Ep. 11 Frankie LaPenna | Viral Social Media Stuntman & Influencer

In this episode, viral influencer Frankie LaPenna finally answers the question everyone asks while also sharing the craziest stunts he’s ever pulled, the worst injuries he’s suffered, and what he’s really like when the cameras are off.

Host Weston Emery and co-host Michael Babineaux sit down with Frankie for a hilarious and surprisingly deep conversation covering his viral videos, the insane amount of work that goes into making them, his faith in Jesus Christ, and some of the internet’s biggest conspiracy theories—including the Flat Earth theory, the Moon Landing, Brigitte Macron, and more.

Frankie also shares stories about meeting celebrities including the late Hulk Hogan and John Cena, talks about internet fame, and gives an inside look at the life of one of social media’s most recognizable stunt creators.

A huge thank you to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Grand Rapids Airport for hosting this episode. The staff was incredibly professional, welcoming, and kind throughout our stay and filming experience.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

What's the most money you've made from your fat booty?

SPEAKER_02 0:02

Yeah, I haven't told anybody this. This is actually there was it's there was a um an offer that came in the other day.

SPEAKER_04 0:11

Thousands Welcome to Here's What Happened. Do you know Frankie Lapenna? He's a social media stunt man who has performed some of the most hilarious, dangerous, and real stunts online.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Dude, that's that's nobody that's putting their body on the line as much as I am. Dude, I've had a lot of concussions, so I'm like slow and don't remember a ton. I'm actually like my me myself, I'm like a pretty boring, monotone, bland guy. People are shocked by that. Think I'm gonna be like nuts and loud and unpredictable.

SPEAKER_04 0:45

You may remember him from his zoom call skits where he would join a zoom call with the green screen background in insane places. And if you don't remember him by his zoom call skits or stunts, you may remember him for his very, very, very large butt. I'm not joking. I'm not a fake butt.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Said this online a million times, not fake. Then you let me feel it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

Although Frankie posts comedy content online, there's actually a lot more to him than what meets the eye.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Am I contributing to the downfall of society by putting things online that are borderline brain rot? Where does he get these ideas from?

SPEAKER_04 1:16

What's the most injured he's ever been? What's the most famous person he's ever met? Why does he do what he does, and what is he going to do next? Like I was just on America's Got Talent, hasn't came out yet. Without further ado, please enjoy this conversation with my friend Frankie. Welcome to the Here's a Happen Podcast. Are you a farmer? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

You're making the assumptions that we're the same.

SPEAKER_04 1:37

What are you saying? What in the world? That's a great question.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

How old is Guys? I am the real Logan Paul.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Welcome to the show. Actually, I'm in I'm in pain. I got freaking.

SPEAKER_04 1:53

Oh first of all, um I noticed something when you walked in.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

It looked um I'll be yeah did you s well I'll be honest, I had a whole script ready and I I don't remember anything I was about to say.

SPEAKER_04 2:10

I was hoping you remembered what you were gonna say because um can you do me Frank? Can you it was on your lower back? I think I saw something on your back. Can you stand up real quick?

SPEAKER_02 2:22

I might actually have. I was just in the woods the other day. I think I have T.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

That's probably what um part and it's all over. No, you're good to sit down. It wasn't, there's no ticks.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

Um hear about the ticks that are giving people um hang out with the white spot. Give us a second, sorry. You got dehydrated from that.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Whoo! Okay. Um yeah, there was nothing on your back. Uh don't ask me the color of anything. Um Frankie, I'm just gonna go right for this, okay?

SPEAKER_04 2:59

Is that cool? Yeah. Let me be the first to say. I don't know if you've ever heard this before or not. You have a dump truck. Like I've heard that. You have heard this before. So this isn't interviewed.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Okay, uh that surprises me.

SPEAKER_04 3:11

That surprises me. There's something that surprised me too, just a minute ago. So it means it surprises us at this point. But what is this? Do you do is it is it do you work out?

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Is it Pilates? It's a combination of I mean, the most important thing is genetics. That's what people know.

SPEAKER_04 3:29

If it is genetics, who do you, Frankie, get these genetics from? And the follow-up question to that is is she single?

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Yeah. No, I mean I get it from my get it from my parents, and I don't ever I don't think I've ever posted a photo photo or video of their build online before, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

So she's not single? No. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

Well, great knowing you, Frankie. Thanks for coming in. All my questions are answered. Um, you obviously, Frankie, have you're just caked up. Yeah. Yeah. Now, a question for you, and this is really kind of what I wanted to know coming in. Obviously, you're caked up, seems like all the time. Are you ever bricked up?

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Um I mean, sometimes. Not on camera. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

What about right now?

SPEAKER_04 4:24

Right now.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

No, definitely not.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

Well, that makes one of us. Um that's great.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Are you Yeah, I'm just sorry, I'm just You guys are flabbergasted. Yeah. Um Like I said, I had a whole script, I was ready to go, but I just have been kind of This is how I was when I first saw Gracie Bond.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

You know who that is? No. No, but if it has anything, should I look up Gracie Bond for me to like lose my train of thought?

SPEAKER_04 4:51

But Gracie Bond will do it. How do I spell a five? Is she uh what actress?

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Here, here we go, Mike. She makes me look normal.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

Holy smokes! Wait, yeah, that's Frankie's county. We've seen wait, is this the thing you propose to?

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

So, Frankie, do you have ladies just chasing you down the street?

SPEAKER_02 5:15

No, that's something I wanted to bring up today, actually. I've talked about maybe a couple times before. People think because I got so many followers online that girls are flocking into my DMs and or in person, and it's just not is it mostly men?

SPEAKER_04 5:28

Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

It's just bots, it's all like not real people. I mean, I could show you it's very weird.

SPEAKER_04 5:33

So like when people hit on you like on Instagram, it's just bots.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

No, girls, girls in public, whenever I go out to do a video, be like, I can we get a photo? Sure, and then like get away from me gross. You're bull just a weird, and it's it's over. They're not like sexually interested me.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Huh. Again, makes one of us.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

All of my followers are males, by the way, 99%.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

And that actually brings up another question. Um How do you go to the bathroom?

SPEAKER_00 6:04

I I mean, genuinely, you know.

SPEAKER_02 6:06

I mean, I don't have a problem. It's it's my butt's not that big. Gracie Bond, she has a problem.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Well, so I mean, have you looked in a mirror?

SPEAKER_02 6:14

It's not that big.

SPEAKER_04 6:15

I mean, comparatively, like if you look at her, do you ever we're not talking about her anymore, though. We're talking about the beauty that is amongst us now.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Yeah, sorry, I can't stop thinking about her.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

Oh, you're good. Do you ever Frankie? Do you ever, and this is a genuine question. We were joking before now, I'm for real. Yeah, do you ever look in the mirror when you wake up and just go, Wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

No, no, because I've I live in my own body. It's not shocking to me.

SPEAKER_04 6:47

Were you caked up since a little kid, or is it something that you found in your adulthood?

SPEAKER_02 6:51

Yeah, I mean, I could show you, I could send you some photos to plug. They are interesting, interesting. Yeah. I I put a couple of things.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

I just noticed his face.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Oh, oh, yeah, not at all like on that left camera, is that light on? You see the red light quick. I can't see it from here, but um, all right, jokes aside, Frankie, what the heck is in your pants? Can you confess this to the cameras? What? You think this is fake, brother? What does a BBL cost you? Yeah, and how can I sign up for it?

SPEAKER_02 7:24

See, it's funny when people ask that. It's actually like if a surgeon were to attempt to perform this on somebody, their license and practice would immediately be shut down. Right. There'd be lawsuits, there'd be a huge risk of death. So is the stats.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

Is the doctor upset that you made him lose his license?

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Yeah, there's no doctor.

SPEAKER_04 7:44

Oh, so you go to bed like this.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

Yeah, you guys actually think it's fake. We think it's fake.

SPEAKER_04 7:52

It's not. Frankie, look at that camera. You say it's not fake.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

I said this online a million times, it's not fake.

SPEAKER_04 7:58

Wait, hang on. I'm not joking right now. Yeah, we're not joking. I'm not joking. That's a fake butt. No. Then you'll let me feel it. That'll be 20 bucks. Worth worth every dime.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Worth every dime.

SPEAKER_04 8:12

You know what? Just make it 40 in case I want seconds.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

He actually has a 20, and that's great.

SPEAKER_04 8:17

Like, dang it. One for me, one for Mike. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Right now? Right now. Come on, come on. Come on. I just wanted to see if you do it. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

Easy money. Alright. Alright, let's um, here, wait. Can you guys uh frame up this camera? Come over here. You're already making money. Right here, right here, stay in the middle. Yeah. And just look that. We don't care about anything up here.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Is this a crap or a grab?

SPEAKER_04 8:42

Okay, no, this is for the audience. Can you get us both? You gotta get closer to me.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Oh, yeah, no problem. No problem.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Alright, this this is for the audience. This is, and we're no bull crap. We I thought this I thought this was fake.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

He's swearing that this is what the heck. We're gonna find out. Alright. Alright, I am going to not no BS.

SPEAKER_04 9:08

This way can't be like a long time. Ten seconds, three squeezes.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

We'll make ten seconds way too long.

SPEAKER_04 9:16

Alright, one smack. Smack and grab. Okay, you go smack.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

I'm smacking. Can you give a uh wait, wait, give a um give a 120 FPS on that. Alright, here we go. I'm going. You're slapping? I'm slapping. Here you go. I'll go first.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

I don't know. Let's see, right? It's solid, bro. It's very firm. It's very firm. I'll have to see. He must do Pilates. A lot of them. Alright, so here's here's the discovery.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

Here's what our research has. Um we're all good? We're good around. Mike's good. I was messing with this. I it was very firm. So like either there is a brick in there, or you just made 40 bucks.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Yeah, look at that.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

This one all blue. Worth every second. Oh yeah, sorry. Through that, through the laundry. Yeah, I'll be honest, it felt like like pinching silly putty. You know? Didn't really have much uh some people are just built different.

SPEAKER_04 10:15

In do you ever here's a real question? When you're out in public, do you ever like try and hide because you're so famous? And like you don't you just want to go to the store and you don't want to be stopped, and you're trying to hide, but you just can't hide that much.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, I'll I'll just tie a towel or a sweatshirt around my waist. Oh yeah. I got it figured out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

So so you're from here.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Yeah, I I'm six minutes down the road from here. Oh, really? I bet I bet like everyone here knows you, right? In Grand Rapids, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Yeah. So you probably can't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

I mean, everyone's um I mean I can't if I'm not wearing this dumb khaki outfit. Like I wear this in every video. If I wear some other baggy clothes, like it's not. But still it'll be like there'll still be people stopping me, but it's like really bad if I'm wearing this.

SPEAKER_04 11:04

Yeah, yeah. So and you usually have like right now you're wearing a sweater, but you usually have like a um It's like 50-50 sometimes the cutoff, sometimes sweater. Yeah. So someone asked me before I came into this. They said, like, I'll honestly, everyone I've talked to knows exactly who you are. Like, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say Frankie Lapina. Is that how you say it? La Pena.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

I thought it was penis, but that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 11:30

Never heard that one before. Okay. Mr. Penis. I've heard that a million times out of sarcasm. Yeah, well, it wasn't I was just confused. You you led me astray on that one. That one's your bad. Um, but I remember what I was saying. I started penis on the mind. Um he's like, Who am I dealing with?

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Uh so what was I saying? You're saying something about me going out in uh public wearing the sweatshirt.

SPEAKER_04 11:54

Oh, people ask me, like every single person I've been like, yeah, we're gonna go interview Frankie, Frankie Lepenna. And they don't know the name. I show you and they go, yeah, every single person knows who you are. They see, they see a picture of you, know everybody, the old people, the young people, um, the small butted people, the large butted people. There's no like like obviously you don't discriminate as who's who knows about you.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

I told my roommates I was coming out to do this, and and they were like, Who? Yeah, I show them a picture and they go, You would, Mike, you would.

SPEAKER_04 12:29

But what like people ask, like, what does he do again? And I don't know how to answer it. What is what is your niche?

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Like, I struggle to even tell people like that.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

I love that though, man. Yeah, it's like every video is just off the cuff. I like yeah, it could be any you have no idea what's coming next. Yeah, and it it's fun.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

It keeps I'd say stunt man, feats of strength, comedy skits. Um, I mean, at the end of like whenever somebody gets done watching a video, I want them to think to themselves like WTF did I just watch? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

Well, you have this way about like I don't know when I see your videos, I regularly feel like I'm watching someone else's like video that they took of you. Like they caught you out in the public. You know what I mean? Like I saw this one the other day, and I just I'm laughing out loud about it. Was you on some little pedal bike, and there was a Snapchat word over the screen that said WTF was this guy's plan. Yeah. And then you're just you, it's literally just you going forward, you hit a jump and wipe out.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

That's the end of the video. Yeah. I mean, that's that's what the I'm I'm super nerdy when it comes to like retention, what the algorithm wants, how to package videos. Like I have a whole uh film and video degree. I'm like a big nerd when it comes to all of the I actually prefer to be behind the camera instead of in front of the camera. That's what I was doing for so many years. That's why I'm so you see this mess. That's why your videos look yeah, I just thought and you just roll your eyes at what a message. Oh yeah, I could set this all up single-handedly, no problem. Dude, this I just wing it.

SPEAKER_04 14:05

I just say a light here, a light here, and we could use you.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Yeah, no, I'm I'm a big nerd when it comes to camera lights.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Well, you might be a nerd, but uh you're strikingly athletic too. Like I'll I'll be honest, I'll I'll see some videos, I'm like, damn, that's that's pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Yeah, I'm I'm a Midwest Michigan guy, grew up here, and we didn't I didn't do any traditional sports. It was all anything with a motor, anything with a board. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so like what I would do. Anything with a board here. Snowboard, skateboard, wakeboard, really uh longboard. When did content creation start for you? It's my first TikTok post was December 2020. COVID. Yeah. COVID hit. And it was like totally different niche, I guess, than I'm in now. I had this big green screen thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was like a timing thing where everyone was on the zoom calls and it was like fun to watch, but it was limited bandwidth on what you could do.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Uh especially at the time. Like you could come out with that series right now, and that was a billions and billions of views series, but now it's not as relatable. How did you come up with that? I was I was doing it for real. I could send you the first video. It was me in a car, the laptop on the dash. It was at GVSU down the road in Allendale, Michigan. I had that on the car. I was taking actual classes.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

Was your butt this big at this point?

SPEAKER_02 15:25

I mean, it's probably grown a bit since it is big.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Yeah, there was like I've done research and it, you know, it has grown. It's a Pilates. It's a Pilates.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

I mean, I've been doing it for six years. The videos, the posts, wow on TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 15:39

Six years. So you were doing this for real, this zoom. And for the listeners, explain what that is.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

I was doing it for real in the car. That means I had generated a hotspot from my phone, connected the laptop to it, and I had like a 35-minute drive home from campus to home. And I was taking the class, like I I got done with an in-person class, and then a virtual one began, and I didn't want to be stuck on campus for another two hours. So I would drive home for 35 minutes to get home. And that first 35 minutes, I'd be virtually on the computer in the car driving and just hoping I wouldn't get called on. Because your camera was off and your mic was off. No, it was on because I had I had the green screen.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

The green screen you actually had on the car.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Had it activated. So it looked like but my audio was like you could just hear road noise and and like a blinker or something. And I did get called on one time, and the professor called me on. She said, What's that noise? Um what is sorry, a fan on the background.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

You're a whorn.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Traffic's backed up at the appointment.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Yeah, I'm I live right next to the highway.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Um I just threw up one you know 10-second video watch TikTok of me in the car and people just were eating it up.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

Um yeah, dude. And then so you posted that, it starts going viral, and you're like, I have something here. Was that the first video you posted? No, that wasn't the first. And when I say the first video you posted, I mean the first relevant video, right? The one that took you from just someone who uploaded and got, you know, maybe one video got some views, but the video that made you you.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's you couldn't say that there's one specific video that made me me, but that was the first time I got serious traction. Right. Like tens and tens of millions of views.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

And is that and for now it it seems much more action-based. You're always running or jumping or riding a bike off some log into a mud pit, or it's like whatever. Why did you switch over into that like full time? Because it seems like it's pretty much your gig at this point.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

That's what I enjoy watching online, and I will watch. Like if something's sketchy, I'm gonna watch it. So that's what I I want to create what I like, what I would like to see on my feed, and that is it, is just total bro stuff. Yeah, yes, you know.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Um, but you said that you like what's interesting about that, like you starting with this niche of I have a a zoom call, and there was the one that I remember seeing the first time I saw you. But what's tough is to find a niche and be able to successfully change that niche into something else, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Yeah, very hard.

SPEAKER_04 18:23

That's what you did. Like you were a guy with a green screen bit, and now like you're everywhere. Um, anyone who gets you in one of their videos or whatever, it just blows up. Like you, like everyone knows your face, uh everyone knows other body parts of yours. I won't say what, we're not objectifying you here.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

He's such a humble man, he's such a humble man, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

That's true. But that didn't come from the green screen videos, that came from what you did afterwards when you said it's time to s shift what I'm working on, and so yeah, you became more successful.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

I think that anyone could shift and do like a total rebrand just how I did if the concept or the series is good enough. No matter I could totally change into another different character if it's good enough. Like, are people gonna watch it? That's the only question. If so, then yeah, it's gonna blow up. Yeah. You talk about your character. How would you describe what your character is? I don't so I'm actually like my me myself, I'm like a pretty boring, monotone, bland guy. People are shocked by that thing. I'm gonna be like nuts and loud and unpredictable. And it's like, yeah, I'm always un borderline falling asleep. Like I'm always five minutes away. People say the same thing about me and Wes, and they're just bland and boring and yeah, but to answer your question, the that's the key, that's who I am off camera, but then on camera, it's I don't talk. Like, no, I don't even I I actually rarely talk in the shorts. It's like the elliptical one you brought up. There's no talking, it's strictly visuals. So I guess my character is just doing crazy action stuff. How? Give me like the I have I suppose I have uh one two other guys, one or two other guys that I'll bounce ideas off of an idea, but it's like 98% my ideas. Wow, these are buddies of yours, I guess. I employees. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. People don't understand this. This is a full-blown business. Yeah. Really? Yeah, very expensive. Tell me about that. How big is your team? One of them actually just left. Some can't get into it, but well, somebody came in with a better job offer and he decided to leave. But um, two guys, so I'm actually looking to hire, I don't know if when this is gonna be out.

unknown 20:36

Oof.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Oh, okay. Yeah. You're busy doing the podcast. Yeah. Well, I mean, not being we're we have uh free time. Yeah, I mean, or for any or people think that these videos are at like a jolly good time and a lot of fun to make their dude. I'm so glad you said that. Especially here in Michigan. It's it's so cold.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

It's so cold always. Why don't you move? Go to a bigger climate.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

I like being able to do winter-themed videos. Okay. Um about that. You can't do that in Florida.

unknown 21:04

No.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

I don't want to miss two points we're talking about here. I want to talk about why you live in Grand Rapids, but I don't want to miss what we were talking about too, which was um like you just your operation. I'm very curious about that. You have you said a few employees?

SPEAKER_02 21:18

Yeah, two. So I had two, this is like a week ago it happened, one left. No, it's so I'll I'll just say two. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:26

And I'm I'm not just asking questions for the heck of it. I genuinely don't know. In my mind, I see a video every once in a while on my 4U page. That's what I see from Frankie. What's beyond that? Like, what do people not see? Like the grit the the grind, like what does that look like?

SPEAKER_02 21:45

It's it's actually, I mean, we spend I spend ninety five percent of my time at a computer editing, doing producing, logistics, every everything with the back end. These videos sometimes appear simple and they come up on your feed, but There's endless nightmare logistics that go into them and a lot of costs and travel or I mean extras.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

You don't realize like even the effort to put this together. We have a venue. We have to get all the equipment here. We have to get everyone here, you here. It's so much just for a little podcast.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

Like for context, this room was empty when we got here. We've been here for three hours setting up.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:22

Like three hours setting all this up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Um but yeah, I mean, like you said, like uh to add to that, like people on TikTok, they just they see it 15 minutes video and they go next, you know. But it is a it's a huge effort. Um that's what I'm passionate about it.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

All the time I'm I'm spending is setting up things for videos. I don't have like a giant team that does all the stuff for me or a grip or anything like that. I'm also kind of a control freak, so I want to be doing a lot of it. Yeah, I completely relate to that. 1% of the time is actually stunts.

SPEAKER_06 22:52

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

Like when I do these live streams, even though we did we live stream the five versus one fight, and it's like 95% leading up to the three rounds that are they don't last long. Or like just the brain round people in the the live chat are like where like get it going, why is it taking so long? Hurry up, we want to see the fight. And it's like you guys just have no idea how any of this works, it doesn't move fast.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Even just like all the people in the background. I'm sure you had to get all those people there and oh my gosh. I mean, it's it's like every little detail, the lighting, the yeah, who's got audio, who's got the slow motion. I mean, it everything.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

And talk about like when you say that, hey, like I'm a control freak, I I so get that. And what I think for me, because I'm the same way, where like, and these guys can testify, I'm like, no, that needs to go this way, that isn't this way. And the thing is, is I think the reason like people end up people who have so much effort into what they produce, um, why that it becomes that way of like being a control freak, nobody sees the late night after late night after late night editing, everything behind the scenes, how much work you put in to make your product good, to make it something you're proud of. And so, like when someone walks in and I'm like, no, no, no, you know, that plant needs to be a little bit more that way. It's like people like, hey, relax. I'm like, I'm not gonna relax. This is every this is my everything. Like, I put everything into this, I care about the details.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're preaching to the choir. That's exactly how I feel about the videos. And that's I mean, that's how you need to be because I know exactly how the things need to get packaged and how a shot needs to be framed, or how how we need to set up and ultimately you're the one with the vision, you know, you're you're the one with the vision of it and how you are gonna produce it.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

So now you just need to make sure everyone does their job to make it happen.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Yes, well, yeah, gosh, just there's so many stunts where we only have one take, one opportunity to get it done, like something's gonna break, or the vehicle I'm riding, like the elliptical, you know, the freaking the thing broke, like we gotta get it done in one take, and there's so many variables that could go wrong, and it's like um a lot of it is luck.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

What would you say the value is um of uh you know staying very consistent with uploads and stuff and contrasting that to like quality and stuff? Where where do you see more value? Because I I guess I ask a question because I always see people you know being like, hey, just post every day and you'll you know, where do you where do you find that that middle ground?

SPEAKER_02 25:30

I guess it depends on what you're putting out, but I've always been the quality over quantity guy, two uploads per week. That's it. And so that's only a hundred posts a year. And um I think people just lose interest if you're posting every single day, you're you're coming up on their feed and you're not. I mean, to be able to get out a post every single day, you're going to decrease the quality to do that. And I don't agree with that. Don't like that. I'd rather put all my eggs in a couple baskets instead of yeah, the other way around.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

So or or put you know all your eggs into one pair of pants, you know.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

I don't I don't think they were eggs.

SPEAKER_04 26:13

Hard boiled, hard boiled, yeah. Yeah, so in these last six years of doing your thing, and I want to give you a compliment outside of your lower half, uh, this will be the only one you get, but uh your videos genuinely, and I'm glad Michael asked that question about how you balance that quantity over quality, because two videos a week is a lot when you have the quality that you have. Like it really is. Three times a day, three times a day, three uploads a day, every day, or whatever they might say. And what's interesting about your account genuinely, not not glazing you to glaze you because you're my guest, but genuinely, I'll scroll on your page and every single thing I see cracks me up. Like every single thing. I'm like, that is a banger video.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Uh yeah, that's what I try to do.

SPEAKER_04 26:57

Yeah, yeah. Well, praise to you for that.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

I mean, and yeah, I would I would say also there when you are uploading like really high quality stuff, maybe a little bit farther apart, it almost feels like a treat when you do upload, right? The viewers like, oh man, I haven't seen him in a week or a few, oh what's he got? And it's like a banger video, and they're like, Yes.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

And it hasn't gotten old. Like I like I've been watching you for six years. Literally, and every time I see you, I'm like, Frankie! You know, it's like it's not like I'm like board up, swipe. Oh, just Frankie again because I see him three times a day, right? So exactly.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

You get a bad taste in your mouth if somebody is spam. It's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:31

It's crazy how many times I can look at a good butt. It's crazy, yeah, bro. I'm like, hmm. Still interesting. A lot of videos you don't even see it.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

A lot of the videos you don't even see it.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Oh, we see it. Oh, we see it, yeah. Yeah, some of them it's very honest.

SPEAKER_04 27:45

I'm gonna be very honest with you. I have always been a straight man. Yeah. Um sorry, I'm thinking about something else.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

You guys, you you guys all came here for you to confess your love.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. I th I think what he's trying to take it away, take it away. Um very straight, but um, you're definitely your presence here is making me question if he's you know. Um it's just wow. No shot.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

Right. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Um Are you guys single? Yeah. Are they single straight men to be clear?

SPEAKER_01 28:22

To be clear. We are single. Ladies, ladies.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

No, we are actually. The comments are crazy. You're single?

SPEAKER_02 28:29

Bro, girls don't this dating. They don't.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Okay, well, I'm sure you've been in a relationship recently.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

In like the problem around here is all the girls are this is like very heavily Dutch people. Dutch people are some of the tallest people on earth. I'm Italian, I'm not. I mean, all the girls around here are six foot and above. The first thing that a girl's gonna look at and eliminate you is five's six.

SPEAKER_04 28:54

Five's six?

SPEAKER_02 28:54

Yeah. Yeah. So it's like immediately I am eliminated from all of the girls in this this area. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Uh I'll I don't think I'll lay off on completely, but I do hear what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Um, I get uh frustrated whenever my tall all my buddies are like six four. Yeah. And uh I'll go out with them or talk to them about girls. Like they'll they'll tell me, dude, just be confident. It's like you're six four, dude. You're six four.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

Yeah. I'm six foot and uh three and a half inches, and that's just never been enough for him, you know. Yeah. I think I mean I'd be pumped right over his head.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Oh dude, I've had a lot of concussions. Oh I don't really. Oh, I've had tons. How often do you get hurt doing these? I've never been to the hospital. Ever? No, like even outside of the house. I should have gone probably four or five times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean getting concussed. Um a hundred percent. I've had at least four. Jeez. Yeah. Bad ones. So I'm like slow and don't remember a ton. Like even just going and fighting those girls getting peppered up.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

That's where I was gonna go. So, I mean, the video is crazy because that you could have scripted it. You could have said, hey, I'm gonna fight you, but don't hit me. Like, I'll win, or so like, so you don't get beat up, basically. And two, where did you find these women?

SPEAKER_02 30:32

I just there's a fight club USA account on Instagram that I saw, and it's like a bunch of Hispanic people, and I was like, Oh, this guy can find some Tortos in Germany.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

He certainly did.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Yeah, uh, I mean, one of them was 300 pounds.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Yeah, you were like, you were like three, she was like, I'm 300 pounds. You're like, I'm 220. And I immediately was like, Frankie's about to eat it.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Yeah. Well, she was she her punches were hopeless, but some of the bigger girls were dude.

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Women. I mean, sorry.

unknown 31:02

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

I didn't say cut it out, I cut it out.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

I'm gonna make sure that frame was on immediately when that yeah, when that were the side. Yeah, people just want to see like different stuff. Yep. Uh whether it comes to fights or stunts or jumps, like people don't um understand what's even happening in a traditional UFC fight unless you understand fighting, but anybody can understand five big women versus one guy. Yeah. What's the most hurt you've ever gotten in one of your videos? It's hard to say since I never gone to the hospital and gotten any of it diagnosed, but I think the one that I always refer to is Nitro Circus Gigantoramp, which is uh a tricycle.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

The gigantoramp? Yeah, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

Yeah, it's a 45-foot gap. You can search it and find that it's you did it? It's rough. I mean, I crashed. Wait, what do I look up? I'm gonna find it right now. I'm just type in like Frankie Le Penna, Nitro Circus.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Nitro Circus.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Hang on, we're playing this right now, sir. Yeah, I could send you a picture of my shin after.

SPEAKER_05 32:08

Anybody else? There we go. When you see Travis that scared, that's that's yeah, it's not good.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

You're supposed to lean back.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Bro.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

Jeez, bro.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

How did you like so give me the thought process of that?

SPEAKER_04 32:33

What were you what you what were you thinking?

SPEAKER_02 32:36

I grew up watching them, and they had reached out to me because they saw me doing stunts online and whatnot, and I was like, oh my gosh, if I'm gonna go, they wanted me to go spectate and watch show. I was like, no, I'm doing the jump.

unknown 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Some of the guys were trying to give me advice on how to do the jump. Advice? No.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

You weren't even wearing knee pads. No, I'm so cracking up. At that point, he knew he had gone. At this point, he knew he was screwed.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

How uh that made a better video though than if I had ridden away. The people would prefer to see a fail. Yeah, that's true. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Man, did I find it, boys? Did you guys find it?

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Is there any cool brand deals that you said yes or no to or why?

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Yeah, I mean, the really um successful one was the John Cena collaboration. That was for Candy Crush, the app where we're in the purple outfits. And that video was that's cool. Freaking awesome being able to meet him, and that was um dude. Yeah, I I hope that people can appreciate this run of videos that I've given them over the six years because my body in like five more years. Yeah, my body's is falling apart, quite literally. Yeah, and I'm not gonna be able to keep doing it much longer. So freaking what is a long-term goal? Consultation for influencers that are trying to figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

I was like, I feel like it would be really good at being an advisor or consultant. Yeah, I walked through the path. It seems like you I mean, you obviously do know what you're doing really well, and seems like you kind of have a knack for it as well.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

All of the bigger productions that I've been on, like I was just on America's Got Talent, hasn't came out yet, and the production process is just What on Earth were you?

SPEAKER_01 34:23

What were you doing on America's Got?

SPEAKER_02 34:25

I'm not allowed to even talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 34:26

It comes out in June. He walked on stage, he turned around, just twerked golden buzzer. Golden buzzer.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

That's not far off of what happened. Um, but it wasn't that's a long story. It wasn't my idea of the thing. They saw a video of me on the internet doing something, and they said, Can you come on the show and do that? And I was like, No, that's dumb.

SPEAKER_04 34:43

Can you tell us what you were doing on the internet that they saw that they popping balloons?

SPEAKER_00 34:49

Okay. I know, I know exactly what he did on America's. It don't make sense. Would you consider that a talent?

SPEAKER_02 34:58

No, that's what I told them. I was like, this isn't a talent. Can I do uh? And they said no.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

I certainly couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

You've had all like so many, like you're talking about the John Cena thing, and like that was your childhood thing that you saw with that. What did you call it? The big skate? Nitro Circus Gigantramp. Yeah, like that was a thing that you saw since you were a kid. Now you're on America's Got Talent. Like, excuse me. Um what is that like? Like just having all of these things in front of you. There not many people are living the life you're living, and I know that there's sacrifices with it, there's sacrifices with your time, and like maybe there's personal goals of getting married and having kids and this and that, or other things that you put off to do that, and it's important that people see the effort and the sacrifices to do it, but at the same time, you have a really unique life and opportunities in front of you. Tell me about that mindset a little bit. Like, I'm with John Cena right now. I'm at this thing that I've been watching since I was a kid. I'm on a I'm America's got talent.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

I it's it's not shocking or impressive or like surre to me anymore. Yeah. In the beginning, I remember it being the most insane, coolest, shocking thing ever, but it's been happening so long where if a giant A-less household named celebrity walked in right now, right?

SPEAKER_04 36:15

It wouldn't be like when you walked in and saw me and Mike, you were probably nervous to your freaking I I actually saw his knees shaking and we weren't nervous. We were nervous when you came in, there was nothing that we saw that made us nervous.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

No, we were I I remember when he walked in, I thought very clearly.

SPEAKER_04 36:31

I had my script ready to go and I I kind of started so clean and clear and hadn't there was no hurdles. Would you say that's about what went down?

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Yeah, I mean there's little pricked upness over on this end, but see what he said. What was he talking about again? I don't remember. So I started thinking about something like that. Yeah, people ask me about the the celebrities and how cool is that? And it's like I don't know. I've never hung out with them off camera at length. It's always in front of the camera on like a set, and it's just very robotic. Artificial. Yeah. Who's who are some of the coolest people you've met? Freaking Hulk Hogan, R.I.P. Dude, I was the last person that he beat up before he died unexpectedly. You were? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

Wait, I didn't see that bit.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

Yeah. If you just type it in online, he's like, smack me with a chair, showing him you're shoving me off of a table.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

That's so cool. So did you get to know him off camera a little bit?

SPEAKER_02 37:24

Yes. Yeah. We were hanging out and whatnot. Tell me about him. Freaking coolest dude ever, most genuine, well, real American guy. I'm looking up uh nicest dude ever. I mean, I've been around a bunch of celebrities, and a lot of them don't want to give you the time of day and are pretending to be in a hurry to get somewhere else and just aren't interested in you, and he was the opposite of that. Yeah. Wow. Hang on, I'm pulling up your video. So you're fighting, what is this? You're fighting over a belt? Uh that's one of them, yeah. There's two beat-ups. That was the second or last. You're in the Hooters? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just no context. We're battling on the table. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:03

It's just no insane. So, like I remember seeing that now that now that's it. I like what you just said, no context. That is that is like a key ingredient of your videos. Is there's never any freaking context. Like I just saw a video of you, that guy who I always see who's got the big butt who's always hurting himself, on the table at a Hooter's, hot chicks around the table, Hulk Hogan fighting them, he gets smacked in the butt, falls over to what I like about your videos is when they start, it already feels like you're 15 seconds in.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Exactly. It's like you're like you feel like you missed something and you already started, you know? Yeah. Um, and I think that's a really good way of keeping you know retention and very intentional. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

Because people, like I said, the brain rot is so bad. People are you got maybe nine seconds to appease them because I don't know if you ever watch somebody just swiping, but it's like it's so hard to keep them around because they're seeing the craziest stuff ever that the algorithm is pumping them. So like, how do you compete with that? Yeah, yeah. You almost can't. You gotta get very creative, very clever, and very fast. Yeah. Well, this this niche that I'm in with like stunts and action sports and whatnot's nice because I own I would argue that I dominate this field because no one else is doing it. They don't want to get hurt. Yeah, there's nobody that's putting their body on the line as much as I am. I don't know if that would you I don't know if you would agree. I do I guess I'd have to scan the internet again, but like I don't I can't think of any creator.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

I don't think I can think of any creator that mimics you.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

And it's nice, so they can't compete with me in this field because nobody wants to.

SPEAKER_04 39:40

Well, there's like a little bit, there's there's a few different things that you do very well. Well, I'd say there's a lot of things that you do well, but um to name a few that I see, uh uh not to rehash things that we've already talked about, but first of all, the quality of each video and and talking into that number one is the no context is so funny. We've just seen something happen, and like I said earlier, it feels like you're just watching, like it looks like you see someone or you see a video, and it feels like someone just whipped out their phone and filmed it. See that, right? So there's no context. I think at least 95 or the of 95% of the videos that I watch of yours, I think, what the hell is that guy doing?

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Like, what was he planning? How did how did brother end up in this situation?

SPEAKER_04 40:27

Your your Snapchat uh that video with the Snapchat words on said, WTF was this guy's plan. That's what I wonder all the time.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Like, what was the goal here? Um and what's funny is like knowing, you know, like you said, that it's all like it's all built. And like, yeah, it's interesting. It's crazy. Yeah, nothing's an accident. It's a creative, you know, it's very creative.

SPEAKER_04 40:49

But the other two things that you do very well, uh another two things you do very well, is um you have a good hook, and that's not always just like what's what you're watching, and this is something I'm learning as I'm focusing more on my short form for podcast clips, is not just showing a video like, hey, this is a funny video, and I could post it and it gets a couple thousand views. But if I post that same video and I have the right caption on it, right? The correct wording that or even if it's WTF, did he just say question mark? Like it'll get it, it's that hook, right? And the third thing is is you always have a shock value. Like your videos always end with holy crap, like he like it was funny when he was riding that little bike, but then he literally just ate it. Like there was no way he didn't actually just get hurt, which you do.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

That one I was okay, I fell into snow, yeah, which was nice. I mean, my legs were a little bloodied, but not tremendous. But it's not compared to the nitro server.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

So, where did the outfit come from?

SPEAKER_02 41:51

Yeah, so that's it's kind of a boring, underwhelming story, but I could show you some of the first videos in the beginning where I'd go around with the security guards, the booty guards, uh, and it was at night, and if I were to wear a dark outfit, then I would blend in. I needed something brighter to pop at the nighttime. I was like, I don't want to wear all white. I was like, oh, khaki's kind of nice. So boring story.

SPEAKER_03 42:22

Sorry. Hang on. Oh, Frank, um, I think you finished. Um were you done with that? Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you if you were still going. Yeah, it was hard listening.

SPEAKER_04 42:33

Yeah, no, it was it was uh dark night. This whole thing's been a hard listen, if you know what I mean. Got him. Got him. That's a good one, Like. Like it's been like like difficult, is what I meant. Yeah. Dude, don't pervert don't dude. See, that one didn't go over, man. Guttermind. We got him. Guttermind. Guttermind, yeah, gutter mind. I love how within minutes he made 40 bucks off his butt. What's the most money you've made from your fat booty?

SPEAKER_01 42:59

There's so many to choose from. His entire career.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Yeah. I mean like a singular paid partnership brand deals?

SPEAKER_03 43:09

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 43:11

I don't even it's that much. $75,000? What was it? I think I'm allowed to say. Uh one of the PFL Professional Fight League fight skits. I think it was the uppercut video.

SPEAKER_04 43:28

Brother. So you got smoked.

SPEAKER_02 43:31

Oh, yeah, I was bleeding out of the chin. Like this there was a wire stunt team. I was attached to the ceiling. It was a big production. How long were you there? Like how much time did you spend at this event? I mean, the actual shoot itself, I think, was no more than a couple hours or very strict on how much time you get inside of the octagon. Yeah. Or the smart cage, they call it. Yeah. And I mean, total trip in and out of there in three days. But it was a big video.

unknown 43:59

You know.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

I wouldn't care at that point.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Yeah. All right. We'll let that one fly. People say that. I I see people in the comments saying, Oh my gosh, this looks so fun. I want to do this. I wish I could do this. It's like, no, you don't. You absolutely do not want to do this.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

That was one thing I was gonna ask is um, what would you say is a lie that people believe about being a content creator?

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Like I said, the like the videos are seen as fun and they would want to do it. The number one thing that kids want to be nowadays, according to all of the people I've talked to, is YouTubers. Yeah. Yeah. And I they don't understand what that is. Yeah. Um and people phase out so much from this this space in the digital sphere. Like I said, I've been doing it six years. Most people get burnt out in like a year, yeah. Or they fall off and their content becomes something different than when they started, or just cringe and they can't figure it out. And it's like the yeah, the the thing that I want to tell people that they misunderstand is the videos are most of the time unbearable. Well, like awful too. But it's it's super rewarding to like make it to the other side and be unscathed and look back and say, wow, I'd pulled that off. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:15

Well, you know, it's rewarding and very genuinely, um your work is so freaking fun. Like just as a like as an audience member, as a fan of yours, like it it is so dang fun to watch. So whatever that means to you, every like I told you earlier, every single person that I say, Yeah, we're doing Frankie, we pull you up, everyone knows who you are, everyone starts laughing. So you bring a lot of joy to a lot of people. So whatever that means to you, I think you already know it, but it's true.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

Yeah, I think that keeps me going for sure.

SPEAKER_04 45:43

The um what keeps me going is that big booty. I've contemplated before like going.

SPEAKER_02 45:49

This is like a uh hypothetical um deep question, I guess. Is am I contributing to the downfall of society by putting things online that are borderline brain rot? Because people are the amount of time, I mean, I could show you some of the back-end analytics, yeah, is hundreds and hundreds, I think it's into the thousands of years of humanity lost consuming my videos, and it's like, okay, are my videos yes, yes, they're funny, but like are they inspiring people to do good, to do the right thing, to go out and do a jump? Like, is that good? Yeah. Do I need to tailor my message to be more I don't know. Does that like keep you up? Is that like I mean the back end analytics are are bananas?

SPEAKER_04 46:36

What do you mean by the back end analytics?

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Like the total watch time of all the videos. Like, even where's my phone? Let me look at just for an example to show you. I can send you a screenshot of it, but yeah. We keep talking about it, the elliptical crap. Let's pull that up. When did you post it? Just Instagram. Um might have been February. I'm gonna look through some four years and 185 days of watch time. What? Wow, yeah. How many years? Four years, and that's a nine second video. From that one video. From just Instagram, just that one video. It's crazy. Watch time. Four years, 185 days. I mean, have you have you seen it? So it's thousands and thousands and thousands of years of human life that is like then spent on watching these videos. And how many views is that one? That was 27 million.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

Have you seen the there'll be analytics of like how much time people have spent playing Call of Duty or Fortnite? It's like millions of years worth of it's like shocking.

SPEAKER_04 47:39

It's crazy. But Frankie, you said that's at 23 million. What were those analytics from? YouTube, TikTok, Instagram?

SPEAKER_02 47:44

That's 27 million views, was four years on just Instagram for a nine-second video.

SPEAKER_04 47:49

So that's yeah, that's just one platform.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

Unbelievable. Yeah. So think about a video that's a lot of them go into the hundreds and hundreds of millions across the platform. So it's like four decades.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

So how do you I assume you had a friend group before this? Does it do they treat you differently now? Do you do people in your family treat you differently? Like how how does that look now compared to maybe five, six, seven years ago?

SPEAKER_02 48:19

Yeah. I think yeah, my friends definitely I mean it there was a noticeable change when the fame arrived. On they I mean, they treat me the same for the most part, except for whenever we need to like get pull to go somewhere, get in somewhere, do something. It's like they can pull the Frankie card, and whoever the owners or people of the establishment are will be like, Oh, we'll get you with Frankie, yeah. We can or we can get you this deal or this discount or this seat or this.

SPEAKER_04 48:47

So I'll tell you about this room. Yeah. And I said, Yeah, we're actually interviewing this guy, his name is Frankie Le Penna, waived everything. That's awesome. So I actually owe you. That's sweet.

SPEAKER_02 48:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:59

Keep stacking it up over there. But as great as they met. It is true. It's it's cool. It's legit. Yeah. Yeah. What is it? They did that for us. Double tree. Double tree by Hilton. They have been great. Like we walked in here, and there was like Angela. She helped us out. She walks us in here. They got a little sign out there, it says Emery Podcast, and she's got we got water for you over here, and this and that. And they had they're like, We'll bring in a projector if you need it. And they brought this couch in for me and that one for me, and they've been so great. But yeah, Double Tree by Hilton, they're they've been fantastic for us, so let us use a space.

SPEAKER_02 49:31

But anyways, we were saying it's not they don't my my family doesn't treat me differently. Um I've I've seen them be shocked when I go out in public and then get swarmed by because they just know you as Frankie. Exactly, and it's weird for them to them to see people recognize me in the in the streets or whatnot, but they don't they're not bothered by me. Yeah, my parents have supported me tremendously throughout the whole process, which was super important, you know. I think that they could have easily said, What are you doing, dummy? Don't don't be going on the internet like a a jackass, an idiot, but they were It's because I like I said, I came from a video background, production background.

SPEAKER_00 50:16

So it's like this was They knew it would probably come.

SPEAKER_02 50:20

Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't a tremendous waste of time or a risk, even. Like if somebody's thinking about trying to make a TikTok channel, I started by just doing it and posting in my spare time. It wasn't like I had to take out a loan and stop my current normal job. Like I was just in my mom's basement posting TikToks to begin.

SPEAKER_04 50:38

Some of the best advice I've ever been given. And honestly, this I've I heard this when I was a teenager, and it has changed my whole life. Um my dad gave it to me, and he actually told me recently who he heard it from, but it is what you do from nine to five is not what gets you ahead. It's what you do from five to nine, right? Your time off is what is what it's saying, right? You're when you're not on the clock at work, that's what gets you ahead. What you do with that time is what's gonna get you personally ahead, what's gonna set you apart from the rest. Sounds like that's what you were doing, right? Like you weren't, you didn't quit your job to go do TikTok. I have a nine to five right now, and I'm doing this podcast, right? And it's it's fun and it's growing, and it's something I'm passionate about, and it's a hobby I enjoy. Um, and I don't have to give everything up to go try it, right?

SPEAKER_02 51:25

Yeah, I I love that. That is really good advice. I've never heard that before, but I mean it's still a still a risk to you to degree. I mean, it's not cheap coming out here and doing any of this. None of this was cheap.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

We didn't get any of this at Dollar General.

SPEAKER_02 51:39

Yeah, yeah. The suits.

SPEAKER_00 51:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

Versus my TikToks is like zero dollar budget and just an iPhone in the beginning or uh, you know, cheap green screens. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:49

Anyway, so I I guess what I'm trying to get to is, and maybe maybe I'm prying too much, but um, like for me, I am who I am in front of the camera. I am who I am in front of a majority of people. But nobody knows, or very few people know my inside, like my heart, like what I desire. Like when I close my eyes and I think this is what I want to be, this is how I want to be known, and what I want for my future, my desires and aspirations. So I guess I'm just asking for a little bit of a picture of not just, oh, Frankie's funny and he gets hurt and this and that, but like, who does Frankie want to be? What does he want to be known by? Like what I want I want to know more there's more to you and I want to know what that is.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

Dude, I think my brain operates in a very well it does operate in a very unusual way. I don't have a plan. Yeah. Like I'm a very in the moment, right, right at the very moment that is occurring now. I'm figuring out the things that are going to come maybe till tomorrow. I'm not even thinking a month out. That's cool. Like I exist in the moment right here and now.

SPEAKER_00 52:58

It allows you to put all of your brain power in the world.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

Yeah, I can't even think right seven days from now. Like that's too much for me. I mean, a lot of people are thinking years out. Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_00 53:11

The last I'm not maybe that to that degree, but same thing. People ask me, so in three years, are you I'm like, shut up. Girl, yeah. I know maybe what I'm doing next month. Yeah. I'm having fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:25

Yeah. But I think if like to answer your question of what I want people to think about me, it's just like I said, my whole life and identity is these videos, so I'm hoping that they remember me by them for them. Like, wow, he really put in 110% effort to make as entertaining and funny of videos as possible.

SPEAKER_04 53:45

And yeah, and I think you've done a good job with that, and I've already said that. But um, do you I mean, do you have a aspiration for a wife and kids someday?

SPEAKER_02 53:52

Yeah. Oh my gosh. I did an interview in California earlier this year and was saying that's gosh, I can't remember. He's he doesn't have a YouTube channel, it's an Instagram account. I'm like I said, I got too many concussions to remember. I remember that. I remember it happened. And the whole time I was explaining um that that is one of my primary goals to have a wife and kids, even in this terrible economy.

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Even with even if she's got to be six foot five. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

Ideally, she is six foot five, so that the male offspring are not chopped like me. Chopped, bro. Chopped five foot, height chopped.

SPEAKER_04 54:29

You need to turn around in the mirror next time. Height chopped. You'll have a whole different perspective on yourself. Man, I wish my kids could have your genetics. No.

SPEAKER_02 54:38

Five foot six is is rough. Yeah. So you gotta in this area.

SPEAKER_00 54:42

You gotta use six five.

SPEAKER_02 54:43

Prospects for that, or you're just uh I can't find any dude dating perfect ones here. I guess I don't know. I'm not I'm also not searching very hard. Like I'm trying to where you look, and you're Christian. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 54:57

I saw you in your bio, you said Christ is king. I love that. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 55:01

Are you also? Yeah, yeah. I love that. Yeah, I have a ton of kids that follow me, like a tremendous amount, and I think it's super important that they see that in my bio. Yeah. And whenever people ask me why are you Christian, I say to them, like, what does Jesus teach? Like in the Bible, just objectively looking at it from the outside. It's like love and forgiveness. Okay, what do we need more of in the world? Yeah, those two exact things. It's like, okay, this is this is the answer this way, this is the truth.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

It's cool that you have the um the the the I'm looking for the word for it, like the the responsibility to like you're being responsible with your platform, and and that's cool. You see a lot of people, they get a huge following and they're just completely irresponsible with it. But I mean you you you've mentioned it several times of like, man, look at the amount of time I've wasted in the world with people watching my content. Like, hey, I've got kids watching my content, so I want to put this on my bio. Like, that's cool that you acknowledge that and and gosh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

I haven't told anybody this. This is actually there was it's there was a um an offer that came in the other day for the from this gambling app, and I don't know if you've seen the gambling epidemic that the influencers online are promoting.

SPEAKER_04 56:25

Polybet, um stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 56:27

I mean, it's all of them. It's stake, rain bet, fan duel, draft kings. I mean, there's freaking 20 of them, but yeah, one of them came to me with this crazy offer for seven figures like millions of dollars to sponsor you to do what I'm already doing, stay what I'm doing, and then like sneak in little gameplay, yeah, three seconds of it, showing the phone. I'm sure you've seen some of those online bed. I can't say, and it was very tempting. I mean, I was talking to my family and my friends, and friends were saying do it, and my freaking mom and dad were like, Wow, that's a lot of money. Like, but it's I I was I was talking to him, it's like this is so degenerate, and there's so many kids that follow me. Like, whenever I go out in public, that's who's my biggest fans is like middle schoolers and high schoolers, even grands. It's like I can't show them gambling.

SPEAKER_04 57:18

Dude, I respect, dude. I mean, seriously, and that was one of my follow-up questions, and you said, you know, like why you believe what you believe, but I want to know how does your faith, how does like your principles, your values affect what you're doing? What a cool, what a cool story. Yeah, yeah. I mean I So, anyways, what did you do with the money?

SPEAKER_01 57:40

He goes, Hey, by the way. Yeah, by the way, I took the deal.

SPEAKER_02 57:44

Gosh. Have you made up your mindset on that? That's the male technology. Promoting gambling is the male equivalent of doing OnlyFans. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you think? It's selling your soul, it's selling out.

SPEAKER_04 57:57

It's true. Yeah. Um, do you I mean, you've decided on that? Like you're not gonna Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_02 58:04

I can't bring myself to do it. It's cool. It's it's such game-changing money.

SPEAKER_00 58:08

Was it like indefinite, like every video has to have it, or was it like five videos or it was like the most it was however many I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_02 58:19

Um no, like no pressure, no, like not a j like a overlord freaking gambling marketing guy telling me you need to do this exactly, and I'll put this many. It was like in my court.

unknown 58:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:32

I mean, I don't know if you've seen some of the gambling promos these kids are doing online, but it's like you're just they're just doing what they're already doing, and then they sneak in. Yeah, yeah, rainbows.

SPEAKER_04 58:42

Hey, while you're here, yeah. All right, thanks. Yeah, it's like kind of a little quick. But that's something that I have. Um, there's a verse I have it hanging up in my room, but it's let's Luke 12, 48, to whom much is given, much is required. I think about that all the time, and I like whenever I look at the world around me and the things that God has given me, whether it's my talents, my abilities, um, or just the doors he's opened for me, I'm always like, He has given me this, and I am required much with it, right? Like, I can't just be like, like I have this podcast and it's growing, and so I have a platform, and so I felt convicted on even just conversations I've had on this podcast where I'm like, maybe I'm like, am I if people are listening, am I representing who I'm called to represent? Right. And so it's definitely like it weighs on me just trying to figure out if I'm given this, and right, like Frankie, you as a Christian, like you're given this opportunity to do what you're doing, you're given an incredible opportunity, whether it's all great or not, to influence so many people. So you talk about a young audience who looks at you like, dude, you are the man. Yeah. Um, and with that opportunity you're given, with that platform you're given, there's also a spiritual requirement to what you do with that, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:00

Um my gosh, yeah. I mean, I'm communicating with billions and billions of God's children. It's like a big um not a burden, but I mean it's a big responsibility.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

And and a blessing too. Yeah, a huge blessing. How cool is it to be able to have that platform and opportunity. I mean, millions of people.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:20

Yeah, I mean, it's important when I you know how I package these videos or what the themes are of them. I try to keep them very PG and like maybe sometimes PG 13-ish, but like a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:30

We make our penis jokes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:32

We make picked up things.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:34

And by the way, um, Rainbow, I don't have this moral code, so yeah. Yeah, yeah, and by the way, I haven't read that part of the Bible. So you've got that. Um, I think it's great. I think it's great what you're doing, and and I like what you've said about all of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:51

But I don't know if that speaks to you at all, like that verse. Like it's literally something because I I think about it all the time, and I literally have it hanging up in my room. To whom much is given, much is required. So every time I'm given something an opportunity or something, I think, okay, Lord, what is required of me to have this opportunity, to be able to travel, to go meet Frankie La Penna, right? What is required of me if I'm given this, right? So it's something I wrestle with a lot and think about.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

Yeah. That'll have an answer, but it's yeah, no, there's I mean, just even bringing up Jesus and and the Bible and your favorite verse and whatnot is very um I mean it's important. Yeah, like you said, what with whom much is given, much is required. Like I think you were required to speak his name and bring up verses and new viewers here, and they might and you investigate it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:41

It's honestly like um it's absurd not to, you know. Um especially in today's world, it's yeah. I mean, you know, like I sometimes I think about like who would I be if I didn't have my um my faith, you know, and it's like it it really is my identity. I mean, it really is like so many decisions that I make have this backing of faith that they might not be faith-related questions, but because I have this, you know, this sect of my life here, they bleed into other stuff. So it's just sometimes you know, you we all kind of think of like, what would my life be like if I did this or grew up in a different family and stuff, and I think about that, I'm like, man, I my life would be completely different. Yeah, and you don't really realize it day to day, you know. But yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:28

Yeah. I mean, with how the the the world is turning out right now and where things are heading, with just I mean, all the people that are in positions of power just being hopelessly evil and corrupt and just terrible. It's like it's like the book of Revelation is literally unfolding right in front of our eyes. Literally, like if you read the book of Revelation and and look at what's happening, people people throughout history have been saying like this is the end time, like this is the end, World War II, like oh World War II, it's gotta like this has gotta be the end. It's like okay, but if you Yeah, but if you look now, it's with the AI stuff happening and whatnot, it's just not looking and who are we gonna be in these times, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:10

Exactly. We're also told like you were made for such a time as this, and that's something I've been wrestling with a lot too, is like um is I was about to quote Lord of the Rings. I won't, I won't.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:23

But it's this line that Frodo says There's a lot of parallels in the Bible to Lord of the Rings. I mean like he saw Ron and freaking all I mean it's it's a lot of parallels.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:33

Michael's never Michael wouldn't understand. I wouldn't get it. You want to get it? Um, but there's a line that Frodo says, are you familiar with the movies? Oh yeah. He says in the first movie, he says, I wish the ring never came to me, and then uh I wish this had never happened. And Gandalf says, so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:57

And then the crazy plays, right? Dude, what I the fact that he has that memorized is Well, I also have a sign hanging up in my room that says that on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:05

I mean, that's an epic piece of first Lord of the Rings, minute 14th. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it not? Yeah, no, I mean that is Lord of the Rings. Gosh, I wish they made movies like that nowadays. Everything's so garbage.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

Dude, I'll watch that movie over and over and over again, cry every time, just be touched. Like, who am I? You know what I mean? It's so good, but that's such a good line he says, you know, all we have to do, like, and it's it's cheesy, like I'm quoting the Bible, but um, it is true, like when we talk about like we are living in the end times. Now, is that end time tomorrow? Is that in a few hundred years? We don't really know, but we are in the end times, right? Like this is this is um the revelation is prophetic to the time that we are in now. It just is, right? It's not a question. The question is, is when? Yeah, right. That that's the question, but we do know it is we are in the end times as been prophesied. Um, but yeah, when when I hear that and I think, okay, God has told us we individually are made for such a time as this. And we look at things like everyone in every time of life and whatever they're going through, that's such a good message to think anyone in your shoes would complain about the time that you're in. Right. But you can't control that. All you can control is what you do with what is given to you.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:21

No, that's awesome. You're a lot better rhetorically gifted spokesperson than I. Oh, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:27

I mean, when I'm quoting Gandalf, it's pretty easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:30

He just goes bar for bar.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:32

Yeah, I'm pretty gifted. I just quoted the entire Fellowship of the Ring, and Frankie got a tear in his eye. I'm gifted, guys.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:38

I mean, but I also love Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:41

You guys I've only seen scenes to that online. What? A kidding. Okay, I was gonna say. No, I've actually never seen it. Is he serious? I'm serious. I haven't either.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:52

You've never seen Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:54

Yeah, I do hear it as like unbelievable.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:56

Yeah, I mean, no brainer, you have to watch it. All right, noted. If you're into Lord of the Rings, like when are you doing it?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:02

I'm doing it for Frankie.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:03

Yeah, it's it'll change. Yeah. Your outlook on life is so good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:07

Yeah. Um, hey, we hit a lot of topics, and we had some more I had some more ideas and thoughts that I want to go over, but we are over on time. And any anything in your head that you want to talk about? Michael? Frankie?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:21

Can't dive into conspiracies, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:23

Were you a conspiracy theorist? Let's hear this.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:25

We don't got we don't gotta want to get them canceled, but uh Yeah, I mean they're not even conspiracy theories. They're I mean all just being objectively proven day by day as time goes on. People claiming the that the they are theories and the when people are talking about them are nuts are just So actually, Frankie, I did prepare something.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:46

Um I have a little list here of some conspiracy theories, and I want to read you some conspiracy theories, but here's the thing you can't elaborate on your thoughts. You have to say yes, no, or maybe. Jeez. Yeah. Do you accept the terms like a speed round? Yeah, speed round. Conspiracy theory readout. Yes, no, or maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

Yes means it's true, no is no, maybe, obviously. He knows what words mean. I'm just, you know, verifying the words.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:14

All right, yes, I could have just like I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:16

No means I yes means it did happen, or no means it didn't happen.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:22

Oh, don't sorry. Honestly, that's my bad. Okay, all right, here we go. Are you ready? Yeah. All right. This is the conspiracy theory readoff with Frankie Lapiner. Here we go. Is the earth flat? No.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:40

Uh whoa! That's a lot more hesitation than I got. I thought some at this point. At this point, like, nothing will surprise me. Alright, cancel them.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:50

At this point, like First Men lied to so much. That's true. That's true. Alright, all right, next. Did we land on the moon? No. Was 9-11 an inside job? 100%. Is Brigitte Macron a man? Yes. I mean, I'm not like it was funny. Do aliens exist? Define aliens. I'll ask two questions. In this demand well, I'll I'll rephrase. These UFOs we see, these people, these other things that are visiting our country, are these aliens? Is this true?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:26

The UFOs, no, that's government. Um spacecraft. They're playing it off to appear as if they're from a different world, but no.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:38

Is Michelle Obama a man? Maybe. Did was Obama gay?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:50

Likely. We'll put that in the maybe category.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:55

We'll put it in the maybe category, yeah, yeah, for sure. Is Erica Kirk behind the killing of Charlie?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:03

See, defined behind the killing.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:05

Did she know it was gonna happen?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:09

Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:11

Yeah, yeah. The problem is she's so dang weird.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:14

Her actions don't stand by how like she should be acting.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:21

Yeah, and it's fine to grieve different, but there's just a lot of strange things.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:24

Now she had proven connections to certain groups of people that would I can't get into it. What do you think about Candace? She could be a government plant. She could. Anybody who has got that much attention online for speaking long format has to be controlled.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:43

Yeah. Are you a government plant?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:46

If I got as many views as I did and I was talking, 100% people would be coming after me and gatekeeping me and what I can say and threatening me, but like I don't talk.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Now I'm pretty numb to Trump comments. Like he says, I really don't care. Like I'm I don't have Trump derangement syndrome. I appreciate a lot of the stuff he's done. Brother, he said the other day, multiple times in the last several months about this Epstein stuff. It's when he starts calling that a hoax. It's when he starts saying things like, You got like anyone who's still asking about that are morons and this and that and telling us that we need to move on. And I'm like, listen. And like I genuinely think I speak for the entirety of America when I say we are never gonna move on. Like, brother, little girls were raped.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:34

Yeah, he lied to us. He lied. 100% he's in the files, 100% he's uh POS.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:40

I've got the Epstein files on my on my desk.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:42

They all are, it's one big club, both sides. Yeah, it doesn't matter if the Democrats get in after this and they're not gonna do anything differently. And then even they're gonna run on stuff and say we're gonna do this, this, and this, and they get in and absolutely do the opposite of it, just like Trump's doing now.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:55

That's the thing, and everyone asks this. Oh, well, if Trump was really in the Epstein files, then Biden would have released them. No, because guess who's also in the they're all it's all of them, right? It's the the Democrats Democrats can't release them either because they're in them too, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:10

Like, like Yeah, the question is like everyone on every podcast ever has been talking about this, and we all kind of know it's like, okay, now what's our game plan? What are we gonna do? That's what I hear no one talk about.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:21

Yeah, and that's what are we gonna do? What can we do? And it's such a bummer, like to feel out of control, like it's out of your control. But like, like look, in my life, uh I want to get married, have kids, get some property, and just live and die and worship Jesus, and then like yeah, it's looking like that might not even be possible anymore, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:39

Yeah, like with the direction things are going and sinister plans that the powers that we have in place, it's like yeah, but it is quite like form some sort of movement.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:50

I don't know how, when, or who, or yeah, yeah, but like dude, it's is our is our generation even a generation that can do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:57

I don't know, maybe start with the Michigan militia, build from there. What is that? Michigan militia? No. I've heard of it. It's it's up north by you. Yeah. What is it? It's a bunch of uh ex-military dudes that are in like a club, I guess. What is what is a militia? We gotta look it up. But yeah, it's like a group. It's a yeah, a group basically group of guys are in place, try to keep things.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:24

Unfortunately, the government has predator drones now, so I don't think my A.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:30

I step outside and I hear beeping go off.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:32

It's like I don't think I'm gonna do anything with my Air 15. Yeah, true. But I think I think um kind of circling this back to faith, that is the best part of having a strong faith is knowing that, like, man, this world is not my home and I'm living in it, but like you know, at the end of the day, yeah, we all know.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:54

So it's still tough, like wanting to be able to raise a family, have wife, kids, house, property, praise Jesus. Like, yeah, are we not gonna be able to get to do that? Because he's gotta be careful with the people. Yeah, but I say the people, the powers of be are they gonna like take that from us right before we can even experience it because we're younger dudes? It's like true, that's tough. Would have liked to have been able to do that. Maybe we still can.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:19

I don't know, it's not looking great, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:22

I saw this post the other day, this meme. You might have seen it, and it was like what so-and-so at it's like when someone at the family get together asks me why I don't have a girlfriend yet, and I genuinely have to explain to her who Netanyahu is.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

I saw that exact meme. Yeah, it was it was a Jonah Hill. I saw that exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:42

It's like and I genuinely have to explain who Benjamin Netanyahu is. It's like I saw another meme.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:47

It kind of sounds more like you, but I almost sent it to my family, and it was like um, it was just this video of this dude like skiing down a mountain or something, and it was like my family watching me do literally anything but get a girlfriend. And I was like, that's Frankie. I'm always like, hey, I'm hopping on a plane, I'm going here.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:05

I should fart into this for audio levels. Dude, can you?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:08

Let me see.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:10

What's she got?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:10

What she got? I might have one.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:13

Oh please. Get this puppy red. Can I get pink guys? Over here, go over here, go over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:21

I might have one.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:23

Oh and I do have one. Oh, he's got one. Alright. You laughed over it. There's more. There's more, China.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:38

Okay, that's pool.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:42

Oh, dude, that was I think he's gonna he's gonna need to go to the bathroom next.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:49

Did you did you have airb earphones?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:51

Frankie, when we were with our, we talk about our group of guys. Um wait, I don't know if I want to get it. Yeah, I was just saying, I don't know. Um so do you want to switch mics unrelated? I don't think that I mean that was a tiny one. There was this oh, it picked it up. I heard it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:06

Did you hear that?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:09

You laughed over half of it, though.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:11

Dude, I sorry, it wasn't funny. I was thinking about something else.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:17

We could probably put that online for a lot of money.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:19

So our group of guy friends, um, like our day ones, right? We go on this annual guys' trip. And this last year we did this camping trip. So we're like canoeing and camping, so like every like three nights in a row. And we start this thing called the fart fund. And now this is everyone listening at home, get your pens and paper out. It's a great idea for a because this is like friend group goals right here. Write this down. Fart fun. It's called the fart fund.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:45

Fart fund.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:45

Okay, and it is fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:47

Um F-U-N, capital, and then lowercase D.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:53

Um so what it is is if anyone farts throughout the day, they have to pay a buck to the fart fund. And so everyone is like, if you're getting them out, that's silent, right? And so if you hear someone, it's like, oh, and then you're blaming each other. But we're trying to incentivize people to not fart because at the end of the day, once we're done with at the campsite, once we're done uh at the campfire, we all get in the tent and we lay down. It's pitch pitch dark, right? I'm trying to paint the scene for you. We give what I call the fart countdown. Now, this is where I step in because I'm the countdown man. And everyone gets, and I'm not kidding, bro. We had literally 10 guys in this legs cut in a tent. Imagine a hot tent. And it's dark, so you can't see. So I describe how everyone was sitting. You didn't know that at this time, and so I start doing this countdown because we had explained what we were gonna do before the day started. We're like, okay, let's try it. Because I I had a revelation, and that is I've heard many farts, but I have never heard two farts at the exact same time. Right. Have you? Two farts from two different people at the same time, right? Like in unison, in harmony. I've heard that you haven't did it. Was it intentional?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:10

Uh some of them, yes, some of them no.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:12

And that and lower that just a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:14

Yeah. Some of them, yes, some of them no.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:16

So, but I hadn't, and I certainly haven't heard more than two or three, right? And so my thought process was what would ten farts at once sound like? What symphony, right? What symphony can be. You get it, video this at least? Oh, we got an audio. Should I play an audio? You got an audio. So can you bring that audio track? Can you bring that over and give him the headphones? You got an audio, no visual. It's all the fart symphony.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:43

Wait, can you play in the monetary?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:45

It might be a lot, but whatever you can do. I'm super into fart humor. So whoever farts at the countdown gets a share of the fart fund. So if at the end of the day there's 50 bucks in a fart fund, everyone who participated at the end of the countdown, three, two, one, whoever participated gets a share of the fart fund. So it incentives you to not fart during the day so that you saved it for later. Right. And then incentive to fart at the end of the fart fund so you can receive up, right? Maybe new money, or maybe in Wyatt's case, his money back.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:14

Um but people do have to fart during the day for that jar to get filled up.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:18

Yeah. Oh, and they do. You know, they do, but we're we feed beans around the fire.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:22

We know what we're doing, dude. We we make sure, and we've got eagle ears. Like they say eagle eyes, we've got eagle ears.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:28

It'll take me a second to find it while they're getting that. It is literally the ten farts. It is literally the fart. Bro, we didn't it was so in this audio, there's not ten farts. It's like four. But it's so dang funny. Still four is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:40

I don't know. It's more than four. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:43

Nice. I got these same ones. Yeah, those are the headphones, bro.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:47

Nine, eight, seven, six.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:51

I whispered.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:53

Sorry, sorry. The reason I'm whispering is because there's other campers, and we were just told that we need to keep it down. You'd think we're a bunch of 12-year-olds from mid to upper 20s, right? Grown men sitting in there, and Michael turns on the flashlight at one point. He turns on the flashlight at one point, and that's when we realize everyone was positioned up.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:15

Some people were like, I'm all four.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:18

Yeah. Even the people who didn't seem like they were super into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:22

Once that light was on, they're like, oh, they wanted to get a little bit of coin from this part one.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:26

But that's why I'm whispering because we're gotta monetize them. And that's when when you hear us laugh at the end of this, we're trying not to be. Dude, that would have been a viral TikTok. You should have made a video.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:35

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, four, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:50

Dude. Farts, farts will never not be funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:54

Dude, right? They're unanimously funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:57

That's another reason that like girls will immediately run away from you if you're uploading fart bids.

unknown 1:20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:05

Not something girls are into, but dude, it's well, it's because it's because girls don't fart.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:10

Girls don't fart. Um, so tell me that's not a freaking old timer.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:13

That is. You could we were you should do a TikTok video on just that.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:17

We watched, we listened to that audio so because it every time I mean just tears in our eyes laughing.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:22

Just third, it's so funny. You can like hear the sphincter differences.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:26

It's a snake. But dude, it's what I'll do is I'll make a little clip of me explaining the story and then playing it to you. That'll be funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:35

Um I've made 10 fart vids.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:39

I saw the one of you jumping over the Rizzler. Yeah, there's one. Where did you meet the Rizzler?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:44

Uh, I went to him in New Jersey. Why did you go to him? Uh he's a fourth grader. I mean, oh no, I didn't mean why did he go to you?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:51

I mean what for?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:52

Oh, why why did I go treat him? Yeah. Yeah, for um uh just a short, a skit. And we did a live stream with him.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:59

Oh, cool. Nice. Yeah. We met him once. Yeah. Well, Frankie, for us and anyone listening, how can we pray for you? How?

SPEAKER_02 1:21:08

I guess, dude, the stunts, safety from not being uh broken in half on all my limbs. Genuinely, dude. Some people like you really have to be there to see the speed, the scale, the size of things. Like the videos never do it justice. Yeah. That's one thing I've learned is when you're there. Any video you see online of somebody doing something gnarly, like if you're there in person, it's twice as insane as it felt looking at it on a phone. True. Always.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:38

Yeah. Well, at least you've got some good natural airbags to help out.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:45

I haven't been to the hospital. Lord's been watching over it, dude. It's a literal miracle that I have not ended up in the hospital at least once six years, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of idiotic stunts.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:00

Like, how have I not gotten well of these hundreds of idiotic stunts? You got a lot of fans and you make a lot of people happy. So I'm a huge fan, dude. I'm thankful for you and what you do. I will be praying for you, and I'm so glad we connected. So, dude, thanks so much for making the time here.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

Likewise, thanks for having me. It's had fun.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:15

This has been a big deal for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:16

So very grateful. Hopefully, people uh can listen to me without me sounding unbearable.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:21

Well, we clean it, so I fell asleep two or three times, but we made it for Frankie. So great, Frankie. Thanks for coming out. Um, made our made our day. Yeah. So thank you, gentlemen. To my back.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:34

Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:35

You mean a pop it for you?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:36

Oh I want to get a video of you cracking his back.