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The Days Grimm Podcast
EP 249 From Trailer Rentals to Content Creation: The Kyle Biggs Story
In this episode of The Days Grimm, Brian Michael Day and Thomas Grimm sit down with long-time friend, entrepreneur, and DIY content creator Kyle Biggs to discuss the realities of building a business and a real estate portfolio from the ground up. Kyle shares his journey from running a trailer rental business to successfully "house hacking" three different properties by living in them and driving "soft value" through smart, budget-friendly renovations.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by home repairs or wondered how to transition from a 9-to-5 into real estate, this episode provides a grounded, no-nonsense perspective. Kyle breaks down his "lazy-proof" philosophy for home maintenance famously featured in his TikTok series and explains why most people are just one YouTube tutorial away from saving thousands of dollars on home projects.
Beyond the hammer and nails, the conversation dives deep into the mindset of an entrepreneur. Kyle candidly discusses his "first failure" with KB Trailer Rentals and the invaluable lessons he learned about scalability, accounting, and trusting your gut when dealing with difficult clients. We also explore the future of content creation, including how Kyle uses AI tools like Gemini to plan his videos and the technical hurdles of moving from phone editing to professional software like DaVinci Resolve.
Whether you're looking for actionable real estate advice or just need a kick in the pants to clean out your air vents, this episode is packed with authentic stories and practical takeaways for the modern blue-collar entrepreneur.
KEY TOPICS COVERED:
- The "House Hacking" Strategy: How to buy, renovate, and rent properties while living in them.
- Driving "Soft Value": Why kitchen and bathroom updates offer the best return on investment.
- Lessons from Business Failure: What shutting down a trailer rental business taught Kyle about scalability.
- The Power of YouTube University: Learning complex trades like plumbing and drywall for free.
- Property Management: When to stop doing the work yourself and hire a pro for passive income.
- Content Creation Workflow: How to film and edit high-performing TikToks in under 30 minutes.
- AI for Entrepreneurs: Using deep research models to plan a 50-video content strategy.
NOTABLE QUOTES:
- "YouTube is where I learned my shit. For real. 100%." (Kyle Biggs)
- "Trust your gut and know when to refuse service to anybody you want." (Kyle Biggs)
- "Passive income... that’s really what it’s about. You can go to sleep and still have that money coming in." (Thomas Grimm)
- "Be original, be yourself, don't fucking fake it till you make it. Just do the shit you like doing." (Brian Michael Day)
If you enjoyed Kyle’s no-nonsense approach to DIY and business, hit the subscribe button and let us know in the comments: What is the one home repair project you’ve been putting off because you’re "too lazy" to start? Don't forget to like and share this episode with someone looking to start their real estate journey!
TIMELINE:
00:00 - Introduction and the "clown shoes"
06:38 - Transitioning from trailer rentals to real estate
10:59 - The "Ho
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Hello, hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to another thrilling episode of the Days Grimm. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grimm. Uh I'm rushing through that because you wanted to go ahead and hurry up and start the show.
SPEAKER_02:So we're gonna go ahead and join us this week in the Days Grimm studio is our good, good friend Kyle Biggs. How are you, man? Good, good. How you guys doing?
SPEAKER_00:Senior Biggs, that's what they call them down on the border. How are you, sir? I'm gonna pop these dogs up. I'm pumped to be here, dude.
SPEAKER_04:I might kick the dogs off too.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, dude, I'm just gonna be.
SPEAKER_02:You should try those on eventually.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, let me get those. Uh so Tom is super jacked. He uh we were talking about a pre-show, and I I think you were kind of making fun of him, which at least I hope you were. Uh these fucking clown shoes.
SPEAKER_04:I was just worried he paid more than a hundred bucks.
SPEAKER_01:What the fuck is that?
SPEAKER_02:Yeezy.com.$20,$16 shipping. Get it in nine months. Yeah. Sell it, resell it to somebody that doesn't want to wait the nine months for you know$100.
SPEAKER_00:Do they make them in fucking men's sizes?
SPEAKER_02:That's uh like an 11.
SPEAKER_00:You have the foot of a 12-year-old Asian woman.
SPEAKER_02:What size shoes do you wear?
SPEAKER_00:Are you binding your feet at night? Like no, I just got wide feet when I fucking knuckled it.
SPEAKER_02:We were talking about the Zinjamins and you're on the on. Um, did you see Tucker Carlson talking shit on Theo Vaughn about it? I didn't know. He gave uh this company a shout-out on the thing, and they tried to sue him or something over it, and he was like, you know what? So I came out with my own brand, and he's like, if you do these, he's like, these users are putting them in their ass. And so he's like, like talking about like basically just says that throughout the whole episode. I thought it was hilarious.
SPEAKER_00:You know, it's funny you mentioned that because it was like an hour five-minute drive to the uh Weyland processing out in fucking um Pike County, Petersburg. Yeah, Petersburg. So big shoots to Weyland Processing. They are fucking sick, dude. Um that's where you took your dough. Yeah, two of them. Two of them, got like same day, huge yields, same, yeah. Like I shot one and my buddy Paul, who's been on the show, he shot the other one that was right next to her.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:We'll get into that story because it's fucking wild. But uh, no, so shout out to Weyland Processing. But yeah, it's funny you bring that episode up because it was such a long drive. I was like, man, I haven't listened to like a whole podcast in one sitting in a long time. So I just went to my YouTube and that was like the first thing that popped up was the fucking uh Tucker and Theo. Yeah, Tucker Carlson interview. And yeah, that was so great.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, I would laugh so hard. But when I dude, like vaping was like like I vaped 50 Nick on the the like not not the disposables, but like the salt nick, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, Nicks. And so like I climbed that all the way up, and I was like, man, I got onto vaping to quit smoking, and here I am like just fucking chiefing down 50 Nick. Like it it can't be good. That's a problem.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's a fucking problem.
SPEAKER_02:And then like I switched to these nicotine pouches, and I started on the sixes, and I was going through them fast, but then it's like I slowly got on the threes, and then but like I go through phases, like there's times where like I can maybe go through like four pouches a day of the threes, and I'm like doing real good, and then I hit like stressful times and I'm going through like a can of these a day, and I'm just like fuck. And then your lower lip's calloused, and you gotta like bleeding and shit. Yeah, I just throw it in the lower lip to get it wet and then throw it up top.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, what do you got going on over here? You got is that the shit that Paul's on?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, on the and I'm on twos. I've I've vaped for a while like you did and trying to start this shit to get off of it, and oh yeah. Wouldn't start at like nines, sixes, and then they make a nine? Uh uh VLO.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, VLO makes a nine.
SPEAKER_04:And I can't do the peppermint like spicy stuff. It's all citrus or dude.
SPEAKER_02:I threw I've tried them all and I threw a wintergreen in, and I was like, dude, this is like junior year of high school all over again for me. I got I was like, I can't do this, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Dude, I went to play, you know, Tanner Babs. I went to go play poker with them last night.
SPEAKER_02:So it was like it was like I was invited. Is it just a military circle jerk?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it was kind of like a gig thing that we had going on. So it's kind of like a bunch of dudes just looking at each other's peckers. Uh no, but it was like it was pretty chill. But um, God dang, where was I going with that story? What were we just talking about? You get you caught oh, oh, I know what it was. You said it reminded you of high school. Um, one of the dudes there just had the fattest fucking winter green chew in. I was like, Oh god, that's it.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that looks delicious. Let me pull that out of your mouth, boy.
SPEAKER_00:You haven't done that in a while. That was what I did last, yeah. And um yeah, it's been like five, six years, seven, six years since I dipped.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but it's I think dude, I feel a lot better on these than I do like vaping and all that jazz. Like, did you ever get rib pain? Like, I always have rib pain. I had a pneumothorax in like high school. Oh shit. See, I never had any. And I'm I'm I'm a small dude, so like uh like I like I can't sleep on my stomach without basically getting like some chest pain. Like the next day. Yeah, that's we crowd up in a ball. It's also funny. So like we're we're uh kind of partnershipped with uh the new podcast out right now, the watching the war. And it's like we're in like a group message, right? And it's it's Brian, it's Brian, the owner of Lawman and Paul, who are like all police officer military dudes, and then there's me and like and I'm like, man, why am I like the odd one out there?
SPEAKER_01:He's like the fucking cuck, you know what I'm saying? He's all cucked up in the corner.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like I'm the easiest one for them to like shit on, you know what I mean? But we don't though that's every now and then, but it's like man, like I I'm like afraid to, you know, like have a comeback sometimes. I'm like, uh no, I wouldn't be.
SPEAKER_00:We can thick skin, bro. We can take it. Um, but yeah, dude. Big shout out to the watching the war. I I didn't even when you said that it I panicked. But yeah, it should have released by now.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, a lot's happened since you were in last. Yeah, it's been what, yeah and a half? Oh, has it been? I thought it was maybe a little longer. Maybe two years. Maybe just about. You were doing the KB trailer rentals at the time.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. I was doing some doing some trailer rentals that uh still doing? No, no, I shut that business down. So first failure, I guess. Was that peace, bro? Was that your first business? Uh yes.
SPEAKER_02:What's cool about it? So I sat down with my business mentor's business mentor a while ago. Jesus Christ. It was pretty cool. And he's like a lawyer and everything, and I was telling him, you know, about like he's like, Well, tell me about yourself. And I'm like, Well, when I was 18 and graduated a semester early, I applied for a patent, took out a loan, was like six grand in debt, couldn't get the math to work, had a great proof of concept, nobody had the patent. But I was like, basically, started right off the hole in like six grand of debt. Then I tried college and got debt, and then I was like, then I tried this business, this business, this business, this business. But I was like, at the end, I was like, what I learned from each one. Like, I learned with candles, like start small, start with two cents, sell all those, use all that money, go four cents, make more, and then sell all those.
SPEAKER_00:Pause there though. This is important on that note. Scale, like like that's a good point for like I'm a fucking business major. But what I know from listening to other like entrepreneurs, they've they say that that's important to start small, but also you should proof your concept to be it, should you should be able to prove that it is in fact scalable, and not just like in the I can afford to buy more things, but like, is it scalable in all aspects? Like, can the market if you scale up, is the market gonna be like too oversaturated, and then you will fail? Or so like your concept starting small is important, but also like they call it uh like scalability or something.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but it's I mean, like you didn't go to school for business. No, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00:So it's like for people to school at all, just raised in the woods?
SPEAKER_02:Is that what you I didn't go to college rather? But uh that's like that's like business on your own, which is the beauty, the beauty of like our age group in the internet. You know what I mean? Like you got Alex Hermosy out there, you know, that you can like sit there and watch his content, Gary V and the guy with the nose tape.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the wife beater the breathe right strip. Yeah. I think I've I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, if you I'm chronically online, but I don't know. You need to start, dude. Once you start watching Mosey. Oh, yeah. I heard he scammed a bunch of people. Hell yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Fucking love a scam, dude. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I fuck with him heavy. I don't like following.
SPEAKER_00:Did he fucking did he scam a bunch of people out of money with those breathe right strips? Or what was that?
SPEAKER_04:It's probably more like book sale based. I mean, it was just different content that said he scammed, so you know.
SPEAKER_00:Oh dude, speaking of online creators, real quick, is anybody following that Sean Ryan shit? No, I don't. Sean Ryan's like the fifth biggest podcast in the country or in the world, actually. Damn. All right, it's irrelevant.
SPEAKER_02:Does he run like the CEO thing?
SPEAKER_00:No, he does all the like SEALs and spec ops dudes, and but he's done other people like Tucker Carlson and stuff. I know you're talking about Sean Ryan, Baldcat, he's ex-Navy SEAL.
SPEAKER_04:He's got energy pop.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's getting sued by the fucking some politician. And yeah, it's I I didn't know if you guys were following. I was gonna ask. Never mind.
SPEAKER_02:No, but I was gonna say, like, like uh as we were talking about like what do you learn? Like, so basically me and that guy, I was like, you know, I did these things, and this is how this is where it failed, this is what I learned from it failing, and this is what like little aspect I could take on to the next endeavor. So like with KB Reynolds, you know what I mean? Like, what was what do you think some of the takeaways were like accounting or like different booking systems?
SPEAKER_04:Accounting could have been a lot easier if I used QuickBooks because that's tax write-offable, it's like what 30 a month, and that would have taken all the just pencil writing down. It was cheap, dude. I mean, uh a friend of mine used it, which he's about to sell anyway. Um and also trust your gut, like that terror story I had, the guy tried to steal my trailer, showed up uh to to the pick it up with and he was putting insurance on his trailer then.
SPEAKER_00:I was like, uh, maybe I can refuse this guy, but that was the guy that damaged your trailer, right?
SPEAKER_04:That guy? Yeah, I remember that story. Tried to steal it and I had to get take a day off work, get law involved, and all that. So trust your gut and know when to refuse. I guess the pumpkin plan, you can, you know. What the fuck is that? It's a book. Uh the only one of the only books I've read or listened to, but okay uh you can refuse service to anybody you want. Oh yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Fuck them. Yeah, that's how I look at it.
SPEAKER_02:But so then I know that like towards the end of the trailer business, you start buying houses and fixing them up yourself. So you had a dad, you know?
SPEAKER_00:Nice, dude.
SPEAKER_02:That's like that's like my joke. That's like my like running joke.
SPEAKER_04:That went way over my head, but I get it.
SPEAKER_02:We had like a contractor on or whatever, and I was like, So you had a dad growing up. He's like, What? And I'm like, Yeah, like you had a dad to show you all that stuff. I was like, dude, I got like a basement that leaks, I got plumbing issues, I got flooring falling out. I don't know how to do any of it.
SPEAKER_00:I still don't know how to hang drywall. I'm gonna figure it out real soon.
SPEAKER_04:But uh YouTube is where I learned my shit. Gotcha for real. 100%.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, damn. So you didn't have a dad.
SPEAKER_04:No, no. He's he's here, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like he's still with us.
SPEAKER_04:He won't watch this from fucking searching YouTube.
SPEAKER_02:But no, uh, but like I think that's so cool when somebody can like like I got a buddy that graduated high school, took like the money he got from his family, took out a loan, bought a house. His mom's a realtor, he fixes it up himself. It nine times out of ten, passes inspection, sees she sells it, takes the cash, buys another, and now he basically just lives out of like money saved, and then when it gets low, he buys another project.
SPEAKER_04:And that's really cool. I didn't I did the house hacking thing, is what the internet calls it. You buy it, live in it, drive some value into it, buy another one, keep that one, rent it out. So I'm on number three, but number three is like my forever home as far as now. I don't want to leave there, so I'm just keeping the two.
SPEAKER_00:Did you live? So you've lived in that's you did that for all three. You lived in each of the three and just kind of like fix this here, a little spackling there, some new lights in here, like type stuff.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so driving soft value is kitchen and bathroom, like a soft bit uh bitching. A soft kitchen remodel bitching. Or a soft bathroom remodel. Don't completely change the cabinets, maybe some paint, flooring, um, no extreme remodels or you know, tearing walls down, but um that's how you just drive.
SPEAKER_00:I want to do that. It's it's fun to my house. I want to like rip this fucking wall out that I'm dealing with.
SPEAKER_04:Is it load bearing? I'm about to that, I'm about to do that.
SPEAKER_00:No, it's like on the perimeter of the home, so I don't think it would be. If it would, it's like a four-foot stretch of part of the load, but not that wall, so that'd be like perpendicular to the one I want to adjust. But yeah, so we have like the conventional tub, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I want to walk in shower so fucking bad. I wouldn't strip gut the whole bathroom. It's gonna be like a$30,000.
SPEAKER_04:But the the beauty of it is I disagree.
SPEAKER_00:You think so? Well, if you if you had a contract to do it, yeah. Have you gotten quotes? No, I've not. No, hold on. This is more important. I gotta talk about my bathroom.
SPEAKER_01:I know you want to do the interview, but hold on a second.
SPEAKER_00:I I've seen so many small bathroom, it's half the size of this room.
SPEAKER_04:I I just I get my info from YouTube. I plan on doing all these things and making content on them, so I just, you know, video after video, and there's so many things you can do to a bathroom for like six grand or less yourself. No shit. Walk-in, tile shower. Oh shit.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I just wanted to be walk-in, done. Well, and you have room to expand. Like you could move your washer and dryer or your pantry, and you just got to get a step ladder so you can actually get in your top cabinet.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, dude. It's like whatever a house for dwarves would be, mine is the opposite. Like giants lived in this house.
SPEAKER_04:So your counter's not 32, it's like 24. No, it's higher.
SPEAKER_00:No, it's higher. It's like 48. It's 56. And the top cabinet is like 140 inches. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I have a pretty good vertical, so I can get in there. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04:I've been there, but I don't know if I've been.
SPEAKER_00:It's so like most people have like their cabinets, and then like for 10 foot, because we have nine ten-foot ceilings, and for those nine, ten-foot ceiling kitchens, they'll do like their row of cabinets, and then they do a vacant space between the so you have this negative head space between the cabinetry and the ceiling.
SPEAKER_04:That's really popular, right?
SPEAKER_00:Mine is filled with cabinets. So it's like the first row of cabinets, and then that head's negative headspace is filled with more cabinets.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's DIYable too. I want to do that to my house.
SPEAKER_00:To make more cabinets, yeah. Why? Well, it's just one of those dogs.
SPEAKER_01:Do you know what I really need? I need one of those fucking library ladders.
SPEAKER_02:That's what I was gonna say. Like Fidel's house.
SPEAKER_04:In your kitchen. That would be sweet. Do you have an island?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but it's not mounted. It's just like a homemade island that they were. It's like a library island that moves around. You can fucking scoot it around. That's the best one, so I'm actually starting a library at my house. I don't know if you guys knew that or not.
SPEAKER_02:The cool part about like when you got into like uh it's not really real estate, but it kind of is real estate. But like when you got into this home flipping game, it's like it was after COVID. So you don't have to worry about like that whole like still making a a mortgage payment while like your renters could refuse to pay rent. That was like I knew a guy that had three three rental properties during COVID, and he's like, dude, he's like, I'm probably gonna have to go bankrupt. No shit. He's like, he's like each one. Well, he was like, Two of my tenants aren't paying their rent because of COVID, and he's like, I can't kick them out because of COVID. And he's like, I still have to make my mortgage payment.
SPEAKER_04:So I take all the profits from uh both houses and put them into a bag of like five to ten, and then when that when I get to that certain point, I'll do a major renovation on the house, maybe a roof or something that's needed. But I'd like to keep I'd like to keep an emergency fund, just a business emergency fund. Right. Is it like invested? Like your business emergency fund? I should have put it in a high yield savings account, but uh they just generated enough to do a new roof on one of them, so it kind of cut it down. So I'll look into that investing now.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, I just always like you know, they say cash is king, but and like nowadays with inflation, it's like dude, you could set five grand back now, and then like in two years, that five grand's not worth five grand anymore. So it's like you need it to make something better.
SPEAKER_00:Or conversely, like the housing market. So like I'm a prime example, right? Like we bought our house on Harmony Way, where you've been, um, walked in right before the market took a fucking dump, right? The housing market. So we bought it at like 180.
SPEAKER_04:You even told me that you thought you bought it too high.
SPEAKER_00:I thought it was too expensive then. I was like, I'm not spending$180,000 on a fucking house. This is retarded, we're moving on, and they wouldn't come off the price. And my wife really wanted it. And I was like, Well, fuck me, I guess. So I'm gonna spend$180,000. So I spent the fucking signed the lien, and then it it was like uh 16 months later, uh, we got like one of those um like appraiser mail pieces or whatever, and it was like your home appraises for$235,000. And I was like, I was like, okay, yeah, and then like did some online research and like Zillow quotes and everything else is like checking out that my house is like$230,$240.
SPEAKER_04:Now it's like fuck me, it is$500,000.
SPEAKER_00:No, like right now it's like$250,260. I'm like$70,000 cleared right now. That's great. It's fucking insane. So like you could put five grand in and it could be worth two grand in five years, or it could be worth fucking. I mean sixteen thousand. You have no fucking idea.
SPEAKER_02:It's just houses are interesting because like somebody can go in and they have the worst paint, and you buy the house and you literally just like repaint it and add a fence, and it's like bam, right there's ten grand.
SPEAKER_04:You know, it's it's crazy how you can drive value into that. And then sorry, I I drove value into one, refinance one. And I was gonna buy another house, but I didn't. I I bought a pole barn instead.
SPEAKER_00:Damn. For house number three.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. But that's how that's how all these people do the burst strategy buy, renovate, uh, repeat, not necessarily in this order, rent, refinance. So drive value into it, grab 20, 30, 40 out of it. After it's appraising higher, go buy another one, just keep doing that. Right. I've got two friends that I went to with high with in high school that had are both up to like 40, 50 properties right now.
SPEAKER_00:That is fucking wild though. Why? Why do that to yourself?
SPEAKER_04:Uh they're building wealth. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, after like do they have a team? No. Well, one one does. He runs they both run companies and businesses, but uh, but you can umbrella it out too.
SPEAKER_02:So like you can buy like at that point you have that many houses, you can one, like you can run some sort of like you're gonna bring somebody on for like maintenance and repair, or you're gonna at least have some sort of contractor. Like if you have 50 properties, you might as well open your own contracting business and just contract it out and exchange money from one hand to the other.
SPEAKER_04:Property managers are a huge game changer in that too. So if you own the property, someone else rents it out, finds the people to live in it, collects rent, f fixes all the little shit. If something major needs done, they'll get a hold of you. But take care of the yard, do all the stuff.
SPEAKER_00:Everything you collect the check. You literally just but I'm assuming you pay probably pretty handsome. 20% per house, usually. Ooh, that's kind of spicy.
SPEAKER_04:So if you have a house, you know, bringing four or five hundred dollars, you're only paying what, eighty, hundred bucks for them to do everything. That's not a bad deal. So I I told myself if I ever get to five or more properties, I'll still I'll still work full time and then get a property manager.
SPEAKER_02:Oh it's that passive income, you know what I mean? That's really what it's it's about. You know, you can go to sleep and still have that money coming in. What uh another cool thing, Brian didn't have any tattoos last time you saw him.
SPEAKER_00:Uh well, not here. Yeah, we saw each other at um twice.
SPEAKER_04:We ran into each other in different cities for a wage war show.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Louisville. Twice out of town and then once at St. Louis, right? Yeah, and then once at the Ford Center for the stained concert.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, did I saw did I see you there? I think you were there. I was there. Where did where did I see you?
SPEAKER_00:I called you and you were like on the opposite end of the arena from me. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We've run into each it's uh serendipitous, if you will. Um yeah, I think we were meant to be together. Uh oh, speaking of, you are uh single in Minglin or no? Yes. What's the situation on that? Yeah?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, just just you want to come over after this or what are you doing, dude? You want to uh I'm not even really looking for anything at the moment. I'm just oh yeah. I don't know. I should be, you know, I'm fucking 34.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know, but that's kind of the like way to be right now, too, is just like like you got a lot going on, you know what I mean? It's like uh a partner and that like takes time, takes energy, takes takes a lot away from like what you're building right now. You know what I mean? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Good dog goes a long way.
SPEAKER_02:You got a good dog? I might get a dog next year.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, good dog goes a long way. You don't even think about women anymore. They're a lot of work too. Yeah, well, that's why. Yeah, you're too busy. She's gotta piss again. Are you shitting me? Yeah, you're just constantly moving and stop chewing that and um yeah, it's interesting, dude.
SPEAKER_04:But my new like uh obsession is just DIY stuff, learning on houses and tinkering around in the shop. I just and making content.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we haven't even mentioned um so you're getting into the content creation in the last like year or so. And I think you said TikTok. So we don't have anybody running the show today. It's literally the three of us in this room, and that's it. Uh otherwise we'd have your shit pulled up. But as you mention it, I'll pull it up on screen in the right. What's your what's your TikTok handle? Because I think we're following you. Kyle Rich dot ninety one. Kyle Rich.91. Yeah. I fucking love your shit, dude. Thanks. When you go like the way my favorite ones that you do, you do a bunch of different things, but the the one that you like it's a simple Seven part series where you're like, here's the shit you should be doing, but you don't because you're too fucking lazy. Clean out your fucking air vent. You know, just like that, dude. That like genuine fucking dry, just like, here's what you should be doing, so just fucking do it. That resonates with me. Like, I get it. So, like, uh, those are my favorite.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know why that like kind of dwell on like three different platforms, but I don't I'm not sure why.
SPEAKER_00:Like, because it's what is it's idiot proof, dude. It's like it's literally it's shit that it resonates with me because like I know the things I need to be doing, like cleaning out my fucking air filters, like I know that shit, but I am too lazy to do it. So when I watch it, I'm like, god damn it, yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER_04:What what like uh did you just hit multiple platforms right off the rip? No, just it started out thirsty on TikTok on TikTok, which I had no idea that I was like an attractive person anyway, but uh and then kind of just I just started filming stuff I was doing and then just starting on a phone? Yeah, yeah. Just using the phone, microphone and everything? Still uh yeah, at first it was like just work lunch um TikToks, like just funny stuff, and then then started talking into it after I get a lot got a little more comfortable, and then uh yeah, just iPhone and I got a I got an external mic now too.
SPEAKER_00:People don't talk about that, like the comfortability of like so we've been like making content together for over a decade now. But like I remember when I very first started was actually you had come around and we're yeah, we had the Boredom Bros channel, right? And then before you came around, we made like three episodes or two two shoots or whatever, and like they were like clunky and weird, and I didn't know how to say what I wanted to say or how to make it funny or achieve what we whatever the fuck we were trying to achieve, and like the comfortability goes a long way. Like, so once you realize that you know that thing's fucking recording and it hears my voice, and someone's gonna hear this later, and once you get over that like weird little fucking uh stage, then you can be more natural, like in your creation, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and people like organic, yeah, not stage stuff.
SPEAKER_00:So just like let it rip, dude. Just if you got fucking ball cheese, talk about it, you know what I mean, or whatever. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:You started on TikTok, and then from TikTok you just went over to like Instagram and YouTube because it basically just converts right over.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so I just started posting my TikToks on Instagram shorts, YouTube shorts, and then it finally it finally took off from that little series.
SPEAKER_02:So I interesting question here. Um, do you edit them differently or do you just take it right from TikTok and put it on? Straight, straight over. That's what we do, but technically got time, dude. Yeah, you got time.
SPEAKER_04:It yeah, it does mess up like some some videos I've put over on Instagram. My lips look weird. I don't know why.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you have beautiful lips. Don't talk about yourself like that. It's like there's a glitch or something. Gayest thing to ever happen on the two gentlemen just pursed their lips at each other. Gayest thing to ever happen on the days, Grim. You're welcome.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Zach left the room one time and came in butt-ass naked and sat down.
SPEAKER_00:Very, very good. You know, Barry. Yeah, yeah. That was before we were shooting video. Thank God. Uh yeah, we were only releasing audio at this point, and he left the room to go piss, and we were like, Man, he's taking his time. Then he came back butt-ass naked.
SPEAKER_02:Walked right into the studio, sat down, and just kept on with the interview.
SPEAKER_00:We did 20, 30 minutes of him just butt-ass naked. And you know, now that I think about this, you're upset about a fucking never mind, never mind.
SPEAKER_03:Edit that out.
SPEAKER_00:All right, anyway. So uh, but yeah, so going back to what we were talking about, like I comfortability is huge. Like once you record, get through the weird stage and then like be yourself, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Are you like pre-scripting or like just writing down the idea like, hey, I'm gonna talk about this air filter, this is you know, like you could cheap out or you could get this expensive one. Like, are you like pre-planning?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so once the first one went viral ish, I I made a little list of shit I think I should do to every house once a year. And funny thing, I was I was doing all this to my one of my rentals. I haven't done a single thing to my own house yet.
SPEAKER_06:Just slagging.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, well, you know, the air filter, but uh so I made a couple more ideas, but I just there's nothing that serious that people I think need to do once a year. Storage totes things. Do you make a video on those? Uh I recorded it and I deleted it all because I was like, no one wants to see this. Was before my DIY stuff, and then I deleted it off my iPhone for storage, and it's like no one wants to see.
SPEAKER_02:You gotta get an SSD dog. They got uh if you do is which what model is your phone? 14. Does it have a okay? So it doesn't have a USB C port in the bottom.
SPEAKER_04:No, lightning.
SPEAKER_02:Once you get one that has a USB C port in the bottom, these SSDs have a USB C to USB C, and you can move files directly off your phone to an SSD. And like it's a hard drive. That's like half a gigabyte a second. So you're like doing a podcast, it's like an hour and a half long, it's like a 16 gigabyte file. Five minutes, four minutes, not even. Yeah, it's not bad.
SPEAKER_00:So fast. I love it, dude. That's the thing with like um there's always something like new and spicy coming out. So like Tom is the perfect counterpart to me because I'm fucking I can barely work a calculator from the 80s. Uh, and then like he stays up to date on all these like SSDs and other bullshit that's like popping off randomly. Yeah, so like he keeps us in the know, thank God, because otherwise I would have tanked a long time ago.
SPEAKER_02:Well, uh, have you used any AI to help come up with some of the stuff? No, no AI. And I know I should. Oh fuck yeah, you should. If I if I could recommend one thing on the planning aspect, right? When you're like, oh, what what sort of thing should I make videos on, this or that? Like, you know, GPT has its benefits, grok has it, like they're all specialist at certain different aspects, but um Gemini has a deep research model, or thinking, I think is what they just changed it to with the new update or whatever. But you can be like, Look, I'm doing a DIY shorts-based channel, God bless you. Thank you. And you're like, you know, m focused around home renovation. I have three properties, you know, uh this is my gear, this is like my sort of like you can basically just like start filling it in on you and everything, and then say, like, based on research, what should my next 50 video topics be? And then hit enter and it'll go and it'll like pull like top DIY ones and what they're making content on, and then it'll sit there and like actually like pull up, like, hey, we look through these 50 websites, and based on that, here's what you need to do, why you need to do it, X, Y, Z.
SPEAKER_00:It's like the smartest fucking metamine user you've ever met in your entire life. It's it's like the one thing that like insane.
SPEAKER_02:You know, like how crackheads are like they they're they're good at ri crack, and then they have like one crazy thing that they're really good at.
SPEAKER_01:That that's that's it.
SPEAKER_00:Dude, you get that's so accurate. If you get a fucking pipe fitter on infections, bro, dude, he'll fucking re-plumb your entire goddamn house. Yeah. Two hours. Uh, and that's kind of what AI is, you know, just a cracked out fucking pipe fitter.
SPEAKER_02:But they're all they all have their benefits, you know what I mean? And it's it's pretty cool because like uh some of these too, you can take like um they have other like other little programs, but if you can get like your transcript, like if CapCut or whatever is giving you like what's said and it pops up, you can like copy that and then literally say, like, hey, write me a like SEO-based description from this transcript, and then I'll ship one out for you.
SPEAKER_04:I have used that on my uh two long form YouTube videos, and I plan on keeping uh long form going too.
SPEAKER_00:I was gonna bring that up, but before we get to that, um, because you mentioned that in one of your shorts, I feel like, or maybe you told me in person, I don't remember. Oh, maybe. But like firing up the you we'll get to that. Uh, but I do want to ask, so on the editing topic, like how long is it taking you to edit your average TikTok? Like how much time do you spend on one just to get it like because you have like a lot of cuts and a lot of like it's not just like the phone's on and then I'm talking for 40 seconds and then I shut it off, and then that's it. Like you have a lot of things like moving parts, which is good, and that's why you're attracting attention, you know, that and you're beautiful, but like um, you know, it's it's appealing to the eye. So my question is like, what do you what's your average time you spend on like one TikTok? Uh the question, the answer to that question is probably filming and editing or just editing.
SPEAKER_04:Just editing. Probably 30 minutes or less. Isn't that wild?
SPEAKER_00:Probably probably 20 actually. For like a 60 second or less video, you're spending upwards to half an hour. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I don't see it as wild now because of there's a little income coming in, but uh I I just like I made one today. I filmed accidentally 40 minutes of of footage doing it in my sister's uh toilet toilet uh wax ring. And what the fuck is that?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, like on the ground? Yeah, when you take the toilet out. Yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha.
SPEAKER_04:So and yeah, that took me that took me probably quite a lot longer than that. Probably 25 minutes.
SPEAKER_02:But it's nice, like uh like I'm sure in the beginning it was taking you like an hour. Yeah. And like now you're you hit like that state and it flows through. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But people like move the camera angle, you know, zoom in a little bit, not much. Yeah, change it up. Just yeah, and audio is even better than visual.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah. That's what I found out.
SPEAKER_02:What um so like going from like phone audio now to like a wireless microphone, like what that's gotta be like a game changer.
SPEAKER_04:I think so. Yeah, I mean, it just it sounds so much better, me telling everyone they're lazy. And I don't it's uh you are fucking lazy. Yeah. Sorry. It's uh I think it was a good investment for for the content, you know. You got DJI? Uh you have a rogue. Yeah, yeah, that's where a lot of people go.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I saw I saw it in one of his videos. I was like, ha ha, Tom would be proud that I caught that.
SPEAKER_04:So I was making one and I was outside putting a fence gate in or something, and the audio kept cutting out. I was like, what is happening? My sweat was dripping in the thing. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00:Silent for a minute. Dude, suck my fucking ass. We cool?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it just keeps popping up that's low. Um, but no, like one thing, too, they make their super cheap. Uh we I went kind of pricey on mine, I got short, but you can get lapels, so then you can like put your transmitter in your pocket and run a mic up and clip it underneath your shirt or whatever. Oh, that's it. And it helps with like the wind, it helps with a bunch of other stuff. The trick is like if you're wearing like something like a like a fleece or something, it's gonna make like a movement noise. You want it like between some stuff to where it's not you're not gonna hear over rustling. Oh, okay. I always it's probably not a pet peeve for other people, but me being a camera guy, I hate seeing microphones in people's videos. Yeah. Unless it's like this, you know, where there's meant to be a microphone, you know what I mean? But it's like, dude.
SPEAKER_04:Even the roads and the DJ people hide it on their hat or like but even just everyday content, not like a movie style.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm just uh Tom has autism, and you have to forgive him.
SPEAKER_02:I'm a hater, you know what I mean? If I can hate on something, I'm gonna hate on it.
SPEAKER_00:Not everybody's filming fucking studio quality content, Tom fucking. Neither are we.
SPEAKER_02:You know, we have big airs like this giant shadow next to Kyle's head, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, dude, people watch our podcast. I'm sure like people that are like really, really good at like producing a podcast, if they looked at this, they'd be like, what kind of fucking hobo encampment do you have fucking running shit from Craigslist? Yeah. We're still probably the best one in Evansville. No, we are the best in Evansville. Uh, hands down. Um, but anyways, yeah, man.
SPEAKER_02:That's fucking what uh what's long form looking like for you though?
SPEAKER_04:Like, what's your uh I've gotten I've posted two, I've gotten like I have three or four more ready to ready to work on, and that's when I got DaVinci Resolved to work on the editing on that. That's a different story.
SPEAKER_00:Nightmare.
SPEAKER_04:That takes a long time, and a college degree.
SPEAKER_00:Golly, dude.
SPEAKER_04:For for my type of content, I found a huge time savers uh shoot, what's it called? Cap cut. Uh opus. No, on DaVinci, but it cuts out all the silence. Gotcha, gotcha. Like just snips all of it out. Yeah, yeah. It's snap clipping.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, dude. So it's just all action all the time. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice, dude. Because gaps and like dead air, don't need it. Yeah. Get that shit out of here. Like if you're making a Borden Brothers video, like a intentionally funny or like a this video has a premise.
SPEAKER_01:Cut that shit out, dude.
SPEAKER_00:You don't need it.
SPEAKER_02:Fucking throw it away, dude. What uh so interesting. So I'm on this new trend. I'm not trying to give away too much of my sauce here. Um, so YouTube is the number one streaming platform on home TVs right now. I saw that. Beating out Netflix, Hulu, Disney, everything, everything. Fuck them. Uh cable. It is the yeah, it's it's number one.
SPEAKER_01:Cable. What are you? 80, dude? Fucking cable's been dead for like 20 years.
SPEAKER_02:And then um like it's the number two search engine in the world. YouTube is. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Behind Google. Google owns yeah, so Google's number one, and then Google also owns YouTube.
SPEAKER_00:So it's like technically Google, but those fucking cunts are gonna take over the world.
SPEAKER_01:I swear to God, dude. Google's gonna fucking they're gonna have AI bots running the world.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, so I was basically getting at like uh I'm telling a lot of these people that like these businesses out here that are probably bigger than businesses that you and I have. Um, that like although YouTube is beating out Hulu, Disney, Netflix, and all that, like you almost need to treat your YouTube channel like that. Like I'm going to your YouTube page, and it's like, yeah, like I need shorts. That's like a you know, like a a category. Uh like they have playlists on YouTube is basically what I'm talking about building out. Like you have a shorts playlist, and then like you've like your bathroom series, and then you have your kitchen series, and then like you have your garage series or a basement series, like basically like dividing up, like, hey, like, oh, I just want to watch bathroom stuff because that's what I'm working on. It's like, hey, this is how you replace a toilet, this is this type of shower, regular bathtub, double vanity, whatever bullshit, you know.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. That's that's the fucking future, daddy. I'm telling you. So I've I've read or heard somewhere one time that most successful YouTubers are are informative. The more information that can you can teach, the better you're gonna do. Especially if you're good at teaching.
SPEAKER_00:Might be or showing, you know what I mean? It's video, might be why we're not doing so good. Uh no, we we don't have a niche. Also, if you made it this far into the podcast, like and subscribe, please, and thank you.
SPEAKER_02:Uh the hardest part for us is we don't have a niche where like you have that niche, you know what I mean? Home renovation. Hell yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so I find finally, I guess some people say I found it, but uh this I've seen a lot of comments that say Scotty K Fitness Vibes, DIY guy. Scotty K Fitness. Just a TikToker.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man. Okay, so what do you do with those comments? You just ignore them or do you troll them back? I don't no, I don't troll anything. I wouldn't even read them, brother. I can't read them all. There's no way. Yeah, I can't read. No, I'm just I I send Brian some and I have like a whole like shit talking trollish comment back, and I'm like, dude, just say yes and I'll hit send. And Ryan's like, no, dude, don't say that. Just leave it alone. I'd be there all day trolling people back. Like, that's like my old toxic habit with sitting there just trolling people.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, those viral videos, 20,000 comments. I mean, that's insane. I can't even scroll. I there's a part where you can scroll down the bottom to see hidden comments, people like cussing you out or hitting on you. I can't even get down that down there that far. So on some, you know. Uh but yeah, no, I just I look by it, I don't take the hate.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you can't, dude. I would just ignore it altogether. I feel like the comment section is like an ecosystem, right? And it just needs to be that way. The moment you like reach in and try to interfere or react is like is like fucking John reaching his arm down and like in the fucking pond and trying to noodle a catfish out. You know what I mean? It's just like trying to baptize Jesus. No, it's like I like where your head's at. Uh no, but like, yeah, you're fucking with the ecosystem, dude. Just let it run its course, dude. It's very interesting. The more comments, the better, and the more angst you build, the better, dude. Well, there's fuck you, no fuck you.
SPEAKER_02:There's also some hope on the horizon. Uh not hope, you're already going viral, but uh, I heard come January, which is actually the month that this airs, uh, like there's a certain month that like TikTok has to be sold to an American-based company. Oh, really? Yeah, and so their algorithm is gonna have to change because right now it's on the Chinese algorithm. Oh, yeah. So whichever American company buys it, it's gonna basically reset it to be like TikTok back in the beginning of COVID. Really? Like a newer algorithm.
SPEAKER_00:So like where are you getting your information from? And why would you fucking say something so controversial when you know we don't have somebody to I don't have my phone. We we have no way to verify that. Are you certain? Can't do you have a phone over there?
SPEAKER_02:You verify it while I keep yapping away. So also, like, is this cool because like some of the- What did you say? It has to be bought by an American company. When does YouTube have to be sold to an American or not YouTube, when does TikTok have to be sold to an American company? Tick uh YouTube's American already, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But well, I don't know if the alphabet company is technically in here, but yeah. Um but like YouTube's algorithm constantly gets an update every so often. It changes and changes. And we were just talking about like now they let you trial you can do three different thumbnails. So like you can upload a video and have one thumbnail, two thumbnails, three thumbnails. A B testing? Yeah, yeah. But it's like ABC testing now.
SPEAKER_04:I haven't tried that.
SPEAKER_00:I got it right here. Uh, and this is per the AI overview from Google who is eventually gonna take over the world. Uh Jim and I is running our shit now. Um, TikTok's ownership by Americans isn't finalized yet. However, a deal is in progress under President Trump's administration to transfer U.S. operations to American investors, potentially by late 2025 or early 2026, following a 2024 law requiring Bite Dance to sell or face a ban while initial deals were announced. Some details are still being worked out with Chinese approval needed for the final sale with major investors like Oracle being involved. Is that foreshadowing? I think we can call that foreshadowing. Oracle is gonna buy this motherfucker.
SPEAKER_02:But they also have like um big shoots to Oracle. You can now title test too with the A B testing. So like you can title this, you know, like Catching Up with Kyle Biggs, or you can title it like Kyle Biggs and Home Improvement, or you know, what yeah, but I'm saying like it'll test the two different titles in whichever one gets more clicks.
SPEAKER_04:I don't want to do that quite yet. I've I just want to be organic and where it goes with it.
SPEAKER_02:Building the habit, you know what I mean? It's just like going to the gym. Even if you show up in the parking lot and you walk in and you take a piss and you leave. Yeah, like you're at least you're building the habit of going to the gym every morning and taking a piss and leaving.
SPEAKER_00:Now, just so now we're on long form and talking about the actual YouTube channel. Where was it? Did you make an announcement on your TikTok that you were gonna start making long form videos? I can't remember.
SPEAKER_04:I don't believe so, no.
SPEAKER_00:You didn't? I might have. I've heard that somewhere, whether it was on your channel or you told me.
SPEAKER_04:I think that to you, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You texted it to me.
SPEAKER_04:I think I said I was gonna start it and I was working on a couple at that point.
SPEAKER_00:So, and you're only how many weeks in with like the long form two format. Two weeks. Two weeks in. So is your goal like a video a week, or is it just gonna be like hit like hit and miss kind of when I can get it done, I'll get it done.
SPEAKER_04:A video a week as long as uh I have something to do.
SPEAKER_00:And I've not seen either video. So which one like what's the lengths of these videos?
SPEAKER_04:Uh well, as when I say long form, I'm talking like vertical, right? Like you watch on. Horizontal? Uh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I got you, I got you.
SPEAKER_04:Um minutes? Still good. 955 on the first one, and then like two minutes fifty-five on the second one.
SPEAKER_00:That could be off. Average informative kind of YouTube video. YouTube tops out at 12 hours.
SPEAKER_04:Oh. So you're good. Oh, the 12 hour fireplace. That'd be a good one. Big fan of that one.
SPEAKER_02:I tried to love the 12-hour fireplace. I tried to make some white noise channel, and I had some videos or whatever, and I like made the videos like 14 hours long, and YouTube was like, Oh, no shit. Yeah, they were like 11 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds. God bless YouTube.
SPEAKER_04:The first long form, I think it's doing decent 9,000, 10,000 views. Okay, better than us. And that's just I was a uh a selfie sticking me, my face in my shop talking about the barn that I built or how built, and then uh and you had to shoot it left and right, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Damn, that's wild.
SPEAKER_04:But there's a selfie camera or with like uh a thimble or a gimbal? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just levels it. And then the second one, shoot, I don't even remember what it was. Uh it's just doing some DIY spray foam in my shop, just in a can, like spray foam installation.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Did you do the mask or no? Is your throat still burning? What's the situation? You did wear a mask? Okay, I like that. Setting the standard for the folks at the end. They said you're lazy, but don't be a dumbass. Yeah. I was talking to literally the guy with the winter green in while I was playing poker last night. He was uh talking about how uh he and another guy just started a fucking like insulation company, and they had learned the difference between like the like the dispensable disposable cans, like the spray foam insulation. Right, that you have to blow in, I guess. I don't fucking know dick about insulation, but he was like, Yeah, you remember that time that we we got certified in like fucking two hours and went and did a job on the third hour and we did the spray foam one.
SPEAKER_01:Neither one of them wore a mask. And they left there and their throats were on fire.
SPEAKER_02:Oh damn. When I worked at a steel fabrication place and I was learning powder coating, they had like this guy, he had like no front teeth, he had like canines back on both sides, right? And then he wouldn't wear a face. Mask while powder coating. So like he'd take lunch, he'd be like powder coating green shit. He looked like Mike Wazowski, like in the face, like just big head, no teeth, just like canines. Like green face every night to get that shit off. I mean, or aware of mask. I mean, I don't. I mean, it's powder, so as long as you're not like in the oven like Ann Frank, you're pretty good. Uh big shh a rough one.
SPEAKER_00:That's probably gonna bleep the name on that, but yeah. I think I'll leave the name in. I think I'll leave the part out. Jesus Christ. Gotcha. I don't think she went into the anyways. Uh so yeah, but I don't think she wrote the book.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god, leave it alone. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Um, where the fuck? Dude, my therapist was talking about Helen Keller and see her more often. Yeah. She was talking like about how like Helen Keller couldn't hear, hear, or see, but like she knew there was a god or whatever. And I was like, dude, don't. I was like, I'm maybe too much of a conspiracy theorist for you to bring bringing up Helen Keller. I don't think Helen Keller did half the stuff they say Helen Keller did. She flew a plane. Yeah, maybe like maybe like fake joystick while Alex was in the actual driver's seat, you know, doing the controls. You know what I mean? Yeah, she drove a car. Yeah, let's see what Gemini has.
SPEAKER_00:Uh Keller wrote a book fly up which I don't believe. Uh question mark. Let's see. Yes, Helen Keller flew a plane in 1946 for about 20 minutes from Rome to Paris. For who?
SPEAKER_02:For the Japanese taking the controls.
SPEAKER_00:She took the controls of a Douglas Sky Master with her interpreter, Polly Thompson, uh, spelling instructions into her arm, a feat demonstrating her incredible control and spirit and Christianity. I'm just joking. I added that last part. Uh no, yeah, I told you she flew a fucking plane.
SPEAKER_02:Was this one of those diversity hires that the airlines were trying to do?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, honestly, they were like, you know what? We got too many fucking straight white men. We need a fucking blind, deaf, dumb white lady. Oh, shoot. Yeah, dude. Shout out to uh Delta Airlines.
SPEAKER_04:So, how long have you guys been doing long form YouTube?
SPEAKER_00:Uh well, do you count Borden Bros? I don't count this. I count Borden Brothers, and we did that for about a year. Okay. Uh Thomas and I together. This I don't really count because I mean, yeah, it's like, yeah, it's long form content, but there's really no like action shot. It's just fucking flip the shit on. Let's talk about some cool shit. And if it's engaging enough, people stay tuned for about 45 minutes and then they tune out. Or you got some diehards that stay the whole time. I gotcha. Shout out to Paul Bragan.
SPEAKER_02:It's interesting. So we set our episodes up to premiere at 8 12 uh every Tuesday, 8 12 in the morning. 812, baby. And it's it's live, so that's like a live premiere. So like if you walk if you tune in at 8 12, there's no commercial, like there's no ads. Okay. And you can watch it all the way through.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But like uh every now and then I pop on there, like during the release time, and it's cool to see like three people watching it live. You know what I mean? You know, we get those three bucks. Streaming to like streaming is the next wave. 2026 streaming is going to be the move. Now the downside is like I make jokes like I just did, you know, 15 minutes ago, and you're off a platform.
SPEAKER_00:You're fucked. Yeah, they're gonna be like, hmm, these guys are awfully anti-Helen Keller. Uh let's shut it down. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I always said, like, I'm I'm so close to digital ID, but as soon as they pull digital ID, it's like I can't buy groceries anymore. My jokes are too dark, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That that thing I said about being on the winning team when it came to Israel, that's gone. We'd be done there. I think I've I've done TikTok live like three times.
SPEAKER_04:What's that like?
SPEAKER_00:I don't even know anymore.
SPEAKER_02:That's even more awkward than oh, yeah, because people can like you can set it up to where like people can like uh Gary V had one, right? And he set it up to where basically like when people would like put like a cowboy emoji, it would go, yeehaw! Like in the background. So you're like trying to talk, and there's like random noises and shit going on. There's some crazy schizophrenic, you know what I mean? That's basically fucking.
SPEAKER_04:And I was just eating dinner and people will just send you gifts, and like I think what's a gift? Like money, a cowboy hat on the top of your head, or a rose. Just it's you know, I don't know how it works. The coins you buy, you buy five hundred thousand coins that's worth like, I don't know, I I have no idea. 20 bucks and then you send them little gifts for that. But what I the different form of content I do want to get to and into next year. This year I grinded hard, worked a lot. I want to slow it down, do some shit. I enjoy it more. So I enjoy watching TikTok live drummers. So nice. They actually take their acoustic set, get it set up to electronic, which is not too too too too much, but uh you can do it here.
SPEAKER_02:Our interface can plug into drums.
SPEAKER_04:Oh no shit.
SPEAKER_00:Is it that's not the idea? I it's a Scarlet 1892. Okay, okay. Yeah, so literally it it can we can have a whole band in here.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, a fucking small concert in here, dude. So they just you you're just drumming, you know, a list of twelve songs or so, and then if you hit a thousand likes to get to that song and so forth, take recommendations if you can if you can play them. But that's something I really enjoy doing, and I think that's cool content.
SPEAKER_02:What was it like get getting like your first amount of money on TikTok?
SPEAKER_04:It was weird. Uh, so you have to make a minute-long video. So I was like, what am I gonna do for a minute long to that anyone anyone would want to watch? You know, I think the first one maybe made like$1.78 or something. Hell yeah, dude. But I don't even remember what my first minute long video was. That chapstick's not gonna pay for it. So wait yourself, brother.
SPEAKER_02:You can only make money on minute-long ones? Yeah, yeah. Really? Isn't that their max? Uh or is it a minute?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I think it's 90. I think it's 90 seconds.
SPEAKER_04:No, I think you have 10-minute videos on there. Really? What? But we're fucking up, dude. You get 10,000 followers, you're getting the creator program.
SPEAKER_02:I ain't buying into TikTok till it's American.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I probably shouldn't have been posting all my stuff on there yet, but big shout out to Orbit.
SPEAKER_02:Now the nice part is is I highly doubt they wipe the platform. But you know what I mean? Like you already have all the content, and then like I've been like I was telling my sister he's got a small farm. I'm like, dude, start making content now and just sit on it. Wait for it to go American, wait for that algorithm to get reset, and then just like dump it. Yeah, but like somebody like you that's already got an established following, you know, I don't recommend that. You know what I mean? Just keep doing what you're doing.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, surely they can't wipe it all.
SPEAKER_02:No, I would assume not.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I don't know, dude. Uh I you say surely.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, here's a fun are you are you paying for your Snapchat memories?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I heard about that. Oh fuck, no. I'm not doing that dumb shit. No, but real quick, on that point though, think about all those people that got famous with Vine, and then they fucking disappeared off planet Earth. Like they got rid of Vine, and then these people fuck they're dead. I don't even know. They could be dead. We don't know. They just disappeared, they were gone, and then they like well that's why you build an email list like this.
SPEAKER_02:Like, if our podcast got taken down, we wouldn't lose all those subscribers. We'd have 700 emails, and we can just be like, hey, we're on Rumble now, you know. I gotcha. Oh yeah, we're on truth. Uh I do I do think some of the like the the like Chinese band shit's kind of retarded though. Dude, I mean like DJI, you can't buy anything DJI right now in the States. Yeah, that's crazy. Other than what's in inventory. Yeah, DJI is a lot of things. It's not only is it mic, it's the Osmos, the little hand cameras already built onto a gimbal. It's the wireless mics, it's the drones. Make a bunch of shit. They just came out with a 360 camera and I wanted to buy it, not shipping in the US.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you could put a camera on that table right there, and it would shoot all three of us on one camera. 360, like in 1080.
SPEAKER_02:And then I just have to I just have to like look at the video, crop it to you, export it there, turn it, turn the video to me, export it there, turn the video to Brian, export it there. There's no need for all the cameras, other cameras. It's a big money saver.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, and it's fucking nice. It shoots in 4K you can upload in 1080, so it's fucking super high quality too. So it's pretty dumb.
SPEAKER_02:What has been some of your uh learning curves with the video thing? Because you didn't have any video experience beforehand.
SPEAKER_04:Not at all. And the first TikTok I posted was about a blue-collar guy and uh a golf chick. You know, that's like the most it's cool. Yeah, anyway, it got like 15,000 views or something. I'm like, what the fuck? That's that's weird. I thought I figured I'd get 200 views. And I don't even know why I started it. And uh it's it's been I don't know. It's been weird.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Interesting.
SPEAKER_02:What uh what what do you think is like maybe an average that you get from TikTok?
SPEAKER_04:Now probably 20,000.
SPEAKER_02:Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But I don't know if if I s take those viral videos up, if that takes the average up, I guess.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, like we have a video on uh how to pass a military drug test. It's from like two years ago. It has nothing to do with how to pass a military drug test. And it's yeah, kinda. Yeah, but it it dude, it gets it gets like 5,000 views a month. And it's like that's just residual, like 5,000, like it's on my daily thing. It's like, oh, it got 1k views today. Oh, 1.6 from like three years, boredom bros?
SPEAKER_00:No, from this podcast. Okay, okay. Because we've been doing this podcast now. This is all this this we've just passed our six-year anniversary. Going into year six.
SPEAKER_04:So you guys monetized on YouTube? No, we are not now.
SPEAKER_02:Uh a thousand subscribers. There's two different ways to do it. You can get yeah, what's the rule on that? So, yeah, it's a thousand subscribers and uh like X amount of views, or you can go monetize off shorts, but it's like a million views.
SPEAKER_04:I gotcha.
SPEAKER_02:Which I don't know how far in a in a year period or in a certain there's like a time frame on it. Oh yeah, we would not hit that. I don't think we're we're getting like 40,000.
SPEAKER_00:He's the numbers guy. He like looks at all the comments, all the fucking data.
SPEAKER_02:We gotta download on every continent. I'm just that's cool. Yeah, that's wild. Like, and it's crazy to like look at like uh the Spotify year in review came up. Yeah, and it was like showing us the top five countries we're like big in, and like Slovakia or Czech Republic's like number three.
SPEAKER_00:Big shout out to Somalia. Yeah, they're checking us out. I like that. That's really cool. Yeah, dude, they're fucking stealing fucking US ships and listening to the Days Graham podcast, and I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_04:So I find it enjoyable. It's alright. No, you're good. You're good, just trying to keep it going. I find it enjoyable if if it has some value to it. So like my old stuff don't really feel like it's that valuable. So I want to get into just helping strangers, trying to teach something that I know or don't know. And eventually, do you have you guys seen that guy? SB mowing?
SPEAKER_00:Is that the guy that's like, I'm your dad if you didn't have a dad?
SPEAKER_02:No, this is the guy that like goes around the neighborhood and finds like the people like that basically like have been fined for their yards or about to like their their landscaping is like fucked. Yeah. And he goes through and he's like, Hey, like, do I have permission to like take care of your yard and film the transformation? Yeah, and they're like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So it's satisfying because he's mowing it, cleaning it up, and then sometimes the cops get quick get called, but given a good edge, yeah, does a nice edger. But he he's doing good for the people, providing value, and it's interesting content. I want to get to that to that point. If I'm bringing enough income on YouTube, just put it straight back into the community somehow. Right, right, right. Like someone who needs a water heater changed out or um Yeah, because them fuckers ain't cheap, dude. Yeah, well, just the other day I saw someone on Facebook, hey, our our furnace went out, like we don't have the money to fix it. Any recommendations? If I could see that, take the money I've made on YouTube, go do it for 'em with that money. Right. And then generate more money.
SPEAKER_02:Or you spend six hundred dollars on a snake machine that like a company's gonna charge you three hundred dollars just to show up, and you can just, hey, yeah, yeah. This cost me six hundred dollars. Um pay my gas and I'll come fucking clean your line out or something.
SPEAKER_04:There's another guy in uh Baton Rouge, his name on uh social media is Uncle John. He's like, today I I built uh a fence for my neighbor, y'all, because that's just the kind of guy I am, y'all. He's really good content. He I guess he's like I felt like I was there.
SPEAKER_00:Just like it. He's in the room.
SPEAKER_04:He's he's a different tone than my skin color, though.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I was gonna say Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dude. Those are different fucking those are different people down there, dude.
SPEAKER_04:So from what I take from his content, is just he any money he makes, he gives it back. And I think that's really cool. That's fucking radical.
SPEAKER_02:Essentially how Mr. Beast got so big was he took everything that that video made and just put it right into the next video and just kept that ball rolling.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you kind of have to, dude, because like you're gonna have like what do they call it when you make money on something? Like uh like taxes? Tax runs. Oh like return, something return.
SPEAKER_02:A return on investment, ROI?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, kinda. When you have that it's not really that. It's like when you make the money back that you spent and then what's left over residual in uh whatever. Anyways, when you have that additional income, once you've covered what you spent to make this thing, like most like uh selfish or like um I don't I hesitate to say ignorant because they're not ignorant, but like they're I think selfish is probably the best way. Selfish is probably the best word, but like God bless you, most selfish people would be like, oh, I made$9,000 off this one video, I'm gonna pay my truck off or fucking go buy a cheetah, I don't know, whatever. You know what I mean? Whatever people do, fucking rich people with I don't know. You pull up Pooh Shistee and you get out of jail and five foreign cars waiting on you. But if you make that 9k on that video and you're like, damn, I got$9,000 off one video. Let me fucking put five into this next video and take four and buy everyone in my neighborhood that needs groceries, groceries.
SPEAKER_02:Do you think you need to make a video on that storage tote thing? You're more than welcome to come do it in my garage.
SPEAKER_04:My first one. If you uh since it's fucking laugh, dude. Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, if you I can't fucking dude, I can't with you.
SPEAKER_02:If you want to buy the wood, I will absolutely build it for you. Yeah, I got a bunch of rabbit hutches that need built too. If you want to learn that. Holy fucking that I got a floor that's falling in. I got some gaps in my doors.
SPEAKER_00:Are you fucking almost buying a contractor? Relax.
SPEAKER_04:No, I'm I'm gonna record it for him and edit it. All I think all I think of like when I see something like I came in here and looked at that crack up there that needs caulk, like content. I don't know, it's just rolling around in my head now.
SPEAKER_02:That's that's that's how I am, dude. Like we went to Wrecking Rosary and I met Brian's priest, and I was like, So do you guys live stream your mass? And he's like, Well, we kind of got the and I was like explaining him the setup and all this and that, and Brian's like, dude, quit selling him. I'm like, I'm not like this is all I think about is content.
SPEAKER_00:I'm like, bro, relax. We're just we're fucking they're gonna end up doing it, and it's not gonna be with you guys. Yeah, okay, and that's fine, but like and to Tom's credit, like he's always constantly thinking about stuff, but like he's always con I don't know, I'm just more of a like, I don't know. I just like kick back and like let's just enjoy the moment, dude.
SPEAKER_02:Like I I had lunch this week with uh two different like boards basically, and like during it, I like I got locked out of one place and like they have like a can scan code to come in. I'm like, dude, right there, 45 second video promoting your exclusive membership. Okay. And the guy was like, never thought of that. He's like, and now he's like, I think I might have to hire you. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I'm like, shit, yeah. Yeah, dude, he's like rain man for fucking social media, this guy.
SPEAKER_02:Fucking I'm just an ideas guy. You know what I mean? That's I don't have any capital.
SPEAKER_04:So like My first idea of giving back, because I'm in the power power industry, you know. I just wanted to take some money off of TikTok income. Go to a random house that I had seen this previous week, like when I was on call or something, it's run down. Maybe they look like they're struggling, and just say, hey, I know our power bill is high. Randomly knock on the door, don't tell them who I'm associated with, and say, How much was your most expensive power bill this year? And then pay that.
SPEAKER_02:Kind of order how much how much do I have to pay to get you off the payment plan that you're on? That's a good idea. You know, you you owe two grand to get off this payment plan.
SPEAKER_00:Because the unnamed power company does enforce those often. The fucking shit. Yeah, the the monthly payment plan.
SPEAKER_02:We talked uh a guy you might want to get in touch with. We had him on the podcast uh a few months ago, Austin Maxheimer. He's a big um, I forget the name of the community thing that he does, but he wrote a book called Neighborhoods and Jesus, and it's about like local neighborhoods, like helping local neighborhoods. Okay. Is he from around here? Yeah, he's a uh he works like he's a Southside.
SPEAKER_00:He's a priest at uh He's not a priest. Or he's a pastor at uh not a pastor. He's not a pastor?
SPEAKER_02:No, he just works for like a Christian-based nonprofit. Damn, I thought I could have sworn I thought that man was a pastor. No. He's got a doctor. He's uh he's got a doctorate in ministry, though.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, that's what I'm thinking about.
SPEAKER_02:They call it a demon.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's got a demon. Interesting. Uh it's cool, man. Uh Protestants don't believe in angels and demons, so it works out. Um, so uh, but no, I think that's sick, dude. Like being able to like have that extra cash that and I think it is selfless and it is important that like it would if it were up to me and the days groom just starts rolling in cash, right? Like the number one thing is obviously we're shooting basically under, you know, like in we have gear that could be upgraded, so like we would upgrade gear and bring a better like product, but short of that, like it would be killer if we were making like five grand a month to like take four grand of that to somebody that needs it or an organization that needs it or whatever.
SPEAKER_02:Well, now that we're no longer in a house and we're in like a separate location, we've talked about like taking a homeless guy to be fit or playing at fitness and like letting them get a shower, taking them to eat, and then like bringing them in and be like, tell us your story, and then like let's let's get us you a hotel room for the night. That's a good idea. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:Have any pod potters done that?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, like you've got a few, not necessarily that have done that, like you got the guy that cuts hair. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean? Like he's going out there and like he started cutting homeless people's hair and like interviewing them and then sick. You got that one YouTube page that'll like pull out in some like crack head and then set them down there and just like tell me about crack. You know what I mean? And they go through their life.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that one's on that uh company that used to own the magazine, Raw. No. I don't know. Um I've only seen a few of them. They used to be on Fuse TV. What's the fucking name of that?
SPEAKER_04:Uh but they don't they won't sit down and do a pod with them.
SPEAKER_00:No, yeah, for an hour, just sitting and talking and like this is uh this is a creation of I religious or not, like this person, you know what I mean, like creation of God or a fellow man, it doesn't matter. It's your fucking neighbor. Like this is a human being just like you and I. Yeah. So sit down and fucking talk to him. I'd like to. Actually, we're gonna fucking fuck you. We're doing it. Uh fucking we're doing it. We're just gonna fucking do it. Whatever, we'll come up with a budget for what we need for the whole extravaganza for the whole thing. Yeah, we'll do it like we did the beginning of the podcast.
SPEAKER_02:We'll put like$50 a paycheck back in a month.
SPEAKER_00:$100,$200. Let's get a just a fucking uh homeless man or woman, child, whatever, dog, doesn't matter. And we'll fucking put a budget together for it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So I just started this this year. Fuck yeah, dude. I don't know. Uh in November, I'll get$100 out. And I go to gas stations a lot at work, you know. Yeah. Hey, I get a lot of beggars, can I get something? You gotta get those white monsters, dude. Oh, 100%. Yeah, I'm I'm actually on the Red Bull uh monk fruit red bullshit, dude. Changing it up, changing it up. Okay. Yeah. Uh I'm with you though. But$10 or$100,$10 bills, and every time someone asks for money,$10. 10 people, 10 different people.
SPEAKER_02:It's pretty cool. The uh like one thing that I hope to get into when I'm older, because is uh have you seen the hundred men who care here in town? It's a hundred dudes, they all throw in like a hundred dollars every few months and then they donate all that money to an organization. So it's like ten thousand dollars, but it's only it's the literally the name 100 guys who care. So there's only a hundred people, so you have to wait for somebody to fall out and then try to be that one in. That's really cool. But it's like I almost want to create my own group of maybe not even that, like you know, like just 20s or whatever, like a few of us that throw in 20s and just go change somebody's day.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I threw away twenty dollars last night. That could have gone to somebody else, right? Yeah, playing poker. Right. I'm just having a good time drinking bushlight, playing the horsey game. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04:I'm like you gave it to your buddy who has plenty.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, dude, he fucking railed me, by the way. Also, by the way, if somehow Tanner Babs sees this episode, thanks for spotting me 10 bucks, big dog.
SPEAKER_02:Uh he said, I'll get you back, big dog.
SPEAKER_01:He said, Come on back in, dude. I'll let you owe me some money. Uh yeah, I lost that ten dollars as well.
SPEAKER_00:Um, but yeah, so uh you think about it that way, and you're like, oh well, I spent 30 bucks on a fucking uh pepper grinder or something. There's a dude on the street that could take that 30 bucks and get like a week worth of fucking meals with it, you know what I mean? Or a jacket or a pair of socks, dude. It's not anything, you know what I mean? Do you guys see the angel tree stuff?
SPEAKER_04:Uh at um Walmart, they have an angel tree. I think they set it up early or late November. A bunch of kids that are either they're in need, they put some stuff on there that what they need, what they want. And I think there's a price match or a price of minimum price of like thirty bucks per child. Okay. Instead of me, my sister, and my mom buying all of each other's gifts this year, we did that for. For three three children.
SPEAKER_02:A lot of organizations do that. Like uh Law Man here has one in his complex that they did. And then like uh Young and Established, they do all sorts of stuff like that. Like back to school season, it's like donate a backpack and you put like all the school supplies in it and you drop it off.
SPEAKER_00:Y is fucking nice, dude.
SPEAKER_04:Have have you guys had them on? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude. Uh I think um the owner it I work with his uncle, I believe so. Nice. Yeah, he's super solid. He's solid.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, good fucking.
SPEAKER_02:Grew up in Fossy, stays in the community, helps big, big helps the community. Oh yeah, dude. Killer dude.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I dude, I there is something I we need to do a fucking, we need to do like a charity or something. Because there really is something about like giving back. I like, dude, I do this weird shit. Like you with the hundred dollar bills, right? Or the you go get a hundred, split into tens, and then you don't fucking uh tell people until today. You don't tell people about that. Right. You don't like braggadociously be like, oh yeah, I gave fucking nine homeless guys. Yeah, it's just because we're on the subject. You're not at like a wine taste and just like look at what I did. That's the kind of guy I am. I like doing shit that like people don't see. I because I I there's people out there that do like to donate and then they're very proud that they donate.
SPEAKER_02:On a platform like this, it's good to say it because it's like somebody out here that's listening to this right now, it's kind of like when you wave at somebody, like that's contagious, you know. I mean, if I wave at you in traffic or whatever, then like you're gonna wave at somebody or like smile or you know, whatever. You can actually change somebody's day. But like, just like you're saying, like, I don't like to like if I see a veteran sitting at a table alone in a restaurant, I'll buy his meal. But like, I try to leave before the waitress brings him his like check to say that, like, oh, that guy over there bought it. No, I'd I'd rather go outside and like fucking cuck in the window to see how the dude reacts, you know. Yeah, catch me outside a golden corral like this. Dude, this is like cuck of cucks.
SPEAKER_04:Have you guys ever sat down with someone by themselves, an old guy, an old veteran, and just you know, eat eat your meal with them or something?
SPEAKER_02:No. I've always thought about it. I want to try that. Yeah, that's that's what like I was like when I bought that guy's meal, it was just like an older guy who was sitting there by himself, he had his veteran hat on, and it was me, my fiance, and I was like, Man, like I kind of want to go over there and sit at his table, but I was like also at the same point in time, like my social batteries like low right now, you know what I mean? And like, yeah, I feel like you gotta have like that talkative, which I feel like through the podcast we can basically talk to anybody now, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00:No, uh, I don't do it because I don't genuin generally generally I don't like most people. Uh so like for me to I'm not sitting with any strangers. I'll do something nice for you. Here's a cool one. But I just like to sit and talk, like I'm like, dude.
SPEAKER_02:That's fair enough. You know yourself. Has anybody locally come up to you and been like, oh, I've seen your TikTok? Twice now. Hell yeah. What's that like? Brian gets all those. Nobody's ever came up to me and they're like, dude, I see your podcast. Brian called me, he's like, hey man, another guy's like he saw me on the buttons. I'm like, dude, fuck.
SPEAKER_04:So some people you don't know have recognized you?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well so one the most recent one was a guy I've not seen in like 15 years. So we know each other, but back then he didn't have hair and he would like shave his head all the time, and I had hair. And then when I saw him, I no longer have hair, and he's got hair down to his fucking ass. Damn. And we and it funny enough, I saw him another time after that because I had called you right after that happened. Um and I saw him at my church. He goes to my fucking church. I for no fucking reason, but he normally goes to a different mass or whatever. Different time. He works nights. So and he was like, Yeah, I had to squeeze it in this morning. I saw him at fucking church. That's cool. Yeah, but he stopped me while my wife and I were walking the dogs. He was like, Brian Day. I was like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Who's asking? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:You work for the government? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:Like, I know you asked me first, but how was that for you?
SPEAKER_00:It's fine. This is good, yeah. It's is cool. Like, I'll stop and talk to anybody briefly. Yeah. Briefly. But you've had a half he's you've had a half or six times. Like ten times. Yeah, a few times, like where people are like, Brian?
SPEAKER_04:That's cool.
SPEAKER_02:The days grim podcast. No, they always call it the grim days.
SPEAKER_00:He called it the grim days. He's like, Grim Grim Days, right? And I was like, The Days Grim, yeah, that's us. Ah, yeah, man, I love that shit. I love the name too. That's so cool. Yeah, I think it's okay.
SPEAKER_04:Is that why you guys had the death of the week? Kind of a grimmy death.
SPEAKER_00:That's how the death of the week got into the mix. The show was called the Days Grim because it used to be Corey and I together, so plural the days, and then one Grim. I got you Grim, the Days Grimm. Didn't need AI for that, just needed uh a few joints. Yeah, just good old-fashioned bourbon and poor decisions came up with that fucking podcast title, so now we're stuck with it.
SPEAKER_04:Uh so the first time it was at uh uh that that little shop, that little butcher shop by Barry Plastics. I know you've been there.
SPEAKER_00:The old time stand by standby one second. Are we fucking dead dead in the water? Oh make it reconnect faster. We're in the I'm in the heat of the moment. I'm three-quarter chub right now. Trying to fucking pop these rocks off, dude. I'm so tired of this shit. Riverside has never given us fucking issues until we move to the fucking building.
SPEAKER_05:Is it the fucking internet? Is it gonna reconnect or fucking not, dude? God bless America. I'm so sorry, Kyle.
SPEAKER_00:That is a different beast though, like because it's happened to me with the people that most, if not all, but two have been people that I mean really I don't know any of 'em. Because like that guy I hadn't seen in fifteen years, and another person I hadn't seen in like since fucking elementary school. They knew me only because they saw the podcast and recognized the name. They were like, I didn't even recognize you. So those two I essentially kind of knew. They knew me from like years back, but I mean essentially, yeah, they were strangers. And then there were like I I can recall like four other four other instances where it was like who the f like don't even know who they are. Like one one, I was in a different city. Yeah. Like, so fucking strange. So strange. But it doesn't bother me. Every time I'm like, do you watch or do you listen? You know, like what do you like? What do you fucking what can I do to make it less shitty or whatever? You know what I mean? Is it gonna come back on? I'm just gonna raw dog it the old school way. Is it running? Yeah, okay. Like we were just saying, yeah, so it it's weird. Like I've been several times stopped, and like I was just telling you off off air, like one time out of the city of Evansville. So it is weird, but what city? Uh Illinois. Where the fuck was I? I think we may have been in St. Louis. My wife and I again. I feel like I get stopped a lot with with Kristen too. That's awesome. She's been at three sightings, if you will. I never go out though, strange. So you know that's probably why. What are yours like? Strange?
SPEAKER_04:No, I just I'm I'm throwing off guard. They ever take their top off? No, not yet. Uh I wanna I want to stop and talk and get to know them a little bit, but you know, you can only allocate so much time to someone. Uh first one is at Lattern Life. It was uh a woman, she was like, Hey, she came, found me. I I follow you on TikTok. I was like, Well, thanks for the support, you know. Hell yeah, brother. And she's like, Can I get a picture? I was like, Oh god, don't ask for an autograph. Yeah, no, that was good. And I was headed to another set, so jumped out of there. And then uh just recently, two or three weeks ago at uh old time deli, you know, oh yeah, yeah, by Barry. Yeah, yeah, the cashier. I see him maybe once a week. We just small talk, has it has going, you know? Thanks. And he was like, hey man, I saw one of your videos on TikTok. I started following you. I was like, thanks for the support. Definitely talked to him much longer. He's a really cool guy. Yeah, he's a better beard than you.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, uh, don't be so dickish about it. Uh you got a nice beard on it. Dude, my beard looks like shit right now because I went to the gym, didn't shower, got those doughs, cut them all up to shit so you could have your little fucking my organs? Yeah, your little fucking basket of goodness. All for you. That's why I look and smell like shit today. Yeah. So you're fucking welcome. Finally living like a man. You fucking filthy animal. Jesus Christ. I had to deal with filthy animals.
SPEAKER_02:How to clean out so unappreciated six rabbit hutches today, dude.
SPEAKER_04:And then just the other day I was leaving uh Drake's. We were working, three of us guys were just leaving, and some guy I've never met in my life said, Hey cow, keep making your videos. I was like, Thanks, man. Oh yeah, brother.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, Drake's is pretty fire. And I think semi-local. Like, I mean, I think they started in Kentucky, but still like in the traffic.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know shit about Drake's. It's good. I know it's a nice spot.
SPEAKER_04:It's a mixed burger and sushi. They still got the pool tables?
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_00:But they got like a oh no, I'm thinking of that Irish spot on Green River. Drake's is the restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking of some Irish pubs. Yeah, I was thinking of O'Brien's. My bad.
SPEAKER_02:No, they got like a fireside like spot like right now when it's super cold. They got like a fire going in there. A real fire going in. Yeah. Ooh, I like that. And then they have uh Kentucky Bourbon Ale on tap.
SPEAKER_00:They're very pro-Veteran. I know that. Um they do like uh they do some kind of like specials and shit for for veterans on like Memorial Day, Veterans Day, stuff like that. Like they like give you a free potato or something, and it's really fucking sick. Oh yeah. Yeah, I got a buddy. Sweet. Well, you know Chad. Chad's up on all that. Like, um, he's big on like celebrating the Veterans Day and the Memorial Day and stuff. And he was like, You gotta get out to Drake because they got the best deals in town. When's he come back to the States? Uh, he's now actually a citizen of uh Dubai, I'm pretty sure. So he's not coming back. Uh damn. Yeah, bro. He's gone. Rest in peace to Chad Dad. Uh so but yeah, dude, it's fucking crazy when um you're just doing this thing that you like enjoy, and then people are like, Are you fucking and like, yeah, it's surreal.
SPEAKER_04:I won't I will not sign an autograph though. That's just weird. On a titty? Nothing. I mean, come on, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Uh don't be a dick about it. You know what I mean? If they're if they get it tattooed, that's sick, dude. Yeah, dude. Actually, funny you say that. Uh Steve O. We gotta have these guys on. One of my buddies out in Mount Vernon, he has like a social media group called like the Rad Dads. Has anybody heard of these folks? I haven't. You have heard of the Rad Dads? Well, I know one of them. I went to high school with one of them. And a group, there's like six dudes or whatever, they all got kids. And uh one of them was at a concert or something, I don't remember what it was, and they ran into Steve-O from fucking Jackass. Shit. And they were like, Steve-O, Steve-O, and they like linked up with him and they got to sit and talk with Steve-O for a little bit, and then like gave him a shirt or a board or something, and then Steve-O fucking tattooed one of the fucking rad dads. No way, yeah, and it's all over their social media and shit, which is super sick. So shout out to the rad dads, but like had a machine with him, yeah. Cause like Steve O's big into tattoos now, so he's just like traveling around just like tattooing people.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, for was it free? They're probably hungry. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:He probably probably had to pay him, I I guess. That's still cool as hell. But they got pictures with Steve O and like, yeah, it was just like one of the rad dads. So, dude, fucking shout out to the rad dads on uh Evansville social media, wherever the wherever they are or whatever they're doing, dude.
SPEAKER_04:I got a tattoo machine. I started messing around on fake skin. Oh, what's that like? A lot more respect for tattoo artists. Yeah, isn't that that shit is hard? I put a little dot on my palm. Can you draw? No. You fucked up. I wish. I can't draw it.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like you should be able to draw before you own a tattoo guy.
SPEAKER_04:At least trace. Yeah, I can't even trace like a square.
SPEAKER_01:It's like comes out like an oblong, like a fucking egg. Oh, fuck, this isn't for me.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, but it's tough. I know you brought up tattoos a minute ago. Uh who do who did the sleeve for you?
SPEAKER_00:Uh, Ryder Kloss, and um, he is the son of Revolution. Yeah, he's the son of Shad Kloss, who has a killer fucking story. I need to get him fucking in here. Um, he was tattooing in Evansville so long ago that it was illegal. It was like bootleg tattooing.
SPEAKER_04:Damn.
SPEAKER_00:That's how long he's been in the game. So I need to get him in here. I need to do Shad Kloss. Everlasting impressions.
SPEAKER_04:That's a f the one on Washington was the first legal shop here, is what I heard.
SPEAKER_00:He did not work there. He didn't work there. No, he worked under a bridge.
SPEAKER_04:They were out of the kitchen. Yeah. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00:It was illegal. So like he got in trouble. I think he got in trouble so many times that he had to like start inking dudes up. He moved his operation down to Kentucky. I think he was in like a basement or like a crawl space or something. But then um, so he got busted so many times or got in trouble, and then like went to where it was legal, Illinois, Kentucky, somewhere else, and was tattooing there, and then it became legal here. He moved back to his home state, uh, the great uh Evansville, Indiana, and started Revolution Inc. Sweet. Yeah, he's got a killer store. I need to get him in here, dude. Big shoots to Shad. Again, that's the dad, but Ryder Kloss is the one that did all my stuff. He does a lot of like cartoons and stuff. So like the bold lines and the shading and stuff and all the color, that was like right up his alley. Should have got that door.
SPEAKER_02:Huh?
SPEAKER_00:Should have got that door tat. That door backpack tat. Uh, it's still got a whole other arm to work with, but I was thinking the other day, do you have leg tats? Yeah, a few. How much harder is that than your arms and upper body?
SPEAKER_04:Uh quite a bit. Yeah. That's kind of what I figured.
SPEAKER_00:Because when you pinch your thigh, it hurts so much worse than it does your arm.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, if you're gonna get a long session piece, you're not gonna have fun.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So I was thinking the other day, some one of my actually Corey's wife got uh ankle tats by her sister.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but chicks are different. They do take pain better. Well, not only that, but like I find like like my cousin got some like tattoo around his ankle and all the way up his leg, and he was like, that's the worst one I've got. And then like a chick will get one there, and they're like, Oh, the foot and all that, that's not bad. But then they get one on like their elbow and they're like, oh no!
SPEAKER_00:Well, that should do it for everybody. Dude, when I did my elbow, I was like, dude, go harder. Really? Yeah, I was into it. He didn't get his elbow colored in, though. He went around it. I think I'm gonna color this one though. I think I'm gonna do some numbers on this elbow. I don't know. I haven't decided what numbers yet. That was like falling off a skateboard on repeat. Yeah, it's not that bad. I find that like I find that when you hit like a bad spot, like the armpit's pretty rough. When you do like a rough spot, like the inner arm up here, it it sucks initially, right? It feels like it's your armpit.
SPEAKER_04:Are you are you on your armpit?
SPEAKER_00:I'm like right up in it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's pretty damn close.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm right up in it. So you get up in that pit, sucks pretty bad in niche, right? But then after like five, ten minutes, you're like, you almost become like numb to the like it becomes like that pain is now the standard.
SPEAKER_02:What do you think the worst one you got was? Ribs. Right ribs, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I got one.
SPEAKER_04:I was that sucks. Yeah, I was freshly getting tattoos. My it was my first tattoo cover-up, and then we did a we did a session and then a session two weeks later, so it wasn't even completely healed. Yeah, I feel like the back of my neck was the worst.
SPEAKER_00:Bro, I blasted my arm. Like, I did my whole arm in three months. That's pretty good. Yeah, like we were doing every week. We were doing every week, so we'd go like outside low, high, inside the next week, and then two weeks had passed down here, so then we'd do something down here. Yeah, and then the next week we'd go outside up high.
SPEAKER_02:So this is like a dedication to his time in the military. I told him he should have put a like a door of the explorer with a backpack on there.
SPEAKER_00:That's cool, with like an IED in the backpack. He didn't give you the whole story, maybe like a grenade hanging out or something.
SPEAKER_04:So, but what was your longest piece? Like longest piece. Or how long were these sessions? Um Was he doing two at a time?
SPEAKER_00:Average is probably about eight hours. Oh, really? Average is about eight hours. That's solid. So, and we did it, we did it. So, like a lot of dudes with traditional like arm sleeves, it's usually like parted out. Like they'll get one thing and then next year they'll get another thing. But like dudes that have the whole concept together, you can like cheaper that way.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you pay by the hour. Like, I got that's what that was the advice I gave you. Cause like I have two half sleeves, and I got I knew I already knew what I wanted, and I was like, let's do all the outlines today, and then you'll do my all my outlines on the other one in like a week, and then the next week you'll color in this arm, and then the week after that, you'll color in this arm. And I ended up walking out the door for way cheaper than like paying piece by piece by piece. Interesting.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so basically he told me I knew the whole thing, what I wanted, I just didn't know where everything was gonna land at, and he was like, Well, we can do it one of two ways. We can do two really long sessions of getting all the stencils on you. Um, and I was like, and not color in. He was like, Yeah, not color in, or we can go piece by piece and I can start a piece, finish a piece, and we can do it that way. Some days on the smaller shit, we can do like two or three pieces or whatever. Okay, and I opted for that. Um, so like essentially, yeah, he would spend like the cross and the flower was with the moon. That was definitely like a 10-hour session. Uh the shark was eight or nine. Um just the ones that are bigger and have more detail took a lot longer. But like the the mom heart, dude, fucking in and out, six hours. Done. Gotcha. Five, six hours. It's good. It was nice though, dude. It was uh it was fast. I wanted it done. Like I had the money, and my fear was that like if I only had half the money, I would get started and not finish it. Yeah. So like I was like, I have the money, I want it done, let's get it done. Like, let's go. Let's just fucking burn this cash. I need my left leg finished, but I don't have the money right now. Yeah, I get it. It's all patched up. Legs are hard too because there's so much meat there, dude. You can get too much shit on there. It's expensive. How deep are you cash-wise on the leg? Uh five grand. Probably 2800. That's not that. That's not too terrible. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:It's just like this whole inner side and then one piece out here, but uh, I want it almost a full leg sleeve. Scary, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Scary movie shit. Hell yeah, dude. So I like some scary movie tats. Got the jackal. Hell yeah. And then fucking shout out to Mike Farley, too. He's big on the scary movie tattooing. Oh, it's got a nug. From like 13 Ghosts? Yeah, is that what that is? Yes. You know they're making a fucking uh short series. Oh, I'm not sure. Yeah, he's got a fucking nugget.
SPEAKER_01:A nugget of fucking weed. That's why I don't bring around my parents. I got you.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I don't wear shorts around my grandparents. Yeah, they frown upon it. Just tell them it's a flower. Yeah, that's an herb. Yeah. They wouldn't know. Herbs and spices. It didn't look like that back in their day, you know. Yeah. But I was just like it's green?
SPEAKER_00:I was just talking to Amanda, Corey's wife, about because she got two on her ankles on the back of both ankles. I was like, damn, I need some leg tats. I'm way too uneven. I'm way top heavy right now.
SPEAKER_04:Hands, neck, everything's been fine for me except for the ribs. Ribs and the leg. I haven't done either knee though. I need to do the knees. Yeah, get that patella.
SPEAKER_02:Your elbow's colored over, isn't it?
SPEAKER_04:Uh just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's got lines. This one wasn't too bad. I remember I have two screws in my arm from when I broke my whichever bone in high school. When he hit that, like when I brushed that up against the wall or something, dude, that's worse than getting hit by electricity. Yeah. When he hit that, I was like, you're gonna just go ahead and move. You can leave that spot open.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, just don't fuck with it.
SPEAKER_04:Uh he's like, I'll just pull the skin over a little bit. Oh yeah. But I went to a guy in Houston for this sleeve and my neck.
SPEAKER_00:Is there so this is like uh Geo. Geo, right? That's like a style that people are doing.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So it's like heavy on like geometric shapes and stuff, right?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Is there like a premise or like a reason? Or I just liked it. It looks fucking sick.
SPEAKER_04:I had this arm open for a full sleeve, and I I was maybe scrolling Instagram one day and found his work, and I was like, that's it. That's the one, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, are you filling in the bottom or yeah?
SPEAKER_04:I'll go back next year and fill in that. Oh yeah, dude. And he's from Houston? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Big shoes.
SPEAKER_04:Uh Mexico, actually, but yeah, he works in Houston. He's in the scarification.
SPEAKER_00:No, I want to do that. Dude, like the guy from fucking slaughter. Slaughter. Did you ever see his fucking video about it? No. He's you can go on YouTube and fucking look up a video of like the doctor he went to and like what he looked like before.
SPEAKER_02:Wild. They got they got branding. But they got cold branding now.
SPEAKER_04:So like I've seen where they're doing cows, like on my mom's cattle farm. Do you think we could just turn a can of duster upside down or a couple? And we could do that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:You might buy you could probably you could probably buy like a thing of dry ice and do it yourself. I don't see why.
SPEAKER_01:I'm only I'm only laughing because my fucking stepbrother. I'm so glad this comes up, dude. My stepbrother got a fucking, he was at a bonfire and got fucking blasted.
SPEAKER_00:This is years ago. It's like five or six years ago. Gets blackout drunk, and then they start talking about uh uh branding or whatever. There, one of the guys, fucking redneck dude, he's like, I got a coat hanger in the house. I'll go.
SPEAKER_03:And to God, hand to God, they go get this coat hanger, and they bend it up.
SPEAKER_04:What then what?
SPEAKER_03:They're they bend it up into a K.
SPEAKER_01:A K. That's funny. So my stepbrother was like, I want it to match, like, I want it to be a K for my for my last name. I was like, okay, so how did it turn out? And he fucking shows it to me. Watch too much Yellowstone. Bro, it looks like uh an infected rectangle. I'm like, bro, this is so bad.
SPEAKER_04:Dang. Is it healed up now?
SPEAKER_03:It still looks like shit. So I want to do they did it over a fucking bonfire.
SPEAKER_01:They were just guessing. They were like, it's red. It's been in there 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_04:He probably got tattooed with coal, too.
SPEAKER_01:Uh coal from the web.
SPEAKER_04:Oh that's what they used to use in it like a long time ago. Oh no shit.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't know that, dude. I will say Amanda's tattoos, going back to her ankle tats, uh, she got it done in the style where you just like get the ink on the pen, bop, ink on the pen. Yeah, stick and poke. Like prison tat style. Oh, but and it looks really dope too. Where'd she get that? Her uh her sister's doing them. She's just getting into her like tattooing like apprenticeship or like not even an apprenticeship. She's like getting into tattooing. Yeah. And she's very good with drawing with her, like she has that dexterity. Probably a lot easier that way, you know. Probably. It's hard to fuck up.
SPEAKER_04:You put that you put that fucking stencil down, dude, and it's just so have you seen scarification in in a blackout tattoo? That's the coolest shit I've ever seen. So just blackout your arm, and then they'll actually cut out the little pieces of skin in like in the form in the shape of a the tattoo. Whatever you want. Yeah. That's fucking wild.
SPEAKER_00:That's cool. Dude, there's a guy, there's a British gentleman that works at uh Revolution Inc. And he's fucking covered. Like he's like 89, 90% covered, like top to bottom. And he's to the point now. I'm like, so what do you do? He was like, Well, I'm blacking out me army, and he needs to see however the fuck they talk. And then he's like, I'm blacking out, I'm gonna do this arm next. And because he's fully covered, so now he's just blacking shit out. And I'm like, So, so when you black everything out, what do you what are you gonna do then? He was like, Well, I'm gonna get some implants in me handy, and I'm like, What the fuck are you talking about? And then he showed me a picture. There's yeah, where people are getting balls. There's titanium balls put there's dudes doing like spikes on the back of their fucking hands.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, oh that's cool.
SPEAKER_00:It's fucking and he was like, That's what I'm gonna do with me handy.
SPEAKER_04:I guess it's like a dermal.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, essentially you can get like titanium balls put underneath your skin and get like big dots all over it, look like fucking dogs mall.
SPEAKER_00:I love tattoos, I think they're fucking rad, but that's too much for me.
SPEAKER_02:What's interesting is like you know I pass out like blood and stuff like that. But I went to like uh Evil Twins when they were hanging people from the ceiling with those hooks. And you were good? Yeah. Nice.
SPEAKER_04:What the fuck is that's wild. What are we doing? The only body mod I would do is like a scar, a scar. Yeah, just right down the eye there. Yeah, like uh Was this fucking Nazi Germany?
SPEAKER_02:Oh you see that where they did that?
SPEAKER_00:That gets edited out. What are you talking about? Jeez.
SPEAKER_02:Like they would give like dudes would dudes would scar their faces on purpose and like the fucking like they would cut themselves with a lance and like put dirt in it so it would scar. The trend. Look it up on the phone.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god, dude. You are fucking on one. You just woke up angry today. Yeah. Are you sleeping okay, dude?
SPEAKER_02:What do you want me to do? I couldn't check my sleep score. Look up uh World War II scars on soldiers.
SPEAKER_00:Or on purpose soldiers. Scars on uh intentional this isn't going well for me over here. I'm gonna let you know right now.
SPEAKER_02:No, there's a there's a voice thing where you could just literally say it to the Yeah, it's good enough.
SPEAKER_00:Uh scrimace or mincer scars earned from ritualized fencing duels in the university fraternity, symbolizing honor. That that that that uh mincer scars. Is that what it's called? Mincer? Yes. I don't know. I don't know, dude. It's not looking.
SPEAKER_02:But yeah, dudes were basically doing something like that on purpose, like getting scars just to look tougher.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I don't know why. Oh, here's just a Nazi that just got blown up for that's hot. Yeah, his whole face. All right.
SPEAKER_02:I saw a thing, uh, like Pooh Shysti just got out of jail or whatever, and he said, Fuck teardrop tattoos, get your favorite ammo.
SPEAKER_00:It's a bold strategy, dude. Yeah, it's bold strategy, Cotton. Yeah, usually got to pay double for that kind of action. Um, I don't know, man. So what's the future for for for Kyle Biggs? What's the future for this uh this social media journey that you're on, brother? Uh I know we've kind of tiptoed around it, but like, I mean, do you have like a do you have a five-year plan for this? You know what I mean? Like what do you what are you thinking? Are you just kind of flying by the sea of your draws and you know, seeing what happens? Pushing the long form.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Uh I'll I'll stay consistent with the long form. I'm not holding my breath on it, but uh working less next year. I'm gonna pump out some more income producing TikToks and uh just helping people. Uh you know, my sister and my mom's house, just little DRI projects, just keep that going. And and and YouTube, I'm making sure I get one out per week and uh just really try to give it back.
SPEAKER_02:What's been like one of your biggest headaches for editing?
SPEAKER_04:Um good question. Probably just the time. Yeah. That's when I figured out I found out DaVinci just saved so much time.
SPEAKER_02:So you're editing on a computer, you like take it to where it can edit on lunch or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, I do the same thing. Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_04:Edit on lunch. Uh and if I get an idea, I just shoot it. I I don't I don't think that much hard that that hard into it. I think that's the best thing. It's just quantity, man. I mean, I had no idea I'd ever be this guy that's like putting out content per se. I still don't feel like a content creator. Right. It's just but it's what I enjoy doing. It's something I'm gonna do anyway. And if I can make it a little funny, then that's cool. Right. Especially if you can make a little extra on it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, and I meant to tell you before we put a bow on this fucking thing, uh, my favorite little tidbit, because you have a bunch of them throughout your videos. The uh quote, I should call her. Leave that in there. I gotcha. Keep it coming. Yeah, keep them coming. I really enjoy that a lot. The sexual enjoying it. Is that how you end every episode? No, he just anytime he's like holding like an HVAC tubing or something, he's like, I should call her.
SPEAKER_04:I'm starting to get brand deal emails and I don't know where to go with that. Like yeah. Like you see all these content creators that are just loaded, and that's mo that's not just TikTok pandemic, that's that's mainly brand deals. Right. So the only one I've gotten that I'm thinking about responding. So basically you you make a video promoting the product, and they they can use it for that that's negotiable, usage rights, exclusivity, all this stuff. Um But it's like these this company, I think just someone bought a laser cutter for sheet metal, yeah. And they just make like edging, uh landscaping edging, and then some fire pits and stuff. So I'm gonna I'm gonna try to work out a deal with them to get the fire pit, make a video, make a little income, but then donate it to someone who needs it. It's not really my style. But the edging I'll use, so hell yeah, dude. But I don't know, and I was helping my sister today, and she knows a social media manager, so I just I mean uh DM'd her today and see if she'd have a sit down. Hell yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_00:So a little consultation action. Hell yeah, dude. I need to consult somebody on how to get my fucking life together. I'll tell you that right now. So just in general, you know. Um, I don't know, man. Oh, so one thing uh we asked you this like forever ago when when you came in for the the the trailer uh the trailer episode that sounds trashier than it should. You know, you get it. Trailer Reynolds, yeah, try yeah, KB trailer rentals. But now on this social media adventure, has there ever been a time where like um you just want to break the laptop over your knee? Yeah, you just want to quit, just like call it done, okay, shut the channel down, stop paying it, just over. I'm over it, done, whatever. And like in that moment, what was it that like kept you? Okay, I'll take a break, but then I'm coming back and I'm gonna keep going. You know what I mean? And then, you know, what was the motivation that like got you through that hiccup?
SPEAKER_04:That happened recently, actually. Like, I'm trying to wean away or phase out of the the thirsty stuff, you know, even though a lot of my followers might think I'm attractive. Uh and focus on the DIY stuff that can bring value. So uh I took like a just a week break recently. I just I wasn't doing much around the house. It was cold, wouldn't do much outside, so I just I just didn't do anything. Not even on lunch break at work, just and I know the short form clips should still be coming in. The minute-long clips, just anything is my niche, you know. I'm the niche. I know that can help, but I just chilling.
SPEAKER_02:What brought you back to it?
SPEAKER_04:Um I think a a project came up or something, or uh I was on call for that week and uh I got off call and I think it was uh yesterday or Friday? Either way, or my sister had asked me, Hey, can you help me change this toilet whack hering out? I was like, for sure. So I don't know. I think I'll definitely keep those breaks in there to keep my sanity because I'm chronically online enough, you know, at work on lunch, just like scrolling. Yeah, zoom scrolling, yeah. I just can't be healthy, so I try to limit that a little bit. Yeah, it's important, dude. It's important. And the work side of it, I guess.
SPEAKER_02:What uh as we wrap up, what piece of advice do you have for somebody out there that wants to get into content creation? Just do it.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know why people like to watch you. I have no idea why. Just do it. Whatever ideas you think. I'm pushing my sister to do it a little bit and get into the content um the creator rewards program on TikTok, make a little extra cash. She does super cool makeup tutorials and stuff.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, you made a video about her. Like that was one of your most recent videos. Like, you only follow one person, go click on this, and that's her. Give her channel some love or whatever. Yeah, yeah. I saw that video. It's nice, dude. It's very nice of you.
SPEAKER_04:Just because people are interesting and people like interesting things. I mean, just do it. If you're don't care what anyone thinks, you're gonna get the hate, you're gonna get the love. You know, just just try it.
SPEAKER_00:Hell yeah, dude. We're all into weird shit. You know what I mean? Like we joke about underwater basket weaving kind of frequently, but there's somebody out there underwater basket weaving somewhere, and that motherfucker doesn't have a TikTok. And if he did or she did, it would blow the fuck up overnight. They'd be like, Have you seen this underwater basket weaving guy? What the fuck are you talking about? And then they're gonna show you, and now you're fucking you're in, dude. You're all in at that point. Now your fucking lunch break is just underwater basket weaving. It's a it's a fucking weird thing, dude. So just get out there and and then like we had said before, be original, be yourself, don't fucking fake it till you make it. Just do the shit you like doing. Yeah. And for you, it's DIY and talking about how you should call her, and I think that's important. You know what I mean? I think it works for you.
SPEAKER_04:Take a little inspo from anyone, but don't take their you know, comments straight up.
SPEAKER_00:100%, dude. 100%. It's enjoyable. Um, but yeah, man. I don't do you have any questions for us, dude? We're gonna fucking slap a bow on this puppy. Uh normally this is where the outro music would cue, and I feel like Helen Keller right now. I'm just gonna be honest. Uh, do you have any questions for us as we wrap this puppy up?
SPEAKER_04:Uh no. Are you guys you guys are gonna use clips and stuff? Hell yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Hell yeah. You can steal whatever the hell you want, dude. We have fucking I think we have copyrights, but we're not suing anybody, so it's fine. Gotcha. Um, but yeah, dude. Uh just greatly appreciate you. You could have done anything else on Saturday evening or Sunday evening and you came in and talked to us, dude. That was fun. So thank you so much. Thank you guys. Like, subscribe, do the whole thing. Uh, this has been another thrilling episode of the day's gram. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Brad. And this has been Senior Kyle Biggs. Thank you so much, sir. Bye.