where you've kind of gotten to like into the car stuff where you're like, all right, you know, I'm still doing the gun, but like, I want to find something else. Because you really do. Like, people don't understand. Like, we are so jaded to guns now.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, well. And I've been half assing demolition ranch for five years, you know, Like, I feel like sponsors love that. Yeah. Like we still do it because it's still. There's a. An aspect that's really fun, of course. And I do still like guns. I still like getting them. But it was hard to think of videos every single week. And so like my crew started Hiring people to help me. And like, I felt weird, like I wasn't devoting everything to a whole video, you know, and so it's kind of weird. Like I feel like that's sort of half assing it. Even though I still had, you know, people helping, the videos were better with people helping too. But it wasn't all me anymore. So I feel like that's kind of been me sort of slipping out of demolition ranch for a while where you still get a video. But, you know, it's not just me alone in the woods grinding out this video. Me alone in the woods, grinding.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's a certain magic that is lost after a while that you just can't really get.

[Matt Carriker]

It's been going down for me for a while where I'm just like, yeah, I just don't. I'm not obsessed with it anymore. Like I was.

[Cody]

Your heart's not eight years ago. Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

But I don't know, maybe you'll get.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know because I. I've. I totally understand where you're coming from. And like, it's awesome for you to just take a step back and you're like, I don't need this and I want to watch my kids grow up.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's fucking. I think that's commendable. But I also know how guys like us are wired. And I'm wondering if you're gonna get bored.

[Matt Carriker]

I am worried about that. My wife is worried about that. She's like, what are you gonna do? Like, you're gonna need that, you know, release. You need that creative outlet and been.

[Fat Electrician]

Working 18 hours a day for 15 years. You think you're just gonna shut it off for an extended period of time.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, I'm gonna learn how to knit or something.

[Fat Electrician]

Demolition knitting.

[Cody]

Can I just on people real quick?

[Matt Carriker]

Sure.

[Cody]

On your behalf.

[Matt Carriker]

Sure.

[Cody]

People who say he doesn't add to the second amendment community. You're retarded. You're absolutely retarded.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm here for this.

[Cody]

He made guns fun for everyone. He made the second amendment fun. And to say he's never Contributed to the 2Amen community. You're a dumb piece of.

[Fat Electrician]

It's not only that. It's like he made it approachable to a degree that, like, you know, no offense, Brandon, but none of the rest of us do it. I mean, look at how I appear like you with like the jokes you make. And everything else is like, oh, this dude's legitimately just like a good family man, dad.

[Matt Carriker]

Well, I talked to Cole on noir about that because he's obviously very political about his 2A stuff. Like, his videos are all political. And we were talking about the difference in what we both do, and it is something like, I'm also not a super political person. Like, I don't want to.

[Cody]

So we have Brandon politics.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, I look at it like combined arms.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Where it's like, all right, there's air support, there's artillery, there's infantry men. It's like, well, he sucks hand to hand. Well, that's cool. I still need him to fucking. Well call down a fire.

[Matt Carriker]

Imagine, even if you're one of those guys who is like, demolition ranch should have done more. You know, I think that's where those. And it's.

[Cody]

It's.

[Matt Carriker]

I think a loud minority of people that think that I'm anti2a because I didn't do more.

[Eli Double Tap]

But aren't they the loudest?

[Matt Carriker]

Even if you're. Yeah, even if you're the guy who.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was a soft pitch. I knew somebody was gonna take it.

[Matt Carriker]

I didn't even hear that. Even if you are one of the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Demo Ranch's take on movie theaters, cancel me.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't care if you think I should have done more. Like, I just don't know how you couldn't step back and be like, well, it wasn't a net negative. You know, it's still a net positive. You're still making gun content. You're still making it easy access for someone who doesn't know anything about guns to not feel like, well, this guy's super political and all pro gun, and he's scary. I'm just like, I'm gonna go out and shoot these things and it's gonna be funny.

[Brandon Herrera]

We talked about it on the PSR podcast where I'm like, man, you need the demo ranches, the John Wicks, the call of duties. Like, that's the very beginning of the funnel. Because, like, if you just hammer fist people with the constitution, it's like, are you correct? Yes. But, like, you need to get people, like, warm them up, a little bit of foreplay before you just slap them with a constitution.

[Cody]

Are you saying demos the fore? Yeah, absolutely, dude.

[Fat Electrician]

It's also being, like, the infrastructure with how big you were. Like, the things that other people were able to accomplish because you enabled them to, like, yeah. Last range day, you probably don't even know this, but there was, like, some pretty big people from YouTube that showed up, and I was, like, escorting them around range day, and, like, within 20 minutes, they'd never shot a gun in their life and they had shot in pistols, rifles, machine guns. And one of them was like, I feel really safe. This is not what I was expecting at all when I came here. Everybody is so nice and like, everybody's being very professional and like safe with all these guns.

[Matt Carriker]

I'll be so pissed if as soon as I leave YouTube, it gets really easy for gun tubers. You can just come back.

[Eli Double Tap]

200 CPMs, everything plugs in. It was like, I'm out of retirement.

[Cody]

I was talking to the people that you're talking about. I was talking to him too. And I'm like, you thought we were just a bunch of dumb rednecks who like go out and just like, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, fun. Which fair half true.

[Matt Carriker]

And we're smart. Red Mexico.

[Eli Double Tap]

We go bang, bang, bang, bang. This is dangerous.

[Cody]

But they were like, you guys are so safe. And like, this was the best time we ever had. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's what we do. And you paved the way for that. And like, oh, thanks. Can't appreciate you enough, buddy.

[Matt Carriker]

I helped pay the way. Plenty of people helped pave the way there.

[Fat Electrician]

It wasn't true, but didn't feel that way when I was standing on your range.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, those are scary.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, Brandon, you ever wake up in your bed feeling like you just fought in a war?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, why do you ask?

[Eli Double Tap]

You ever wake up and feel like you slept in a sauna?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I believe that's called night sweats.

[Eli Double Tap]

Means you got a trash mattress.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon, are we talking like Macho Man, Randy Savage.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

I got you for three minutes, but I got ghost bed all night.

[Eli Double Tap]

You know what's longer than three minutes? Brandon?

[Brandon Herrera]

Any sexual experience I've ever had, Ghostbed's.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

And you've got a 101 night free trial to test it out.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh yeah, and you know what, brother?

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

They have bases, pillows, sheets, the whole empanada.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just pick your mattress and grab a bundle.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Just use unsubscribe at checkout and save 50% on head over to ghostbed.com unsubscribe, that's ghostbed.com. unsubscribe, use code unsubscribe I'll show up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Under your bed and make ghost noises until you do. Oh, now, I just want to reiterate, none of this was in the script.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know why we started talking.

[Cody]

Like Randy Savage, but.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is that you? You have. Everyone here has a story with you. Like your first. Yeah, the ar. And even then, it was like you had me on the AR video to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Go against ARS versus Versus AK guys.

[Eli Double Tap]

And that's how that circle started.

[Matt Carriker]

Did you say AR Gaze Ar Gaz.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was.

[Matt Carriker]

It was a bit of a AR gaze versus AK guys probably.

[Brandon Herrera]

And slip. I remember, yeah, a bunch of people hitting me up, up saying like, dude, Demo Ranch just stole your video.

[Matt Carriker]

And I drive because I stole his video.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I had the complete opposite take. I was like, just starting out in YouTube. I maybe had, like, I don't know, 30,000, 40,000 subs. And I was like, demo Ranch just stole my video. That's so cool because, like, you mentioned me at the end of it.

[Matt Carriker]

Everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm like, I stole his video.

[Matt Carriker]

I gave him credit and then I invited him out to make a video. So I felt like that was a good trade.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think we talked about that on the podcast that we just filmed yesterday. It was. It was. It was kind of fun just to see the. The early days of bunker and, like, everything as you were still, like, kind of kicking off a lot of the infrastructure that you've managed to build over the last, what, five, six years?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it's been crazy. Yeah, the last six years have been a big change.

[Fat Electrician]

I think Matt accidentally hooked me up the first time I was on Demolition Ranch. I don't know if he did it on purpose or not.

[Matt Carriker]

It was you up.

[Fat Electrician]

It was. It was me and you and Admin all competing to win your la. Never got a free gun before in my entire life. And he's like, all right, here's the challenges. We got to try to shoot guns while we're getting shocked. I'm like, I got this bad electron, man. I've been shocked plenty. I've been completely unfair. I was like, there's no way I'm beating administrative results in shooting. It's not going to happen. Like, I'm all right, but this is his job. And then he's like, we're getting shocked while we do it. And I was like, oh, fuck, I might win this.

[Matt Carriker]

And you did. And, man, Admin wanted that gun so bad, you. You didn't seem to care.

[Cody]

What gun was it?

[Matt Carriker]

It was just an LMT. It was a 308.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was just an LMT.

[Fat Electrician]

It was just a 308 LM. It was a badass scope on it, but I was like, I want this one.

[Matt Carriker]

Aaron wanted it so bad, and he was, like, actually kind of pissed at the end of the episode.

[Fat Electrician]

And then we got to do jiu jitsu together for three seconds.

[Matt Carriker]

I was like, what did you just put me in?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's gonna be your title on a business card if we ever do those. Just like, the fat electrician head pretzel maker.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

My. My. Like, my. If you could. If I could snip any three seconds from my entire YouTube career, it was when I went like this, and me and Matt shook hands before the match, and. Okay, go. And Matt goes, you're not even scared.

[Eli Double Tap]

Means he's done it once or twice.

[Matt Carriker]

He was like, I'm a purple belt. And I was like, cool. I'm not any belt.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't even know what that means.

[Brandon Herrera]

I would have been terrified at the slow hat reverse.

[Matt Carriker]

What did we tie? You and I tied? And so the. It was like, yeah, we had a tiebreaker win in wrestling and win. And you're like, I'm a pro belt. I was like, well, let's go. Here we go. I guess you're gonna win.

[Cody]

Jeez. The first time I came out, we shot each other with.

[Matt Carriker]

Dude, that.

[Cody]

With Less Than Lethal.

[Matt Carriker]

That was a good video. What year was that?

[Cody]

Jeez. 20, 18, 19.

[Matt Carriker]

We both looked like babies, so maybe. Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You just came down in Texas. We just moved there.

[Matt Carriker]

He hadn't moved yet.

[Cody]

I hadn't moved yet.

[Eli Double Tap]

He.

[Cody]

He hit me up, and he was like, hey, dude, you want shoot Less Than Lethal Weapons at each other? I said, yeah, dude. Demolition Ranch wants me to do that. Hell, yeah, I'm coming.

[Brandon Herrera]

So what was the one thing you didn't want to do again? You're like, I will not be pepper sprayed. I think was your thing.

[Cody]

Yeah, that was one of the things. But the. The bolo was. That was the worst. You shot me with the bola wrap.

[Matt Carriker]

It had these little, like, fish hooks that would, like, fly around you and wrap you up and then hook into your skin. And it was. The company was like, yeah, y'all can shoot each other with this, but don't be running while you do it. And we were like, oh, that would have been so cool. Like, shoot him. And it wraps your legs up and knocks them over. But it's because if you're doing that, it would just rip your skin open. Yeah.

[Cody]

Because it was A It was a 38 blank. 38. That projected it. Right.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't remember was it.

[Cody]

Yeah, it was like a normal bolos.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just have balls at the end.

[Cody]

This is. Dude, this is like wire cord. Yeah. Kevlar line with fish hooks on the end of it.

[Eli Double Tap]

It looks like that sounds as demo ranches.

[Cody]

It looks like a cell phone almost.

[Matt Carriker]

And, like, it was, like, made for cops. And so it's like, it's a less than lethal, and you just shoot it, and it'll wrap up arms or legs or whatever, but it just goes. And like.

[Cody]

And then fish hooks go in your skin.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's got to be horrible. When you hit him in the neck and it's just.

[Matt Carriker]

And it's like. Yeah, you can't get them. Like, they. They hook in your skin. Like fish hooks. They're in you. And I mean, we had to, like, pull them out of our skin.

[Cody]

You had to take pliers and get them out of my skin.

[Fat Electrician]

Kevlar is hard to cut.

[Matt Carriker]

And it's Kevlar. Kevlar line. And it's crazy.

[Cody]

Yeah, that was gnarly. Cool with the taser guys there too.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. And the water cannon.

[Cody]

Yeah. Oh, the water can.

[Fat Electrician]

There was nothing funner than having a friend's like, yeah. I have these houses that are full of mold, and we have to rip them down. I was like, can we. Can we do the meme?

[Matt Carriker]

Shoot them.

[Fat Electrician]

Can we do the meme for when the big gun is for when the enemy's hiding behind my enemy's refrigerator? And then we went out and did that video.

[Matt Carriker]

Shot a house.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It actually went through all of them, surprisingly a lot.

[Fat Electrician]

Shockingly lower calibers, like 9 millimeter was enough to go through one exterior wall, a fridge, and penetrate a human.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

So then everything else is just like. I mean. Well, yeah.

[Cody]

Of that video that you guys.

[Fat Electrician]

The.

[Matt Carriker]

The meme.

[Fat Electrician]

You know, the meme like the Desert Eagle for when the burglar is hiding behind your neighbor's refrigerator.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. It says 50 Cal for when the burglar's hiding behind the fridge in your neighbor's house. And it, like, supposed to be like, it goes through everything, which bullets apparently do.9 mil.

[Fat Electrician]

Does that actually.

[Eli Double Tap]

Full metal jacket.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

People don't realize walls are not thick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Full metal jacket.

[Matt Carriker]

Stop.

[Fat Electrician]

I read through the comments on that video. All the Europeans just on American construction methods because they're not made out of while they're sweating. And 27 people die every time you guys have a heat wave because you can't install air Conditioning side eye to show.

[Brandon Herrera]

Aggressive. Jesus Christ. I watched. Happened. Like, Jamie, pull that back.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, we just get done shooting through this house with seven different calibers of guns. And I was like, yeah, good thing you guys shut the gas off. And Matt's like, oh, yeah, yeah, we did.

[Matt Carriker]

We were shooting a different house out on that property, so I guess we should have learned American State. We were shooting a different house out there. And we hear. And we're like, oh, no, it smells like eggs. We thought we. We thought we hit a gas line. I was like, I didn't think there was gas in this house. And we start freaking out. Oh, God.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was just the squatter.

[Matt Carriker]

We realized it was just an area. Like, there's, like. There's, like, compressed gases in there. Freon. Yeah, like freon. And it was hissing. I was like, oh, my gosh, this house is about to explode.

[Brandon Herrera]

Crackheads do weird when you shoot them in. I don't know.

[Cody]

Trust me, I know. Corner raccoon. This is a gross. Bam.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no.

[Matt Carriker]

Holy.

[Cody]

It's so moral of the story. We've done a lot of crazy together the past. I mean, years.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it's been. It's been a long time. That's crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Better part of a decade.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. When did you move here?

[Cody]

Five years ago.

[Matt Carriker]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. And.

[Cody]

But I was coming out here and hanging out.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, you've been making videos for a couple years.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, because you stay with me. You live. You and John live with me for, like, two weeks.

[Cody]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I live with Eli for a little.

[Eli Double Tap]

I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah. That was like 20.

[Matt Carriker]

Like a year after that, or I.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have a couple weeks.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, wow.

[Eli Double Tap]

20. 20 something.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was the big winter freeze.

[Matt Carriker]

The snowpocalypse apocalypse here.

[Cody]

You were there for that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Cody]

Buddy's house.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And then Brandon pulls up during the snow apocalypse in his truck.

[Matt Carriker]

He's like, what the hell?

[Brandon Herrera]

I moved my entire life. Like, my girlfriend at the time, everything. Like, we moved across the country. Like, Texas, where it's hot, and we took a wrong turn because I was already, like. I was already spending months at a time in Texas just hanging out with you guys or, like, doing work or whatever. I'm like. Like, I'm just moving to San Antonio and. Yeah. What it. We get to Houston and the snow starts to fall, and I'm like, oh.

[Matt Carriker]

Houston, snow is crazy. That's insane. You're right next to the ocean. The Gulf of America.

[Brandon Herrera]

The Gulf of America.

[Eli Double Tap]

Freezing.

[Matt Carriker]

Well, he.

[Cody]

He got here when no one had food.

[Matt Carriker]

No one had power.

[Brandon Herrera]

No restaurants were open, no grocery stores. You're moving your entire life. You don't have a fridge, you don't have food. I think we, we went to a Bucky's and I'm just like, load up on everything calorie dense because it might be a minute.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And you pulled up. I don't know if we can keep this brain. It's your choice. But I just liked. Then you had a conversation for an hour about it's not safe to drive.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Somebody had wanted to go home. And I was like, I don't know how to explain this to you. Like, I'm like, we can't. That's not a option right now.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's just sliding down the road like this. He's like, is that good enough? Are we good? Walked back in. He's like, yeah, we're not.

[Cody]

His first night in Texas. We're in a what, a two, three bedroom home and there's probably what, like 15 adults in there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Because it was the only house that had power at the time because it was on the. The hospital grid.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

Batty fetus. What? It was just like gushers.

[Matt Carriker]

No, no, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was like, just gu.

[Cody]

I. I made a pot roast for everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was so funny, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was like, like walking. He's like, oh, we're all going to eat each other.

[Fat Electrician]

You guys are all sitting there like, all right, who's going to be the first one to eat one of Baddy's lizards?

[Brandon Herrera]

I look back and I was like, those were such good times. None of us knew what the was going on, man.

[Fat Electrician]

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[Cody]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Cody]

Also, another one of the first times I came down, we killed Goldie.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. You had the van.

[Cody]

Yeah. The minivan.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, we bought this minivan. We painted it gold and it turned out just be the best running thing ever. Like, we couldn't kill it. We just kept making videos with no. Yeah, it was like a Hilux. Yeah. But yeah, we made videos forever with it. And then finally it was like kind of getting pretty beat up because we were just running it into trees and.

[Cody]

You tied it to what? We were in that like, little reservoir.

[Matt Carriker]

We didn't tie it. Steering wheel turned a little bit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, really?

[Cody]

And it was Just doing circles.

[Matt Carriker]

We put a brick on the pedal and just let it go around in circles and we. We just ran back and we're like, the car just. And we're just like, let's just shoot a different calibers and see what happens. And that was.

[Cody]

That was the first time my son came down too, because remember, John was just like. Like, yeah, just kill it.

[Matt Carriker]

Well, Kentucky was there and he. I can't remember. It was him or Baddy. One of them two shot a 50 BMG incendiary at it. And then the van lit on fire and we're like, oh my gosh, if this thing burns all these trees. And we're like, we kind of have.

[Brandon Herrera]

To stop the van now.

[Matt Carriker]

So we were like, well, how do we put it out? And I had this one little faucet, but no hose. So we just had buckets and we fill it up and go dump. Dump into water. Water's not great at putting out gasoline, by the way. So we're like trying. And we somehow did get it to go out.

[Cody]

Yeah. That was the first time my son experienced Texas. And he's like, this is. This is what Matt does.

[Matt Carriker]

Guys are crazy.

[Cody]

It's like, yeah, yeah, this is. This is it. We just shoot the minivan going in circles.

[Brandon Herrera]

Pretty good introduction.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, that sums up Demolition Ranch.

[Cody]

Do you ever think about, like, when your kids get out in the real world and they're just not surrounded by our group?

[Matt Carriker]

Like, my kids are not surrounded by our group.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's for the best.

[Matt Carriker]

He made his own wall around there. Have you guys ever hung out with my kids? Rarely.

[Fat Electrician]

I've never even met his kids.

[Matt Carriker]

I keep my kids far away from our group.

[Fat Electrician]

I've only met mayor one time.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's whenever I was like. Especially when I was coming to visit or anything. Like before I lived here and we'd stay at the YouTuber suite.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

And just like waking up the next morning, I'm like, I'm used to, like hanging out with all the. The guys, whatever, like all this degenerate shit. And then like walking into your kitchen as your kids are getting ready to go to school and there's pancakes out, whatnot. I'm like, I feel like a horrible.

[Matt Carriker]

That's what was so hard about being like living this YouTube life. Life is. I'd have people come in and they'd spend the night because we had this little separate apartment that was just. We really just bought that house because we thought it was cool. There was like an apartment in it so people could come in and make Videos. But normal guys who don't have kids, they stay up till three in the morning and I have to get up at six in the morning to like feed kids and take them to school. And so it's like I would be like so worn out because I'm waking up so early. And then like the people, not, not you guys in particular, but some guys like wouldn't wake. Actually donut probably wouldn't wake up until.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, you know, that's for you.

[Matt Carriker]

Noon. I'll drink it.

[Fat Electrician]

You're having one Bush light with me before you retire.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'll do it. Do you think I have a Bush Light?

[Fat Electrician]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

But they wouldn't wake up till like noon. We can't start making videos till two. And then like I gotta pick up kids from school at 4:30. And I'm like, this is not working for our little day. But yeah, hard figuring out that stuff. Family life plus YouTube life, you can make it work. It's just challenging.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was like that in the political world too. Cause it was like I had to like drive four hours to west Texas to do events or whatever. So. So I'm like, I'm doing all the YouTuber life, but I still have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to go start my day with a four hour drive. Yeah, like that was the juxtaposition of doing what we do and doing anything else a functional adult does is very every difficult.

[Fat Electrician]

Everybody wonders why I haven't moved to Texas yet. It's because it makes it really easy to not have to fight that battle.

[Matt Carriker]

Have a normal home life.

[Eli Double Tap]

Last night at the bar, I was like, I gotta go guys, I'm gonna go. Well, I was like, you guys staying.

[Brandon Herrera]

Here, you missed some really funny bro.

[Fat Electrician]

It got aggressive after you left. We almost got in a fight with.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, an 80s action movie villain.

[Fat Electrician]

Literally. Bear in mind we stayed up till three in the morning the night prior watching both versions of Roadhouse. And then we almost got in a bar fight the next night.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like that was completely not our fault.

[Fat Electrician]

We were sitting there minding our own business and a woman that apparently was 40 based on what she said and recently divorced, that she said five more times, came up and was hitting on some of us and you know, we were polite or whatever and we're like, yeah, cool, blah, blah. And she talked for like five, 10 minutes. And then like, like standing over our table while we're just trying to hang out while we're talking, I was like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, vodka you guys. They were Offered to buy drinks.

[Fat Electrician]

How did you know she offered to buy us vodka?

[Eli Double Tap]

I was there.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, for there for the first part. You were there for the. You weren't there for the second part?

[Eli Double Tap]

The first part was like, yeah, I was like, oh, vodka, blah blah, blah blah. And I was like, well, I gotta use the restroom real quick. And I went and. Cuz I had cheese. When I came back, they weren't there. I was like, no.

[Fat Electrician]

So she went and was like making out with some other dude that she went and found at the bar for a while. Very aggressively, like licking tongues.

[Brandon Herrera]

They were getting kicked out of the bar. It was aggressive.

[Fat Electrician]

Aggressive. And then as they were leaving together, she stopped at our table again and was like saying hi again.

[Brandon Herrera]

Was it? You have three exits to make up your mind.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, was her phrasing. And then the dude that she had left with has already walked out and he comes back in like two minutes later and he's got like a Hawaiian shirt with like the bottom two buttons done. Like his whole chest is out and he's got one of those like Colgate flosser picks in his mouth and he's chewing on it like a 1980s cool guy with a toothpick. It's like, you coming with me? Are you staying with these boys? Getting trout Looks around like, did that just happen?

[Brandon Herrera]

We all did. Like just the sunglasses off. Like not saying we're hot shit, but this is a bold table to have.

[Eli Double Tap]

That attitude with less gross, man.

[Fat Electrician]

Any table of three grown men by yourself to walk up and be like these boys is. Is insane.

[Cody]

You have this 250 pound gorilla right here. You're gonna call him a boy with Brandon and trial sitting there.

[Fat Electrician]

That's a poor guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also he's like, I'm getting late at night. And then the girl's like, oh yeah, I forgot about you.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know how to say this. This guy doesn't look like one of us. Like it's just a very mid skinny white guy. We're just like, he does like a.

[Fat Electrician]

1980S tough guy at a bar. And we just got done watching Roadhouse. I was like. And in the back of my. I was like, all of us can post bail. This is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, man, I just wanted to go home.

[Fat Electrician]

There's some mug shots that won't be good for my career and there's some that would. And this is one that might be pretty cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

I miss work for Trump. Just saying, he sold a lot of shirts, man.

[Fat Electrician]

It's kind of my thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just remember them being Shitwrecked when they approached.

[Fat Electrician]

And then it didn't get better.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't figure that. Like, oh, okay, I'm out. I'm sorry.

[Cody]

Okay. I dated that one. I. I went home last night.

[Fat Electrician]

I was like, you were out for that part?

[Cody]

Yeah. I was like, I want to go see my son. You guys went out and almost got into a bar fight with a 1980s villain.

[Brandon Herrera]

You would have been so pissed if we got in a bar fight without you.

[Cody]

I know. That would have been horrible.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was asleep.

[Fat Electrician]

Her drunk friend comes. I've never seen a man so openly displaying his wedding ring. And I was like, okay, how were you sitting? I was sitting like this.

[Brandon Herrera]

With your wedding ring?

[Fat Electrician]

She was, like, standing above me. So I was like this, listening to the conversation. And her friend walks up. This guy's trying to show off his wedding ring. And I was like, yes. No. But also, I'm just in a defensive.

[Brandon Herrera]

Posture because I don't know you, and you're hovering.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm uncomfortable. And you're dressed like Han Solo in January.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, that is pretty funny.

[Cody]

Don't talk about the white Whitney Houston.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

She did say that.

[Matt Carriker]

She. She literally.

[Fat Electrician]

She was so drunk. She's like, I just. I did after. We just watched her make out with a dude at the bar. I recently.

[Eli Double Tap]

I went home at 9, 10, by.

[Brandon Herrera]

The way, this all happened over the course of 30 more minutes.

[Fat Electrician]

I shouldn't be doing this. I just got back from church from worship, and she's like, I go to a black church. They call me the white Whitney Houston. And I'm trying. I had to get up and go to the bathroom. I was laughing so hard.

[Matt Carriker]

God, she's trying really hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

30 more minutes. Damn, I should have stayed long.

[Matt Carriker]

Sounds like you guys were not picking up what she was putting down.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't think we wanted to pick up what she was putting down.

[Cody]

NPC behavior, dude.

[Matt Carriker]

Right?

[Brandon Herrera]

What was the Random Encounters from gta? What is Strangers and Freaks? Oh, all right. This is entertaining.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, Eli?

[Eli Double Tap]

When you think of businesses that are just crushing it. Bonker, unsub. What's the first thing to enter your mind?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's easy, Eli. A good child labor law attorney, huh? Eli? I said Shopify. What did you hear?

[Eli Double Tap]

Actually, it was the overlooked secret behind the business.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like I said, Shopify.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh.

[Fat Electrician]

Which brings us to today's ad.

[Matt Carriker]

Shopify.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, we use Shopify on a daily basis.

[Cody]

That's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Over to shopify.com unsubpod to upgrade your cell in a day.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shopify.com unsubpod all lowercase.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've talked about this, like, and I don't know about you. With Cody, it is. Did you ever have that thought process, like, hey, I'm retiring. At any point before that was like, I'm gonna hand it off to my kids.

[Matt Carriker]

Me?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Were you ever, like, in that thought?

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, y'all were talking to me. Sorry. I was still thinking about the fight last night. I honestly don't. Don't know if I want my kids to do this, you know, I don't know. But, yeah, someone. Someone did, like, ask me if I would ever sell the channel. And I was like, no, I don't think so. I mean. I mean, I guess everything is for sale. Like, if it was a 200 million. Yeah. If it's a crazy amount, like, I. Yeah, I can't say that I would really stand strong on that. But, like, there's a big sentimental part of it where it's like, I want it because it's something I created.

[Cody]

It was your legacy.

[Matt Carriker]

It's something that, like, I loved and so want it for me. But then it's also like, what if in 20 years, I want to be Hickok45 on the Internet, you know, still making videos? Or what if I want to let one of my kids go ahead and take it over and have demolition ranch come back? If YouTube is still a thing in 20 years, you know, five years tenured, whatever it is, you know, it's an.

[Brandon Herrera]

Interesting perspective because, like, if you. If one of your kids approached you, let's say in like, two, three years. Yeah, like, they're a little older and said, dad, I want to do YouTube, what would your advice be? Like, what. What's your take?

[Matt Carriker]

Two, three years is too soon. There's still, they're not old enough yet. But if they're in their 20s. Yeah, if they're in their 20s and they want to do that, like, yeah, go for it. I don't care.

[Cody]

We're the first generation of YouTubers, dude.

[Matt Carriker]

And what do you do?

[Cody]

What do you do with that channel?

[Matt Carriker]

Right? And, and like, if YouTube is still a thing, like, we also would have the first like generate like multi generational on YouTube, like someone.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

I mean now you have actors who their parents were acting actors, you know, the, the Charlie Sheen's, you know, and.

[Eli Double Tap]

Every business, every business that you start, especially a family business that is, I've started this. This is what I'm doing. I'm gonna pass this off. You take care of it. This is the first one where it's like, I don't fucking know because it is scary. You're like, I don't know if you wanna.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, this is all. When they're in their 20s, I think it's great. Like they're, they're old enough to make their own decisions and everything. And so I, I would be totally fine with that in, in their 20s. But yeah, there's so many like Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, like the scars, the scars.

[Cody]

Guards.

[Eli Double Tap]

Scar guards.

[Matt Carriker]

And, and yeah, like that, that's great. You know, their dads obviously helped them get there or whatever. And so if that is how YouTube is, that is kind of cool. And so I, I kind of like it.

[Brandon Herrera]

We all say like, oh, you know, if YouTube is still a thing, like it, it blows my mind to think about it. But like, YouTube currently is 20 years old.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's like my, my.

[Brandon Herrera]

Whole career, I watch your face change entirely.

[Eli Double Tap]

I rewind it.

[Matt Carriker]

Like. Yeah, but it's, it's, it's something that, like my whole career I've thought, you know, especially I was a vet for the first, you know, thank you for your service. Thank you.

[Eli Double Tap]

We pass it off to you.

[Matt Carriker]

But yeah, I was a veterinarian. I held onto that because I was like, well, YouTube is, it's new. It may just disappear any day. So I don't want to count on that as my career. And so I did that for a long time until like, I was making way more money on YouTube and I was like, okay, okay, it's more fun, it's more flexible. I can do it whenever I feel like it. And now it's way more profitable. So I guess I'm gonna do more YouTube than veterinary work. And where was I going with this? Oh, yeah. So then we kept using it as just YouTube may disappear at any time. Like I knew, like, okay, two years from now, YouTube might not be here, but now that it's been going for 20 years, it's like, what if this is still here in 20 more years? What if YouTube is like a lifelong career? Which it looks like it could be.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think that's the new Hollywood.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. I think it's replacing. You still have the 15, 15 minutes of fame, you know, because like I, I don't think I'll be here in 10 years, like on YouTube, like in the same place. Like, I, I don't think I got that in me. Like, I don't think that's a thing that any of us, like 10, 10 years from now, I'm like, I, yeah, you know, this has an expiration date. We just don't know what it is.

[Matt Carriker]

Person in 10 years. Like, you know, it's similar, but you're not to change in that amount of time. And I don't know, it's weird.

[Cody]

Oh, people keep getting shot. So I'm going to be around forever. Well, you got job security, assaults never die.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, your entire channel is watching.

[Cody]

Cody, what you. So like, you got. How. How many subscribers did you get on Vet Ranch?

[Matt Carriker]

4 million or something? I'm. I think. Yeah.

[Cody]

Yeah, that was doing good.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it was. YouTube is what killed that. So YouTube made it to where Blood, you know, like if there's blood, you can't make money on it anymore. Yeah.

[Cody]

Even if you're like taking care of a puppy.

[Matt Carriker]

And so. And mine was like not gratuitous blood. It was like I'm showing how a surgery works.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, cuz you've been censored it too.

[Matt Carriker]

Like blurred, like tried censoring it. And it really, the censoring took away what I loved about Vet Ranch, which was I could take like my dad was a veterinarian. And so I got to go in the clinic as a little kid and watch these crazy surgeries. You know, I'm sitting there at the edge of the table watching these crazy surgeries. And I was like, that was cool as a kid to see because not many kids get to see that kind of stuff. And so I thought Vet Ranch is cool because I can show kids across the world what it looks like to take out a bladder stone or what it looks like when a dog eats this and you have to cut its stomach open and pull it out. But then YouTube came through five years later and just made it to where you can't make any money on it. It's like those videos were really expensive and really hard to make because they took a month of me like following these dogs throughout their recovery or whatever.

[Brandon Herrera]

But because it's educational, you can still watch some gay dude narrow his asshole on YouTube.

[Matt Carriker]

Can you watch that?

[Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a whole thing.

[Cody]

Well. Oh God.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do not pull that up.

[Fat Electrician]

Straight up boobs are against the rules. Unless you're holding a baby and you claim it has anything to do with breastfeeding, which is a whole nother level of disgusting. Cuz there's all these women like on Instagram and YouTube Reels and everything where. Promoting only fans while holding an infant. And I was like, that's.

[Matt Carriker]

Have you seen the. Even. I don't know if it's weird or not, but where they have a fake baby.

[Eli Double Tap]

The dolls.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes. What the hell?

[Cody]

Like not to get on my old.

[Matt Carriker]

Now it's going to be on Yalls algorithm too.

[Cody]

Matt's sitting over here trying to show kids that like, yeah, blood is a thing.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it's real life.

[Cody]

Dogs is a thing. This is a thing that happens in your life.

[Brandon Herrera]

Real skills.

[Cody]

Yeah, real like. Like teaching young people like this is part of life and they fucked you.

[Matt Carriker]

And we were doing. We were. It was all homeless dogs. So we were like, net positive. We're helping out.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, it's almost like charity work.

[Matt Carriker]

It was. I mean I was getting paid for it, so it wasn't charity work for me. But like we're doing net. Net positive stuff, which was really cool. And then they cut basically all funding for it. And it was like, well, I can't spend a month working on these videos that I'm not gonna make any money on it. Well, now I'm gonna lose money on every one of them. And so it was hard and just kind of took the. Took the. The, you know, the fun of making it. When I had. I tried censoring and then it just. You couldn't show anything. And it was just. I don't know, they just felt lame. And then I wasn't making money on it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Would you ever go back to it? Like just as like a thing now that you're retired, you're like, you're gonna go back to veterinary.

[Matt Carriker]

That is one of the options that I think may happen is go back and just be a regular veterinarian again.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which is weird.

[Matt Carriker]

A weird. A weird thing to think about.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to get a hurt dog to get you back on Unsub.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, I know what I have to do. I just don't know if I have.

[Matt Carriker]

The strength to do it.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, Doug, I'm sorry. We have to summon Matt.

[Eli Double Tap]

Screen goes black.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like the me with the black guy. The black guy crying with the gun. Like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Jesus.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, that's on the table. Weird tool.

[Cody]

Your family still owns, like, still has the practice, right?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, yeah, my. My sister in law purchased the practice from me here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, okay. Yeah, I knew you sold it. I didn't know you sold it. Family.

[Matt Carriker]

That's cool. Yeah, yeah, so.

[Eli Double Tap]

So that's actually like, hey, this might be. What is the other one? Other than that one? Have you had any other options for yourself where you're like, this sounds like.

[Matt Carriker]

What I might do. Yeah, maybe I'll just become like a rancher. Just like have cattle and just. No, I really don't have any plans. But like, I might. I might be nothing like that for a while. Like, I'm just gonna, like, I need to put up some fence. I'm just gonna do Old man for a while. Like, I really. I don't know, bro.

[Fat Electrician]

Matt's going hardcore yellowstone. It sounds awesome.

[Matt Carriker]

Sell all my vehicles and just ride a horse to town. If you see the guy on the horse, that's me, dude, I got my.

[Cody]

Thousand videos in, like, can I come Yellowstone with you?

[Matt Carriker]

Yes.

[Cody]

Okay. I'll just be a ranch hand.

[Brandon Herrera]

All my friends are yellowstoning, literally right off the street.

[Matt Carriker]

Yellowstoner. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay. Guy that just recently ran for office. Like, you're not doing it too.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fuck you, man. That was a very poignant example. So, like in the show he won.

[Fat Electrician]

So I guess, like, I'll be honest, like, I didn't. I came in so late. I never really looked up to you as like the content creation side. But like, the cool part for me was one of the first times I ever came to town and we were talking and you were like, I flew in Friday night, I was flying out Monday morning and I was like, hey, you want to get together, do whatever? And you're like, oh, sorry, man, my weekends are for family. Yeah, like, that was super cool to me. Just like. So like I look up.

[Matt Carriker]

That's why I told you you want to do this podcast yesterday, which was a Sunday. And I said no. I said I had stuff going on. I didn't. I was just hanging with family.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, smart.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like smart.

[Fat Electrician]

I love it. So, like, I don't look up to you as a content creator, but like, I look up to you as like, okay, I got little tiny kids right now, so it's like, how the. Do I navigate doing this while also trying to be a good dad?

[Brandon Herrera]

He thinks you're a shit Contrast.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, it's dog shit, especially when I'm in it. But no, so, like, the. The cool part to me is, like, seeing how you manage that and then hearing that. So I guess, do you have any advice for it? Because, like, I'm constantly struggling with, like, I had a, like, a rougher childhood than I think my kids are going to have. So in the back of my brain I'm like, how do I traumatize this kid enough so he's funny and I'd want to hang out with them, but also so he doesn't hate me.

[Matt Carriker]

I had a good childhood. Like, you know, great parents who love me and supported me and everything. So I didn't have that, but I still want to give that to my kids. And. And I think. I think I have. I think, you know, as. As a YouTuber, you have a lot of freedom to hang out with your kids all the time. But what I started realizing is that I also have a freedom. I also have the freedom to hang out with my kids more than I do. And so I just want to make sure, like. And there's been times when I felt guilty about, like. Like, you know, for instance, my daughter's birthday is right around Shot Show. I've literally missed the actual day of her birthday because it was Shot show. And I was like, this is the one thing that I gotta do this year. And I feel guilty about that. Even though we celebrate her birthday two days before or whatever, you know, but that's the advice.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't fuck my wife. Nine months from Shot show.

[Matt Carriker]

That's the kind of stuff that I'm like, I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to have. Have to like, be like, well, it's just two days before. It's not a big deal, you know, and I'm there for my kids all the time. But, like, I want to be like. To where they never can be, like, yeah, dad missed my birthday every year because Shot show was around that time, you know. But no, I'm not a perfect father at all. And I'm not aspiring to be a perfect father at all. But yeah, I just. I don't know. I just. I think in a few years, I mean, I have seven and a half more years when my kids are in the house and I'm like, I want to have no regrets. This last seven and a half years that, like, I literally did Every single thing. I went to every single game and I took them to school every time they needed me to take them to school. And that's, that's my plan.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think a lot of people, Cody, you're feeling that too. It's when they hit 18, 19, 20, they hopefully will move out.

[Matt Carriker]

And that's.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're gonna see him maybe once a month, depending. It gets less and less. And then that's the lies part of growing.

[Matt Carriker]

Does John have his driver's license? Yeah.

[Cody]

No. Yeah, we're working on getting his learner's permit right now.

[Matt Carriker]

My wife's brother, his son just turned 16. And I didn't realize this. He said he didn't realize this. Whenever he turned 16, he was like, he's gone way more than he used to be. He's like, I thought, I thought we'd see him for like the next couple years and then he was gonna move out. He's like, now that he has a driver's license, like, he goes to school in the morning on his own and then he comes home like, you know, they have a curfew or whatever on weekdays. He has to be home by 8:00 or whatever. You know, he's like, we don't see him until 8. He hangs out with his friends. He goes to basketball practice. And he was like, I feel like he's already half moved out at 16 years old. And I'm like, that's crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, that's good because, like, you kind of want that.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, for sure. You want them to start getting that independence and that freedom.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Well, I'm trying to teach John right now. I'm terrified because I'm like, hey, dude, when you get out in the real world, you're not going to be around the demo ranch, the fat electricians, the Eli, the Brandon Herrera, the Post Malone. Like, all the people that we, we're around. That's not a normal, that's not a normal thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're not going to go out to eat every day. You're not, you're not buying your lunch.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone's going to split that. I'll take my check, please. Thank you.

[Cody]

Yeah, like, like, yeah, we're, we're not going out to brunch, dude. Like, it's, and it's hard trying to impress on him like, this is not a normal life. We do this because, you know, we've, we've scratched and we've worked our way up in the world the past, like 10 years.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shitty. The kids don't see that because that that was the. What were we just talking about? Where I'm like, man, I. I am so much more relaxed now than I ever was in my ear. Like, I set my 20s on fire to get here.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And people don't see that, especially kids, so I can only imagine.

[Cody]

Yeah. Matt's working 18 hours a day. All of us, we're just working 18 hours a day trying to get this started. And we're at a comfortable place right now. But, like, how do you tell a kid this is not normal life? Like, this is not what happened.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's just gonna have culture shock when he finally moves out. Yeah.

[Cody]

He's gonna have to get, like, roommates and, you know, live in an apartment and, like. Yeah. It's wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

Eat ramen six days a week.

[Fat Electrician]

Yep.

[Cody]

You can't go out and eat every day. You can't go out and drink. And, like, you're gonna have to manage your money, bubba. That's a shock.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're like, dude, what the Is this?

[Matt Carriker]

This life sucks. I'm moving back to the dad.

[Fat Electrician]

No.

[Cody]

Well, that's what. That's what I'm telling you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Code doesn't work.

[Cody]

Yeah. I'm like, dude, like, I'm not gonna be here forever, buddy. I'm not gonna pay for your meals or, like, your apartment or your car or any of this. So. Yeah, it's a weird life, bud.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is that hard for you? Are you like, hey, my kids are pretty set up. They're squared away.

[Matt Carriker]

No, my kids. Normal home life. Like, we have. I don't know if y'all know, but we don't hang out with y'all ever, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've hung out, like, twice as f, like, bringing our kiddos over, and I was like, oh, this is so nice. And then we're leaving by, like, 8pm yeah. That was so lovely.

[Matt Carriker]

We have a very normal, like, home life for the kids. Get. We have a bunch of non YouTube families, not because of you guys, but just because we want our kids. Well, it's compartmentalized because there's two of them here. I'm not gonna say which ones, but the brown ones.

[Fat Electrician]

We were talking about last night on the podcast with Clinton, Vanessa, and how they're like. They're like, every time you throw a house party, and the YouTubers and the normal friends are invited. They're like the intermediary, where the doctors are like, how do I talk to all the guys with tattoos?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Drank too much.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like, your birthday party.

[Matt Carriker]

I was just like, I'm gonna invite. Invite Everyone I know, it was so good. It was all of my YouTube friends and all of my church friends.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got, like, half the room's sweater vests and glasses, and the other half is doing shots from an at 4.

[Matt Carriker]

I was like, man, these are all the people I love in the world. I'm just gonna invite freaking everyone here. It's gonna be awesome. And it was. I had the best time ever. But it was. There was two groups there. It was a school dancer. It was like the girls and the boys are split up. But it was funny seeing like. Like JT was there and he, like, he found my. My Air Force buddy, and they just start talking about Air Force stuff the whole time. Like, people started connecting. It was. It was hilarious, and I loved it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know how to talk about the nasdaq.

[Fat Electrician]

What caliber is that?

[Brandon Herrera]

But, yeah, we had.

[Matt Carriker]

We had an AT4 rocket tube. We put a beer bong in it and we called it the Beer Zooka. And it was awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think all of us pulled from it.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I mean, I got like my accountant friends to take beer zookas, you know, like, we had. We had my. My family doctor Beer Zooka. It was awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

The dichotomy of, man. Like, what the.

[Brandon Herrera]

We really did, like, it felt like having split personalities.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, it's like Spartacus where all the wealthy Romans are throwing a party and they bring in the gladiators. It's like a sideshow.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

You can tell who's on YouTube because, like, all those guys have sleeves, hand tattoos, not a lawyer.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hey, someone talks about that, like, getting like, neck tattoos or something. Because it's like, just so you know, we're never going back to a real job.

[Fat Electrician]

That was my commitment when I got these. I'm never going back.

[Matt Carriker]

Exactly, dude.

[Cody]

That's why I get hand tattoos now. I'm not doing that again.

[Fat Electrician]

Confrontational.

[Brandon Herrera]

Never not work for myself ever again.

[Matt Carriker]

Like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just can't.

[Fat Electrician]

It was like, worst case scenario, I'm going to open up my own electrician shop and I'm still going to work for myself. Oddly enough, when the power is out, you don't care how many tattoos the guy has that shows up to turn the lights back on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Although I did see a guy in Vegas who really made that commitment, like, harder than I've ever seen. Passed him in the grocery store, had SS runes tattooed on his. His neck. Like, man, that guy better be self employed. Or he's just not employed.

[Fat Electrician]

He's a roofer, works for the gas company.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm a God damn dog.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's a train engineer.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, Cody. Everyone's like, I'm pee. Awesome. Do you have to pee?

[Matt Carriker]

I actually do have to pee, but you guys are going to be so lonely without me now.

[Eli Double Tap]

We'll go pen pee too. I actually have to pee. I'm drinking more than I usually. I was like, oh, I. I don't drink.

[Matt Carriker]

I had a water bottle before this and now I'm like, yeah, I got a pee.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now we get asked the fun questions like, what was the worst moment in all of demo history? We talked about one. Which I.

[Matt Carriker]

That's probably what I'll bring up again.

[Eli Double Tap]

But your perspective is quite nice on the subject.

[Matt Carriker]

Let's do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Uhoh. What is it?

[Matt Carriker]

I'm. We're going.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it's already rolling, dog. We don't hit pause.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, my. I mean, well, I don't know, maybe it's just feels like the worst moment because it was the most recent, but yeah, it was a Trump shooting on it. Yeah, well, I mean it really was like, I don't want to be associated with this, but for some reason I'm associated with it. And so it's.

[Fat Electrician]

Hey, that was my worst moment too.

[Matt Carriker]

Why was that? Your.

[Fat Electrician]

Because I had just taken a loan out against my house and spend a significant amount of money to buy into your company. And literally 30, 36 hours later I was like, oh no, I'm gonna lose my house.

[Matt Carriker]

Well, that was so my. So I. One of my like really good friends is an attorney and so we do all like our contracts through him. And he calls me and he's like, hey, I talked to one of my like big attorney friends and he was like, you could get the first thing. He goes, he said, hey, are all of your guns legal? And I was like, yeah. And he goes, oh, good, good, good, good. I was like, why?

[Eli Double Tap]

First call, everything's happening. You're like, buh.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, like my attorney friend calls me. It was like two days later or something. So it all like we had been.

[Brandon Herrera]

Watching why you pause?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. And he was like, he was like, yeah. He said good. And I was like, why? And he goes, well, because you're probably going to get. They're going to get a warrant and come like, look through all your stuff. And I'm like, why? And he's like, like, just because it's a big like nation worldwide, you know, thing and they're going to want to make sure that you had any involvement with it. I was like, because he wore my T shirt. He's like, he's just Saying they might. And I'm like, well, that's gonna suck.

[Cody]

Just to preface the conversation, if you guys haven't seen yet, we talked about it with Clinton, Jenna, last night, like, there was a person who shot at the sitting president and was wearing one of Matt's shirts.

[Brandon Herrera]

The star of Beavis and Butt Head.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, well, and he was wearing one of the shirts that, like, our most popular shirt, the one I've worn the most, like a gray shirt that just says demolition.

[Cody]

Demolition.

[Matt Carriker]

We have. We have sold so many of that shirts. So many of those shirts. All you guys have had one of those shirts.

[Brandon Herrera]

And like, immediately after, I think we all did videos like in that show, just out of solidarity.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, I mean, and we, like, I. I was going over one of my buddy's houses.

[Brandon Herrera]

Solidarity for you, for the record. Just throwing that out there because Sabotaging.

[Cody]

Future Brandon again, politics, bringing it out.

[Brandon Herrera]

And they feel the need to clarify.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just like, Brandon really think, oh, dang it.

[Matt Carriker]

Well, that's gonna get clipped out of context. No, I was, I was going over to a guy's house that night just to hang out, and he was like, man, did you hear about this Trump shooting? I was like, no. And I like, he tells me like, yeah, some guy took a shot at Trump. And I was like, that's crazy. And that's all we knew. And then like two hours later, my brother texts me and he's like, have you seen this? And sends me a screenshot. He was the first one that let me know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Drew.

[Fat Electrician]

Drew Ski?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, Drew Ski. He was the first one to let me know. He like, sends me. He's like, have you seen this? And I was like, that's not real. Where'd you get that? Where'd you get that picture? And he like, he's like, it's the one they're showing. And I look it up and I'm like, that is for sure one of my shirts.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't believe it at first.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I was like, there's no way. Like, that's insane. And it. It was insane and it had happened and it's crazy. But, yeah, it sucked. Like, you know, the news is talking about the guy's name and Trump and.

[Eli Double Tap]

Me and your militia.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, this alt, right, Militia.

[Cody]

Yeah, of course. The biggest two way YouTubers in the world.

[Brandon Herrera]

This militia journalist, man.

[Matt Carriker]

We don't.

[Cody]

We don't bully them enough.

[Brandon Herrera]

They don't go to heaven.

[Matt Carriker]

I did talk to the FBI. They did call, like weeks later. Like, it was like months later. It was like two months later they called like, they never did an investigation. I never got a warrant. They never looked through anything. I think someone probably was like, that doesn't make any sense. That's stupid. But the FBI did reach out just to like chat and they, they said, well, you know, like the guy was like looking through your videos, like to learn how to like shoot guns and stuff and blah. And I went, wait, what? I was like, what do you mean? You know that? Because no one's ever told me that before. And she goes, well, no, I was just saying maybe that was happen. That's what happened. I was like, so why did you say that?

[Fat Electrician]

And she's like, I, I love all the gun youtubers looking how to shoot guns efficiently is not what I would go to your channel.

[Matt Carriker]

But that's what she said. And I was like, why did you say that? And she was like, oh, I don't know. I mean it was just like, I just thought maybe. I was like, did someone say that they found that out? Like, I don't know. She was like, no, I'm not on the case, I have no idea. And I was like, did he wear.

[Eli Double Tap]

A jeans to snap a ball?

[Cody]

Brandon in his, In Brandon's.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the one thing would wear if they watched your videos.

[Matt Carriker]

What you say I just wore a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Can of beans on my chest. Stop around if you shot me.

[Matt Carriker]

That's a demo armor.

[Cody]

So for like, like I, I would like to say we're all professional shooters here. In Brandon's video, how hard was it to recreate just shooting the ear?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, well, cuz you had those like leftist conspiracy theories where he's like, oh, well, it was planned. He just wanted to get nicked in the ear, whatever. Literally impossible. Like not, not like it's a hard shot. It's literally not safe because you, you.

[Cody]

Did it from 10ft away and you had to do it what, three, three times?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, because you're talking about like MOA. So it's like one inch at 100 yards. He was shooting at like 150 yards.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, the gun he was using, wind, all these variations.

[Brandon Herrera]

The gun he was using is like maybe like three moa. Two moa, the dot, he's using two extra moa. Like all these things on top of it.

[Matt Carriker]

Putting it on a sloped roof on a mag. It is. He didn't have a tripod or anything. Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's on those scary sloped roofs.

[Matt Carriker]

He's bouncing on a mag while he's stressed because he knows people are yelling at him from the ground.

[Cody]

Like, totally, like, accidentally killed that poor dude in the audience.

[Eli Double Tap]

But. But stacking what you're saying it is. So you got like a machine is precision shooting with that weapon, that optic. There's 5 inch variation every single shot, and that's being, like, gracious.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. If you were a fucking computer, like, if you were a Terminator level, level shooter and doing like, the best possible. No human.

[Fat Electrician]

No human error. Literally, the air in the machinery and the physics is bigger than your head.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's an impossible shot to fake, which is. It was just so stupid. You get all these people that don't know shack shit about guns that start going on their soapbox.

[Fat Electrician]

And then you get people on Twitter just clipping the slow mo footage. Being like a YouTuber proved that it was a fake shot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Even that video, remember I said I was like, you're gonna have. You should use a piece of ham for the ear because people are gonna see the ballistic gel ripple. Yeah, that was one of my things. I said during that video. I was like, ah, they're gonna see the ripple and be like, see, it's fake.

[Brandon Herrera]

And.

[Matt Carriker]

Sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dipshits.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ear tissues.

[Fat Electrician]

Cartilage, completely different cartilage, a little bit different density than human skin.

[Brandon Herrera]

You don't hate journalists enough?

[Cody]

Yeah, dude. You get these journalists who had never done any kind of shooting, which we saw from, like, people we've had out the range before, never done any type of shooting, and they're like, no, it's fake. This is all fake.

[Eli Double Tap]

The. What was the part where you were like, oh, this is. It's not. It's not gonna be that bad.

[Matt Carriker]

It was. It was two weeks later, I think, and, like, I was. I was actually pretty stressed for two weeks because I don't want to be so associated with that. That sucks. You know, like, someone died also. It was just like a bad deal all around. But it was two weeks later and everyone just forgot about it. Like, everybody was really like, we had reporters coming to my house. We had reporters to your house.

[Fat Electrician]

We had the second and third assassination, which really helped you out.

[Matt Carriker]

We had someone come into our house. We had people calling, like, reporters calling my phone and sending us messages and calling our work line and, like, all. All these people bugging us until I put out the video that literally just said, yeah, we. We didn't know him. I don't, you know, support this.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't have a militia.

[Matt Carriker]

I've never talked to him. We don't. We don't want this. And I was like, he literally just bought a Shirt online. We, like, he didn't come to our store. We shipped it to him. And then everyone stopped talking to us. But they were still talking about us a little bit. And then like, two weeks later, the world forgot about it and they went on to this next thing. It was literally two weeks and no one talked about it anymore.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know if I ever told you this. I had reporters that I knew, like, had people that I had coordinated with from the campaign that were calling me about that, getting comment and shit like that.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, well, it was like.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was a media.

[Matt Carriker]

The reason. Yeah, they were doing that because they had no information they wanted. They were interested in me because they had no information. It was like, this is a guy. He. He was this old. Here's his name, and he was wearing a demolition ranch shirt. So they were like, that's our only lead. We have to call Matt that. You know, like, they had. Like, really, if you think about it, we got no information on the guy. We still don't know motive. Right. I don't know if they ever came out with, like, why. Why he did it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Incel looking head ass. I don't know.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

And so that was all they had. And then they. They.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sorry, was that.

[Cody]

I don't know. He could have touched grass and talked to women a little bit more, and then he probably wouldn't have done that, you know, Shinzo Abe type on that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shinzo Abe grind set. Yeah, I. I loved all the memes that were like, Shinzo, like, curving the bullet. The bullet like. Like that. It was just like, Donaldson duck.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't.

[Cody]

I. Come on. That's. That's the. Oh, my soapbox. My dad's soapbox again. That's a problem with youth right now. What did Shinzo say? Touch grass, Go out in the sun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Talk to girls in real life.

[Cody]

Yeah, talk to girls. What they do. They killed him.

[Eli Double Tap]

Touch a grass, eat a s.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. Talk to real women. Touch grass. And they're like. The Japanese youth was like, it's easier to kill you. They shot him.

[Eli Double Tap]

We always say, like, two weeks on the Internet in, like, just shut the fuck up for two weeks. Or do a really good message. And you're like, hey, yeah, you don't.

[Cody]

You don't fucking talk about it. Like, Because I went through that a couple of years ago.

[Eli Double Tap]

He did. He did.

[Cody]

And then I got. I got banned for it off Twitch for really.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't think that.

[Cody]

I think two weeks. But what. What I did was not address it.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. I mean, I never Knew I didn't do anything wrong.

[Cody]

So I'm not going to apologize for my words.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I stood, I, I text you. I was like, do not apologize. Just two weeks is going to be gone.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then that's the. That kills me though is like people don't understand context matters. Cuz you weren't saying it in the, the context of like you were trying to put someone down or like it was like it wasn't a hate crime time. No, you're making a joke to a friend. That matters. To me.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was to my gay girlfriend.

[Brandon Herrera]

Notorious trans woman.

[Cody]

Yeah, the girl. My best friend.

[Matt Carriker]

But in like a gay way.

[Cody]

Yeah, but no, like, like, like what you were saying, dude, when it comes down to it, like just don't address it because the people that make the headlines are just pieces of y.

[Matt Carriker]

We almost didn't like, we thought, do we need to do this? I was like, I feel like I just need to like at least tell people I don't know him. I don't know anything about him. He just bought a shirt.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, it had to be a mixed bag seeing how many views that.

[Matt Carriker]

Video got so quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the CPMs are broke. He was like, I'm going to do a second video.

[Cody]

Yep.

[Matt Carriker]

What's weird is, yeah, like it was definitely bad. We didn't want that. But then like, views are fun. So like it was, I was like, I was like, yikes, I hope this never happens again.

[Fat Electrician]

Matt dabbled in the dark side of the forest.

[Matt Carriker]

Lord, why?

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you hear me?

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

I was like, this is the toughest.

[Eli Double Tap]

Battles.

[Brandon Herrera]

To his strongest youtubers.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't like it, but like, look how many views I got. That's crazy. We went ahead and never talked about it again.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I was telling, I think we were talking about it yesterday where like you just sent that message to like all of our group chat. There's like all the, all the, the YouTubers. I guess in this group you're just like sent the picture of the shirt and you're like, chad, am I cooked?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I was, I was cooked for a couple weeks and then everyone forgot about it. So it was perfect.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, you didn't do anything wrong.

[Matt Carriker]

That's what it was. They like. I was just, I was worried like it would just kill everything and everybody would, you know, like, I don't know. I don't really know what I thought would happen. Like just the, the, the time sink if I had to like go through a FBI investigation would have sucked and just the stress of that.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I mean A president being shot's a thing that hasn't happened in our lifetime, right?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, what is the, the rule book for that?

[Matt Carriker]

Right? Yeah. I had no idea what to worry about, but I was worried about it and yeah, it, it turned out for me fine in the end. It was just a weird, A weird time.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, the other thing is, like, if you were like some crazy person that was like anti gun, anti Trump, blah, blah, blah, blah, it's like it would make more sense. And you wanted to like make guns look bad and you got on the Internet was like, google biggest gun influencer. Like, you're definitely one of the names that popped up. So, like, it would make sense to buy your shirt if you were trying.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like we said, or if you're just trying to blend into a crowd of Trump people.

[Fat Electrician]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, there's, there's so many things and like, I think I said it the other day, like, we don't know what's going through this kid's head other than 300 win mags. So, like, there's no way to know.

[Cody]

Which, by the way, that gun is awesome.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think there's some controversy that that wasn't the one that was actually used.

[Cody]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

It might have been like, they said it might have been a SWAT sniper that was using 308. But the Secret Service 300 win mag is dope as fuck.

[Cody]

Yeah. Which one, which one did you buy to make that video with $15,000 gun?

[Brandon Herrera]

It better have been the one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which one did you buy first?

[Brandon Herrera]

It was. Well, it was the accuracy international one. And then I texted it to Eli. I was like, yeah, I just bought this to make it because I bought it from Euro Optic. And I'm like, oh, shit, perfect. They've got that one in stock. Awesome. And Eli's like, do you do. Did you mean to buy the left handed version?

[Matt Carriker]

Oh my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

The gun alone, not the optic. It's like $11,000.

[Matt Carriker]

I was like, and how are you gonna sell that?

[Brandon Herrera]

I got, luckily Euro Optic Shout Out. They have awesome customer service. I was able to get them on the phone super quick and they swapped out the order.

[Matt Carriker]

I was lucky that you didn't realize that when you got it.

[Brandon Herrera]

That would have been rough. Like.

[Matt Carriker]

Or he's coming over the gun this way.

[Fat Electrician]

Speaking of bunker obligatory bunker's not going anywhere, right?

[Matt Carriker]

True. Yes.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay, good.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is actually an announcement of that closing.

[Brandon Herrera]

That would be really nice.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I didn't think about that in the first video that I like, didn't address that. It was like, so is Bunker gone too? And I'm like, oh, no, no. Hey, Bunker's fine. Everything's fine.

[Cody]

How many influencers do you guys have now? If I can ask that?

[Brandon Herrera]

40?

[Cody]

A little over 70.

[Eli Double Tap]

70.

[Fat Electrician]

It, yeah, it's cranking, paving the way for everybody else. Feel like he shirt company is started in your garage.

[Matt Carriker]

Isn't that crazy?

[Eli Double Tap]

Genius.

[Brandon Herrera]

It literally, it feels like the New Avengers where you're like Captain America walking off into the sunset. You give your shield to a black guy, and now you got all these.

[Cody]

Other people that are you giving your shield to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cole on that would be so funny.

[Matt Carriker]

Hit me up.

[Fat Electrician]

And then he gets on and says that Captain America doesn't represent America.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was so stupid.

[Fat Electrician]

Have you seen that?

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

Did an interview where he's like, yeah, I don't think that Captain America really represents America to me.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's a lot of.

[Matt Carriker]

Evans.

[Fat Electrician]

No, the guy replacing him, Anthony Mackie.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's a lot of things I think Captain America can represent. I don't think America is one of them. I'm like, it's literally one of the two words.

[Cody]

So.

[Eli Double Tap]

It'S his last name.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, he's, he's old lady. America's son.

[Brandon Herrera]

America comma, Captain.

[Cody]

John C. America. Come on, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's those colors. They, they mean nothing. Everything.

[Fat Electrician]

The shield, no, the outfit, not. All right, whatever, homie.

[Matt Carriker]

Bunker. Sticking around.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's good.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, no change there. Gonna keep, it's, it's gonna keep getting bigger, I think.

[Eli Double Tap]

What is your. You were in the YouTube game for 15, 16 years.

[Matt Carriker]

I started, I actually looked this up. I, I, I started in 2007, which was 18 years ago, but I was just like, I was dinking around on it back then.

[Fat Electrician]

I was in eighth grade. No big deal.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I was, I was in Iraq.

[Matt Carriker]

I was, I was a college student. I was in Iraq.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was in seventh grade.

[Fat Electrician]

Eli. I was getting shot at for college that I never went to. We were, I did, I did a one on one interview with Eli just about me or whatever. And I was like, yeah, I have like, I have like two associates degrees or whatever. I had no idea you had a college education. I was like, it's an associate's degree. It's not that, it's not that big of a deal. I didn't even graduate high school. It's a huge deal. And I was like, you should go back to GED's. GED classes, but pull up in your McLaren. That would be hilarious.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just resuming an old save.

[Fat Electrician]

My character's Maxed out. Just like. Eli pulls up to community college to take entrepreneurship in this McLaren, a glowing orange legendary item.

[Cody]

Dude, we talked about it for a while. Just doing the hazbabs between the group.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's still great.

[Cody]

Do that. What does AS stand for? I don't remember anymore.

[Fat Electrician]

Vocational.

[Brandon Herrera]

Whatever the IQ test slash SAT for. To figure out what job you take in military.

[Cody]

Yeah, to get in the military. And so we talked about. Thought all of us should take the ASVAB and see what our scores are at now.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're gonna be great.

[Matt Carriker]

What is it? Is it testing over, like, stuff you learn in school, or is it just.

[Cody]

Like, how, you know, mix of stuff?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, it's like. It's like a mix of, like, an SAT test and, like, a general IQ test. So, like, when I took mine, I remember there being, like, diagrams of, like, pulleys and levers, and it would be like, if we turn pulley A, what would be the outcome of the lever at C or whatever. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I think there's even questions in there about, like. And I've never taken it, but, like, I've heard, like. Like, the difference between, like, Phillips and flathead screwdrivers.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And, like, general life.

[Cody]

For. For us, it's easy as.

[Eli Double Tap]

But then a lot of people.

[Cody]

Eli pulls up and his McLaren to take it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I leave the podcast to go become a part of the patriot missile program.

[Eli Double Tap]

So 17 or 18 years.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, yeah, we got way off that.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. I love it.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. I started just dinging around 18 years ago. What was your first video? It's. It's like me and I had a 95 Corvette, and me and my college buddies would take our cars to the drag strip and just, like, drive around or we did some drifting at this little elementary school across the street from my house.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's really cool that you didn't watch his video where he talks about all this.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. And so it was like. That was literally. It just shitty videos.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, terrible.

[Matt Carriker]

My face wasn't on it. I didn't talk. It was just. Someone filmed my car as I did a drag, and that was it. Those are my videos. There's terrible. Like, I was just uploading for my friends to see.

[Cody]

Was. Was your. Your big, like, the thing that blew you up? Was it the shotgun shell thing?

[Matt Carriker]

It was a bunch of little things. Also, if you would have watched my video, you would know.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Cody]

I don't watch your show.

[Matt Carriker]

Thanks, dude. Also, you guys are wearing the exact same thing right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just backed you up, man.

[Matt Carriker]

What I know, but I just noticed again, again, like, I snap green shirt.

[Brandon Herrera]

At least it's not the same brand. We do that again. We don't coordinate it.

[Matt Carriker]

It was a bunch. This was Saturday. Oh, my gosh. How do y'all do that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Intuition.

[Cody]

I feel like, would it be more gay to text you and be like, green shirt today?

[Brandon Herrera]

The amount of times you text me where you're just like, by the way, I'm wearing green. I'm like, that's cool.

[Matt Carriker]

Never mind. But no, we had. We had a bunch of little videos that went viral, like, over the years. And so everyone would just knock me up another level, basically.

[Cody]

Because the one that got me on you when it was like, I think was like, 2008, 2009. It was the shotgun show.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes.

[Cody]

What are some of the other ones, though?

[Matt Carriker]

So the one before that was. Was a baby deer playing with a. With my family's dog. We called it dog versus deer. And my sister, very 2007 YouTube title. That's all you had to title things back then. And my brother found this baby deer.

[Brandon Herrera]

Not clickbait, gone sexual.

[Matt Carriker]

My brother brought this baby deer home. My little sister raised it, bottle fed it, raised it with our family dog. They just played all the time. She recorded it one time. Super cute. I was like, let me put that on my YouTube channel. I put it on there. It went viral. It went on Ellen DeGeneres. It went on, really? Anderson Cooper. It went on, like, mainstream tv.

[Brandon Herrera]

All the gays loved it.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes. Which was crazy back then to get on mainstream tv. And so we got, you know, a lot of views from that. And I. That was the first time I ever made money on YouTube.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, I was like, this is crazy how much money.

[Cody]

The same story.

[Matt Carriker]

Then that video made me $3,000 total, which, at that time, it makes 700 bucks in one night. Like, literally, I woke.

[Eli Double Tap]

I would.

[Matt Carriker]

I was making sense every. Like, because back then, AdSense, like, update in the morning. So every time I Woke up at 6:00 to go to vet school, I would see, like, how much money I made, made. And it would say, like, 13 cents, 16 cents. Like, it was always just cents. And then I put that video up, and then one day I wake up and it says $793. I'm like, what the shit? Like, I. I was like, there's no way. And so anyway, over a few years, it made, like, $3,000 total. But, yeah, I kept making videos. And then a couple years later, I made custom homemade shotgun shells just for fun. And it went Viral and like the big gun YouTube channels at the time. IREC veteran and funker 5:30. Like, they reposted it and, like, shared it, which was crazy to me. And then I had another viral video and then another viral video. And just like every time I just bump up a level and get a new wave of subscribers and.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I. I know and love Eric from iv.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it's very, very funny for. For you to be talking about him, like all the big, big guys. You of all people.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, but big guys, he was. He was so much bigger than me. Like, I remember Bunker and Eric and Military Arms Channel, and those were Richard Ryan.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Huge. And I was tiny and it was like. I remember the first time 22 Plinkster invited me to Tennessee. That was the first person I ever collabed with was 22 Plinkster.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really?

[Matt Carriker]

And I started talking with him and he was like, yeah, come up. And I was like, okay. So I took my first YouTube paid trip. Like, not. They didn't pay for. I paid for it, but I was like, I'm paying for a work trip. This is cool. Cool. And I went to Tennessee and he got Hickok to come up too, which Hickok was giant, both in stature and in YouTube views. And.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, he's like a Transformer when you stand next to him.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, so like six, five.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like seven foot.

[Matt Carriker]

No, he's like. He's like six, eight, I think.

[Eli Double Tap]

Same height as you.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, same as me. His son is a foot. A foot inch taller. He's like 6 9, which is what I am.

[Brandon Herrera]

You can see them on a crowd. Like if you're at a YouTube range day kind of thing.

[Matt Carriker]

You big dudes and. But yeah, I'm sitting there eating pizza with 22 plinkster in his house, and someone just walks in the door. And he hadn't told me that Hickok was coming over. I was like, hickok is here. And I had like 60,000 subscribers at this time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who's that bending under the doorway?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. So it was really cool for me is to see these big guys that, you know, later we passed up. But, like, I remember them all when they were huge and I just looked up to them.

[Eli Double Tap]

No shit. Because I remember when you came on the corridor shoot, you even excited because Freddy was there.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, yeah. Freddie was one of those channels that I watched a ton. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you're an OG YouTuber, like, Freddy.

[Matt Carriker]

Was, it was so cool to see, you know, Sam and Nico and all those guys that I'd Watched forever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

And they used one frame of your face.

[Matt Carriker]

And I was in there for a second. I was there all day to get my four seconds. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

What was this?

[Matt Carriker]

What was the reloads.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, three reloaded.

[Matt Carriker]

Three tactical reloads. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

This is so funny to me, cuz I'm 2 degrees removed. Because like they look up to you and like I looked up to them. And Cody was the first one that I ever collabed with on YouTube when he brought me on on Sub.

[Matt Carriker]

So it's just like different era now.

[Fat Electrician]

You know, I'm watching my dad talk about my grandpa.

[Matt Carriker]

Damn it.

[Fat Electrician]

That's how I knew it.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a very incestuous community now that.

[Matt Carriker]

I think about it.

[Fat Electrician]

Dad and grandpa read this right now. It's very exciting to me.

[Eli Double Tap]

So heavy.

[Matt Carriker]

I'm on my deathbed right now and you're, you're, you're the kid coming in. You're just like, grandpa's weird. I don't want to be here. I want to go play Game Boy.

[Fat Electrician]

Die.

[Eli Double Tap]

Already getting a selfie.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't worry, I'm going to haunt you. On episode 300.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh no.

[Fat Electrician]

They're telling all these stories I've never heard before. And I'm like, oh, Grandpa was way cooler than I thought he was.

[Matt Carriker]

Grandpa used to be cool.

[Fat Electrician]

Like my dad's cool to me, but he learned all that from Grandpa.

[Brandon Herrera]

Awesome.

[Cody]

Who convinced you to do long form?

[Fat Electrician]

Cody?

[Cody]

Thank you, God. Decision that, like I think you've ever, you've ever made.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you know why you have 45 minute fat electrician videos? Because it was your first trip down, I think.

[Fat Electrician]

No, it was a while later that he really talked me into doing long form. I just, I, I'll never forget, like just how it all started. Just Cody hit me up on Instagram. So. Dm. Hey, friend. I was like, hey, what's up? And he goes, you want to come on my podcast? Sure. And that was the, that was it. And now I'm here. It's kind of crazy for me, but.

[Brandon Herrera]

I remember having that. We. We had that conversation over at the. The Wing Joint.

[Matt Carriker]

The.

[Brandon Herrera]

I, I don't remember where the. That like bullied me into doing long.

[Fat Electrician]

Form content a hundred percent.

[Cody]

And then now, now, now the main YouTube channel I watch is you. Yep. Fat Files. Like, I, I love your main channel, but Fat Files is so good. Like listening about Costco and like Chick Fil A and all this. It's so good.

[Brandon Herrera]

Firearms Direct Club.

[Fat Electrician]

I didn't think anybody would. Yeah. Also Pepper Box Exclusive. I did a whole video on Firearms Direct Club. Some crazy got involved. Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

And what's crazy is I haven't watched any of those fat files. I. I don't know what my grandson's doing. I don't care.

[Cody]

This is just YouTube generations sitting at this table.

[Brandon Herrera]

It is really funny, but do you remember the first thing you said when, like, you were pushing back on the. The long form?

[Fat Electrician]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

I do. Who's going to watch me that long?

[Fat Electrician]

This is true.

[Matt Carriker]

Isn't that crazy?

[Fat Electrician]

Well, it's weird because, like, the only. So it was like Cody bullying me for like a couple of months about it. Like a couple of trips down to Unsub when I was still just a guest. And then that was like in the back of my mind the whole time. And then we went and my wife gave birth to my second son, Cash. And I was like, I don't have a video planned. Like, I don't have my little three to five minute video with a joke every four seconds planned out. And I don't have time to do it because I've just like been helping my wife who just gave birth the entire time.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, she's so needy.

[Fat Electrician]

And I was like, I, like, so selfish. She was like, you know, you're there for like, like a couple of days when your wife gives birth or whatever. Like a day or two after, like before and after the fact. And I was like sitting there and whenever I wasn't like helping, I was like looking up on Cassius Clay, the guy that we like named my kid after. And I was learning more. I was like, oh, this guy's dope. So I was like, it, I'm just gonna try a long form video where I go over this guy's whole life and we'll see if it goes. And it was like my best performing video.

[Cody]

Brilliant, dude. The Cassius Clay video is awesome, man.

[Fat Electrician]

And then I was like, oh, oh, I should do that more.

[Brandon Herrera]

I would listen to any video you made on any topic. And I think we tested that yesterday. I think I gave you an idea. And you were just like, oh, tell me more. I was like, I'll watch the video when you make a fucking eight hour breakdown of that company.

[Fat Electrician]

That's so funny. Like, there's been comments in my YouTube, like, you know, I don't read all the guy. I try to, but there's so goddamn many. But, you know, you always open up studio and you can see like the top 10 most recent comments or whatever. I've just seen so many videos where I could Literally watch this guy talk about paint drying for some reason.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And I was like, all right, well I guess when are you doing something right?

[Cody]

What are you going to do? Delta guy?

[Fat Electrician]

Which one?

[Cody]

Fucking nerd. The nerd dude.

[Fat Electrician]

Billy Waugh.

[Eli Double Tap]

No famous glasses. Every.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh my Mike Vinyl. He's on the list. He's on the short list. I'm going to like dig into next after I'm working on a big Billy Wah video. And then after that it would probably be him.

[Cody]

Oh yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Billy Wa was like OG Delta boy back in the day. He like wanted to be a paratrooper during World War II, but he was like 12 so they wouldn't let him join. So he like joined for the Korean War when he was 17 and like ended up becoming a Delta guy by like sheer chance.

[Matt Carriker]

How do you find info on these people?

[Fat Electrician]

They're like a lot of them have written books or there's books written about them and like there's declassified documents by this point, but like this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Forbidden novel. Which means he has to read.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

It's horrible.

[Matt Carriker]

Gross.

[Fat Electrician]

He, he, he was operational for 50 plus years and like his, he started in Korea and his final mission was tracking down Osama bin Laden in the Middle east when he was in his 70s.

[Brandon Herrera]

Also known as what they knew him at the time was CIA asset Tim Osman.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's an inside joke.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't even get it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know it happened where we're three.

[Fat Electrician]

Levels deep into the conspiracies thing. That's not an introductory level. Conspiracy.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not a conspiracy when it's objectively true.

[Fat Electrician]

This is also true.

[Eli Double Tap]

650 or 60. How many years was he 50.

[Fat Electrician]

Over 50 years. He was operational, but he was operational into his 70s.

[Eli Double Tap]

I did four.

[Fat Electrician]

He has an interview in his. He has an interview. He passed away last year. But he has an interview from two or three years ago where he's well into the twilight of his life. And I forget who did the interview. It was a fairly big person and he was literally talking about. He tracked down Osama bin Laden on several occasions and on one of them he was in the room with Osama bin Laden, but he didn't have a weapon on him. And he like talks about in detail in his 90s as a 90 year old man talking about back in the day when he was 70, being like God, debating, debating with himself on if he was going to try to kill Osama bin Laden with a pencil because it's all he had and he was heavily considering it kills him with a.

[Brandon Herrera]

Pencil the towers fall. Anyway.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wow, Brandon Hussein over here.

[Cody]

Congratulations on your nine nams.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just, I'm just trying to make Nick laugh at this point is all.

[Eli Double Tap]

Was this is the same dude they caught the Jackal? Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

So he caught the Jackal.

[Eli Double Tap]

And if you don't know, like the Jackal was a. There are movies about him.

[Fat Electrician]

And then the Jackal is legitimately probably the closest living embodiment to a Bond villain that we've had ever. And like he was in, I think he was in Egypt and he just like went down to one of the markets in Egypt and like, that's the Jackal. And like called up his contacts and then he like, like, like scouted and spied on the dude and figured out like, oh, this guy goes to the doctor every week for some injectable medicine that he needs. And they like staged the whole thing where like the doctor's office got cleared out and CIA operatives went in and were the doctors and the nurses and his medicine that he got injected with knocked him out and he just woke up on a plane in handcuffs on his way to France.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really awkward when you just fucking roofie a random Egyptian guy who looks like the Jack.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know what you're talking.

[Matt Carriker]

I'm a carpenter.

[Eli Double Tap]

The guy was like in the Jackal from 1975 or the 70s, was an active assassin doing like high profile missions, which is more insane. Like no one could catch this dude. And then homeboy just ran.

[Fat Electrician]

They were looking for him for years and he just like bumped into him in an Egyptian market.

[Cody]

Synchronicity, buddy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bad. Bad for one.

[Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was your favorite moments and your entire career of YouTube? You have to have a couple of them.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, I have a bunch. It's, it's fun when videos go viral. Like I remember when custom homemade shotgun shells took off. Like, that was, that was crazy. That was when like the dog versus deer. I didn't try to make that one take off that one. Just like surprised. I was like, what the heck is this? And it was fun. But like, then I tried Demolition Ranch. I was trying to like make gun content and like it took off and Gun Channel started sharing it and I like, that was when I finally broke into the world where it's like gun people that I watch are sharing this video and that was like super cool. But then, yeah, there were other highs along the way. Like when we donut and I bent barrels and like that video was like really neat. It took off. Donut didn't bend them. I bent him and he just came.

[Fat Electrician]

For the video, his bare hands.

[Matt Carriker]

But it was like little things like that. Like whenever, like we first collab with all you guys, it's always fun, like meeting y'all and doing something. And the Internet, you know, loves it. They're like, I've been watching both you guys forever and it's so cool to see y'all come together. So, yeah, there's. There's been a bunch of like highs like that where we make a video that just takes off and the comments, I'll tell you, you're awesome and it feels so good.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love the alternative too, where people are like, dude, I love your content. You should collab with Demo Ranch.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, yeah, we should do.

[Brandon Herrera]

For the ninth time.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was your like, One of these.

[Brandon Herrera]

Days Trout will meet Cody.

[Matt Carriker]

Top three favorite moments of the last 15 years.

[Fat Electrician]

YouTube related.

[Matt Carriker]

YouTube related.

[Cody]

Obverse was cool. That was a cool one.

[Matt Carriker]

He's a cool guy. Yeah, he's. He's super fun. I mean, like, that is what's cool about YouTube is you get to meet all these people that you've watched on video and you get to figure out which ones are real and which ones are putting on. Oburst is one of the realest dudes ever. Like, that's just who he is, is. He's just.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who are some of the ones who were putting on.

[Cody]

You're retiring.

[Matt Carriker]

Who gives a. I'm not gonna say it. Not gonna say it. I know one. Well, it's hard.

[Cody]

It's hard too, dude, because like you've been around and met so many cool ass people. It's hard to nail down just like a certain, like two or three.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, well, we've got to do cool stuff that normal people don't get to do, you know, get invited to. To cool things and getting flown all over the place and like got to fly on a private jet with guns. Which was cool one time. Like, that kind of stuff is like so insane to me. And so that was. Those are some cool moments where I just felt like, man, this doesn't make any sense. I don't know how I'm making money doing this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Imposter syndrome.

[Matt Carriker]

100% private jets, real quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Imposter syndrome.

[Matt Carriker]

I feel like I've had that like my whole career. Like, I hope no one figures out that I'm actually a normal guy. Like they're like, yeah, I have all these subscribers. I hope they don't realize that I'm just a normal guy. And they're all going to be like, oh, this Guy's actually kind of lame.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think we've all battled with that.

[Matt Carriker]

At some point, you have to. Yeah. Unless you're a total narcissist and we're all just a little bit of a narcissist, but varying degrees.

[Cody]

I don't know. Just like. Like, grown up. What? Poor as shit. And then just like, suddenly you're hanging out with all the cool people we get to hang out with every day. You're going to experience a little bit of imposter syndrome.

[Brandon Herrera]

Even in D.C. the other day for the inauguration, like, I. To, like, a party I was invited to, and I get flashbanged. The first people. I'm dead serious. The first humans I see are like, Charlie Kirk, the Speaker of the House, like, three senators. And I'm just like, I am in the wrong room.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Like, how'd I get here?

[Brandon Herrera]

This makes no sense.

[Eli Double Tap]

Never felt that before.

[Fat Electrician]

Mine was Salt Lake City. The first time I went out with you guys for the. The Zidax event where I was like, hey, did you want to go to the club with Chuck Liddell with us? I was like, yeah, it's like the guy from like. Like Chuck Liddell, the guy Exile commercials I watched on Spike tv. Yeah, I do actually.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, that was me last year when Chuck Liddell came to my property. Junior Dos Santos was there. Goldberg was there.

[Fat Electrician]

Same one.

[Matt Carriker]

Because, like, Undertaker was there. I was like, these guys are all just standing on my land at this big thing we did. This is. Is insane, dude.

[Fat Electrician]

I went up. I've. I've. Like, I've never walked up at one of those events because I don't want to be lame asking for autographs. And the only time I've asked for, like, an autograph and a picture from somebody was Undertaker. I walked up. You were on my backpack for, like, seven years. It's really cool to see you.

[Brandon Herrera]

And in person, he's based as hell.

[Fat Electrician]

He's cool as all those guys are.

[Eli Double Tap]

Goldberg, like, Goldberg's like, again, Bill. Bill is one of the nine. The nicest guys you will ever meet, but all the same age, kind of like within a decade. And he's been a giant part of probably most of our lives.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're like, and he's so nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

Call me Bill, please.

[Cody]

Well, it's like being around people like that, like, what. What did he. What did he do? He. He played for Georgia, and then he played, like, professional football. And then he got into. Got into doing the wrestling thing.

[Fat Electrician]

Then he was on the Longest Yard.

[Cody]

Yeah, we. Yeah, we make silly YouTube videos. So just being around dudes like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then. He was Jewish Santa.

[Cody]

Yeah, he was Jewish Santa. Well, it's just like being around dudes like that, it's like, holy. What did I do right?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, it doesn't feel like that's how we should be. But they're all normal. That's what I've learned too, is everyone's normal. Everyone is a person. What?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't. Everyone's normal.

[Matt Carriker]

Everyone. Okay, how about not everyone's normal? Everyone is a human being. Yeah, no one's.

[Fat Electrician]

Except for communist.

[Matt Carriker]

No one's special.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like 90. I meant by that, 90 of, like, the actors, YouTubers, whatever. Like, they're pretty. Like, you get that 10 that you're just like, dude, that guy's a animal. What the.

[Matt Carriker]

Yep, that's true.

[Cody]

Eli. Eli, tell us. Tell. Come on. You gotta. You gotta have a celebrity you met, and you're like, this person's weird.

[Brandon Herrera]

Crazy. Yeah, like a crazy person.

[Cody]

Because you were. You were in the game long before we were. Because you did the History Channel show. Like, you did all your stuff stuff before you ever met.

[Eli Double Tap]

Arnold was the only one. And. But super nice dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Schwarzenegger.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, but meeting him was the weirdest. Like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't even know that ever happened.

[Cody]

Yeah, I didn't know that one either.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, what?

[Eli Double Tap]

Chase, pull it up. Have photos of that one.

[Cody]

Oh, you.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was me moving to la. And within three months, like, hey, you're gonna VFX supervise on a commercial.

[Matt Carriker]

Cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sounds good. Boom. Show up, reading, script trip. And it's for a British company. I'm like, oh, okay. What is it? Okay, there's a lizard of some kind or something like, got it, got it. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is like, oh, it's British. They're just going to vfx like Arnold or something like that. And then Arnold rolls up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Walks up.

[Eli Double Tap]

His director is like, yo, what? Like, we have actually Arnold. Arnold. He's like, oh, yeah, that's. That is part of this. So you're just gonna be. Talk to him. Like, blah, blah, cool. Did my job the entire day. Gotta watch how Hollywood interacted with a dude to that level. And then got to see a completely different level.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, you look like my housekeeper.

[Eli Double Tap]

You mow my yards.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's a little bit more threatening if you know the story of this housekeeper.

[Eli Double Tap]

But it was like, they don't even have a.

[Matt Carriker]

They have standards.

[Eli Double Tap]

They have everything. And then a stylist on set for specifically him on that scene to trim his hair proper.

[Fat Electrician]

I was like, gotta do blackface for bodybuilders. Just right.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then walking up, I was like, hey, man, can I get a. His security got along with. They were all soldiers like previous, so got along with them. And then I was like, hey, can I ask him for a photo at the end of the day? Because no one. That's a big no. No. A lot of times he's like, oh, yeah, actually, yeah, do it, bro. Went and say, hey, man. I straight up got nervous on that.

[Matt Carriker]

Was like, hey, can I have a photo?

[Fat Electrician]

He's like, yeah, come here, bro. Like, look what you do with the troops.

[Eli Double Tap]

They snapped it for me and went about my business.

[Matt Carriker]

That's cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wild. Wild but normal.

[Matt Carriker]

I. I don't know. I got lucky.

[Eli Double Tap]

I got surrounded by a great group of dudes for who I've met. And for the most part.

[Matt Carriker]

Not too many.

[Eli Double Tap]

My.

[Fat Electrician]

I think, I think mine's Nico for sure. Cuz, like, I was off the Internet for like 10 years straight, like, doing all and call. Yeah. And like, when I first got on Tik Tok, like, Nico was by far and away the biggest military content creator on Tik Tok. So he was like, massive. And then we met him in Salt Lake City and you guys were there, and I was like, on edge about that. I was like, I don't think I'm going to like Nico Ortiz. Like, we're not going to get along. He's not going to like me. Whatever, whatever. And like, I remember that. I remember the second I fell in love with Nico Ortiz, because, like, I remember there was a bunch of college frat kids at the pool table, and you had already went and set your quarters down to play next and. Which is like the international symbol for, like, I have next. And they were trying to cut you in line and Cody was like, fairly aggressive. Cody was sitting there stewing.

[Brandon Herrera]

We were going to get in a.

[Fat Electrician]

Fight about the potential potential of these college kids cutting him in line. And Nico was also not stewing, but, like, he was very alert. And I walked up to Nico, I was like, what's going on? He goes, oh, I think Cody's about to get in a fight. And if that happens, I'm double leg drop kicking that guy first.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, his content. I was like, man, I wasn't sure I was going to get along with him. I was like, man, I don't know. Like, it seems like his personality, like, based on his personality online. I'm like, man, I don't know if we're gonna vibe. And he's like the nicest human who has ever lived. And I. I literally. He was one of those guys where I felt embarrassed that I thought I wouldn't like Sam.

[Matt Carriker]

You prejudged same.

[Eli Double Tap]

When we invited him on the first charity stream he did. He killed on the charity stream. He raised the second most, I think. And again, it was. I did not know about the tick tock. So I just went off. Invite him off of Twitch was like a 150 live viewership. And then his YouTube was at like 50,000. Text him on IG is like, hey, man, bub, love what you're doing here. Hit me up. And he's like, well, hey, I don't give my number out. Call this number instead. It's my. I was like, who the. This dude? He has like 150 viewers. And then I got on the phone, we're talking. He's like, so what's your main thing? He's like, TikTok. I was like, oh, what are you on TikTok? He's like, 3 million. I was like, I'm so sorry, bro. I was way off of. Now this explains a lot more. Came down. Raised the second most amount of money for veterans and just a good dude. He had a blast. I was like, okay, this is a homie for life.

[Cody]

No, Nico Ortiz is like such a solid guy. And dude, he's crazy on the Internet, but like, you guys seriously follow him. Nico Ortiz is awesome.

[Brandon Herrera]

And he'll. He'll tell it to you. Like it is too. Where he's like, he's not worried about your feelings. Where he's just like, oh, yeah. Like, I was worried I this up. He's like, well, you did, you know, like. But that's cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

We got it. We got it.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're good to work past that. He's like, but you did it up.

[Cody]

Well, he called me and Brandon one day and he's like, you want to go to the bare knuckle fight up in.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it was the Jake Paul fight.

[Cody]

Was it the Jake Paul?

[Brandon Herrera]

I think it was Jake Paul.

[Matt Carriker]

Which one did you go? I went to one of those.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we went. It was the one we saw. Evan Hayford in Ohio. Yeah, yeah, it was in Dallas.

[Matt Carriker]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think. I don't remember.

[Fat Electrician]

I don't know.

[Cody]

Nico. Nico's awesome though. He invited us up to this fight.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it was like, good tickets.

[Fat Electrician]

I can't remember if it was Nico or Jake that was telling me the story about hanging out with Chuck Liddell in Las Vegas where like, they're like, you don't understand Chuck Liddell owns Las Vegas. And, like, I don't know how much of this I can, like, say, so I'm gonna censor, like, the casino name. But he's like. Chuck was driving, and we went to Behind XYZ Casino, and he pulled up to shrubs, like, a wall of shrubs by the sidewalk, but the sidewalk had a cutout, and he called a phone number, and then the shrubs, and he's like. And then he drove his car up in. And it's like a cul de sac of mansions hidden behind XYZ Casino. And we hung out in this house a little bit with some people. I don't know who they are. And then Chuck's like, let's go to this casino. And they walked through. Every security guard knew who he was and just, like, nodded and opened velvet ropes. And then we went on the roof, and a helicopter picked us up and took us to a different casino.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. Maybe. Maybe we all just got lucky with the people we surround ourselves with. But we do know some cool people that are so down to earth. Like, Chuck is one of those guys who's just like. He's probably the chillest legit celebrity I've ever met.

[Cody]

Oh, for sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

He doesn't give a dude.

[Fat Electrician]

No, he's awesome.

[Cody]

He's rad. There's some stories in Key West I can't tell you guys right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't tell the podcast. I can't tell half my Chuck stories. Dude. But he's so nice.

[Fat Electrician]

The imposter syndrome, when you're just like, I cannot believe this is happening right now. The majority of our life now I'm here for this.

[Brandon Herrera]

You go into, like, dial up mode. You're like, I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating.

[Cody]

He's the one that kept me out of the fight at that. That one night, he went up and told the college kids. He's like, this is Cody's table.

[Brandon Herrera]

Weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

They gave up on that.

[Matt Carriker]

Weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was Cody's table after that.

[Fat Electrician]

Also kind of mad. I mean, just gonna throw it out there. If I got in a bar fight with Chuck Liddell, that would be bucket list.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think he said that because we were all chatting because this was, like, an ordeal that happened over the course of 10 minutes. So, like, we're all just, like, having side conversations with, like, all right, well, we're about to throw down. And you're like, yeah, but we're about to throw down with Chuck Liddell.

[Cody]

That's pretty cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Actually.

[Eli Double Tap]

Chuck walks up to Cody. He's like, cody, it's your table. Cody's like, they called you gay.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, even just like. So, like, I was very new at the time. When we went to Salt Lake City, like, that was my first outing literally, other than coming to Unsub, which at the time was in Baddy's dining room or living room or whatever the Giant. And like, we were at that restaurant and Chuck's like, I got a buddy that owns a nightclub. You guys want to go? Like, well, yes, we go and like, this nightclub is packed. And then like, eight security guards literally do this and just compact the crowd and cordoned off this little area, like, for us with some couches and, like, put red velvet ropes up. And I was like, this is wild. And then, like, people start coming back from the kitchen holding coffee tables. And the coffee tables were covered with, like, appetizers and booze. Like, just pre poured shots and beers and just like, setting them by the table. And I was like, what the is happening right now?

[Matt Carriker]

It's crazy that, yeah, chocolate L being somewhere just makes the restaurant owner, the bar owner, like, so excited because, like, chocolate L is there. So. So everything's free for Chuck because he makes all the other dudes want to come hang out at that bar.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is wild. You have that level of like, Chuck and I couldn't even imagine Tom Cruise could call. Oh, yeah, he could call any restaurant. Mom, pop, whatever. He's a, hey, Tom Cruise wants to eat here right now.

[Matt Carriker]

They're like, definitely heading in, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Also specifically with Chuck, all of the bouncers know who he is for obvious reasons.

[Matt Carriker]

So they just think it's cool. Just them. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

When we did the range day after.

[Fat Electrician]

All the bouncers want to get in a bar fight with Chuck Liddell also and the staff. I get home team advantage anywhere I go.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which was basically after the range day.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was one of the craziest shot show experience I think all of us have, that's probably our most wild experiences. But yeah, or you going there and.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, I walked through some casinos with chocolate lunch. That was weird. Actually on the floor shot show, Donald Trump Jr. Was there and I went with him. So we had all the secret service guys around us. It was just me and a couple guys and Donald Trump Jr. And I'm just like, I didn't really know him. I was just following him through. We were all going to the same place and we walked through a whole shot show to go to Zach Brown's booth. And I was like, this is the weirdest shit ever. Like, I have Secret Service walking around like they were around me so that I could go with Donald Trump Jr. To Zach Brown's booth. And I was like, what is happening right now?

[Brandon Herrera]

It feels like Mad Libs.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, this doesn't make sense. Like, yeah, you're adding all those weird things in. We had. Clint was there. We're having this event. Not event. It was like a lock in at Bunker. We were like, let's all go to the Bunker. Just the boys. We're all gonna just drink and hang out.

[Fat Electrician]

A lock in. Like it's church.

[Matt Carriker]

It's. It is that like. Well, I don't know. I don't know.

[Cody]

After the Christmas.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, we weren't that. Now we have had locket. We were just like, we just spin that.

[Fat Electrician]

We all get drunk, read scripts.

[Matt Carriker]

We get drunk and bring air mattresses to Bunker. And we just party until it's late. Then we all sleep on the floor.

[Brandon Herrera]

And go home to the New York Times. The demolition is a cult.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, that's true. But this time we were just. We had a Christmas parade. We put lights all over my five ton. We drove it through Christmas parade. And then we're like, hey, everyone, just come back. We're going to party at Bunker. So we're hanging out at a bunker and JT texts me and he's like, hey, Zach Osborne wants your number or something. And I'm like, cool. I mean, Jack Osborne wants your number. So I'm like, cool. So I started talking to Jack Osborne. He's like, hey, it's my dad Ozzy Osbourne's birthday. And he like, I thought it'd be cool if you'd say happy birthday. I was like, oh my God. Like, Ozzy Osbourne once, like, needs a birthday congratulations from me. And so we were like, well, let's do this big. And I have the 5, 10. We're at the bunker. And I. I was like, clint, what do we have here that we could smash? And Clint's like, well, we got a couple pallets of like water. And I was like, pile it up, let's go. And so we're in the parking lot and I like boosted launch this giant 20,000 pound truck through this giant pile of water bottles. And it goes everywhere. And I'm like, happy birthday, Ozzy. Love you, man. And we send that off. And then like 10 minutes later, Ozzy Osbourne sends us a video message back and it was like, demolition Ranch. I love your show. La la la la la.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I thought it was gonna be, how did you get this number?

[Matt Carriker]

But he Sends us this video and he says. He goes, thank you. He's a little old and a little. A little spacey, but he's like, thank you for the birthday. Congratulations. And he's like, I love your show, Demolition. And, like, me and Clint and all of the Bunker bros are there, we're just like, yeah, it was, like, the coolest thing ever. And then we just partied hard the rest of the night. It was crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Train on 11.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't know this at all.

[Matt Carriker]

It was so cool. And, like, it looked like it was, like, the best thing that ever happened. We just partied so hard the rest of the night. It's like that kind of stuff is all I needed to just feel like on top of the world. Like, that's all I listened to in high school, you know? It was like, black Sabbath, let's go. That's fucking wild. It was so cool. I still got. I'm show my grandkids that video someday.

[Cody]

What are we doing here?

[Matt Carriker]

Who's that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you ever post it?

[Matt Carriker]

No, I never posted it. I've never talked about it online. That's kind of cool. That one was for me.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's kind of cool.

[Matt Carriker]

But now that I'm quitting, everyone can have it.

[Fat Electrician]

Jake Bullet.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, no, that was. That was one that was, like, just a personal one that I thought was so cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's awesome. I didn't even know about that.

[Matt Carriker]

No, I. I've literally never showed anybody.

[Eli Double Tap]

How was that, like, seeing that?

[Cody]

It was crazy. We still say happy birthday. Congratulations.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. That's why we laugh so hard when.

[Cody]

He said, happy birthday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Congratulations, Demolition.

[Matt Carriker]

Demolition. I love your show. It's my kind of show.

[Cody]

It was crazy. And, yeah, like, being in this world, you realize like, how, like, y'all can't go anywhere without being recognized, right? And in the grand scheme of, like, fame, you're not that famous, right? Like, still just a small YouTube thing, but then freaking. The guy who invented heavy metal music.

[Matt Carriker]

The Prince of Darkness.

[Brandon Herrera]

The Prince of Darkness.

[Cody]

The bat biter that Matt ran over a pallet full of water. Like, that's a cool freaking experience.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, I'll send it to y'all. It was fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the closer you get to the top, the smaller the world gets, and it's really creepy.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's wild. That is the first. I'm like, but.

[Brandon Herrera]

But imagine how guys like Brad Pitt feel.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, can he ever go to Olive Garden?

[Eli Double Tap]

Can he go anywhere?

[Matt Carriker]

I was telling someone out this. This week, I actually use Brad Pitt because he's like, he's one of the most popular dudes ever. I was like, yeah, like, I get noticed a lot. You guys get noticed a lot when you're out in the real world. Can you imagine what a top tier, a list celeb gets noticed? But then I was like, what if you're Shaquille O'Neal? You're a top tier guy, but also.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just look different.

[Matt Carriker]

You're giant. Like, you're gonna get noticed anyway because, like, who's that seven foot person over there? You're like, oh, it's freaking Shaq. He's worldwide renowned, and he just looks different than the average person. Like, that guy can never go anywhere. Yeah, you can't have a normal night.

[Brandon Herrera]

He didn't want that fucking gun buyback. Oh, I forgot about that.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, his own gun buyback, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

We all went to Dallas because it was like Shaq's gun buyback. We're just like, where the fuck's Jack?

[Eli Double Tap]

It's nice and warm, not rainy and.

[Matt Carriker]

Cold the entire time.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know.

[Cody]

We're just getting pissed on the whole time. It's cold. That was.

[Brandon Herrera]

That. That was a core memory, though. I enjoyed that with you boys.

[Matt Carriker]

It would have been better with Shaq.

[Brandon Herrera]

But would have been better if you hear Eli's just like, where's my giant black man?

[Eli Double Tap]

Sounds like an Eli thing, dude.

[Cody]

If you guys didn't see that video, that was. That was a fun one. Brandon's Channel two of those buybacks, we.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did one in San Antonio because we're crashing gun buybacks, trying to, like, buy guns from people. And then, like, the first one went really good in San Antonio, and then we went to Dallas to do another one because the video did so well. And it was the one that Shaq sponsored. And we were all just like, dallas, Dallas, Dallas. And then we went and it was just like 30 degrees and pouring rain, like, misting rain.

[Matt Carriker]

The cops kick y'all out pretty quick too, right? Y'all can't stand.

[Cody]

So it's all of us just walking around just freezing our asses off trying to buy guns. It made for some good stories we didn't buy. I don't think we bought that one. No.

[Brandon Herrera]

But we did get to talk to a bunch of people who did and, like, got some good prices on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, the most crazy part was the, like, the pre 86, there was one Uzi, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

That was in San Antonio.

[Eli Double Tap]

San Antonio.

[Cody]

One was the Uzi.

[Brandon Herrera]

A transferable Uzi, new in the box, still in the Styrofoam.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, they Were giving it away at a gun buyback.

[Brandon Herrera]

A machine gun.

[Matt Carriker]

It was for a hundred dollars. Did they sell. It was.

[Cody]

It was an old party, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Cody]

She was like, this is in my husband's closet.

[Matt Carriker]

But she actually sold for like a hundred dollars.

[Brandon Herrera]

For a hundred dollars dollars to the police.

[Matt Carriker]

It was like, can they take a transferable machine gun?

[Brandon Herrera]

Because the police paperwork, they can take anything. So crazy. Legally I don't need.

[Fat Electrician]

I actually.

[Brandon Herrera]

What's that?

[Cody]

30,000. $30,000 minimum.

[Matt Carriker]

I have one that I bought seven years ago and I paid 15 for it. But it's a junkie one. It's not like a name brand one.

[Eli Double Tap]

So we shot that in Dallas when we first flew.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah, yeah. You were there.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh yeah. The triarch.

[Fat Electrician]

You guys did a drive by with a plane.

[Matt Carriker]

Yes, yes. It remember because it didn't run very well.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I just remember outside the gas station with the propane tanks.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Smoking.

[Cody]

Oh gosh.

[Matt Carriker]

That sounds like. That sounds like we had a fortune.

[Cody]

The helicopter event. Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You were there or not there for the.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was there. I wasn't there for the propane. I was there for the.

[Cody]

Who was smoking on top of the propane?

[Matt Carriker]

Alex, Zedra, Leon Lush.

[Cody]

I think it was Leon.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was probably Leon.

[Cody]

Yeah. Because we're all. We're all.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you know this.

[Cody]

This is the first time.

[Fat Electrician]

I know, but trust me, Leon watch would be smoking on top of a.

[Brandon Herrera]

This was the first ever time really, like met man.

[Matt Carriker]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cody]

It was a triarch helicopter shooting event.

[Matt Carriker]

Do they still make guns?

[Fat Electrician]

I rode up with you.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

We rode up to together.

[Matt Carriker]

We did remember. I don't remember obviously. Oh no, that's right.

[Cody]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, oh, you're back. This cuz I was on the way and I drove to your house. I was like, man, I should have not drove to your house because it was on the way. I went the opposite way.

[Matt Carriker]

That was probably the first time we really hung out a ton. And I. I bet I was like, oh, it's going to suck being in the car with this guy for so long, but you're obviously very easy to talk to.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was very stark struck that one because I think it was one of our first times, like really hanging out. Hanging out. I had never met you before. And like, I'm like, Eli's older, has been in the industry for like longer than I have. So I'm just like, I don't know what I'm doing here.

[Matt Carriker]

That's a perfect example of something that we got to do, just because we're YouTubers, we got to just for free get in helicopters and shoot guns out of them. Like I'd never done that before. That was crazy.

[Cody]

Oh, that was the first time you talked about snapping puppies necks.

[Matt Carriker]

Did I do that?

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Cody]

No, no, that was the first time. That's where the joke comes from, where you said I've killed so many puppies.

[Eli Double Tap]

At a Denny's or something.

[Matt Carriker]

I remember. True.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the note he's going to go out on.

[Cody]

But yeah, we're, we're so we're we're all staying at like a hotel next to this gas station. And we go up to the gas station and I can't remember who, who it was was smoking next to the propane tank. Was it Leon?

[Fat Electrician]

100 Leon?

[Cody]

He was like smoking cigarettes next to the propane tank and we're like, wouldn't it be funny if that blew up and we all just died? And what they find.

[Eli Double Tap]

It took us a little bit to realize what he was ashing in. And then when it clicked we're like, huh?

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Someone washing in a propane tank.

[Cody]

Dude, it was the, the, the, the cage, the little cage that he had next to them.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh God.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Someone was just like, that's propane. And we're all like.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it's also like 11:12 at night and we're smoking cigarettes behind a 7:11.

[Matt Carriker]

We're in the dark, there's no light.

[Cody]

He was wearing the baby mask, remember? Yeah, I forgot for some reason they had these like life sized baby masks in the.

[Matt Carriker]

I don't remember that at all.

[Cody]

In the gas station. So we're like, if this blew up, they're gonna find a baby mask on a grown man. And ah, that was a, that was a wild time.

[Matt Carriker]

And none of us had pants on. It was crazy.

[Cody]

Yeah, dude, we were just dicks out.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was this, that was the same trip that we missed our flight. Cuz I did like an impromptu fan meetup that night in Fort Worth and me and Delance had to. I, I was so broke at the time, I literally couldn't afford to change my flight. I just it up. So we like. The only thing that my debit card could physically run run was the deposit for a rental car. And so me and Delance drove 20 goddamn hours home.

[Matt Carriker]

Serious.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Because we could only afford one day between us. We could afford a one day rental and just enough gas between our two cards. Yeah. Cannonball run.

[Brandon Herrera]

We cannonball run it because we, it would the card would decline the next day. There was not enough money for a second day.

[Eli Double Tap]

There was a lot of just for people. It is taking those risks where like, I got it because in your head it's still. It's like options.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm grinding.

[Cody]

That was 18.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was six years ago, man.

[Matt Carriker]

That's crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Six years ago I was too broke for a plane ticket.

[Matt Carriker]

I. God, I forgot about when I was grinding. I wanted to buy an FN FS2000. I thought, that is a cool gun. I want one of those. I think it'll do good on YouTube. It was sixteen hundred dollars. I found a guy in Austin. I was currently in College Station. It's like a two hour drive. So I was like, I'm gonna drive over there and buy this gun. I talked the guy down to $1,600. And as I was driving, I had an old pickup at the time. And I was like, if this truck breaks down, like I was gonna spend all of my money on this FS2000. And I was like, if this truck breaks down, like, I can't buy the FS2000 anymore. Demolition Ranch could have been over before it ever started. If that truck would have broke down on the way. Cause I would have been like, now I got to get a tow truck. There goes $1,000 and I'm going to just head back home and not have a gun. And I would have no gun to start the channel with and start making videos with.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a terrifying part. Like every other. Have you had any of that?

[Fat Electrician]

I'd have to think about it. Not off the top of my head.

[Matt Carriker]

He's been rich forever. Silver spoon kid. In the dream life.

[Fat Electrician]

I came into this a little bit different. Like I. I had like, mine started when I had already had one kid. So like I had a kid, he was like four months old. And then I tore my pack and was off work. And I couldn't be an electrician. So I was like delivering doordash in a sling, trying to make money.

[Matt Carriker]

And then years before. You remember that guy brought me some food one time.

[Fat Electrician]

That guy brought me my groceries.

[Eli Double Tap]

You were still on a ring cam nightmare blood rotation.

[Brandon Herrera]

You get your fucking doordash and you open the door. Like today. We're gonna talk about today.

[Fat Electrician]

You're micro dosing Wikipedia. No, I was like, I did that. So like, I was very like, I worked way longer than I probably could have as a full time electrician, like running jobs. And then it finally like came to a head when me and my boss Who I'm still, like, great friends with. I stopped buying bullshit with him all the time, but he, like, pulled me in his office like, you got to work this weekend. I was like, I can't. I gotta make YouTube videos. And he's like, you're gonna have to decide if you want to be a YouTube guy or an electrician guy. And I was like, so frustrating. If you're gonna put me in that ultimatum, I have to go with whichever one pays me more. And he was like, so confident. He's like, I'm gonna assume that would be me. And I go, you'd be wrong. And he goes, I guess I'll see you on Monday. All right, Sounds good. And then I worked for, like, six more months.

[Cody]

So first thing I asked you to Nick, what you do.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Cody picks me up from the airport. My first Unsub episode. I had no idea. I was just, like, trying to text you guys, like, I just landed at the airport.

[Brandon Herrera]

What do I do?

[Fat Electrician]

I don't even have an address to Uber to or anything. And Cody was the first person to text me back. Picks me up in his raptor, like, 20 minutes later. After I've been standing out front of the airport, I hop in. No idea who Cody is. I had watched your content, yet it was just like, my fans berated me in the comments section. You need to go on the Unsub podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Was I even on that episode?

[Matt Carriker]

He probably just thought you weren't.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I don't think.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, because you weren't a host yet. Yeah, it was the OG Unsub hosts in me, and I was only on.

[Brandon Herrera]

A third of the episodes.

[Eli Double Tap]

33 on the dot.

[Fat Electrician]

Cody picks me up in his Raptor, and there's just that awkward 15 seconds that feels like forever. And Cody's like, so what do you do? And I was like, I'm an electrician. He goes, I'm.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Clint asked you that, right?

[Cody]

Yeah. First tour of the bunker, it's like, so what'd you do before?

[Matt Carriker]

YouTube just looked at me and went.

[Cody]

I was an electric.

[Matt Carriker]

Jenna did something similar. We're talking about. I was talking with Jenna about Kentucky Ballistics, and she goes, where's he from?

[Cody]

As soon as I said, I was.

[Matt Carriker]

Like, I'm so stupid.

[Brandon Herrera]

So many people don't done that before. They're just like, oh, yeah, yeah, Kentucky Ballistics. He's in Texas, right? Like, sometimes I'll give you a hint where he really lives.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, Matt, thank you so much for everything you've done for the entire community. Been an amazing episode. You don't even have to plug yourself this time, which is weird.

[Matt Carriker]

Unsubscribe to celebrate. I don't care.

[Eli Double Tap]

What are we doing?

[Brandon Herrera]

We have you a shot. Fireball.

[Eli Double Tap]

We have to do one, too.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Where are y'all shots of Fireball?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. I think this is left over from.

[Eli Double Tap]

What do you want to shoot?

[Brandon Herrera]

Excuse me?

[Matt Carriker]

I don't. I want to drive home today.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, okay.

[Fat Electrician]

I'll buy you the Uber. You're fine.

[Matt Carriker]

See, then I have to come back and get my truck for the 300.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'll buy you the second Uber.

[Matt Carriker]

That's true. All right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do we want to do a shop, everyone?

[Fat Electrician]

I feel like we have.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like we have to. It's a. It's episode 200.

[Matt Carriker]

That's true, man. That's great. And Eli said, I think off camera, that I was on episode 100.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you'll be on episode 300.

[Matt Carriker]

Lord willing, I won't we just do the extension show?

[Fat Electrician]

This is what it's gonna happen.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. Pendleton.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, this is good.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, it's middle.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's pretty good.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're shooting.

[Brandon Herrera]

Probably shooting something that shouldn't be shot, but whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

Very rare on the blow.

[Matt Carriker]

That is not enough.

[Fat Electrician]

A leprechaun made that.

[Cody]

We also Brandy on the show.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Show. Like, to what degree do you guys believe in leprechauns over there?

[Matt Carriker]

Jesus.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, Eli, those are double man pores.

[Eli Double Tap]

Are they. Those are baby shots.

[Brandon Herrera]

Those are not.

[Fat Electrician]

You have to perform divided up.

[Cody]

Eli, come on.

[Matt Carriker]

Wait, why are you doing four, not five?

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, you're doing Fireball, aren't you?

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, no, I'm going to do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, he's like, I don't want Fireball.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. I want to be cool like all the boys.

[Brandon Herrera]

Your obsession with Fireball has always been entertaining to me.

[Matt Carriker]

Fireball is good, dude.

[Cody]

Oh, that start.

[Brandon Herrera]

You definitely were an ag.

[Matt Carriker]

Hey, Fireball, hit me up and sponsor me. Oh, wait, I'm quitting. Don't do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Offer 10 million bucks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sponsor the Sanders.

[Matt Carriker]

I know.

[Cody]

All day I've wanted to be like, what's your next move? Oh, wait.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, wait. What do you got? What do you got cooking on the channel?

[Brandon Herrera]

My family.

[Eli Double Tap]

That close? That's close. Just hand them out.

[Matt Carriker]

Man. It's been a good ride, boys. I'm glad you're all part of it.

[Cody]

End of an era, buddy.

[Matt Carriker]

This is weird, right? So weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is a weird ass feel.

[Fat Electrician]

For real.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a weird ass feeling.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like you're dying, but you still live 20 minutes down the road.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. This is. It's crazy. I feel kind of like that too.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, thank you so much for everything you've given YouTube community us. Like, every.

[Matt Carriker]

You've.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've been in each one of them. Each one of us has been in a video. So thank you so much for that exposing us to your community and vice versa.

[Brandon Herrera]

You've just been what you've done for the community.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

A true pleasure to work with.

[Eli Double Tap]

With. With everything you've done, like, from the bottom all our hearts. Thank you so goddamn much.

[Fat Electrician]

Eli Said Community.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, yeah, it genuinely though, it's. It's been a privilege to know you.

[Cody]

Yeah. Thank you, man.

[Matt Carriker]

Thanks, boys. That was like the Titanic thing with the musicians, you know?

[Eli Double Tap]

That was really smooth.

[Matt Carriker]

Holy privilege playing with you tonight. Thank you so much.

[Cody]

Go down with this shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love we say shit like that. We seriously. We'll still hang out.

[Matt Carriker]

I still want to hang out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Something tells me you've got a lot more free time coming up.

[Matt Carriker]

We live 20 minutes from each other. Like we'll never see you again.

[Eli Double Tap]

The camera pans dark and a gunshot goes off.

[Cody]

I don't know, dude. End of an era, man.

[Matt Carriker]

It's weird. Yeah, pretty weird. I'm excited to see what you guys do, though. Tear it up, boys. Tear it up.

[Cody]

We'll leave it to the next generation.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. This guy a grandson.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm trying.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, close this out.

[Cody]

Sad.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's.

[Fat Electrician]

I know.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is an actual hard one. This is.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't want to end.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is the saddest I've been on the podcast. I was like, oh, that sucks.

[Cody]

Thank you guys for joining the unsubscribed podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap Up. Nick Fat electrician, Demolition Ranch. Brandon Herrera, my self, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Fat Electrician]

Wait.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no.

[Matt Carriker]

I thought we were about to wrestle.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, oh, no.

[Matt Carriker]

What are we doing with the Gauntlet?

[Fat Electrician]

We've assembled the Infinity Slurs. Go ahead and close this up the right way.

[Eli Double Tap]

We mess.

[Matt Carriker]

We have to collect them all.

[Fat Electrician]

No, you gotta dawn it. And we collected them for you. You get to dawn it and do the snap Band out your career.

[Matt Carriker]

Oh, how do you get your hand in this?

[Eli Double Tap]

Only. Only me and Brandon disappear.

[Matt Carriker]

It will go on.

[Brandon Herrera]

You put it on and then say the N word.

[Matt Carriker]

Hold on.

[Fat Electrician]

I'll get to the Burger King crown too.

[Cody]

Who's on the plane?

[Brandon Herrera]

As they say, do not go quietly into the good night.

[Matt Carriker]

Yeah. I might as well create some drama before I leave. Right? Let's get on the news again.

[Fat Electrician]

Just say your favorite letter really loudly with like, seven periods after it and close it out.

[Eli Double Tap]

I love you all.

[Cody]

Love you guys.